  
 
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Below is a transcript of BSE, written by Chris Smith. BSE was originally released in the 1996 Acorn User Competition, where it took first place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load bse" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message] | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | BSE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press SPACE if you dare...] | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This is the job that all men in white coats dream of...a potential Floyd | epidemic. The details were sparse but menacing - mysterious, Floyd | unexplained deaths in the isolated Dales village of Skebdale. The Floyd | authorities had no choice but to send you, their most experienced Floyd | environmental health agent, to check things out. Unfortunately it Floyd | looks more like a job for Bond than for Herriot... Floyd | Floyd | BSE Floyd | An Interactive Epidemic Floyd | Copyright (c) 1996 by Chris Smith. Floyd | Type 'help' for...er...help. Floyd | Type 'quotes on/off' to toggle box quotations, in case they obscure Floyd | text. Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 970110 / Inform v6.03 Library 6/1 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a remote control (which is closed) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "x remote" | ||||
Floyd | A beautifully styled black handset with an invitingly red button in Floyd | the middle. A small panel on the back allows you to change the Floyd | battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "What's that Bond/Herriot reference? I don't get it." | |||
| stewie says, "james bond" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "James Herriot is the name of a country veterinarian in Britain." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah, that one went past me, too. I get the Bond thing, just not the Herriot - ah." | ||||
| Touchy asks, "What's he famous for?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | Your instructions from head office, scribbled untidily and faxed to Floyd | you without regard for legibility. Peering at the note you can only Floyd | make out a few words: Floyd | Floyd | Reference: DCK 817S Floyd | Operation: Red-Chevette Floyd | Floyd | Task: Agent 398-MUGWUG reports serious epidemic risk in Skebdale Floyd | region of Yorkshire. Agent claims cross-over risk of BSE without beef Floyd | consumption. Use operation codeword to gain contact, he will be lying Floyd | low in disguise. Floyd | Floyd | If possible also investigate allegations of widespread devil worship Floyd | in Skebdale area. Agent reports possible links. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "All Creatures Great and Small was a fiction book" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Oh, I see." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "I can't remember if Herriot is the author or chracter" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | You hammer the button to no avail - there must be something wrong with Floyd | the control. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, wide-spread devil worship investigation is a plausible collateral duty?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open remote" | ||||
Floyd | You open the remote control, revealing a burnt-out battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Hey could you pick up some milk at the store oh and yeah if you could SUMMON BA'AL." | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get battery" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "haha" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x battery" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | A small, round, lithium watch-battery, charred almost out of Floyd | recognition and presumably run-down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||||
Floyd | Dented from countless brushes with marauding cattle, your car looks Floyd | three times its age. In fact it is fitted out with all mod cons, Floyd | including an electric sunroof, in-car CD player, and remote locking Floyd | system. (The latter comes in very useful when escaping from marauding Floyd | cattle.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oops... haha, PG." | |||
| Nitku clears the save counter. | ||||
| inky arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Touchy asks, "What's a remote locking system good for?" | |||
| stewie asks, "how do you do that?" | Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Good idear." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Unlocking from a distance" | ||||
| Touchy says (to PG), "Haha." | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You open the wooden gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Or locking." | |||
| Nitku says (to stewie), ""clear save"" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west stands open. You really should shut it Floyd | or anything could happen. Floyd | Floyd | A crumpled leaflet, presumably discarded by a passing tourist, blows Floyd | back and forth in the gentle summer breeze. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west stands open. You really should shut it Floyd | or anything could happen. Floyd | Floyd | A crumpled leaflet, presumably discarded by a passing tourist, blows Floyd | back and forth in the gentle summer breeze. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | The chickens wander out through the farm gate in their never-ending Floyd | quest for nourishment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "I mean how does that help you when you're escaping marauding cattle. Do you want to lure them in the car and lock it or something?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "I assume it allows you to get inside the car more quickly." | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | Floyd | An open wooden gate leads into a farmyard to the north-east. Floyd | Floyd | The chickens are scattered across the road, sounding out every last Floyd | nook and cranny for nourishment. You had better get them back into the Floyd | farmyard before they're run over by a bus full of ramblers. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "shut gate" | ||||
Floyd | You close the wooden gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, for an ag investigator we sure have fear of marauding cattle." | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | BSE is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long descriptions Floyd | of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | The chickens are scattered across the road, sounding out every last Floyd | nook and cranny for nourishment. You had better get them back into the Floyd | farmyard before they're run over by a bus full of ramblers. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | There is a sudden flash of lightning and a distant rumble of thunder, Floyd | warning of impending gloom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Hahaha... >TRAP COW IN CAR. LOCK CAR BY REMOTE. GIGGLE AND POINT." | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | The chickens are scattered across the road, sounding out every last Floyd | nook and cranny for nourishment. You had better get them back into the Floyd | farmyard before they're run over by a bus full of ramblers. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x chickens" | ||||
Floyd | A group of ordinary farmyard chickens, including the obligatory Floyd | cockerel with show-off red comb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A crumpled leaflet, presumably discarded by a passing tourist, blows Floyd | back and forth in the gentle summer breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I sort of doubt a cow would fit in our Volvo, but let's keep that in mind for later." | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | The leaflet has been torn, mud-bespattered, and generally maltreated, Floyd | and as such you can make out very little, but it seems to cover topics Floyd | as wide ranging as sheep varieties, weather forecasting and the Floyd | country code. It also includes a badly typeset advert for a badly Floyd | typeset computer game called 'LSE' by Shirc Shimt. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we should have played this one with the earlier game where you play a goat or a sheep or whatever" | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "look up lse in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the leaflet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I think it's just a joke." | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "look up sheep in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | Apparently there are three main varieties of sheep found in Skebdale: Floyd | the hardy Skebdale Mountain Sheep, the fatter, more cautious, Floyd | Skebdale-Milton Keynes Cross, and, finally, the newly-bred Fliglot. Floyd | There are individual paragraphs on each breed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I keep reading that as Skedaddle" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "look up mountain" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "look up mountain in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | The Skebdale Mountain Sheep is an ancient breed, adapted to cope with Floyd | grazing on steep moorland. It is world famous for its most unusual Floyd | trait: the pair of legs on one side of any sheep are shorter than the Floyd | pair on the other. This allows the sheep to walk around the mountain Floyd | while remaining upright. There are two distinct strains: those with a Floyd | left-leg bias, and those with a right-leg bias. Obviously Floyd | interbreeding is impossible between the two strains of sheep due to Floyd | simple geographical problems. This means that the two strains have Floyd | drifted apart to form differing sub-species. The left-leg variety are Floyd | the more common as they graze with the prevailing wind around the Floyd | hills in Skebdale. The right-leg variety, however, tend to end up Floyd | grazing against the wind. This means they graze more slowly as they Floyd | must cope with more air resistance, and they have hence become the Floyd | rarer breed. To overcome these aerodynamic difficulties the right-leg Floyd | variety developed closer, shorter, more tight-knit coats that allowed Floyd | them to move faster. However, in order to counterbalance the resulting Floyd | heat loss, they have evolved thin, concentrated layers of fat beneath Floyd | their skin. Floyd | Floyd | The Skebdale sheep has never spread further than a few hills in Floyd | Skebdale as it is perfectly suited to the slope angle of Skebdale Floyd | Pike. The leg-bias makes migration difficult and unrewarding, so the Floyd | Skebdale Mountain Sheep remains an isolated and extraordinary Floyd | specimen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "look up mountain in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | The Skebdale Mountain Sheep is an ancient breed, adapted to cope with Floyd | grazing on steep moorland. It is world famous for its most unusual Floyd | trait: the pair of legs on one side of any sheep are shorter than the Floyd | pair on the other. This allows the sheep to walk around the mountain Floyd | while remaining upright. There are two distinct strains: those with a Floyd | left-leg bias, and those with a right-leg bias. Obviously Floyd | interbreeding is impossible between the two strains of sheep due to Floyd | simple geographical problems. This means that the two strains have Floyd | drifted apart to form differing sub-species. The left-leg variety are Floyd | the more common as they graze with the prevailing wind around the Floyd | hills in Skebdale. The right-leg variety, however, tend to end up Floyd | grazing against the wind. This means they graze more slowly as they Floyd | must cope with more air resistance, and they have hence become the Floyd | rarer breed. To overcome these aerodynamic difficulties the right-leg Floyd | variety developed closer, shorter, more tight-knit coats that allowed Floyd | them to move faster. However, in order to counterbalance the resulting Floyd | heat loss, they have evolved thin, concentrated layers of fat beneath Floyd | their skin. Floyd | Floyd | The Skebdale sheep has never spread further than a few hills in Floyd | Skebdale as it is perfectly suited to the slope angle of Skebdale Floyd | Pike. The leg-bias makes migration difficult and unrewarding, so the Floyd | Skebdale Mountain Sheep remains an isolated and extraordinary Floyd | specimen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Um. What if the sheep wants to walk the opposite way on the mountain? Does it just topple over?" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "look up keynes in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | The Skebdale Milton-Keynes Cross was a result of cross-breeding in the Floyd | mid-nineteenth century (before the invention of ethics). It created a Floyd | sheep ideally suited to living on the flat flood plain of Skebdale Floyd | Beck. The Milton is possibly the exact opposite of the Skebdale Floyd | mountain sheep. It is a low slung sheep which hugs the ground for Floyd | warmth and protection, it's layers of fat and wool insulating it from Floyd | temperatures lower than 30 degrees. A farmer's dream, it grazes slowly Floyd | and steadily, producing perfectly mown stretches of grass, and Floyd | yielding high quantities of wool, milk, and fat. The famous cricket Floyd | pitch in Skebdale was brought to such a high degree of perfection due Floyd | to a groundsman's brilliant idea. By releasing several Miltons at the Floyd | right time and angle around the pitch, he created a perfect Floyd | overlapping hexagonal cut, something very rarely seen on cricket Floyd | pitches. It was this flash of inspiration that originally brought fame Floyd | to Skebdale and resulted in the booming tourist industry that now Floyd | flourishes there. Floyd | Floyd | The name of the sheep is not, in fact, derived from the town, but from Floyd | the 19th century creators of the sheep, Mr. Milton and Mr. Keynes. (It Floyd | is a little known fact that the town is actually named after the Floyd | sheep, not the village of the same name. The developers were so Floyd | impressed with the concept of a large, artificially created, easily Floyd | manageable sheep, that they decided to apply exactly the same Floyd | principles to town planning.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's an amusing mental image." | |||
| Touchy says, "I guess it doesn't want to anymore after a troubling lambhood." | ||||
| stewie asks, "What relavance does this have?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I bet we'll find out" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "look up chickens in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the leaflet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "look up fliglot in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | The Fliglot was an experimental sheep first released in early June Floyd | 1966. Bred by the now infamous farmers-cum-genetic-engineers Liz and Floyd | Ned Brown, of Fliglot Farm, Skebdale, it had a short black coat, two Floyd | straight, sharp horns, prominent hooves and a pointed swishy tail. Floyd | Comments at the time likened it to a goat rather than a sheep, but it Floyd | quite happily bred with the other breeds in Skebdale to produce a Floyd | small flock of Fliglots. However, they were extremely lazy and Floyd | unproductive, and also quite violent. In the late 1970s they broke Floyd | free of their field in South Skebdale. There was a brief spurt of Floyd | mysterious disappearances in the village the same week, accompanied by Floyd | heavy storms. At the end of the week the Fliglots returned to their Floyd | pen and peace returned to the village. Since then the sheep have been Floyd | regarded as a good luck omen and guarded against escape at all costs. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev says, "I'm looking forward to meet demonic sheep" | |||
| stewie exclaims, "demon sheep!" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | A bright yellow floppy sou'wester hangs from one of the pegs, clashing Floyd | badly with the corridor's decor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| olethros says, "I am all for demon sheep" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get yellow" | ||||
Floyd | You take the sou'wester, revealing an electric socket underneath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "x yellow" | ||||
Floyd | The sou'wester is dazzlingly yellow. Glowingly mustard-hued, no less. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | The wind picks up and the sky darkens as black rain-clouds appear on Floyd | the western horizon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I hope we don't run into a nor'easter." | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the sou'wester. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "wear yellow" | ||||
Floyd | You're already wearing that! Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Oh, that's a hat..." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "A big floppy fisherman's hat." | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||||
Floyd | A welly rack, made out of tough plastic-coated wire, screwed firmly Floyd | into the wall about a foot from the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "I thought it was a jacket" | |||
| aarondev says, "that's what I was thinking too" | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to disturb the inhabitants privacy too much, and Floyd | besides, your scared of the dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice rack" | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmhouse Kitchen Floyd | Painted in an uninspiring shade of pastel cream-gunk, the farmhouse Floyd | kitchen has evolved over time into a mixture of modern and ancient Floyd | appliances jumbled against the walls. Decorated with stains ranging Floyd | from champagne to tomato ketchup, the ceiling has obviously seen Floyd | country life in all its glory. Floyd | Floyd | A single rubber glove lies discarded upon the draining board. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a kettle here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Hum..what's that now?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "By the way, is someone mapping?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Exploring houses is the best part of IF." | ||||
| stewie says, "we don't need a map" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I have it in my head so far." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The review on baf's makes mention of a maze at some point." | ||||
| aarondev says, "Don't want to disturb people, so we go rummaging in their kitchen" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Just, y'know, FYI. Not here, of course." | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get glove" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x kettel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little cold water. I Floyd | shouldn't waste it: after all, there is a water shortage in Skebdale Floyd | at the moment. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get kettle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little cold water. I Floyd | shouldn't waste it: after all, there is a water shortage in Skebdale Floyd | at the moment. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x glove" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the rubber glove. Floyd | Floyd | Black cumulonimbus clouds tower over Skebdale to the north-west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmhouse Kitchen Floyd | Painted in an uninspiring shade of pastel cream-gunk, the farmhouse Floyd | kitchen has evolved over time into a mixture of modern and ancient Floyd | appliances jumbled against the walls. Decorated with stains ranging Floyd | from champagne to tomato ketchup, the ceiling has obviously seen Floyd | country life in all its glory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x appliances" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "put kettle on rack" | ||||
Floyd | You balance the kettle on the welly rack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | a burnt-out battery Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x socket" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the socket. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow falls over Skebdale as the clouds sweep in... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "drop battery" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 60, in 47 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Secretary of State for Agriculture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A crumpled leaflet, presumably discarded by a passing tourist, blows Floyd | back and forth in the gentle summer breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | The chickens are scattered across the road, sounding out every last Floyd | nook and cranny for nourishment. You had better get them back into the Floyd | farmyard before they're run over by a bus full of ramblers. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | Hailstones begin to fall to earth, melting on contact with the warm Floyd | earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "take chickens" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the chickens would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You open the wooden gate. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west stands open. You really should shut it Floyd | or anything could happen. Floyd | Floyd | A crumpled leaflet, presumably discarded by a passing tourist, bounces Floyd | crazily around beneath the force of the gale. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "call chickens" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "cluck" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Why did we close the gate and are now climbing over it when the chickens are still outside?" | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "fart" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west stands open. You really should shut it Floyd | or anything could happen. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I opened it and am trying to lure them inside, with little success." | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' rocks violently in the gale, beckoning locals and Floyd | tourists alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the Floyd | south of the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | An open wooden gate leads into a farmyard to the north-east. Floyd | Floyd | The chickens are scattered across the road, sounding out every last Floyd | nook and cranny for nourishment. You had better get them back into the Floyd | farmyard before they're run over by a bus full of ramblers. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||||
Floyd | There's very little point getting in the car - you've got a job to do! Floyd | But you might like to have a look in the boot... Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | A garden fork has been rammed disrespectfully into a steaming compost Floyd | heap in one corner of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "hit chickens" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "f i" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The owner of the house looks out at you, suspiciously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x owner" | ||||
Floyd | He never bothers to prosecute trespassers: he has far better methods. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farmer taps firmly on the window and shouts something Floyd | unintelligible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||||
Floyd | You try and pull the glove on, but it is too small for either of your Floyd | well-built hands. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | There is a creak as the window eases open and a rifle barrel sneaks Floyd | through the crack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I had to step away for a sec. Have we looked in the car?" | |||
| Nitku says, "Not yet" | ||||
| stewie says, "We can't get it open yet." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Stewie has us running all over the place." | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | A garden fork has been rammed disrespectfully into a steaming compost Floyd | heap in one corner of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farmer shouts "Get out of my garden or tha'll get what thee Floyd | deserve!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get fork" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll count to four!" he shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "talk to farmer" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "greet farmer" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "take fork" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "One..." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "did you look in the boot?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm, do we want a driver to slow things down and get on the same page?" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get inside the house. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' rocks violently in the gale, beckoning locals and Floyd | tourists alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the Floyd | south of the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | An open wooden gate leads into a farmyard to the north-east. Floyd | Floyd | The chickens are scattered across the road, sounding out every last Floyd | nook and cranny for nourishment. You had better get them back into the Floyd | farmyard before they're run over by a bus full of ramblers. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "look in car" | Touchy exclaims, "YES!" | |||
Floyd | The inside of your own car is familiar to you already. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | A bus sweeps down the dale like a steel monster, carrying a Floyd | consignment of little old ladies towards the Vale of York. The Floyd | chickens are helpless before the harbinger of death. All that remains Floyd | are a few brown feathers, slowly drifting to earth... Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the flying squad is upon you. Unmarked cars screech to a halt Floyd | at your feet, amphibious vehicles roll up, dripping slime, from the Floyd | mere, sending ducks flapping into the air, and Apache helicopters Floyd | swoop down from the Pike, missiles trained on your slightest movement. Floyd | You are arrested, tried, found guilty of leaving a gate wrongfully Floyd | open and locked up in Broadmoor for an indefinite period of time Floyd | decided by some fascist Tory minister in the Home Office. In short, Floyd | you are well out of it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed abysmally. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 60, in 66 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Secretary of State for Agriculture. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Touchy exclaims, "Driver!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "The boot? Man, you're really getting into this." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Holy crap" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's have a driver." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It can be me if someone else agrees to map." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "When we hit the alleged maze." | ||||
| stewie says, "Do we need to restart" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Agreed" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I think so." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "If I'm not the driver I may tune out, so I'll be the driver." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Restart and Jacqueline drives, I can map" | ||||
| stewie says, "We don't need a map." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I enjoy driving but am concerned about my connection, so go ahead. I'll map if need be." | ||||
| stewie says, "The village is really small" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | BSE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press SPACE if you dare...] | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so, I'll restart and be the driver. That means that you tell me what you want to do, and I'll enter it, listening to everyone. New folks understand?" | |||
| aarondev says, "yup, thanks" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I did not restart, someone else did." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Er, sorry." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "aHA" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This is the job that all men in white coats dream of...a potential Floyd | epidemic. The details were sparse but menacing - mysterious, Floyd | unexplained deaths in the isolated Dales village of Skebdale. The Floyd | authorities had no choice but to send you, their most experienced Floyd | environmental health agent, to check things out. Unfortunately it Floyd | looks more like a job for Bond than for Herriot... Floyd | Floyd | BSE Floyd | An Interactive Epidemic Floyd | Copyright (c) 1996 by Chris Smith. Floyd | Type 'help' for...er...help. Floyd | Type 'quotes on/off' to toggle box quotations, in case they obscure Floyd | text. Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 970110 / Inform v6.03 Library 6/1 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | Jacqueline asks, "Let's start from scratch. What's our first goal?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "I guess we can try to look in the car now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in car" | ||||
Floyd | The inside of your own car is familiar to you already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "It seems to be the chickens." | |||
| aarondev asks, "check the trunk?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Look in the boot" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open boot" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a remote control (which is closed) Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev asks, "get the remote?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right. The remote is b0rked." | ||||
| stewie says, "I think we need to replace the remote's battery" | ||||
| Touchy says, "We can just close the door when we get in, would be cheating though..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x remote" | ||||
Floyd | A beautifully styled black handset with an invitingly red button in Floyd | the middle. A small panel on the back allows you to change the Floyd | battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||||
Floyd | You open the remote control, revealing a burnt-out battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take battery" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x battery" | ||||
Floyd | A small, round, lithium watch-battery, charred almost out of Floyd | recognition and presumably run-down. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "do we have a watch?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No." | |||
| stewie asks, "What about the building north?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "We need to go through the junk drawer in the kitchen. Do people in England have junk drawers in their kitchen?" | ||||
| aarondev says, "don't forget to jump the gate, or the chickens will get out" | ||||
| inky says, "they have sheds, I think" | ||||
| stewie says, "not sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Good point." | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Who doesn't have junk drawers?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe the sheds have drawers..." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, Stewie, you want to try the pub?" | ||||
| trikiw goes flopbot | Jacqueline says, "I'd be up for that. Maybe there's a battery there." | |||
| Nitku says, "I don't think he's old enough for that" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Everyone cool with going north?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "heh. Meanie." | ||||
| stewie says, "help" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Well, he's accompanied by plenty of adults." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, going north." | ||||
| stewie says, "oops" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tom" | ||||
Floyd | A hunched old man in a tweed jacket and flat cap, smoking his pipe and Floyd | supping his pint. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dick" | ||||
Floyd | A hunched old man in a tweed jacket and flat cap, smoking his pipe and Floyd | supping his pint. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x harry" | ||||
Floyd | A hunched old man in a tweed jacket and almost flat cap, smoking his Floyd | pint and supping his pipe. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "haha" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Almost flat, eh?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x harry's almost flat cap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x almost flat cap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about battery" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Harry looks a bit messed up" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about beer" | ||||
