  
 
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Below is a transcript of The Bryant Collection, written by Gregory Weir. The Bryant Collection was originally released in 2009. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki. WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| Cheshiren asks, "So what do you know about today game?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, not a ton. But what I do know I think I'd prefer to just have come out as we play the game so as not to spoil you as I was spoiled." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Not much. It was released on April 1st as an April Fool's joke. The concept is that the author found writings about 'story worlds' by a woman who didn't know about IF, since it hadn't been invented yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "So he 'recreated' the story worlds that 'she' supposedly made." | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "Actually I've played it a bit and I thought it was real story. I was fooled then..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, real story, fake origin of it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Aw, I was going to let that bit come out during our session." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The author intends to show up, too, fwiw." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yay." | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "Oops" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I have to admit that I still have mixed feelings about the spoof aspect." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I know he was a bit disappointed that there was so little feedback at the time." | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "Just played flash-game "How to raise a Dragon" by same author. Cute." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's getting close to the time." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Indeed it is." | ||||
| Jacqueline hollers, "Playing The Bryant Collection in the Toyshop in five minutes, everyone!" | DavidW says (to Cheshiren), "He's got several games up at Jay is Games. I think his plan is/was to write one game every month." | |||
| Emily arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Nitku arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Emily asks, "why can I never remember on the first try whether the toyshop is SE or SW?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Emily), "You can just type 'toyshop' and get there automagically." | ||||
| Emily says, "tricky" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "Misleading signposts." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Which is why I have no idea in which direction it lies from the lounge." | ||||
| DavidW says, ">turn sign" | ||||
| Emily says, "it doesn't matter whether I want to go to the toyshop or the spoiler room: I always get it wrong" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I always wait for someone else to go first and read what the message says" | ||||
| DavidW says, "(I loved trying to turn the sign in Fire Tower.)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "Are you the beta tester who did that in the Fire Tower? People were later impressed that 'I' had anticipated people trying to turn signs at junctions." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing - haha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes, that was me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "heh" | ||||
| Twain arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline asks (of Twain), "Have you attended ClubFloyd before?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or are you Gregory?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Gregory ought to be GregoryWeir, unless he's forgotten that account." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, we should get started." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load bryant" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yard Sale Floyd | There are never enough tables for a yard sale. The people who live Floyd | here clearly have set out every table they own on the driveway in front Floyd | of their house. It's a mismatched array of card tables, a kitchen Floyd | table, and a scarred white desk, all piled with miscellaneous junk. Floyd | Floyd | One item catches your eye. It's an old, dented strongbox, barely Floyd | visible behind a huge box fan. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Can't say I have." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "True." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | A few card tables, a kitchen table, and a scarred white desk are set Floyd | out on the driveway and piled high with junk. You'd guess these are Floyd | all of the tables (and table-like devices) that could easily be moved Floyd | out of the house and onto the driveway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "It's been a long time since I've been on ifmud" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x junk" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing amazing. Boxes of old audio cassettes, a Packard Bell Floyd | computer, ugly lamps and dilapidated board games. The sale seems to be Floyd | one born of a desire for more storage rather than more cash. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | I suppose you're me. Gregory Weir, I mean. Mid-twenties, brown hair, Floyd | thin. Probably a bit scruffy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "Okay, so, the way this works is that you discuss the game on this channel, and only speak in the room to Floyd, giving him commands." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | (the old dented strongbox) Floyd | This strongbox is made of metal, and is a foot across in each Floyd | dimension. It is covered in rust and dented in a few places. A Floyd | tattered label on the lid reads "Laura Bryant Collection." A garish Floyd | orange sticker asks for $23. Some inner feeling makes you want to Floyd | possess it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||||
Floyd | You had a Packard Bell once. Never again. They're impossible to Floyd | upgrade. Besides, this one's about a decade old. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Unless we discover that there's a time limit or some reason for designating only one person to enter commands, anyone can give Floyd game commands." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy box" | ||||
Floyd | (the old dented strongbox) Floyd | You pick up the strongbox. The rest of the transaction is fuzzy in Floyd | your memory. Money changed hands, and you got in your car. Floyd | Afterwards, you kicked yourself for not asking the family's name or Floyd | checking the street signs on your way out of the neighborhood. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It's kind of silly, I know, making up Floyd | little story worlds like this. But it's Floyd | always reminded me of my Uncle Ted, Floyd | who says Great-Grandfather Bryant used Floyd | to do it with him. Thought you might Floyd | find it fun." Floyd | Floyd | -- Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | Jacqueline says, "The only real etiquette in that is that it's bad to leave a location until we've all agreed we're done there." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Bryant Collection Floyd | An Interactive Anthology by Gregory Weir Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 090401 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | The strongbox itself sits open under the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | (For information on the origins of this collection, type ABOUT. To Floyd | return to this room from within a story, type RETURN.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(And sorry, I realize you may have to scroll back to read a lot of that.)" | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure there was much else to do in the original location." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, I don't think there is, really." | ||||
| Twain says, "Yeah, it looks like it was just an interactive intro sequence" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, might as well do the about text." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | ||||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 2008, I found a collection of papers in an old strongbox that I Floyd | purchased on a whim from a yard sale. They were labeled as part of the Floyd | contents of the attic of a distant, deceased cousin of the family Floyd | selling the box. Her name was Laura Bryant, and it seemed the family Floyd | selling the box had not known her very well at all. Unfortunately, I Floyd | never caught the seller's name, and I haven't been able to find out Floyd | anything about Ms. Bryant's identity except what I learned from the Floyd | contents of the box. Floyd | Floyd | The box contained at least a hundred sets of papers, some stapled or Floyd | paper-clipped and others stuffed into manilla envelopes. There were a Floyd | few letters and explanatory sheets, but the overwhelming majority of Floyd | the pages were devoted to "story worlds," as Ms. Bryant called them. Floyd | Floyd | These story worlds seem to be analogues to what we call interactive Floyd | fiction. They're not as rigorously specified, of course; their Floyd | descriptions sometimes bear more resemblance to the outline for a Floyd | roleplaying game campaign than Inform source code. However, they seem Floyd | to be intended for a single player, or at least a single main Floyd | character, and they have a strangely familiar approach to their Floyd | interaction model. The papers indicate that the player would dictate Floyd | actions to the person with the notes for the world, and would receive Floyd | responses in a very turn-based fashion. Floyd | Floyd | The most interesting part is that these worlds seem to have been Floyd | developed completely independently of the precursors to modern IF. The Floyd | earliest piece is from 1964, before Crowther and Woods's Adventure, Floyd | Arneson and Gygax's Dungeons & Dragons, or even Wesely's Braunstein. Floyd | In addition, Bryant had no connection to computers or wargaming; she Floyd | worked as a middle-school English teacher in a time when there were Floyd | definitely no computers in public schools, and there's no sign that she Floyd | ever used a computer herself. Floyd | Floyd | I've "transcribed" a few of the story worlds into IF form, hoping that Floyd | someone might be interested in playing IF written by someone who Floyd | apparently had no familiarity with text adventures or even computers. Floyd | Of course, I've had to take some liberties with the texts to make them Floyd | work as IF; for the curious, I've included a partial example of an Floyd | original description for one of the story worlds. Floyd | Floyd | I hope you have as much fun exploring these worlds as I did discovering Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | - Gregory Weir Floyd | April 1st, 2009 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | Cheshiren says, "see? it is too truthful" | |||
| DavidW says, "It's a lovely backstory." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | Jacqueline says (to Cheshiren), "Yeah, I felt a bit miffed that he didn't go back and update to say it was a joke." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Even the AAS team had the decency to reveal their evilness later." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | The strongbox itself sits open under the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But the AAS thing, you know, it wasn't clever like this backstory." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And that's what miffed me more." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | ||||
Floyd | This is a standard envelope stuffed with fifteen sheets of Floyd | triple-folded lined paper. The pages are loose, and are covered in Floyd | neat writing in blue pen. In a few places, the ink has bled where Floyd | drops of moisture fell on the pages. The envelope is unaddressed and Floyd | unstamped, and the words "UNDELIVERED LOVE LETTER" are writted across Floyd | the front. Where the return address would be is the date "1975." Floyd | Floyd | (To enter this story, pick up the envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Floyd | Letter".) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | This is a standard envelope stuffed with fifteen sheets of Floyd | triple-folded lined paper. The pages are loose, and are covered in Floyd | neat writing in blue pen. In a few places, the ink has bled where Floyd | drops of moisture fell on the pages. The envelope is unaddressed and Floyd | unstamped, and the words "UNDELIVERED LOVE LETTER" are writted across Floyd | the front. Where the return address would be is the date "1975." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | DavidW asks, "well? Do we?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Sure, why not?" | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "why not" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "The weird thing is that Floyd | even though I thought it Floyd | would never stop hurting Floyd | at the time, now I just look Floyd | back and miss that pain." Floyd | Floyd | -- Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "We'll no doubt go through them all, anyway." | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undelivered Love Letter Floyd | by Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | This was supposed to be a nice visit, a respite from the loneliness of Floyd | a long-distance relationship. Yesterday evening, she broke the news to Floyd | you. You didn't eat at all today. Right now, she's in the bathroom, Floyd | but she'll be back in time for a final goodbye. Then you'll leave on Floyd | the plane, she'll stay here, and you'll never see her again. Floyd | Floyd | Terminal Floyd | Passengers bustle through this busy airport terminal, on their way to Floyd | and from their planes. You're waiting near your gate, among twenty or Floyd | thirty seats. A gate agent bustles about near the gate. Large windows Floyd | overlook the tarmac, where you can see your plane sitting at the end of Floyd | the loading bridge. The restrooms are across the hallway, and the Floyd | security checkpoint is a decent walk away. Floyd | Floyd | A big clock is mounted on the wall nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Guest1 arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're a young man who's just finished a relationship that lasted Floyd | years. It was supposed to last forever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a carry-on bag (closed) Floyd | a boarding pass Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pass" | ||||
Floyd | This printed slip of paper marks you as a ticket-holder, qualified to Floyd | travel on this flight. Floyd | Floyd | X emerges from the restroom and heads this way. She sits down beside Floyd | you. "Hi. How are you doing?" she asks with a pensive look on her Floyd | face. Her voice has the faintest of Russian accents. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline talks to the guest about how s/he needs an account to join us and be on channels and stuff. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x x" | ||||
Floyd | X has long, blonde hair that reaches her waist when unbound. Right Floyd | now, it's tied back in a bun. She's wearing a long, burgundy coat with Floyd | a white scarf tucked into the collar. She has a thin frame and a Floyd | heart-shaped face, with greenish-gray eyes and a nose that's just a bit Floyd | prominent. She's beautiful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to x" | ||||
Floyd | (To talk to X, try to ASK X ABOUT something, TELL X ABOUT something, or Floyd | just say YES or NO.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain asks, "I'm guessing we have to discover her name?" | |||
| Cheshiren says, "not at all" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about herself" | ||||
Floyd | "How are you doing?" you ask hesitantly. Floyd | Floyd | She takes several seconds to answer. "I'm hurting," she says. "I hate Floyd | seeing you this way. But I didn't... I didn't want to continue the way Floyd | we were." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about us" | ||||
Floyd | "So... what are we now?" you ask, with pain in your voice. Floyd | Floyd | X smiles softly. "You're still important to me. I'd like to be Floyd | friendly. To keep in touch." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about friends" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | X lifts her hand to her face and smooths her right eyebrow. It's a Floyd | cute habit of hers. "Baby..." she begins, then sighs. "It won't hurt Floyd | forever. There are lots of women out there who'll fall into your Floyd | arms." But none of them will be her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ask her about flight" | ||||
Floyd | (X about that) Floyd | "Do you think you'll ever come to visit me?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | She thinks for a long moment. "Maybe," she says. "If I have the time Floyd | and the money." Floyd | Floyd | > | Cheshiren says, "women..." | |||
| Twain says, "Seconded." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about advice" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about future" | ||||
Floyd | You heard her already. You'll "keep in touch." It's not enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about memento" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "kiss her" | ||||
Floyd | (X) Floyd | You lean toward X for a last kiss. She leans toward you, but turns her Floyd | head slightly so that you kiss the corner of her mouth. She looks into Floyd | your eyes sadly, then looks down. Floyd | Floyd | X nervously picks under her thumbnail with a nail of the opposite hand. Floyd | "You really should eat something," she says in a worried tone. "It's Floyd | been almost a day since you've had any food." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "ask x about marriage" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh. Yeah, women." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x food" | Jacqueline says, "Also, wonder where we're headed." | |||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plane" | ||||
Floyd | Yours is a large, gleaming thing in white and gray. It can take you to Floyd | another state more quickly than anything else. Almost. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to eat? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "my heart" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "anything else... but ACID" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask her about food" | ||||
Floyd | (X about that) Floyd | "Do you want to get food for yourself?" you ask. "I don't mind. I'm Floyd | not hungry." Floyd | Floyd | X shakes her head. "I'll get something when you're gone," she says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Haha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask her about someone else" | ||||
Floyd | (X about that) Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask her about money" | ||||
Floyd | (X about that) Floyd | "How's the job going?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | She sighs, and stretches. "It's a diner," she explains. "It's always Floyd | busy and exhausting." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read pass" | ||||
Floyd | This printed slip of paper marks you as a ticket-holder, qualified to Floyd | travel on this flight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "cry" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "ask her about headaches" | ||||
Floyd | (X about that) Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | The gate agent speaks over the intercom. "Attention, all passengers of Floyd | Flight 160 to Indianapolis," she says in a bored tone. "We will now Floyd | begin boarding for all seats. Please have your boarding pass ready." Floyd | A line of passengers forms in front of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | X looks at you with concern. "Are you all right?" she asks. "Say Floyd | something." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "hug her" | ||||
Floyd | You lean over and hug X tightly. She awkwardly rubs your back with a Floyd | hand until you release her. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cheshiren says, "oh she is a waiter. leave her." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say we'll always have paris" | ||||
Floyd | (to X) Floyd | (To talk to X, try to ASK X ABOUT something, TELL X ABOUT something, or Floyd | just say YES or NO.) Floyd | Floyd | X clears her throat awkwardly and scratches her nose. Floyd | Floyd | > | (from Jacqueline) Cheshiren Now, if she was a attorney or doctor or exotic dancer, someone who makes money... | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x, goodbye" | ||||
Floyd | (To talk to X, try to ASK X ABOUT something, TELL X ABOUT something, or Floyd | just say YES or NO.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "board plane" | ||||
Floyd | You get into line at the gate. X moves to stand beside you, on the Floyd | outside of the rope barrier. Floyd | Floyd | Your turn to board the plane arrives. You hand your boarding pass to Floyd | the gate agent, and step into the loading bridge. With one last glance Floyd | over your shoulder, you see X watching you with a sad expression on her Floyd | face. You turn and head for the plane. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Cheshiren says (to Jacq), "exotic dancer, yes..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | The strongbox itself sits open under the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, restore and keep playing that one?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I suspect we might be able to re-enter story worlds as often as we like?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm... maybe." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Try." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | ||||
Floyd | This is a standard envelope stuffed with fifteen sheets of Floyd | triple-folded lined paper. The pages are loose, and are covered in Floyd | neat writing in blue pen. In a few places, the ink has bled where Floyd | drops of moisture fell on the pages. The envelope is unaddressed and | Cheshiren says, "i didn't try" | |||
Floyd | unstamped, and the words "UNDELIVERED LOVE LETTER" are writted across Floyd | the front. Where the return address would be is the date "1975." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "The weird thing is that Floyd | even though I thought it Floyd | would never stop hurting Floyd | at the time, now I just look Floyd | back and miss that pain." Floyd | Floyd | -- Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undelivered Love Letter Floyd | by Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | This was supposed to be a nice visit, a respite from the loneliness of Floyd | a long-distance relationship. Yesterday evening, she broke the news to Floyd | you. You didn't eat at all today. Right now, she's in the bathroom, Floyd | but she'll be back in time for a final goodbye. Then you'll leave on Floyd | the plane, she'll stay here, and you'll never see her again. Floyd | Floyd | Terminal Floyd | Passengers bustle through this busy airport terminal, on their way to Floyd | and from their planes. You're waiting near your gate, among twenty or Floyd | thirty seats. A gate agent bustles about near the gate. Large windows Floyd | overlook the tarmac, where you can see your plane sitting at the end of Floyd | the loading bridge. The restrooms are across the hallway, and the Floyd | security checkpoint is a decent walk away. Floyd | Floyd | A big clock is mounted on the wall nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clock" | ||||
Floyd | According to the clock, it's 5:41 pm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So it started over?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x agent" | ||||
Floyd | This woman is in an airline uniform, and she is busy with her duties. Floyd | She's responsible for making announcements, checking in passengers at Floyd | the gate, and collecting boarding passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain asks, "I wonder if visiting other ones may give you clues to see new things in previous ones?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask agent about food" | ||||
Floyd | She's really quite busy. You'd rather not bother her. Floyd | Floyd | X emerges from the restroom and heads this way. She sits down beside Floyd | you. "Hi. How are you doing?" she asks with a pensive look on her Floyd | face. Her voice has the faintest of Russian accents. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "Hm, that would be interesting." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about pain" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to make conversation about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about me" | ||||
Floyd | You tell her how sad you're feeling, and she sighs sadly. "Poor Floyd | sweetheart," she says. "I'm sorry that things had to turn out this Floyd | way." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about why" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Maybe we should play them all and then replay." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about plane" | ||||
Floyd | "The flight will be leaving soon," you say. "We might not see each Floyd | other again." Floyd | Floyd | X adjusts her scarf. "I hope we do, someday," she replies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill x" | ||||
Floyd | Several times since last evening you've wanted to hit her, but it was Floyd | out of impotent frustration, not any real rage. You love her too much Floyd | to hurt her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bag" | ||||
Floyd | You open the carry-on bag. Floyd | Floyd | X nervously picks under her thumbnail with a nail of the opposite hand. Floyd | "You really should eat something," she says in a worried tone. "It's Floyd | been almost a day since you've had any food." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bag" | ||||
