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| Nitku arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| DavidW hollers, "ClubFloyd beginning soon! Today's game: The Oracle" | ||||
| Gunther says, "its response to HINT should obviously be "Answer hazy, ask again later"" | ||||
| Ellison arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "I know inky and I played this once, a few years ago. I thought it might be fun to revisit it." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are we ready to begin?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "list o" | ||||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "ofd once onehalf operate orevore" | inky says, "I think it's theoracle" | |||
| DavidW says, "ah, I knew it was one or the other." | ||||
| inky asks, "also, you have perry on?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yup" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy exclaims, "Wait!" | ||||
| inky says, "excellent" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "I need to find the way to the floyditorium." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | inky says, "type 'toyshop'" | |||
| inky says, "there you go" | ||||
| DavidW says, "and here we go..." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load theoracle" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter. Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The drums of war have beaten long throughout the land of your Floyd | forefathers. At night, the fiendish glow of enemy campfires has shone Floyd | orange and horrible on the horizon for as many years as you can recall. Floyd | The warriors of your land have battled long and valiantly against the Floyd | demon hordes pressing relentlessly forward, assailing your Floyd | ever-diminishing borders. The fight has been mighty, but the strength Floyd | of your people has begun to wane. Only a few of the warriors remain to Floyd | lead the rag-tag brigades of youthful peasants into battle. Floyd | Floyd | The council of elders has seen that it is not long before the invaders Floyd | will breach the skirmish lines and plunder the farms and villages of Floyd | your homeland. The council has decreed that after centuries of Floyd | silence, the voice of the great oracle must be heard once more if this Floyd | horrible foe is to be repelled. Floyd | Floyd | Barely old enough to follow the warriors into battle, you were filled Floyd | with great pride when you were selected as the messenger who would be Floyd | sent to beg the great oracle for her counsel. The elders summoned you Floyd | into the great hall, admonishing you to stay on the old path leading Floyd | into the high mountains. After precious few other words of Floyd | instruction, they sent you on your way. Floyd | Floyd | For many days now, you have trod the ancient trail, winding higher and Floyd | higher into the rugged peaks of the Black Mountains. Cold, hungry and Floyd | alone, you somehow sense that you are nearing the oracle's hiding place Floyd | deep within the great mountain. At last, the crumbling path fades away Floyd | at the foot of a vast wall of solid rock Floyd | Floyd | The Oracle Floyd | Version 1.5 by Brandon Allen Floyd | Another fine product from Allen MegaCorp (2002) Floyd | Floyd | Cliff Base Floyd | The greatest peak of the Black Mountains rises sharply before you; Floyd | an impenetrable dagger of dark granite jutting high into the clouds Floyd | above. You stand at the base of an immense cliff, where a deep alcove Floyd | has been chiseled from the living rock. It almost appears to be the Floyd | yawning mouth of a great, black cave. As you stand at its entrance you Floyd | can see steps cut from the jagged stone, leading southward into the Floyd | bowels of the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cliff" | ||||
Floyd | The great mountain soars high above you, its lofty peak disappearing Floyd | into the clouds overhead. Before you, a great cliff rises abruptly, Floyd | stretching far up the mountain's northern face. At the very foot of Floyd | the cliff, a deep alcove has been hollowed out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are tall for your seventeen years, despite your meager existence on Floyd | the farm. The tattered clothes of a peasant adorn your lanky frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cave" | ||||
Floyd | The alcove is quite large, and you cannot see from here how deeply the Floyd | stairway delves into the vast wall of stone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You'd think we'd have something in inventory, but I guess we're still in the scrounge for supplies era of IF." | |||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | inky says, "we ate all our rations on the way here" | |||
| DavidW says, "How convenient." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter cave" | ||||
Floyd | Empty Stairway Floyd | The stone steps continue southward, descending deeper into the Floyd | mountain. Here, the steps are less well defined. The previously Floyd | smooth stone is littered with rubble that has fallen into the stairway Floyd | over the centuries. The echoing sound of dripping water fills this Floyd | place with a sense of dampness and cold. Less light penetrates from Floyd | the entrance far above and it is becoming more difficult to negotiate Floyd | the slippery stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "we have plenty of fatnow" | |||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stones" | ||||
Floyd | The boulders, like the rest of this dark passage, are mottled granite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x steps" | ||||
Floyd | Behind you the stone steps climb steeply upward, as if yearning for the Floyd | pale daylight that spills in through the entrance above. Downward, Floyd | they quickly decay into an irregular slope of boulders. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rubble" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any rubble here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Cliff Base Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to olethros), "good. You're in charge of making the candles." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Empty Stairway Floyd | The stone steps continue southward, descending deeper into the Floyd | mountain. Here, the steps are less well defined. The previously Floyd | smooth stone is littered with rubble that has fallen into the stairway Floyd | over the centuries. The echoing sound of dripping water fills this Floyd | place with a sense of dampness and cold. Less light penetrates from Floyd | the entrance far above and it is becoming more difficult to negotiate Floyd | the slippery stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Cavern Floyd | You are in a great, damp cavern, carved from hard granite by the Floyd | incessant fingers of rainwater trickling down through the heart of the Floyd | great mountain. Along the cavern's western wall, a small stream Floyd | emerges from a crevice in the solid rock. The stream splashes downward Floyd | over the tumble of stones that make up the cavern's floor until it Floyd | vanishes beneath an iron door. The door is set in a small hollow where Floyd | the southernmost extremity of the cavern's roof dips down toward the Floyd | jagged floor. Against the western wall is a pile of loose shale that Floyd | seems incongruent with the larger stones that make up the balance of Floyd | the cavern's floor. Floyd | Floyd | As you crawl deeper into the dark cavern, you notice that the amulet Floyd | hanging about your neck begins to glow with a wan, greenish light. It Floyd | seems to grow brighter as the fading light from above dwindles to Floyd | darkness. The amulet provides you with just enough illumination to see Floyd | by. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros twist | |||
| inky says, "wait, we have an amulet" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I just noticed that." | ||||
| olethros rta omelette | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x amulet" | ||||
Floyd | It is the golden amulet the council of elders gave you as you set out Floyd | on your journey. It is quite finely made, probably well beyond the Floyd | skills of the smithies of your land, it must have come from some Floyd | far-off place. Floyd | Floyd | The council commanded you sternly to wear it at all times. One of the Floyd | most grizzled and ancient of the elders seized your shoulder in an iron Floyd | grip, his tangled, silver brow knitted in a grim glare. He told you Floyd | that the amulet was necessary to summon the oracle from her hiding Floyd | place. "When all is prepared," he growled, "cast the amulet into the Floyd | heart of the mountain." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| K-Y arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, "'Mys-ter-i-ous'" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink stream" | ||||
Floyd | The stream's water is clear, cold and delicious. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "its constantly beating heart" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||||
Floyd | The stream emerges from a crevice in the wall and splashes southward Floyd | through the cavern where it disappears beneath the iron door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rubble" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any rubble here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shale" | ||||
Floyd | Heaped against the western wall is a loose pile of stone shards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | You rummage through the jagged flakes of rock, the sharp edges biting Floyd | into your bare hands. Hidden just below the surface, you uncover a Floyd | rusted iron chain. It is threaded between the stones as if it had been Floyd | intentionally concealed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chain" | ||||
Floyd | The chain is about the thickness of you thumb, and is crusted with Floyd | brown-red rust. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The door has been beaten from a single, great slab of iron. It is as Floyd | tall as a man, and almost equally wide. Its hinges are set in the Floyd | solid stone of the cavern's walls. It is locked with a great padlock Floyd | which has rusted terribly over the centuries. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It's locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull chain" | ||||
Floyd | You pull at the chain, drawing a portion of its length out from between Floyd | the boulders that make up the cavern's floor. One end appears to be Floyd | fastened to the very stone that forms this chamber. The other end is Floyd | attached to something that rests, concealed, in the stream. It feels Floyd | as though another sturdy tug on the chain would free it from its hiding Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull chain" | ||||
Floyd | You pull again at the rusted chain. A long metal box hauls out of the Floyd | stream and clatters to a rest on one of the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | The box is constructed from thick copper plates bound together with Floyd | iron straps and rivets. It is narrow, perhaps a hand's breadth across, Floyd | and if stood on end it would probably reach waist height. The iron Floyd | chain is fastened to a sturdy padeye, riveted to the box at one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "woot" | |||
| olethros says, "iron chain? I thought we were primitives" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||
Floyd | The metal box creaks open. Resting within is a great sword, badly Floyd | rusted and decayed. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's a little mysterious what we are" | |||
| DavidW says (to olethros), "Not *that* primitive." | ||||
| inky says, "but also the oracle is probably higher-tech than we are" | ||||
| inky says, "since otherwise we wouldn't come ask for advice" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sword" | ||||
Floyd | The sword was once a beautiful weapon, but centuries of immersion in Floyd | the stream have nearly destroyed it. Its once brilliant blade is now Floyd | pitted with rust. The leather binding of its grip has long since Floyd | disintegrated. You wonder at how such an exquisite treasure came to Floyd | rest in this cavern. It must have been hidden ages ago as an offering Floyd | to the great oracle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean sword" | ||||
Floyd | The rusted sword looks a bit cleaner now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit padlock with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You deal the padlock a mighty blow with the ancient sword. The padlock Floyd | beats against the great door with a resonant clang. The force of the Floyd | blow sends a painful jolt through your hands and arms. The lock is Floyd | badly damaged and appears almost ready to fall apart, but the rusted Floyd | metal still holds the great door shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "lick it" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "lick". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Hit the padlock again?" | |||
| olethros says, "might do it though we could 'lever' it" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit padlock with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You deal the padlock a mighty blow with the ancient sword. The Floyd | padlock's hasp cracks in two and the door's latch swings open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Why would you lick it? :)" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You push against the door's cold metal with all your strength, but the Floyd | ancient hinges, caked with rust, hold fast. Floyd | Floyd | Then with a crack, the hinges break free and the great door grinds open Floyd | with an ear-splitting creak. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Cavern Floyd | You are in a great, damp cavern, carved from hard granite by the Floyd | incessant fingers of rainwater trickling down through the heart of the Floyd | great mountain. Along the cavern's western wall, a small stream Floyd | emerges from a crevice in the solid rock. The stream splashes downward Floyd | over the tumble of stones that make up the cavern's floor until it Floyd | vanishes through an open doorway at the cavern's southern end. Against Floyd | the western wall is a pile of loose shale that seems incongruent with Floyd | the larger stones that make up the balance of the cavern's floor. A Floyd | rusted iron chain has been exposed among these shards of rock. The Floyd | chain snakes across the uneven floor and attatches to a long metal box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Stone Altar Floyd | This space was hollowed out of the solid stone of the mountain, Floyd | chisel-marks from the ancient laborers can still be seen on its rough Floyd | hewn walls. The room is slightly oval shaped with a squat, stone altar Floyd | set on the floor at its southernmost end. A metal chime, heavily Floyd | corroded after centuries of neglect, hangs from a stand mounted at one Floyd | of its ends. A rivulet of clear water splashes into the room through a Floyd | doorway that enters from the north. The stream flows placidly down the Floyd | room's length and disappears through an iron grate set in the floor Floyd | just in front of the altar. Floyd | Floyd | An open archway exits eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "well, you gotta lick it before you kick it" | |||
| olethros says, "a classic move" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x alta" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "alta". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||||
Floyd | The altar is a waist-high, rectangular block of rough-hewn stone. Its Floyd | top and sides are dotted and streaked with mineral stains from the Floyd | water dripping incessantly upon it. Three interlocking rings are Floyd | carved into its front- perhaps a mystical symbol of some kind. A metal Floyd | chime, caked with filth and corrosion, is suspended above the altar at Floyd | one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rings" | ||||
Floyd | The altar is a waist-high, rectangular block of rough-hewn stone. Its Floyd | top and sides are dotted and streaked with mineral stains from the Floyd | water dripping incessantly upon it. Three interlocking rings are Floyd | carved into its front- perhaps a mystical symbol of some kind. A metal Floyd | chime, caked with filth and corrosion, is suspended above the altar at Floyd | one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime is a section of metal pipe, perhaps the length of your Floyd | forearm. It is crusted with a heavy beard of blue-green scale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grate" | ||||
Floyd | The stream disappears down through this heavy, moss-covered, iron grate Floyd | set firmly into the stone floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open grate" | ||||
Floyd | The grate is solidly fixed to the stone floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out, its tone is sharp, clear and of quite high pitch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x grate" | ||||
Floyd | The stream disappears down through this heavy, moss-covered, iron grate Floyd | set firmly into the stone floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out. Again the note is clear and bright, but it seems Floyd | to be of a distinctly lower pitch than before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out with a low, throaty tone, surprisingly clear for Floyd | its apparent decay. Floyd | Floyd | Incredibly, fine lines seem to etch themselves into the altar's smooth Floyd | top. The lines join to form a rectangle which includes almost all of Floyd | the altar's upper surface. The stone within the rectangle suddenly Floyd | vanishes revealing a wide chimney leading down, directly through the Floyd | altar, into darkness. A few grains of sand, which have crumbled away Floyd | from the altar's surface, spill down into the chimney and disappear. Floyd | Floyd | As quickly as they appeared, the chimney and the lines in the stone Floyd | vanish, leaving the altar exactly as it was before. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'Three rings'. GET IT?" | |||
| inky says, "oh, heh" | ||||
| olethros says, "I hate multiple actions." | ||||
| olethros asks (of davidw), "no?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Look at the altar." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "I don't get it." | ||||
| olethros says, ";ah yes" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||||
Floyd | The altar is a waist-high, rectangular block of rough-hewn stone. Its Floyd | top and sides are dotted and streaked with mineral stains from the Floyd | water dripping incessantly upon it. Three interlocking rings are Floyd | carved into its front- perhaps a mystical symbol of some kind. A metal Floyd | chime, caked with filth and corrosion, is suspended above the altar at Floyd | one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "sing this corrosion to me" | |||
| DavidW says, "The 3 rings on the altar are the hint to ring the chime 3 times." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy sigh | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "Ok, so let's put something on the altar and make it fall in the chimney?" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "d" | inky says, "also, this teleporting altar thing is the first bit of random magic we've found" | |||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn) and a rusted sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so I guess the premise isn't all technology" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "why is it teleporting?" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "why". Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "why is it teleporting?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on altar" | ||||
Floyd | You are now perched atop the stone altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, it disappears when you ring the bell" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit bell with sword" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "bell". Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy exclaims, "Put the sword or the amulet on the altar and ring again!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out, its tone is sharp, clear and of quite high pitch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out. Again the note is clear and bright, but it seems Floyd | to be of a distinctly lower pitch than before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out with a low, throaty tone, surprisingly clear for Floyd | its apparent decay. Floyd | Floyd | Incredibly, fine lines seem to etch themselves into the altar's smooth Floyd | top. The lines join to form a rectangle which includes almost all of Floyd | the altar's upper surface. The stone within the rectangle suddenly Floyd | vanishes revealing a wide chimney leading down, directly through the Floyd | altar, into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You feel the stone vaporize beneath you followed by the terrifying, Floyd | sickening sensation of falling. Blackness surrounds you, and you Floyd | continue to fall. Floyd | Floyd | With a crash that sounds like a clap of thunder, you plunge into a Floyd | frigid, underground lake. You are stung with icy cold as the water Floyd | quickly soaks your clothing. You break the surface gasping and Floyd | sputtering, fighting to keep your breath. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha, awesome" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy exclaims, "You're crazy! And suicidal!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. Oddly there seems to be a Floyd | faint undertow here. The dark water seems to be tugging you softly Floyd | down, beneath its black surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy exclaims, "Go diver!" | |||
| inky says, "one of the nice things about this game is all the water" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess the author took the bit in craft of adventure to heart" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | to the north and south. A submerged passageway opens toward the east. Floyd | You notice a gentle current flowing past you into the dark opening. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| minghua arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward into the dark passageway. The force of the current Floyd | grows stronger and stronger until it sweeps you helplessly along. In Floyd | the darkness you scrape against the uneven stone walls and are pounded Floyd | mercilessly into submerged boulders. Your lungs burn with the desire Floyd | for breath, but the cold water refuses to release you from its icy Floyd | grip. Consciousness begins to slip away from you. The roaring, black Floyd | water and jagged stones are fading into warm, gray oblivion... Floyd | Floyd | You are slammed back into wakefulness when your body is hurled over the Floyd | precipice of a subterranean waterfall and spilled into an underground Floyd | river flowing swiftly beneath the great mountain. The river's dark Floyd | channel is not completely submerged, and your head breaks the surface. Floyd | Frantically, you draw in gasping lungfuls of air. Floyd | Floyd | After being swept along for some distance, the river's course turns Floyd | suddenly. You are pushed over a cluster of submerged stones near the Floyd | rocky bank. The great sword at your side somehow catches between the Floyd | stones, stopping you dead in the raging current. Fighting against the Floyd | power of the river, you grasp hold of the slippery stones and work Floyd | yourself free. You scrabble along toward the river's edge and finally Floyd | haul yourself out of the freezing water. You find yourself in another Floyd | great, subterranean chamber. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and forms a rusty pile on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "woof" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. I dunno if we wanted to do that just yet or not." | ||||
| olethros says, "who wrote thsi?;" | ||||
| olethros says, "not what I just wrote, the game, that is" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "version" | ||||
Floyd | The Oracle Floyd | Beta Version 1.4 by Brandon Allen Floyd | Another fine product from Allen MegaCorp (2000) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't think he's been heard from since" | |||
| Gunther says, "he was bought by Omnicom" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I think this was his only game" | ||||
| minghua asks, "Sorry I'm late, how far are we in?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, I don't remember if this game can be made unwinnable or not" | ||||
| inky says (to minghua), "just a little ways" | ||||
| DavidW says (to minghua), "Not too far." | ||||
| inky says, "we are here to find some oracle" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, ".minghua just wandering through caversn aimlessly" | ||||
| inky says, "so far we have fallen through an altar and gotten sucked into a whirlpool" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x waterwheel" | ||||
Floyd | The ancient waterwheel is constructed from oaken beams fastened Floyd | together with thick iron nails. It is far larger than the waterwheels Floyd | you have seen used to grind grain at home; it is as tall as eight or Floyd | ten men. The bottom of the wheel dips down into a narrow channel cut Floyd | in the chamber's stone floor. At the head of the channel is a Floyd | flow-control gate, which is closed, allowing only a trickle of water to Floyd | leak past. The wheel can rotate on a massive axle fashioned from the Floyd | trunk of an ancient and mighty oak. The axle extends outward beyond Floyd | the wheel's mounting and some holes have been bored through the tough Floyd | wood there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the gate along its track and water spills into the sluice, Floyd | filling the waterwheel's scoops. After a moment, the force of the Floyd | flowing water builds, and with a low, groaning creak, the great wheel Floyd | begins to turn. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember if we have to go back to that flooded chamber or not. I *do* remember that there was quite a bit to it there." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to DavidW), "stop spoiling :)" | ||||
| baf arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Corporal_Touchy says, "Now let's attach that chain to the wheel and open the gate again" | |||
| DavidW says, "sorry" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close gate" | ||||
Floyd | You force the gate down into the rushing water, interrupting the flow Floyd | through the sluice. Once the water ceases flowing, the great wheel Floyd | comes to a stuttering halt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach chain to wheel" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to attach the heavy iron chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chain" | ||||
Floyd | It is an exceptionally stout piece of ironmongery. Its heavy links are Floyd | large enough that it would be difficult to wrap both hands around one Floyd | of them. The chain reaches down from the ceiling, high above, and Floyd | rests in a rusted pile on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get chain" | ||||