Floyd | "It's Sikstons' lad. 'Cheap, Cheerful, and Best Served Chilled.' If Floyd | tha' want a pint, go and tek one, as the barman's not around." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What do we want to ask them about?" | |||
| inky says, "cows" | ||||
| aarondev says, "demon sheep" | ||||
| Nitku says, "cap" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "True." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about cows" | ||||
Floyd | "You'll have to ask Tom about that, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tom about cows" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | There is a sudden flash of lightning and a distant rumble of thunder, Floyd | warning of impending gloom. Floyd | "Aye lad, I can tell thee something about cows." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tom about cows" | ||||
Floyd | "They can be big or small, depending which ones tha' look at," Tom Floyd | explains excitedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No shit" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tom about cows" | ||||
Floyd | "And they're black an' white," says Dick, adding, by way of Floyd | explanation, "and sometimes brown." Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "DOH YOU THINK SO !!???" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "This is all very helpful, but are they demonic?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tom about cows" | ||||
Floyd | "Aye lad, I can tell thee something about cows." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about cows" | ||||
Floyd | "You'll have to ask Tom about that, lad." Floyd | "They can be big or small, depending which ones tha' look at," Tom Floyd | explains excitedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about sheep" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | "And they're black an' white," says Dick, adding, by way of Floyd | explanation, "and sometimes brown." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tom about devil" | ||||
Floyd | "Now then, you'd have to be asking Old Harry about that, wouldn't Floyd | you?" chuckles Tom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about devil" | ||||
Floyd | "There's more to things to say about him than there are men in this Floyd | pub," advises Old Harry sagely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about devil" | ||||
Floyd | "Only a fool would mess with him," he continues, "and don't I just Floyd | know it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about devil" | ||||
Floyd | "But remember lad, as this is the only advice I'll give thee." He Floyd | summons himself for the revelation."Although it may sound clich?d," he Floyd | whispers, "Old Nick can never change the colour of his eyes, even if Floyd | he's staring thee in the face." Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "You could try asking him again" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about devil" | ||||
Floyd | "There's more to things to say about him than there are men in this Floyd | pub," advises Old Harry sagely. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev says, "pretty helpful advice, actually" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, except that nobody can change the color of their eyes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Except perhaps with contacts." | ||||
| aarondev asks, "maybe we should check the colour of dick's eyes?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "But maybe he can change the rest of his appearance..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "True. That would be a clue." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Since most people can't do that." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What else do we want to ask about?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ask them about BSE" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "And should we save, then have a beer?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tom about bse" | ||||
Floyd | "You'll have to ask Dick about that, lad." Floyd | "Only a fool would mess with him," he continues, "and don't I just Floyd | know it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about bse" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh aye, I know what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | "But remember lad, as this is the only advice I'll give thee." He Floyd | summons himself for the revelation."Although it may sound clich?d," he Floyd | whispers, "Old Nick can never change the colour of his eyes, even if Floyd | he's staring thee in the face." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about bse" | ||||
Floyd | "You mean destruction of nerve cells by rogue prion proteins leading Floyd | to gradual deterioration of the brain and nervous system," says Dick Floyd | quickly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I return!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha dick is a scientistman" | ||||
| stewie asks, "old nick?" | ||||
| aarondev says, "he he" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about bse" | ||||
Floyd | "Was that what tha' wanted to know, lad? Them scientists call it Floyd | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, but we call it Old 'arry's Game. I Floyd | tell thee lad, its the devil behind them there mad cows an' I don't Floyd | mean Jacques Santer." Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev says, "old nick is the devil, I think" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about bse" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The wind picks up and the sky darkens as black rain-clouds appear on Floyd | the western horizon. Floyd | "Oh aye, I know what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "You mean destruction of nerve cells by rogue prion proteins leading Floyd | to gradual deterioration of the brain and nervous system," says Dick Floyd | quickly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | "Was that what tha' wanted to know, lad? Them scientists call it Floyd | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, but we call it Old 'arry's Game. I Floyd | tell thee lad, its the devil behind them there mad cows an' I don't Floyd | mean Jacques Santer." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so they talk until they're done with a topic, which is kinda nice." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | Jacqueline says, "oops" | |||
| stewie says, "We could try to take a beer." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take beer" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "try take pint" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pump" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pint" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pump" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "turn tap?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x beer pump" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It didn't recognize there being a tap, Stewie." | |||
| Nitku says, "Try the bottles" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess there's no beer." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bottles" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "noooooooooooooo" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anything else before we move on?" | ||||
| stewie writes 'constipation' on the cube. | Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Please refrain from playing with Toyshop toys while we play, 'kay? Thanks." | |||
| stewie arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | stewie says, "oops" | |||
| stewie erases whatever was written on the cube. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | BSE is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long descriptions Floyd | of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Search the house?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the wooden gate is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev says, "sounds good" | |||
| stewie asks, "didn't we already do that?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You open the wooden gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "no the chickens will get out" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Not thoroughly, I don't think." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A crumpled leaflet, presumably discarded by a passing tourist, blows Floyd | back and forth in the gentle summer breeze. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Stewie), "Good point. Thanks." | |||
| Touchy says, "That's cheating." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Touchy), "How?" | ||||
| stewie asks, "what's cheating?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Learning from our mistakes?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "It's "learning by dying"" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "I don't know I mean aren't we supposed to not know and let them out and catch them again?" | ||||
| stewie says, "It happened before I wasn't hinting" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we're allowed to learn from dying and trial and error." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's at the heart of IF." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Alright." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chickens" | ||||
Floyd | A group of ordinary farmyard chickens, including the obligatory Floyd | cockerel with show-off red comb. Floyd | Floyd | Black cumulonimbus clouds tower over Skebdale to the north-west. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "that game "all things devours" is all about learning from previous mistakes" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x clouds" | ||||
Floyd | They're big, black, and horrible. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "I think we should search the garden some more" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Although, we could check out the barn instead." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Barn or house?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or garden?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess we need to be inside when the storm hits?" | ||||
| zarf says, "it's not a counterexample when the game has to invent an entire plot device to excuse the "undo" capability" | ||||
| inky says, "well, ok, fair enough" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I'm civilized enough for the house" | ||||
| inky asks, "did you wipe your feet?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, where's the garden? Outside the fence?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I walk around on my head." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Let's check the barn" | ||||
| zarf says, "(I'm overstating, really, but the heart of IF? It's moved out to the gall bladder over the years.)" | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to zarf), "Yeah, I was being facetious there." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Gall bladder of IF, or perhaps bettere yet, the appendix." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, garden later. Barn." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Trolling the usenet is the heart of IF" | |||
| stewie asks, "Maybe we could search the bed in the garden?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Sigh. Sort of." | ||||
| Bert says, "Well, learn-by-dying is only one type of trial-and-error." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Stewie), "Sure, in a bit. Let's not forget to do that once we're done here." | ||||
| inky says, "also true" | ||||
| stewie says, "The other way is die by learning" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha rusty farm equipment inevitably infected with a potent range of bacterie" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, bacteria" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What should we lick first?" | ||||
| inky asks, "are we supposed to take samples of this stuff if we're an inspector?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe, yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tractor" | ||||
Floyd | The tractor was presumably new once (most things were), but its paint Floyd | has started to peel off, with bubbles of rust forming all over the Floyd | bodywork. The makers mark on the side reads simply 'Case Floyd | International'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "FYI, I seem stable but a touch laggy due to the latency on my sat modem. Probably not a bad thing, as it slows things down a bit to make sure everyone can keep up, but just letting you know." | |||
| aarondev asks, "search the hey?" | ||||
| stewie asks, "can we climb the tractor?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search hay" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb tractor" | ||||
Floyd | You climb up the tractor onto its roof. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow falls over Skebdale as the clouds sweep in... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barn (on the roof) Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev says, "we should grab that hat before the storm hits" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Ack. We're on the barn roof, not the tractor roof." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This seems like a bad spot to be in a storm." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Yeah, let's get the hat" | ||||
| stewie says, "No it's just been said wrong" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Where was that hat, again?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "It was in the house" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the roof first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "#clubfloyd Ground floor" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get down" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't available. Floyd | Floyd | Hailstones begin to fall to earth, melting on contact with the warm Floyd | earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "maybe we could examine the hay?" | |||
| ParserGirl asks, "how is there a tracktor on the roof?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb down" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the roof first. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev asks, "off?" | |||
| Alex says (to aarondev), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Off is a brand of mosquito repellant." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "off" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "just go down" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go down" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the roof first. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev asks, "stand?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the roof. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to aarondev), "Phew. Thanks!" | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get off" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Stewie), "Please let me drive." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "This game isn't great about reminding us of exits." | ||||
| aarondev says (to Jacqueline), "I've had that problem often" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Barn Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think we're on a timer, so." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "I've been playing for ages before and there's no timer" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Barn Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Stewie), "Good to know, thanks." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I didn't see how we got here, but the hat was ne, n from the car." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | A bright yellow floppy sou'wester hangs from one of the pegs, clashing Floyd | badly with the corridor's decor. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "buh-HAT" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take hat" | ||||
Floyd | You take the sou'wester, revealing an electric socket underneath. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "We've been playing for almost an hour and are score is still 0." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the sou'wester. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Oh - so that's where that socket appeared." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Huh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||||
Floyd | A welly rack, made out of tough plastic-coated wire, screwed firmly Floyd | into the wall about a foot from the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe we can get a full set of raingear by looking around." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "I'm not sure what a welly is." | ||||
| stewie says, "a boot" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wellies are rubber boots." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Good in muddy rainy England." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think it's short for Wellington." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "A brand name." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Weird. Before I thought this was part of a barn connected to the house, but apparently it's the entry hall. Yay reading." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to disturb the inhabitants privacy too much, and Floyd | besides, your scared of the dark. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Uh oh. you're." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Gah spelling/grammar." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing, yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to disturb the inhabitants privacy too much, and Floyd | besides, your scared of the dark. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I remember the kitchen being east of here." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmhouse Kitchen Floyd | Painted in an uninspiring shade of pastel cream-gunk, the farmhouse Floyd | kitchen has evolved over time into a mixture of modern and ancient Floyd | appliances jumbled against the walls. Decorated with stains ranging Floyd | from champagne to tomato ketchup, the ceiling has obviously seen Floyd | country life in all its glory. Floyd | Floyd | A single rubber glove lies discarded upon the draining board. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a kettle here. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take glove" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little cold water. I Floyd | shouldn't waste it: after all, there is a water shortage in Skebdale Floyd | at the moment. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "glove" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x glove" | Nitku says, "Yeah, the grammar is torcher to read" | |||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the rubber glove. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||||
Floyd | You try and pull the glove on, but it is too small for either of your Floyd | well-built hands. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "yay" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "mmm... we have well-built hands. rawr" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, there's a water shortage? In this storm?" | ||||
| stewie says, "I really think we should search the garden more." | ||||
| aarondev says, "ya, good point" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x appliances" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "It seems like this kitchen is sadly lacking." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x stains" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "Yeah, sadly." | |||
| aarondev says, "search drawers" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x drawers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ugh" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Leave?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is there a room across the hall to the west?" | ||||
| aarondev asks, "yup?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The farmhouse's lounge closely resembles a bomb site. An old sofa, Floyd | covered in ragged blankets and thin cushions, is positioned opposite a Floyd | large TV and a wide, open fireplace. The window, hung with clashing Floyd | flowery curtains, faces out onto the farmyard. A door in the east wall Floyd | leads out to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Laid out in front of the fireplace is a thick hearth-rug, covered in Floyd | dog hair. Floyd | Floyd | Curled up on the rug there is, of course, a dog. Floyd | Floyd | The unusually violent storm suddenly dies and Skebdale is silent and Floyd | peaceful once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "There could be something hidden somewhere" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Could be, but half the stuff that should be implemented isn't there, which makes it painful to search." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dog" | ||||
Floyd | A sleek, speckled, black and white border collie. The archetypal Floyd | sheepdog, it is laid out flat after a hard night spent sleeping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "sleepy pup" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pet dog" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wake dog" | ||||
Floyd | The collie, moving like lightning, tries to bite your hand off, but Floyd | you withdraw just in time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Oh hey, storm's over." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I suspected that might happen if we woke the dog." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dog" | ||||
Floyd | A sleek, speckled, black and white border collie. The archetypal Floyd | sheepdog, it is laid out flat after a hard night spent sleeping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe something's on tv." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And now it's asleep again." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn on tv" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "or dig through cushions." | |||
| stewie says, "We might as well search the garden." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x couch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cushions" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look through window" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take curtains" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hair" | ||||
Floyd | The rug is even thicker than an agriculture minister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take rug" | ||||
Floyd | It's a bit to bulky to carry around with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take hair" | ||||
Floyd | It's a bit to bulky to carry around with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take dog" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the border collie would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "is there something under the rug?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ooh, good idea" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under rug" | ||||
Floyd | You can't easily look under the rug - its a little too bulky for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh. That's a bulky rug." | |||
| stewie asks, "move rug?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe we need to get the dog to move." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move rug" | ||||
Floyd | The mat seems to be fixed down at one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "; lift rug?" | |||
| Touchy says, "oh ho" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "might there be a trapdoor?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lift rug" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "roll rug?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Might be, yes." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe there's something to tempt the dog away." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "roll rug" | ||||
Floyd | You can't roll it up while the dog's on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "We need to get the dog away I guess.." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Like a tasty chicken." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to PG), "That's what I'm a-thinkin', yeah." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "(probably not)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to PG), "Oh-HO." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, that's probably a bit complex, but we can try." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we're done here for now, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Storm's over, let's go check out the garden" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | A garden fork has been rammed disrespectfully into a steaming compost Floyd | heap in one corner of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "we could search bed." | |||
| aarondev asks, "seeds for chickens, chickens for dog?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||||
Floyd | In amongst the bushes you find a garish pink toy pistol. You can well Floyd | imagine that it would come in useful here - there is a direct shot Floyd | straight across the street. Floyd | Floyd | The owner of the house looks out at you, suspiciously. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to aarondev), "Yeah, that's what I'm thinking." | |||
| stewie cheers! | Jacqueline says, "Uh-oh - owners watching us." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fork" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | The farmer taps firmly on the window and shouts something Floyd | unintelligible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a burnt-out battery Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | There is a creak as the window eases open and a rifle barrel sneaks Floyd | through the crack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "argh inventory limit" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "OH geez. Inventory management" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, lame" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put battery in remote" | ||||
Floyd | You put the burnt-out battery into the remote control. Floyd | Floyd | The farmer shouts "Get out of my garden or tha'll get what thee Floyd | deserve!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "put the battery back in the control, maybe it saves... right" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fork" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll count to four!" he shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I don't think we've taken the pistol" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "We could probably drop our note" | ||||
| aarondev asks, "do we need the note?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I just realized." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop note" | ||||
Floyd | You feel guilty about having despoiled the countryside. Litter-bugs Floyd | only have a few chances before they are caught red-handed. Floyd | Floyd | "One..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pistol" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot farmer with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the trigger but nothing comes out. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "eep" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane | ParserGirl says, "Oh crap. We're probably going to get melted for littering." | |||
Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You feel guilty about having despoiled the countryside. Litter-bugs Floyd | only have a few chances before they are caught red-handed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oope" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "er oops" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a toy pistol here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a faxed note here. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "darn." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Thought the timer would restart." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | garden fork: Dropped. Floyd | rubber glove: Dropped. Floyd | leaflet: You feel guilty about having despoiled the countryside. Floyd | Litter-bugs only have a few chances before they are caught red-handed. Floyd | faxed note: You feel guilty about having despoiled the countryside. Floyd | Litter-bugs only have a few chances before they are caught red-handed. Floyd | remote control: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a toy pistol here. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll count to four!" he shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | rain clouds: It's hard to pick up an accumulation of water vapour half Floyd | a mile above your head. Floyd | angry farmer: I don't suppose the angry farmer would care for that. Floyd | toy pistol: Taken. Floyd | flower bed: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | "One..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Man I just had a heart attack when the wind slammed the window shut" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fork" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get inside the house. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | A crumpled leaflet, heartlessly discarded by yourself just moments Floyd | ago, blows back and forth in the gentle summer breeze. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a remote control (in which is a burnt-out battery), a Floyd | faxed note, a rubber glove and a garden fork here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | rain clouds: It's hard to pick up an accumulation of water vapour half Floyd | a mile above your head. Floyd | wooden gate: That's fixed in place. Floyd | remote control: Taken. Floyd | faxed note: Taken. Floyd | leaflet: Taken. Floyd | rubber glove: Taken. Floyd | garden fork: You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | sign: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Volvo: It's a tad heavy to pick up. Floyd | boot: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fork" | ||||
Floyd | The six-pronged garden fork seems to be quite expensive. The handle is Floyd | made of some sort of exotic, dark wood, and just below the triangular Floyd | hand-hold there is a small silver plaque, inscribed simply with a Floyd | single ornamented letter D. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "is it dick's?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Uh oh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Man, nice garden fork." | ||||
| inky asks, "or the devil's?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x plaque" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "I this should be a free-for-all meaning everyone should drive because I think this game is really long." | |||
| Touchy says (to inky), "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "ha. Point." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "People were having trouble keeping up when everyone was typing." | ||||
| Nitku says, "I don't mind if it takes a bit longer this way." | ||||
| stewie says, "We've done all the ideas I've thought of so it wouldn't be like that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, you've played before stewie, so if we had a free for all you'd need to wait until the point where you are in new territory. And I think you already knew about that pistol." | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Where else is there to go?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we could go ask Dick about the fork" | ||||
| stewie says, "I really have no idea what to do now." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "That's a good idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Okay. Glad to hear." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We probably need to take the fork with us." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "What's the deal with the three dudes? I had to skim that in scrollback." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a remote control (which is open) Floyd | a burnt-out battery Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop glove" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fork" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "isn't tom, dick and harry a joke?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "did we examine the pistol?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "It's a cliche of sorts, yes." | ||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The pistol is an uninspiring shade of washed-out pink, but makes up Floyd | for it with the battery-powered sound effects generator tagged on to Floyd | the handle. Its pea-sized water tank is currently empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "yeah, maybe it has a abattery or something" | |||