Floyd | There's assorted essentials and reading materials inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close bag" | ||||
Floyd | You close the carry-on bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy food" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pass" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | X clears her throat awkwardly and scratches her nose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about name" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about men" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about women" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | X looks at you with concern. "Are you all right?" she asks. "Say Floyd | something." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about sadness" | ||||
Floyd | You've already made your feelings clear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "ask x about job" | ||||
Floyd | "How's the job going?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | She sighs, and stretches. "It's a diner," she explains. "It's always Floyd | busy and exhausting." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask her about us" | ||||
Floyd | (X about that) Floyd | "So... what are we now?" you ask, with pain in your voice. Floyd | Floyd | X smiles softly. "You're still important to me. I'd like to be Floyd | friendly. To keep in touch." Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Oh right. Waiter." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask her about boyfriend" | ||||
Floyd | (X about that) Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cheshiren says, "not dancer at all" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask her about her" | ||||
Floyd | (X about that) Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | The gate agent speaks over the intercom. "Attention, all passengers of Floyd | Flight 160 to Indianapolis," she says in a bored tone. "We will now Floyd | begin boarding for all seats. Please have your boarding pass ready." Floyd | A line of passengers forms in front of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | X lifts her hand to her face and smooths her right eyebrow. It's a Floyd | cute habit of hers. "Baby..." she begins, then sighs. "It won't hurt Floyd | forever. There are lots of women out there who'll fall into your Floyd | arms." But none of them will be her. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Let's try to miss our flight." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about her" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hold x" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose X would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter restroom" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have to go right now. Floyd | Floyd | X looks at you searchingly. She opens her mouth as if to say Floyd | something, then closes it again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about life" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about family" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | The last of the passengers filters through the gate, and the gate agent Floyd | looks around to see if there are any potential passengers left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open bag" | ||||
Floyd | You open the carry-on bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x reading materials" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the carry-on bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in bag" | ||||
Floyd | There's assorted essentials and reading materials inside. Floyd | Floyd | The gate agent calls out to you. "Sir?" she asks. "All the other Floyd | passengers are inside. If this is your flight, please board now." As Floyd | much as you'd like to stay behind, you know that's not possible. You Floyd | hand your boarding pass to the gate agent, and step into the loading Floyd | bridge. With one last glance over your shoulder, you see X watching Floyd | you with a sad expression on her face. You turn and head for the Floyd | plane. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Emily says, "I don't suppose it would have let us tear up the boarding pass" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We should have stuck our tongue out at her." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Emily), "I'll try." | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | The strongbox itself sits open under the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tear boarding pass" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "attack pass" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | The last of the passengers filters through the gate, and the gate agent Floyd | looks around to see if there are any potential passengers left. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "of course it may just be that there's no way-- oh well" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pass to x" | ||||
Floyd | She can't come with you. There's only one ticket. Floyd | Floyd | X looks at you searchingly. She opens her mouth as if to say Floyd | something, then closes it again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop pass" | ||||
Floyd | No, you'll need that to board the plane. Floyd | Floyd | The gate agent calls out to you. "Sir?" she asks. "All the other Floyd | passengers are inside. If this is your flight, please board now." As Floyd | much as you'd like to stay behind, you know that's not possible. You Floyd | hand your boarding pass to the gate agent, and step into the loading Floyd | bridge. With one last glance over your shoulder, you see X watching Floyd | you with a sad expression on her face. You turn and head for the Floyd | plane. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat pass" | Jacqueline says, "Timing. Darn." | |||
| DavidW says, "I tried eating it earlier." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Looks like it's not possible, anyway." | ||||
| Twain says, "I suppose we should the thorough." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh, I'd missed that." | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "attack x" | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | The strongbox itself sits open under the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's try another." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toy" | ||||
Floyd | This is a toy made out of a wooden block with three wooden posts Floyd | sticking out of the top. Painted wooden disks of various sizes and Floyd | colors fit onto the posts. At the moment, the left post has a tiny Floyd | purple disk, a small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, a Floyd | medium-large yellow disk, a large orange disk, and a huge red disk Floyd | (from top to bottom) on it, the middle post has nothing on it, and the Floyd | right post has nothing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Tower of Annoy." | |||
| DavidW says, "indeed" | ||||
| Twain says, "Oh how it made junior programmers cry." | ||||
| Emily says, "I assume this is the FOOLS part of the joke" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the pile of letters, the memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", the composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", Floyd | the sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", the stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", the envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", or Floyd | the wrinkled sheet of paper? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wrinkled" | ||||
Floyd | This is a wrinkled sheet of paper that was at the back of the Floyd | strongbox. It appears to be the last page of one of Ms. Bryant's Floyd | story-worlds, but you've yet to find the rest of it. It's possible Floyd | that you never will. The sheet reads: Floyd | Floyd | "will never clarify its cryptic prophecies. Floyd | Floyd | "Instead of dismantling the fast food intercom, say 'It would be a Floyd | waste of time to take that apart. You'd only be half done before the Floyd | police arrived.' Floyd | Floyd | "You can return each day, and the speaker will tell a new prophecy. Floyd | After asking the restaurant employees about the prophecies, have them Floyd | say that they have no idea what you're talking about. They only Floyd | remember taking your order and giving you a price. Floyd | Floyd | "The restaurant goes out of business in five days from now. When the Floyd | restaurant goes out of business, replace the intercom with a broken Floyd | stump. The broken stump has description 'All that remains where the Floyd | intercom and menu board once stood is a twisted stump of metal with a Floyd | few wires poking out. There's no indication of the source of the Floyd | strange mist that seemed to surround the menu board.' Floyd | Floyd | "The End." Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "What the" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh" | ||||
| Emily says, "fragment of an imagined game" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That sounds like a good speed IF" | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "prehistoric Inform7 language" | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "it's meant to be played with game master" | ||||
| Nitku says, "This should be a clear clue that the premise is a joke. At least if you know I7." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "One of the prophecies could be, 'You will end up with high cholesterol from eating fast food.'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Yes." | ||||
| Twain says (to Cheshiren), "Yeah, that would make sense." | Emily says (to Jacqueline), "ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. I remember a Twilight Zone episode about fortune cookie fortunes that came true." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x garden" | ||||
Floyd | This is a thin notebook with a marbled black-and-white pattern on the Floyd | cover. Only the first handful of pages are full of writing. The work Floyd | is done in black pen, with numerous mistakes scribbled out and many Floyd | doodles in the margins. The rest of the book is blank. On the label Floyd | on the front of the book is the title "MORNING IN THE GARDEN," written Floyd | in heavily-scribbled black ball-point. On the upper right corner of Floyd | the first page is the date "1974." Floyd | Floyd | (To enter this story, pick up the composition book labeled "Morning in Floyd | the Garden".) Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, ">eat fortune cookie" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. I was born that year." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, should we play?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "oh, my favourite one" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take Morning in the Garden" | ||||
Floyd | This is a thin notebook with a marbled black-and-white pattern on the Floyd | cover. Only the first handful of pages are full of writing. The work Floyd | is done in black pen, with numerous mistakes scribbled out and many Floyd | doodles in the margins. The rest of the book is blank. On the label Floyd | on the front of the book is the title "MORNING IN THE GARDEN," written Floyd | in heavily-scribbled black ball-point. On the upper right corner of Floyd | the first page is the date "1974." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "When it comes to any temptation, Floyd | the guilt afterward is never as bad Floyd | as the longing beforehand." Floyd | Floyd | -- Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morning in the Garden Floyd | by Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | God. He does this every day. One would think that sooner or later Floyd | he'd take no for an answer. But that's not the kind of guy he is, you Floyd | suppose. Floyd | Floyd | Beside the Tree Floyd | You're beside the biggest tree. Its branches stretch miles overhead, Floyd | and its roots are like the trunks of saplings. The ground here is soft Floyd | and green with grass and moss. At the edges of this clearing, plants Floyd | grow thick. They're all blossoming and fruiting at once, filling the Floyd | air with perfume. A wide path leads out of the clearing and back to Floyd | the rest of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging low from a branch of the tree is a large fruit. Floyd | Floyd | The Serpent walks into the clearing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're Woman, and you look a lot like your boyfriend Man except with Floyd | some bits made bigger or turned inside-out. Floyd | Floyd | The leaves of the tree above rustle in a stray breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cheshiren says, "i suppose this story must be played by woman" | |||
| DavidW says, "Not just any Garden" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | This is the biggest tree in the garden, and you've been told in no Floyd | uncertain terms not to ever, under any circumstance, eat the fruit from Floyd | it, or you'll die. It's not really that much of a temptation, really. Floyd | When you have a choice between any kind of fruit or vegetable you could Floyd | imagine, having one be forbidden isn't at all draconian. Besides, the Floyd | only edible thing growing on it is a single melon the size of your Floyd | head. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello, Woman," the Serpent says, stretching his legs and scratching Floyd | his neck with one claw. "Are you having a nice morning?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, wonderful," the Serpent replies. "I've just returned from bathing Floyd | in the Pishon. The gold dust in the water always sticks to my scales. Floyd | Does it look good on me?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "'parts turned inside-out?' ITYM 'outside-in.' But I digress." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x serpent" | ||||
Floyd | He's a strange creature. Your boyfriend says he's called a "serpent," Floyd | but that always sounded more like someone who calculates income tax, or Floyd | will do so once it's invented. He's got green scales tinged with gold Floyd | and muscular legs that end in sharp claws. He's really the craftiest Floyd | of all animals. At least, he was crafty the first twenty times you Floyd | spoke to him. Now you've pretty well caught on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Clearly we should trust the serpent." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh, you're too kind," the Serpent says with what seems to be a genuine Floyd | smile. "It's so nice, these times we share together. I really do Floyd | consider you a friend, you know, Woman. Do you feel the same?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "smile" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | You could climb for years and never get to the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "damn, I was hoping for enigmatic obscurity there" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride serpent" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet serpent" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch serpent" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself! Floyd | Floyd | The Serpent lets out an awkward laugh. "Oh, sorry, you don't have to Floyd | answer that," he says hurriedly. "Anyway, I can tell you've been Floyd | feeling bored lately. Isn't that right?" Floyd | Floyd | You smell a bit of smoke from the morning campfire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh, right," the Serpent chuckles. "Looking forward to your nightly Floyd | game of Leaves-and-Sticks with Man, are you?" He rolls his eyes and Floyd | smiles. "I don't suppose you're feeling hungry. Are you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Waw chika chicka waw waw" | |||
| DavidW asks, "We only do it at night?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Twain), "I thought sex wasn't necessary before the tree, was it?" | ||||
| Twain says, "Haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sort of the consolation prize for having to bear children in terrible pain or something/" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "er?" | ||||
| Twain says, "Neither was income tax, but that didn't stop her from using it in a comparison." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | Of course you're not. You just had grapefruit, fried potatoes, and Floyd | honeyed oats for breakfast. But when you say no, he just chuckles Floyd | skeptically. "Come on, Woman. We both know you'll have to try the Floyd | fruit sooner or later. You have a curious nature, isn't that right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "No?" the Serpent asks with mock bafflement. "This from the woman who Floyd | once tried to open a snail's shell to see what was inside. And we both Floyd | know how that went." Poorly, as you remember all too well. "Here's the Floyd | way I see it. The Gardener, he's pretty powerful, right? More Floyd | powerful than you or I or even Man?" Floyd | Floyd | A butterfly flits out into the clearing, then quickly retreats back Floyd | into the foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Right," the Serpent begins. "He's the most powerful, so he's the one Floyd | in charge. Not out of some moral superiority, but out of his natural Floyd | abilities. He chose to make us inferior. Does that seem right to Floyd | you?" Floyd | Floyd | The wind picks up for a moment, and you smell the soft smell of the Floyd | grass on the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask snake about garden" | ||||
Floyd | Weeks ago, you announced that you were done holding real conversations Floyd | with the serpent. Ever since, you've responded to his inquiries with a Floyd | terse "yes" or "no." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "um" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "lame" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "nice try" | ||||
| Ellison arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Emily says, "that's convenient" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "LAME" | ||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, LAME" | ||||
| Twain says, "You know, I've always heard snakes are good eating." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat serpent" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the Serpent) Floyd | I don't suppose the Serpent would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | "Afraid to answer, lest a lightning bolt fall from the sky?" the Floyd | Serpent asks venomously. "The only way the Gardener rules over us is Floyd | through threat of punishment. Do you think he'd be so high and mighty Floyd | if there were others with the same power he has?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "haha. You don't even know what we're talking about, but thanks for getting my back." | |||
| Ellison says, "miss up a chance to say LAME? I think not!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is actually kind of cool, though, how you can just wait it out and get a response that's different from yes or no." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Nonsense," the Serpent hisses. "If you had the same powers as the Floyd | Gardener, he couldn't control you." He points a claw at you. "That's Floyd | why he forbids you from eating this fruit. You won't die; he only says Floyd | that because he knows that eating it will open your eyes and make you Floyd | like him. Powerful and wise. Isn't wisdom worth having, even if it Floyd | means disobeying him?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "He's the Lord Our GOD, you stupid snake with legs that Adam should have called a lizard." | |||
| Twain says (to Jacq), "Yeah, it makes me wonder what making good on not holding a conversation with him would do." | Twain says, "To completely ignore him." | |||
| Fang arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "Hm, good idea." | |||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "God removes the serpent's legs as part of his punishment." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||||
Floyd | As you walk away, you hear the Serpent's voice calling after you. Floyd | "Farewell, Woman! It's your loss!" You hear a quiet laugh, and then Floyd | he adds, "See you tomorrow!" Floyd | Floyd | And he's right: you will see him tomorrow. Your conversations with the Floyd | Serpent are the most interesting parts of your life here in the garden. Floyd | But right now it's time for another boring day. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline asks, "Well, fine, but then why is he called a serpent beforehand?" | |||
| DavidW says, "opps" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | The strongbox itself sits open under the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "And why is he always depicted as a straight snake? Because, like me, none of the artists remember that from reading the Bible?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Beside the Tree Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Beside the Tree Floyd | You're beside the biggest tree. Its branches stretch miles overhead, Floyd | and its roots are like the trunks of saplings. The ground here is soft Floyd | and green with grass and moss. At the edges of this clearing, plants Floyd | grow thick. They're all blossoming and fruiting at once, filling the Floyd | air with perfume. A wide path leads out of the clearing and back to Floyd | the rest of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging low from a branch of the tree is a large fruit. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see the Serpent here. Floyd | Floyd | "Just think about that for a while," the Serpent says. "I won't bother Floyd | you any more today. Take the fruit or leave; it's your choice." Floyd | Floyd | Far off in the distance, you hear the cry of some animal or another. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I'm getting the sense you can't win this one, in the sense of making Eve never eat it" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fruit" | ||||
Floyd | This fruit is a delight to the eyes. Its skin is the color of blood, Floyd | and textured like a melon, but seems soft enough that you could eat the Floyd | fruit without peeling it. It has a depression running along the bottom Floyd | of it that seems to divide it into two halves. It smells sweet and Floyd | ripe. The whole thing is almost as big as your head, and dangles Floyd | tantalizingly within reach. Floyd | Floyd | The Serpent digs a bit of dirt from under a claw and tries not to look Floyd | at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Emily), "Probably." | |||
| Fang says, "well, eating it isn't necessarily a bad thing" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell fruit" | ||||
Floyd | You smell the plants around you, and occasionally the smoke of your Floyd | morning campfire on the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x depression" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x branch" | ||||
Floyd | The lowest branch is still far too high for you to reach. Floyd | Floyd | The Serpent glances from you to the fruit and back again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "so, um, did I miss most of this already?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Sure, you don't have to bear children in pain as punishment and be ruled over by men and blamed for the rest of eternity, so you wouldn't think it's a bad thing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Nah. There are a handful of seemingly not related games, and we're just in the second one." | ||||
| Fang says, "The fruit is DELICIOUS, though" | ||||
| DavidW says, "So far, they also appear to be one room games." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I really don't like apples." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's a melon." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a melon that looks like an apple." | ||||
| Emily asks, "hey, what if we got Adam to come talk to the Serpent so he gets tempted and blamed instead?" | ||||
| Emily says, "I guess that's probably not implemented" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Adam isn't here." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That would be awesome." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sadly, we leave the room and it ends." | ||||
| DavidW says, "And leaving ends the story." | ||||
| Emily says, "since if we leave-- yeah" | ||||
| Twain says, "So the waitress wants us to eat something, serpent is trying to entice us to eat the fruit." | ||||
| Fang asks (of Emily), "so have Adam bear the pain of pregancy....?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Twain), "And the restaurant has the intercom." | ||||
| Fang says, "EVIL WOMAN" | ||||
| Twain says, "Right." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Seahorses and certain frogs have got the whole thing worked out." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Beside the Tree Floyd | You're beside the biggest tree. Its branches stretch miles overhead, Floyd | and its roots are like the trunks of saplings. The ground here is soft Floyd | and green with grass and moss. At the edges of this clearing, plants Floyd | grow thick. They're all blossoming and fruiting at once, filling the Floyd | air with perfume. A wide path leads out of the clearing and back to Floyd | the rest of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging low from a branch of the tree is a large fruit. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see the Serpent here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says (to Fang), "that's the kind of rhetoric we're tryin' to avoid here" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Aw. Pray should totally work." | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "wear leaves" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the leaves) Floyd | You don't need to make anything out of the leaves right now. Floyd | Floyd | A bird on a branch above you suddenly calls out in a cheery snippet of Floyd | song. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your singing is passable. Floyd | Floyd | A butterfly flits out into the clearing, then quickly retreats back Floyd | into the foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "INteresting" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "name butterfly" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're Woman, and you look a lot like your boyfriend Man except with Floyd | some bits made bigger or turned inside-out. Floyd | Floyd | The Serpent scratches his nose and sighs softly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I guess it's already named, but" | |||
