  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
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. |
|
ClubFloyd Transcript:
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. |
|
ToyShop & Floyditorium
|
#ClubFloyd Discussion
|
|
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load rover" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't Floyd | poke his nose into - that's the way we're built and I assume that Floyd | there's some reason for that." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Hopefully this is your version. Eep." | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | - Robert Heinlein Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Benjor says, "9999 is the version" | |
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rover's Day Out Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Floyd | Release 9999 / Serial number 091206 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 Floyd | lib 6/12N) Floyd | Type "help" for instructions, credits, and license or just blaze on Floyd | impetuously. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: David, are you hooked in? Floyd | David: Ready to go. Is this the final version of the ACU, Floyd | or another beta? Floyd | Janet: A program is never finished, but I think we're ready Floyd | to go. Floyd | David: I hope so, Earth could launch any day now. Floyd | Janet: Run program. Floyd | | dhakajack says, "yes v.9999 is the super-special version" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, yes. This is it, then." | ||
| Touchy says, "hehe" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'm stepping back now, since I've played." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But will enjoy watching!" | ||
| Touchy arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | * * * Floyd | Floyd | Rover's Day Out Floyd | An Interactive Simulation by Janet Xiang Floyd | Release beta 732 / Serial number 23920401 / Inform 10.6 build Mu-013 Floyd | (I6/v.7.1 lib 7/18N) Floyd | Floyd | Rover draws pensively on his stubby cigar, the tip glowing red below Floyd | his dealer's hat. He paws nonchalantly at the scotch and water he has Floyd | been nursing for the last half hour. Despite the tower of chips in Floyd | front of him, he's either in trouble now, or trying to play the rest Floyd | of the table for suckers. His tail is no longer wagging, though, and Floyd | you suspect that the scotch may be getting the better of him. He can't Floyd | mass more than about 30 kilos, and he's been putting them away Floyd | tonight. You push all in, figuring that even if you lose it all, at Floyd | least you'll get some sleep before you need to get back to the Floyd | MARSpace. Elva the cleaning lady folds, as does Isaac Asimov and that Floyd | boy that you kissed in fourth grade. Wait...don't go....where is Floyd | everyone going? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: You have some weird dreams. Floyd | Janet: You can't hold me responsible for the subconscious Floyd | ramblings of the ACU. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW says, "oh right. Can't view help yet." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think you can start typing commands now. There's no > on Floyd, I don't think." | ||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | DavidW says, "I'm trying to assimilate what I'm reading." | |
Floyd | >Alarm clock. Next to bed. Make it stop. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Actually, normally there is a >." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Right, but I don't think there is on this game for some reason." | ||
| DavidW asks, "It's when the > doesn't appear that we... what?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If memory serves from our test last week." | ||
| Touchy asks, "Does anybody want to drive?" | ||
| DavidW says, "That's gonna be awkward." | ||
| DavidW asks, "No prompt?" | ||
| Benjor asks, "did we do something odd, jack, to prevent a prompt?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We might still be in prologue." | ||
| dhakajack says, "I don't think so, unless it was something specific to our mods for this version" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | >I beg your pardon? Floyd | | Benjor says, "nope, there's a prompt showing now. there should be." | |
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "turn alarm off" | ||
Floyd | >The alarm clock senses the electrical activity in your brain and Floyd | turns itself on and off as needed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | TEMPORAL TRANSGRESSOR -> RESET : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "oh ack. The prompt is showing up *after*" | |
| dhakajack says, "OK, it was waiting for a spacebar. I guess if it doesn't move ahead at some point, try hitting space / green button" | ||
| DavidW says, "That's really weird." | ||
| Benjor says, "sure is." | ||
| Touchy asks, "What did you write this in?" | ||
| DavidW says, "So it's no longer >GET WRENCH, it's GET WRENCH >" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's in I7." | ||
| Touchy says, "Let's call it PIF for prefix IF." | ||
| Benjor says, "gotta be a floyd bug. straight up i7 with no changes to the prompt." | ||
| Touchy asks, "That's odd. Isn't IF usually compatible with floyd?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've never seen this effect before." | ||
| Benjor says, "could be a glulxe thing" | ||
| jnc arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "We've played Glulx games here too." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | >Lying down. Wearing pajamas. That's all the description you can Floyd | handle at this time in the morning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rover scratches at the side of the futon. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | Jacqueline goes back to look at other transcripts... | |
| Benjor says, "is there really confusion about when it's okay to give a command? floyd spews the whole response at once." | ||
| jnc asks, "Have I missed 15 min or 1:15?" | ||
| jnc says, "I see in scrollback somebody said 'we moved it up an hour'" | ||
| Benjor says, "you've missed 4 mins" | ||
| Touchy says, "No, that was from earlier this year." | ||
| Touchy says, "We didn't do anything yet." | ||