| aarondev exclaims, "battery!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Battery-powered!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x handle" | ||||
Floyd | The six-pronged garden fork seems to be quite expensive. The handle is Floyd | made of some sort of exotic, dark wood, and just below the triangular Floyd | hand-hold there is a small silver plaque, inscribed simply with a Floyd | single ornamented letter D. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev says, "then we can open the boot to our car" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't open the pistol, but you could perhaps open the attached Floyd | sound effects generator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open generator" | ||||
Floyd | You open the sound-effects generator, revealing a watch battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "WOO" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take battery" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the burnt-out battery or the watch battery? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "watch battery" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the burnt-out battery or the watch battery? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take watch batter" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the watch battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take watch battery" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "GAAAH" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a remote control (which is open) Floyd | a burnt-out battery Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop fork and leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | garden fork: Dropped. Floyd | leaflet: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "we can only carry a certain amount of stuff it gets really annoying" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take watch battery" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev says, "drop the burned out battery too" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop burnt-out battery" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take burnt-out battery" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop burnt-out battery" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put watch battery in remote" | ||||
Floyd | You put the watch battery into the remote control. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close remote" | ||||
Floyd | You close the remote control. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop pistol" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fork and leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | garden fork: Taken. Floyd | leaflet: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about fork" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show fork to dick" | ||||
Floyd | Old Dick is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mmkay, not Dick's fork." | |||
| inky says, ">ASK DICK IF HE WANTS TO FORK" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a rubber glove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "can't we open the car now?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Fork you, man." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Stewie), "Yes, that's where I'm headed. Patience, Precious." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock volvo" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the Volvo with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remote" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh puh-leeze" | |||
| stewie says, "push button" | ||||
| inky says, "isn't there a button on the remote or something" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use remote" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x remote" | ||||
Floyd | A beautifully styled black handset with an invitingly red button in Floyd | the middle. A small panel on the back allows you to change the Floyd | battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | The car merrily beeps out the theme tune to the Wombles in four-part Floyd | harmony, its lights flashing in time to the music, and there is then a Floyd | half-hearted click as the doors unlock. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open car" | ||||
Floyd | You open the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in volve" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in volvo" | ||||
Floyd | There's very little point getting in the car - you've got a job to do! Floyd | But you might like to have a look in the boot... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open boot" | ||||
Floyd | You open the boot, revealing a briefcase, a white coat and a key ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Inventory limit hooray" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "yay!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x briefcase" | ||||
Floyd | A fat, capacious briefcase, with plenty of space for notebook Floyd | computers, personal organisers and other useless gimmicks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mmm... capacious." | |||
| aarondev says, "I hate to drop out when the game is getting good, but I have to go. Thanks, I had fun" | ||||
| Nitku says, "bye Aaron" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Briefcase holdall? We can hope." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I must know what is in side this marvelous briefcase." | ||||
| Touchy says, "see you" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Aaron), "Bye. See you again soon, hopefully." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open briefcase" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "NOOOOO" | |||
| aarondev disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Gerynar says, "I'll take aarondev's place" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Gerynar), "Sweet." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Try the keys" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was just about to do that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take keys" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock briefcase with keys" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the briefcase. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open briefcase" | ||||
Floyd | You open the briefcase, revealing a glass jar and a typed note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a remote control (which is closed) Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put leaflet and note and remote in briefcase" | ||||
Floyd | leaflet: Done. Floyd | faxed note: Done. Floyd | remote control: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take briefcase" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take coat" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear coat" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the white coat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x coat" | ||||
Floyd | The statutory mantle worn by psychiatrists and mad laboratory Floyd | technicians. It has two conveniently large pockets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in pockets" | ||||
Floyd | The white coat is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Two holdalls." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the faxed note or the typed note? Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "are there many games that have the stuff fall out of a case if you pick it up while still open?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "typed note" | ||||
Floyd | Operation: Red-Chevette Floyd | Agent: 667 Floyd | Floyd | You might find that this comes in useful, I've heard it's more potent Floyd | than it looks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Gerynar), "There should be, except that would be really annoying." | |||
| stewie asks, "Who's agent 666?" | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Oh. Are we supposed to be looking for a contact?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "I'm guessing us." | ||||
| stewie says, "we're 667" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "Yeah. The faxed note implied that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Ah" | ||||
| stewie asks, "so how can we be 666?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "There's still the jar." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe Tom, Dick, or - hm. What about the neighbor? Maybe we should yell 'red-chevette' at him before he shoots us." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x jar" | ||||
Floyd | A small blank glass jar. It is full of a clear liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x liquid" | ||||
Floyd | A small blank glass jar. It is full of a clear liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "drink liquid?" | |||
| (from Jacqueline) Jacqueline says, "Let's drink it!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "heh. Well, I think we'll die, but sure. That's what save is for." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | You open the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hmhmhm" | |||
| stewie says, "and undo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink liquid" | ||||
Floyd | You daren't risk drinking the unknown liquid. After all, it could be Floyd | flat lemonade, and that would just be plain disgusting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| Touchy says, "Could always feed the dog..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close jar" | ||||
Floyd | You close the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Oh yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, drug the dog and look for a trap door or go see if the dude with the shotgun is 666?" | ||||
| stewie says, "I think this should be a free-for-all" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is a little wacky, by the way." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, let's vote. Free-for-all or driver?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I won't vote." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Driver." | ||||
| Gerynar votes driver | ||||
| Touchy says, "I think there is no reason ever to not have a driver." | ||||
| Nitku says, "driver" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Stewie), "I think you've been out-voted." | ||||
| Touchy says, "It just makes things more orderly and improves communication." | ||||
| stewie says, "We'll be here forever" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry. Democracy and all." | ||||
| Touchy says (to stewie), "We could also finish faster with nobody getting what's going on. We could also not play an be done now." | ||||
| stewie asks, "what's are score?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Stewie), "That's why people *want* a driver. It goes too fast to keep up with otherwise. This is different than playing alone. I'm sorry if you don't like this experience. You don't have to play with us, of course, though we enjoy having another player with good ideas." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 5 out of a possible 60, in 143 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Secretary of State for Agriculture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "Did we get everything from the trunk?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I think so." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in trunk" | ||||
Floyd | The boot is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, dog or neighbor?" | |||
| Nitku says, "We could fill the water pistol with the liquid" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Hm, yeah. Wonder if it works without the battery." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Probably does." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The other was just sound effects." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Then again, we're no longer in need of the battery, to be fair." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | You open the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Was it a water pistol? I only got toy pistol.." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "It has a chamber for liquid." | |||
| stewie asks, "Can't we play the sounds on the sound generator?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a white coat (being worn and empty) Floyd | a briefcase (which is open) Floyd | a remote control (which is closed) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "isn't it in the case" | |||
| Nitku says, "You dropped it in the pub I think" | ||||
| stewie says, "if we put the battery in the generator" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Where'd the pistol go? Oh - the pub!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah. Let me head that way." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a toy pistol and a burnt-out battery here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pistol" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The pistol is an uninspiring shade of washed-out pink, but makes up Floyd | for it with the battery-powered sound effects generator tagged on to Floyd | the handle. Its pea-sized water tank is currently empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour liquid in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the glass jar) Floyd | You fill the pistol from the jar. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close jar" | ||||
Floyd | You close the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "did we ask him about the pitchfork?" | |||
| stewie asks, "maybe we can shoot the dog?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Now we can shoot the dog or the neighbour" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "Yeah." | ||||
| stewie says, "I vote neighbour" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about fork" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Let's shoot the neighbor." | |||
| Touchy says, "Maybe we should drop a chevette in the pub..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Mmkay, but what if he's our contact? Can I try the password on the - oh wait, maybe I should say it here." | ||||
| stewie says, "maybe you could ask one of them about it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tom about red-chevette" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about red-chevette" | ||||
Floyd | Old Dick winks and smiles at you. "I think this young man deserves Floyd | some reward for his effort," he says. "'E's obviously an 'ard working Floyd | young'un. 'Ere, have a can of Sikston's on me." He hands you an Floyd | aluminium can and then turns back to his pint. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aha!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sikston's" | ||||
Floyd | The sealed can declares itself as: Floyd | Floyd | ?SIKSTONS' EXTREMELY PECULIAR? Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie exclaims, "we got the beer! YAY!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yay. Peculiar. I have a favorite beer called Old Peculiar." | ||||
| stewie says, "OPEN CAN" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Theakston's Old Peculiar, to be exact. Hooray for Theakston's reference!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open can" | ||||
Floyd | You yank sharply on the ring-pull which comes off easily in your hand. Floyd | After a brief sub-second the over-enthusiastic widget kicks into Floyd | action and froth and foam spurts from the can as if it were a volcano. Floyd | In shock you drop the can and its remaining contents spill onto the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AW" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie exclaims, "nooooooooooooooooooo!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Wonder what the use of that is." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's go shoot the neighbor now." | ||||
| stewie says, "undo" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of stewie), "Undo why?" | ||||
| stewie says, "try dropping then opening it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Hm, okay." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop beer" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open beer" | ||||
Floyd | You yank sharply on the ring-pull which comes off easily in your hand. Floyd | After a brief sub-second the over-enthusiastic widget kicks into Floyd | action and froth and foam spurts from the can as if it were a volcano. Floyd | In shock you drop the can and its remaining contents spill onto the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | There is a sudden flash of lightning and a distant rumble of thunder, Floyd | warning of impending gloom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "that seems kind of a bug if you aren't holding it" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe if we shake it it will blow our head off." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Weird. I already dropped it. Maybe when we open it the game secretly makes us take the can." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take can" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the garden fork into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | There is a sudden flash of lightning and a distant rumble of thunder, Floyd | warning of impending gloom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shake beer" | ||||
Floyd | You apply a shake equivalent to 6.4 on the Richter scale, but nothing Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You apply a shake equivalent to 6.4 on the Richter scale, but nothing Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open can" | ParserGirl says, "MEGASHAKE" | |||
Floyd | You yank sharply on the ring-pull which comes off easily in your hand. Floyd | After a brief sub-second the over-enthusiastic widget kicks into Floyd | action and froth and foam spurts from the can as if it were a volcano. Floyd | In shock you drop the can and its remaining contents spill onto the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Aww." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | stewie says, "uh it's empty" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a can of beer Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a white coat (being worn and empty) Floyd | a briefcase (which is open) Floyd | a remote control (which is closed) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, you get the ring pull out of it" | |||
| inky says, "I assume" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "True." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But let's keep it intact until we think we need it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put beer in pocket" | ||||
Floyd | You put the can of beer into the white coat. Floyd | Floyd | There is a sudden flash of lightning and a distant rumble of thunder, Floyd | warning of impending gloom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put keys in pocket" | ||||
Floyd | You put the key ring into the white coat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Yeah, in case we need to fix a blind or something." | |||
| Touchy chuckles. | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Neighbor?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a rubber glove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot neighbor with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | * Gunther has joined the channel. | |||
| stewie says, "farmer" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot farmer with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly towards the farmer who just gets even more Floyd | angry. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oops" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe he'd like a refreshing beer." | |||
| stewie says, "undo I think we need the liqquid" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a rubber glove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Not only do we need the liquid, we want there to be room on the farmer-will-shoot-us timer." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give beer to farmer" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the can of beer) Floyd | The farmer shouts several expletives and then shuts up. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a rubber glove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "throw beer at farmer?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take globe" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take glove" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think we have what we need in the farmer location, myself, but I can try it." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe we should try the dog." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "throw beer at farmer" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the can of beer) Floyd | (putting the garden fork into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | The farmer shouts several expletives and then shuts up. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yay garden fork fits in the briefcase (sigh)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "say the mission name?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask farmer about red-chevette" | ||||
Floyd | The farmer shouts several expletives and then shuts up. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Dog now." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says to floyd, fart in farmer's face | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The farmhouse's lounge closely resembles a bomb site. An old sofa, Floyd | covered in ragged blankets and thin cushions, is positioned opposite a Floyd | large TV and a wide, open fireplace. The window, hung with clashing Floyd | flowery curtains, faces out onto the farmyard. A door in the east wall Floyd | leads out to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Laid out in front of the fireplace is a thick hearth-rug, covered in Floyd | dog hair. Floyd | Floyd | Curled up on the rug there is, of course, a dog. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie exclaims, "shoot it!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot dog with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly out of the pistol and into the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The wind picks up and the sky darkens as black rain-clouds appear on Floyd | the western horizon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Lounge Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | You open the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | The wind picks up and the sky darkens as black rain-clouds appear on Floyd | the western horizon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give jar to dog" | ||||
Floyd | The border collie will have none of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | |||
| Nitku says, "Try to put the battery in the gun." | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "It didn't even reach the dog?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to PG), "Nope" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open remote" | ||||
Floyd | You open the remote control, revealing a watch battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take watch battery" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the garden fork into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put battery in generator" | ||||
Floyd | You put the watch battery into the sound-effects generator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close generator" | ||||
Floyd | You close the sound-effects generator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot dog with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly out of the pistol and into the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Odd. it hit the farmer." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Lounge Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "Yeah. That is odd." | |||
| inky asks, "can you turn on the generator?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x generator" | ||||
Floyd | The generator consists of a panel on the gun's handle. It has a small Floyd | battery compartment and three buttons - blue, green, and yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "buttons!" | ||||
| stewie says, "just push the buttons" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push blue" | ||||
Floyd | Mooooooooooo! Mooooooooooo! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline's eyes get big. | ||||
| inky says, "cow gun" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push green" | ||||
Floyd | Baaaaaaaaaaa! Baaaaaaaaaa! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push yellow" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the yellow button or the sou'wester? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "button" | ||||
Floyd | Woof! Woof! Woof! Floyd | Floyd | The collie gets very excited and jumps up from the mat, leaping in a Floyd | canine frenzy at the gun. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "WOO" | |||
| inky says, "interesting" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move rug" | ||||
Floyd | The mat seems to be fixed down at one end. Floyd | Floyd | Black cumulonimbus clouds tower over Skebdale to the north-west. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "cool found solution by accident" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Roll, I think." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "roll rug" | ||||
Floyd | You roll up the hearth-rug, revealing beneath a small wooden trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "buahahahar" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Man, cliche" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open trap" | ||||
Floyd | There is nothing for you to grip the trapdoor with, so you are left Floyd | scrabbling futilely along the thin crack at its rim. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "do you like fish sticks?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Need something to pry with." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pry trap with fork" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fork" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie pads off towards the farm hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open trap with fork" | ||||
Floyd | The prongs of the fork fit perfectly into the holes and you easily Floyd | manage to lever the trapdoor open. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline smiles. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 17 out of a possible 60, in 186 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Daisy the dyslexic dairy cow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, ">roll up cleopatra" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Maze and lightsource puzzle, here we come." | ||||
| stewie says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "Heehee. You're just hoping there'll be smoochies with some Roman soon." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door is more firmly shut than the main air-lock on Space Floyd | Shuttle Paranoia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the enormous door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | An enormous, circular door, no doubt made of some extremely unlikely Floyd | space age metal which can only be cut using a knife blade forged in Floyd | the core of a red giant. Or something like that. There, right in the Floyd | centre, is one of those lock-cum-handle thingummybobs that you get on Floyd | all good bank vaults. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Huh." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Combo" | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Can we turn it like a dial?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x thingummybob" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn handle" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial) Floyd | Which way? Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "666!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn handle to 666" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "Where can we get a combo?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x handle" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial) Floyd | The lock is the traditional turning type, with eight letters arranged Floyd | evenly around the dial: Floyd | Floyd | E Floyd | o Floyd | D | Z Floyd | \|/ Floyd | N-----+-----S Floyd | /|\ Floyd | I | L Floyd | | Floyd | W Floyd | Floyd | There is a small black button underneath the uppermost letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Maybe it's a word puzzle?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "maybe we need to enter a name" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Windezsl" | ||||
| stewie asks, "It looks like we need to spell something with the dial?" | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Did the papers have anything about this?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, Tom nor Dick nor Harry will work." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Hm... good idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the faxed note or the typed note? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read faxed note" | ||||
Floyd | Your instructions from head office, scribbled untidily and faxed to Floyd | you without regard for legibility. Peering at the note you can only Floyd | make out a few words: Floyd | Floyd | Reference: DCK 817S Floyd | Operation: Red-Chevette Floyd | Floyd | Task: Agent 398-MUGWUG reports serious epidemic risk in Skebdale Floyd | region of Yorkshire. Agent claims cross-over risk of BSE without beef Floyd | consumption. Use operation codeword to gain contact, he will be lying Floyd | low in disguise. Floyd | Floyd | If possible also investigate allegations of widespread devil worship Floyd | in Skebdale area. Agent reports possible links. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "DCK was Dick, I guess." | |||
| ParserGirl says, ";The only letters that aren't NWSE are DZIL" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Those don't spell anything, but maybe they don't have to." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But then, I think guessing is just going to take up time." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There's surely a clue somewhere." | ||||
| stewie says, "I think we turn the dial left and right and push the button to select." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe someone wrote it on the wall or board" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x typed note" | ||||
Floyd | Operation: Red-Chevette Floyd | Agent: 667 Floyd | Floyd | You might find that this comes in useful, I've heard it's more potent Floyd | than it looks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So the beer is potent?" | |||
| Nitku says, "I think it refers to the jar" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I thought it was the liquid." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, true." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | It's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour liquid on handle" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pour the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour jar on handle" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pour the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "put liquid on handle?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Tried that already." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot handle with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial with the toy pistol) Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly out of the pistol and into the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a can of beer Floyd | a briefcase (which is open) Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "What happens if you push the black button?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | The leaflet has been torn, mud-bespattered, and generally maltreated, Floyd | and as such you can make out very little, but it seems to cover topics Floyd | as wide ranging as sheep varieties, weather forecasting and the Floyd | country code. It also includes a badly typeset advert for a badly Floyd | typeset computer game called 'LSE' by Shirc Shimt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I can't see him setting up this dial puzzle and then not using it." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push black button" | ||||
Floyd | The door emits a long, low pitched beep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "OH! what is the country code?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "For the UK?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe we're violating ettiquette with the farmer." | ||||
| inky asks, "011 or something?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "We can look it up in the leaflet." | ||||
| inky says, "maybe that's the US" | ||||
| stewie says, "maybe we haven't found what we need to turn the dial to yet." | ||||