| DavidW says (to Emily), "Naming was Adam's job, iirc." | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "play leaves-and-sticks with serpent" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says (to DavidW), "so NOT FAIR" | |||
| Fang says, "I think butterflies can be much better called margarineflys" | ||||
| Emily says (to floyd), "count ribs" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Emily), "I agree" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x serpent" | ||||
Floyd | He's a strange creature. Your boyfriend says he's called a "serpent," Floyd | but that always sounded more like someone who calculates income tax, or Floyd | will do so once it's invented. He's got green scales tinged with gold Floyd | and muscular legs that end in sharp claws. He's really the craftiest Floyd | of all animals. At least, he was crafty the first twenty times you Floyd | spoke to him. Now you've pretty well caught on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So, are we tempted to take the fruit, or just go on and play another storyworld?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "kiss serpent" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I guess we want to see what happens if we do" | |||
| * Severo has joined the channel. | ||||
| DavidW says, "Right :)" | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "we already know what will happen" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fruit" | ||||
Floyd | You reach up and take the fruit. The Serpent smiles at you Floyd | encouragingly, and you take a bite. Floyd | Floyd | It's more delicious than anything else in the garden. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | The strongbox itself sits open under the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "uh" | |||
| DavidW says, "hmmmm" | ||||
| Fang says, "I'm guessing you won't find out till later" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Man, that was anti-climatic." | ||||
| Emily says, "that was anti--- yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh well. Next?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Unless the worlds have effects on each other." | ||||
| Twain says, "This game is making me hungry." | ||||
| Fang says, "unless there's something changed about this scene" | ||||
| Severo arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x the end of" | ||||
Floyd | This is a wire-bound memo book, about 3 by 5 inches. There are twelve Floyd | sheets of ruled paper left in the book, all full. It's written in Floyd | pencil, with no erasures, and there are what look like grease stains on Floyd | the corners of some pages. The earlier pages in the notebook have all Floyd | been torn out, with only scraps remaining caught in the wire spiral Floyd | binding. Written on the cardboard cover in black marker is the phrase Floyd | "THE END OF THE WORLD." In the bottom corner is the date "1982." Floyd | Floyd | (To enter this story, pick up the memo book labeled "The End of the Floyd | World".) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Twain), "All games make me hungry." | |||
| Emily says (to Twain), "remember, the fast food restaurant's prophecies are evil" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is well written and has an interesting initial premise, but this whole churning out a game a month thing is perhaps to blame for this feeling good but not quite as full as it should be." | ||||
| Fang asks, "oh, wait, this room is the hub world?" | ||||
| Emily says, "yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x morning" | ||||
Floyd | This is a thin notebook with a marbled black-and-white pattern on the Floyd | cover. Only the first handful of pages are full of writing. The work Floyd | is done in black pen, with numerous mistakes scribbled out and many Floyd | doodles in the margins. The rest of the book is blank. On the label Floyd | on the front of the book is the title "MORNING IN THE GARDEN," written Floyd | in heavily-scribbled black ball-point. On the upper right corner of Floyd | the first page is the date "1974." Floyd | Floyd | (To enter this story, pick up the composition book labeled "Morning in Floyd | the Garden".) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Fang), "That's the one we just did." | |||
| Fang says, "right, I'm just checking things" | ||||
| Fang asks, "what did you do first?" | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "letter" | ||||
| Twain asks, "Has the wooden toy changed, maybe?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x letter" | ||||
Floyd | This is a standard envelope stuffed with fifteen sheets of Floyd | triple-folded lined paper. The pages are loose, and are covered in Floyd | neat writing in blue pen. In a few places, the ink has bled where Floyd | drops of moisture fell on the pages. The envelope is unaddressed and Floyd | unstamped, and the words "UNDELIVERED LOVE LETTER" are writted across Floyd | the front. Where the return address would be is the date "1975." Floyd | Floyd | (To enter this story, pick up the envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Floyd | Letter".) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Twain), "The toy is for the Hanoi one, I'm sure." | |||
| Fang asks, "are the dates significant?" | ||||
| Twain says, "True." | ||||
| Fang says, "I mean, maybe they are supposed to be done in order" | ||||
| DavidW says, "They seem independent so far." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | This strongbox is made of metal, and is a foot across in each Floyd | dimension. It is covered in rust and dented in a few places. A Floyd | tattered label on the lid reads "Laura Bryant Collection." You pried Floyd | the box open with a crowbar you borrowed from a friend after failed Floyd | attempts at picking the lock. The metal around the latch is twisted Floyd | out of shape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | The strongbox itself sits open under the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take label" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x label" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | This strongbox is made of metal, and is a foot across in each Floyd | dimension. It is covered in rust and dented in a few places. A Floyd | tattered label on the lid reads "Laura Bryant Collection." You pried Floyd | the box open with a crowbar you borrowed from a friend after failed Floyd | attempts at picking the lock. The metal around the latch is twisted Floyd | out of shape. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | This strongbox is made of metal, and is a foot across in each Floyd | dimension. It is covered in rust and dented in a few places. A Floyd | tattered label on the lid reads "Laura Bryant Collection." You pried Floyd | the box open with a crowbar you borrowed from a friend after failed Floyd | attempts at picking the lock. The metal around the latch is twisted Floyd | out of shape. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Interesting." | |||
| Fang says, "doh" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x wrinkled" | ||||
Floyd | This is a wrinkled sheet of paper that was at the back of the Floyd | strongbox. It appears to be the last page of one of Ms. Bryant's Floyd | story-worlds, but you've yet to find the rest of it. It's possible Floyd | that you never will. The sheet reads: Floyd | Floyd | "will never clarify its cryptic prophecies. Floyd | Floyd | "Instead of dismantling the fast food intercom, say 'It would be a Floyd | waste of time to take that apart. You'd only be half done before the Floyd | police arrived.' Floyd | Floyd | "You can return each day, and the speaker will tell a new prophecy. Floyd | After asking the restaurant employees about the prophecies, have them Floyd | say that they have no idea what you're talking about. They only Floyd | remember taking your order and giving you a price. Floyd | Floyd | "The restaurant goes out of business in five days from now. When the Floyd | restaurant goes out of business, replace the intercom with a broken Floyd | stump. The broken stump has description 'All that remains where the Floyd | intercom and menu board once stood is a twisted stump of metal with a Floyd | few wires poking out. There's no indication of the source of the Floyd | strange mist that seemed to surround the menu board.' Floyd | Floyd | "The End." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, it seems label is a mere synonym" | |||
| DavidW says, "Let's visit another world." | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "inventory" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an old dented strongbox (open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x going home" | ||||
Floyd | This is a packet of five pages of white paper with typewritten text. Floyd | The back of each sheet shows traces of carbon paper. The pages are Floyd | stapled together in the upper left corner, and there are signs that the Floyd | sheets have been separated and re-stapled at least once. The first Floyd | line on the first page reads "GOING HOME AGAIN." On the next line is Floyd | the date "1969." Floyd | Floyd | (To enter this story, pick up the stapled packet labeled "Going Home Floyd | Again".) Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "it just seems like the explicitly given date numbers are significant" | |||
| Guest1 goes home. | Jacqueline says, "I'm probably the only one who read 'carbon paper' as 'caribou paper.'" | |||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x tower" | ||||
Floyd | This is a 50-page, spiral-bound sketchbook with cardboard covers. The Floyd | front cover is green, and is decorated with a drawing in black marker Floyd | of the wooden toy that you found in the box. Across the top is the Floyd | title "THE TOWER OF HANOI," written in the same black marker. On the Floyd | back cover is the date "1978." The first ten pages are filled with Floyd | simple pencil drawings and notes describing the world of this story. Floyd | The rest of the book is filled with hauntingly realistic charcoal Floyd | drawings of scenes from that world. Floyd | Floyd | (To enter this story, pick up the sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Floyd | Hanoi".) Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Yes, but caribou paper would have been better." | |||
| DavidW says, "Someone please start a story, or else I go eat a coconut tart or 3 away from keyboard." | ||||
| Twain says, "Gonna log for a few and reset the modem. It's acting up again." | ||||
| DavidW says, "The 'earliest' is the packet." | ||||
| Fang says, "let's see... going home -1969, morning in the garden -1974, tower of hanoi 1978, end of the world 1982" | ||||
| Fang asks, "anything I missed?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cheshiren says, "garden 75" | |||
| DavidW says, "Garden was 74. The letter was 75." | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "oh.." | ||||
| Fang says, "going home -1969, morning in the garden -1974, love letter 1975, tower of hanoi 1978, end of the world 1982" | ||||
| DavidW says, "And no date for the 'wrinkled' page." | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "it is probably latest" | ||||
| Fang says, "wrinkled can't be entered" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clutter" | ||||
Floyd | Stuff you need to put in its proper place, mostly. You put it off for Floyd | long enough, and it starts to pile up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x wooden" | ||||
Floyd | (the wooden table) Floyd | On the wooden table are a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End Floyd | of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", a Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper, and a wooden toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x wooden toy" | ||||
Floyd | This is a toy made out of a wooden block with three wooden posts Floyd | sticking out of the top. Painted wooden disks of various sizes and Floyd | colors fit onto the posts. At the moment, the left post has a tiny Floyd | purple disk, a small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, a Floyd | medium-large yellow disk, a large orange disk, and a huge red disk Floyd | (from top to bottom) on it, the middle post has nothing on it, and the Floyd | right post has nothing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search clutter" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take hanoi" | ||||
Floyd | This is a 50-page, spiral-bound sketchbook with cardboard covers. The Floyd | front cover is green, and is decorated with a drawing in black marker Floyd | of the wooden toy that you found in the box. Across the top is the Floyd | title "THE TOWER OF HANOI," written in the same black marker. On the Floyd | back cover is the date "1978." The first ten pages are filled with Floyd | simple pencil drawings and notes describing the world of this story. Floyd | The rest of the book is filled with hauntingly realistic charcoal Floyd | drawings of scenes from that world. Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Everyone okay with me saying yes?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I worry that the toy has 6 disks, instead of the usual 5." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| Fang says, "sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It seems to me that Floyd | however hard people try to Floyd | protect something, there's Floyd | always someone willing to Floyd | try harder to take it away." Floyd | Floyd | -- Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| schep arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Tower of Hanoi Floyd | by Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | You finally got here. It was an arduous journey, but you're finally at Floyd | the top of the fabled Tower of Hanoi. Before you is the priceless Floyd | Amber Star, the most sought-after jewel in the world. There's just one Floyd | problem. How are you supposed to get to it? Floyd | Floyd | Purple Room Floyd | This is a tiny, round room. Its walls are painted a rich purple. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. There is a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. A big cage is built into the wall, enclosing Floyd | the window and occupying almost half of the room. In the floor of the Floyd | cage is a square hole, through which you can see an impassable blue Floyd | stone surface. Stairs outside the cage lead down through the floor, Floyd | where you can see a room with blue walls. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage is a glass case containing an enormous jewel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||||
Floyd | This is a cage made from interlaced steel wire. It's very Floyd | sturdy-looking, and has no entrances or exits beyond the square hole in Floyd | the floor inside it. It's attached to the right wall, the floor, and Floyd | the ceiling in such a way that the wire forms three walls of the Floyd | enclosure and the outer wall of the room forms the fourth. It takes up Floyd | almost half of the room. In the cage is a glass case containing an Floyd | enormous jewel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | This is a square hole through which you can see an impassable blue Floyd | stone surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Purple Room Floyd | This is a tiny, round room. Its walls are painted a rich purple. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. There is a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. A big cage is built into the wall, enclosing Floyd | the window and occupying almost half of the room. In the floor of the Floyd | cage is a square hole, through which you can see an impassable blue Floyd | stone surface. Stairs outside the cage lead down through the floor, Floyd | where you can see a room with blue walls. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage is a glass case containing an enormous jewel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||||
Floyd | This is a cage made from interlaced steel wire. It's very Floyd | sturdy-looking, and has no entrances or exits beyond the square hole in Floyd | the floor inside it. It's attached to the right wall, the floor, and Floyd | the ceiling in such a way that the wire forms three walls of the Floyd | enclosure and the outer wall of the room forms the fourth. It takes up Floyd | almost half of the room. In the cage is a glass case containing an Floyd | enormous jewel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x jewel" | ||||
Floyd | This is the most precious jewel in the world: the Amber Star. It's the Floyd | size of your head, and a brilliant shining yellow. It's held firmly in Floyd | place by a silver stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't really matter what you look like. Let's just say you're Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stand" | ||||
Floyd | The case is made of glass, supported by an elaborate golden pedestal. Floyd | Within is a silver stand holding the Amber Star. The stand holds the Floyd | gem tightly in place. On the side of the pedestal is a small lens Floyd | facing the window with an engraving of a keyhole above it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x lens" | ||||
Floyd | This is a glass lens an inch or so across, facing toward the window as Floyd | if to catch light shining into this room. Above it is an engraving of Floyd | a keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | This is a hexagonal window, not quite big enough to climb through. Floyd | Through the window, you can see two thin metal spires and the empty Floyd | wasteland around this complex. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "let's hope we don't actually have to do a tower of hanoi puzzle here" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | This is a hexagonal window, not quite big enough to climb through. Floyd | Through the window, you can see two thin metal spires and the empty Floyd | wasteland around this complex. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x spires" | ||||
Floyd | Out the window you can see a thin metal spire, perfectly straight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Well, we can." | |||
| Firion arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "There's a toy implemented in the main room." | |||
| Fang asks, "can this world be linked to that toy?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, intially I thought it was, but now I'm not so sure." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think, we may be trying for a particular arrangement so that there's a hole up through the cage floor and light of a particular kind shining in the window. Which means, we ought to see what the other rooms contain." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend via the set of stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | This is a small, round room. Its walls are painted a deep blue. In Floyd | the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a Floyd | small hole in the ceiling above. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | floor, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see a room with green walls. A hexagonal window is on the left wall, Floyd | and there is an archway leading out. Stairs head up through the Floyd | ceiling, where you can see a room with purple walls. Floyd | Floyd | A silver mirror is mounted in front of the window, directly above a Floyd | lens set into the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Firion asks, "What game are we playing today?" | |||
| Fang says, "okay, I do think we are in the wooden toy" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Firion), "The Bryant Collection. FWIW, you can generally look at the bb to see what we're playing every week." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x archway" | ||||
Floyd | This is a graceful archway that comes to a point at the top. Through Floyd | it, you can see a roof painted green and a sheer drop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "we should move some pieces around to see if this changes the world" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh, huh. Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Outside the archway is the roof of the disk below, slick with grease Floyd | and moisture. Beyond that is a sheer drop. It doesn't seem safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "turn mirror" | ||||
Floyd | That sounds impractical. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If the blue disk was at ground level, we could leave through the archway, I suppose." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lens" | ||||
Floyd | In front of the window is an angled mirror on a silver stand, set so Floyd | that it will reflect light from the window toward a small lens set into Floyd | the floor of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Thing is..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So far, the games seem to have restarted when we left the game and returned." | ||||
| Firion says (to Jacqueline), "Sorry." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "May I continue down to the Green Room?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But that may not be the case with this one, or it may be that at start up it checks the toy's state." | ||||
| Fang asks, "well, we haven't done anything right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Firion), "No worries, it's just that you seem to ask every week. :) Maybe you're just making small talk, but I thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to know for future reference or join us from the start of the game, that's all." | ||||
| Fang asks, "what colour room did we start off in?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Purple" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We're just looking around. Purple was first." | ||||
| Fang asks, "wanna give it a go?" | ||||
| Fang asks, "what's the command?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Yeah, we haven't played with the toy yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Reverse rainbow: purple - blue - green - yellow - orange - red." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Um, there isn't a command... we've somehow gotten out of each game by doing something." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't want to touch the toy yet. I want to see the disks' contents." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||||
Floyd | Outside the archway is the roof of the disk below, slick with grease Floyd | and moisture. Beyond that is a sheer drop. It doesn't seem safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||||
Floyd | Outside the archway is the roof of the disk below, slick with grease Floyd | and moisture. Beyond that is a sheer drop. It doesn't seem safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||||
Floyd | You're not asleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm actually not sure how to leave and go back to the hub. Maybe it's in the about text." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | This is a small, round room. Its walls are painted a deep blue. In Floyd | the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a Floyd | small hole in the ceiling above. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | floor, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see a room with green walls. A hexagonal window is on the left wall, Floyd | and there is an archway leading out. Stairs head up through the Floyd | ceiling, where you can see a room with purple walls. Floyd | Floyd | A silver mirror is mounted in front of the window, directly above a Floyd | lens set into the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter mirror" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | In front of the window is an angled mirror on a silver stand, set so Floyd | that it will reflect light from the window toward a small lens set into Floyd | the floor of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cheshiren says, "'return' backs us to hub" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x lens" | ||||
Floyd | In front of the window is an angled mirror on a silver stand, set so Floyd | that it will reflect light from the window toward a small lens set into Floyd | the floor of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "return" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to leave this story and return to the living room? Floyd | | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are an old dented strongbox (empty), a pile of Floyd | letters, a memo book labeled "The End of the World", a composition book Floyd | labeled "Morning in the Garden", a sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Floyd | Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again", an envelope Floyd | labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", and a wrinkled sheet of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "damn" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, cool. Thanks." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x toy" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm going for the tarts then." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Damn?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x wooden toy" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the wooden table. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh wait... where's the toy?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Let me know when we can play properly." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "...?" | |||
| Fang says, "hmmmm" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x clutter" | ||||
Floyd | Stuff you need to put in its proper place, mostly. You put it off for Floyd | long enough, and it starts to pile up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x tower" | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sorry, David, we'd discussed trying to do that, and you didn't seem to object." | |||