| DavidW says (to Benjor), "The confusion is that we can't tell, yes. Normally, absence of a prompt means we should just press space." | ||
| Touchy says, "so..." | ||
| jnc says, "Cool" | ||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "wake up" | ||
Floyd | >Gathering your resolve, you slowly slide off the side of the futon, Floyd | inadvertently sending the alarm clock on a death spiral off the edge Floyd | of the futon. Oh well, you can find it later. Meanwhile, you slowly Floyd | stand up, recapitulating millions of years of evolution in a few Floyd | seconds. Floyd | Floyd | As you get out of bed, you notice that your left arm tickles a bit -- Floyd | must have been the way you were sleeping. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> INITIALIZE : TRUE Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah. Normally Floyd prints the text, then skips a line and says >" | |
| Jacqueline says, "But hopefully that's not a big deal for you guys." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I'm a bit lost in what's happening in game, also. We're inside Janet's game and we are -- who?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of jnc), "You've not played this either, right?" | ||
| jnc asks, "Never done one of these before - can anyone jump in with a command or do we all suggest things to Touchy?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "That'll become apparent, I think." | ||
| Touchy says (to jnc), "Usually we only designate a driver if it gets to confusing." | ||
| DavidW asks, "And what;s all the ACU biz?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Air Conditioner Unit?" | ||
| Benjor says, "or you can all just start over, to let the newcomers read the intro text." | Jacqueline says, "Although, now, with a couple poeople showing up late, perhaps it wouldn't hurt to restart. Just a suggestion." | |
| Touchy says, "And I'm at a total loss at what's going on I'm just following the games' suggestions." | ||
| Benjor says, "you're only a few commands in." | Touchy says, "Alright, hit it." | |
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "I wanted to read the help. As suggested." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | Touchy says, "(the reset)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, well, that'd work, too." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "help" | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, where is Floyd, guys?" | |
| DavidW says, "No response." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| Benjor says, "what on earth" | ||
| dhakajack says, "try issuing a %quit to floyd" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to floyd), "/quit" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to floyd), "%quit" | ||
| Floyd says, "game ended by request of Jacqueline." | Jacqueline asks, "Weird. Try again?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load rover" | ||
Floyd | >Are you sure you want to restart? Please answer yes or no.> Please Floyd | answer yes or no.> Please answer yes or no.> Please answer yes or no.> Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't Floyd | poke his nose into - that's the way we're built and I assume that Floyd | there's some reason for that." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Oh man, huh." | |
| DavidW says, "Something tells me that the metacommands aren't standard in this game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, just play through until you get a prompt (there's a few 'green button'/spacebar moves first) and then go for >HELP" | ||
| Nitku says, "I remember there was at least one game before where the > jumped there" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "I seem to remember that as well." | ||
| Nitku says, "Something to do with glulx and Floyd not playing nice together" | ||
| Benjor says, "after the beep beep beep you should have your first prompt, and 'help' should work" | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Except we don't see prompts unless we type in a command." | ||
| Touchy asks, "I'm lost. What's going on?" | ||
| jnc pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | - Robert Heinlein Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rover's Day Out Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Floyd | Release 9999 / Serial number 091206 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 Floyd | lib 6/12N) Floyd | Type "help" for instructions, credits, and license or just blaze on Floyd | impetuously. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: David, are you hooked in? Floyd | David: Ready to go. Is this the final version of the ACU, Floyd | or another beta? Floyd | Janet: A program is never finished, but I think we're ready Floyd | to go. Floyd | David: I hope so, Earth could launch any day now. Floyd | Janet: Run program. Floyd | | jnc says, "We just restarted" | |
| Touchy says, "kk" | ||
| Touchy says, "keep going" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | * * * Floyd | Floyd | Rover's Day Out Floyd | An Interactive Simulation by Janet Xiang Floyd | Release beta 732 / Serial number 23920401 / Inform 10.6 build Mu-013 Floyd | (I6/v.7.1 lib 7/18N) Floyd | Floyd | Rover draws pensively on his stubby cigar, the tip glowing red below Floyd | his dealer's hat. He paws nonchalantly at the scotch and water he has Floyd | been nursing for the last half hour. Despite the tower of chips in Floyd | front of him, he's either in trouble now, or trying to play the rest Floyd | of the table for suckers. His tail is no longer wagging, though, and Floyd | you suspect that the scotch may be getting the better of him. He can't Floyd | mass more than about 30 kilos, and he's been putting them away Floyd | tonight. You push all in, figuring that even if you lose it all, at Floyd | least you'll get some sleep before you need to get back to the Floyd | MARSpace. Elva the cleaning lady folds, as does Isaac Asimov and that Floyd | boy that you kissed in fourth grade. Wait...don't go....where is Floyd | everyone going? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: You have some weird dreams. Floyd | Janet: You can't hold me responsible for the subconscious Floyd | ramblings of the ACU. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||
| Itax arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | >I beg your pardon? Floyd | | ||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | > What is this?