Floyd | You grasp the chain's free end and heft it, a feat requiring Floyd | considerable strength. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put it on wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put the heavy iron chain anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Put it through the hole" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wheel" | ||||
Floyd | The ancient waterwheel is constructed from oaken beams fastened Floyd | together with thick iron nails. It is far larger than the waterwheels Floyd | you have seen used to grind grain at home; it is as tall as eight or Floyd | ten men. The bottom of the wheel dips down into a narrow channel cut Floyd | in the chamber's stone floor. At the head of the channel is a Floyd | flow-control gate, which is closed, allowing only a trickle of water to Floyd | leak past. The wheel can rotate on a massive axle fashioned from the Floyd | trunk of an ancient and mighty oak. The axle extends outward beyond Floyd | the wheel's mounting and some holes have been bored through the tough Floyd | wood there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put chain in hoe" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hoe". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put chain in hole" | ||||
Floyd | Which hole do you mean, the large hole, or the small hole? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "large" | ||||
Floyd | You thread the free end of the iron chain into the large hole bored Floyd | through the great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the gate along its track and water spills into the sluice, Floyd | filling the waterwheel's scoops. After a moment, the force of the Floyd | flowing water builds, and with a low, groaning creak, the great wheel Floyd | begins to turn. The rotation of the axle allows the iron chain to slip Floyd | out of the large hole and it falls to the floor with a clank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy hehe | Corporal_Touchy says, "Well we gotta tie a knot or something" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. River water Floyd | flows swiftly through the channel and turns the great wheel. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and forms a rusty pile on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x small hole" | ||||
Floyd | The hole is round, approximately two fingerbreadths in width and is Floyd | bored completely through the oaken beam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||||
Floyd | The great waterwheel is rotating on this massive beam of oak. At one Floyd | end of the axle, where it overhangs the wheel's mounts, two holes have Floyd | been bored through: a large hole perhaps twice as broad as your hand Floyd | and a smaller hole, drilled perpendicular to the larger one, so that Floyd | the two holes meet at their midpoints. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Or just loop it through both holes so it will block itself" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "Can we go large, small, large?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. The two holes form an X within the axle." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Oh.." | ||||
| inky says, "I imagine we put a rod in one hole to keep the chain in" | ||||
| DavidW says, "If the chain fits in the larger hole, and we put something else in the smaller, that might hold it there." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Would our sword work?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put chain in large hole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't do that while the waterwheel is turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close gate" | ||||
Floyd | You force the gate down into the rushing water, interrupting the flow Floyd | through the sluice. Once the water ceases flowing, the great wheel Floyd | comes to a stuttering halt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put chain in large hole" | ||||
Floyd | You thread the free end of the iron chain into the large hole bored Floyd | through the great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sword in small hole" | ||||
Floyd | The rusted sword doesn't fit in the smaller hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy asks, "Other way round?" | |||
| JJSonick arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get chain" | ||||
Floyd | You slide the end of the great chain from the axle's larger hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | minghua says, "Two fingerbreaths sounds really small." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put chain in small hole" | ||||
Floyd | It is impossible to put the great iron chain into the small hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe a bolt or rod or some kind." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "Hm...All we have is the sword?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a rusted sword, and the end of Floyd | the rusted iron chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "No convenient nail either..." | |||
| DavidW says, "well, we can look around, y'know." | ||||
| inky says, "well, there's a southern exit from the room, at least" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and strings across the floor to Floyd | where you are holding its free end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (Dropping the iron chain.) Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | You pull at the trapdoor, but the ancient screw holds it fast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor is a rusted plate of iron set in the chamber's floor. It Floyd | is closed, and held fast by a large screw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw with sword" | ||||
Floyd | The rusted sword does not engage the screw properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw" | ||||
Floyd | The screw is set flush with the trapdoor's surface, and you are unable Floyd | to turn it with your fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. The screw might be what we want for the small hole." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "yea :)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A giant, rough-hewn block of stone Floyd | rests against the southern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stone" | ||||
Floyd | It is a huge slab of solid granite, the height of three or four men. Floyd | It appears to be cut from the same stone as that which forms this hall. Floyd | The block is not so well finished, however. Its surface is rough and Floyd | uneven, bearing deep chisel marks, and cupped pockets where large Floyd | flakes of stone were chipped away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, now we need a screwdriver or maybe a sturdy coin." | |||
| inky says, "wuh-oh" | ||||
| inky says, "I hope this isn't blocking the only exit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pocket" | ||||
Floyd | The marks of ancient tools cover this towering stone. They are often Floyd | deep enough to grasp like handholds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb stone" | ||||
Floyd | You scramble up the block's rough surface and haul yourself onto its Floyd | broad top. Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, On Top of Stone Floyd | You are atop the great stone resting against the hall's southern Floyd | wall. A great iron chain extends down from somewhere above and is Floyd | fastened to a huge iron hasp fixed in the center of the stone's top. Floyd | From this height, the pale light shining from your amulet barely Floyd | illuminates the hall's floor far below you. A narrow passageway, Floyd | previously hidden from view, has been carved into the southern wall. Floyd | It was clearly an afterthought to the great hall's excavation. It was Floyd | probably added decades, if not centuries later. The passage leads Floyd | southward. Floyd | You see a rusted metal rod here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rod" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rod" | ||||
Floyd | The rod is about as long as your forearm. It appears to be hammered Floyd | from iron and its surface is quite rusted and pitted. One of its ends Floyd | is bent into a small hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | minghua says, "Hmm, darkness? I don't remember we have a light source." | |||
| inky says, "we have a magic amulet" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The amulet is our light." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I guess I'll use this rod" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "So can we go s now?" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, ok, sure" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Burial Chamber Floyd | You are in a burial chamber of some kind. A holy man of antiquity Floyd | has had himself laid to rest near the great oracle's hiding place in Floyd | the heart of the mountain. The chamber is littered with the crumbling Floyd | remains of the finery he was adorned with at burial. The air, Floyd | moistened by the flowing river, has destroyed the once opulent treasure Floyd | over the centuries. A stone sarcophagus, decorated with intricate Floyd | carvings, rests along the eastern wall. A narrow passageway leads out Floyd | northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sarcophagus" | ||||
Floyd | It is carved from white marble, streaked with veins of pink and gray. Floyd | Its lid is intricately carved with mystical symbols and characters, Floyd | none of which are familiar to you. In the center of the lid, a small Floyd | rectangular notch has been carved. It appears to be much deeper than Floyd | the other decorations. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x notch" | ||||
Floyd | It is a small, rectangular recess cut into the stone lid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rod in notch" | ||||
Floyd | The metal rod will not fit into the notch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sword in notch" | ||||
Floyd | The rusted sword doesn't fit in the notch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x amulet" | ||||
Floyd | It is the golden amulet the council of elders gave you as you set out Floyd | on your journey. It is quite finely made, probably well beyond the Floyd | skills of the smithies of your land, it must have come from some Floyd | far-off place. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "my question to the oracle is ... 'what do you do to pass the time down here?'" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put amulet in notch" | ||||
Floyd | The golden amulet doesn't fit in the notch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a rusted sword, and a rusted Floyd | metal rod. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Burial Chamber Floyd | You are in a burial chamber of some kind. A holy man of antiquity Floyd | has had himself laid to rest near the great oracle's hiding place in Floyd | the heart of the mountain. The chamber is littered with the crumbling Floyd | remains of the finery he was adorned with at burial. The air, Floyd | moistened by the flowing river, has destroyed the once opulent treasure Floyd | over the centuries. A stone sarcophagus, decorated with intricate Floyd | carvings, rests along the eastern wall. A narrow passageway leads out Floyd | northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x finery" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The oracle watches television. What else?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move sarcophagus" | ||||
Floyd | You can't move the stone sarcophagus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look behind sarcophagus" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing behind the stone sarcophagus. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "that's how it knows the news" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Maybe there's a button in the notch :)" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "enter sarcophagus" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the stone sarcophagus. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think something has to be put into the notch." | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x notch" | ||||
Floyd | It is a small, rectangular recess cut into the stone lid. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Probably..." | |||
| inky says, "presumably, but I tried all our items" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carvings" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "carvings". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "look in notch" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the notch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to inky), "well, there could be more items somewhere." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Try just opening it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open sarcophagus" | ||||
Floyd | The sarcophagus' stone lid seems to be locked shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Fine. Let's head back." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open sarcophagus with rod" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "unlock lid with screw" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any screw here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(actually, this is just a goth piggy bank)" | |||
| DavidW says, "jk" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we have to explore more." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, back to the waterfall" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, On Top of Stone Floyd | You are atop the great stone resting against the hall's southern Floyd | wall. A great iron chain extends down from somewhere above and is Floyd | fastened to a huge iron hasp fixed in the center of the stone's top. Floyd | From this height, the pale light shining from your amulet barely Floyd | illuminates the hall's floor far below you. A narrow passageway, Floyd | previously hidden from view, has been carved into the southern wall. Floyd | It was clearly an afterthought to the great hall's excavation. It was Floyd | probably added decades, if not centuries later. The passage leads Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Let's work the chain." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rod in small hole" | ||||
Floyd | You slide the metal rod into the smaller hole until the hooked end Floyd | rests against the axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the gate along its track and water spills into the sluice, Floyd | filling the waterwheel's scoops. After a moment, the force of the Floyd | flowing water builds, and with a low, groaning creak, the great wheel Floyd | begins to turn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and forms a rusty pile on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and forms a rusty pile on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put chain in large hole" | ||||
Floyd | You thread the free end of the iron chain into the large hole bored Floyd | through the great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rod in small hole" | ||||
Floyd | You slide the metal rod into the smaller hole until the hooked end Floyd | rests against the axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the gate along its track and water spills into the sluice, Floyd | filling the waterwheel's scoops. After a moment, the force of the Floyd | flowing water builds, and with a low, groaning creak, the great wheel Floyd | begins to turn. The iron chain is wound, clanking and scraping, onto Floyd | the axle by the waterwheel's rotation. The chain draws tight and the Floyd | waterwheel's speed slows considerably. The wheel continues to turn Floyd | however, drawing more chain down from some hidden place in the ceiling. Floyd | The great chain is gradually wound around the great oaken axle as Floyd | though it were a giant spool of thread. A loud, grinding sound echoes Floyd | from the southern end of the hall. Finally, the chain stops feeding Floyd | down from the ceiling and the wheel creaks to a halt. The water in the Floyd | sluice splashes noisily past the motionless wheel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | As you leave, the unsupported flow-control gate slips shut, cutting off Floyd | the flow of water past the waterwheel. Once the water ceases flowing, Floyd | the great wheel creaks and shudders to a halt. The iron chain wrapped Floyd | around the wheel's axle is drawn back up into the ceiling and the wheel Floyd | begins to turn in reverse, splashing water onto the floor and walls. Floyd | Again you hear the grinding sound coming from the southern end of the Floyd | hall. The distant grinding terminates with a resonating thump and the Floyd | great chain falls slack. The loops of chain wound around the axle Floyd | tumble noisily onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "argh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. River water Floyd | flows swiftly through the channel and splashes noisily past the Floyd | stationary wheel. A great iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and Floyd | is wound tightly around the wheel's great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||
Floyd | The gate is a flat sheet of rusted, moss-covered metal mounted in an Floyd | iron track which is set into the riverbank. The track allows the gate Floyd | to slide up and down, controlling the flow of water past the Floyd | waterwheel. At present, the gate is open, and water rushes through the Floyd | sluice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sword in track" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to get the rusted sword to fit into the track. Perhaps Floyd | if you put something under the gate instead... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sword under gate" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge the sword down into the flowing water, its point catches Floyd | against the channel's stone bottom. You tuck the sword's hilt under Floyd | the gate's lower edge. The arrangement holds, keeping the gate fully Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A huge block of granite is Floyd | suspended near the ceiling directly above an open doorway which leads Floyd | southward. Immediately in front of the doorway, a rectangular patch of Floyd | the stone floor is dark with moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "nice." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Top Floyd | This is the upper landing of a great spiral staircase that winds its Floyd | way downward into darkness. Its broad steps have been chopped from the Floyd | living rock. An open archway leads northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "that's kind of clever" | |||
| Lucea arrives, ready to play with the toys. | inky says, "two south entrances depending on whether the block is raised or not" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | It is a cavity in the rock wall, perhaps the size of a man's fist. Its Floyd | edges are smooth, as though it were made with an auger or drill. It Floyd | appears to be fairly deep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in the hole, you can see something shiny glistening in the Floyd | amulet's weak glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "reach in hole" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "reach". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get shin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "shin". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get shiny" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any shiny here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search hole" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in the hole, you can see something shiny glistening in the Floyd | amulet's weak glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put hand in hole" | DavidW says, "hm. I kinda want the rod with hook back. :)" | |||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hand". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm yeah" | |||
| inky says, "but -- well, I dunno, maybe we can take it out" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Hehe, maybe if we open the trapdoor we find an alternative way here or something.." | ||||
| inky says, "also possible" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put amulet in hole" | ||||
Floyd | You recall the stern instructions of the council of elders to keep the Floyd | amulet with you at all times, and decide against it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "grap in hole" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "grab in hole" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "grab". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | |||
| inky says, "well, sure, why not" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I haven't been mapping. I'm a little confused now where we are." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||||
Floyd | It is fine, white sand. It must have come from some distant beach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig sand" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to dig in it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, we don't know the connection between the initial area and the big pool, and between the big pool and the waterwheel area" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to DavidW), "we went south from the chamber then down and east" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||||
Floyd | It is fine, white sand. It must have come from some distant beach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move sand" | ||||
Floyd | You can't move the fine sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search sand" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to dig in? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "dig sand with hands" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hands". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sand" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get sand" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have the fine sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps we need a shovel or spade." | |||
| DavidW asks, "continue east?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Let's just go east. Then again don't listen to me I suck at puzzles." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | You see a smooth blue stone here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stone" | ||||
Floyd | The stone is gray-blue in color and has been chipped into a roughly Floyd | rectangular shape that fits easily in the palm of your hand. Its Floyd | surface has been polished to a dull luster. It probably had some Floyd | ritual purpose long ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rub it" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "rub". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x arch" | ||||
Floyd | The archway is decorated with hideous gargoyles and serpents which Floyd | writhe and twist about each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gargoyles" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "gargoyles". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x serpents" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "serpents". Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "So much for the sarcophagus." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer; the third cups a copper sphere in his Floyd | upturned palms. The three seem to be bowing deferentially toward an Floyd | ornate archway leading southward. Another archway leads back to the Floyd | west. A ceremonial chest sits in the southeastern corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This stone might be for the notch." | |||
| inky says, "oh yeah, good call" | ||||
| inky says, "well, we can go back if you want" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x cherubim" | ||||
Floyd | The cherubim are giant bronze statues of powerful winged men. They Floyd | stand against the northern end of the hall. The first grips the axle Floyd | of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists, the second Floyd | holds a brass censer, the third cups a copper sphere in his upturned Floyd | palms. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "I need to look up cherubim." | |||
| DavidW says, "baby angel" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "aahh.. thanks" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, low-ranked angel, in this case." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere is made from polished copper. Its surface is etched with Floyd | mystical symbols. You recognize them as constellations that can be Floyd | seen in the night sky. A small bronze arrow, an indicator of some Floyd | sort, points toward one of the constellations on the sphere's surface. Floyd | It points to the greater bruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "spare the cherubim, and whip the cream!" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||||
Floyd | It is a large wooden chest overlaid with lustrous gold leaf. Twinkling Floyd | gemstones are set in each corner of its heavy lid. It is apparent that Floyd | this chest contained items of sacral nature, used in ceremonial rites. Floyd | Three interlocking circles adorn its front and a shiny brass chime is Floyd | suspended from one of its ends. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x censer" | ||||
Floyd | The censer is a large brass jar with ornate fenestrations cut in its Floyd | sides to allow the smoke of ritual incense to escape. It appears as Floyd | though it has not been used for centuries. The censer's lid is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | The censer's lid swings open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the brass censer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wheel" | ||||
Floyd | The first of the great cherubs holds this solid bronze wheel's axle in Floyd | his clenched fists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in chest" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the ceremonial chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||||
Floyd | It is a large wooden chest overlaid with lustrous gold leaf. Twinkling Floyd | gemstones are set in each corner of its heavy lid. It is apparent that Floyd | this chest contained items of sacral nature, used in ceremonial rites. Floyd | Three interlocking circles adorn its front and a shiny brass chime is Floyd | suspended from one of its ends. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||||
Floyd | The chest is solidly locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have the bronze wheel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out, its tone is sharp, clear and of quite high pitch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out. Again the note is clear and bright, but it seems Floyd | to be of a distinctly lower pitch than before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out with a low, throaty tone that reverberates through Floyd | the chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Incredibly, fine lines seem to etch themselves into the chest's smooth Floyd | top. The lines join to form a rectangle which includes almost all of Floyd | the chest's lid. The wood within the rectangle suddenly vanishes and Floyd | you can see the chest's interior. You see that the chest contains a Floyd | ceremonial sceptre and a block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | As quickly as it happened, the chest's lid reconstitutes itself, and Floyd | all is exactly as it was before. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh! This might teleport us back to the altar at the entrance." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Turn it upside down and try again." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on chest" | ||||