Floyd | This is a 50-page, spiral-bound sketchbook with cardboard covers. The Floyd | front cover is green, and is decorated with a drawing in black marker Floyd | of the wooden toy that you found in the box. Across the top is the Floyd | title "THE TOWER OF HANOI," written in the same black marker. On the Floyd | back cover is the date "1978." The first ten pages are filled with Floyd | simple pencil drawings and notes describing the world of this story. Floyd | The rest of the book is filled with hauntingly realistic charcoal Floyd | drawings of scenes from that world. Floyd | Floyd | (To enter this story, pick up the sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Floyd | Hanoi".) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "let's backup with /undo, I guess." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Weird that the toy went poof." | ||||
| Fang asks, "hm. Did we just break something?" | ||||
| Fang asks, "or was this by design?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Let's explore our idea later, after we're done, as it looks like we'll have to restart to do it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm guessing it's by design." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are an old dented strongbox (empty), a pile of Floyd | letters, a memo book labeled "The End of the World", a composition book Floyd | labeled "Morning in the Garden", a sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Floyd | Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again", an envelope Floyd | labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", and a wrinkled sheet of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh wait" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | This is a small, round room. Its walls are painted a deep blue. In Floyd | the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a Floyd | small hole in the ceiling above. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | floor, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see a room with green walls. A hexagonal window is on the left wall, Floyd | and there is an archway leading out. Stairs head up through the Floyd | ceiling, where you can see a room with purple walls. Floyd | Floyd | A silver mirror is mounted in front of the window, directly above a Floyd | lens set into the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "What was your next idea, then?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Just exploring further?" | ||||
| schep says, "he wanted to see all the rooms before exiting" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | Jacqueline says, "I thought you were trying to find your way out of the game with us, didn't realize you were thinking something different." | |||
Floyd | You grab the metal pole and slide down into the next room. It's slick Floyd | enough that you're sure you won't be going back up by this route. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see a room with blue walls. There is a square hole in the floor, Floyd | through which you can see an impassable yellow stone surface. There is Floyd | also a set of stairs leading down to a room with yellow walls and a Floyd | hexagonal window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire Floyd | several feet from the end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to schep), "Ah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, hm - no return." | ||||
| Twain says, "Maybe you have to break the mirror. Heh." | ||||
| schep says, "another square hole. If two of them were to line up..." | ||||
| schep says, "oo, and a bridge going halfway to another metal spire. So the solution probably involves more than one stack." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Interesting how this story seems so much larger than the others." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | ||||
Floyd | An arched bridge extends out into space from a doorway in the left wall Floyd | of this room. It's enclosed, with only occasional small windows along Floyd | its walls. The inner walls are gray stone, and the bridge is just wide Floyd | enough for you to walk through in comfort. It seems to end in midair, Floyd | with a thin metal spire several feet from the end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of schep), "What's your idea, since David has evidently stepped away?" | |||
| schep says, "it seems to be 1) take careful note of the contents of each room, 2) deduce the correct arrangement of the rooms, 3) profit. Except I haven't been doing part 1." | ||||
| baf arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Me neither." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Easy enough to scroll back and note it, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Seems we maybe need to turn the rooms to get the square holes to line up?" | ||||
| schep asks, "have we seen any square holes in ceilings, or only in floors?" | ||||
| Twain asks, "Were the holes visible on the wooden toy?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah. I've noticed it only in the floors. Let me go back and look again." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Twain), "Not outwardly at first glance, no." | ||||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||||
| Twain says, "It's interesting to me that this world is so much more complex than the others. Really makes me think it must change them some how." | ||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "I'm not sure about the changing bit, though you may be right, but I'm definitely struck by the complexity of this one that makes it so different from the others." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sorry, I didn't realize you'd wanted to explore this entirely before tinkering with the toy in the 'hub' room. Weird bit is, the toy is gone now. We undid until we came back to where we left off and are just trying to explore what we can before we change anything now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hopefully you have it in scrollback." | ||||
| Cheshiren says, "and it's only puzzle in whole game" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Seeminly, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the round hole, or the square hole? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "square" | ||||
Floyd | This is a square hole through which you can see an impassable yellow Floyd | stone surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "There are only holes in the floors, not the ceilings?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That shoots my theory." | ||||
| Twain says, "Well it talks about a spire that goes up half way" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Admittedly, I'm really used to having my puzzle-solving theories be horribly wrong, so I'm not too distressed." | ||||
| schep says, "maybe other rooms yet to be seen do have square holes in their ceilings." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Perhaps. Keep esplorin?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "please. It's too early to make theories." | ||||
| schep says, "I theorize there will be a light source somewhere." | ||||
| Twain says, "Go for it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend via the set of stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Yellow Room Floyd | This is a medium-large, round room. Its walls are painted a pale Floyd | yellow. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A set of Floyd | stairs leads up to a room with green walls. Through a square hole in Floyd | the floor, you can see a room with orange walls. There is a hexagonal Floyd | window on the left wall and an archway leading out. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow, steel, cylindrical device sits in the middle of the room, Floyd | aimed at the window on the left wall. A pipe leads from the device to Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A golden mirror is mounted beside the cylindrical device, directly Floyd | below a lens set into the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Who's driving, then?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||||
| Twain says, "And grues." | ||||
| RootShell arrives, full of fun and funk. | Twain says, "So a gold mirror and a silver mirror then." | |||
| RootShell says, "Hello All :)" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||
Floyd | This is a long, thin metal tube with pipes and gauges sticking out of Floyd | it and a sealed hopper on top filled with small metal balls. The Floyd | largest pipe leads down through the floor. The pipes are silent, and a Floyd | large gauge on the side indicates that the device is "UNPRESSURIZED." Floyd | There is a big lever on the back of the device. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hi, RS." | |||
| RootShell says, "'Almost' got here on time this week hehehe" | ||||
| RootShell asks, "speedif?" | ||||
| Alex says (to RootShell), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that speedif is IF written real fast. Like, in two hours or something." | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to RS), "No, the Bryant Collection. Which is sort of like a bunch of speed IFs except that they're far more well-implemented." | |||
| RootShell says (to Jacqueline), "yes, right. i forgot we also spoke about that one ;)" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lever" | ||||
Floyd | A big lever sticks out of the back of the device. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x column" | ||||
Floyd | This is a thick column made of smooth stone. It's in the exact center Floyd | of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Levers are meant for pullin'" | |||
| DavidW says, "Or pushin'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Twain), "You two sound like maga." | ||||
| Twain says, "Lies. Only pullin'." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x balls" | ||||
Floyd | This is a sealed hopper mounted on top of the cylindrical device. Floyd | Through a window in its side, you can see countless little metal balls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Yellow Room Floyd | This is a medium-large, round room. Its walls are painted a pale Floyd | yellow. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A set of Floyd | stairs leads up to a room with green walls. Through a square hole in Floyd | the floor, you can see a room with orange walls. There is a hexagonal Floyd | window on the left wall and an archway leading out. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow, steel, cylindrical device sits in the middle of the room, Floyd | aimed at the window on the left wall. A pipe leads from the device to Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A golden mirror is mounted beside the cylindrical device, directly Floyd | below a lens set into the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Whenever he encouters levers in a game he has a little lever song that he made up that he sings. It has a small dance with it and everything." | |||
| DavidW says, "really" | ||||
| RootShell says (to Jacqueline), "that is just.... silly :P" | ||||
| DavidW says, "You'll have to tell me all the juicy details later." | ||||
| Twain says, "I demand lyrics." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah. It's the sort of thing that makes me sort of glad we don't have kids who would mock him mercilessly." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "You are a dirty boy." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or maybe I just assumed that 'levers' + 'juicy details' = naughty." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ANYway..." | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x pipe" | ||||
Floyd | This is a long, thin metal tube with pipes and gauges sticking out of Floyd | it and a sealed hopper on top filled with small metal balls. The Floyd | largest pipe leads down through the floor. The pipes are silent, and a Floyd | large gauge on the side indicates that the device is "UNPRESSURIZED." Floyd | There is a big lever on the back of the device. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "It is not a complicated song. I believe it's just the line 'Leeeevers to pulllll, leeeevers to pulllll' repeated over and over." | |||
| DavidW says, "No stairs down, but I suppose we can jump down the hole." | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x gauges" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through square hole" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x hopper" | ||||
Floyd | This is a sealed hopper mounted on top of the cylindrical device. Floyd | Through a window in its side, you can see countless little metal balls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "Accompanied by a little dance of joy in anticipation of pulling said levers." | |||
| baf says, "Man, I've got to put a roomful of levers in my next game." | ||||
| DavidW says (to baf), "Please do." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to baf), "haha" | ||||
| Twain says, "Every good game should have at least four levers to each room." | ||||
| RootShell says (to Jacqueline), "maybe create a 'Lever Comp' ? :) Now that would be something ;)" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the lever, and nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "anticlimax ftw" | |||
| Twain exclaims, "All that for nothing!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Of course nothing happens. UNPRESSURIZED." | ||||
| RootShell asks (of DavidW), "yes... I havent been here, are we long into the game?" | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Right" | |||
| DavidW says (to RS), "We've seen two 1-room storyworlds, and are now exploring a Tower of Hanoi from the inside." | ||||
| RootShell says (to DavidW), "ok ok so that i start to catch up with you guys" | ||||
| DavidW says, "And there's two more storyworlds that we haven't seen yet." | ||||
| baf is only barely paying attention to proceedings here | ||||
| Twain says, "Which apparently contains mirrors, holes, and a mass driver/baseball launcher/shiny thing with lever." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "May we continue to Orange?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sure." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend via the square hole. Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with yellow walls. A staircase leads down to a room with red Floyd | walls. An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the Floyd | left wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x archway" | ||||
Floyd | This is a graceful archway that comes to a point at the top. Through Floyd | it, you can see a roof painted red and a sheer drop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter archway" | ||||
Floyd | Outside the archway is the roof of the disk below, slick with grease Floyd | and moisture. Beyond that is a sheer drop. It doesn't seem safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||||
Floyd | This is an a ladder leading to a square hole through which you can see Floyd | a room with yellow walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | This is a hexagonal window, not quite big enough to climb through. Floyd | Through the window, you can see the empty wasteland around this Floyd | complex. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No lenses, mirrors, pipes." | |||
| Twain says, "But a hole all the same." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I assume the second half of the pipe must be in the Red room below." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend via the set of stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Red Room Floyd | This is a huge, round room. Its walls are painted bright red. In the Floyd | center of the room is a round stone column. A set of stairs leads up Floyd | to a room with orange walls. A hexagonal window is in the right wall, Floyd | and an archway leads out. Floyd | Floyd | A clanking machine sits in a corner of the room, with a hissing pipe Floyd | leading to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | A strange lamp is mounted in front of the window. Floyd | Floyd | A bright, focused beam of light shines from the lamp and out the window Floyd | on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "And there's the light source." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||||
Floyd | A bright gas lamp is mounted in an array of curved mirrors and lenses. Floyd | The dazzling white light from the lamp is focused into a tight beam Floyd | that shines out the window in the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | This is a hexagonal window, not quite big enough to climb through. Floyd | Through the window, you can see two thin metal spires and the empty Floyd | wasteland around this complex. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||||
Floyd | The beam of light is tightly focused, and strong enough that your hand Floyd | feels warm if you place it in the light's path. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm betting there's no way to alter the toy, even before it disappears, and that it's just there as a clue for when you're in this game." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||||
Floyd | This is a strange clanking machine, a couple yards across. It's quite Floyd | warm, and has a large gear on the side that rotates agonizingly slowly. Floyd | A big iron pipe leads from the top of the machine to the ceiling. Floyd | Steam flows angrily from a release valve on the back of the machine, Floyd | indicating that it's not being delivered to its intended destination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gear" | ||||
Floyd | This is a strange clanking machine, a couple yards across. It's quite Floyd | warm, and has a large gear on the side that rotates agonizingly slowly. Floyd | A big iron pipe leads from the top of the machine to the ceiling. Floyd | Steam flows angrily from a release valve on the back of the machine, Floyd | indicating that it's not being delivered to its intended destination. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "but how will we move the disks to connect the PRESSURE?" | |||
| DavidW says, "From outside, silly." | ||||
| Twain says, "It seems strange that it would disappear at all, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to schep), "Well, given that the toy disappears when you leave this game, I'm suspecting it's not done in the 'metaworld,' but rather somehow from within the game." | ||||
| DavidW says, "My guess: outside, in the open plain, will be the toy." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Twain), "I agree." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x archway" | ||||
Floyd | This is a graceful archway that comes to a point at the top. Through Floyd | it, you can see a dusty plain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, a Floyd | green room, a yellow room, a orange room, and a red room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crane" | ||||
Floyd | This is an enormous crane apparatus that sits above the three spires. Floyd | It is on tracks that let it slide from tower to tower, and has a Floyd | massive hook hanging from the end of a cable. It's connected with Floyd | pipes to the tin shed. Steam occasionally hisses from valves on the Floyd | machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "or perhaps we could use this convenient elaborate crane system" | |||
| Twain says, "Probably in the shed." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shed" | ||||
Floyd | This is a small shed with tin walls. It is connected to the crane Floyd | apparatus with hundreds of thin steel pipes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I thought we'd get to see the beam jut out of the red disk." | |||
| Twain asks, "Was it firing out the window?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Yes." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Rightwards." | ||||
| Twain says, "Huh." | ||||
| DavidW says, "But I guess beams are mostly invisible." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the Tin Shed Floyd | This small tin shed is hot and humid. A large machine takes up most of Floyd | the floor space, with just enough room for you to stand. Two signs are Floyd | mounted on the wall; one is labeled "THE RULES" and the other is Floyd | labeled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS." Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the center of the machine's console is what appears to be a Floyd | small wooden toy. Beside it is a large lever. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Time for a lever dance." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rules" | ||||
| Twain dances with all his might. | ||||
Floyd | This wooden sign is bolted to the wall of the shed. It reads, "THE Floyd | RULES: No disk may be on top of a smaller disk. Every disk must be on Floyd | a post." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x operating" | ||||
Floyd | This wooden sign is bolted to the wall of the shed. It is titled Floyd | "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS." Below that is a numbered list: Floyd | Floyd | 1. Assemble tower model to desired configuration. Floyd | 2. Check rules to ensure valid configuration. Floyd | 3. Pull lever. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "See? Pullin'." | |||
| DavidW says, "ah. So we play with the toy, then pull." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "well, any idea what the steam device does?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Obviously, the yellow disk must be on the red one." | ||||
| Twain says, "Pressure to shoot the balls out... For whatever purpose that's supposed to serve." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I saw nowhere for the balls to go, did you?" | ||||
| Twain says, "Not sure. It said they were in the hopper though." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, but no mention of a spout." | ||||
| Cheshiren exclaims, "It's almost 3 AM at my place and i am going to bed. Will be waiting for transcript to see how you beat this. Good luck!" | ||||
| Twain says, "Good point." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Cheshiren), "Okay... g'night!" | ||||
| Cheshiren goes home. | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "x tower" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "x toy" | ||||
Floyd | This is a toy made out of a wooden block with three wooden posts Floyd | sticking out of the top. Painted wooden disks of various sizes and Floyd | colors fit onto the posts. At the moment, the left post has a tiny Floyd | purple disk, a small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, a Floyd | medium-large yellow disk, a large orange disk, and a huge red disk Floyd | (from top to bottom) on it, the middle post has nothing on it, and the Floyd | right post has nothing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Yeah, so it's set up at default." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take all from left post" | ||||
Floyd | tiny purple disk: Taken. Floyd | small blue disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-small green disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-large yellow disk: Taken. Floyd | large orange disk: Taken. Floyd | huge red disk: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. It'll let us do that, yay." | |||
| Twain says, "Hah, I was hoping for a crazy earthquake noise outside." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Put the orange on on the middle post. Red and yellow on left post." | ||||
| Jacqueline sits back to watch, because this is going to be muddled by me. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, her." | ||||
| schep says, "yeah, but you'll need to wait 128 turns while the crane moves around after you pull the lever." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "wait. Which way does the yellow disk's archway go?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, bridge, I mean." | ||||
| schep says, "left? not sure." | ||||
| schep says, "I'm only half here, so I think DW should drive" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ok. Let's experiment a little." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put red on middle. put yellow on middle." | ||||
Floyd | You put the huge red disk on the empty middle post. Floyd | Floyd | You put the medium-large yellow disk on top of the huge red disk on the Floyd | middle post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put orange on right" | ||||
Floyd | You put the large orange disk on the empty right post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put green on left. put blue on left. put purple on left." | ||||
Floyd | You put the medium-small green disk on the empty left post. Floyd | Floyd | You put the small blue disk on top of the medium-small green disk on Floyd | the left post. Floyd | Floyd | You put the tiny purple disk on top of the small blue disk on the left Floyd | post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | A colossal rumbling shakes the earth, and a hissing of steam fills the Floyd | air. You hear a series of massive thuds as something huge rearranges Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toy" | ||||
Floyd | This is a toy made out of a wooden block with three wooden posts Floyd | sticking out of the top. Painted wooden disks of various sizes and Floyd | colors fit onto the posts. At the moment, the left post has a tiny Floyd | purple disk, a small blue disk, and a medium-small green disk (from top Floyd | to bottom) on it, the middle post has a medium-large yellow disk and a Floyd | huge red disk (from top to bottom) on it, and the right post has a Floyd | large orange disk on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, Floyd | and a green room (from top to bottom). You can enter the green room Floyd | through the exposed end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a orange room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the orange room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Firion goes home. | DavidW asks, "oh. The green disk has the bridge?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the Tin Shed Floyd | This small tin shed is hot and humid. A large machine takes up most of Floyd | the floor space, with just enough room for you to stand. Two signs are Floyd | mounted on the wall; one is labeled "THE RULES" and the other is Floyd | labeled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS." Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the center of the machine's console is what appears to be a Floyd | small wooden toy. Beside it is a large lever. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "I knew I should have kept notes." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from left" | ||||