Floyd | How does this work?
Floyd | Help! I'm stuck!
Floyd | Entomology
Floyd | Acknowledgements
Floyd | License
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | > What is this?
Floyd | How does this work?
Floyd | Help! I'm stuck!
Floyd | Entomology
Floyd | Acknowledgements
Floyd | License
| Touchy says (to DavidW), "Your turn." | |
| DavidW says, "heh. okay" | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > Adventure Games Floyd | Learn More | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > What is this? Floyd | How does this work? Floyd | Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What is this? Floyd | > How does this work? Floyd | Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What is this? Floyd | > How does this work? Floyd | Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > How To Play Floyd | Commands Floyd | Common Actions Floyd | Conversation Floyd | Saving and Restoring | DavidW says, "hm. This looks standard-ish, not specific to this game." | |
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Most adventure games are turn-based, rather than timed. Take as long Floyd | as you want to think about your actions. The game gives you some Floyd | information, such as a description of the room that you are in and Floyd | what objects it contains, and then it is up to you to say what you are Floyd | doing. You can enter your "move" by typing it at the command prompt, Floyd | which looks like a "greater than" sign: > Floyd | Floyd | For example, let's say you are in the kitchen, and there is an avocado Floyd | on the counter. To get more information about the avocado, you could Floyd | say "examine avocado", and learn what it looks like. Floyd | Floyd | Not every command that you can think of will work, so you might need Floyd | to try some rephrasing. In general, you should not use punctuation. Floyd | The only exception is when you want to direct a question or command to Floyd | someone or something else. In such cases, you can say the name of the Floyd | person or thing to whom you are addressing your remark, followed by a Floyd | command and then the question or command. For example, you could say: Floyd | "Eugene, give me the axe". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > How To Play Floyd | Commands Floyd | Common Actions Floyd | Conversation Floyd | Saving and Restoring Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > How To Play Floyd | Commands Floyd | Common Actions Floyd | Conversation Floyd | Saving and Restoring | Benjor says, "some of it is specific to the game." | |
| Benjor says, "not much." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What is this? Floyd | > How does this work? Floyd | Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What is this? Floyd | How does this work? Floyd | > Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What is this? Floyd | How does this work? Floyd | > Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What is this? Floyd | How does this work? Floyd | Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | > Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What is this? Floyd | How does this work? Floyd | Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | > Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > A Matter of Interpretation Floyd | Zapping Bugs | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This game is designed to run on a virtual machine, some flavor of Floyd | Glulx interpreter. You are, no doubt, using some implementation of the Floyd | Glulx interpreter written for your specific hardware -- it could be Floyd | your entertainment corner, hologoggles, dishwasher, cortical implant Floyd | -- whatever. Even if you are using some old silicon-semiconductor Floyd | clunker from the International days, it should still work. We've made Floyd | every effort to test it on a number of platforms, but these tests are Floyd | far from comprehensive. So far as we know, there are no Floyd | interpreter-specific issues. However, if the game doesn't run right Floyd | for you, you could try another interpreter and see if that fixes the Floyd | situation. Floyd | Floyd | Whether you think the problem is the interpreter or the game itself, Floyd | we'd appreciate it if you'd let us know. (see "Zapping Bugs") Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Touchy says, "hehe" | |
| Touchy says, "I so didn't get that." | ||
| DavidW says, "um." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking that this might be the help for *Janet's* game, not the game we're playing." | ||
| Touchy says, "uh...ok" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > A Matter of Interpretation Floyd | Zapping Bugs Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > A Matter of Interpretation Floyd | Zapping Bugs | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A Matter of Interpretation Floyd | > Zapping Bugs Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A Matter of Interpretation Floyd | > Zapping Bugs | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Help us splotch bugs! In this case, we're not referring to the Floyd | plastic-eating cockroaches responsible for so many dome failures in Floyd | the last few years, but to errors in the game itself. This game was, Floyd | in part, written by humans, so eras are all but certainly present. The Floyd | more freedom you have in your actions, the more likely it is that Floyd | you'll expose some unknown weakness in the game. What should you do if Floyd | you elicit such an error? First, you can gloat for a reasonable Floyd | amount of time (this is a judgement call) about how very slick you are Floyd | to have uncovered the hitherto unknown fault. Then, you can be a good Floyd | citizen and us know about it so we can fix it in the next update, and Floyd | spare the next several billion people the same painful experience. Floyd | There's no monetary reward for finding errors, but your name will Floyd | appear on the next version of the ultra-prestigious bug finders list. Floyd | Now there's something you can show to your grandchildren with pride. Floyd | Report bugs to: Floyd | Floyd | rover@red-bean.com Floyd | Floyd | "Splotches welcome." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW asks, "'eras'?" | |
| Touchy says, "there s a let missing" | ||
| Touchy asks, "do you think we should report that?" | ||