| Nitku says, "You can spell "LSE" with the dial" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look up country code in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | The main points of the country code are, according to the leaflet: Floyd | Floyd | - Guard against all risk of fire. Floyd | - Leave gates as you find them. Floyd | - Keep dogs under close control. Floyd | - Keep to public footpaths. Floyd | - Take your litter home. Floyd | - Make no unnecessary noise. Floyd | Floyd | The leaflet goes on to explain how anyone breaking the code in Floyd | Skebdale faces punishment by the Skebdale flying squad, an elite group Floyd | of park wardens who punish criminals quickly and efficiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "True" | |||
| inky says, "oh, heh" | ||||
| Gunther says, "+44" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn handle to L" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "turn dial left" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | Z Floyd | o Floyd | E | S Floyd | \|/ Floyd | D-----+-----L Floyd | /|\ Floyd | N | W Floyd | | Floyd | I Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "heh" | |||
| Gunther says, "I'm serious" | ||||
| stewie says, "oops" | ||||
| stewie says, "I can't actually access this part because I'm blind." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Oh, that was an accident? okay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x handle" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial) Floyd | The lock is the traditional turning type, with eight letters arranged Floyd | evenly around the dial: Floyd | Floyd | Z Floyd | o Floyd | E | S Floyd | \|/ Floyd | D-----+-----L Floyd | /|\ Floyd | N | W Floyd | | Floyd | I Floyd | Floyd | There is a small black button underneath the uppermost letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "43 is Austria, 44 is UK, 49 is Germany" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "D is across from L, E from W, S from" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door is more firmly shut than the main air-lock on Space Floyd | Shuttle Paranoia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x handle" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial) Floyd | The lock is the traditional turning type, with eight letters arranged Floyd | evenly around the dial: Floyd | Floyd | E Floyd | o Floyd | D | Z Floyd | \|/ Floyd | N-----+-----S Floyd | /|\ Floyd | I | L Floyd | | Floyd | W Floyd | Floyd | There is a small black button underneath the uppermost letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, LSE?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "I know that's the UK country code." | ||||
| Nitku says, "I don't think it'll work but worth a shot" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I think that was a play on BSE and the autheor's name" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I've dialed a ton of times... but this puzzle's alpha, not numeric." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "That was my thought, but it may be worth a try." | ||||
| Gunther says, "well, someone asked" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe we just need N to be at top." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "Or am I missing something? Oh." | ||||
| Gerynar asks, "is there anything else in this room?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Gerynar), "Not really." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door is more firmly shut than the main air-lock on Space Floyd | Shuttle Paranoia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x props" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Think N needs to go up? I can try that, too." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn handle right" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial right) Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | D Floyd | o Floyd | N | E Floyd | \|/ Floyd | I-----+-----Z Floyd | /|\ Floyd | W | S Floyd | | Floyd | L Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial right) Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | N Floyd | o Floyd | I | D Floyd | \|/ Floyd | W-----+-----E Floyd | /|\ Floyd | L | Z Floyd | | Floyd | S Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press black" | ||||
Floyd | The door emits a long, low pitched beep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn handle right" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial right) Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | I Floyd | o Floyd | W | N Floyd | \|/ Floyd | L-----+-----D Floyd | /|\ Floyd | S | E Floyd | | Floyd | Z Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial right) Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | W Floyd | o Floyd | L | I Floyd | \|/ Floyd | S-----+-----N Floyd | /|\ Floyd | Z | D Floyd | | Floyd | E Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial right) Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | L Floyd | o Floyd | S | W Floyd | \|/ Floyd | Z-----+-----I Floyd | /|\ Floyd | E | N Floyd | | Floyd | D Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press black" | ||||
Floyd | The door emits a long, low pitched beep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn handle right" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial right) Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | S Floyd | o Floyd | Z | L Floyd | \|/ Floyd | E-----+-----W Floyd | /|\ Floyd | D | I Floyd | | Floyd | N Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press black" | ||||
Floyd | The door emits a long, low pitched beep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn handle right" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial right) Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | Z Floyd | o Floyd | E | S Floyd | \|/ Floyd | D-----+-----L Floyd | /|\ Floyd | N | W Floyd | | Floyd | I Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial right) Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | E Floyd | o Floyd | D | Z Floyd | \|/ Floyd | N-----+-----S Floyd | /|\ Floyd | I | L Floyd | | Floyd | W Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press black" | ||||
Floyd | The door emits a long, low pitched beep. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, how should I do this?" | |||
| Gunther says, "correctly" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ideas?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "Okay, how about helpful ideas." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Maybe Dick knows the right combination" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Try opening the door." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I mean, seeing if it unlocked." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "That is a helpful idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I suspect it will make a new noise when we get it." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe we can ask one of the bar dudes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That idea has merit. To the pub!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The farmhouse's lounge closely resembles a bomb site. An old sofa, Floyd | covered in ragged blankets and thin cushions, is positioned opposite a Floyd | large TV and a wide, open fireplace. The window, hung with clashing Floyd | flowery curtains, faces out onto the farmyard. A door in the east wall Floyd | leads out to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | A dark staircase leads downwards from the open trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | A rolled up rug lies on the floor next to the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hm. Can I go out in the storm?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | The unusually violent storm suddenly dies and Skebdale is silent and Floyd | peaceful once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a burnt-out battery here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about air-lock" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about enormous door" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about handle" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Ask Dick about what, precisely?" | |||
| Nitku says, "dial" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dick about dial" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hmph" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Dick about underground passage." | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Tunnel" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Dick about tunnel" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe one of the other guys knows." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Dick, follow me." | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tom about tunnel" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about tunnel" | ||||
Floyd | "I've no idea what tha' mean, lad." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Usually when one of them knows and the others don't, they seem to tell you who to ask." | |||
| ParserGirl asks, "Wasnt' there something about "having a clear shot across the street" when we dug up the pistol?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There was, yes." | ||||
| inky says, "well, this is obviously the generic failure message" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I don't know what that involves." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No idea how to cash in on that 'clear shot' thing, but it'd be very cool to get in that dude's house because he's hiding something we want I can just sense it that jerk." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Though it may just be a boondoggle." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We were on such a roll there for a bit." | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Oh. Could we boil the water and then put it in the pistol?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "There's still that kettle." | ||||
| Nitku says, "When you shot at the farmer it had a non-standard response, so maybe there's something to it" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of ParserGirl), "Hm... then spray the neighbor?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, farmer" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "And then there's the tractor." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Think it'd stay hot enough?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I can try that, unless someone else has another thought?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Or you can heat up the liquid" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "The theory should hold water." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "There's already some in the kettle and he didn't want to pour it out." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we got points for putting the liquid in the gun, but maybe we'd have gotten points for putting anything in the gun." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||||
Floyd | [r -> drop] Floyd | What do you want to drop? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmhouse Kitchen Floyd | Painted in an uninspiring shade of pastel cream-gunk, the farmhouse Floyd | kitchen has evolved over time into a mixture of modern and ancient Floyd | appliances jumbled against the walls. Decorated with stains ranging Floyd | from champagne to tomato ketchup, the ceiling has obviously seen Floyd | country life in all its glory. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a kettle here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "heat kettle" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn on kettle" | ||||
Floyd | The kettle isn't plugged in, so nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plug in kettle" | ||||
Floyd | There's no socket here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take kettle" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the toy pistol into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plug in kettle" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to put the kettle down first. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline take a deep breath to calm down. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop kettle" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plug in kettle" | ||||
Floyd | The cable won't stretch from the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take kettle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put kettle on rack" | ||||
Floyd | You balance the kettle on the welly rack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plug in kettle" | ||||
Floyd | You plug the kettle in. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "HATE AND RAGE" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn on kettle" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the kettle on. A little red light above the switch jumps Floyd | into life to show you it is working. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x jar" | ||||
Floyd | A small blank glass jar. It is half full of a clear liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | It's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol into jar" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol) Floyd | You fire the contents of the pistol back into the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wow. That actually worked." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close jar" | ||||
Floyd | You close the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little cold water. I Floyd | shouldn't waste it: after all, there is a water shortage in Skebdale Floyd | at the moment. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| two-star arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little warm water, Floyd | and is gently steaming. Its black power wire leads to a white Floyd | three-pin plug. | ParserGirl says, "The random switch to first person jars me." | |||
Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah, it's warm now." | |||
| ParserGirl asks, "Will it get hotter?" | ||||
| stewie says, "the water might evaporate and we might need it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | Jacqueline says, "I would think it'd get really hot, yeah." | |||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to stewie), "possibly." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little hot water, and Floyd | is steaming furiously. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin Floyd | plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hot, or do we want boiling?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "let's try for boiling." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little hot water, and Floyd | is steaming furiously. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin Floyd | plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little boiling water, Floyd | and is still steaming. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin Floyd | plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | The kettle, having boiled, switches itself off, and the red indicator Floyd | light dies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 19 out of a possible 60, in 255 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Daisy the dyslexic dairy cow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Here's where I burn us." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Cool." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour water in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the kettle or the steam? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour kettlein pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "kttle" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour kettle in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the kettle) Floyd | Although made of plastic, the kettle is still far too hot to pick up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unplug kettle" | ||||
Floyd | You unplug the kettle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "maybe we can put the glove on the kettle" | |||
| stewie says, "wear the glove" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a can of beer Floyd | a briefcase (which is open) Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Won't fit." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "We can't wear it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pick up kettle with glove" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pick up the kettle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||||
Floyd | You try and pull the glove on, but it is too small for either of your Floyd | well-built hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of stewie), "Man. Please listen to us? Please?" | |||
| stewie says, "I just wanted to see what happened" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe the kettle will cool after a few turns." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but then the water won't be boiling." | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Could we stretch the glove somehow?" | ||||
| stewie asks, "fill pistol from kettle?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of nitku), "With... steam?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Try just putting the glove on the kettle." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "We can't pick up the kettle right now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put glove on kettle" | ||||
Floyd | That would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x steam" | ||||
Floyd | Hot, wet, and steamy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Or just by stretching or pulling it." | |||
| stewie says, "no type fill pistol from kettle" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stretch glove" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fill pistol from kettle" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the kettle) Floyd | (putting the glass jar into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | You fill the pistol with water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take kettle" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little hot water, and Floyd | is steaming furiously. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin Floyd | plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's not boiling anymore" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Yeah, it let us pick it up. after a turn or two" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe the water's still hot enough. We could try it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I can run over there and shoot him, but I suspect - okay." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Surely I can't shoot him from this house, despite that hint, but I could try." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie trots towards you from the main barn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot farmer" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe the dog will eat him." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot farmer with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly towards the farmer who just gets even more Floyd | angry. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Towards, but doesn't hit, I don't think." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "did we ever examine him, or attack him, or try just pushing past him." | |||
| Nitku says, "Wait, does that mean ... yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stab farmer with fork" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "attack farmer" | ||||
Floyd | The farmer shouts several expletives and then shuts up. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x farmer" | ||||
Floyd | He never bothers to prosecute trespassers: he has far better methods. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Ideas?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "throw jar at farmer" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the glass jar) Floyd | (putting the rubber glove into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | The farmer shouts several expletives and then shuts up. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Try just going east" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill farmer" | ||||
Floyd | The farmer shouts several expletives and then shuts up. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get inside the house. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Let's try going east, past him." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We can't." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I just tried." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push car" | ||||
Floyd | You did remember to put the handbrake off, even if you did lock Floyd | yourself out! Floyd | Floyd | There is a sudden flash of lightning and a distant rumble of thunder, Floyd | warning of impending gloom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "release brake" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the wooden gate is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie trots towards you from the farm hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oops. Meant barn." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search tractor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see inside, since it is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Hmm. Twine." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open tractor" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie trots towards you from the farmyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x collie" | ||||
Floyd | A sleek, speckled, black and white border collie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press yellow button" | ||||
Floyd | Woof! Woof! Woof! Floyd | Floyd | The noise reverberates around the surrounding hills, and you feel a Floyd | pang of guilt at having disturbed the peace and quiet of the valley. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | stewie asks, "has anyone here played causality?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Can we untie the haystacks and search them" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Uh, oh...violating the rules.." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh crap, you're right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Barn Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "when I was playing there was a ledge in this area." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tractor" | ||||
Floyd | The tractor was presumably new once (most things were), but its paint Floyd | has started to peel off, with bubbles of rust forming all over the Floyd | bodywork. The makers mark on the side reads simply 'Case Floyd | International'. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "x ledge" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ledge" | ||||
Floyd | A stack of hay, towering vertically upwards. Half-way up, just out of Floyd | reach, there is a small ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb hay" | ||||
Floyd | The haystack is far too steep to climb unaided. However, you can Floyd | almost, but not quite, reach a tiny ledge about a metre above your Floyd | head. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie pads off towards the farmyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb ledge" | ||||
Floyd | The haystack is far too steep to climb unaided. However, you can Floyd | almost, but not quite, reach a tiny ledge about a metre above your Floyd | head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "How did we get up there earlier?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb tractor" | ||||
Floyd | You climb up the tractor onto its roof. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "climb tractor" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb ledge" | ||||
Floyd | By standing on the tractor you can just reach the ledge and haul Floyd | yourself over the brink... Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe we can look at the top of the haystack, or get on it" | |||
| inky says, "woo" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "oh!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That was hidden and sekrit and not intuitive bah." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Well, let's let the rope ladder down so we don't have to do that again." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||||
Floyd | A strong rope ladder, twined around several bales on the edge of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "the command for this is weird" | |||
| Guest1 arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Nitku says, "I don't think we ever x'd the haystacks." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unfurl ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You unroll the ladder which just reaches the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "oh" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "We are rewarded with a new passage, too." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "Do not read the walkthrough. Do not hint. Stop, stop, stop." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "You knew the command because you're reading ahead, aren't you?" | ||||
| stewie says, "no I thought the command was unroll ladder" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Well, okay. Sorry if I jumped the gun on that. I don't mean to accuse, it's just htat you... have a history." | ||||
| Nitku takes out the pitchforks and torches, hands them around | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "heh" | ||||
| stewie says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, who's up for mapping." | ||||
| stewie says, "starts hacking appart random people with a chainsaw." | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Are we going to torcher him?" | ||||
| Guest1 goes home. | Jacqueline says, "I think this might be that maze." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Nitku, you mappin'?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | Nitku says, "I can do it, sure" | |||
Floyd | You can't squeeze down the tunnel while holding anything, as you need Floyd | your hands free to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh man, this game." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | briefcase: Dropped. Floyd | rubber glove: Dropped. Floyd | garden fork: Dropped. Floyd | kettle: Dropped. Floyd | toy pistol: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Bing. Maze." | |||
| stewie exclaims, "you'll never find it again!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll go straight for now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Ledge Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I like hay." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, backtracking." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "something tells me that's just a recursive direction to go." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Cycling on itself." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe it's one of those mazes where your direction changes while walking..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Oh man, maybe. I do so hate mazes." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Nitku), "Mapper, have you a thought here?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | I'd get out of here if I was you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I'd get out of here if I was you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | | Nitku says, "Well I have a paper with four circles and some lines" | |||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | two-star says, "I'd >push hay is what I'd do." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Nitku), "Is this where I turn e?" | |||
| Nitku says, "one before this" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "nope, one more" | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Can we go up or down?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait, one before, or after." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to PG), "No" | ||||
| ParserGirl goes home. | Jacqueline says, "I think I went south five times, and have only gone north four." | |||
| Nitku says, "I'll check" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay, thanks" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ok, you're right, I missed one s" | ||||
| ParserGirl arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "Okay, thanks." | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "grr" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Restoring, methinks." | ||||
| Nitku says, "No, you should've gone e" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | stewie says, "I think you have to get through the maze to complete the game" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I would suggest some crazy running around if we get lost again.." | |||
| Touchy says, "For reasons unknown that sometimes works." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Touncy), "That's always useful in a maze." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Touchy), "Does it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, what about two-star's idea?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "That's usually how I solve mazes." | ||||
| stewie says, "if we put the game in brief mode then we can tell the rooms we've already visited." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of ParserGirl), "How's that?" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "When did two-star ever say anything about mazes?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "He said that we should push bales of hay." | ||||
| Nitku asks, "is the "I'd get out of here" a hint? Would just OUT work?" | ||||
| two-star says, "2005. Try to keep up." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Stewie), "That's not a bad idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Now that I've restored..." | ||||
| Touchy says, "But it shouldn't work.." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||||
Floyd | BSE is now in its normal "brief" printing mode, which gives long Floyd | descriptions of places never before visited and short descriptions Floyd | otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Touchy), "What shouldn't work?" | |||
| Touchy says, "The brief thingy.." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, Nitku, why don't you drive and map, so that I know I'm not going too fast." | ||||
| stewie asks, "why not?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Touchy), "Shouldn't it?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ok then" | ||||
| Touchy says, "It might of course.." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a toy pistol, a kettle, a garden fork, a rubber glove Floyd | and a briefcase (in which are a glass jar, a remote control (which is Floyd | empty), a faxed note, a leaflet and a typed note) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Sorry, ignore me." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline turns her back on Touchy and crosses her arms and puts her nose up in the air. | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push haystack" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline is, of course, kidding. | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push hay" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "light hay with lighter" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So much for that pushing the hay bit. Which is probably for the best, as it would make things more complimicated." | |||
| two-star says (to floyd), "TAKE ALL" | ||||
Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "So what's the strategy?" | |||
| stewie says, "maybe you push the hay when in the barn not the maze" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "The strategy is that we let you have a crack at the maze by yourself so that you can map." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And we all watch and let you have your way." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Since you are kind enough to map." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Random wandering about it is then." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Excellent." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "I'm not sure how anyone could map this maze." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Without anything to drop..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh man, it *did* say all directions, didn't it? Cardinal and diagonal..." | ||||
| Touchy says, "or other marker.." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to stewie), "It's called mapping." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I'll go get a scroll of magic mapping from #nethack." | |||
| Nitku says, "It doesn't seem to have a very mappable geography" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "If only" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "New!" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| two-star says (to floyd), "search" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to search? Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "It seems random" | |||