Floyd | You are now perched atop the ceremonial chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says (to DavidW), "I don't think it teleports it just seems to open that way." | |||
| inky says, "I think that's just how this stuff opens, but let's see" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out, its tone is sharp, clear and of quite high pitch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out. Again the note is clear and bright, but it seems Floyd | to be of a distinctly lower pitch than before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out with a low, throaty tone that reverberates through Floyd | the chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Incredibly, fine lines seem to etch themselves into the chest's smooth Floyd | top. The lines join to form a rectangle which includes almost all of Floyd | the chest's lid. The wood within the rectangle suddenly vanishes and Floyd | you can see the chest's interior. Floyd | Floyd | You feel the chest's lid vaporize beneath you and with a jarring thump, Floyd | you fall within. Floyd | Floyd | Inside Chest Floyd | You find yourself curled up uncomfortably within the ceremonial Floyd | chest. Its interior is lined with deep red cedar whose odor you can Floyd | still barely detect, despite its great antiquity. From within, you can Floyd | see that the chest is held shut with a sturdy latch. Floyd | You see a ceremonial sceptre and a block of incense here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "This should be interesting." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky asks, "how big is this chest???" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. okay." | ||||
| Nitku asks (of CT), "You do know that you too can give commands to the game?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "hehe cool" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Oracle asks, 'don't you want to ask me about my chest?'" | ||||
| inky asks, "also: ok, I see how you *unlock* this chest, but how do you *lock* it?" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Nitku), "Yeah. But to many cooks.." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | ceremonial sceptre: Taken. Floyd | block of incense: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open latch" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the latch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x latch" | ||||
Floyd | It is a large mechanism, enclosed within a brass cowl. A stout bolt Floyd | extends down from the cowl and locks under a heavy loop of iron mounted Floyd | to the chest's bottom. You realize that it would be impossible to open Floyd | this chest from the outside. On the back of the cowling, a raised Floyd | metal stud protrudes conspicuously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push stud" | ||||
Floyd | The stud sinks smoothly into the cowl as you press it. You hear a Floyd | faint click and the latch mechanism springs suddenly to life. Whirring Floyd | merrily, the bolt is drawn up beneath the cowl. The latch clacks and Floyd | rattles a few times, then another bolt extends from the cowl's upper Floyd | surface and pushes the chest's lid open. The lid raises smoothly until Floyd | it is fully opened. Seeing your chance for freedom, you climb out. Floyd | The lid silently swings closed behind you. You hear faint whirring and Floyd | clicking noises coming from inside the chest for a moment, then all is Floyd | quiet once more. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer; the third cups a copper sphere in his Floyd | upturned palms. The three seem to be bowing deferentially toward an Floyd | ornate archway leading southward. Another archway leads back to the Floyd | west. A ceremonial chest sits in the southeastern corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "...oh" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Did you get the stuff inside?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a smooth blue stone, a Floyd | ceremonial sceptre, and a block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sceptre" | ||||
Floyd | It is a ceremonial sceptre, carved from some dark hardwood and topped Floyd | with a stylized, reptilian claw fashioned from solid silver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x incense" | ||||
Floyd | It is a small block of brown, compacted vegetable matter. It has a Floyd | pungent and aromatic odor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The incense must go in the censer." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open censer" | ||||
Floyd | The brass censer is already open! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put incense in it" | ||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close it" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to close the block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close censer" | ||||
Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer; the third cups a copper sphere in his Floyd | upturned palms. The three seem to be bowing deferentially toward an Floyd | ornate archway leading southward. Another archway leads back to the Floyd | west. A ceremonial chest sits in the southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wheel" | ||||
Floyd | The first of the great cherubs holds this solid bronze wheel's axle in Floyd | his clenched fists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||||
Floyd | The great bronze wheel refuses to turn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A polished, copper mirror, easily as tall as yourself, stands atop a Floyd | massive stone dais at the center of the room. Stylized diagrams of Floyd | what appear to be constellations have been carved into the chamber's Floyd | floor and walls. They form a line extending from the center of the Floyd | northern edge of the dais, across the floor, and up to the top of the Floyd | chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at its middle so that Floyd | its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Presently, the mirror Floyd | is angled toward the greater bruin etched high on the chamber's Floyd | northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "Perhaps he drops the wheel under certain conditions." | |||
| Nitku says, "I guess we can get the shiny thing with the sceptre" | ||||
| DavidW says, "or his hands unclench." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "oh. The sceptre is a hand-thing?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x sceptre" | ||||
Floyd | It is a ceremonial sceptre, carved from some dark hardwood and topped Floyd | with a stylized, reptilian claw fashioned from solid silver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to floyd), "tilt mirror" | ||||
Floyd | You try with all your strength to change the mirror's position. It Floyd | refuses to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, that might grab at a distance." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x diagrams" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "diagrams". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x northern wall" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "northern". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bruin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "bruin". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x constellations" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "constellations". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x constellation" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "constellation". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A polished, copper mirror, easily as tall as yourself, stands atop a Floyd | massive stone dais at the center of the room. Stylized diagrams of Floyd | what appear to be constellations have been carved into the chamber's Floyd | floor and walls. They form a line extending from the center of the Floyd | northern edge of the dais, across the floor, and up to the top of the Floyd | chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at its middle so that Floyd | its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Presently, the mirror Floyd | is angled toward the greater bruin etched high on the chamber's Floyd | northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | It lies beneath you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any wall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | The mirror is an amazing piece of metalwork. It is oval in shape and Floyd | nearly the height of a grown man. It appears to have been hammered Floyd | from a large ingot of solid copper. Its surface has been carefully Floyd | polished to a high sheen. The mirror is mounted at its middle so that Floyd | its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Presently, it is Floyd | angled toward the greater bruin etched high on the chamber's northern Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "push or pull, I guess." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push mirror" | ||||
Floyd | Pushing the copper mirror doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well" | |||
| inky says, "the sphere in the northern room has constellation stuff too" | ||||
| inky says, "so probably that controls this" | ||||
| inky says, "I don't see the point, though" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. If the wheel can fit on the sphere to turn the setting, you mean." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "We could also just try to turn the sphere." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Maybe the sarcophagus will tell us something." | ||||
| DavidW says (to CT), "yeah, we could just try that. :)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It is best to try the simpler solutions first." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere is made from polished copper. Its surface is etched with Floyd | mystical symbols. You recognize them as constellations that can be Floyd | seen in the night sky. A small bronze arrow, an indicator of some Floyd | sort, points toward one of the constellations on the sphere's surface. Floyd | It points to the greater bruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You grasp the copper ball's smooth surface and attempt to roll it, but Floyd | the sphere refuses to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | minghua says, "I wonder if tilt is a verb." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tilt sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You can't tilt the copper sphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tilt mirror" | ||||
Floyd | You try with all your strength to change the mirror's position. It Floyd | refuses to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn arrow" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "arrow". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says (to minghua), "it worked on the mirror" | |||
| inky says, "sorry, go ahead" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It doesn't know 'arrow'." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "I vote for back to the sarcophagus." | ||||
| minghua says, "Ah, I see. There must be some other way to move the mirror, then." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "exits all" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "exits". Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Including back to the hole in the wall with the scepter." | |||
| DavidW says (to minghua), "I think maybe the sphere controls the mirror, and the wheel controls the sphere." | ||||
| minghua says (to Corporal_Touchy), "Missed your attempt on tilting." | ||||
| DavidW says, "(what probably turns is the dias that the mirror is on)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "dias? dais? I can't spell." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A polished, copper mirror, easily as tall as yourself, stands atop a Floyd | massive stone dais at the center of the room. Stylized diagrams of Floyd | what appear to be constellations have been carved into the chamber's Floyd | floor and walls. They form a line extending from the center of the Floyd | northern edge of the dais, across the floor, and up to the top of the Floyd | chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at its middle so that Floyd | its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Presently, the mirror Floyd | is angled toward the greater bruin etched high on the chamber's Floyd | northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dais" | ||||
Floyd | Turning the stone dais doesn't have any effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| minghua says (to Floyd), "x dais" | ||||
Floyd | The dais is a large, round platform of carved stone upon which the Floyd | copper mirror sits. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Try the sceptre in the hole found earlier, and the stone in the sarcophagus." | |||
| Nitku asks, "Could we turn verbose on?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, now in VERBOSE mode. Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A polished, copper mirror, easily as tall as yourself, stands atop a Floyd | massive stone dais at the center of the room. Stylized diagrams of Floyd | what appear to be constellations have been carved into the chamber's Floyd | floor and walls. They form a line extending from the center of the Floyd | northern edge of the dais, across the floor, and up to the top of the Floyd | chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at its middle so that Floyd | its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Presently, the mirror Floyd | is angled toward the greater bruin etched high on the chamber's Floyd | northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "thanks." | |||
| DavidW says, "no prob. We shoulda done that earlier." | ||||
| inky asks, "ok, so walk back a bit?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer; the third cups a copper sphere in his Floyd | upturned palms. The three seem to be bowing deferentially toward an Floyd | ornate archway leading southward. Another archway leads back to the Floyd | west. A ceremonial chest sits in the southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to inky), "please" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put scepter in hole" | ||||
Floyd | You slide the sceptre into the cavity, the claw at its tip seems to Floyd | catch on something far inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice!" | |||
| inky says, "I didn't realize there was a claw on the tip" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scepter" | ||||
Floyd | You draw the sceptre out of the hole, dragging something along with it. Floyd | The object clatters to the floor. It is a brass tinderbox! Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tinderbox" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "to light the incense, no doubt" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "ok so now we know how to light the censer" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That'll help light the in... tmg" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Maybe some magic happens if we light the incense" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer; the third cups a copper sphere in his Floyd | upturned palms. The three seem to be bowing deferentially toward an Floyd | ornate archway leading southward. Another archway leads back to the Floyd | west. A ceremonial chest sits in the southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tinderbox" | ||||
Floyd | It is an open-topped box made of tarnished brass, little enough to fit Floyd | easily in one hand. A small, soot-stained cup is situated at its Floyd | bottom, beneath a chip of stone mounted on the box's upper edge. Floyd | Dangling from a delicate brass chain is a small square of metal. The Floyd | box's base encloses a tiny drawer which is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I remember this being a little fancy" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, we had better wait until we know what setting to do." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, I'll go and do the sarcophagus then" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Top Floyd | This is the upper landing of a great spiral staircase that winds its Floyd | way downward into darkness. Its broad steps have been chopped from the Floyd | living rock. An open archway leads northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A huge block of granite is Floyd | suspended near the ceiling directly above an open doorway which leads Floyd | southward. Immediately in front of the doorway, a rectangular patch of Floyd | the stone floor is dark with moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. River water Floyd | flows swiftly through the channel and splashes noisily past the Floyd | stationary wheel. A great iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and Floyd | is wound tightly around the wheel's great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rod" | ||||
Floyd | You grasp the rod's hooked end and try to pull it free, but it is Floyd | frozen in place by the taut chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | As you leave, the unsupported flow-control gate slips shut, cutting off Floyd | the flow of water past the waterwheel. Once the water ceases flowing, Floyd | the great wheel creaks and shudders to a halt. The iron chain wrapped Floyd | around the wheel's axle is drawn back up into the ceiling and the wheel Floyd | begins to turn in reverse, splashing water onto the floor and walls. Floyd | Again you hear the grinding sound coming from the southern end of the Floyd | hall. The distant grinding terminates with a resonating thump and the Floyd | great chain falls slack. The loops of chain wound around the axle Floyd | tumble noisily onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A giant, rough-hewn block of stone Floyd | rests against the southern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb block" | ||||
Floyd | You scramble up the block's rough surface and haul yourself onto its Floyd | broad top. Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, On Top of Stone Floyd | You are atop the great stone resting against the hall's southern Floyd | wall. A great iron chain extends down from somewhere above and is Floyd | fastened to a huge iron hasp fixed in the center of the stone's top. Floyd | From this height, the pale light shining from your amulet barely Floyd | illuminates the hall's floor far below you. A narrow passageway, Floyd | previously hidden from view, has been carved into the southern wall. Floyd | It was clearly an afterthought to the great hall's excavation. It was Floyd | probably added decades, if not centuries later. The passage leads Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Burial Chamber Floyd | You are in a burial chamber of some kind. A holy man of antiquity Floyd | has had himself laid to rest near the great oracle's hiding place in Floyd | the heart of the mountain. The chamber is littered with the crumbling Floyd | remains of the finery he was adorned with at burial. The air, Floyd | moistened by the flowing river, has destroyed the once opulent treasure Floyd | over the centuries. A stone sarcophagus, decorated with intricate Floyd | carvings, rests along the eastern wall. A narrow passageway leads out Floyd | northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put stone in notch" | ||||
Floyd | The smooth, blue stone slips easily into the notch. You hear a muffled Floyd | clacking sound somewhere within the sarcophagus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open sarcophagus" | ||||
Floyd | The stone lid raises easily, revealing the disintigrated remains of the Floyd | sarcophagus' occupant. The desiccated corpse is draped with yellowed Floyd | linen sheets that crumble like burned paper. Resting in the general Floyd | region of the neck is a heavy gold torque. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x corpse" | ||||
Floyd | The ancient corpse has lain so long in death that it is literally Floyd | turning to dust. The gaunt skin, stretched over crumbling bones, is Floyd | flaking into powder as are all of the body's other tissues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sheet" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sheet". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sheets" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sheets". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get torque" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. You lift the shimmering torque away from the crumbling body. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x torque" | ||||
Floyd | The torque is a semicircle of solid, beaten gold which is worn about Floyd | the neck. It shimmers and glistens lustrously. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |||
| inky says, "it seems a little tactless to rob this guy's grave" | ||||
| Miseri is very disappointed in you. Earlier, he may have ransacked your office, but he is *very* disappointed in you. | Corporal_Touchy says, "well this isn't club tactful." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear torque" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the gold torque. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "how true" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter sarcophagus" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the stone sarcophagus. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We don't get to wear torques too often. I say we enjoy it." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| minghua says, "Since we scored, I'm sure the corpse doesn't mind that much." | ||||
| inky asks, "ok, so back to the censer?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "minghua scoring with a corpse isn't really that great" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| minghua says, "Heh." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, On Top of Stone Floyd | You are atop the great stone resting against the hall's southern Floyd | wall. A great iron chain extends down from somewhere above and is Floyd | fastened to a huge iron hasp fixed in the center of the stone's top. Floyd | From this height, the pale light shining from your amulet barely Floyd | illuminates the hall's floor far below you. A narrow passageway, Floyd | previously hidden from view, has been carved into the southern wall. Floyd | It was clearly an afterthought to the great hall's excavation. It was Floyd | probably added decades, if not centuries later. The passage leads Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Was there something east of the waterwheel?" | |||
| minghua says, "I still don't see how the torque helps, though." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "Try opening the trapdoor with the torque?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A giant, rough-hewn block of stone Floyd | rests against the southern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw with torque" | ||||
Floyd | The gold torque does not engage the screw properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a ceremonial sceptre, a brass Floyd | tinderbox, a rusted sword, and a gold torque (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "like, I'm wondering where the water goes." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw with sceptre" | Corporal_Touchy says, "too bad" | |||
Floyd | The ceremonial sceptre does not engage the screw properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and attatches to the Floyd | waterwheel's axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the tiny drawer reveals a wad of floss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||||
Floyd | The underground river runs through the northern end of the great hall, Floyd | crashing and rumbling its way over numerous submerged boulders. The Floyd | din from the mighty river drowns out almost all other sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | ||||
Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | minghua asks, "Jump into river?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "swim". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter river" | ||||
Floyd | You leap into the raging river's churning waters and are swept away by Floyd | the powerful current. Just downstream from the great hall, a small Floyd | grotto has formed where the river has eroded away the solid stone. You Floyd | make a futile attempt to swim toward the grotto, but the current is far Floyd | too swift. Your battle to keep your head above the churning surface Floyd | ends suddenly when you strike your skull sharply against a submerged Floyd | rock, and all becomes black... Floyd | Floyd | You awaken suddenly, your head hammering with pain. You have no idea Floyd | where you are, but you are no longer buffetted by the icy river and Floyd | your clothing is dry. You have no clear recollection of how you arrived Floyd | in this place, but you seem to remember a sudden flash of daylight... Floyd | an arm reaching down, plucking you out of the water, dragging you back Floyd | into darkness... a grim, bearded face looking down upon you - Floyd | unmoving... tunnels, passages, twisting, turning, climbing... Floyd | Floyd | Stone Altar Floyd | This space was hollowed out of the solid stone of the mountain, Floyd | chisel-marks from the ancient laborers can still be seen on its rough Floyd | hewn walls. The room is slightly oval shaped with a squat, stone altar Floyd | set on the floor at its southernmost end. A metal chime, heavily Floyd | corroded after centuries of neglect, hangs from a stand mounted at one Floyd | of its ends. A rivulet of clear water splashes into the room through a Floyd | doorway that enters from the north. The stream flows placidly down the Floyd | room's length and disappears through an iron grate set in the floor Floyd | just in front of the altar. Floyd | Floyd | An open archway exits eastward. Floyd | Sitting on the stone altar is a rusted sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I hope the tinder doesn't get wet." | |||
| inky says, "whoah dang" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a ceremonial sceptre, a brass Floyd | tinderbox, and a gold torque (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wouldn't have expected that to work" | |||
| inky says, "(and in fact I think I will undo, but that is interesting)" | ||||