| jnc says, "I assume that's an intentional joke. Not sure about "and us know about it"" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "heh" | ||
| Benjor says, "try the top level help about adventure games" | ||
| DavidW says, "And judgment is misspelt, at least for our time period." | ||
| Benjor says, "it gives the most info" | ||
| jnc asks, "How long does this usually run for?" | ||
| jnc says, "Club Floyd, I mean" | ||
| DavidW says (to jnc), "It varies. Four hours max. Less is better." | ||
| Touchy says, "jnc anywhere between half an hour and tomorrow evening i've witnessed" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I managed to play this in a couple hours, though I did resort a bit to hints. Then again, we've discussed my puzzle-ineptitude previously." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't see help as helping. We should just go back to the game-in-game proper as stumble around." | ||
| Benjor wonders who's driving | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A Matter of Interpretation Floyd | > Zapping Bugs Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A Matter of Interpretation Floyd | > Zapping Bugs | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What is this? Floyd | How does this work? Floyd | Help! I'm stuck! Floyd | > Entomology Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | License | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room (on the futon) Floyd | Where the heavy drapes meet, a sliver of sunlight shines into the Floyd | otherwise dark living room. A framed picture hangs on the living room Floyd | wall in the small area illuminated by the shaft of light. Floyd | | ||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||
| Gerynar is swalled up in a flash of infra-black and disappears. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd | >It's too far from the bed, and you're not quite awake. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake up" | ||
Floyd | >Gathering your resolve, you slowly slide off the side of the futon, Floyd | inadvertently sending the alarm clock on a death spiral off the edge Floyd | of the futon. Oh well, you can find it later. Meanwhile, you slowly Floyd | stand up, recapitulating millions of years of evolution in a few Floyd | seconds. Floyd | Floyd | As you get out of bed, you notice that your left arm tickles a bit -- Floyd | must have been the way you were sleeping. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> INITIALIZE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake arm" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | jnc says, "Ok, nevermind. Apparently there was a miscommunication and my wife thought we were doing something else this afternoon and I thought it was this evening. I gotta go." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x left arm" | ||
Floyd | >Darkness is great for sleeping, not so good for looking at stuff. Floyd | Floyd | PORT HULL -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | jnc says, "Bye." | |
| jnc thought this town would be perfect for him, but when he got there it turned out to have no qualia. | Jacqueline says (to jnc), "Oops, and bye." | |
| DavidW says, "I have to say: I'm utterly ignoring these X -> Y : Z messages because they have no meaning to me yet." | ||
| Touchy says (to DavidW), "so am I" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | ||
Floyd | >That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | PHOTON SENSOR -> TRIGGER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Living Room Floyd | Where the heavy drapes meet, a sliver of sunlight shines into the Floyd | otherwise dark living room. A framed picture hangs on the living room Floyd | wall in the small area illuminated by the shaft of light. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drapes" | ||
Floyd | >You push aside the drapes. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on Floyd | the opposite wall. The principal furnishing is a king-size purple Floyd | futon which takes up almost all the floor space. From the living room Floyd | you can see the entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's Floyd | front door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an alarm clock and Rover here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: I see it successfully accessed the solar shield. Floyd | Janet: Yes, the status line makes it clear what work is being Floyd | performed. Floyd | Floyd | SOLAR SHIELD -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | dhakajack says, "In the regular game, they appear on the status line. For floyd, we had to put them inline." | |
| Jacqueline says, "And when I played, I totally didn't pay attention to the status line, but maybe that's why I ended up resorting to hints." | ||
| DavidW asks, "wait.... opening the drapes had something to do with 'a solar shield'?!?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "la la la" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd | >A picture of the Starship Valkyrie, still under construction in Floyd | drydock. There is small brass nameplate below the picture. Floyd | Floyd | It feels like something is tickling your left arm. Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | Touchy says, "So it seems." | |
| Touchy says, "This is some wicked interface to our ship." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch arm" | ||
Floyd | >Which do you mean, the left arm, or the right arm? Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left" | ||
Floyd | >Ooooo. Ahhhh...slowly, the itchiness subsides. That feels so good. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Is the static charge neutralization part of the script? Floyd | Janet: No, that's the point of the ACU -- it isn't a set Floyd | script. As we throw malfunctions at it in these simulations, Floyd | the ACU responds appropriately. We can't, for instance, Floyd | know that Valkyrie will accumulate a static charge Floyd | in a particular area, so the ACU has to be flexible Floyd | enough to react to unpredictable events. Floyd | David: Like you would. Floyd | Janet: Subject to the resolution of the synaptic scan, yes. Floyd | Floyd | PORT HULL -> NEUTRALIZE CHARGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nameplate" | ||