| ParserGirl asks, "did we try up or down?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | I'd get out of here if I was you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I'd get out of here if I was you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to climb? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb hay" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe we have to search the "dead" end." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x bale" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "fart" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "search hay" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "Any ideas?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "The mapping isn't really working?" | |||
| ParserGirl asks, "Wait. What about that twine?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "We could tie it to ourselves. Maybe." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x twine" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "twine?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I can't - PARSERGIRL YOU MAY BE A GENIUS" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, let's try that, maybe." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I does whats I cans." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I'm eating lunch. Nitku, can you continue to drive and try that?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There's twine around the bales in the main room, methinks." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks!" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a toy pistol, a kettle, a garden fork, a rubber glove Floyd | and a briefcase (in which are a glass jar, a remote control (which is Floyd | empty), a faxed note, a leaflet and a typed note) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "x twine" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hmm" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Buahahahahaarrrrr cry" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "crap in hay" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "Wait. Does the dog smell something inthe hay?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a can of beer Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Just press the button..." | |||
| Nitku says, "Hey, we can put stuff in the pockets" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "x key ring" | ||||
Floyd | Your key fob takes the form of a small model bull with a Floyd | disproportionately large ring through its nose. Wound around the ring Floyd | are your house and car keys, and a few other useful items. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a toy pistol, a kettle, a garden fork, a rubber glove Floyd | and a briefcase (in which are a glass jar, a remote control (which is Floyd | empty), a faxed note, a leaflet and a typed note) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "can we unlock the main part of the car with the car key?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "What about the pitch fork" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | rope ladder: That's fixed in place. Floyd | briefcase: Taken. Floyd | rubber glove: Taken. Floyd | garden fork: Taken. Floyd | kettle: Taken. Floyd | toy pistol: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put all in pockets" | ||||
Floyd | briefcase: That's far too big to fit in the coat pockets. Floyd | rubber glove: Done. Floyd | garden fork: That's far too big to fit in the coat pockets. Floyd | kettle: Done. Floyd | toy pistol: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says (to stewie), "it won't let us." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all from briefcase" | ||||
Floyd | glass jar: Removed. Floyd | remote control: Removed. Floyd | faxed note: Removed. Floyd | leaflet: (putting the garden fork into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | Removed. Floyd | typed note: (putting the glass jar into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | Removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put all in pockets" | ||||
Floyd | briefcase: That's far too big to fit in the coat pockets. Floyd | typed note: Done. Floyd | leaflet: Done. Floyd | faxed note: Done. Floyd | remote control: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a briefcase (which is open) Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a can of beer Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put jar in pockets" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding it before you can put it into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get jar. put it in pockets" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You put the glass jar into the white coat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "did anyone else see the bit about the dog sniffing aorund the base of the hay?" | |||
| Nitku says, "Let's go see" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow falls over Skebdale as the clouds sweep in... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x dog" | ||||
Floyd | A sleek, speckled, black and white border collie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x haystack" | ||||
Floyd | A stack of hay, towering vertically upwards. Half-way up, just out of Floyd | reach, there is a small ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |||
| two-star says (to floyd), "smell hay" | ||||
Floyd | The barn is filled with the dry, dusty scent of parched hay. Floyd | Floyd | Hailstones begin to fall to earth, melting on contact with the warm Floyd | earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "Did we look at the base of the haystack?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x base" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "look under hay" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Alright, I have to go soon. I'm going to see "Taking Woodstock"." | |||
| stewie says, "jump in hay" | ||||
| stewie says, "oops" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "jump in hay" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push yellow button" | ||||
Floyd | Woof! Woof! Woof! Floyd | Floyd | The noise reverberates around the surrounding hills, and you feel a Floyd | pang of guilt at having disturbed the peace and quiet of the valley. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Barn Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I was not particularly involved today so don't let me stop you from playing." | |||
| stewie asks, "hey can we make the dog follow us into the maze to make the way through?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Have fun, Touchy." | ||||
| stewie says, "with the buttons on the generator" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "It's fine having a driver but I miss being able to look at things" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I don't think the dog can climb the ladder" | ||||
| stewie asks, "throw dog at ledge?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "Well, ask the driver to look at what you want to see." | ||||
| ParserGirl asks (of Nitku), "can we look at the haystack, or the base, or poke it with the fork?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I tried those except the fork" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x haystack" | ||||
Floyd | A stack of hay, towering vertically upwards. Half-way up, just out of Floyd | reach, there is a small ledge. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "does anyone here play miriani or however you spell it?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x base" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "poke haystack with fork" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "hit haystack with fork" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe we can fpush it over." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push haystack" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie pads off towards the farmyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie says, "I know" | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "unlock tractor with key ring" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the key ring) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe we could break in somehow" | |||
| stewie says, "I think we need to get the tractor open" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "look in tractor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see inside, since it is closed. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie trots towards you from the farmyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Opening the tractor might be good. Then again, it might just be the climbing vehicle to get us to the hay maze." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open tractor with fork" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the garden fork) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "The only thing I can think of is mapping the maze with the items" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Sorry, was eating lunch. Are you able to get into the maze with stuff in your pocketses?" | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "unlock tractor with key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "You can put all the stuff in the coat pockets" | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "read devil in leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | Devil worship in Skebdale? How could you ever even imagine that it Floyd | could take place? Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And still get into the maze wearing the coat? That might be the next thing to try, then." | |||
| Nitku asks (of Stewie), "Do you want to drive us through the maze?" | ||||
| stewie asks, "Maybe if we asked someone about the beer at the beggining when it exploded it wouldn't of exploded?" | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Do we still have the beer?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x beer" | ||||
Floyd | The sealed can declares itself as: Floyd | Floyd | ?SIKSTONS' EXTREMELY PECULIAR? Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie trots towards you from the main barn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "ask tom about beer" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog is huddled safely beneath a rusting muckspreader, Floyd | sheltered from the storm. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "open beer" | ||||
Floyd | You yank sharply on the ring-pull which comes off easily in your hand. Floyd | After a brief sub-second the over-enthusiastic widget kicks into Floyd | action and froth and foam spurts from the can as if it were a volcano. Floyd | In shock you drop the can and its remaining contents spill onto the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' rocks violently in the gale, beckoning locals and Floyd | tourists alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the Floyd | south of the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a burnt-out battery here. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "ask tom about beer" | ||||
Floyd | "It's Sikstons' lad. 'Cheap, Cheerful, and Best Served Chilled.' If Floyd | tha' want a pint, go and tek one, as the barman's not around." Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "ask dick about beer" | ||||
Floyd | "It's Sikstons' lad. 'Cheap, Cheerful, and Best Served Chilled.' If Floyd | tha' want a pint, go and tek one, as the barman's not around." Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "ask harry about beer" | ||||
Floyd | "It's Sikstons' lad. 'Cheap, Cheerful, and Best Served Chilled.' If Floyd | tha' want a pint, go and tek one, as the barman's not around." Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks (of Stewie), "Do you want to drive us through the maze?" | |||
| stewie says, "not really" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ok I can try the item mapping then" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Not that I really know how but I have the general idea" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "ask harry about beer" | ||||
Floyd | "It's Sikstons' lad. 'Cheap, Cheerful, and Best Served Chilled.' If Floyd | tha' want a pint, go and tek one, as the barman's not around." Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "open beer" | ||||
Floyd | You yank sharply on the ring-pull which comes off easily in your hand. Floyd | After a brief sub-second the over-enthusiastic widget kicks into Floyd | action and froth and foam spurts from the can as if it were a volcano. Floyd | In shock you drop the can and its remaining contents spill onto the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | stewie asks, "can I try something quickly?" | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an empty can of beer and a burnt-out battery here. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "look in can" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | The unusually violent storm suddenly dies and Skebdale is silent and Floyd | peaceful once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline watches while eating her pasta. | |||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a briefcase (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get ring" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get pull" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get can" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "shake it" | ||||
Floyd | You shake the can and something falls out onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Green Calf Floyd | This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with Floyd | perfectly polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to Floyd | breaking point with sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single Floyd | beer pump protrudes forlornly from the bar at one end, but it is, Floyd | unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have to cope without a drink. A Floyd | well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the street. Floyd | Floyd | Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering Floyd | conspiratorially. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brass key and a burnt-out battery here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie says (to Floyd), "get key" | Nitku says, "Interesting" | |||
Floyd | (the brass key) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Very interesting." | |||
| Touchy groans. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And here we thought we needed the pull-tab thingy." | ||||
| Touchy says, "He knew there was a key in there before it came out..." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Stewie), "Did you?" | ||||
| stewie says, "yeah" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Jacq), "He tried get key straight after open can" | ||||
| JJSonick arrives, full of fun and funk. | stewie asks, "How come we didn't get points for finding that key?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "I realize, I'm just trying to work through this with him." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Stewie), "How did you know?" | ||||
| stewie says, "not sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Not sure?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sincerely not sure/" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We don't really believe you're not sure, Stewie." | ||||
| stewie says, "oh well" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You know how you knew. Just tell us." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Stewie), "Why are you using hints or a walkthrough when we've explicitly asked you not to?" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Jacq), "Let's just ask Jota to give us the ability to take away his mouth on saturdays so he can't talk anymore." | ||||
| stewie scores 35715290393 points, bringing his score to 35715290393. | stewie says, "Well I'm not sure you would of figured that out." | |||
| stewie says, "the can key thing" | ||||
| Nitku says, "You could've asked if we wanted a hint." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Dammitall, Stewie, we asked you to play with us properly, and you violated the rules again." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Again!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, Stewie, here's the thing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Everyone's been wanting to remove you, and I've been trying to get you to play well with others so you could stay. But you just aren't getting it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "People are wanting to have you gagged or removed or banned from the mud altogether." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do you understand that?" | ||||
| stewie says, "yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Am I wrong here? Am I just being mean? No. Other people will speak up..." | ||||
| stewie says, "ok get a person, and time how long it takes them to figure that out." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to stewie), "That is not the point. You so don't get it." | ||||
| Nitku says, "The point of clubfloyd is not to finish a game as fast as possible. It's to have fun playing the game." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "If we say no walkthroughs, we mean no walkthroughs. No "you didn't get it anyway", no nothing." | ||||
| stewie says, "Well after a while of getting stuck for ages the entertainment value lessens" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Still, it's not you alone who decides" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, stewie, I don't think you should play with us anymore." | ||||
| stewie has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "You can leave voluntarily, or you can be removed." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, thank you, Stewie." | ||||
| Nitku says, "I hate to say it but I agree" | ||||
| * Jacqueline has removed stewie from the channel. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Let's continue." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Glad that's sorted." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Unfortunate, but that's how it went." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Where were we?" | ||||
| Jacqueline tries to finish her lunch. | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Ok, should I continue driving or does someone else want to?" | ||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline asks, "For the purposes of the maze, could you please continue to drive?" | |||
| Nitku says, "Sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Hi." | ||||
| Nitku says, "I'll try the key first, it probably fits the tractor lock" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right. THAT key." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, can't unknow about it, might as well use it." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists Floyd | alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of Floyd | the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb fence" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie pads off towards the farmyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "unlock tractor" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the tractor with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the brass key or the key ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||||
| Gerynar dons a beanie, spins the propeller and flies off to his apartment. | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "brass" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the tractor. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie trots towards you from the farmyard. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hooray, I guess" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "enter tractor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get into the closed tractor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I haven't heard anything about this game, so I'll just sit back." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open tractor" | ||||
Floyd | You open the tractor, revealing a fairly ordinary cockpit with Floyd | controls and an ignition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "enter it" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the tractor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x controls" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push ignition" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x cockpit" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barn (in the tractor) Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hmm" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "start tractor" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drive tractor" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to get out of the tractor first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl goes home. | Nitku asks, "Is there anything to do in the tractor?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "search tractor" | ||||
Floyd | You perform a fingertip search of the tractor cockpit, discovering a Floyd | sleek, beige envelope underneath the steering column. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie pads off towards the farmyard. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "oh" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | ||||
Floyd | The flap is obviously secured with some sort of superglue as you Floyd | cannot tear it open at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the key ring into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an empty can of beer Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a briefcase (which is open) Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "Maybe steam it open with the kettle?" | |||
| inky says, "sounds good" | ||||
| Ellison arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the tractor. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | The collie paces restlessly up and down the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "plug kettle in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't plug that here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "plug in kettle" | ||||
Floyd | You can't plug that here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put kettle on rack" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the kettle before you can put it on top of Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the garden fork into the briefcase to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(Sigh, sorry - am on the phone, will read scrollback in a sec...)" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put kettle on rack" | ||||
Floyd | You balance the kettle on the welly rack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "plug in kettle" | ||||
Floyd | You plug the kettle in. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie pads off towards the farmyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the kettle on. A little red light above the switch jumps Floyd | into life to show you it is working. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little cold water. I Floyd | shouldn't waste it: after all, there is a water shortage in Skebdale Floyd | at the moment. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little warm water, Floyd | and is gently steaming. Its black power wire leads to a white Floyd | three-pin plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x steam" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there should be a puzzle where if you >X KETTLE it never boils" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put envelope on steam" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put envelope on kettle" | ||||
Floyd | That would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Just like real life" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little warm water, Floyd | and is gently steaming. Its black power wire leads to a white Floyd | three-pin plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, back, recapping..." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x kettle" | ||||
Floyd | A blue plastic electric kettle, which contains a little hot water, and Floyd | is steaming furiously. Its black power wire leads to a white three-pin Floyd | plug. Floyd | The kettle is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x steam" | ||||
Floyd | Hot, wet, and steamy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put envelope in steam" | ||||
Floyd | You hold the envelope in the flow of steam from the kettle, and the Floyd | glue melts away. A slip of card falls out onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "yay" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "read card" | ||||
Floyd | A post-card showing a rolling vista of Yorkshire countryside, taken Floyd | from Skebdale Pike. A few unintelligible notes and messages have been Floyd | scrawled on the back in slightly smudged fountain pen: Floyd | Floyd | message to red-chevette the cows are flying you will find guidance Floyd | from the circle that blocks your way follow the name of satan through Floyd | the twisting way he has joined with the animals the devil is daisy, Floyd | daisy is Denzil destroy it you will find the proof on the border of Floyd | sleep you must remember to use silver bullets Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| two-star took 30,500 buckets -- why? | Nitku says, "That sounds like a hint for the maze" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to nitku), "get it? i don't get it at all" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Taleslinger), "That's because you haven't played from the start" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get kettle" | ||||
Floyd | Although made of plastic, the kettle is still far too hot to pick up. Floyd | The kettle, having boiled, switches itself off, and the red indicator Floyd | light dies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get kettle" | ||||
Floyd | Although made of plastic, the kettle is still far too hot to pick up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get kettle" | ||||
Floyd | Although made of plastic, the kettle is still far too hot to pick up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get kettle" | ||||
Floyd | Although made of plastic, the kettle is still far too hot to pick up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The farmhouse's lounge closely resembles a bomb site. An old sofa, Floyd | covered in ragged blankets and thin cushions, is positioned opposite a Floyd | large TV and a wide, open fireplace. The window, hung with clashing Floyd | flowery curtains, faces out onto the farmyard. A door in the east wall Floyd | leads out to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | A dark staircase leads downwards from the open trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | A rolled up rug lies on the floor next to the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door is more firmly shut than the main air-lock on Space Floyd | Shuttle Paranoia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | An enormous, circular door, no doubt made of some extremely unlikely Floyd | space age metal which can only be cut using a knife blade forged in Floyd | the core of a red giant. Or something like that. There, right in the Floyd | centre, is one of those lock-cum-handle thingummybobs that you get on Floyd | all good bank vaults. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x handle" | ||||
Floyd | (the dial) Floyd | The lock is the traditional turning type, with eight letters arranged Floyd | evenly around the dial: Floyd | Floyd | E Floyd | o Floyd | D | Z Floyd | \|/ Floyd | N-----+-----S Floyd | /|\ Floyd | I | L Floyd | | Floyd | W Floyd | Floyd | There is a small black button underneath the uppermost letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "Denzil, eh?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial right" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | D Floyd | o Floyd | N | E Floyd | \|/ Floyd | I-----+-----Z Floyd | /|\ Floyd | W | S Floyd | | Floyd | L Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push black" | ||||
Floyd | The door beeps once. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial left" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | E Floyd | o Floyd | D | Z Floyd | \|/ Floyd | N-----+-----S Floyd | /|\ Floyd | I | L Floyd | | Floyd | W Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This looks promising" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push black" | ||||
Floyd | The door beeps twice. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am all caught up now." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial right" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | D Floyd | o Floyd | N | E Floyd | \|/ Floyd | I-----+-----Z Floyd | /|\ Floyd | W | S Floyd | | Floyd | L Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial right" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | N Floyd | o Floyd | I | D Floyd | \|/ Floyd | W-----+-----E Floyd | /|\ Floyd | L | Z Floyd | | Floyd | S Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push black" | ||||
Floyd | The door beeps three times. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial left.g.g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | D Floyd | o Floyd | N | E Floyd | \|/ Floyd | I-----+-----Z Floyd | /|\ Floyd | W | S Floyd | | Floyd | L Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | E Floyd | o Floyd | D | Z Floyd | \|/ Floyd | N-----+-----S Floyd | /|\ Floyd | I | L Floyd | | Floyd | W Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | Z Floyd | o Floyd | E | S Floyd | \|/ Floyd | D-----+-----L Floyd | /|\ Floyd | N | W Floyd | | Floyd | I Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push black" | ||||
Floyd | The door beeps four times. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial left.g.g.g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | S Floyd | o Floyd | Z | L Floyd | \|/ Floyd | E-----+-----W Floyd | /|\ Floyd | D | I Floyd | | Floyd | N Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | L Floyd | o Floyd | S | W Floyd | \|/ Floyd | Z-----+-----I Floyd | /|\ Floyd | E | N Floyd | | Floyd | D Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | W Floyd | o Floyd | L | I Floyd | \|/ Floyd | S-----+-----N Floyd | /|\ Floyd | Z | D Floyd | | Floyd | E Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | I Floyd | o Floyd | W | N Floyd | \|/ Floyd | L-----+-----D Floyd | /|\ Floyd | S | E Floyd | | Floyd | Z Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push black" | ||||
Floyd | The door beeps five times. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I need to make one more phonecall - there's a big storm here, and we have an employee stuck out in the backcountry. Need to see if he's called in by sat phone lately." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial right.g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | W Floyd | o Floyd | L | I Floyd | \|/ Floyd | S-----+-----N Floyd | /|\ Floyd | Z | D Floyd | | Floyd | E Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial one notch clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | L Floyd | o Floyd | S | W Floyd | \|/ Floyd | Z-----+-----I Floyd | /|\ Floyd | E | N Floyd | | Floyd | D Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push black" | ||||
Floyd | Triumphantly, the door beeps six times, and, on its final glorious Floyd | 'Bleeeep', the door clicks and swings wide open. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, I wish PeeGee were here." | |||
| inky says, "final glorious bleep" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door hangs invitingly but threateningly open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lab Six Floyd | A shining white laboratory decked out with rows of pristine benches Floyd | and tables. Shelves full of ridiculous sounding biochemicals line the Floyd | walls. The room is windowless and lit only by fluorescent bulbs on the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave by the door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A wooden pinboard on one wall is covered in clippings from various Floyd | respected publications. Floyd | Floyd | Some sort of sci-fi gadget sits on the main lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x gadget" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have a proper adventure game these days without some special Floyd | sci-fi gadget. In this case it resembles a microwave oven. It also Floyd | sports a row of LEDs so it can flash them back and forth as it speaks Floyd | in its predictably sarcastic monotone. Whoever built this one was well Floyd | au fait with current trends and even painted a smiley face on the Floyd | speaker. Lovely. Floyd | The sci-fi gadget is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn gadget on" | ||||
Floyd | "Request fingerprint recognition before computer access allowance." A Floyd | small light-sensitive pad on the gadget flashes briefly and then goes Floyd | dark again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "touch pad" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x pad" | ||||