Floyd | tiny purple disk: Taken. Floyd | small blue disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-small green disk: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from right" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put orange on left" | ||||
Floyd | You put the large orange disk on the empty left post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put green on left" | ||||
Floyd | You put the medium-small green disk on top of the large orange disk on Floyd | the left post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put blue on right" | ||||
Floyd | You put the small blue disk on the empty right post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put purple on right" | ||||
Floyd | You put the tiny purple disk on top of the small blue disk on the right Floyd | post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | A colossal rumbling shakes the earth, and a hissing of steam fills the Floyd | air. You hear a series of massive thuds as something huge rearranges Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter orange" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. Floyd | An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter red" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Red Room Floyd | This is a huge, round room. Its walls are painted bright red. In the Floyd | center of the room is a round stone column. A set of stairs leads up Floyd | to an impassable yellow stone surface. A hexagonal window is in the Floyd | right wall, and an archway leads out. Floyd | Floyd | A clanking machine sits in a corner of the room, with a hissing pipe Floyd | leading to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | A strange lamp is mounted in front of the window. Floyd | Floyd | A bright, focused beam of light shines from the lamp and out the window Floyd | on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is it true that Weir wants to write a game a month?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think so" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. The set of stairs is blocked by a hard yellow Floyd | stone surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter orange" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. Floyd | An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend via the a ladder leading to a square hole. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you Floyd | can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs Floyd | leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire Floyd | several feet from the end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "right" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Then it's interesting that he released this as a single game instead of, like, five." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You walk up to the edge of the bridge, but it ends in midair. There Floyd | doesn't seem to be any place you can reach from here, so you return to Floyd | the green room. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you Floyd | can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs Floyd | leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire Floyd | several feet from the end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But then I guess the original premise wouldn't have been usable, and some are too brief to really stand on their own, so." | |||
| schep says, "I guess you need to swap the left and right stacks" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You walk up to the edge of the bridge, but it ends in midair. There Floyd | doesn't seem to be any place you can reach from here, so you return to Floyd | the green room. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you Floyd | can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs Floyd | leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire Floyd | several feet from the end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says (to Jacq), "There's also still the possibility they're all connected somehow." | |||
| DavidW says, "We need the bridge to turn the device on" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of schep), "To make the bridge line up, you mean?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jacq), "yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Twain), "That is true; I guess we'll see." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You walk up to the edge of the bridge, but it ends in midair. There Floyd | doesn't seem to be any place you can reach from here, so you return to Floyd | the green room. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you Floyd | can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs Floyd | leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire Floyd | several feet from the end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You walk up to the edge of the bridge, but it ends in midair. There Floyd | doesn't seem to be any place you can reach from here, so you return to Floyd | the green room. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you Floyd | can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs Floyd | leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire Floyd | several feet from the end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend via the square hole. Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. Floyd | An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the Tin Shed Floyd | This small tin shed is hot and humid. A large machine takes up most of Floyd | the floor space, with just enough room for you to stand. Two signs are Floyd | mounted on the wall; one is labeled "THE RULES" and the other is Floyd | labeled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS." Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the center of the machine's console is what appears to be a Floyd | small wooden toy. Beside it is a large lever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swap left and right" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from left" | ||||
Floyd | medium-small green disk: Taken. Floyd | large orange disk: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from right" | ||||
Floyd | tiny purple disk: Taken. Floyd | small blue disk: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put orange and green on right" | ||||
Floyd | large orange disk: You put the large orange disk on the empty right Floyd | post. Floyd | medium-small green disk: You put the medium-small green disk on top of Floyd | the large orange disk on the right post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put blue and purple on left" | ||||
Floyd | small blue disk: You put the small blue disk on the empty left post. Floyd | tiny purple disk: You put the tiny purple disk on top of the small blue Floyd | disk on the left post. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "clever" | |||
| DavidW says, "I didn't think that phrasing would work." | ||||
| schep says, "as long as you get the order right, I guess" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | A colossal rumbling shakes the earth, and a hissing of steam fills the Floyd | air. You hear a series of massive thuds as something huge rearranges Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange Floyd | room (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter orange" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. Floyd | An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall. Floyd | Floyd | A beam of light enters the room through the window and makes a bright Floyd | spot on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend via the a ladder leading to a square hole. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you Floyd | can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs Floyd | leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. At the end you can see a yellow room. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You walk through the bridge to the next tower, entering through an Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | Yellow Room Floyd | This is a medium-large, round room. Its walls are painted a pale Floyd | yellow. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A set of Floyd | stairs leads up to blue sky. Through a square hole in the floor, you Floyd | can see an impassable red stone surface. There is a hexagonal window Floyd | on the left wall and an archway leading out. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow, steel, cylindrical device sits in the middle of the room, Floyd | aimed at the window on the left wall. A pipe leads from the device to Floyd | the floor. Steam leaks from the joints in the pipe. Floyd | Floyd | A golden mirror is mounted beside the cylindrical device, directly Floyd | below a lens set into the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lever" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "LEVER DANCE" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Twain dances like he's never danced before. | ||||
| Jacqueline sings Leeevers to pullll, leeevers to pullll... | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | The set of stairs leads to the roof, and it's made of stone slick with Floyd | grease and condensed steam. You don't trust the footing up there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||
Floyd | This is a long, thin metal tube with pipes and gauges sticking out of Floyd | it and a sealed hopper on top filled with small metal balls. The Floyd | largest pipe leads down through the floor. Steam hisses in the pipes, Floyd | and a large gauge on the side indicates that the device is "READY TO Floyd | FIRE." There is a big lever on the back of the device. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | There is a loud thump and a burst of steam as a steel ball fires from Floyd | the mouth of the device and out the window. You hear a tremendous Floyd | crash as the shot shatters something in the purple room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain asks, "Do we have to orient the mirrors in addition to the disks, maybe?" | |||
| schep says, "oho" | ||||
| Twain says, "Or not. Haha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "um. We might've destroyed the jewel." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Yellow Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says (to DavidW), "Seven years bad luck." | |||
| schep says, "or the glass case around it. But sure, save." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | There is a loud thump and a burst of steam as a steel ball fires from Floyd | the mouth of the device and out the window. You hear a tremendous Floyd | crash as the shot shatters something in the purple room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have a compass. If you would like to go to a place, please Floyd | type GO TO (PLACE). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You cross the bridge to the green room. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you Floyd | can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs Floyd | leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. At the end you can see a yellow room. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend via the square hole. Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. Floyd | An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall. Floyd | Floyd | A beam of light enters the room through the window and makes a bright Floyd | spot on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange Floyd | room (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter blue" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | This is a small, round room. Its walls are painted a deep blue. In Floyd | the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a Floyd | small hole in the ceiling above. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | floor, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see solid, packed dirt. A hexagonal window is on the left wall, and Floyd | there is an archway leading out. Stairs head up through the ceiling, Floyd | where you can see a room with purple walls. Floyd | Floyd | A silver mirror is mounted in front of the window, directly above a Floyd | lens set into the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend via the set of stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Purple Room Floyd | This is a tiny, round room. Its walls are painted a rich purple. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. There is a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. A big cage is built into the wall, enclosing Floyd | the window and occupying almost half of the room. In the floor of the Floyd | cage is a square hole, through which you can see an impassable blue Floyd | stone surface. Stairs outside the cage lead down through the floor, Floyd | where you can see a room with blue walls. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage is a shattered glass case containing an enormous jewel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jewel" | ||||
Floyd | This is the most precious jewel in the world: the Amber Star. It's the Floyd | size of your head, and a brilliant shining yellow. It's held firmly in Floyd | place by a silver stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jewel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get inside the large cage from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open case" | ||||
Floyd | The large cage isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "okay, so the purple disk needs to be on top of something with a staircase or ladder." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||||
Floyd | The case was originally made of glass, supported by an elaborate golden Floyd | pedestal. Within is a silver stand holding the Amber Star. The stand Floyd | holds the gem tightly in place. On the side of the pedestal is a small Floyd | lens facing the window with an engraving of a keyhole above it. Floyd | Floyd | The glass walls of the case have been shattered to pieces, allowing Floyd | access to the treasure within. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. I guess this was just step one." | |||
| schep says, "it probably also needs a beam of light hitting that keyhole. how annoying." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to schep), "heh" | ||||
| Twain asks, "Maybe you had to first shatter the glass case, then reorient them to shine light on the jewel?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "So, yeah PB/YR/GO is step one. Now we need another arrangement to get the beam to unlock the stand, then a 3rd arrangement to line up holes." | ||||
| Twain says, "Sounds logical, in an IF-fy sort of way." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Trouble is, I don't know what to expect from the lenses and mirrors." | ||||
| Twain says, "Hopefully more levers." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "hm. I guess... what if Orange is right of Red? Just do that?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend via the set of stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Blue Room Floyd | This is a small, round room. Its walls are painted a deep blue. In Floyd | the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a Floyd | small hole in the ceiling above. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | floor, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see solid, packed dirt. A hexagonal window is on the left wall, and Floyd | there is an archway leading out. Stairs head up through the ceiling, Floyd | where you can see a room with purple walls. Floyd | Floyd | A silver mirror is mounted in front of the window, directly above a Floyd | lens set into the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room Floyd | (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange Floyd | room (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the Tin Shed Floyd | This small tin shed is hot and humid. A large machine takes up most of Floyd | the floor space, with just enough room for you to stand. Two signs are Floyd | mounted on the wall; one is labeled "THE RULES" and the other is Floyd | labeled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS." Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the center of the machine's console is what appears to be a Floyd | small wooden toy. Beside it is a large lever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all disks" | ||||
Floyd | tiny purple disk: Taken. Floyd | small blue disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-large yellow disk: Taken. Floyd | huge red disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-small green disk: Taken. Floyd | large orange disk: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put red on middle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the huge red disk on the empty middle post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put orange on right" | ||||
Floyd | You put the large orange disk on the empty right post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put yellow, green, blue, purple on left" | ||||
Floyd | medium-large yellow disk: You put the medium-large yellow disk on the Floyd | empty left post. Floyd | medium-small green disk: You put the medium-small green disk on top of Floyd | the medium-large yellow disk on the left post. Floyd | small blue disk: You put the small blue disk on top of the medium-small Floyd | green disk on the left post. Floyd | tiny purple disk: You put the tiny purple disk on top of the small blue Floyd | disk on the left post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | A colossal rumbling shakes the earth, and a hissing of steam fills the Floyd | air. You hear a series of massive thuds as something huge rearranges Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, a Floyd | green room, and a yellow room (from top to bottom). You can enter the Floyd | yellow room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a red room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a orange room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the orange room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter orange" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to Floyd | blue sky. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. An archway Floyd | leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall. Floyd | Floyd | A beam of light enters the room through the window and makes a bright Floyd | spot on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spot" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess that's not useful. Let's try yellow instead of orange." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, a Floyd | green room, and a yellow room (from top to bottom). You can enter the Floyd | yellow room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a red room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a orange room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the orange room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the Tin Shed Floyd | This small tin shed is hot and humid. A large machine takes up most of Floyd | the floor space, with just enough room for you to stand. Two signs are Floyd | mounted on the wall; one is labeled "THE RULES" and the other is Floyd | labeled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS." Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the center of the machine's console is what appears to be a Floyd | small wooden toy. Beside it is a large lever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from left. take orange. put yellow on right. put orange, green, blue, purple on left." | ||||
Floyd | tiny purple disk: Taken. Floyd | small blue disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-small green disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-large yellow disk: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You put the medium-large yellow disk on the empty right post. Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put orange, green, blue, and purple on left" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put orange on left" | ||||
Floyd | You put the large orange disk on the empty left post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put green on left" | ||||
Floyd | You put the medium-small green disk on top of the large orange disk on Floyd | the left post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put blue and purple on left" | ||||
Floyd | small blue disk: You put the small blue disk on top of the medium-small Floyd | green disk on the left post. Floyd | tiny purple disk: You put the tiny purple disk on top of the small blue Floyd | disk on the left post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | A colossal rumbling shakes the earth, and a hissing of steam fills the Floyd | air. You hear a series of massive thuds as something huge rearranges Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, a Floyd | green room, and a orange room (from top to bottom). You can enter the Floyd | orange room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a red room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a yellow room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the yellow room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter yellow" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Yellow Room Floyd | This is a medium-large, round room. Its walls are painted a pale Floyd | yellow. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A set of Floyd | stairs leads up to blue sky. Through a square hole in the floor, you Floyd | can see solid, packed dirt. There is a hexagonal window on the left Floyd | wall and an archway leading out. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow, steel, cylindrical device sits in the middle of the room, Floyd | aimed at the window on the left wall. A pipe leads from the device to Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A golden mirror is mounted beside the cylindrical device, directly Floyd | below a lens set into the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | A beam of light enters through the window on the left wall, reflects Floyd | off of the mirror, and shines into the lens in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | The set of stairs leads to the roof, and it's made of stone slick with Floyd | grease and condensed steam. You don't trust the footing up there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lens" | ||||
Floyd | Beside the cylindrical device is an angled mirror on a golden stand, Floyd | set so that it will reflect light from the window toward a small lens Floyd | set into the ceiling of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Do we need a lens in the floor of a room above the yellow room?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Green has lenses in floor and ceiling. I suppose Green could be next." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Anyone remember how the blue room is fixed for lens/mirrors/windows?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing POR/BGY" | ||||
| Twain says, "Sorry, was afk. Not sure." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, I can try it, I guess." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
| Nitku shot you 35 times all over your body killing you over and over again. you die. | ||||
Floyd | There's just packed dirt below the square hole. There's nowhere to go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, a Floyd | green room, and a orange room (from top to bottom). You can enter the Floyd | orange room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a red room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a yellow room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the yellow room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter orange" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. Floyd | An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend via the a ladder leading to a square hole. Floyd | Floyd | Green Room Floyd | This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool Floyd | green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes Floyd | into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the Floyd | ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can Floyd | see a room with blue walls. There is a square hole in the floor, Floyd | through which you can see a room with orange walls. There is also a Floyd | set of stairs leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a Floyd | hexagonal window on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an Floyd | enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire Floyd | several feet from the end of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, Floyd | directly above each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | The metal pole at the center of the room is too slick to climb up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend via the square hole. Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. Floyd | An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You exit via the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, a Floyd | green room, and a orange room (from top to bottom). You can enter the Floyd | orange room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a red room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a yellow room (from top to Floyd | bottom). You can enter the yellow room through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the Tin Shed Floyd | This small tin shed is hot and humid. A large machine takes up most of Floyd | the floor space, with just enough room for you to stand. Two signs are Floyd | mounted on the wall; one is labeled "THE RULES" and the other is Floyd | labeled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS." Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the center of the machine's console is what appears to be a Floyd | small wooden toy. Beside it is a large lever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all disk" | ||||