| minghua says, "Neither do I." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Stone Altar Floyd | This space was hollowed out of the solid stone of the mountain, Floyd | chisel-marks from the ancient laborers can still be seen on its rough Floyd | hewn walls. The room is slightly oval shaped with a squat, stone altar Floyd | set on the floor at its southernmost end. A metal chime, heavily Floyd | corroded after centuries of neglect, hangs from a stand mounted at one Floyd | of its ends. A rivulet of clear water splashes into the room through a Floyd | doorway that enters from the north. The stream flows placidly down the Floyd | room's length and disappears through an iron grate set in the floor Floyd | just in front of the altar. Floyd | Floyd | An open archway exits eastward. Floyd | Sitting on the stone altar is a rusted sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and attatches to the Floyd | waterwheel's axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And someone rescued us." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get chain" | ||||
Floyd | Which chain do you mean, the tiny, brass chain, or the heavy iron Floyd | chain? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I assume the oracle" | |||
| DavidW says, "or a servant of the oracle" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put iron chain in large hole" | ||||
Floyd | The great chain has been threaded through the large hole and completely Floyd | occludes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rod in hole" | ||||
Floyd | Which hole do you mean, the large hole, or the small hole? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "small" | ||||
Floyd | The metal rod has already been inserted into the small hole, occluding Floyd | it completely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||
| Ellison has connected. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the gate along its track and water spills into the sluice, Floyd | filling the waterwheel's scoops. After a moment, the force of the Floyd | flowing water builds, and with a low, groaning creak, the great wheel Floyd | begins to turn. The iron chain is wound, clanking and scraping, onto Floyd | the axle by the waterwheel's rotation. The chain draws tight and the Floyd | waterwheel's speed slows considerably. The wheel continues to turn Floyd | however, drawing more chain down from some hidden place in the ceiling. Floyd | The great chain is gradually wound around the great oaken axle as Floyd | though it were a giant spool of thread. A loud, grinding sound echoes Floyd | from the southern end of the hall. Finally, the chain stops feeding Floyd | down from the ceiling and the wheel creaks to a halt. The water in the Floyd | sluice splashes noisily past the motionless wheel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sword under gate" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge the sword down into the flowing water, its point catches Floyd | against the channel's stone bottom. You tuck the sword's hilt under Floyd | the gate's lower edge. The arrangement holds, keeping the gate fully Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A huge block of granite is Floyd | suspended near the ceiling directly above an open doorway which leads Floyd | southward. Immediately in front of the doorway, a rectangular patch of Floyd | the stone floor is dark with moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Top Floyd | This is the upper landing of a great spiral staircase that winds its Floyd | way downward into darkness. Its broad steps have been chopped from the Floyd | living rock. An open archway leads northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer; the third cups a copper sphere in his Floyd | upturned palms. The three seem to be bowing deferentially toward an Floyd | ornate archway leading southward. Another archway leads back to the Floyd | west. A ceremonial chest sits in the southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, let's see if we can get this to work" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tickle cherub" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "tickle". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think it may be a mistake to light the incense too soon. I'd hope the author is kind enough not to consume it." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, have to work the tinderbox first" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tinderbox" | ||||
Floyd | It is an open-topped box made of tarnished brass, little enough to fit Floyd | easily in one hand. A small, soot-stained cup is situated at its Floyd | bottom, beneath a chip of stone mounted on the box's upper edge. Floyd | Dangling from a delicate brass chain is a small square of metal. The Floyd | box's base encloses a tiny drawer which is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, we need to know." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the tiny drawer reveals a wad of floss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get floss" | ||||
Floyd | As you tear a pinch of the floss away, the tiny drawer snaps firmly Floyd | shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put floss in cup" | ||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chip" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "chip". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stone" | ||||
Floyd | The gray stone is mounted to the box's upper edge. It has been chipped Floyd | into a rectangular shape, and appears to be flint. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x metal" | ||||
Floyd | It is made from what appears to be steel, judging from the rust that Floyd | covers it. Its edges have been scraped and nicked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "hehe" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "chirp" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "chirp". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit flint with metal" | ||||
Floyd | You strike the stone firmly with the square of metal, a shower of Floyd | sparks flashes down upon the cup. The wad of floss within the cup Floyd | begins to smoulder and emit a thin wisp of smoke, then a tiny finger of Floyd | orange flame leaps up from the burning floss. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light incense" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the brass censer first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open censer" | ||||
Floyd | The censer's lid swings open. Floyd | Floyd | A tiny, orange lick of flame flickers up from within the tinderbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light incense" | ||||
Floyd | The incense begins to glow with heat, and a bit of delicious-smelling Floyd | smoke slithers up from it. The sweet smoke begins to roll lazily out Floyd | of the censer's fenestrations and wafts up toward the ceiling. You Floyd | hear a distant click coming from somewhere behind the wheel-bearing Floyd | cherub. Floyd | Floyd | A tiny, orange lick of flame flickers up from within the tinderbox. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the great wheel, it spins easily. As it spins, you notice a Floyd | scraping sound coming from beyond the southern archway. After a few Floyd | rotations, the wheel comes to a sudden halt. You hear a muffled clack Floyd | coming from somewhere behind the sphere-bearing cherub. Floyd | Floyd | Having entirely consumed the wad of floss, the tiny flame leaping up Floyd | from the tinderbox winks out suddenly, and sends up a fine wisp of Floyd | smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the hydra. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the hydra etched on the northern Floyd | wall, just above eye level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x diagrams" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "diagrams". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x hydra" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hydra". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x well" | ||||
Floyd | It is a large, round hole cut in the chamber's floor. A border of Floyd | mystic runes ring its edge. Its yawning, black depths open before you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x runes" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "runes". Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "was the well there before?" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "no" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, heh, I missed that" | ||||
| inky says, "I think it showed up when the wheel unlocked" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the well. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x amulet" | ||||
Floyd | It is the golden amulet the council of elders gave you as you set out Floyd | on your journey. It is quite finely made, probably well beyond the Floyd | skills of the smithies of your land, it must have come from some Floyd | far-off place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "look in well" | ||||
Floyd | The well is far deeper than the light from your amulet will penetrate, Floyd | and you see only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "what was the thing about the amulet?" | |||
| inky asks, "put it in the heart of the mountain?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x i" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are tall for your seventeen years, despite your meager existence on Floyd | the farm. The tattered clothes of a peasant adorn your lanky frame. Floyd | About your neck hangs a brilliantly crafted golden amulet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "I think they didn't tell." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x amulet" | ||||
Floyd | It is the golden amulet the council of elders gave you as you set out Floyd | on your journey. It is quite finely made, probably well beyond the Floyd | skills of the smithies of your land, it must have come from some Floyd | far-off place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop amulet in well" | ||||
Floyd | The amulet falls into the depths of the well, illuminating its stone Floyd | sides as it plummets downward. Eventually, the amulet's glow dwindles Floyd | to a tiny pinpoint and finally, it winks out entirely. You find Floyd | yourself in total darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The blackness seems to close in upon you, choking the breath from your Floyd | lungs. Your heart hammers wildly in your chest. The fear of dying, Floyd | cold and alone deep in the bowels of the earth, suddenly grips you and Floyd | holds you in its icy claws. Floyd | Floyd | An intensely bright beam of brilliant, white light suddenly blasts Floyd | upward from within the well, and reflects off the mirror's polished Floyd | surface. The reflected beam of light illuminates the diagram of the Floyd | hydra etched on the northern wall, just above eye level. The beam Floyd | rests there for a moment then disappears, leaving you again in total Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It said cast the amulet into the heart of the mountain." | |||
| inky says, "hrm" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "press the hydra \o/" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, so that was cool, but presumably not necessarily the right constellation" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You threw away our light source without knowing what constellation to set the mirror to." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "of course that would make a lot of sense" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You are in the total, supreme darkness that can be found only far Floyd | below the earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the hydra etched on the northern Floyd | wall, just above eye level. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "and it would also make us screwed." | |||
| DavidW says, "We really need to know beforehand." | ||||
| Nitku asks, "ok so how do we find out the right one?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer from which pungent, sweet-smelling smoke Floyd | escapes, filling the chamber with an aromatic, bluish haze; the third Floyd | cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be Floyd | bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Floyd | Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the Floyd | southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a burning block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy asks, "ok so what about that trapdoor?" | |||
| DavidW says, "We haven't been everywhere." | ||||
| inky says, "well, let's see what they all are" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the great wheel, it spins easily. As it spins, you notice a Floyd | scraping sound coming from beyond the southern archway. After a few Floyd | rotations, the wheel comes to a sudden halt. You hear a muffled clack Floyd | coming from somewhere behind the sphere-bearing cherub. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere is made from polished copper. Its surface is etched with Floyd | mystical symbols. You recognize them as constellations that can be Floyd | seen in the night sky. A small bronze arrow, an indicator of some Floyd | sort, points toward one of the constellations on the sphere's surface. Floyd | It points to the hydra. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Trapdoor is one thing we don't know about yet." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais at the center of the Floyd | room. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the northern edge of the dais, across the floor, and Floyd | up to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the hydra etched on the northern Floyd | wall, just above eye level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer from which pungent, sweet-smelling smoke Floyd | escapes, filling the chamber with an aromatic, bluish haze; the third Floyd | cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be Floyd | bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Floyd | Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the Floyd | southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a burning block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the great wheel, it spins easily. As it spins, you notice a Floyd | scraping sound coming from beyond the southern archway. After a few Floyd | rotations, the wheel comes to a sudden halt. You hear a muffled clack Floyd | coming from somewhere behind the sphere-bearing cherub. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the hunter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the seven sisters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the lesser bruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the hero's belt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the greater bruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| inky says, "so a fair number of constellations, nothing obvious" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "I don't get what the wheel does" | ||||
| inky says, "the wheel opens/closes the well" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "oh really? I thought it made noises behind the sphere bearing cherub" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I thought the wheel unlocks the sphere and the sphere opens the well." | ||||
| inky says, "well, it also unlocks the sphere cherub" | ||||
| inky says, "I am pretty sure the wheel opens the well and the sphere changes the mirror" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "when the well is closed, what's there instead?" | ||||
| minghua says (to DavidW), "The dais used to cover the well." | ||||
| DavidW says, "ah" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "ok now back to business what do we do?" | ||||
| minghua says, "I was acutally wondering why that room was named "The Well"." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, I'll remind everyone of the flooded chamber and the trapdoor." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "yeah we still need something to unscrew that screw and something to do with that torque" | ||||
| inky says, "hrm" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "of course we could still try jumping in the well or throwing the torque in instead of the amulet" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "but that sounds silly" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling | olethros asks, "open the trapdoor and let the water drain out?" | |||
Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the greater bruin etched high on Floyd | the chamber's northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter well" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The torque and sceptre might go on a statue of a king, I suppose." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer from which pungent, sweet-smelling smoke Floyd | escapes, filling the chamber with an aromatic, bluish haze; the third Floyd | cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be Floyd | bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Floyd | Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the Floyd | southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a burning block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sceptre" | ||||
Floyd | It is a ceremonial sceptre, carved from some dark hardwood and topped Floyd | with a stylized, reptilian claw fashioned from solid silver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x claw" | ||||
Floyd | It is a ceremonial sceptre, carved from some dark hardwood and topped Floyd | with a stylized, reptilian claw fashioned from solid silver. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "would make sense" | |||
| minghua says, "Throwing the torque actually doesn't sound that bad. Or the sceptre." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x archway" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any archway here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the greater bruin etched high on Floyd | the chamber's northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put torque in well" | ||||
Floyd | (Taking off the gold torque first) Floyd | The gold torque falls into the well and disappears. You wait for some Floyd | time to hear it hit bottom, but no sound returns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the greater bruin etched high on Floyd | the chamber's northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sceptre in well" | ||||
Floyd | The ceremonial sceptre falls into the well and disappears. You wait Floyd | for some time to hear it hit bottom, but no sound returns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the greater bruin etched high on Floyd | the chamber's northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer from which pungent, sweet-smelling smoke Floyd | escapes, filling the chamber with an aromatic, bluish haze; the third Floyd | cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be Floyd | bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Floyd | Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the Floyd | southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a burning block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search sand" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x arch" | ||||
Floyd | The archway is decorated with hideous gargoyles and serpents which Floyd | writhe and twist about each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | It lies beneath you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search sand" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy asks, "Comb the sand with the claw?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "comb" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "comb". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. That's worth a try." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "claw sand" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy asks, "dig?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search sand with claw" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig in sand" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to dig in it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig sand with sceptre" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to dig in the fine sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "claw" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | minghua asks, "Is dig a standard verb?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Yes." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a ceremonial sceptre, a brass Floyd | tinderbox, and a gold torque (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's no guarantee that the sand conceals anything." | |||
| minghua says, "I don't think there is anything interesting in the sand, then." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Whatever..." | ||||
| minghua says, "Since two rooms are covered with sand." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put sand in tinderbox" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put the fine sand anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, sand is always suspicious in IF games." | |||
| minghua says, "Yeah. I'm not that good at puzzles, anyway." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Top Floyd | This is the upper landing of a great spiral staircase that winds its Floyd | way downward into darkness. Its broad steps have been chopped from the Floyd | living rock. An open archway leads northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we should assume the sand is just sand for now, unless a shovel shows up." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A huge block of granite is Floyd | suspended near the ceiling directly above an open doorway which leads Floyd | southward. Immediately in front of the doorway, a rectangular patch of Floyd | the stone floor is dark with moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor is a rusted plate of iron set in the chamber's floor. It Floyd | is closed, and held fast by a large screw. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or maybe a sieve." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x screw" | ||||
Floyd | The large, iron screw is badly rusted, as is the rest of the trapdoor. Floyd | Its head bears a shallow slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw with steel" | ||||
Floyd | The square piece of metal does not engage the screw properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dang" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a ceremonial sceptre, a brass Floyd | tinderbox, and a gold torque (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw with torque" | ||||
Floyd | The gold torque does not engage the screw properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw with sceptre" | ||||
Floyd | The ceremonial sceptre does not engage the screw properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | minghua asks, "Have we tried the rod?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think so." | ||||
| minghua says, "Okay." | ||||
| Gerynar asks, "if it's so rusty, would hitting it do any good?" | ||||
| minghua says (to Floyd), "x torque" | ||||
Floyd | The torque is a semicircle of solid, beaten gold which is worn about Floyd | the neck. It shimmers and glistens lustrously. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Gerynar), "Oil is more traditional for dealing with rust." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub torque" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "rub". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| minghua says, "Heh, I was thinking of brute force, too." | ||||
| inky says, "well, I hate to do it, but I guess we can go jump in the river and go back to the start" | ||||
| inky says, "and then take a different exit and see if we come across a screwdriver or something" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we do have to visit the flooded chamber in detail." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "We could also just pry it open with the sword." | ||||
| Gerynar says, "how can you visit a place in detail when you're typing so fast that I can't read everything? :)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "When it's more than one location." | ||||
| Gunther has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | inky says, "okey doke" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. River water Floyd | flows swiftly through the channel and splashes noisily past the Floyd | stationary wheel. A great iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and Floyd | is wound tightly around the wheel's great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter river" | ||||
Floyd | As you leave, the unsupported flow-control gate slips shut, cutting off Floyd | the flow of water past the waterwheel. Once the water ceases flowing, Floyd | the great wheel creaks and shudders to a halt. The iron chain wrapped Floyd | around the wheel's axle is drawn back up into the ceiling and the wheel Floyd | begins to turn in reverse, splashing water onto the floor and walls. Floyd | Again you hear the grinding sound coming from the southern end of the Floyd | hall. The distant grinding terminates with a resonating thump and the Floyd | great chain falls slack. The loops of chain wound around the axle Floyd | tumble noisily onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You leap into the raging river's churning waters and are swept away by Floyd | the powerful current. Just downstream from the great hall, a small Floyd | grotto has formed where the river has eroded away the solid stone. You Floyd | make a futile attempt to swim toward the grotto, but the current is far Floyd | too swift. Your battle to keep your head above the churning surface Floyd | ends suddenly when you strike your skull sharply against a submerged Floyd | rock, and all becomes black... Floyd | Floyd | You awaken suddenly, your head hammering with pain. You have no idea Floyd | where you are, but you are no longer buffetted by the icy river and Floyd | your clothing is dry. You have no clear recollection of how you arrived Floyd | in this place, but you seem to remember a sudden flash of daylight... Floyd | an arm reaching down, plucking you out of the water, dragging you back Floyd | into darkness... a grim, bearded face looking down upon you - Floyd | unmoving... tunnels, passages, twisting, turning, climbing... Floyd | Floyd | Stone Altar Floyd | This space was hollowed out of the solid stone of the mountain, Floyd | chisel-marks from the ancient laborers can still be seen on its rough Floyd | hewn walls. The room is slightly oval shaped with a squat, stone altar Floyd | set on the floor at its southernmost end. A metal chime, heavily Floyd | corroded after centuries of neglect, hangs from a stand mounted at one Floyd | of its ends. A rivulet of clear water splashes into the room through a Floyd | doorway that enters from the north. The stream flows placidly down the Floyd | room's length and disappears through an iron grate set in the floor Floyd | just in front of the altar. Floyd | Floyd | An open archway exits eastward. Floyd | Sitting on the stone altar is a rusted sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a ceremonial sceptre, a brass Floyd | tinderbox, and a gold torque (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Interesting that the sword is returned this way." | |||
| inky says, "yeah, not sure what's up with that" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It must be needed on this side." | ||||
| inky says, "maybe it is possible -- yeah" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I will try this other exit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | This is the landing of a narrow flight of stairs climbing sharply Floyd | upward toward the north. The steps are uneven and rough-hewn, as are Floyd | the walls, evidence of the great antiquity of this place. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | On The Stairs, Rubble Floyd | The stairs climb for a short distance, terminating abruptly where a Floyd | jumble of boulders has collapsed into the narrow stairway, sealing it Floyd | off completely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x boulders" | ||||