Floyd | A dark grey light-sensing pad on one side of the gadget. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put finger on pad" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick pad" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "It's a crying tragedy that LICK isn't a standard command" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "taste pad" | ||||
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "lick = taste, right?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push pad" | ||||
Floyd | "Print unauthorised." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No, that's intentional. That way, when we encounter a game where 'lick' is implemented, we know it's the work of a fine craftsman indeed." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Guess we'll have to go find a severed hand." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get gadget" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chemicals" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x biochemicals" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read clippings" | ||||
Floyd | A particular article, marked in bright blue highlighter pen, catches Floyd | your eye. The headline reads simply: Floyd | Floyd | DAIRY FARMERS BREED COW WITH SIX UDDERS Floyd | Floyd | "Liz and Ned Brown from Yorkshire yesterday announced a triumph of Floyd | genetic engineering - a cow able to produce six times more milk than Floyd | an ordinary heifer..." Floyd | Floyd | You remember the story, but you also remember that you didn't believe Floyd | it at the time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read article" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x benches" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | BSE is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long descriptions Floyd | of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "How many udders do cows normally have?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Two?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe four." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Heck, I dunno." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "inky will know." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "He knows everything." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That and he's quicker with google than any of us." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "One udder, four teats." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It would appear." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ah right" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I'm disappointed in inky." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But let's not dwell on it." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "He is looking wide eyed and shocked at cow porn." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Haha. Probably." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or checking out cow solicitations on Craig's List." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anything else to do here?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take clipping" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take clippings" | ||||
Floyd | The drawing pins are firmly stuck into the board, so you cannot force Floyd | your hygienically short nails between the two. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Probably not before we find some extra fingers" | |||
| Jacqueline says, ">COUNT FINGERS" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, we have the maze, and we have that blasted farmer. What else?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I have an idea about solving the maze" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Go fer it." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a postcard Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an empty can of beer Floyd | a briefcase (which is open) Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x postcard" | ||||
Floyd | A post-card showing a rolling vista of Yorkshire countryside, taken Floyd | from Skebdale Pike. A few unintelligible notes and messages have been Floyd | scrawled on the back in slightly smudged fountain pen: Floyd | Floyd | message to red-chevette the cows are flying you will find guidance Floyd | from the circle that blocks your way follow the name of satan through Floyd | the twisting way he has joined with the animals the devil is daisy, Floyd | daisy is Denzil destroy it you will find the proof on the border of Floyd | sleep you must remember to use silver bullets Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, ""follow the name of satan through the twisting way"" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door hangs invitingly but threateningly open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | The lock is the traditional turning type, with eight letters arranged Floyd | evenly around the dial: Floyd | Floyd | L Floyd | o Floyd | S | W Floyd | \|/ Floyd | Z-----+-----I Floyd | /|\ Floyd | E | N Floyd | | Floyd | D Floyd | Floyd | There is a small black button underneath the uppermost letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial left" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | W Floyd | o Floyd | L | I Floyd | \|/ Floyd | S-----+-----N Floyd | /|\ Floyd | Z | D Floyd | | Floyd | E Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial left" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | I Floyd | o Floyd | W | N Floyd | \|/ Floyd | L-----+-----D Floyd | /|\ Floyd | S | E Floyd | | Floyd | Z Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn dial left" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial one notch anticlockwise. Floyd | Floyd | N Floyd | o Floyd | I | D Floyd | \|/ Floyd | W-----+-----E Floyd | /|\ Floyd | L | Z Floyd | | Floyd | S Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| stewie arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| stewie goes home. | Jacqueline says, "right..." | |||
| Nitku says, "So we go ne,e,n,se,nw,sw" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "You're assuming that N is in its normal spot?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or was this the initial orientation of the dial?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I'm assuming the cardinal directions are like they should be" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I looked at it wrong." | ||||
| Nitku says, "I'll try it" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so. Shall you drive, or I?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing - cool" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The farmhouse's lounge closely resembles a bomb site. An old sofa, Floyd | covered in ragged blankets and thin cushions, is positioned opposite a Floyd | large TV and a wide, open fireplace. The window, hung with clashing Floyd | flowery curtains, faces out onto the farmyard. A door in the east wall Floyd | leads out to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | A dark staircase leads downwards from the open trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | A rolled up rug lies on the floor next to the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | A few hailstones, the vanguard of the storm, patter gently on the Floyd | windows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | On the welly rack is a kettle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get kettle" | ||||
Floyd | You unplug the kettle. (putting the empty can of beer into the Floyd | briefcase to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The full brunt of the weather batters against the doors and windows, Floyd | making you glad that you are safe inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog lies on the sun-warmed concrete, panting gently. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Sheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring Floyd | westerly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put all in pockets" | ||||
Floyd | briefcase: That's far too big to fit in the coat pockets. Floyd | kettle: Done. Floyd | postcard: Done. Floyd | envelope: Done. Floyd | brass key: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop briefcase" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You stumble from the labyrinthine passages into... Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | From the far side of the chamber, high up on one wall, an enormous, Floyd | abstract black and red pictogram stares down at you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hooray" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "HOOray indeed." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "It was, indeed, unmapple, wasn't it?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I think so" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pictogram" | ||||
Floyd | It depicts simply the head of a cow - but no ordinary heifer. Its ears Floyd | are long and pointed, its eyes narrow, and its nostrils wide and Floyd | flaring-red. The mouth is half-open in a Satanic grin, exposing double Floyd | rows of carnivorous teeth. You dread to look for fear of being Floyd | ensnared in the deep, swirling, whirling eyes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | You can't read it from down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | It's over-riding feature is that it is the wrong way up. However, just Floyd | for the record, it is made from two gigantic oak beams held together Floyd | by two enormously thick selotape straps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb cross" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "GAH NO" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Must not look." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close eyes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ellison is clearly scared and running away." | |||
| Nitku says, "this is turning very lovecraft very fast" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ha - I was just thinking that exact thought." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I say we wait it out and go insane." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Then restore." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The primitive drawing continues to wrench itself into reality in a Floyd | series of horrific jerks and contortions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | As the scene comes to life before you a wind whips around the chamber, Floyd | statues are blown over and torches threaten to go out. The evil figure Floyd | emerging from the wall roars in anger at your intrusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The figure of a cow, decked in blood and gore, begins to take shape Floyd | from the writhing pictogram and screams a dire warning. "Access Floyd | Denied! Access Denied! Unauthorised personnel in building!" You start Floyd | to petrify with fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pee self" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An involuntary scream rips your throat open as the devilish figure Floyd | pops from the canvas like a satanical morph. "Trespassers will be Floyd | prosecuted....." screams the phantom of the pit as it totters about on Floyd | its hind-legs, wreathed in smoke and flames. These demonic vassals Floyd | never were very good at co-ordination, were they? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill cow" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | "I will destroy you!!!" The demon raises a hoof and a ball of fiery Floyd | flame (isn't it all) cannons towards you. You are engulfed utterly, Floyd | perish utterly, and generally cease to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 38 out of a possible 60, in 442 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It really should have said that we were engulfed udderly." | |||
| Nitku says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay. Restore, get us through the maze, then save again?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "yeah" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "12" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Timing" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne.e.n.se.nw.sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You stumble from the labyrinthine passages into... Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | From the far side of the chamber, high up on one wall, an enormous, Floyd | abstract black and red pictogram stares down at you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay. Aside from trying to pee ourselves (which doesn't work), what should we try?" | |||
| Nitku says, "Maybe the note has something useful to say" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | You can't read it from down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x pin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | It's over-riding feature is that it is the wrong way up. However, just Floyd | for the record, it is made from two gigantic oak beams held together Floyd | by two enormously thick selotape straps. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, while this game has seeminly little if anything to do with BSE, I daresay I'm starting to enjoy it, even though it has many elements I generally hate." | |||
| Nitku asks, "So the cross is upside down so the note is actually on top of it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess. The upside-down cross being the stereotypical satanic symbol and all." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push cross" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert has disconnected. | ||||
| Bert goes home. | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x selotape" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pull cross" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb cross" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's either on the bottom upside down meaning the top or it's just that the whole cross is out of reach." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x ropes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x torches" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x torch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x straps" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing practical results from your prayer. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh damn. For a sec I thought the prayer had worked." | |||
| Nitku says, "I would have wanted to torch(er) the pictogram" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Just restarting our clock." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x statuettes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | cross: That's hardly portable. Floyd | note: You can't reach the note from the floor. Floyd | pictogram: That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "touch cross" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so unless it's coded wrong, we can reach the cross." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push cross" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot pictogram with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol) Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly towards the pictogram but has little effect Floyd | upon it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh wait... is it holywater?" | |||
| Nitku says, "could be" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "throw jar at pictogram" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the glass jar) Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, I had somehow missed that the hat was a lightsource. When did that happen?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Oh, I didn't notice that either" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | The sou'wester is dazzlingly yellow. Glowingly mustard-hued, no less. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Looks like it was like that from the beginning" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That would be useful in real life when riding a bike at night in the rain on a busy road." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I put it on because I thought we needed it in the rain, but it turned out there *was* a lightsource puzzle and I just solved it proactively. Yay me." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's on the postcard again?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x postcard" | ||||
Floyd | A post-card showing a rolling vista of Yorkshire countryside, taken Floyd | from Skebdale Pike. A few unintelligible notes and messages have been Floyd | scrawled on the back in slightly smudged fountain pen: Floyd | Floyd | message to red-chevette the cows are flying you will find guidance Floyd | from the circle that blocks your way follow the name of satan through Floyd | the twisting way he has joined with the animals the devil is daisy, Floyd | daisy is Denzil destroy it you will find the proof on the border of Floyd | sleep you must remember to use silver bullets Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "Silver bullets, eh?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh right. That." | ||||
| olethros was too old and infirm for your purpose. | Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah. Crap. We havne't any of those." | |||
| Nitku says, "I wonder if we need to get past the farmer before coming here" | ||||
| Nitku says, "He would have bullets." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You may have a point." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "On the one hand, I sense the end is extremely motherf***ing nigh, on the other hand, there's a lot of score left." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Granted, this is devil cows, not zombies, but the quote still applies." | ||||
| Nitku says, "And I don't have any ideas on how to solve the farmer puzzle" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hrm" | ||||
| inky asks, "did you do the "proof on the border of sleep" part?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, no. Good point." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd | You aren't feeling especially drowsy. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "dream" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "What does it mean?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Guidance from the circle that blocks your way?" | ||||
| inky says, "I dunno" | ||||
| Nitku says, "The guidance part was the dial" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, true." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did we let the farmer kill us?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I don't think so." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did we ever stand our ground?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't know that it would help, but maybe we should." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "To proove how skookum we are." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ok let's do it" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Sure, why not?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Though..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We could just restore to somewhere near there and try it first, then restore to here and go back if it works." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Well we can restore to the beginning of the maze and walk to the farmer" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Then we won't be losing anything" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "True." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You do the honors, friend." | ||||
| Nitku says, "It's a good day to die." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door hangs invitingly but threateningly open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I love that film. That's indeed where I got the idea to stand our ground." | |||
| Nitku says, "No, wai" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe on the edge of death we will be granted bullets." | ||||
| Nitku says, "t" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | Jacqueline says, "Ha" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a briefcase (in which are an empty can of beer, a Floyd | garden fork and a key ring) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I thought you were just saying 'no wai'" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | briefcase: Taken. Floyd | rope ladder: That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It seemed that lol speak was a little out of character for you." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "stfu N00b" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The haystack is in the way! Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie trots towards you from the main barn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the wooden gate is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie pads off towards the farm hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' rocks violently in the gale, beckoning locals and Floyd | tourists alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the Floyd | south of the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Four...!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | The farmer, having warned you quite enough, blasts you sky-high with Floyd | his rifle. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 33 out of a possible 60, in 435 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline holds her breath - oh. | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so much for that. I guess it wasn't a good day to die." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push yellow button" | ||||
Floyd | Woof! Woof! Woof! Floyd | Floyd | The noise reverberates around the surrounding hills, and you feel a Floyd | pang of guilt at having disturbed the peace and quiet of the valley. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Four...!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe the cow" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the remote control, the blue button, the green Floyd | button or the yellow button? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "blue" | ||||
Floyd | Mooooooooooo! Mooooooooooo! Floyd | Floyd | The noise reverberates around the surrounding hills, and you feel a Floyd | pang of guilt at having disturbed the peace and quiet of the valley. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | The farmer, having warned you quite enough, blasts you sky-high with Floyd | his rifle. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 33 out of a possible 60, in 435 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hmm" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing practical results from your prayer. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | The farmer, having warned you quite enough, blasts you sky-high with Floyd | his rifle. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 33 out of a possible 60, in 435 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the remote control, the blue button, the green Floyd | button or the yellow button? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the remote control, the blue button, the green Floyd | button or the yellow button? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to undo? Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "uh?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the remote control, the blue button, the green Floyd | button or the yellow button? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Um." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Restore?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "yeah." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Well, I'm stumped." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x farmer" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a briefcase (in which are an empty can of beer, a Floyd | garden fork and a key ring) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 33 out of a possible 60, in 425 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | The score is made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 1 finding a toy pistol. Floyd | 2 changing a battery. Floyd | 2 unlocking your own car. Floyd | 2 loading a child's toy. Floyd | 3 waking up a border collie. Floyd | 2 rolling up a rug. Floyd | 3 opening a trap-door. Floyd | 5 overcoming a combination lock. Floyd | 2 making contact with agent 398-MugWug. Floyd | 2 finding out what cans of beer are really for. Floyd | 1 unlocking a tractor. Floyd | 1 finding a sealed envelope. Floyd | 2 plugging in an electric kettle. Floyd | 3 steaming the envelope open. Floyd | 2 reaching the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | 33 total (out of 60) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh mugwug" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's a restore near the crazy farmer dude?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d.w.climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | You hop over the closed gate... Floyd | Floyd | Country Lane Floyd | A winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and Floyd | barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a Floyd | dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of Floyd | 'The Green Calf' rocks violently in the gale, beckoning locals and Floyd | tourists alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the Floyd | south of the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | A short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east. Floyd | Floyd | Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass Floyd | verge, two wheels in the ditch. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as Floyd | parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than Floyd | anything else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with Floyd | a variety of hardy perennials. To the east you can see a small Floyd | unthreatening farmer's cottage. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x farmer" | ||||
Floyd | He never bothers to prosecute trespassers: he has far better methods. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh right. We knew that. Pointless." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about denzil" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get inside the house. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask farmer about denzil" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The farmer shouts several expletives and then shuts up. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Garden Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Or maybe the farmer is just a timer." | |||
| Nitku says, "wait" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "For... ?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x postcard" | ||||
Floyd | A post-card showing a rolling vista of Yorkshire countryside, taken Floyd | from Skebdale Pike. A few unintelligible notes and messages have been Floyd | scrawled on the back in slightly smudged fountain pen: Floyd | Floyd | message to red-chevette the cows are flying you will find guidance Floyd | from the circle that blocks your way follow the name of satan through Floyd | the twisting way he has joined with the animals the devil is daisy, Floyd | daisy is Denzil destroy it you will find the proof on the border of Floyd | sleep you must remember to use silver bullets Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, ""border of sleep" - we found the pistol in the flower BED..." | |||
| Nitku asks, "Or is that too far-fetched?" | ||||
| inky says, "wub" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess it's conceivable" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | The odd prickly bush or two - you've never really found gardening Floyd | interesting. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | "Four...!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's conceivable." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 33 out of a possible 60, in 431 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "if we had more points I would think that the silver bullets are metaphorical for holy water" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "But how is it proof?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, true" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I'd like to try shooting the cow when it has come out of the pictogram" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. It's your funeral." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No, seriously, that's a good idea." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | From the far side of the chamber, high up on one wall, an enormous, Floyd | abstract black and red pictogram stares down at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot pictogram with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol) Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly towards the pictogram but has little effect Floyd | upon it. Floyd | The primitive drawing continues to wrench itself into reality in a Floyd | series of horrific jerks and contortions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The primitive drawing continues to wrench itself into reality in a Floyd | series of horrific jerks and contortions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | As the scene comes to life before you a wind whips around the chamber, Floyd | statues are blown over and torches threaten to go out. The evil figure Floyd | emerging from the wall roars in anger at your intrusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x figure" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x cow" | ||||
Floyd | It depicts simply the head of a cow - but no ordinary heifer. Its ears Floyd | are long and pointed, its eyes narrow, and its nostrils wide and Floyd | flaring-red. The mouth is half-open in a Satanic grin, exposing double Floyd | rows of carnivorous teeth. You dread to look for fear of being Floyd | ensnared in the deep, swirling, whirling eyes... Floyd | The figure of a cow, decked in blood and gore, begins to take shape Floyd | from the writhing pictogram and screams a dire warning. "Access Floyd | Denied! Access Denied! Unauthorised personnel in building!" You start Floyd | to petrify with fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot cow with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol) Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly towards the pictogram but has little effect Floyd | upon it. Floyd | An involuntary scream rips your throat open as the devilish figure Floyd | pops from the canvas like a satanical morph. "Trespassers will be Floyd | prosecuted....." screams the phantom of the pit as it totters about on Floyd | its hind-legs, wreathed in smoke and flames. These demonic vassals Floyd | never were very good at co-ordination, were they? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push cow" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | An involuntary scream rips your throat open as the devilish figure Floyd | pops from the canvas like a satanical morph. "Trespassers will be Floyd | prosecuted....." screams the phantom of the pit as it totters about on Floyd | its hind-legs, wreathed in smoke and flames. These demonic vassals Floyd | never were very good at co-ordination, were they? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot cross with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol) Floyd | You miss your target by more than a metre. Floyd | "I will destroy you!!!" The demon raises a hoof and a ball of fiery Floyd | flame (isn't it all) cannons towards you. You are engulfed utterly, Floyd | perish utterly, and generally cease to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 38 out of a possible 60, in 443 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hmph" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hrmph" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot note with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (the note with the toy pistol) Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol) Floyd | You miss your target by more than a metre. Floyd | "I will destroy you!!!" The demon raises a hoof and a ball of fiery Floyd | flame (isn't it all) cannons towards you. You are engulfed utterly, Floyd | perish utterly, and generally cease to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 38 out of a possible 60, in 443 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I wish DW were here. He'd solve this in a minute." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Though, to be fair, INKY IS ALSO HERE" | ||||
| inky says, "I'm not any good at puzzles!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That is not true, Mr. inky." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but, ok, it seems pretty reasonable that if this is the last puzzle we can't solve it yet since we don't have enough points to win" | |||
| inky says, "so it seems like we should restore and work on another thing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I would agree." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The farmer seems the obvious bit, but he's ... difficult." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And angry." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Then there's the dog that wanders around, but I don't know what to do with him" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, isn't he solved?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I mean, possibly not, but." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "He was part of the rug/trapdoor thing." | ||||