Floyd | tiny purple disk: Taken. Floyd | small blue disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-small green disk: Taken. Floyd | large orange disk: Taken. Floyd | huge red disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-large yellow disk: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put red and orange and purple on middle" | ||||
Floyd | huge red disk: You put the huge red disk on the empty middle post. Floyd | large orange disk: You put the large orange disk on top of the huge red Floyd | disk on the middle post. Floyd | tiny purple disk: You put the tiny purple disk on top of the large Floyd | orange disk on the middle post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put yellow and green and blue on right" | ||||
Floyd | medium-large yellow disk: You put the medium-large yellow disk on the Floyd | empty right post. Floyd | medium-small green disk: You put the medium-small green disk on top of Floyd | the medium-large yellow disk on the right post. Floyd | small blue disk: You put the small blue disk on top of the medium-small Floyd | green disk on the right post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | A colossal rumbling shakes the earth, and a hissing of steam fills the Floyd | air. You hear a series of massive thuds as something huge rearranges Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Tower Floyd | You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs. Floyd | In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks Floyd | threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, Floyd | its valves and gaskets oozing steam. Floyd | Floyd | On the middle spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a orange Floyd | room, and a red room (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room Floyd | through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | On the right spire is a tower composed of a blue room, a green room, Floyd | and a yellow room (from top to bottom). You can enter the yellow room Floyd | through an archway. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you is a small tin shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter orange" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter red" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Red Room Floyd | This is a huge, round room. Its walls are painted bright red. In the Floyd | center of the room is a round stone column. A set of stairs leads up Floyd | to a room with orange walls. A hexagonal window is in the right wall, Floyd | and an archway leads out. Floyd | Floyd | A clanking machine sits in a corner of the room, with a hissing pipe Floyd | leading to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | A strange lamp is mounted in front of the window. Floyd | Floyd | A bright, focused beam of light shines from the lamp and out the window Floyd | on the right wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend via the set of stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Orange Room Floyd | This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a Floyd | room with purple walls. A staircase leads down to a room with red Floyd | walls. An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the Floyd | left wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend via the a ladder leading to a square hole. Floyd | Floyd | Purple Room (in the large cage) Floyd | This is a tiny, round room. Its walls are painted a rich purple. In Floyd | the center of the room is a round stone column. There is a hexagonal Floyd | window on the right wall. A big cage is built into the wall, enclosing Floyd | the window and occupying almost half of the room. In the floor of the Floyd | cage is a square hole, through which you can see a room with orange Floyd | walls. Stairs outside the cage lead down through the floor, where you Floyd | can see an impassable orange stone surface. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage is a shattered glass case containing an enormous jewel. Floyd | Floyd | A beam of light shines in through the window and hits a lens mounted on Floyd | the pedestal supporting the glass case. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jewel" | ||||
Floyd | You take the Amber Star from its place in the case. You're now rich Floyd | beyond your wildest dreams, and as the thief who bested the Tower of Floyd | Hanoi, you will go down in infamy! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "WOO" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Not my sort of game, but hooray that you solved it." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yay." | ||||
| Twain exclaims, "Huzzah!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'll let someone else drive the next world." | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a wooden toy, an old dented strongbox (empty), Floyd | a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End of the World", a Floyd | composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a sketchbook labeled Floyd | "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again", an Floyd | envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", and a wrinkled sheet of Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toy" | ||||
Floyd | This is a toy made out of a wooden block with three wooden posts Floyd | sticking out of the top. Painted wooden disks of various sizes and Floyd | colors fit onto the posts. At the moment, the left post has nothing on Floyd | it, the middle post has a tiny purple disk, a large orange disk, and a Floyd | huge red disk (from top to bottom) on it, and the right post has a Floyd | small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, and a medium-large yellow Floyd | disk (from top to bottom) on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm really glad we're CFing this. I would have not finished that last world." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Weird. The toy is there now?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's first in the list." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And has been manipulated." | ||||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x wooden toy" | ||||
Floyd | This is a toy made out of a wooden block with three wooden posts Floyd | sticking out of the top. Painted wooden disks of various sizes and Floyd | colors fit onto the posts. At the moment, the left post has nothing on Floyd | it, the middle post has a tiny purple disk, a large orange disk, and a Floyd | huge red disk (from top to bottom) on it, and the right post has a Floyd | small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, and a medium-large yellow Floyd | disk (from top to bottom) on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, earlier it wouldn't... hrm." | |||
| Jacqueline goes back to look. | ||||
| DavidW says, "Reality fudge." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, might have been a bug because we left without finishing that game, I guess." | ||||
| Twain says, "Ch-ch-ch-changes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, David, I see now where you requested to explore fully before backing out to mess with the toy. Sorry; sometimes scroll by so fast I miss things." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, which one next?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Going Home Again, please." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "End of the World?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh - or, sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take Going Home Again" | ||||
Floyd | This is a packet of five pages of white paper with typewritten text. Floyd | The back of each sheet shows traces of carbon paper. The pages are Floyd | stapled together in the upper left corner, and there are signs that the Floyd | sheets have been separated and re-stapled at least once. The first Floyd | line on the first page reads "GOING HOME AGAIN." On the next line is Floyd | the date "1969." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | DavidW says, "I think End of the World ought to be last." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Fair enough." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I had some men come to Floyd | cut down that big dead tree Floyd | in the front yard today. It was Floyd | an eyesore, but now I'm sorry Floyd | to see it gone." Floyd | Floyd | -- Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Twain says, "It would seem fitting." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press green" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Going Home Again Floyd | by Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Your flight arrived an hour ago, and your parents picked you up from Floyd | the airport. You're just here for a little bit, to set down your Floyd | suitcase in your old room before you go out to dinner. Your parents Floyd | are waiting in the car. There'll be time to reminisce after you all Floyd | eat. Still, this is the first time you've been back since you Floyd | graduated from college. Floyd | Floyd | Laundry Room Floyd | This is the first room off of the garage, with a washer and dryer and Floyd | some storage. The cabinets above the dryer are where your mom always Floyd | kept old rags for dusting, and all sorts of junk is stacked on the Floyd | shelves across from them. The kitchen is through a doorway, and your Floyd | parents are waiting in the garage just outside this room. Floyd | Floyd | A set of lines drawn on the edge of the shelves catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x lines" | ||||
Floyd | Drawn on the edge of the shelves is a set of lines. Each one has a Floyd | date written beside it. These are your height measurements from when Floyd | you were a child. Now, you're taller than all of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "well, that's good to know" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read lines" | ||||
Floyd | Drawn on the edge of the shelves is a set of lines. Each one has a Floyd | date written beside it. These are your height measurements from when Floyd | you were a child. Now, you're taller than all of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "See, I'm a good girl and my first instinct is not to explore, but to head straight to the car." | |||
| Twain asks, "Ahh, but what are the dates?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Fang), "Heh. What, you mean it's good to know we haven't shrunk?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read dates" | ||||
Floyd | Drawn on the edge of the shelves is a set of lines. Each one has a Floyd | date written beside it. These are your height measurements from when Floyd | you were a child. Now, you're taller than all of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to Jacq), "indeed" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a suitcase Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "Guess we won't know." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're almost 24; your birthday is tomorrow. You've graduated from Floyd | college, and you've been away from this place for over half a decade Floyd | now. You've only just stopped thinking of it as "home." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | This is your old beat-up suitcase. You got it when you first went off Floyd | to college, over four years ago now. It's covered in stickers Floyd | advertising far-off eateries and espousing political beliefs that you Floyd | only half-believe anymore. You just need to drop it off in your old Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Hmm. And it was so deliberate about dates before." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read 1969" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | ||||
Floyd | These wooden cabinets above the washer and dryer contain old rags and Floyd | cleaning supplies, mostly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x washer" | ||||
Floyd | They replaced the washer and dryer just after you left for college. Floyd | This new model is a lot more reliable than the old one. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "go to garage?" | |||
| DavidW says, "(I don't think 'Laura' thought about using compass directions at all.)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I would, but that may end the game." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Save, then go?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You just need to drop off your suitcase in your old room first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | You'd rather not clutter up your hou... you mean, your parents' house. Floyd | You can drop it off in your room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen's about the same as you remember it, although the Floyd | refrigerator's new. The floor is white tile, and one wall is covered Floyd | in cabinets. A little basket of oranges sits out on the counter. The Floyd | kitchen table occupies much of the room. The doorway to the laundry Floyd | room is near the refrigerator, and the family room is through an open Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Food again." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||||
Floyd | The old refrigerator was a simple one with a freezer on top and the Floyd | fridge on the bottom. You'd always assumed your parents got it as a Floyd | wedding gift. They've replaced it with a top-of-the-line model with Floyd | the freezer on the bottom. Instead of crayon drawings, the front is Floyd | covered with years-old Dean's List certificates and newsletters from Floyd | your parents' church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oranges" | ||||
Floyd | The orange trees in the side yard always bore sour and thick-skinned Floyd | fruit when you were growing up, but over the past few years they've Floyd | started producing some nice, sweet oranges. Or so your father says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read newsletters" | ||||
Floyd | The newsletters on the refrigerator mostly have schedules for the Floyd | standard events at your parents' church, or advertise an upcoming Floyd | raffle or special event. There isn't anything special scheduled during Floyd | your visit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | This old scarred wooden table had a glass top to it when you were Floyd | young. You don't remember what happened to it, but it always got Floyd | spills trapped under it anyway. You're pretty sure everyone was glad Floyd | when it finally broke or was discarded. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's nice to see a house where the place isn't completely trashed." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Onward?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I get tired of sinks with dirty dishes." | ||||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go to family room" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Family Room Floyd | The largest room in the house has high ceilings and wide windows. The Floyd | front door leads outside, and the hallway leads back to the bedrooms. Floyd | The kitchen is back through an open archway. Your dad's most recent Floyd | chair sits here, as well as a couch and a desk. The television is new, Floyd | you notice, and considerably bigger than the one your parents used to Floyd | have. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tv" | ||||
Floyd | This television looks huge sitting in this room. The one you remember Floyd | was quite a few inches smaller. That one, in turn, replaced an even Floyd | older one with bent rabbit ear antennas and barely-capable color. This Floyd | one is fancier than the TV you have at home. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn on tv" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have time for television right now. Your parents are Floyd | waiting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x windows" | ||||
Floyd | The windows look out onto the backyard. When you were in high school, Floyd | your parents replaced the grass back there with gravel; it wasn't worth Floyd | keeping up grass in this hot climate. Now, there are some citrus trees Floyd | back there. You think there's a tangerine tree and a lemon-lime tree, Floyd | but you have trouble remembering exactly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | This used to be your homework desk, once upon a time. Before that, Floyd | your mother used it in her small business. It's one of those pieces of Floyd | office furniture that you assemble from a kit. At the moment, it's Floyd | used by whichever of your parents wants to get a little work done. An Floyd | old office chair sits in front of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x couch" | ||||
Floyd | This couch replaced your old one back when you were in middle school. Floyd | The old one was an ancient relic, made of wood with stiff cushions and Floyd | buttons that had mostly fallen out. This one's much nicer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Must be nice to have citrus trees." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it would be." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm for going onward again." | ||||
| DavidW says, "go for it" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I'm not really seeing motivation beyond doing what we're allegedly supposed to do, do you?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go to hallway" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This narrow hallway leads back to the bedrooms. You used to race up Floyd | and down it when you were small. It's a miracle you didn't injure Floyd | anyone trying to navigate it at the same time. There's a big linen Floyd | closet here, and doors for the bathroom, the master bedroom, and your Floyd | old room. The other end of the hallway leads back to the family room. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging on the wall in a frame is the drawing of a cat you did in high Floyd | school. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Not much, no. For a time down memory lane, we're not getting much in the way of memories." | |||
| DavidW says, "er trip down memory lane" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm, I need to step out for just a second." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Back. Sorry, but it was both gloriously sunny outside and sprinkling, and that was just too cool to not go out and stand in for a moment." | ||||
| DavidW says, "s'okay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||||
Floyd | Neither of your parents considered themself creative in an artistic Floyd | way. They're both smart, but they're in technical fields, and the most Floyd | cultural thing they did seriously was play in their college band Floyd | together. Perhaps as a result, they were startlingly impressed by this Floyd | drawing you did in high school art class. It's done in colored pencil, Floyd | and it shows a cat sitting on the deck of a ship and watching a Floyd | seagull. Your mother gave it a place of honor in the house. It's well Floyd | done, you suppose, but you're still surprised (and a little flattered) Floyd | that she thinks that highly of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay mom. She loves us." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "(now steal a towel from the linen closet)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we have established thus far that (a) we are not shrinking and (b) our mom loves us." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "These are good things." | ||||
| Fang's last breath is also his mintiest. | Jacqueline says (to DW), "You ungrateful little wretch!" | |||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | You'd rather not clutter up your parents' house. You can drop it off Floyd | in your room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open linen" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x linen" | ||||
Floyd | The doors of this closet fold back, and they've always refused to close Floyd | completely. The doors are open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in closet" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in there but old towels, sheets, and knitted afghans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x towels" | ||||
Floyd | The closet contains an assortment of linens, some of them dusty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x afghans" | ||||
Floyd | The closet contains an assortment of linens, some of them dusty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah... and (c) Dad's not much of a handyman and can't fix things." | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess. The table would support that too." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear a sheet" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the linens) Floyd | Your mother's sure to have already set out sheets and towels for you to Floyd | use. She likes being a prepared hostess. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw, I wanted to pretend to be a ghost and scare our parents." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter bathroom" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Bathroom Floyd | This is the bathroom you used growing up. It's been remodeled a bit, Floyd | but it still maintains the nautical theme that it has had since you Floyd | were tiny. Your mother's never considered herself artistic, but she Floyd | seems bashfully proud of the painted wall decoration she added in the Floyd | latest round of remodeling. It's quite cute, you think. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x decoration" | ||||
Floyd | According to the story your mom told on the drive here, she and your Floyd | father recently remodeled the bathroom. In the process, they replaced Floyd | the old towel rods. To mask the patch where the old rods were bolted Floyd | to the wall, your mom painted a stylized wave to fit the nautical theme Floyd | of the room. It's very cute. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I get the sense this is modeled on a place Weir's actually been." | |||
| DavidW says, "maybe" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This narrow hallway leads back to the bedrooms. You used to race up Floyd | and down it when you were small. It's a miracle you didn't injure Floyd | anyone trying to navigate it at the same time. There's a big linen Floyd | closet here, and doors for the bathroom, the master bedroom, and your Floyd | old room. The other end of the hallway leads back to the family room. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging on the wall in a frame is the drawing of a cat you did in high Floyd | school. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Master bedroom?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter master" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | This is your parents' bedroom. It looks mostly the same as you Floyd | remember, except that your mother finally replaced her old metal Floyd | bookcase. The bed is the one your parents got when you were young, and Floyd | the decorations are all the same. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It is reminding me a great deal of the first game I wrote, and never released, which was set in my aunt's house and recounted her bathroom's illustrated wall tiles in painstaking detail because I was learning to code while staying at her house." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sure." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bookcase" | ||||
Floyd | Your mom got this bookcase to replace her old metal one, which had Floyd | broken shelves and was, frankly, a bit unattractive. The new one's Floyd | pretty whitewashed wood, and does a much better job of holding up stuff Floyd | than the old one did. It's full of assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | Various books about urban planning, childrearing, self-improvement, and Floyd | geography. These are clearly your mother's. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | This is a king-sized bed, the same one that you remember jumping into Floyd | after having bad dreams when you were little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x decorations" | ||||
Floyd | There are some pictures on the walls: one that you painted as a kid, a Floyd | photo of the countryside near where your parents went to college, and a Floyd | picture of a barn with a quaint advertisement painted on the roof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x barn" | ||||
Floyd | This is a painting of a barn beside a road. Painted in white on the Floyd | roof of the barn is the phrase "SEE ROCK CITY." It's unclear what the Floyd | advertisement is referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "see rock city" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "painting" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||||
Floyd | The picture is taken in winter, and it's a tall hill covered in Floyd | leafless trees. The sky is purple and blue, and the rock at the top of Floyd | the hill is a reddish-brown. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hahaha hooray for Rock City." | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm?" | ||||
| Jacqueline gives Weir and extra point. | ||||
| DavidW says, "idgi" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, it's just a joke that makes sense if you've ever visited the American South." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I haven't." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There are 'See Rock City' signs all around a certain region, often painted on barn roofs, sometimes even on bird house roofs." | ||||
| Twain says, "Lived in Texas all my life, never heard of this. Heh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's sort of a famous advertising scheme that people recognize nostalgically, similar to BURMA SHAVE signs." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Twain), "I'm from eastern Tennessee, have seen a lot of them." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x my picture" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine your parents' bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x decorations" | ||||