Floyd | The boulders are the same mottled granite that forms the entire Floyd | mountain. As you look more closely, you notice that rather than having Floyd | fallen randomly into the stairway, the stones have been carefully laid Floyd | in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move boulders" | ||||
Floyd | You push at the boulders with all your strength. Eventually, you Floyd | succeed in dislodging one of them perhaps a fingerwidth. The entire Floyd | pile creaks and grinds as if it were barely stable under its own Floyd | tremendous weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| inky says, "this seems a little unsafe" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move boulders" | ||||
Floyd | You grasp one of the great stones and begin to wriggle it from its Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | With a sound like a clap of thunder, the wall of stones topples down, Floyd | crushing you to death instantly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 306 turns, you have achieved a score of 40 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On The Stairs, Rubble Floyd | The stairs climb for a short distance, terminating abruptly where a Floyd | jumble of boulders has collapsed into the narrow stairway, sealing it Floyd | off completely. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "...yes" | |||
| DavidW says, "Ask the oracle about tnt" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "throw sword at boulders" | Corporal_Touchy says, "hm...or throw something at it from a distance...na that never works in if" | |||
Floyd | You miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw sword at boulders" | ||||
Floyd | You miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think Nitku just tried that." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | On The Stairs, Rubble Floyd | The stairs climb for a short distance, terminating abruptly where a Floyd | jumble of boulders has collapsed into the narrow stairway, sealing it Floyd | off completely. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, well, I dunno" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stairway" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any stairway here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "I know I was wondering if it might be random." | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we're supposed to go this way." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | This is the landing of a narrow flight of stairs climbing sharply Floyd | upward toward the north. The steps are uneven and rough-hewn, as are Floyd | the walls, evidence of the great antiquity of this place. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "at least not yet" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | As you pass through the archway, a sudden rush of cold wind brushes Floyd | past from behind you. You feel the stone beneath your feet tremble as Floyd | a deafening roar blasts from the stairway as if the entire mountain Floyd | were collapsing upon itself. In an instant you realize what is Floyd | happening, The wall of boulders... Floyd | Floyd | You are barely able to leap clear as an avalanche of stone pours down Floyd | the stairway. The thunderous noise subsides after a moment and a thick Floyd | cloud of choking dust rolls out through the archway. Floyd | Floyd | Stone Altar Floyd | This space was hollowed out of the solid stone of the mountain, Floyd | chisel-marks from the ancient laborers can still be seen on its rough Floyd | hewn walls. The room is slightly oval shaped with a squat, stone altar Floyd | set on the floor at its southernmost end. A metal chime, heavily Floyd | corroded after centuries of neglect, hangs from a stand mounted at one Floyd | of its ends. A rivulet of clear water splashes into the room through a Floyd | doorway that enters from the north. The stream flows placidly down the Floyd | room's length and disappears through an iron grate set in the floor Floyd | just in front of the altar. Floyd | Floyd | An open archway exits eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoah!" | |||
| inky says, "ok, didn't expect that" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "What?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "clever" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "Huh?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Oh :)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | This small space was once the landing of a narrow flight of stairs. Floyd | A recent rockslide has entirely covered the stairs in stony rubble. Floyd | Amazingly, the stairway is still passable, though it appears difficult Floyd | going. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | On The Stairs, Rubble Floyd | The stairs are littered with great boulders, but a passable opening Floyd | has been created by the violence of the rockfall. The narrow stairway Floyd | continues upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Delayed avalanche." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Small Chamber Floyd | This is a low chamber that must have served as some sort of Floyd | preparation room for supplicants who came seeking audience with the Floyd | oracle - a place to wash, and don ceremonial robes before attempting to Floyd | summon her. The worm-eaten remains of a small wooden table litter the Floyd | floor along the northern wall. An ancient washbasin is mounted in the Floyd | north-eastern corner. Floyd | Floyd | The narrow stairway leads downward. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | The low table has crumbled in the cold, damp of this place. Flakes of Floyd | black lacquer and bits of polished shell scattered among the fragments Floyd | of rotten wood demonstrate that it was once beautifully decorated. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "score one for you guys." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search table" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open table" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the broken table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x washbasin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "washbasin". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x basin" | ||||
Floyd | The basin is bolted to the chamber's wall at about waist height. It is Floyd | fashioned from copper or some similar metal. Its once bright surface Floyd | is badly tarnished. Some dried silt has collected at its bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x silt" | ||||
Floyd | It is a small amount of dried sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get silt" | ||||
Floyd | You sift your fingers through the dry sand, dislodging a small metal Floyd | object hidden beneath its surface. A shining, smooth edge is visible, Floyd | it appears to be a coin of some kind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get coin" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||||
Floyd | The coin is minted of fine gold and bears an ancient mark that you Floyd | don't recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aha! Our 'screwdriver' I bet." | |||
| inky says, "yeah probabl" | ||||
| inky asks, "anything else to do in this room?" | ||||
| olethros asks, "or a bribe?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Hah, it even has a shiny edge." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search table" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take table" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have the broken table. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I notice the basin is locked down. No filling it with sand or water or whatever." | |||
| DavidW says (to inky), "I think we're done in this room." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "locked down?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to CT), "bolted to the wall." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Yeah, it's probably just about the coin." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Untakeable by us." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, onwards" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | On The Stairs, Rubble Floyd | The stairs are littered with great boulders, but a passable opening Floyd | has been created by the violence of the rockfall. The narrow stairway Floyd | continues upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | This small space was once the landing of a narrow flight of stairs. Floyd | A recent rockslide has entirely covered the stairs in stony rubble. Floyd | Amazingly, the stairway is still passable, though it appears difficult Floyd | going. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Stone Altar Floyd | This space was hollowed out of the solid stone of the mountain, Floyd | chisel-marks from the ancient laborers can still be seen on its rough Floyd | hewn walls. The room is slightly oval shaped with a squat, stone altar Floyd | set on the floor at its southernmost end. A metal chime, heavily Floyd | corroded after centuries of neglect, hangs from a stand mounted at one Floyd | of its ends. A rivulet of clear water splashes into the room through a Floyd | doorway that enters from the north. The stream flows placidly down the Floyd | room's length and disappears through an iron grate set in the floor Floyd | just in front of the altar. Floyd | Floyd | An open archway exits eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on altar" | ||||
Floyd | You are now perched atop the stone altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "bell". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out, its tone is sharp, clear and of quite high pitch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out. Again the note is clear and bright, but it seems Floyd | to be of a distinctly lower pitch than before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out with a low, throaty tone, surprisingly clear for Floyd | its apparent decay. Floyd | Floyd | Incredibly, fine lines seem to etch themselves into the altar's smooth Floyd | top. The lines join to form a rectangle which includes almost all of Floyd | the altar's upper surface. The stone within the rectangle suddenly Floyd | vanishes revealing a wide chimney leading down, directly through the Floyd | altar, into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You feel the stone vaporize beneath you followed by the terrifying, Floyd | sickening sensation of falling. Blackness surrounds you, and you Floyd | continue to fall. Floyd | Floyd | With a crash that sounds like a clap of thunder, you plunge into a Floyd | frigid, underground lake. You are stung with icy cold as the water Floyd | quickly soaks your clothing. You break the surface gasping and Floyd | sputtering, fighting to keep your breath. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy exclaims, "north!" | |||
| inky says, "wump, there it is" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are directly beneath the waterfall that feeds the lake. Floyd | Freezing cold drops of water pound down on you. They fall from such a Floyd | great height, it feels as though you are being pelted with stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's northern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | into darkness toward the east and west. The open lake lies southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the northeastern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the dark stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The frigid water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently past you, southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I guess we have only a limited time in the water" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. Oddly there seems to be a Floyd | faint undertow here. The dark water seems to be tugging you softly Floyd | down, beneath its black surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We do." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The icy water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the southeastern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the dark stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You haul yourself out of the frigid water into the alcove. You shiver Floyd | violently in the cold, damp air, rubbing your numb hands over your Floyd | aching, near-frozen limbs. Gradually you notice that the amulet is Floyd | glowing brighter than it did before. It seems to be growing warmer as Floyd | well. Soon the amulet has filled the entire alcove with a pleasant Floyd | warmth, and sensation creeps slowly back into your body. The heat then Floyd | dwindles, and the amulet's glow returns to its previous glimmer. Floyd | Floyd | Beside Pool Floyd | This is a small, dry alcove beside the great, dark pool of water. Floyd | The light from your amulet is reflected off of the black surface of the Floyd | water in small flickers as tiny waves lap against the chamber's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "so is the pool 5x5?" | |||
| DavidW says, "iirc, we can regain strength, warmth, breathe in this alcove." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "but it's useless otherwise? seems so" | ||||
| DavidW says, "5x5x3, I think." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'd have to look it up to be sure." | ||||
| inky says, "well, I didn't explore any of the middle bits" | ||||
| inky says, "and I'm not sure I've made a complete circuit of the edge, either" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You jump back into the icy water with an echoing splash. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the southwestern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the damp stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You have already reached the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The damp, gray stone Floyd | continues into darkness to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing | DavidW says, "The edge has murals, iirc." | |||
Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The damp, gray stone Floyd | continues into darkness to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The damp, gray stone Floyd | continues into darkness to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the northwestern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the gray stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's northern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | into darkness toward the east and west. The open lake lies southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are directly beneath the waterfall that feeds the lake. Floyd | Freezing cold drops of water pound down on you. They fall from such a Floyd | great height, it feels as though you are being pelted with stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The frigid water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently past you, southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, it's only 3 wide, you're right" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are directly beneath the waterfall that feeds the lake. Floyd | Freezing cold drops of water pound down on you. They fall from such a Floyd | great height, it feels as though you are being pelted with stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The damp, gray stone Floyd | continues into darkness to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your entire body is leaden and numb from the cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are directly beneath the waterfall that feeds the lake. Floyd | Freezing cold drops of water pound down on you. They fall from such a Floyd | great height, it feels as though you are being pelted with stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You haul yourself out of the frigid water into the alcove. You stand, Floyd | shivering violently for some time. Again the amulet glows with Floyd | pleasant heat and you are eventually warmed. Floyd | Floyd | Beside Pool Floyd | This is a small, dry alcove beside the great, dark pool of water. Floyd | The light from your amulet is reflected off of the black surface of the Floyd | water in small flickers as tiny waves lap against the chamber's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "3x5x3 then?" | |||
| inky asks, "you think there are two levels of underwater rooms?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "or 3x5x2 ? I really don't remember how deep it is." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You jump back into the icy water with an echoing splash. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once a stunning work of art, Floyd | the centuries of immersion have nearly destroyed it, but the image Floyd | remains discernible. It depicts the legend of your people which tells Floyd | of the great oracle choosing the tallest of the black mountain as her Floyd | eternal hiding place. The mural shows her descending into the darkness Floyd | far beneath the mighty peak. Shining in the heavens high above her is Floyd | the constellation of the lesser bruin, a symbol closely associated with Floyd | the oracle's power. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ah, there's a mural" | |||
| inky says, "and there's a constellation" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In a total of 361 turns, you have achieved a score of 50 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Lesser bruin is associated with oracle." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in the southwestern corner of the chamber. The soft light Floyd | from the amulet flickers wanly through the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You swim deeper into the depths of the ice-cold water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | You are in the chamber's southwest corner, deep beneath the surface Floyd | of the frigid underground lake. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "sure enough, there are two levels" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are beneath the surface of an underground lake. The water is Floyd | bitterly cold. The thrumming din of the waterfall pounding into the Floyd | water drowns out all other sound. Floyd | Floyd | You are in the southwestern corner of the chamber. The soft light from Floyd | the amulet flickers wanly through the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is fading gradually away, but the image remains discernible. Floyd | It depicts the creation of the world as it was taught to you when you Floyd | were a child. Under command of the gods, shown hovering among the Floyd | stars, the land is rising up from the vast ocean that covered the world Floyd | at the beginning of time. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The damp, gray stone Floyd | continues into darkness to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is fading gradually away, but the image remains discernible. Floyd | It depicts the creation of the world as it was taught to you when you Floyd | were a child. Under command of the gods, shown hovering among the Floyd | stars, the land is rising up from the vast ocean that covered the world Floyd | at the beginning of time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The submerged stone wall Floyd | continues into the darkness toward the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is flaking gradually away, but the image remains discernible. Floyd | It depicts a legend from the folklore of your people. Great giants are Floyd | stylistically portrayed, toiling far beneath the ground. They heave up Floyd | the earth on their mighty shoulders, forming the great mountain ranges Floyd | of the world. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in the northwestern corner of the chamber. The soft light Floyd | from your amulet shines pale on the submerged stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the northwestern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the gray stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's northern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | into darkness toward the east and west. The open lake lies southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's northern wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is gradually washing away in the icy water, but the image Floyd | remains discernible. It depicts the legend of your people which tells Floyd | of the creation of the world's many canyons. A great and horrible Floyd | dragon is shown raking his massive claws through the earth, leaving Floyd | behind vast furrows through which the mighty rivers begin to flow. Floyd | Floyd | Your entire body is leaden and numb from the cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "careful" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in the chamber's northeastern corner. The water here is Floyd | cold and still. The dim light of the amulet reflects coldly off the Floyd | submerged stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the northeastern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the dark stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The frigid water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently past you, southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. Oddly there seems to be a Floyd | faint undertow here. The dark water seems to be tugging you softly Floyd | down, beneath its black surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The icy water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the southeastern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the dark stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | The icy water has drawn away so much of your body's heat that you are Floyd | almost unable to move. You know that you must get out of the water Floyd | soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You haul yourself out of the frigid water into the alcove. You stand, Floyd | shivering violently for some time. Again the amulet glows with Floyd | pleasant heat and you are eventually warmed. Floyd | Floyd | Beside Pool Floyd | This is a small, dry alcove beside the great, dark pool of water. Floyd | The light from your amulet is reflected off of the black surface of the Floyd | water in small flickers as tiny waves lap against the chamber's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whew" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You jump back into the icy water with an echoing splash. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once a stunning work of art, Floyd | the centuries of immersion have nearly destroyed it, but the image Floyd | remains discernible. It depicts the legend of your people which tells Floyd | of the great oracle choosing the tallest of the black mountain as her Floyd | eternal hiding place. The mural shows her descending into the darkness Floyd | far beneath the mighty peak. Shining in the heavens high above her is Floyd | the constellation of the lesser bruin, a symbol closely associated with Floyd | the oracle's power. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in the chamber's southeastern corner. The dim light cast by Floyd | the amulet reflects coldly off the submerged wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is slowly being washed away, but the image remains discernible. Floyd | It depicts the legend of your people which tells of the great wizard Floyd | who came from his shining city among the stars. The wizard brought Floyd | knowledge and magic to your people. The mural shows the mighty Floyd | sorcerer descending from the sky bearing a book of learning and a Floyd | magical sceptre. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| inky says, "magical sceptre" | ||||
| DavidW says, "And a book" | ||||
| inky says, "also, here's the dude from a high-tech civilization" | ||||
| inky says, "unless he really is magic, of course" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | to the north and south. A submerged passageway opens toward the east. Floyd | You notice a gentle current flowing past you into the dark opening. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is dissolving gradually away, moss and muck are covering the Floyd | exquisite artwork, but the image remains discernible. It depicts the Floyd | legend of your people which tells of the creation of humans from the Floyd | clay of the sacred river. The mother-goddess is shown modelling human Floyd | forms beside a flowing river. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The frigid water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently past you, southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are directly beneath the waterfall that feeds the lake. Floyd | Freezing cold drops of water pound down on you. They fall from such a Floyd | great height, it feels as though you are being pelted with stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in open water. Darkness envelops you on all sides, making Floyd | the biting chill of the water seem even more pronounced. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in open water. Darkness envelops you completely, making the Floyd | biting chill of the water seem even more pronounced. Beneath you in Floyd | the darkness, you notice a tiny, winking flash of light. It is there Floyd | for a moment then disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in open water. Darkness envelops you completely, making the Floyd | biting chill of the water seem even more pronounced. Beneath you in Floyd | the darkness, you notice a tiny, winking flash of light. It is there Floyd | for a moment then disappears. Floyd | Floyd | Your entire body is leaden and numb from the cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You swim deeper into the depths of the ice-cold water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | On the pool's sandy floor a large mound of decaying debris has Floyd | collected. There are objects of all descriptions piled here as though Floyd | they had been poured down from above. The scarce bits of untarnished Floyd | metal and unbroken glass among the refuse flash and wink at you, Floyd | reflecting the amulet's pale glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search metal" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get glass" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "glass". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x metal" | ||||