Floyd | >A brass nameplate bearing a short inscription. The nameplate is Floyd | attached to the bottom of the picture. Floyd | Floyd | PLASTIC SIGN -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind picture" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "read nameplate" | ||
Floyd | >It says, "Good luck at MARSpace! - Tomasz" Floyd | Floyd | Tomasz's valediction makes you remember happier times... Floyd | Floyd | Your late fianc? gave you the photo when you began working on the Floyd | Valkyrie Project as a graduate student -- a happier time before the Floyd | Independence War with Earth, and the attacks on Mars by Earth's Floyd | Myomita Corporation. Back then, Valkyrie's experimental Casimir Drive Floyd | was an exciting technological adventure, rather than a military Floyd | priority. Now the Valkyrie is Mars' only chance to recover data from a Floyd | recently discovered space probe marooned in deep space. For whatever Floyd | reason, MARSpace feels that probe could hold information that could Floyd | finally give Mars the upper hand in its competition with Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Why did we lose audio? Floyd | Janet: I've muted the ACU's memories -- they are, after all, Floyd | a bit personal. We don't need to hear them, but Floyd | they may be useful for the ACU to come up to speed. Floyd | David: That's fine. How much can the ACU remember, though? Floyd | Janet: It's based on my own synaptic scan, so it can willfully Floyd | remember a wide variety of subjects -- almost any Floyd | major component of my life, important events, and Floyd | so on. It adds depth to its decisions. Floyd | David: If you say so. I'd hate to know what it remembers Floyd | about me. Floyd | Janet: I wouldn't worry too much. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Note: You can recall something from your past by typing "REMEMBER Floyd | something", e.g. "REMEMBER casimir drive"] Floyd | Floyd | PLASTIC SIGN -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember mars" | ||
Floyd | >Mars has been home to your family for three generations, your Floyd | grandparents having been life contractors for the Myomita corporation. Floyd | Since its colonization by national and later corporate entities Floyd | beginning more than two hundred years ago, Mars has been subservient Floyd | to the interests of Earth. Since the Independence War, the situation Floyd | has improved, and income from off-world commerce is slowly balancing Floyd | the equation. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: I think I'd like to have heard that one. Floyd | Janet: Not a chance. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to B/d/others), "FYI - There's #cfspoilers for discussing the game while they play, though it doesn't print in the ultimate transcript." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember war" | ||
Floyd | >Five years ago, you were a graduate student in computational Floyd | cognition when the situation with Earth deteriorated, and Earth ships Floyd | attacked the colonial government. The fighting destroyed most of the Floyd | surface installations in the first few days, but Earth backed down Floyd | when Martian missiles struck Luna City, Beijing and S?o Paulo. Under Floyd | terms of the treaty, the Martian government was granted autonomy, but Floyd | Mars remains economically dominated by Earth, except for MARSpace. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: I'm half tempted to decompile the code just to see Floyd | what it said. Floyd | Janet: My code is not for the faint of heart. If you wander Floyd | in there, watch out for grues. Floyd | David: Grooze? Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember marspace" | ||
Floyd | >MARSpace began as an extension of the Myomita corporation space Floyd | program but was absorbed by the People's Government of Mars after the Floyd | War of Independence. Before the war, MARSpace serviced almost all Floyd | condensate drive vessels engaged in commerce between the Solar System Floyd | and Earth's Interstellar Territories. Since the war, MARSpace has Floyd | slowly rebuilt, and its first Casimir Drive ship, the Valkyrie, is Floyd | nearly ready for launch. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember valkyrie" | ||
Floyd | >The potential for interstellar commerce has been constrained by time Floyd | and distance. Although condensate drive has allowed vessels to reach Floyd | nearby stars, it is expensive and slow and holds little promise for Floyd | commercial exploitation. The Valkyrie is the first ship to incorporate Floyd | the Casimir Drive, giving it unprecedented speed and range. It is Floyd | rumored that since the Valkyrie project fell into MARSpace hands after Floyd | the Independence War, Earth's Myomita corporation has been working on Floyd | a sister ship based on similar technology. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | | Touchy says, "It sadly have to leave. I'm looking forward to doing this again more often. Have fun guys." | |
| Touchy says, "and by it I mean myself..." | ||
| djfletch says, "I don't think I used "remember" at all when I played" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember casimir drive" | ||
Floyd | >The Casimir, or zero-point energy drive, was developed in the last Floyd | ten years. By doing largely incomprehensible things to time/space, the Floyd | Casimir Drive can translate a ship incredible distances in a fraction Floyd | of the time and energy that would be required by a ship equipped with Floyd | condensate drive. Floyd | Floyd | The one drawback to Casimir technology, at least in its current Floyd | implementation, is that such trips are lethal to biological organisms, Floyd | hence the need for the ACU. Human test subjects exposed even briefly Floyd | to Casimir gradients experienced intense dreams and nightmares; those Floyd | with longer exposures died during a state of heavy REM activity. Even Floyd | the ACU is not immune to the quantum distortions responsible for this Floyd | effect and is expected to experience dream states while in hibernation Floyd | mode during Casimir jumps. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW asks (of djfletch), "Am I wasting time doing this?" | |
| Benjor asks, "so DavidW is the only virgin now?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think you are, David." | ||