Floyd | There are some pictures on the walls: one that you painted as a kid, a Floyd | photo of the countryside near where your parents went to college, and a Floyd | picture of a barn with a quaint advertisement painted on the roof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kid" | Jacqueline | [LINK] | |||
Floyd | This is a picture of some generic desert hills with cactuses on them. Floyd | It's pretty rough, but you suppose it looks all right in a sort of Floyd | abstract expressionist way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose we should head to our room. Probably the main location of this world." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This narrow hallway leads back to the bedrooms. You used to race up Floyd | and down it when you were small. It's a miracle you didn't injure Floyd | anyone trying to navigate it at the same time. There's a big linen Floyd | closet here, and doors for the bathroom, the master bedroom, and your Floyd | old room. The other end of the hallway leads back to the family room. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging on the wall in a frame is the drawing of a cat you did in high Floyd | school. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter my room" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your Old Bedroom Floyd | During the big house redecoration when you were in middle school, you Floyd | picked out the wallpaper and paint for this room. You picked a forest Floyd | theme, and insisted on keeping the lush, old, dark green carpet that Floyd | was here when you moved in. A lot of your things are still here, Floyd | waiting for you to move into a place with enough space to keep it all. Floyd | Your old bed is in one corner. The door leads back to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x things" | ||||
Floyd | The closet contains boxes full of books and old childhood treasures. Floyd | Sometime during this trip you'll go through them and pick out some Floyd | stuff you want sent home, but not right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wallpaper" | ||||
Floyd | The wallpaper on the upper half of the walls is subtly patterned after Floyd | birch bark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | This bed looks distressingly small compared to the one you have at your Floyd | place. You remember that in high school your feet almost hung over the Floyd | end of it. Oh, well; you'll have to make the best of things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under it" | ||||
Floyd | You used to keep a box of treasures here, but you brought it with you Floyd | when you left for college. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carpet" | ||||
Floyd | This carpet always reminded you of soft moss or the grass in a Floyd | clearing. Growing up in the desert made you pine for the woods. Now Floyd | you find yourself missing the rocks and the cacti. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder if dropping the suitcase ends the world or if we yet have to walk to the garage." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | You drop off your suitcase. You can unpack after dinner. Now, to get Floyd | back to your parents and be on your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Anything more to do, or just walk back?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Guess that answers that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I am not enthralled enough to do much and am for heading straight to the garage, myself." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | You can unpack after dinner. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, garage." | |||
| DavidW says, "I thought there'd be much more in this room." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This narrow hallway leads back to the bedrooms. You used to race up Floyd | and down it when you were small. It's a miracle you didn't injure Floyd | anyone trying to navigate it at the same time. There's a big linen Floyd | closet here, and doors for the bathroom, the master bedroom, and your Floyd | old room. The other end of the hallway leads back to the family room. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging on the wall in a frame is the drawing of a cat you did in high Floyd | school. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to family room" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Family Room Floyd | The largest room in the house has high ceilings and wide windows. The Floyd | front door leads outside, and the hallway leads back to the bedrooms. Floyd | The kitchen is back through an open archway. Your dad's most recent Floyd | chair sits here, as well as a couch and a desk. The television is new, Floyd | you notice, and considerably bigger than the one your parents used to Floyd | have. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go outside" | ||||
Floyd | You can go out via the garage. That's where your parents are waiting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Can you just 'go to garage'" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to garage" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go garage" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go kitchen" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen's about the same as you remember it, although the Floyd | refrigerator's new. The floor is white tile, and one wall is covered Floyd | in cabinets. A little basket of oranges sits out on the counter. The Floyd | kitchen table occupies much of the room. The doorway to the laundry Floyd | room is near the refrigerator, and the family room is through an open Floyd | archway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Guess not" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go laundry" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laundry Room Floyd | This is the first room off of the garage, with a washer and dryer and Floyd | some storage. The cabinets above the dryer are where your mom always Floyd | kept old rags for dusting, and all sorts of junk is stacked on the Floyd | shelves across from them. The kitchen is through a doorway, and your Floyd | parents are waiting in the garage just outside this room. Floyd | Floyd | A set of lines drawn on the edge of the shelves catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go garage" | ||||
Floyd | You head out into the garage and get in the car, ready for food and Floyd | more discussion of what you've been up to lately. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a wooden toy, an old dented strongbox (empty), Floyd | a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End of the World", a Floyd | composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a sketchbook labeled Floyd | "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again", an Floyd | envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", and a wrinkled sheet of Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's not a go to command akin to Eve's games, just a room exit." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Still, I like that over the traditional compass." | ||||
| DavidW says, "mm." | ||||
| Twain says, "Always has to do with food." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Which seems to real-world-wrong even though it's so IF-conventional." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm sort of shocked at how apartment-gamish that one was." | ||||
| DavidW says, "The original adventure allowed both types of movement. Somehow, GO TO [room name] declined in usage." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm wondering if we missed something." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Huh. I didn't realize that." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take end" | ||||
Floyd | This is a wire-bound memo book, about 3 by 5 inches. There are twelve Floyd | sheets of ruled paper left in the book, all full. It's written in Floyd | pencil, with no erasures, and there are what look like grease stains on Floyd | the corners of some pages. The earlier pages in the notebook have all Floyd | been torn out, with only scraps remaining caught in the wire spiral Floyd | binding. Written on the cardboard cover in black marker is the phrase Floyd | "THE END OF THE WORLD." In the bottom corner is the date "1982." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "So, that leaves us with - yes." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It's tough knowing that it's Floyd | coming. But I think I've made Floyd | peace with it. Children are Floyd | supposed to outlive their Floyd | parents, right?" Floyd | Floyd | -- Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The End of the World Floyd | by Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | You've got your lunch, and you've found a good spot. Everyone knew it Floyd | was coming, and everyone knew when. It's time now, and there's nothing Floyd | left to do but watch the show. Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | There are rocks here, poking out of the side of the hill. It's steep, Floyd | almost too steep to keep your balance when you're standing up. It's Floyd | okay, though. You're sitting down, near the top, with pretty fields Floyd | down below and your home city in the distance, really small, like a Floyd | model. There's a big, flat rock right beside you, and the grass is Floyd | wet, but that's okay too. There are woods at the top of the hill, Floyd | above you. Floyd | Floyd | Your lunch sits beside you on the hillside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Interesting intro line." | |||
| Twain says, "Considering the preceeding." | ||||
| (from Jacqueline) Twain says, "FOOD AGAIN?!" | ||||
| Twain says, "Haha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we're to eat lunch while the giant asteroid hits." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| schep says, "might as well" | ||||
| Twain exclaims, "Remember kids, when you hear the air raid sirens -- duck and cover!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Or maybe there's a volcano on the other side of the hill." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x city" | ||||
Floyd | Tiny buildings poke up from the center of the city far below. Further Floyd | out, the city is a quilt of the little ticky-tacky boxes of housing Floyd | developments and the gray dullness of strip malls. A few cars are out Floyd | moving around, driven by people who don't believe or don't care. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||||
Floyd | The tumbling clouds above are a pale gray, tinged with pink. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a distant pop, like a sneaking giant stepping on a twig. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lunch" | ||||
Floyd | Simple brown paper, rolled tightly closed at the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Nah, we already Krakatoa Tuna Melt. This is Armageddon Lunch. I can see how you'd get them confused, but it's a totally different thing." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open lunch" | ||||
Floyd | You open the paper lunch bag, revealing a bag of chips, a big chocolate Floyd | chip cookie, a deviled-ham sandwich, and an apple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sandwich" | Jacqueline says, "DO NOT EAT THE DEVILED HAM" | |||
Floyd | You always imagined your final meal being more elegant, but you got all Floyd | that sort of thing finished weeks ago. You've had your fill of somber Floyd | foie gras and have spent too much time eating fondue at overly-cheerful Floyd | parties. Your mom used to send you off with deviled-ham sandwiches as Floyd | a child. You like deviled ham. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder sounds from somewhere in the tumbling clouds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat ham" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I knew they were related, the mini-games. First the Serpent in the Garden, now DEVILED HAM" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat sandwich" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the deviled-ham sandwich) Floyd | Toasty wheat bread, salty ham spread. It reminds you of moments of Floyd | introspection in raucous school lunch rooms. All too soon, it's gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x apple" | ||||
Floyd | The stores all gave away their last pineapples and oranges weeks ago, Floyd | but there are always apples to go around. This one's a mottled red and Floyd | yellow. Floyd | Floyd | A low tone sounds, echoing over the hills. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "there's also the apple" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat apple" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the apple) Floyd | It's not a very good apple. The skin is a little thick, and the whole Floyd | thing's a bit too sour for your usual tastes. But it's delicious. You Floyd | toss the core far into the woods nearby. It will never grow into a Floyd | tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Pull lever to prevent apocolypse." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cookie" | ||||
Floyd | The last of two dozen that you baked a few days ago. It's a little Floyd | dark on the bottom, but the rest of the batch was still good. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat cookie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the big chocolate chip cookie) Floyd | The chocolate chips are a bit melty after the long walk up here. The Floyd | cookie itself is sweet and rich, with just a hint of smokiness from Floyd | leaving the cookies in the oven too long. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chips" | ||||
Floyd | It's a thin foil bag of potato chips, with a logo emblazoned across the Floyd | front. It's unopened. Floyd | Floyd | The clouds swirl and twist even more, tracing seven lines through the Floyd | sky from behind you toward your town. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to schep), "Good point!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lines" | ||||
Floyd | The tumbling clouds above are a pale gray, tinged with pink. Seven Floyd | twisted lines of clouds trace through the sky toward the city. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read chips" | ||||
Floyd | It's a thin foil bag of potato chips, with a logo emblazoned across the Floyd | front. It's unopened. Floyd | Floyd | Seven bright flaming lights burst from the clouds in the sky before Floyd | you, letting seven shafts of light pass through to shine on the Floyd | buildings below. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open chips" | ||||
Floyd | You open the bag of chips, revealing some potato chips. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat chips" | ||||
Floyd | (the potato chips) Floyd | (first taking the potato chips) Floyd | The chips are so salty that they almost hurt your tongue. They're just Floyd | a little bit stale, but wonderful all the same. Floyd | Floyd | The lights strike the city below, and you have to shield your eyes from Floyd | the bright flash that follows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x city" | schep says, "this is so wacky" | |||
Floyd | You can't do anything but shield your eyes from the blinding light. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes beneath you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear bag" | ||||
Floyd | (the paper lunch bag) Floyd | (first taking the paper lunch bag) Floyd | You can't do anything but shield your eyes from the blinding light. Floyd | Floyd | The blinding light fades, and you see countless tiny wisps of mist Floyd | floating up from the ruined, smoldering city toward the ragged holes in Floyd | the clouds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x city" | ||||
Floyd | It's not a city anymore. It's just a heap of broken, jagged concrete Floyd | and steel. Fires smolder here and there, and countless tiny wisps of Floyd | mist rise from the ashes toward the heavens. Floyd | Floyd | The rays of light filtering through the holes in the clouds suddenly Floyd | vanish. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to schep), "Kinda." | |||
Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||||
Floyd | This is a big, flat rock, embedded in the hillside. There's a Floyd | depression on the edge that's perfect for sitting on. Floyd | Floyd | The clouds over the city grow dark, and the darkness spreads until the Floyd | whole sky is a murky gray. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, the city is gone, but we still have our lunch." | |||
| DavidW says, "I suppose the radiation won't be fun." | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "kiss butt goodbye" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "duck and cover" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your singing is passable. Floyd | Floyd | The ground begins to tremble. The air is filled with a low howling. Floyd | Above, the clouds seethe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mmm... radiation sammich" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clouds" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember the duct tape" | ||||
Floyd | The tumbling clouds above are a dark gray, tinged with flickers of red. Floyd | Seven ragged holes pierce the clouds over the city, with only darkness Floyd | visible through them. Floyd | Floyd | The clouds part overhead once more, in an enormous hole that almost Floyd | fills the sky. Only darkness is visible above them. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go to city" | ||||
Floyd | You won't have time to make it back to the city. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shudders and the hillside cracks in great fissures. A great Floyd | wind rises up and rushes past you toward the city and the hole in the Floyd | clouds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | The tumbling clouds above are a dark gray, tinged with flickers of red. Floyd | An enormous hole in the clouds hangs above you, with only darkness Floyd | visible through it. Floyd | Floyd | The clouds peel away from the darkness above. All is sound, a rumbling Floyd | and howling that tears at your ears. There is the sound of a trillion Floyd | voices, then silence. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "Well, thassall, folks." | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a wooden toy, an old dented strongbox (empty), Floyd | a pile of letters, a memo book labeled "The End of the World", a Floyd | composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a sketchbook labeled Floyd | "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again", an Floyd | envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter", and a wrinkled sheet of Floyd | paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Um." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That is all I have to say about the last one: um." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Other reactions?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That section reminds me of another game." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh:?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, -:" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Which?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember the name offhand. It involved time travel, and a scene much like that one was how it began." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, we've done them all now, right?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I think so. Except the wrinkled sheet, and it isn't doable?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Think there's a way to make the game end, or is it just going to be like this, or is there something we should do, or?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wrinkled" | ||||
Floyd | This is a wrinkled sheet of paper that was at the back of the Floyd | strongbox. It appears to be the last page of one of Ms. Bryant's Floyd | story-worlds, but you've yet to find the rest of it. It's possible Floyd | that you never will. The sheet reads: Floyd | Floyd | "will never clarify its cryptic prophecies. Floyd | Floyd | "Instead of dismantling the fast food intercom, say 'It would be a Floyd | waste of time to take that apart. You'd only be half done before the Floyd | police arrived.' Floyd | Floyd | "You can return each day, and the speaker will tell a new prophecy. Floyd | After asking the restaurant employees about the prophecies, have them Floyd | say that they have no idea what you're talking about. They only Floyd | remember taking your order and giving you a price. Floyd | Floyd | "The restaurant goes out of business in five days from now. When the Floyd | restaurant goes out of business, replace the intercom with a broken Floyd | stump. The broken stump has description 'All that remains where the Floyd | intercom and menu board once stood is a twisted stump of metal with a Floyd | few wires poking out. There's no indication of the source of the Floyd | strange mist that seemed to surround the menu board.' Floyd | Floyd | "The End." Floyd | Floyd | > | baf asks (of DavidW), "Trinity?" | |||
| Alex says (to baf), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Trinity is Whizzard's favoritest text adventure ever." | ||||
| DavidW says (to baf), "no" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "implement wrinkled" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "write wrinkled" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I did a walkthrough of it, and the last scene was on Mars." | |||
| DavidW says, "Causality, maybe." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps to end the game, we leave. Or put it all back in the box and close it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm, try the latter, first?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | wooden toy: Taken. Floyd | tiny purple disk: Taken. Floyd | large orange disk: Taken. Floyd | huge red disk: Taken. Floyd | small blue disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-small green disk: Taken. Floyd | medium-large yellow disk: Taken. Floyd | old dented strongbox: Taken. Floyd | pile of letters: Taken. Floyd | memo book labeled "The End of the World": This is a wire-bound memo Floyd | book, about 3 by 5 inches. There are twelve sheets of ruled paper left Floyd | in the book, all full. It's written in pencil, with no erasures, and Floyd | there are what look like grease stains on the corners of some pages. Floyd | The earlier pages in the notebook have all been torn out, with only Floyd | scraps remaining caught in the wire spiral binding. Written on the Floyd | cardboard cover in black marker is the phrase "THE END OF THE WORLD." Floyd | In the bottom corner is the date "1982." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You set the memo book labeled "The End of the World" back on the table. Floyd | composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden": This is a thin Floyd | notebook with a marbled black-and-white pattern on the cover. Only the Floyd | first handful of pages are full of writing. The work is done in black Floyd | pen, with numerous mistakes scribbled out and many doodles in the Floyd | margins. The rest of the book is blank. On the label on the front of Floyd | the book is the title "MORNING IN THE GARDEN," written in Floyd | heavily-scribbled black ball-point. On the upper right corner of the Floyd | first page is the date "1974." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You set the composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden" back on Floyd | the table. Floyd | sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi": This is a 50-page, Floyd | spiral-bound sketchbook with cardboard covers. The front cover is Floyd | green, and is decorated with a drawing in black marker of the wooden Floyd | toy that you found in the box. Across the top is the title "THE TOWER Floyd | OF HANOI," written in the same black marker. On the back cover is the Floyd | date "1978." The first ten pages are filled with simple pencil Floyd | drawings and notes describing the world of this story. The rest of the Floyd | book is filled with hauntingly realistic charcoal drawings of scenes Floyd | from that world. Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | Twain asks, "Hunh. Did we miss something?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Pile of letters?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | Twain says, "oh" | |||
Floyd | You set the sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi" back on the table. Floyd | stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again": This is a packet of five Floyd | pages of white paper with typewritten text. The back of each sheet Floyd | shows traces of carbon paper. The pages are stapled together in the Floyd | upper left corner, and there are signs that the sheets have been Floyd | separated and re-stapled at least once. The first line on the first Floyd | page reads "GOING HOME AGAIN." On the next line is the date "1969." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You set the stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again" back on the Floyd | table. Floyd | envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter": This is a standard envelope Floyd | stuffed with fifteen sheets of triple-folded lined paper. The pages Floyd | are loose, and are covered in neat writing in blue pen. In a few Floyd | places, the ink has bled where drops of moisture fell on the pages. Floyd | The envelope is unaddressed and unstamped, and the words "UNDELIVERED Floyd | LOVE LETTER" are writted across the front. Where the return address Floyd | would be is the date "1975." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You set the envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter" back on the Floyd | table. Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper: Taken. Floyd | wooden table: That's hardly portable. Floyd | clutter: They're hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||||