Floyd | It is made from what appears to be steel, judging from the rust that Floyd | covers it. Its edges have been scraped and nicked. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have the square piece of metal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in open water. Darkness envelops you completely, making the Floyd | biting chill of the water seem even more pronounced. Beneath you in Floyd | the darkness, you notice a tiny, winking flash of light. It is there Floyd | for a moment then disappears. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot hold you breath much longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | The icy water has drawn away so much of your body's heat that you are Floyd | almost unable to move. You know that you must get out of the water Floyd | soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You haul yourself out of the frigid water into the alcove. You stand, Floyd | shivering violently for some time. Again the amulet glows with Floyd | pleasant heat and you are eventually warmed. Floyd | Floyd | Beside Pool Floyd | This is a small, dry alcove beside the great, dark pool of water. Floyd | The light from your amulet is reflected off of the black surface of the Floyd | water in small flickers as tiny waves lap against the chamber's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| inky says, "I'm not sure what that metal & glass stuff is" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess it's right below the altar" | ||||
| inky says, "so maybe it's offerings falling in" | ||||
| inky says, "but I don't see what the relevance to us is" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, perhaps the good stuff rolled off to one side." | ||||
| inky says, "true" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You jump back into the icy water with an echoing splash. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once a stunning work of art, Floyd | the centuries of immersion have nearly destroyed it, but the image Floyd | remains discernible. It depicts the legend of your people which tells Floyd | of the great oracle choosing the tallest of the black mountain as her Floyd | eternal hiding place. The mural shows her descending into the darkness Floyd | far beneath the mighty peak. Shining in the heavens high above her is Floyd | the constellation of the lesser bruin, a symbol closely associated with Floyd | the oracle's power. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You swim deeper into the depths of the ice-cold water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. The submerged stone Floyd | surface extends away into darkness toward the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "hehe that isn't at all far fetched" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | You are surrounded on all sides by ink-black water except for the Floyd | pool's flat, sandy floor just below you. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search floor" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in open water. Darkness envelops you on all sides, making Floyd | the biting chill of the water seem even more pronounced. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The damp, gray stone Floyd | continues into darkness to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is fading gradually away, but the image remains discernible. Floyd | It depicts the creation of the world as it was taught to you when you Floyd | were a child. Under command of the gods, shown hovering among the Floyd | stars, the land is rising up from the vast ocean that covered the world Floyd | at the beginning of time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You swim deeper into the depths of the ice-cold water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The wall before you, as Floyd | well as the sandy floor beneath you, extends out of sight to the north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's western wall. The wall before you, as Floyd | well as the sandy floor beneath you, extends out of sight to the north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | On the pool's sandy floor a large mound of decaying debris has Floyd | collected. There are objects of all descriptions piled here as though Floyd | they had been poured down from above. The scarce bits of untarnished Floyd | metal and unbroken glass among the refuse flash and wink at you, Floyd | reflecting the amulet's pale glow. Floyd | Floyd | Your entire body is leaden and numb from the cold. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "For all I know, there might be an octopus guardian." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x objects" | ||||
Floyd | The mound consists of ancient and decaying valuables of all Floyd | descriptions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search objects" | ||||
Floyd | You rummage through the objects in the mound. Most of the items Floyd | crumble to dust with the slightest touch, so great is their state of Floyd | ruin. In the course of your search, you stir up a nearly blinding Floyd | cloud of swirling sand. When the sand settles you notice a brilliant Floyd | ruby among the refuse. Floyd | Floyd | You cannot hold you breath much longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in open water. Darkness envelops you completely, making the Floyd | biting chill of the water seem even more pronounced. Beneath you in Floyd | the darkness, you notice a tiny, winking flash of light. It is there Floyd | for a moment then disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in open water. Darkness envelops you completely, making the Floyd | biting chill of the water seem even more pronounced. Beneath you in Floyd | the darkness, you notice a tiny, winking flash of light. It is there Floyd | for a moment then disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You swim deeper into the depths of the ice-cold water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | On the pool's sandy floor a large mound of decaying debris has Floyd | collected. There are objects of all descriptions piled here as though Floyd | they had been poured down from above. The scarce bits of untarnished Floyd | metal and unbroken glass among the refuse flash and wink at you, Floyd | reflecting the amulet's pale glow. Floyd | Atop the mound you see a ruby. Floyd | Floyd | The icy water has drawn away so much of your body's heat that you are Floyd | almost unable to move. You know that you must get out of the water Floyd | soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ruby" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in open water. Darkness envelops you completely, making the Floyd | biting chill of the water seem even more pronounced. Beneath you in Floyd | the darkness, you notice a tiny, winking flash of light. It is there Floyd | for a moment then disappears. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You haul yourself out of the frigid water into the alcove. You stand, Floyd | shivering violently for some time. Again the amulet glows with Floyd | pleasant heat and you are eventually warmed. Floyd | Floyd | Beside Pool Floyd | This is a small, dry alcove beside the great, dark pool of water. Floyd | The light from your amulet is reflected off of the black surface of the Floyd | water in small flickers as tiny waves lap against the chamber's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ruby" | ||||
Floyd | It is a large gemstone of deep blood red. Its facets shimmer and flash Floyd | as you look upon it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In a total of 426 turns, you have achieved a score of 55 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "not sure if there's more to see" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "hm...let's try the trapdoor, shall we?" | ||||
| inky says, "okey doke" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You jump back into the icy water with an echoing splash. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the southeastern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the dark stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The icy water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is slowly being washed away, but the image remains discernible. Floyd | It depicts the legend of your people which tells of the great wizard Floyd | who came from his shining city among the stars. The wizard brought Floyd | knowledge and magic to your people. The mural shows the mighty Floyd | sorcerer descending from the sky bearing a book of learning and a Floyd | magical sceptre. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | to the north and south. A submerged passageway opens toward the east. Floyd | You notice a gentle current flowing past you into the dark opening. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward into the dark passageway. The force of the current Floyd | grows stronger and stronger until it sweeps you helplessly along. In Floyd | the darkness you scrape against the uneven stone walls and are pounded Floyd | mercilessly into submerged boulders. Your lungs burn with the desire Floyd | for breath, but the cold water refuses to release you from its icy Floyd | grip. Consciousness begins to slip away from you. The roaring, black Floyd | water and jagged stones are fading into warm, gray oblivion... Floyd | Floyd | You are slammed back into wakefulness when your body is hurled over the Floyd | precipice of a subterranean waterfall and spilled into an underground Floyd | river flowing swiftly beneath the great mountain. The river's dark Floyd | channel is not completely submerged, and your head breaks the surface. Floyd | Frantically, you draw in gasping lungfuls of air. Floyd | Floyd | After being swept along for some distance, the river's course turns Floyd | suddenly. You are pushed over a cluster of submerged stones near the Floyd | rocky bank. The great sword at your side somehow catches between the Floyd | stones, stopping you dead in the raging current. Fighting against the Floyd | power of the river, you grasp hold of the slippery stones and work Floyd | yourself free. You scrabble along toward the river's edge and finally Floyd | haul yourself out of the freezing water. You find yourself in another Floyd | great, subterranean chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and attatches to the Floyd | waterwheel's axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aha" | |||
| inky says, "notice that it says the sword is what lets us get out here" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "huh? did anything change?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "oh right...understood" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "You mean, if we didn't have the sword, we'd end up somewhere else?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "well yeah, outside" | ||||
| DavidW says, "clever" | ||||
| inky says, "my guess is we would end up the same place we would if we jumped in the river here" | ||||
| inky says, "(ie, bonked on head, back at altar)" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, so let's see" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw with coin" | ||||
Floyd | The screw turns, squeaking dryly, through a few rotations then snaps in Floyd | two. Its upper half clatters across the iron door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get screw" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a ceremonial sceptre, a brass Floyd | tinderbox, a gold torque (being worn), a rusted sword, a gold coin, a Floyd | ruby, and a broken iron screw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x broken" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "broken". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x screw" | ||||
Floyd | It is the rusty, upper half of a large iron screw. It appears that its Floyd | ancient has metal twisted in two. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wonder what good that is" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the trapdoor open on its squealing hinges, and let it fall Floyd | onto the stone floor with a loud clang. Beneath the door a dark Floyd | passage leads downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Barrow Floyd | This is a small hollow carved into the great chamber's floor. The Floyd | stone of its walls is rough and unfinished. An opening in the roof Floyd | leads upward, and a tiny tunnel extends away from the barrow eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Narrow Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling on hands and knees through a tiny fault piercing Floyd | the great mountain. The tunnel extends away from you eastward and Floyd | westward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Narrow Tunnel Floyd | Icy-cold water oozes from the tunnel's solid stone walls here. Floyd | Frigid rivulets run down your back as you disturb heavy droplets that Floyd | form along the low roof. The tunnel extends eastward and westward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Narrow Tunnel Floyd | The cramped tunnel continues on eastward and westward. A faint Floyd | breeze brushes past you, cool and fresh. It seems to be blowing from Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You crawl further eastward along the tunnel. Suddenly, you are blinded Floyd | for a moment by a brilliant flash of light far down the tunnel, ahead Floyd | of you. It is there for a moment, then gone again. You crane forward, Floyd | trying to pierce the tunnel's black depths with your eyes... but you Floyd | see nothing. After a moment you continue on, and there it is again! Floyd | But rather than a tiny flash, a glowing beam of light shines down the Floyd | tunnel toward you. You shade your eyes with your hands, squinting Floyd | against the stinging brightness. Floyd | Floyd | As your eyes grow accustomed to the light, you realize that what you Floyd | are seeing is sunlight! You force yourself quickly forward, eager to Floyd | breathe the air above ground again. Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | You stand on a narrow balcony carved into a dizzyingly high wall of Floyd | rock. Just below you, the great river, having coursed through the Floyd | mountain's darkest depths, spills jubilantly over the cliff's edge with Floyd | a parting hiss, and plunges into the great valley far below. An Floyd | incredible landscape sprawls out before you. Thick forests stretch Floyd | away into the distance, carpeting rolling hills that climb gradually Floyd | toward another range of mighty peaks which you can just make out, Floyd | purple-gray in the mid-day haze. The river, having finally tumbled Floyd | down from its great height, bends southward, winds its way into the Floyd | dense trees and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | A life-size statue of an armed watchman sits pensively at the far right Floyd | end of the balcony. The dreary blackness of the tunnel's dark opening Floyd | leads back into the mountain, westward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My thought was that the screw might take the place of the rod. And maybe the rod could take the place of sword." | |||
| inky says, "interesting" | ||||
| DavidW says, "So maybe, we would have the sword in case we needed it for sword-like uses instead of jamming it like any old thing." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, well, I'll leave stuff the way it is until it looks like we need the sword/rod" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | You stand on a narrow balcony carved into a dizzyingly high wall of Floyd | rock. Just below you, the great river, having coursed through the Floyd | mountain's darkest depths, spills jubilantly over the cliff's edge with Floyd | a parting hiss, and plunges into the great valley far below. An Floyd | incredible landscape sprawls out before you. Thick forests stretch Floyd | away into the distance, carpeting rolling hills that climb gradually Floyd | toward another range of mighty peaks which you can just make out, Floyd | purple-gray in the mid-day haze. The river, having finally tumbled Floyd | down from its great height, bends southward, winds its way into the Floyd | dense trees and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | A life-size statue of an armed watchman sits pensively at the far right Floyd | end of the balcony. The dreary blackness of the tunnel's dark opening Floyd | leads back into the mountain, westward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||||
Floyd | The river, flowing dark an cold from the depths of the great mountain, Floyd | pours over the cliff casting up a fine mist as it departs; a parting Floyd | token of joy at once again seeing the light of the sun and the deep Floyd | blue of the sky. In the valley far below flashes and sparkles gaily as Floyd | it splashes its way toward the vast forest. Here and there between the Floyd | mighty trees you catch a twinkle of light reflected from its surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess here is where the river ends up" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x forest" | ||||
Floyd | The vast forest, deep and dark, creeps eagerly over the cascading hills Floyd | that tumble down from the distant mountains. A standing mist hangs Floyd | sluggishly among its lofty boughs, giving the mighty branches a Floyd | shifting, almost lifelike appearance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any sky here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mist" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "mist". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||
Floyd | The stone watchman sits upon a low shelf of rock, his unmoving gaze Floyd | directed forever at the river as it disappears over the cliff's edge. Floyd | The statue is incredibly lifelike, to the least details of his long Floyd | beard and tattered coat of mail. It looks almost as tough an ancient Floyd | warrior sat himself upon this stony seat ages ago, and remained there Floyd | until he became part of the great mountain himself. A tall lance Floyd | stands ready at his side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lance" | ||||
Floyd | The watchman's stone spear is tall and straight, with a long, sharp Floyd | head. His thick fingers seem to grip its shaft tightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get lance" | ||||
Floyd | You reach across the watchman's broad chest to take the lance from his Floyd | stony hand. Floyd | Floyd | Quick as a flash his free left hand snaps upward toward your throat, Floyd | seizing the golden amulet about your neck. You scarcely dare breathe Floyd | as his stone eyes scrape slowly downward to study it carefully. After Floyd | a long moment he releases you from his grip. Floyd | "At last, you've come," he says, his voice slow and deliberate, as Floyd | though speaking is a talent he seldom uses. The words grate from his Floyd | expressionless lips with the sound of millstones grinding against one Floyd | another. Floyd | Floyd | "A hundred, hundred moons have waxed and waned since last I had Floyd | company on my watch. Welcome you are, friend." His eyes roll slowly Floyd | back toward the river and he resumes his silent vigil. Floyd | Floyd | > | minghua exclaims, "Have to run. You guys have fun and good luck!" | |||
| minghua goes home. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about river" | ||||
Floyd | "The great river," says the watchman, raising his hand in a stiff Floyd | gesture toward the flowing water, "flows freely from this sacred Floyd | mountain into the eastern lands." He pauses, "I keep my watch here, Floyd | and bid her farewell as she departs on her journey." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about oracle" | ||||
Floyd | "She is wise," the watchman says softly, his voice seeming somehow Floyd | more human. "She has hidden within this mountain since the dawning of Floyd | the world." His tone grows distinctly sad, "But the sun of Her time is Floyd | low on the horizon, and soon she will pass from this world." Floyd | " Your arrival," he says, his stone eyes boring into you, "is the Floyd | last of the prophecies. Her time is close at hand." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about amulet" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "man". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about amulet" | ||||
Floyd | "Ancient and powerful it is," he replies, "Forged when the world was Floyd | new. Keep it well." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about wizard" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "wizard". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about torque" | ||||
Floyd | The watchman is silent for a long time, then he rocks slightly on Floyd | his stony perch as though he were laughing to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about watchman" | ||||
Floyd | The watchman's stony face seems to attempt a slight frown, Floyd | "I know not," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about himself" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "himself". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about lance" | ||||
Floyd | The watchman continues his vigil in silence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about waterwheel" | ||||
Floyd | "The great wheel," croaks the watchman, his voice trailing away as Floyd | though he were deep in thought. Floyd | Floyd | "The great wheel," he says at last, "raises the stone. It opens the Floyd | passage leading down to Her chambers." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about bruin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "bruin". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about constellation" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "constellation". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about ruby" | ||||
Floyd | "I can recall no ruby," replies the watchman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about sceptre" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, yes,"he says slowly. "The sceptre of the claw. Helpful it is, Floyd | for grasping the unreachable." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about sarcophagus" | ||||
Floyd | "Axaktor he was," says the watchman, he raises his eyebrows and nods Floyd | his head as though remembering an old friend, "a great wizard he was. Floyd | A great wizard he is still!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about axaktor" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "axaktor". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros was too old and infirm for your purpose. | inky says, "oh hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about axaktor" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "axaktor". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about wizard" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "wizard". Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "well we could still just try the lesser bruin I guess" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I'm wondering what we've missed. If we turn the mirror to the lesser bruin... well, what's this guy for? What's the ruby for?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "And the torque?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "yeah...story maybe? :)" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In a total of 459 turns, you have achieved a score of 55 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I dunno" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask watchman about lesser bruin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "lesser". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we will find out" | |||
| inky asks, "should I go back and do the bruin?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess. Save first, of course." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "hm...I don't have any other ideas but that doesn't mean anything." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Narrow Tunnel Floyd | The cramped tunnel continues on eastward and westward. A faint Floyd | breeze brushes past you, cool and fresh. It seems to be blowing from Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Narrow Tunnel Floyd | Icy-cold water oozes from the tunnel's solid stone walls here. Floyd | Frigid rivulets run down your back as you disturb heavy droplets that Floyd | form along the low roof. The tunnel extends eastward and westward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Narrow Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling on hands and knees through a tiny fault piercing Floyd | the great mountain. The tunnel extends away from you eastward and Floyd | westward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Barrow Floyd | This is a small hollow carved into the great chamber's floor. The Floyd | stone of its walls is rough and unfinished. An opening in the roof Floyd | leads upward, and a tiny tunnel extends away from the barrow eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A giant, rough-hewn block of stone Floyd | rests against the southern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and attatches to the Floyd | waterwheel's axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lift gate" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the gate along its track and water spills into the sluice, Floyd | filling the waterwheel's scoops. After a moment, the force of the Floyd | flowing water builds, and with a low, groaning creak, the great wheel Floyd | begins to turn. The iron chain is wound, clanking and scraping, onto Floyd | the axle by the waterwheel's rotation. The chain draws tight and the Floyd | waterwheel's speed slows considerably. The wheel continues to turn Floyd | however, drawing more chain down from some hidden place in the ceiling. Floyd | The great chain is gradually wound around the great oaken axle as Floyd | though it were a giant spool of thread. A loud, grinding sound echoes Floyd | from the southern end of the hall. Finally, the chain stops feeding Floyd | down from the ceiling and the wheel creaks to a halt. The water in the Floyd | sluice splashes noisily past the motionless wheel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sword under gate" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge the sword down into the flowing water, its point catches Floyd | against the channel's stone bottom. You tuck the sword's hilt under Floyd | the gate's lower edge. The arrangement holds, keeping the gate fully Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A huge block of granite is Floyd | suspended near the ceiling directly above an open doorway which leads Floyd | southward. Immediately in front of the doorway, a rectangular patch of Floyd | the stone floor is dark with moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Top Floyd | This is the upper landing of a great spiral staircase that winds its Floyd | way downward into darkness. Its broad steps have been chopped from the Floyd | living rock. An open archway leads northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer from which pungent, sweet-smelling smoke Floyd | escapes, filling the chamber with an aromatic, bluish haze; the third Floyd | cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be Floyd | bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Floyd | Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the Floyd | southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a burning block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "can the wheel be climbed when it's still?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the hydra. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the hunter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the seven sisters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a Floyd | metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks Floyd | suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different Floyd | constellation: the lesser bruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "lemme see" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Top Floyd | This is the upper landing of a great spiral staircase that winds its Floyd | way downward into darkness. Its broad steps have been chopped from the Floyd | living rock. An open archway leads northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A huge block of granite is Floyd | suspended near the ceiling directly above an open doorway which leads Floyd | southward. Immediately in front of the doorway, a rectangular patch of Floyd | the stone floor is dark with moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. River water Floyd | flows swiftly through the channel and splashes noisily past the Floyd | stationary wheel. A great iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and Floyd | is wound tightly around the wheel's great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You scramble higher and higher up the stout oaken beams until you are Floyd | at the great wheel's highest point. Seeing nothing of interest, you Floyd | carefully lower yourself back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||||