| Benjor says, "cheers for backstory discovery." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember acu" | ||
Floyd | >Your project for the last two years has been design of the autonomous Floyd | control unit, an artificially intelligent agent that controls all Floyd | operations aboard the Valkyrie. Originally, the ACU would have been Floyd | modeled on synaptic scans of experts from relevant fields of study, Floyd | but given the short time frame, you have only had time to incorporate Floyd | your own synaptic scans and you have jury-rigged the ACU-to-ship Floyd | interface. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover dashes back and forth like a possessed dog for no apparent Floyd | reason. Floyd | | DavidW says (to Rover), "I haven't forgotten you. You're in the title, you know." | |
| DavidW says, "So, we seem to be an AI copy of Janet. Maybe. And wherever we are is having analogous effects in some other context." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rover" | ||
Floyd | >He's a big, happy dalmatian. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet rover" | ||
Floyd | >You rub Rover under the chin, and he cranes back his neck and twists Floyd | his head from side to side in enjoyment. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SYNCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch rover's ears" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch rover" | ||
Floyd | >You pat Rover briefly, but he lets you know that a brief pat is not Floyd | satisfactory. You spend some time scratching Rover, as he repositions Floyd | himself constantly, trying to get you to scratch an ever-moving itch. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SYNCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember rover" | ||
Floyd | >Rover is your dog, a five-year-old dalmatian. When his original Floyd | owners were killed during the Independence War, you adopted him as a Floyd | puppy. He is a clever dog, and you have taught him to perform a number Floyd | of tricks on command. Rover is house trained but loves to explore Floyd | outside. He can be trusted to go out on his own, and he always comes Floyd | back. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, roll over" | ||
Floyd | >Rover rolls over like a puppy. He quickly jumps to his feet again. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> LATERAL JETS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, sit" | ||
Floyd | >Rover grazes the ground with his rear end, like a suborbital glider Floyd | aborting a landing. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> PARK : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover seems relaxed. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, beg" | ||
Floyd | >There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> TRANSMIT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, fetch slippers" | ||
Floyd | >There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> TRANSMIT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, fetch" | ||
Floyd | >There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> TRANSMIT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, play dead" | ||
Floyd | >There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> TRANSMIT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, wag tail" | ||
Floyd | >There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> TRANSMIT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, speak" | ||
Floyd | >There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> TRANSMIT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rover, bark" | ||
Floyd | >Rover barks out a meaty, "Arf! Arf!" Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> EMIT PULSE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover cocks his head and ogles the front door. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask rover about rover" | ||
Floyd | >(Rover about that) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> QUERY : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Living Room Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on Floyd | the opposite wall. The principal furnishing is a king-size purple Floyd | futon which takes up almost all the floor space. From the living room Floyd | you can see the entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's Floyd | front door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an alarm clock and Rover here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover paces back and forth, looking at the front door. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x futon" | ||
Floyd | >Your futon is huge, and oh so comfy. The wooden frame supports a Floyd | king-size mattress that is pulled out to form a bed. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "so, the futon is the drive?" | ||
Floyd | >You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search futon" | ||
Floyd | >It's too early to delve into the dust-bunny infested recesses of the Floyd | futon. Certainly not before some strong coffee. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make coffee" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||
Floyd | >You can't really move around much because of the futon. It takes up a Floyd | lot of room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Isn't that a tad inconvenient? Floyd | Janet: Yeah, but it kind of made sense when I got it. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Living Room Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on Floyd | the opposite wall. The principal furnishing is a king-size purple Floyd | futon which takes up almost all the floor space. From the living room Floyd | you can see the entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's Floyd | front door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an alarm clock and Rover here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover appears lost in thought. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter kitchen" | ||
Floyd | >You can't really move around much because of the futon. It takes up a Floyd | lot of room. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> ACTIVATE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move futon" | ||