Floyd | This is a pile of carbon copies of letters apparently sent by Ms. Floyd | Bryant to relatives and friends. You've taken some quotes from the Floyd | letters to introduce each of Ms. Bryant's stories. She was a rather Floyd | prolific letter-writer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Guess we can't probably put it all in the box." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read pile" | ||||
Floyd | This is a pile of carbon copies of letters apparently sent by Ms. Floyd | Bryant to relatives and friends. You've taken some quotes from the Floyd | letters to introduce each of Ms. Bryant's stories. She was a rather Floyd | prolific letter-writer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah - the letters we haven't looked at!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pile" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The letters seem to be where Weir got the 'quotes' from that start each game." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a wrinkled sheet of paper Floyd | a pile of letters Floyd | an old dented strongbox (open but empty) Floyd | a medium-large yellow disk Floyd | a medium-small green disk Floyd | a small blue disk Floyd | a huge red disk Floyd | a large orange disk Floyd | a tiny purple disk Floyd | a wooden toy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | wrinkled sheet of paper: Dropped. Floyd | pile of letters: Dropped. Floyd | old dented strongbox: Dropped. Floyd | medium-large yellow disk: Dropped. Floyd | medium-small green disk: Dropped. Floyd | small blue disk: Dropped. Floyd | huge red disk: Dropped. Floyd | large orange disk: Dropped. Floyd | tiny purple disk: Dropped. Floyd | wooden toy: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a memo book labeled "The End of the World", a Floyd | composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a sketchbook labeled Floyd | "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again", and Floyd | an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter". Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wooden toy, a tiny purple disk, a large orange disk, Floyd | a huge red disk, a small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, a Floyd | medium-large yellow disk, an old dented strongbox (empty), a pile of Floyd | letters, and a wrinkled sheet of paper here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean clutter" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | This strongbox is made of metal, and is a foot across in each Floyd | dimension. It is covered in rust and dented in a few places. A Floyd | tattered label on the lid reads "Laura Bryant Collection." You pried Floyd | the box open with a crowbar you borrowed from a friend after failed Floyd | attempts at picking the lock. The metal around the latch is twisted Floyd | out of shape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | You're already in the living room; there's no need to return here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in box" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't had a chance to look over and translate the rest of the Floyd | contents of the box. They'll have to wait for another day. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put envelope in strongbox" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter" Floyd | before you can put it into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "I still don't understand why all the other worlds were simplistic and food-related, yet we had this puzzle world with the tower of hanoi." | |||
| Twain says, "I can't help but feel like something is missing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The overall dynamic does seem a bit odd." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I sort of think that the food thing is a red herring, and that Weir just likes food or something." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "eat purple disk" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the tiny purple disk) Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "haha" | |||
| Jacqueline | FOOD - 2 friends are fans. Become a fan. | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we've seen all we can. I suspect 'leave' will end the game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have a compass. If you would like to go to a place, please Floyd | type GO TO (PLACE). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "go home" | Twain says, "How metaphysical." | |||
Floyd | This is a packet of five pages of white paper with typewritten text. Floyd | The back of each sheet shows traces of carbon paper. The pages are Floyd | stapled together in the upper left corner, and there are signs that the Floyd | sheets have been separated and re-stapled at least once. The first Floyd | line on the first page reads "GOING HOME AGAIN." On the next line is Floyd | the date "1969." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.> | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go insane" | ||||
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.> | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You set the stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again" back on the Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Maybe we can only quit?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We are either missing something, or we have to just quit because this is all the game does." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a memo book labeled "The End of the World", a Floyd | composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", a sketchbook labeled Floyd | "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled "Going Home Again", and Floyd | an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter". Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wooden toy, a large orange disk, a huge red disk, a Floyd | small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, a medium-large yellow disk, Floyd | an old dented strongbox (empty), a pile of letters, and a wrinkled Floyd | sheet of paper here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Well, we didn't try revisiting worlds to see if anything changed." | |||
| Twain says, "But we have no real reason to suspect they did." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And I am willing to search online for spoilers to find out which is the case rather than spin our wheels for awhile only to find that we were just supposed to quit." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Twain), "Sure." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Twain), "I'm not opposed to you trying - go ahead." | |||
| Twain says, "I am rather curious about one thing in particular though." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn over wrinkled" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "take lover letter" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Twain), "Oh?" | |||
| Twain says (to floyd), "take letter" | ||||
Floyd | This is a standard envelope stuffed with fifteen sheets of Floyd | triple-folded lined paper. The pages are loose, and are covered in Floyd | neat writing in blue pen. In a few places, the ink has bled where Floyd | drops of moisture fell on the pages. The envelope is unaddressed and Floyd | unstamped, and the words "UNDELIVERED LOVE LETTER" are writted across Floyd | the front. Where the return address would be is the date "1975." Floyd | Floyd | (Do you want to enter this story?) Floyd | | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "The weird thing is that Floyd | even though I thought it Floyd | would never stop hurting Floyd | at the time, now I just look Floyd | back and miss that pain." Floyd | Floyd | -- Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| Twain pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undelivered Love Letter Floyd | by Laura Bryant Floyd | Floyd | This was supposed to be a nice visit, a respite from the loneliness of Floyd | a long-distance relationship. Yesterday evening, she broke the news to Floyd | you. You didn't eat at all today. Right now, she's in the bathroom, Floyd | but she'll be back in time for a final goodbye. Then you'll leave on Floyd | the plane, she'll stay here, and you'll never see her again. Floyd | Floyd | Terminal Floyd | Passengers bustle through this busy airport terminal, on their way to Floyd | and from their planes. You're waiting near your gate, among twenty or Floyd | thirty seats. A gate agent bustles about near the gate. Large windows Floyd | overlook the tarmac, where you can see your plane sitting at the end of Floyd | the loading bridge. The restrooms are across the hallway, and the Floyd | security checkpoint is a decent walk away. Floyd | Floyd | A big clock is mounted on the wall nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "x clock" | ||||
Floyd | According to the clock, it's 5:41 pm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're a young man who's just finished a relationship that lasted Floyd | years. It was supposed to last forever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | X emerges from the restroom and heads this way. She sits down beside Floyd | you. "Hi. How are you doing?" she asks with a pensive look on her Floyd | face. Her voice has the faintest of Russian accents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "ask x about stories" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "ask laura about herself" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Guess not." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "showobj x" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "ask X about name" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | X looks at you searchingly. She opens her mouth as if to say Floyd | something, then closes it again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Thought it might be signficant that this was the only world in which we didn't play a/the woman directly." | |||
| schep asks, "are there different 'endings' for catching or missing the plane?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to schep), "We can't miss it." | ||||
| schep says, "fate smushes free will again" | ||||
| Twain says, "Yeah, it seems all the world have an inevitible outcome." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure what else there is to do, if anything." | ||||
| Twain says (to floyd), "x clock" | ||||
Floyd | According to the clock, it's 5:46 pm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take clock" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss agent" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | X clears her throat awkwardly and scratches her nose. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Dates are red herrings. Food is red herring." | |||
| Twain says, "There may just be nothing else to it." | ||||
| (from DavidW) Twain googles for red herring recipes. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Twain), "Are you looking at hints somewhere or something?" | ||||
| Twain says (to Jacq), "Nope. Just seems that way." | ||||
| Twain says, "I can't see a way to connect them together." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, there were a variety of things that I did like about this game, but I also feel a little directionless and various other things I've already said that I didn't like quite so much." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we've seen all there is to see, barring a few descriptions. Perhaps we could've looked in the washer or smelled the cookie, things like that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm inclined to agree. And damn you, now I want a cookie." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And have none." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Meh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anybody have anything they want to do, or should we just quit, or... hm, wait a tic." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | > How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | > How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | Twain says, "Yeah. It was enjoyable, but I can't escape this impression that - with the whole reality smudging, toy disappearing, incongruent puzzle-solving world - that there is somehting more to it." | |||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The included works have been transcribed as pieces of Interactive Floyd | Fiction, which means that they contain no pictures or graphical Floyd | interface. Instead, you type what you want to do, and the game Floyd | responds by telling you what happens. You can walk from place to place, Floyd | you can pick up, put down, and manipulate objects, and you can interact Floyd | with people and animals. Floyd | Floyd | These works do not use compass commands (NORTH, N, etc.) for movement. Floyd | Floyd | A list of common commands (abbreviations are in parentheses): Floyd | Floyd | LOOK (L): Get another look at your surroundings. Floyd | INVENTORY (I, INV): See what you are currently holding. Floyd | EXAMINE <OBJECT> (X): Get a description of an object. Floyd | LOOK UNDER <OBJECT>: Look under an object. Floyd | GO <PLACE>: Travel to an adjacent location. Floyd | TAKE <OBJECT>: Pick up an object. Floyd | DROP <OBJECT>: Drop an object. Floyd | PUT <OBJECT> IN/ON <OBJECT>: Put an object into or onto another Floyd | object. Floyd | Floyd | ASK <PERSON> ABOUT <TOPIC>: Ask for information on a topic. Floyd | TELL <PERSON> ABOUT <TOPIC>: Inform someone about something. Floyd | NO/YES: Indicate an affirmative or negative answer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | SAVE: Save the game. Floyd | RESTORE: Restore a saved game. Floyd | RESTART: Restart the game and return to this menu. Floyd | QUIT: Quit the game. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | > How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | > How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press yellow" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | > Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | > Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | > How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | > How to Play Floyd | Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | ||||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The included works have been transcribed as pieces of Interactive Floyd | Fiction, which means that they contain no pictures or graphical Floyd | interface. Instead, you type what you want to do, and the game Floyd | responds by telling you what happens. You can walk from place to place, Floyd | you can pick up, put down, and manipulate objects, and you can interact Floyd | with people and animals. Floyd | Floyd | These works do not use compass commands (NORTH, N, etc.) for movement. Floyd | Floyd | A list of common commands (abbreviations are in parentheses): Floyd | Floyd | LOOK (L): Get another look at your surroundings. Floyd | INVENTORY (I, INV): See what you are currently holding. Floyd | EXAMINE <OBJECT> (X): Get a description of an object. Floyd | LOOK UNDER <OBJECT>: Look under an object. Floyd | GO <PLACE>: Travel to an adjacent location. Floyd | TAKE <OBJECT>: Pick up an object. Floyd | DROP <OBJECT>: Drop an object. Floyd | PUT <OBJECT> IN/ON <OBJECT>: Put an object into or onto another Floyd | object. Floyd | Floyd | ASK <PERSON> ABOUT <TOPIC>: Ask for information on a topic. Floyd | TELL <PERSON> ABOUT <TOPIC>: Inform someone about something. Floyd | NO/YES: Indicate an affirmative or negative answer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | SAVE: Save the game. Floyd | RESTORE: Restore a saved game. Floyd | RESTART: Restart the game and return to this menu. Floyd | QUIT: Quit the game. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "I don't remember a lot of 'look under <object>' working." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "GRR" | ||||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | > Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | > Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | ||||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gregory Weir is a writer, game developer, and software programmer. He Floyd | is best known for his Flash game, "(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Floyd | Colors." His previous Interactive Fiction works include the Floyd | perpetually-in-progress Jabberwocky, winner of the 2004 IntroComp, and Floyd | the horror work Snatches. He currently writes for GameSetWatch and Floyd | maintains a blog and podcast called Ludus Novus, found at Floyd | http://ludusnovus.net . Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to my testers: Melissa Avery, Matt Weiner, Johan O, Michelle Floyd | Hellemons, and DJ Hastings. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to my parents, without whom I could never come home again, and Floyd | to Xenia Kramida, without whom I would never have had a love letter to Floyd | deliver. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for their work on Inform 7, and Floyd | to Infocom for their creation of the Z-machine. Floyd | Floyd | Most of all, thanks go to Laura Bryant. Somehow, I feel as if I know Floyd | her, even though I know that is impossible. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "Sorry, that's what I meant to press last time." | |||
| Twain says, "We also never tried telling a person anything." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Think maybe there was a secret bunker under the flat rock at End of World?" | ||||
| Twain asks, "Maybe we're supposed to?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We told x about our pain." | ||||
| Twain says, "Oh right." | ||||
| DavidW says, "And we told her about mom's cookie recipe." | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | > Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About These Texts Floyd | How to Play Floyd | > Credits Floyd | Hints for the Tower of Hanoi | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Terminal Floyd | Passengers bustle through this busy airport terminal, on their way to Floyd | and from their planes. You're waiting near your gate, among twenty or Floyd | thirty seats. A gate agent bustles about near the gate. Large windows Floyd | overlook the tarmac, where you can see your plane sitting at the end of Floyd | the loading bridge. The restrooms are across the hallway, and the Floyd | security checkpoint is a decent walk away. Floyd | Floyd | A big clock is mounted on the wall nearby. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see X here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Try it, if you want." | |||
| schep says, "I don't think a bunker would do you any good when everything starts coming in sevens." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about pain" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to make conversation about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about me" | ||||
Floyd | You tell her how sad you're feeling, and she sighs sadly. "Poor Floyd | sweetheart," she says. "I'm sorry that things had to turn out this Floyd | way." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about food" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm still not hungry," you say. X just shrugs reluctantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about her" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to make conversation about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about x" | ||||
Floyd | "You're so... pretty, and wonderful," you say. You're not sure why; Floyd | there's no way flattery will change her mind. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you," she says softly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about plane" | ||||
Floyd | "The flight will be leaving soon," you say. "We might not see each Floyd | other again." Floyd | Floyd | X adjusts her scarf. "I hope we do, someday," she replies. Floyd | Floyd | > | Twain says, "Seven is biblically significant, which makes sense." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about diner" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to make conversation about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about scarf" | ||||
Floyd | "Your outfit looks great," you say. Floyd | Floyd | X smiles. "Thank you," she says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell x" | ||||
Floyd | X smells like soap and tea with honey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask x about tea" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to ask about that. Floyd | Floyd | X lifts her hand to her face and smooths her right eyebrow. It's a Floyd | cute habit of hers. "Baby..." she begins, then sighs. "It won't hurt Floyd | forever. There are lots of women out there who'll fall into your Floyd | arms." But none of them will be her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about habit" | ||||
Floyd | You can't summon up the effort to make conversation about that. Floyd | Floyd | The gate agent speaks over the intercom. "Attention, all passengers of Floyd | Flight 160 to Indianapolis," she says in a bored tone. "We will now Floyd | begin boarding for all seats. Please have your boarding pass ready." Floyd | A line of passengers forms in front of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss x" | ||||
Floyd | You lean toward X for a last kiss. She leans toward you, but turns her Floyd | head slightly so that you kiss the corner of her mouth. She looks into Floyd | your eyes sadly, then looks down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hug x" | ||||
Floyd | You lean over and hug X tightly. She awkwardly rubs your back with a Floyd | hand until you release her. Floyd | Floyd | X nervously picks under her thumbnail with a nail of the opposite hand. Floyd | "You really should eat something," she says in a worried tone. "It's Floyd | been almost a day since you've had any food." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell x about goodbye" | ||||
Floyd | "Good... goodbye," you say with a knot in your throat. Floyd | Floyd | "Goodbye, sweetheart," she replies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to gate" | ||||
Floyd | (the loading bridge) Floyd | You get into line at the gate. X moves to stand beside you, on the Floyd | outside of the rope barrier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | ||||
Floyd | The loading bridge leads from the gate inside the terminal to the Floyd | plane. It's designed to extend outward to accomodate whatever position Floyd | the plane ends up in. Floyd | Floyd | Your turn to board the plane arrives. You hand your boarding pass to Floyd | the gate agent, and step into the loading bridge. With one last glance Floyd | over your shoulder, you see X watching you with a sad expression on her Floyd | face. You turn and head for the plane. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed Floyd | has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place Floyd | clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse Floyd | than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the Floyd | strongbox scattered over the surface of your table. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden table are a tiny purple disk, a memo book labeled "The Floyd | End of the World", a composition book labeled "Morning in the Garden", Floyd | a sketchbook labeled "The Tower of Hanoi", a stapled packet labeled Floyd | "Going Home Again", and an envelope labeled "Undelivered Love Letter". Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wooden toy, a large orange disk, a huge red disk, a Floyd | small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, a medium-large yellow disk, Floyd | an old dented strongbox (empty), a pile of letters, and a wrinkled Floyd | sheet of paper here. Floyd | Floyd | X looks at you with concern. "Are you all right?" she asks. "Say Floyd | something." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | |||
| Twain exclaims, "Holy reality inversion, Batman!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "A little timing error, somehow." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | I suppose you're me. Gregory Weir, I mean. Mid-twenties, brown hair, Floyd | thin. Probably a bit scruffy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close box" | ||||
Floyd | You close the old dented strongbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm okay with quitting. heh" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't see any obvious formal way to quit." | ||||
| schep has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "but yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't mean to sound mean, I just don't get what else we're s'posed to do." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Everyone okay with 'quit'?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Want me to go google a hint?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't know if the game got much chatter, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wish Gregory was here so we could ask him." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Watch him show up tomorrow: 'I thought you guys met on Sundays!'" | ||||
| Severo says, "As far as I know, there's nothing more to do." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, while I'm looking, here's a blog post of interest:" | ||||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||||
| Twain says, "I haven't found a hint or walkthrough or anything, but there seems to be just as many reviewers who are as perplexed as we are." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, I was pretty specific in my e-mail, and he's not a regular mudder, so I'm sure something just came up." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps. June is both wedding month and Pride month." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, here's perhaps a hint from C. E. J. Pacian:" | ||||
| Jacqueline | And then, finally, there's the Tower of Hanoi. All I'm going to say about this, is that it wasn't my thing, it didn't seem in keeping with the rest of the game, and if I'd realised that the game didn't have any kind of acknowledgement for completing all five segments, I wouldn't even have attempted it. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, what Twain said." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess I'm fine with wrapping up the transcript now." | ||||
| DavidW says, "okay." | ||||
| Twain says, "Sounds good." | ||||
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