| inky asks, "oh?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "what if the stone was lowered and the wheel was still?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "then maybe we would have seen the exit we already know about..." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lower gate" | ||||
Floyd | You force the gate down into the rushing water, interrupting the flow Floyd | through the sluice. Once the water ceases flowing, the great wheel Floyd | creaks and shudders to a halt. The iron chain wrapped around the Floyd | wheel's axle is drawn back up into the ceiling and the wheel begins to Floyd | turn in reverse, splashing water onto the floor and walls. Again you Floyd | hear the grinding sound coming from the southern end of the hall. The Floyd | distant grinding terminates with a resonating thump and the great chain Floyd | falls slack. The loops of chain wound around the axle tumble noisily Floyd | onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to CT), "maybe" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You scramble higher and higher up the stout oaken beams until you are Floyd | at the great wheel's highest point. Seeing nothing of interest, you Floyd | carefully lower yourself back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "well worth a try" | |||
| inky says, "still nothing, seems like" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah. Strange that." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess it had to be allowed, even if not useful here." | ||||
| DavidW says, "restore to what you were doing before." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "I love when doing useless stuff is possible. I love it even more when it yields funny results." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, let's see" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer from which pungent, sweet-smelling smoke Floyd | escapes, filling the chamber with an aromatic, bluish haze; the third Floyd | cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be Floyd | bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Floyd | Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the Floyd | southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a burning block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere is made from polished copper. Its surface is etched with Floyd | mystical symbols. You recognize them as constellations that can be Floyd | seen in the night sky. A small bronze arrow, an indicator of some Floyd | sort, points toward one of the constellations on the sphere's surface. Floyd | It points to the lesser bruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the lesser bruin etched on the Floyd | floor, midway between the well and the northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put amulet in hole" | ||||
Floyd | The amulet falls into the depths of the well, illuminating its stone Floyd | sides as it plummets downward. Eventually, the amulet's glow dwindles Floyd | to a tiny pinpoint and finally, it winks out entirely. You find Floyd | yourself in total darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The blackness seems to close in upon you, choking the breath from your Floyd | lungs. Your heart hammers wildly in your chest. The fear of dying, Floyd | cold and alone deep in the bowels of the earth, suddenly grips you and Floyd | holds you in its icy claws. Floyd | Floyd | An intensely bright beam of brilliant, white light suddenly blasts Floyd | upward from within the well, and reflects off the mirror's polished Floyd | surface. The reflected beam of light illuminates the diagram of the Floyd | lesser bruin etched on the floor, midway between the well and the Floyd | northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | The blinding light slowly begins to change. It becomes a softer, blue Floyd | color, streaked here and there with rays of gold and red. The beam of Floyd | light illuminates the haze of sweet-smelling smoke that has drifted Floyd | into the chamber from the north. The billowing smoke seems to gather Floyd | in upon itself, as though it were attracted to the beautiful light by Floyd | some unseen force. The smoke begins to swirl and churn within the beam Floyd | of light, casting weird, sinuous shadows about the room. It coalesces Floyd | further into a tiny thunderstorm of brilliant color and flashing light. Floyd | Floyd | You notice a low, humming sound that fills the chamber, echoing wildly Floyd | off the dark stone walls. The humming becomes a loud whirring as the Floyd | iridescent colors flash faster and faster. The whirring increases to a Floyd | near deafening roar. The cloud of smoke thrums and pulses with Floyd | blinding bursts of intensely colored light. You clap your hands over Floyd | your ears, attempting vainly to shut out the thunderous din, but it is Floyd | of no use. The tumult of sound and explosion of light seem ready to Floyd | rend the very stone walls with their fury. Floyd | Floyd | With an incredibly powerful thump that vibrates you to the bone, all Floyd | falls silent and the maelstrom of light calms to a steady glow. Within Floyd | the cloud of smoke, a beautiful, feminine face appears. You draw in a Floyd | sharp breath as you finally behold the oracle. Floyd | Floyd | It is a face of delicate beauty and timeless wisdom. It is a face that Floyd | has seen the birth of the world, and bears the weighty knowledge of the Floyd | hour of its death. The oracle regards you contemplatively for a Floyd | moment. Floyd | Floyd | "You have travelled far to see me," her silken voice rolls forth Floyd | like a wave crashing on some distant shore. It is a voice of wonder, Floyd | of horror. It is the voice of dreams fulfilled. Floyd | Floyd | "I have watched the plight of your people, I know the great peril Floyd | that lies before them..." Her voice trails away like the falling of Floyd | autumn leaves. Floyd | Floyd | "I have not the power to deliver your people from this plight." She Floyd | says with an expression of pensive sorrow. "A new age is opening in Floyd | the world, and the age past must fade away; along with it, my power in Floyd | the world fades as well. Already, you have seen the signs of this Floyd | changing. Mankind no longer seeks out the wisdom of the great ones. Floyd | He has learned for himself the secrets of magic and science. Flames at Floyd | the altars to the gods burn no longer. The gifts which the immortals Floyd | once bestowed upon man, he will now obtain for himself. Our time has Floyd | come to a close." Floyd | Floyd | A wooden staff appears on the floor before the oracle. "Take this," Floyd | she says softly, her voice beginning to fade, "I cannot deliver your Floyd | homeland, but with this gift you can set yourselves free." Floyd | Floyd | The wondrous face hangs in the air for a long moment, the features Floyd | growing less distinct as the cloud of smoke gradually diffuses. The Floyd | beam of light dwindles away and finally disappears completely. Floyd | Floyd | With a lumbering, scraping sound a doorway opens in the southern wall Floyd | and a flood of sunlight pours into the chamber. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wumpf" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In a total of 485 turns, you have achieved a score of 65 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get staff" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x staff" | ||||
Floyd | The staff is as tall as yourself with a sturdy grip at its center. It Floyd | tapers gracefully to a point at both ends, and both ends are notched to Floyd | receive the sinew string which hangs loosely from one of them. It is a Floyd | bow, but a bow unlike any you have ever seen before. Its thick limbs Floyd | are far stronger than the bows your people have used for ages to hunt Floyd | with. This bow could easily hurl an arrow over incredible distances Floyd | and pierce even the most impenetrable of armor. As you contemplate the Floyd | oracle's gift, it becomes clear that this bow is indeed the answer that Floyd | you seek. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A stick. We quested for a stick. :)" | |||
| inky says, "it's an AWESOME stick" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, yes. A stick that changed history more than anything else changed history." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "teh stick of teh shit" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Stick of Awesome +8" | ||||
| inky says, "hrm" | ||||
| inky says, "we don't actually know how to get out of here" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the lesser bruin etched on the Floyd | floor, midway between the well and the northern wall.An open doorway Floyd | leads southward, into sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "unless we jump back in the river" | |||
| inky says, "oh, open door" | ||||
| Nitku says, "That helps" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "hehe reading helps" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You step through the doorway into the brilliant glow of the midday sun, Floyd | and find yourself on a rock-strewn ridge just above the trail which led Floyd | you to the oracle's cave. Carrying the oracle's gift, you eagerly Floyd | begin the long journey home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 488 turns, you have achieved a score of 75 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | Over the next few months, the tide of the battle turns in favor of your Floyd | people. Working night and day, hundreds of the great bows are fashioned Floyd | and distributed. Arrows by the thousands are made, tipped with iron Floyd | points. Led by groups of archers, your dwindling forces become Floyd | invincible. Able to rain death upon the invaders from across the Floyd | battlefield, the enemy is quickly brought to its knees. Peace returns Floyd | to your people. Floyd | Floyd | Years roll by, and your notoriety among the people refuses to fade. Floyd | You are respected, revered, even feared by many. You are known to all Floyd | in story and song as the last mortal to hear the enchanting, mystical Floyd | voice of... Floyd | Floyd | The Oracle. Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "heh. We win." | |||
| inky says, "hrm" | ||||
| inky says, "pretty short on points, though" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "we didn't win" | ||||
| inky asks, "do you have a walkthrough?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "we barely made 3/4 of the points" | ||||
| inky asks, "we didn't?" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "we stink. :)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think I made a walkthrough, yes." | ||||
| inky asks, "do you want to pull it up? or do we want to explore more?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm attempting to pull it up. But remember, my machine is still SLOW." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "let's dig some more" | ||||
| inky says, "the only area I can think of that we haven't explored totally is the underwater area" | ||||
| DavidW says, "[LINK]" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "version" | ||||
| Floyd says (to inky), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "load theoracle" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter. Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The drums of war have beaten long throughout the land of your Floyd | forefathers. At night, the fiendish glow of enemy campfires has shone Floyd | orange and horrible on the horizon for as many years as you can recall. Floyd | The warriors of your land have battled long and valiantly against the Floyd | demon hordes pressing relentlessly forward, assailing your Floyd | ever-diminishing borders. The fight has been mighty, but the strength Floyd | of your people has begun to wane. Only a few of the warriors remain to Floyd | lead the rag-tag brigades of youthful peasants into battle. Floyd | Floyd | The council of elders has seen that it is not long before the invaders Floyd | will breach the skirmish lines and plunder the farms and villages of Floyd | your homeland. The council has decreed that after centuries of Floyd | silence, the voice of the great oracle must be heard once more if this Floyd | horrible foe is to be repelled. Floyd | Floyd | Barely old enough to follow the warriors into battle, you were filled Floyd | with great pride when you were selected as the messenger who would be Floyd | sent to beg the great oracle for her counsel. The elders summoned you Floyd | into the great hall, admonishing you to stay on the old path leading Floyd | into the high mountains. After precious few other words of Floyd | instruction, they sent you on your way. Floyd | Floyd | For many days now, you have trod the ancient trail, winding higher and Floyd | higher into the rugged peaks of the Black Mountains. Cold, hungry and Floyd | alone, you somehow sense that you are nearing the oracle's hiding place Floyd | deep within the great mountain. At last, the crumbling path fades away Floyd | at the foot of a vast wall of solid rock Floyd | Floyd | The Oracle Floyd | Version 1.5 by Brandon Allen Floyd | Another fine product from Allen MegaCorp (2002) Floyd | Floyd | Cliff Base Floyd | The greatest peak of the Black Mountains rises sharply before you; Floyd | an impenetrable dagger of dark granite jutting high into the clouds Floyd | above. You stand at the base of an immense cliff, where a deep alcove Floyd | has been chiseled from the living rock. It almost appears to be the Floyd | yawning mouth of a great, black cave. As you stand at its entrance you Floyd | can see steps cut from the jagged stone, leading southward into the Floyd | bowels of the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "maybe there is something to find on the balcony" | |||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| ; There's a helm in the underwater area. | ||||
| You do not have a default channel set. | DavidW says, "There's a helm in the underwater area." | |||
| inky says (to DavidW), "it's interesting you say the walkthrough is based on the beta 1.4 version" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "version" | ||||
Floyd | The Oracle Floyd | Beta Version 1.4 by Brandon Allen Floyd | Another fine product from Allen MegaCorp (2000) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, heh" | |||
| inky says, "the *intro* says 1.5" | ||||
| DavidW says, "And there's a crystal east of the wheel." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer from which pungent, sweet-smelling smoke Floyd | escapes, filling the chamber with an aromatic, bluish haze; the third Floyd | cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be Floyd | bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Floyd | Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the Floyd | southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a burning block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In a total of 482 turns, you have achieved a score of 55 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Top Floyd | This is the upper landing of a great spiral staircase that winds its Floyd | way downward into darkness. Its broad steps have been chopped from the Floyd | living rock. An open archway leads northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A huge block of granite is Floyd | suspended near the ceiling directly above an open doorway which leads Floyd | southward. Immediately in front of the doorway, a rectangular patch of Floyd | the stone floor is dark with moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. River water Floyd | flows swiftly through the channel and splashes noisily past the Floyd | stationary wheel. A great iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and Floyd | is wound tightly around the wheel's great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter river" | ||||
Floyd | As you leave, the unsupported flow-control gate slips shut, cutting off Floyd | the flow of water past the waterwheel. Once the water ceases flowing, Floyd | the great wheel creaks and shudders to a halt. The iron chain wrapped Floyd | around the wheel's axle is drawn back up into the ceiling and the wheel Floyd | begins to turn in reverse, splashing water onto the floor and walls. Floyd | Again you hear the grinding sound coming from the southern end of the Floyd | hall. The distant grinding terminates with a resonating thump and the Floyd | great chain falls slack. The loops of chain wound around the axle Floyd | tumble noisily onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You leap into the raging river's churning waters and are swept away by Floyd | the powerful current. Just downstream from the great hall, a small Floyd | grotto has formed where the river has eroded away the solid stone. You Floyd | make a futile attempt to swim toward the grotto, but the current is far Floyd | too swift. Your battle to keep your head above the churning surface Floyd | ends suddenly when you strike your skull sharply against a submerged Floyd | rock, and all becomes black... Floyd | Floyd | You awaken suddenly, your head hammering with pain. You have no idea Floyd | where you are, but you are no longer buffetted by the icy river and Floyd | your clothing is dry. You have no clear recollection of how you arrived Floyd | in this place, but you seem to remember a sudden flash of daylight... Floyd | an arm reaching down, plucking you out of the water, dragging you back Floyd | into darkness... a grim, bearded face looking down upon you - Floyd | unmoving... tunnels, passages, twisting, turning, climbing... Floyd | Floyd | Stone Altar Floyd | This space was hollowed out of the solid stone of the mountain, Floyd | chisel-marks from the ancient laborers can still be seen on its rough Floyd | hewn walls. The room is slightly oval shaped with a squat, stone altar Floyd | set on the floor at its southernmost end. A metal chime, heavily Floyd | corroded after centuries of neglect, hangs from a stand mounted at one Floyd | of its ends. A rivulet of clear water splashes into the room through a Floyd | doorway that enters from the north. The stream flows placidly down the Floyd | room's length and disappears through an iron grate set in the floor Floyd | just in front of the altar. Floyd | Floyd | An open archway exits eastward. Floyd | Sitting on the stone altar is a rusted sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get altar" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have the stone altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on altar" | ||||
Floyd | You are now perched atop the stone altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out, its tone is sharp, clear and of quite high pitch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out. Again the note is clear and bright, but it seems Floyd | to be of a distinctly lower pitch than before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ring chime" | ||||
Floyd | The chime rings out with a low, throaty tone, surprisingly clear for Floyd | its apparent decay. Floyd | Floyd | Incredibly, fine lines seem to etch themselves into the altar's smooth Floyd | top. The lines join to form a rectangle which includes almost all of Floyd | the altar's upper surface. The stone within the rectangle suddenly Floyd | vanishes revealing a wide chimney leading down, directly through the Floyd | altar, into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You feel the stone vaporize beneath you followed by the terrifying, Floyd | sickening sensation of falling. Blackness surrounds you, and you Floyd | continue to fall. Floyd | Floyd | With a crash that sounds like a clap of thunder, you plunge into a Floyd | frigid, underground lake. You are stung with icy cold as the water Floyd | quickly soaks your clothing. You break the surface gasping and Floyd | sputtering, fighting to keep your breath. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The helm and the crystal seem to be what we missed. We did everything else." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. Oddly there seems to be a Floyd | faint undertow here. The dark water seems to be tugging you softly Floyd | down, beneath its black surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The icy water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the southeastern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the dark stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in the chamber's southeastern corner. The dim light cast by Floyd | the amulet reflects coldly off the submerged wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You swim deeper into the depths of the ice-cold water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | You are in the chamber's southeastern corner. Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in the chamber's southeastern corner. The dim light cast by Floyd | the amulet reflects coldly off the submerged wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the southeastern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the dark stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops, got it wrong" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You haul yourself out of the frigid water into the alcove. You stand, Floyd | shivering violently for some time. Again the amulet glows with Floyd | pleasant heat and you are eventually warmed. Floyd | Floyd | Beside Pool Floyd | This is a small, dry alcove beside the great, dark pool of water. Floyd | The light from your amulet is reflected off of the black surface of the Floyd | water in small flickers as tiny waves lap against the chamber's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You jump back into the icy water with an echoing splash. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are directly beneath the waterfall that feeds the lake. Floyd | Freezing cold drops of water pound down on you. They fall from such a Floyd | great height, it feels as though you are being pelted with stones. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's northern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | into darkness toward the east and west. The open lake lies southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's northern wall. The remains of a large Floyd | mural adorn the otherwise blank stone. Once brilliant paint and Floyd | plaster is gradually washing away in the icy water, but the image Floyd | remains discernible. It depicts the legend of your people which tells Floyd | of the creation of the world's many canyons. A great and horrible Floyd | dragon is shown raking his massive claws through the earth, leaving Floyd | behind vast furrows through which the mighty rivers begin to flow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You swim deeper into the depths of the ice-cold water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's northern wall. The submerged stone Floyd | surface extends away into darkness toward the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You swim westward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Deep Underwater Floyd | You are in the chamber's northwest corner. Clouds of sand burst Floyd | upward as your swimming disturbs the sediment that has gathered over Floyd | the centuries. Floyd | Resting upon the sandy floor you see a silver helm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get helm" | ||||
Floyd | You lift the ancient helm from its resting place in the sand. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | You are finding it difficult to hold your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are in the northwestern corner of the chamber. The soft light Floyd | from your amulet shines pale on the submerged stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You swim upward, breaking the surface and gasping for air. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are in the northwestern corner of the chamber. Small waves lap Floyd | against the gray stone walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), " x helm" | ||||
Floyd | It is an exquisitely crafted silver helm. It must once have been part Floyd | of an incredibly beautiful suit of armor. It is remarkably well Floyd | preserved, considering the ages it has lain upon the lake floor. Floyd | Floyd | Your entire body is leaden and numb from the cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's northern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | into darkness toward the east and west. The open lake lies southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are directly beneath the waterfall that feeds the lake. Floyd | Freezing cold drops of water pound down on you. They fall from such a Floyd | great height, it feels as though you are being pelted with stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You swim southward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You haul yourself out of the frigid water into the alcove. You stand, Floyd | shivering violently for some time. Again the amulet glows with Floyd | pleasant heat and you are eventually warmed. Floyd | Floyd | Beside Pool Floyd | This is a small, dry alcove beside the great, dark pool of water. Floyd | The light from your amulet is reflected off of the black surface of the Floyd | water in small flickers as tiny waves lap against the chamber's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x helm" | ||||
Floyd | It is an exquisitely crafted silver helm. It must once have been part Floyd | of an incredibly beautiful suit of armor. It is remarkably well Floyd | preserved, considering the ages it has lain upon the lake floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear helm" | ||||