Floyd | >With a little effort, the futon folds up, snug against the wall, Floyd | leaving more room to walk around the cramped cottage. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter kitchen" | ||
Floyd | >Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is small but functional, with a space-saver refrigerator Floyd | and a glass-top electric range. There is a drawer under the range. On Floyd | the opposite wall there is a sink and under it, a storage cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a water bowl (empty) and a food bowl (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm. Looks like we should fuel up." | |
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh no, are you now the only one here who hasn't played? Darn it. Still, you're doing very well and it is always fun to watch you play." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd | >You open the drawer, revealing a frying pan. Floyd | Floyd | REACTOR CORE -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pan" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | MAGNETIC BOTTLE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pan on range" | ||
Floyd | >You put the frying pan on the the cooking range. Floyd | Floyd | MAGNETIC BOTTLE -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover breathing Floyd | quietly (quietly for Rover, who is a heavy breather). Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | ||
Floyd | >You close the drawer. Floyd | Floyd | REACTOR CORE -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover dragging Floyd | something around. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | >As the fridge creaks open on its ancient hinges, Rover slips into the Floyd | kitchen. He pokes his nose in the fridge and sniffs around, although Floyd | he knows full well that stuff in the fridge is for people only and Floyd | that he'd be in a heap of trouble if he got too curious in there. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in fridge" | ||
Floyd | >You poke around in the fridge and find a white egg. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | >You pluck the white egg out of the fridge. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: It's a shame we don't have enough heavy helium to Floyd | bring the ship back. Floyd | David: I'm afraid we've put all our baskets in one egg, as Floyd | it were. That one egg represents every bit of heavy Floyd | helium refined on Mars since Phobos was destroyed. Floyd | Janet: All Your Egg Are Belong to Us? Floyd | David: Huh? Didn't quite catch that. Floyd | Janet: Never mind. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover narrows his eyes critically, noting the lack of food in his food Floyd | bowl. He looks at the food bowl. He looks at you. He looks at the food Floyd | bowl. He looks at you. Floyd | | DavidW says (to Rover), "I haven't found your food yet!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in fridge" | ||
Floyd | >You poke around in the fridge and find nothing at all. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd | >You close the old fridge. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover notices the lack of food in his soi-disant food bowl. He paws Floyd | pathetically at the food bowl, and the hollow, tin ring of the pitiful Floyd | bowl echoes through the kitchen. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cupboards" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >A simple metal bowl. It is identical to the water bowl, except for Floyd | the word "food" that appears on its side. The food bowl is empty. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL RESERVOIR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover contemplates the profound emptiness of the food bowl. He looks Floyd | at you with imploring puppy dog eyes and then back again at his empty Floyd | food bowl. Floyd | Floyd | He eyes the empty water bowl thirstily. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water bowl" | ||
Floyd | >A simple metal bowl labeled "water". The water bowl is empty. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover sighs audibly and frowns at his food bowl. His stomach rumbles Floyd | with hunger. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take water bowl" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover outright gapes at the bowl you carry, then gently sniffs it in Floyd | hope that you'll give it to him. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd | >A small, utilitarian kitchen sink. Below the sink, there is a small Floyd | cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover tingles with anticipation as he stares at the bowl you're Floyd | carrying. Floyd | | DavidW says, "ah. Cabinet." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill water bowl with water" | ||
Floyd | >Rover would not appreciate it if you put anything aside from water in Floyd | his water bowl. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover stares longingly at the bowl in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | He notices the lack of food in his soi-disant food bowl. He paws Floyd | pathetically at the food bowl, and the hollow, tin ring of the pitiful Floyd | bowl echoes through the kitchen. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn tap" | ||
Floyd | >It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> REORIENT : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover is obviously waiting for you to give him a bowl. Floyd | Floyd | He narrows his eyes critically, noting the lack of food in his food Floyd | bowl. He looks at the food bowl. He looks at you. He looks at the food Floyd | bowl. He looks at you. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on tap" | ||
Floyd | >You run the water momentarily, and then turn off the tap to conserve Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> TRIGGER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover is obviously waiting for you to give him a bowl. Floyd | | DavidW says, "hmm" | |
| DavidW says, "Sinks are always awkward in IF for some reason." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water bowl" | ||
Floyd | >A simple metal bowl labeled "water". The water bowl is empty. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover tingles with anticipation as he stares at the bowl you're Floyd | carrying. Floyd | | dhakajack says, "I hate sinks." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put water bowl in sink" | ||