| inky says, "it seems like you've used most of your inventory" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we haven't actually shot water at anything useful." | ||||
| Nitku says, "The only thing we haven't used is the pistol and the glove" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah, and the glove." | ||||
| Nitku says, "and the pitchfork" | ||||
| inky says, "the glove is too small for you" | ||||
| inky says, "so it seems like you either give it to someone else, or you do something else with it" | ||||
| inky says, "like you could fill it with water" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "But maybe not for someone else?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right" | ||||
| inky says, "or uh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Blow it up." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "blow up glove" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to blow the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | You open the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour liquid in glove" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the glass jar) Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Wait, there's the gadget in the cellar" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "True." | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Does the glove have old fingerprints in it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's cut off the dog's paw and put it on the scanner." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, that sounds promising" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Hrm. Maybe" | ||||
| inky asks, "the gadget is the thing that needs the fingerprint scan?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we turn the glove inside out or sumpin'?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glove" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the rubber glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the rubber glove) Floyd | You try and pull the glove on, but it is too small for either of your Floyd | well-built hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "invert glove" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "The response is funny" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn glove" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn glove inside out" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the glove inside out. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh come ON" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glove" | ||||
Floyd | A white rubber glove, turned inside out. The insides are stained by Floyd | leakages and a slow build up of dirt. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||||
Floyd | You try and pull the glove on, but it is too small for either of your Floyd | well-built hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, ok, let's restore and go to the cellar" | |||
| inky says, "and put the glvoe on it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| inky says, "I don't know how to get there but I assume someone does" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I can do it" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | briefcase: Taken. Floyd | rope ladder: That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The haystack is in the way! Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The border collie trots towards you from the main barn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The farmhouse's lounge closely resembles a bomb site. An old sofa, Floyd | covered in ragged blankets and thin cushions, is positioned opposite a Floyd | large TV and a wide, open fireplace. The window, hung with clashing Floyd | flowery curtains, faces out onto the farmyard. A door in the east wall Floyd | leads out to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | A dark staircase leads downwards from the open trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | A rolled up rug lies on the floor next to the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | The storm continues at full force outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door hangs invitingly but threateningly open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lab Six Floyd | A shining white laboratory decked out with rows of pristine benches Floyd | and tables. Shelves full of ridiculous sounding biochemicals line the Floyd | walls. The room is windowless and lit only by fluorescent bulbs on the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave by the door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A wooden pinboard on one wall is covered in clippings from various Floyd | respected publications. Floyd | Floyd | Some sort of sci-fi gadget sits on the main lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "there" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn glove inside out" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the glove inside out. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put glove on pad" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the rubber glove before you can put it on top Floyd | of something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get glove" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put glove on pad" | ||||
Floyd | You hold the rubber glove against the pad. Floyd | "Print authorised. Access awarded to Elizabeth Brown." Floyd | Floyd | A fairly gullible computer, isn't it? Especially considering the print Floyd | was the wrong way round... Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huzzah!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Nitku, you're a genius." | ||||
| Nitku pulls off his mask. He was stewie all along! | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha oh dear" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I should not laugh." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ok, the machine then" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x gadget" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have a proper adventure game these days without some special Floyd | sci-fi gadget. In this case it resembles a microwave oven. It also Floyd | sports a row of LEDs so it can flash them back and forth as it speaks Floyd | in its predictably sarcastic monotone. Whoever built this one was well Floyd | au fait with current trends and even painted a smiley face on the Floyd | speaker. Lovely. Floyd | The sci-fi gadget is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||||
Floyd | The computer hums into life, its hard disc whirring as it downloads Floyd | its highly complex and user-unfriendly operating system. The speaker Floyd | jumps into life with a high-pitched computerised voice: Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to MacroSift Sowester, the latest in voice-operated Floyd | computing. My name is Sharon, and I have been programmed to scan and Floyd | recognise any object placed in my main bay. Have a nice day!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put jar in bay" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding it before you can put it into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get jar" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put jar in bay" | ||||
Floyd | You put the glass jar into the sci-fi gadget. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sharon, scan jar" | ||||
Floyd | A tinted glass barrier slides down and several lights flash inside the Floyd | gadget. The screen is pulled back up as it reads out the result: Floyd | Floyd | "Object is silver nitrate solution." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho" | |||
| inky says, "I guess" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So there you go." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "But why didn't it work on the devilbovine?" | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Does it work better now that we know what it is?" | ||||
| inky says, "maybe" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "That would be l4mz0r" | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Anything else we can scan?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a briefcase (which is open) Floyd | an empty can of beer Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a key ring Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "It was the liquid from the jar in the pistol, not the hot water, right?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The pistol is an uninspiring shade of washed-out pink, but makes up Floyd | for it with the battery-powered sound effects generator tagged on to Floyd | the handle. Its pea-sized water tank is currently full of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That's RIGHT" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We tried to put boiling water in it." | ||||
| Nitku says, "gah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I squirted the jar water back in the jar" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There you go." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Try again!" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "empty pistol" | ||||
Floyd | Emptied. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get jar" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pour jar in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The glass jar is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry 'bout that, Nitku. I completely forgot." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | You open the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "well we all did" | |||
| aarondev arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline shrugs. "True." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pour jar in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You fill the pistol from the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hi again, aarondev." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The pistol is an uninspiring shade of washed-out pink, but makes up Floyd | for it with the battery-powered sound effects generator tagged on to Floyd | the handle. Its pea-sized water tank is currently full of a clear Floyd | fluid. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "hmm, had we not done this before?" | |||
| inky says, "oh, I see" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Ok here goes" | ||||
| aarondev says, "Hi again all. I'm surprised you're still at it. I was just jumping on to read through the results" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Passage Floyd | This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude Floyd | wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, Floyd | only about twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short Floyd | stone staircase which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the Floyd | north-west is an enormous door. Floyd | Floyd | The enormous door hangs invitingly but threateningly open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline crosses her fingers. | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The farmhouse's lounge closely resembles a bomb site. An old sofa, Floyd | covered in ragged blankets and thin cushions, is positioned opposite a Floyd | large TV and a wide, open fireplace. The window, hung with clashing Floyd | flowery curtains, faces out onto the farmyard. A door in the east wall Floyd | leads out to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | A dark staircase leads downwards from the open trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | A rolled up rug lies on the floor next to the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the Floyd | way in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by Floyd | two low, wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of Floyd | three or four wooden pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly Floyd | rack. Floyd | Floyd | Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Farmyard Floyd | This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout Floyd | of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the Floyd | farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to Floyd | the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising Floyd | sun. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The farm gate to the south-west is safely shut. Floyd | Floyd | A group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, Floyd | desperately searching for grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put all in pockets" | ||||
Floyd | glass jar: Done. Floyd | rubber glove: Done. Floyd | briefcase: That's far too big to fit in the coat pockets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop briefcase" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne.e.n.se.nw.sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You stumble from the labyrinthine passages into... Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | From the far side of the chamber, high up on one wall, an enormous, Floyd | abstract black and red pictogram stares down at you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Okay, I will not see the end of this. Good luck, though." | |||
| Taleslinger disappears. | aarondev says, "I'm going to jump off again, just so I don't spoil the game for myself. Have a good night all" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to aarondev), "We're quite a ways further than we were." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot pictogram with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol) Floyd | That's not a gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | aarondev asks, "ya, it seems so. do the games usually run this long?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to aarondev), "Yeah, I was just about to warn you that we'd made a ton of progress. Have a good evening!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to aarondev), "Not usually, though sometimes we do go this long." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "If we get tired, sometimes we couch it until Sunday." | ||||
| aarondev says, "sounds fun. Can't wait till next week :)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But we ideally shoot for shorter, 2-3 hour games." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We had a bit of a blowup while you were gone, too." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The thing with Stewie came to a head." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That ate up some time." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It was unfortunate." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, it was fun playing with you earlier." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "See you next week, hopefully!" | ||||
| aarondev says, "I see. Well, I'll play through this one on my own and then read through the transcripts (been doing that with a lot of games so far)." | ||||
| aarondev says, "ya, I'll be there for sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sounds good. See you then." | ||||
| aarondev says, "thanks and good night" | ||||
| aarondev goes home. | Jacqueline says, "Night." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot pictogram with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "This is interesting." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The pistol is an uninspiring shade of washed-out pink, but makes up Floyd | for it with the battery-powered sound effects generator tagged on to Floyd | the handle. Its pea-sized water tank is currently full of a clear Floyd | fluid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at pictogram" | ||||
Floyd | The liquid hits the wall hard, but has little effect on the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "(looks like bad grammar)" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at cow" | ||||
Floyd | You fire a shining arc of the liquid straight at your adversary. The Floyd | twisting, living wall seems to die and fall back flat, but you feel Floyd | that you have not destroyed it for good. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh" | |||
| inky says, "well, good work" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pour jar in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the glass jar) Floyd | You fill the pistol from the jar. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "but now what?" | |||
| inky says, "...weird" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Maybe it takes a couple of tries" | ||||
| inky says, "maybwe you have to wait for it to come out more" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at cow" | ||||
Floyd | You fire a shining arc of the liquid straight at your adversary. The Floyd | twisting, living wall seems to die and fall back flat, but you feel Floyd | that you have not destroyed it for good. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pour jar in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | There's not enough liquid here to fill anything. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ack" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Yeah, maybe try again but wait for it to fully emerge?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The primitive drawing continues to wrench itself into reality in a Floyd | series of horrific jerks and contortions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | As the scene comes to life before you a wind whips around the chamber, Floyd | statues are blown over and torches threaten to go out. The evil figure Floyd | emerging from the wall roars in anger at your intrusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The figure of a cow, decked in blood and gore, begins to take shape Floyd | from the writhing pictogram and screams a dire warning. "Access Floyd | Denied! Access Denied! Unauthorised personnel in building!" You start Floyd | to petrify with fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at cow" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the pistol and squirt a shining arc through the air towards
Floyd | your adversary. The liquid, despite your bad aim, hits it right
Floyd | between the eyes, in true David and Goliath tradition. The head of the
Floyd | demonic Denzil erupts in fire and smoke, the body crumbling
Floyd | dramatically into ash. You're sure there should be some brimstone in
Floyd | there somewhere, but your probing nostrils fail to deliver and you
Floyd | miss the experience of a lifetime.
Floyd |
Floyd | Denzil's final roar ("I'll sue...") reverberates around the cavern, as
Floyd | these things do. The whole chamber suddenly begins to shake, rocks
Floyd | tumbling from the ceiling. You had better make the safety of the
Floyd | farmyard or your number is surely up.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Nitku says, "ooh" | |||
| inky says, "now we're talkin'" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Crikey" | |||
| Nitku says, "I'll try to reverse the directions" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Didn't work." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "oh noes" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "That's the reverse, right?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "right" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "poop" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's think." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read postcard" | ||||
Floyd | A post-card showing a rolling vista of Yorkshire countryside, taken Floyd | from Skebdale Pike. A few unintelligible notes and messages have been Floyd | scrawled on the back in slightly smudged fountain pen: Floyd | Floyd | message to red-chevette the cows are flying you will find guidance Floyd | from the circle that blocks your way follow the name of satan through Floyd | the twisting way he has joined with the animals the devil is daisy, Floyd | daisy is Denzil destroy it you will find the proof on the border of Floyd | sleep you must remember to use silver bullets Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "the cows are flying" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "he has joined with the animals" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Now we have destroyed Denzil... find the proof on the border of sleep" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Have we done any of those three? (i.e. I know (well, think) we've destroyed Denzil, but what about the rest?)" | ||||
| inky says, "I think the cows are flying is about us having to enter the cockpit in the tractor" | ||||
| inky says, "but that is just speculation" | ||||
| Nitku says, "the border of sleep was the flower bed" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh right - the flower bed." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure I buy the cows are flying was the tractor, thought." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, though" | ||||
| Nitku says, ""has joined with the animals" might just mean the devil has taken the form of a cow" | ||||
| inky says, "well, I mean, I am speculating the tractor is actually an airplane" | ||||
| inky says, "since tractors don't usually have cockpits" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did it call it a cockpit?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Not a cab?" | ||||
| inky says, "yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Then yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Weird." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Let's see what happens if time runs out in the maze" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, that sort of fits in the context of how these other clues have gone." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Sure. Won't be the first time we die." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | The ground shakes violently and you are thrown to the ground as the Floyd | altar chamber collapses, taking with it the barn and haystack, which Floyd | slide into the earth. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 52 out of a possible 60, in 499 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Vet of the Year. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe we should have looked around the altar chamber more before fleeing" | |||
| inky says, "like maybe there is another password to follow to get out" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I bet the note has the instructions" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | You can't read it from down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | It's over-riding feature is that it is the wrong way up. However, just Floyd | for the record, it is made from two gigantic oak beams held together Floyd | by two enormously thick selotape straps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push cross" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb cross" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "throw kettle at note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | (first taking the kettle) Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "throw brass key at note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | (first taking the brass key) Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | note: You can't reach the note from the floor. Floyd | cross: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pour water on cross" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pour the kettle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb ropes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb cross" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ropes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | It's over-riding feature is that it is the wrong way up. However, just Floyd | for the record, it is made from two gigantic oak beams held together Floyd | by two enormously thick selotape straps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x straps" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x statues" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x statuettes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pedestals" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x all" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | It's over-riding feature is that it is the wrong way up. However, just Floyd | for the record, it is made from two gigantic oak beams held together Floyd | by two enormously thick selotape straps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | You can't read it from down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "is there a ladder in the game?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a brass key Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | The ground shakes violently and you are thrown to the ground as the Floyd | altar chamber collapses, taking with it the barn and haystack, which Floyd | slide into the earth. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 52 out of a possible 60, in 499 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Vet of the Year. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "oopsies" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw kettle at note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | (first taking the kettle) Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pen" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "How frustrating" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | You pull the trigger but nothing comes out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There is a ladder." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But it's a rope ladder." | ||||
| inky says, "well, maybe we're supposed to - oh" | ||||
| inky says, "still, maybe we could throw it on the cross or something" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shadows" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x torches" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rafters" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push yellow button" | ||||
Floyd | Woof! Woof! Woof! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push blue button" | ||||
Floyd | Mooooooooooo! Mooooooooooo! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push green button" | ||||
Floyd | Baaaaaaaaaaa! Baaaaaaaaaa! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's outside the entrance to the maze" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | From the far side of the chamber, high up on one wall, an enormous, Floyd | abstract black and red pictogram stares down at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | From the far side of the chamber, high up on one wall, an enormous, Floyd | abstract black and red pictogram stares down at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a briefcase (in which are an empty can of beer, a Floyd | garden fork and a key ring) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fork" | ||||
Floyd | The six-pronged garden fork seems to be quite expensive. The handle is Floyd | made of some sort of exotic, dark wood, and just below the triangular Floyd | hand-hold there is a small silver plaque, inscribed simply with a Floyd | single ornamented letter D. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "did we ever use this fork?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It opened the trap door for us." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fork" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't squeeze down the tunnel while holding anything, as you need Floyd | your hands free to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a garden fork Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put fork in coat" | ||||
Floyd | That's far too big to fit in the coat pockets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop fork" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coat" | ||||
Floyd | The statutory mantle worn by psychiatrists and mad laboratory Floyd | technicians. It has two conveniently large pockets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sou'wester" | ||||
Floyd | The sou'wester is dazzlingly yellow. Glowingly mustard-hued, no less. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I guess this is really all we can bring with us, hunh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "The hat is a light source." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Just FYI" | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | Jacqueline says, "Don't know if it matters, but I suspect it does." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | From the far side of the chamber, high up on one wall, an enormous, Floyd | abstract black and red pictogram stares down at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pictogram" | ||||
Floyd | It depicts simply the head of a cow - but no ordinary heifer. Its ears Floyd | are long and pointed, its eyes narrow, and its nostrils wide and Floyd | flaring-red. The mouth is half-open in a Satanic grin, exposing double Floyd | rows of carnivorous teeth. You dread to look for fear of being Floyd | ensnared in the deep, swirling, whirling eyes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x eyes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | It's over-riding feature is that it is the wrong way up. However, just Floyd | for the record, it is made from two gigantic oak beams held together Floyd | by two enormously thick selotape straps. Floyd | The primitive drawing continues to wrench itself into reality in a Floyd | series of horrific jerks and contortions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | You can't reach the note from the floor. Floyd | As the scene comes to life before you a wind whips around the chamber, Floyd | statues are blown over and torches threaten to go out. The evil figure Floyd | emerging from the wall roars in anger at your intrusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The figure of a cow, decked in blood and gore, begins to take shape Floyd | from the writhing pictogram and screams a dire warning. "Access Floyd | Denied! Access Denied! Unauthorised personnel in building!" You start Floyd | to petrify with fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An involuntary scream rips your throat open as the devilish figure Floyd | pops from the canvas like a satanical morph. "Trespassers will be Floyd | prosecuted....." screams the phantom of the pit as it totters about on Floyd | its hind-legs, wreathed in smoke and flames. These demonic vassals Floyd | never were very good at co-ordination, were they? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at cow" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol) Floyd | The liquid squirts feebly towards the pictogram but has little effect Floyd | upon it. Floyd | "I will destroy you!!!" The demon raises a hoof and a ball of fiery Floyd | flame (isn't it all) cannons towards you. You are engulfed utterly, Floyd | perish utterly, and generally cease to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 38 out of a possible 60, in 443 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Fred the frenetic Fresian. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The pistol is an uninspiring shade of washed-out pink, but makes up Floyd | for it with the battery-powered sound effects generator tagged on to Floyd | the handle. Its pea-sized water tank is currently full of a clear Floyd | fluid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The primitive drawing continues to wrench itself into reality in a Floyd | series of horrific jerks and contortions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | As the scene comes to life before you a wind whips around the chamber, Floyd | statues are blown over and torches threaten to go out. The evil figure Floyd | emerging from the wall roars in anger at your intrusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The figure of a cow, decked in blood and gore, begins to take shape Floyd | from the writhing pictogram and screams a dire warning. "Access Floyd | Denied! Access Denied! Unauthorised personnel in building!" You start Floyd | to petrify with fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An involuntary scream rips your throat open as the devilish figure Floyd | pops from the canvas like a satanical morph. "Trespassers will be Floyd | prosecuted....." screams the phantom of the pit as it totters about on Floyd | its hind-legs, wreathed in smoke and flames. These demonic vassals Floyd | never were very good at co-ordination, were they? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at cow" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy pistol)
Floyd | You raise the pistol and squirt a shining arc through the air towards
Floyd | your adversary. The liquid, despite your bad aim, hits it right
Floyd | between the eyes, in true David and Goliath tradition. The head of the
Floyd | demonic Denzil erupts in fire and smoke, the body crumbling
Floyd | dramatically into ash. You're sure there should be some brimstone in
Floyd | there somewhere, but your probing nostrils fail to deliver and you
Floyd | miss the experience of a lifetime.