Floyd | You place the helm upon your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "natty!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In a total of 528 turns, you have achieved a score of 60 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You jump back into the icy water with an echoing splash. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are treading water in a large chamber that has been almost Floyd | completely flooded by a waterfall that crashes down from somewhere high Floyd | above you in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You are near the chamber's southern wall. A small recess has been Floyd | carved out of the damp stone, just above the water line. The recess Floyd | appears to form a dry refuge from the icy water. It lies directly Floyd | southward. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "haha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a ceremonial sceptre, a brass Floyd | tinderbox, a gold torque (being worn), a gold coin, a ruby, a broken Floyd | iron screw, a rusted sword, and a silver helm (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are on the open lake. Dark water surrounds you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. The icy water seems to be Floyd | flowing gently northward. Floyd | Floyd | The water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing Floyd | numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You swim northward. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Surface of Water Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The damp stone continues Floyd | into darkness toward the north and south. Oddly there seems to be a Floyd | faint undertow here. The dark water seems to be tugging you softly Floyd | down, beneath its black surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You draw in a deep breath and dive below the surface of the ice-cold Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Flooded Chamber, Underwater Floyd | You are near the chamber's eastern wall. The stone wall continues Floyd | to the north and south. A submerged passageway opens toward the east. Floyd | You notice a gentle current flowing past you into the dark opening. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You swim eastward into the dark passageway. The force of the current Floyd | grows stronger and stronger until it sweeps you helplessly along. In Floyd | the darkness you scrape against the uneven stone walls and are pounded Floyd | mercilessly into submerged boulders. Your lungs burn with the desire Floyd | for breath, but the cold water refuses to release you from its icy Floyd | grip. Consciousness begins to slip away from you. The roaring, black Floyd | water and jagged stones are fading into warm, gray oblivion... Floyd | Floyd | You are slammed back into wakefulness when your body is hurled over the Floyd | precipice of a subterranean waterfall and spilled into an underground Floyd | river flowing swiftly beneath the great mountain. The river's dark Floyd | channel is not completely submerged, and your head breaks the surface. Floyd | Frantically, you draw in gasping lungfuls of air. Floyd | Floyd | After being swept along for some distance, the river's course turns Floyd | suddenly. You are pushed over a cluster of submerged stones near the Floyd | rocky bank. The great sword at your side somehow catches between the Floyd | stones, stopping you dead in the raging current. Fighting against the Floyd | power of the river, you grasp hold of the slippery stones and work Floyd | yourself free. You scrabble along toward the river's edge and finally Floyd | haul yourself out of the freezing water. You find yourself in another Floyd | great, subterranean chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and attatches to the Floyd | waterwheel's axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f e" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "f". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the gate along its track and water spills into the sluice, Floyd | filling the waterwheel's scoops. After a moment, the force of the Floyd | flowing water builds, and with a low, groaning creak, the great wheel Floyd | begins to turn. The iron chain is wound, clanking and scraping, onto Floyd | the axle by the waterwheel's rotation. The chain draws tight and the Floyd | waterwheel's speed slows considerably. The wheel continues to turn Floyd | however, drawing more chain down from some hidden place in the ceiling. Floyd | The great chain is gradually wound around the great oaken axle as Floyd | though it were a giant spool of thread. A loud, grinding sound echoes Floyd | from the southern end of the hall. Finally, the chain stops feeding Floyd | down from the ceiling and the wheel creaks to a halt. The water in the Floyd | sluice splashes noisily past the motionless wheel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sword under gate" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge the sword down into the flowing water, its point catches Floyd | against the channel's stone bottom. You tuck the sword's hilt under Floyd | the gate's lower edge. The arrangement holds, keeping the gate fully Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You grasp one of the mighty oaken beams and try with all your might to Floyd | move the great wheel. It refuses to move at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f n" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "f". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You leap into the raging river's churning waters and are swept away by Floyd | the powerful current. Just downstream from the great hall, a small Floyd | grotto has formed where the river has eroded away the solid stone. You Floyd | make a futile attempt to swim toward the grotto, but the current is far Floyd | too swift. Your body is pummelled brutally. Several times your head Floyd | is cracked sharply against one of the many submerged boulders strewn Floyd | along the river bed. Were it not for the proud silver helm you wear, Floyd | these blows surely would be fatal. Floyd | Floyd | You are spilled once more over the crest of an underground waterfall Floyd | and your body is caught in a whirlpool. The incredible force of the Floyd | twisting water sucking you down, deeper and deeper into the black Floyd | depths. Consciousness slips quickly away, as the breath is squeezed Floyd | from your lungs... Floyd | Floyd | You awaken suddenly, your head hammering with pain. You have no idea Floyd | where you are, but you are no longer buffetted by the icy river and Floyd | your clothing is dry. You have no clear recollection of how you arrived Floyd | in this place, but you seem to remember a sudden flash of daylight... Floyd | an arm reaching down, plucking you out of the water, dragging you back Floyd | into darkness... a grim, bearded face looking down upon you - Floyd | unmoving... tunnels, passages, twisting, turning, climbing... Floyd | Floyd | Stone Altar Floyd | This space was hollowed out of the solid stone of the mountain, Floyd | chisel-marks from the ancient laborers can still be seen on its rough Floyd | hewn walls. The room is slightly oval shaped with a squat, stone altar Floyd | set on the floor at its southernmost end. A metal chime, heavily Floyd | corroded after centuries of neglect, hangs from a stand mounted at one Floyd | of its ends. A rivulet of clear water splashes into the room through a Floyd | doorway that enters from the north. The stream flows placidly down the Floyd | room's length and disappears through an iron grate set in the floor Floyd | just in front of the altar. Floyd | Floyd | An open archway exits eastward. Floyd | Sitting on the stone altar is a rusted sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy asks, "can't we go through the gate? upriver?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. River water Floyd | flows swiftly through the channel and splashes noisily past the Floyd | stationary wheel. A great iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and Floyd | is wound tightly around the wheel's great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get chain" | ||||
Floyd | Which chain do you mean, the tiny, brass chain, or the heavy iron Floyd | chain? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "heavy" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "heavy". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get iron" | ||||
Floyd | The great chain is wrapped tightly around the waterwheel's axle, you Floyd | have no hope of removing it until the tension is released. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lower gate" | ||||
Floyd | You force the gate down into the rushing water, interrupting the flow Floyd | through the sluice. Once the water ceases flowing, the great wheel Floyd | creaks and shudders to a halt. The iron chain wrapped around the Floyd | wheel's axle is drawn back up into the ceiling and the wheel begins to Floyd | turn in reverse, splashing water onto the floor and walls. Again you Floyd | hear the grinding sound coming from the southern end of the hall. The Floyd | distant grinding terminates with a resonating thump and the great chain Floyd | falls slack. The loops of chain wound around the axle tumble noisily Floyd | onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get chain" | ||||
Floyd | Which chain do you mean, the tiny, brass chain, or the heavy iron Floyd | chain? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "iron" | ||||
Floyd | The metal rod is locking the chain in the axle's large hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rod" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get iron chain" | ||||
Floyd | You slide the end of the great chain from the axle's larger hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You leap into the raging river's churning waters and are swept away by Floyd | the powerful current. The great, rusty chain pulls taut and prevents Floyd | you from being dragged further downstream. Fighting to keep your head Floyd | above the surface, you notice a small grotto formed where the river has Floyd | eroded away the solid stone. You flail about in the water, gradually Floyd | working your way toward it. Floyd | Floyd | You haul yourself out of the river and into the damp, moss-lined Floyd | alcove. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | Grotto Floyd | You are in a small grotto carved out of the stone where the river Floyd | sweeps sharply northward. Soft green moss lines the walls. A large Floyd | bronze wheel is mounted on the grotto's rear wall. The river rages Floyd | past the grotto's northern border, the noise of the churning water is Floyd | almost deafening. The great iron chain (which you are holding) dangles Floyd | into the swirling torrent. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there we go" | |||
| inky says, "very clever" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wheel" | ||||
Floyd | The wheel is fairly large, and is cast from solid bronze which has Floyd | developed a rich brown patina during its centuries in this damp grotto. Floyd | It is mounted on a shaft which extends through the grotto's eastern Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||||
Floyd | You grip the wheel, feeling its metal surface cold and damp in your Floyd | hand, and turn it. The wheel yields with a stiff, grating sensation Floyd | which becomes progressively smoother as you turn it further. It spins Floyd | through several rotations and comes to a sudden stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge back into the river, gripping the chain tightly. The Floyd | current buffets you wildly as you clamber up the slippery links. Floyd | Nearly exhausted, you pull yourself up the rocky bank and out of the Floyd | water.Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and strings across the floor to Floyd | where you are holding its free end. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway seems to have opened in the hall's eastern wall. You are Floyd | quite certain it wasn't there earlier. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "cool" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (Dropping the iron chain.) Floyd | Small Chamber Floyd | This is a tiny chamber carved out of the solid stone that forms the Floyd | great hall's eastern wall. Tatters of ancient silk curtains dangle Floyd | down the bare stone walls. A copper shelf, tarnished with age, has Floyd | been mounted to the back wall. A doorway leads westward, back into the Floyd | hall. Floyd | Sitting on the copper shelf is a milky-white crystal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | The crystal is about the size of your finger and is a translucent Floyd | milky-white. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get crystal" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x curtains" | ||||
Floyd | The silken curtains were once a deep, shimmering blue color. The Floyd | ravages of time have reduced them to slate gray rags that hang Floyd | sorrowfully on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Northern End Floyd | This is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into Floyd | darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's Floyd | northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with Floyd | near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside Floyd | the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great Floyd | iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and forms a rusty pile on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway seems to have opened in the hall's eastern wall. You are Floyd | quite certain it wasn't there earlier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a golden amulet (being worn), a ceremonial sceptre, a brass Floyd | tinderbox, a gold torque (being worn), a gold coin, a ruby, a broken Floyd | iron screw, a silver helm (being worn), a rusted sword, a rusted metal Floyd | rod, and a milky-white crystal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In a total of 557 turns, you have achieved a score of 70 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put iron chain in large hole" | ||||
Floyd | You thread the free end of the iron chain into the large hole bored Floyd | through the great axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rod in hole" | ||||
Floyd | You slide the metal rod into the smaller hole until the hooked end Floyd | rests against the axle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "raise gate" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the gate along its track and water spills into the sluice, Floyd | filling the waterwheel's scoops. After a moment, the force of the Floyd | flowing water builds, and with a low, groaning creak, the great wheel Floyd | begins to turn. The iron chain is wound, clanking and scraping, onto Floyd | the axle by the waterwheel's rotation. The chain draws tight and the Floyd | waterwheel's speed slows considerably. The wheel continues to turn Floyd | however, drawing more chain down from some hidden place in the ceiling. Floyd | The great chain is gradually wound around the great oaken axle as Floyd | though it were a giant spool of thread. A loud, grinding sound echoes Floyd | from the southern end of the hall. Finally, the chain stops feeding Floyd | down from the ceiling and the wheel creaks to a halt. The water in the Floyd | sluice splashes noisily past the motionless wheel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sword under gate" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge the sword down into the flowing water, its point catches Floyd | against the channel's stone bottom. You tuck the sword's hilt under Floyd | the gate's lower edge. The arrangement holds, keeping the gate fully Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great hall. The giant Floyd | chamber extends onward into darkness toward the north and south. The Floyd | crashing din of the underground river reverberates off the blank stone Floyd | walls. The noise sounds as though it is coming from the north. An Floyd | iron trapdoor has been set in the chamber's floor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy asks, "wait. what happened?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Great Hall, Southern End Floyd | This is the southern end of the great hall which continues into Floyd | darkness northward. The rumbling hiss of the underground river echoes Floyd | faintly off the blank stone walls. A huge block of granite is Floyd | suspended near the ceiling directly above an open doorway which leads Floyd | southward. Immediately in front of the doorway, a rectangular patch of Floyd | the stone floor is dark with moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we grabbed the chain and went in the river and that let us get to a side-chamber" | |||
| inky says, "where we turned a wheel and came back to the waterwheel chamber, where an east door had opened" | ||||
| inky says, "and then we went east and found a crystal" | ||||
| inky says, "and that brings us up to 70 points, so I am just going to repeat the ending and we'll have 100%" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I hope so." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Top Floyd | This is the upper landing of a great spiral staircase that winds its Floyd | way downward into darkness. Its broad steps have been chopped from the Floyd | living rock. An open archway leads northward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Middle Floyd | You are somewhere near the middle of the great spiral staircase deep Floyd | under the mountain. A small hole has been bored into the wall here. Floyd | The steps wind their way upward and downward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Spiral Staircase, Bottom Floyd | This is the lower landing of the great spiral staircase which twists Floyd | upward into darkness. An open archway leads eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Hall Floyd | This is a great, empty chamber. The floor is covered with fine sand Floyd | which muffles the sound of your footsteps. The sound of your movements Floyd | no longer echoes off the stone walls as it has previously, giving this Floyd | area an almost solemn nuance. Open archways exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Silent Chamber Floyd | This small chamber is floored with clean, soft sand. An open Floyd | archway leads westward. To the east a grand, ornately decorated arch Floyd | leads into a chamber beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Hall of the Cherubim Floyd | Along the northern wall of this great hall stand three massive Floyd | bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty Floyd | wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. Floyd | The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips Floyd | the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the Floyd | second holds a brass censer from which pungent, sweet-smelling smoke Floyd | escapes, filling the chamber with an aromatic, bluish haze; the third Floyd | cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be Floyd | bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Floyd | Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the Floyd | southeastern corner. Floyd | The brass censer seems to contain a burning block of incense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The sphere is made from polished copper. Its surface is etched with Floyd | mystical symbols. You recognize them as constellations that can be Floyd | seen in the night sky. A small bronze arrow, an indicator of some Floyd | sort, points toward one of the constellations on the sphere's surface. Floyd | It points to the lesser bruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Well Floyd | The walls of this chamber are black, as if coated with thick soot. Floyd | A faint haze of scented smoke billows in through the archway, filling Floyd | the chamber with a sweet odor. A polished, copper mirror, easily as Floyd | tall as yourself, stands atop a massive stone dais near the center of Floyd | the room. The dais seems to have slid further back into the chamber, Floyd | revealing a large, open well where the massive stone structure had Floyd | been. Stylized diagrams of what appear to be constellations have been Floyd | carved into the chamber's floor and walls. They form a line extending Floyd | from the center of the well's northern edge, across the floor, and up Floyd | to the top of the chamber's northern wall. The mirror is mounted at Floyd | its middle so that its reflective surface can tilt forward or back. Floyd | Presently, the mirror is angled toward the lesser bruin etched on the Floyd | floor, midway between the well and the northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put amulet in well" | ||||
Floyd | The amulet falls into the depths of the well, illuminating its stone Floyd | sides as it plummets downward. Eventually, the amulet's glow dwindles Floyd | to a tiny pinpoint and finally, it winks out entirely. You find Floyd | yourself in total darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The blackness seems to close in upon you, choking the breath from your Floyd | lungs. Your heart hammers wildly in your chest. The fear of dying, Floyd | cold and alone deep in the bowels of the earth, suddenly grips you and Floyd | holds you in its icy claws. Floyd | Floyd | An intensely bright beam of brilliant, white light suddenly blasts Floyd | upward from within the well, and reflects off the mirror's polished Floyd | surface. The reflected beam of light illuminates the diagram of the Floyd | lesser bruin etched on the floor, midway between the well and the Floyd | northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | The blinding light slowly begins to change. It becomes a softer, blue Floyd | color, streaked here and there with rays of gold and red. The beam of Floyd | light illuminates the haze of sweet-smelling smoke that has drifted Floyd | into the chamber from the north. The billowing smoke seems to gather Floyd | in upon itself, as though it were attracted to the beautiful light by Floyd | some unseen force. The smoke begins to swirl and churn within the beam Floyd | of light, casting weird, sinuous shadows about the room. It coalesces Floyd | further into a tiny thunderstorm of brilliant color and flashing light. Floyd | Floyd | You notice a low, humming sound that fills the chamber, echoing wildly Floyd | off the dark stone walls. The humming becomes a loud whirring as the Floyd | iridescent colors flash faster and faster. The whirring increases to a Floyd | near deafening roar. The cloud of smoke thrums and pulses with Floyd | blinding bursts of intensely colored light. You clap your hands over Floyd | your ears, attempting vainly to shut out the thunderous din, but it is Floyd | of no use. The tumult of sound and explosion of light seem ready to Floyd | rend the very stone walls with their fury. Floyd | Floyd | With an incredibly powerful thump that vibrates you to the bone, all Floyd | falls silent and the maelstrom of light calms to a steady glow. Within Floyd | the cloud of smoke, a beautiful, feminine face appears. You draw in a Floyd | sharp breath as you finally behold the oracle. Floyd | Floyd | It is a face of delicate beauty and timeless wisdom. It is a face that Floyd | has seen the birth of the world, and bears the weighty knowledge of the Floyd | hour of its death. The oracle regards you contemplatively for a Floyd | moment. Floyd | Floyd | "You have travelled far to see me," her silken voice rolls forth Floyd | like a wave crashing on some distant shore. It is a voice of wonder, Floyd | of horror. It is the voice of dreams fulfilled. Floyd | Floyd | "I have watched the plight of your people, I know the great peril Floyd | that lies before them..." Her voice trails away like the falling of Floyd | autumn leaves. Floyd | Floyd | "I have not the power to deliver your people from this plight." She Floyd | says with an expression of pensive sorrow. "A new age is opening in Floyd | the world, and the age past must fade away; along with it, my power in Floyd | the world fades as well. Already, you have seen the signs of this Floyd | changing. Mankind no longer seeks out the wisdom of the great ones. Floyd | He has learned for himself the secrets of magic and science. Flames at Floyd | the altars to the gods burn no longer. The gifts which the immortals Floyd | once bestowed upon man, he will now obtain for himself. Our time has Floyd | come to a close." Floyd | Floyd | A wooden staff appears on the floor before the oracle. "Take this," Floyd | she says softly, her voice beginning to fade, "I cannot deliver your Floyd | homeland, but with this gift you can set yourselves free." Floyd | Floyd | The wondrous face hangs in the air for a long moment, the features Floyd | growing less distinct as the cloud of smoke gradually diffuses. The Floyd | beam of light dwindles away and finally disappears completely. Floyd | Floyd | With a lumbering, scraping sound a doorway opens in the southern wall Floyd | and a flood of sunlight pours into the chamber. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think it must've been been the watchman who rescued us earlier." | |||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You dare not leave without the oracle's gift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get staff" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You step through the doorway into the brilliant glow of the midday sun, Floyd | and find yourself on a rock-strewn ridge just above the trail which led Floyd | you to the oracle's cave. Carrying the oracle's gift, you eagerly Floyd | begin the long journey home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has increased.] Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 574 turns, you have achieved a score of 90 points out of Floyd | a possible 90. Floyd | Floyd | Over the next few months, the tide of the battle turns in favor of your Floyd | people. Working night and day, hundreds of the great bows are fashioned Floyd | and distributed. Arrows by the thousands are made, tipped with iron Floyd | points. Led by groups of archers, your dwindling forces become Floyd | invincible. Able to rain death upon the invaders from across the Floyd | battlefield, the enemy is quickly brought to its knees. Peace returns Floyd | to your people. Floyd | Floyd | Years roll by, and your notoriety among the people refuses to fade. Floyd | You are respected, revered, even feared by many. You are known to all Floyd | in story and song as the last mortal to hear the enchanting, mystical Floyd | voice of... Floyd | Floyd | The Oracle. Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "woot" | |||
| inky says, "hooray" | ||||
| inky says, "good thing you had that walkthrough" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We have saved our people!" | ||||
| inky says, "presumably we would have found the helm but the crystal would have been nuts" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "well done" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "but i'm not a big fan of the "items that don't do anything or have any story get you points"" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "I wonder why we never tried climbing up the chain in the first place" | ||||
| two-star says, "Maybe it'll save your people in the sequel." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's weird that this game is a treasure hunt and a story, but they have nothing to do with each other." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "We did climb everything else in that room, hehe" | ||||
| Nitku has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Corporal_Touchy says (to DavidW), "Right. Treasure hunts are pretty cool by itself." | |||
| DavidW says, "Sort of an in-between type of game, I guess." | ||||
| DavidW says (to CT), "well, yeah. I remembered this game fondly for that." | ||||
| baf disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| two-star disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| Gerynar has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "Anyway, thanks for playing this week. Please let me know what game you'd like for next week!" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Well, that was fun but I'm starving now." | ||||
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