Floyd |
Floyd | Denzil's final roar ("I'll sue...") reverberates around the cavern, as
Floyd | these things do. The whole chamber suddenly begins to shake, rocks
Floyd | tumbling from the ceiling. You had better make the safety of the
Floyd | farmyard or your number is surely up.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fill pistol from jar" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the glass jar) Floyd | You fill the pistol from the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | Unfortunately you miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb walls" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x brackets" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | You can't read it from down on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | It's over-riding feature is that it is the wrong way up. However, just Floyd | for the record, it is made from two gigantic oak beams held together Floyd | by two enormously thick selotape straps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x selotape" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x beams" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tape" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x straps" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, I dunno" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "should we look for a walkthrough?" | |||
| Nitku says, "I think we've tried everything we possibly can, so yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, wait." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did you try to take the ladder?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I was having a conversation, so may have missed that." | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, it didn't let me" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay." | ||||
| inky says, "but I didn't realize you couldn't bring stuff into the maze" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, some stuff you can, in the pocketses." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But not everything, yeah." | ||||
| inky says, "oh bah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | Unfortunately you miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | Unfortunately you miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | You fire the pistol at the cross, the shining arc of liquid hitting Floyd | the pin, dissolving it to nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get note" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What did you want to bring that you didn't?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the note, the faxed note or the typed note? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "any" | ||||
Floyd | (the note) Floyd | The note says simply: Floyd | Floyd | "Gone to meet Brian Owen at the Pit of Acheron. Should be back for Floyd | lunch. Ciao." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "You did all that for THAT?" | ||||
| inky says, "apparently so!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Except maybe it's useful, who knows?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, I didn't look any further" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, you didn't just come up with that. Gotcha." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, hrm." | ||||
| inky says, "well, Nitku said maybe the note tells the way ou" | ||||
| inky says, "t" | ||||
| inky asks, "do you remember what letters were on the dial?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||||
| Nitku says, "LIZDNESW" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm, none of these words in the note really suggest that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "N, D, E, Z, S, L, W, I..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing, sorry." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Did we do what we needed to with the science gadget? Seems like we just used it to ID the water for a hint." | ||||
| inky says, "I don't know what else to id, though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "s/water/AgNO3" | ||||
| inky says, "I agree it seems a little underutilized" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Then again, a few puzzles here have just been in the spirit of revealing clues due to inconceivably odd solutions that could only be figured through clues." | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Should we take another peek at the walkthrough?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I hate to." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But if you two think that's all we can do... sigh. I just hate to after the Stewie thing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Seems sort of hypocritical even though it's a totally different thing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's give it five minutes, then I'm okay with it. Let's think a bit more." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a note Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is the coat merely here to be a holdall?" | |||
| inky says, "perhaps if we are wearing the sou'wester we can only go southwest" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coat" | ||||
Floyd | The statutory mantle worn by psychiatrists and mad laboratory Floyd | technicians. It has two conveniently large pockets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put all in pockets" | ||||
Floyd | note: Done. Floyd | glass jar: Done. Floyd | toy pistol: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Also, what happened to the briefcase and does it matter?" | |||
| inky says, "we had to leave it outside" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Too big to take into the maze" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right." | ||||
| Nitku says, "I'll try something with the maze" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne.e.n.se.nw.sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | The ground shakes violently and you are thrown to the ground as the Floyd | altar chamber collapses, taking with it the barn and haystack, which Floyd | slide into the earth. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 52 out of a possible 60, in 497 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Vet of the Year. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne.e.n.se.nw.sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better get yourself out of this hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | There's only one way out, and that's where you came from. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better get yourself out of this hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | There's only one way out, and that's where you came from. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better get yourself out of this hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb hay" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I wonder what's the meaning of the dead end." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | There's only one way out, and that's where you came from. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better get yourself out of this hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | There's only one way out, and that's where you came from. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better get yourself out of this hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better get yourself out of this hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb bale" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "climb hay" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "dif" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to dig? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "hay" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw.se.n.e.ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "ok those didn't work" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, yeah, I've puzzled over the inventory, you tried that... I'm okay with it." | ||||
| inky asks, "you tried denzil forward and backward, right?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "right" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we tried the corresponding directions, right." | ||||
| inky says, "...hrm" | ||||
| inky says, "the walkthrough does not in fact explain why the directions it gives are the right ones" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I wonder if we should have marked the maze with items on the way there" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we know why the directions work." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||||
Floyd | A post-card showing a rolling vista of Yorkshire countryside, taken Floyd | from Skebdale Pike. A few unintelligible notes and messages have been Floyd | scrawled on the back in slightly smudged fountain pen: Floyd | Floyd | message to red-chevette the cows are flying you will find guidance Floyd | from the circle that blocks your way follow the name of satan through Floyd | the twisting way he has joined with the animals the devil is daisy, Floyd | daisy is Denzil destroy it you will find the proof on the border of Floyd | sleep you must remember to use silver bullets Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "On the way there, anyway." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Just can't figure out why they don't work in reverse." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "How would marking the maze ... just to make sure it works the same coming and going>" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wair." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, wait." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "We got in there, then got all the way out successfully as long as we didn't kill Denzil, right?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "No, we never came back" | ||||
| Nitku says, "We always restored" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Did we try and not succeed, or did we never try." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Never tried" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm just wondering if something gets buggered when we kill him." | ||||
| Nitku says, "hmm" | ||||
| Nitku says, "I'll try the item mapping quickly" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a briefcase (in which are an empty can of beer, a Floyd | garden fork and a key ring) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a white coat (being worn) Floyd | a brass key Floyd | an envelope Floyd | a postcard Floyd | a kettle Floyd | a glass jar Floyd | a remote control (which is open but empty) Floyd | a faxed note Floyd | a leaflet Floyd | a typed note Floyd | a toy pistol Floyd | a rubber glove Floyd | a sou'wester (providing light and being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop brass" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop brass key" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop brass key" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brass key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "gaah" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "It's ne, e, n, se, nw, sw... so ne, se, nw, s, w, sw to get back out? That's what we tried, just to confirm?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "yeah I tried that" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all from pockets" | ||||
Floyd | rubber glove: Removed. Floyd | toy pistol: Removed. Floyd | typed note: Removed. Floyd | envelope: Removed. Floyd | postcard: Removed. Floyd | kettle: You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | glass jar: You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | remote control: You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | faxed note: You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | leaflet: You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop glove" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop envelope" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | two-star asks, "Man, y'all are still working on that maze?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop postcard" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop typed" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all from pockets" | ||||
Floyd | kettle: Removed. Floyd | glass jar: Removed. Floyd | remote control: Removed. Floyd | faxed note: Removed. Floyd | leaflet: You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop kettle" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You stumble from the labyrinthine passages into... Floyd | Floyd | Altar Chamber Floyd | This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn Floyd | brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange Floyd | light flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite Floyd | flagstones. The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet Floyd | terror and cruelty, and, at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of Floyd | doom, a gigantic inverted cross hangs in space, suspended by a Floyd | criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes which lead ever upwards Floyd | into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are cast onto the Floyd | floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their dark Floyd | pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this Floyd | place... Floyd | Floyd | Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump Floyd | from the shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there Floyd | seem to be none of those in today. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, a small note has been attached to the bottom of the cross Floyd | with a drawing pin. Floyd | Floyd | From the far side of the chamber, high up on one wall, an enormous, Floyd | abstract black and red pictogram stares down at you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The pistol is an uninspiring shade of washed-out pink, but makes up Floyd | for it with the battery-powered sound effects generator tagged on to Floyd | the handle. Its pea-sized water tank is currently full of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "empty pistol" | ||||
Floyd | Emptied. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy, as if the pictogram is watching your every move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pour jar in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | The glass jar is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to two-star), "Well, we got through it." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | You open the glass jar. Floyd | Floyd | You feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling Floyd | eyes of the pictogram. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But can't get back out for some reason." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pour jar in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You fill the pistol from the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | An irresistible surge of terror rises within you as the face of the Floyd | pictogram twists and seems to force its way out of the wall. You try Floyd | to shut your eyes to it, but your only option seems to be flight. You Floyd | have little time to escape as the power of the evil has almost rooted Floyd | you to the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The primitive drawing continues to wrench itself into reality in a Floyd | series of horrific jerks and contortions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | As the scene comes to life before you a wind whips around the chamber, Floyd | statues are blown over and torches threaten to go out. The evil figure Floyd | emerging from the wall roars in anger at your intrusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The figure of a cow, decked in blood and gore, begins to take shape Floyd | from the writhing pictogram and screams a dire warning. "Access Floyd | Denied! Access Denied! Unauthorised personnel in building!" You start Floyd | to petrify with fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at cow" | Jacqueline says, "It was really unmappable, I think. There was a clue hidden in the game." | |||
Floyd | You raise the pistol and squirt a shining arc through the air towards
Floyd | your adversary. The liquid, despite your bad aim, hits it right
Floyd | between the eyes, in true David and Goliath tradition. The head of the
Floyd | demonic Denzil erupts in fire and smoke, the body crumbling
Floyd | dramatically into ash. You're sure there should be some brimstone in
Floyd | there somewhere, but your probing nostrils fail to deliver and you
Floyd | miss the experience of a lifetime.
Floyd |
Floyd | Denzil's final roar ("I'll sue...") reverberates around the cavern, as
Floyd | these things do. The whole chamber suddenly begins to shake, rocks
Floyd | tumbling from the ceiling. You had better make the safety of the
Floyd | farmyard or your number is surely up.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a kettle here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rubber glove here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Of course, if this is successful, we'll have lost everything, but that probably doesn't matter." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a typed note here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a kettle here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rubber glove here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an envelope here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a postcard here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a typed note here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rubber glove here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a kettle here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an envelope here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Are you guys still playing?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brass key here. Floyd | The ground shakes violently and you are thrown to the ground as the Floyd | altar chamber collapses, taking with it the barn and haystack, which Floyd | slide into the earth. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 43 out of a possible 60, in 476 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Silke the Psychic Sow. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yes." | |||
| Nitku says, "NOOO" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You were so close!" | ||||
| Nitku says, "The brass key was the starting point" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I know!" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | Jacqueline says, "meh" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "double meh" | |||
| DavidW says, "I haven't played BSE yet, so I can't help, I'm afraid." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brass key here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hey hey" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a postcard here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "mmkay. I'm mixed on it. But I guess I'd recommend it. I think you'd like it, actually." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blocked Passage Floyd | A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better get yourself out of this hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Puzzly." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a typed note here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's not obvious to me the rooms are in the same alignment as before at all" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. Puzzly is good" | |||
| inky says, "so there's no reason to think that si actually by the entrance" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an envelope here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rubber glove here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a kettle here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Ok I give up" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "How is it we ..." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "did we waste time on this restore prior to exiting the chamber?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I can't believe we get one turn from escaping." | ||||
| inky says, "we weren't one turn from escaping, I don't think" | ||||
| Nitku says, "We're now at the brass key" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "You don't?" | |||
| Nitku asks, "Wait, what?" | ||||
| inky says, "well, he was at the brass key room before" | ||||
| Nitku says, "oh right" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The brass key was the first thing dropped... oh, that wasn't right before the end, just at the first turn." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Haystack Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brass key here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "like, the expected exit from this room doesn't go out" | |||
| inky says, "I don't think" | ||||
| Nitku says, "From the ledge we went west, dropped key. But going east here isn't the exit." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So it works up until then." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But not right at the end." | ||||
| inky says, "I'm not even sure it works before that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, Nitku was hitting all the dropped objects." | ||||
| inky asks, "did we really see the items in the reverse order we dropped them?" | ||||
| inky says, "I thought he was wandering more" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Yeah I just went about randomly" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "OH" | ||||
| Jacqueline (moo) | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "er, (moo)" | ||||
| inky asks, "...what?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "And inky, you looked, and the walkthrough isn't actually helpful?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, like, we're irrevocably SOL?" | ||||
| inky says, "well, it says the directions, just not why they are correct" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "oh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, that is very lame, yes." | ||||
| DavidW says, "This sort of situation is why I like my own style of walkthrough better." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hM/" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "er, Hm?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, should we just use the directions to get through?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Let's do that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We have really tried." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a postcard here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a briefcase (in which are an empty can of beer, a Floyd | garden fork and a key ring) here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the whole haystack threatens to Floyd | collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "for some reason the walkthroigh also gives a three-move solution to get into the maze" | |||
| inky says, "so I guess you don't actually have to follow the card" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Maybe it assumes we make a full map of the maze with the item method" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess" | ||||
| inky says, "I thought you'd decided it was unmappable" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "bah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The barn roof starts to collapse, bales of hay tumbling from the stack Floyd | above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The barn collapses behind you in a cloud of dust. You have rescued Floyd | humanity from Satan and also saved your own skin. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 51 out of a possible 60, in 460 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Vet of the Year. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game, see some suggestions for AMUSING things to do or QUIT? Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Without the items it is" | |||
| inky says, "dag, short on points" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Well that was a lame epilogue" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "restore" | inky says, "the walkthrough also seems to think we should have got points for leaving the barn" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "wha?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "That... that's IT?" | |||
| Jacqueline wants her money back. | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ne.ne.sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Haystack Floyd | Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the Floyd | haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the chamber threatens to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, Floyd | cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and Floyd | the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards. Floyd | Floyd | A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales. Floyd | Floyd | A furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the Floyd | ledge. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a briefcase (in which are an empty can of beer, a Floyd | garden fork and a key ring) here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes violently as the whole haystack threatens to Floyd | collapse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb skilfully down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is Floyd | taken up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is Floyd | held together with tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty Floyd | farm equipment, almost inevitably infected with a potent range of Floyd | bacteria, microbes, protozoa and agriculture ministers, lies derelict Floyd | and unused. Floyd | Floyd | Towering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, Floyd | hard hailstones onto Skebdale. Floyd | Floyd | The sheepdog scampers back and forth along the base of the haystack, Floyd | sniffing at cracks and whimpering. Floyd | Floyd | A long rope ladder, safely twined around several hay bales, leads Floyd | downwards from the ledge to the barn floor. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack. Floyd | Floyd | The barn roof starts to collapse, bales of hay tumbling from the stack Floyd | above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | The barn collapses behind you in a cloud of dust. You have rescued Floyd | humanity from Satan and also saved your own skin. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 60 out of a possible 60, in 483 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Saviour of the World. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game, see some suggestions for AMUSING things to do or QUIT? Floyd | > | Nitku says, "The cf16 save skipped some parts we did" | |||
| inky says, "aha" | ||||
| inky says, "well, woo" | ||||
| inky says, "I geuss" | ||||
| inky says, "still a lame epilogue, though" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A few allegedly amusing facts about BSE... Floyd | Floyd | The note in the Altar Chamber can be reached and read - just try to Floyd | destroy the demonic pin using the toy pistol. Don't expect to Floyd | understand the contents though! Floyd | Floyd | If you hadn't worked it out, the Demonic vassal at the end was called Floyd | Denzil. His earthly creators, Liz and Ned Brown, who bred him in the Floyd | genetics lab downstairs, named him after themselves, but with the Floyd | names turned around. Floyd | Floyd | Likewise if you hadn't worked it out, Samuel Smith, the 'Model' in the Floyd | Discredits on the help menu, is a dog, and the border collie was Floyd | modelled on him to a certain extent. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game, see some suggestions for AMUSING things to do or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "uhhh" | |||
| inky says, "ok, so I guess the note was not relevant" | ||||
| inky says, "(to getting out)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And I enjoyed this very much up until the bit where it sort of felt like the writer was like, 'okay, over this, finishing the game quite suddenly now.'" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Yeah, it was fun." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Lots of buildup, then... impossible puzzle you die you die you die okay now you live game over immediately kthxbye" | ||||
| Nitku says, "And holy cow, it's almost 4 AM" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Wow" | Jacqueline says, "er" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Wow" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Good night everybody" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for hanging in there!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Night, Nitku" | ||||
| inky says, "bye nitku! thanks for playing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "!" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Almost 6 hours for this one, eh?" | ||||
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