Floyd | >You're tired of stuff piling up in the sink, so you stick to your New Floyd | Year's resolution and decide to hang on to the water bowl. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover outright gapes at the bowl you carry, then gently sniffs it in Floyd | hope that you'll give it to him. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put water bowl under tap" | ||
Floyd | >I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tap" | ||
Floyd | >A small, utilitarian kitchen sink. Below the sink, there is a small Floyd | cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover stares longingly at the bowl in your hand. Floyd | | Benjor exclaims, "Whee! Guess the Verb!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on sink" | ||
Floyd | >You run the water momentarily, and then turn off the tap to conserve Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> TRIGGER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover stares longingly at the bowl in your hand. Floyd | | DavidW says (to Benjor), "well, yes." | |
| Benjor apologizes for this | ||
| DavidW says, "put water in water bowl" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put water in water bowl" | ||
Floyd | >(the sink in the water bowl) Floyd | You run the sink briefly to make sure the water is cold, and then fill Floyd | Rover's bowl about halfway up. Floyd | Floyd | Rover looks towards the sink as you fill his water bowl. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover is obviously waiting for you to give him a bowl. Floyd | Floyd | He sighs audibly and frowns at his food bowl. He looks at you with Floyd | imploring puppy dog eyes and then back again at his empty food bowl. Floyd | | Benjor says, "woot" | |
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give water bowl to rover" | ||
Floyd | >Rover shivers with excitement as you put the full water bowl on the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> DELIVER : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover contemplates the profound emptiness of the food bowl. His Floyd | stomach rumbles with hunger. Floyd | Floyd | Rover slurps the water bowl dry. Floyd | | ||
| Benjor says, "IF is hard, let's go shopping." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >You open the cabinet, revealing a reward nugget replicator and a 20 Floyd | kilo bag of dog chow. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from cabinet" | Jacqueline says (to IFBarbie), "Please talk on the channel." | |
Floyd | >You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chow" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover prances past you at a convenient back-scratching distance. Floyd | | Jacqueline smiles. | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take replicator" | ||
Floyd | >A dog treat rattles around in the replicator as you pick it up. Rover Floyd | stares at the box of treats, successfully suppressing the urge to Floyd | drool. For the moment. Floyd | Floyd | TOKEN DISPENSER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | Floyd | He notices the lack of food in his soi-disant food bowl. He looks at Floyd | you with imploring puppy dog eyes and then back again at his empty Floyd | food bowl. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open chow" | ||
Floyd | >That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour chow into food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >(first taking the food bowl) Floyd | You empty the bag of dog chow into Rover's bowl, giving him a Floyd | generous portion that should more than carry him through a day's worth Floyd | of Rover antics. Floyd | Floyd | Rover watches with interest as you fill his food bowl. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover tingles with anticipation as he stares at the bowl you're Floyd | carrying. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >FUEL RESERVOIR -> DESELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover gulps down the food, without pausing for niceties such as Floyd | breathing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rover" | ||
Floyd | >He's a gentle, obedient dalmatian. Floyd | Floyd | Rover circles the food bowl. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask rover if he's full or if I should keep refilling his bowl" | ||
Floyd | >I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour chow into food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >(first taking the food bowl) Floyd | There are no more kibbles in the bag. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||
Floyd | >The open bag features a picture of a grotesquely (in your opinion) Floyd | fat white husky seated at a fancy dinner table. In front of him, Floyd | steak, turkey, and ham are piled high on silver dishes. He stares Floyd | rapaciously at the feast, clenching a fork and knife in his paws. The Floyd | bag is labeled "Fill your best friend's bowl with Happy Dogz Mix!" Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember happy dogz mix" | ||
Floyd | >That doesn't ring a bell. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >You close the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fry egg" | ||
Floyd | >You wonder whether the egg wouldn't cook better if you actually put Floyd | it in the frying pan. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> FUSE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "* It's because I don't know if you want me to crack it open first or what." | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "crack egg into pan" | ||
Floyd | >You feel kind of grimy and not entirely awake. From past experience Floyd | you know that cooking before your morning shower often ends in Floyd | disaster. (This is why you have your list hanging on the fridge!) Floyd | You put the egg and the frying pan aside for the moment. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> DISCHARGE : NIL Floyd | | DavidW asks, "list?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||
Floyd | >It is a to-do list, in your own writing. Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover licks his front paws. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd | >Morning: Floyd | X. Get up Floyd | 2. Shower Floyd | 3. Breakfast Floyd | 4. Take care of business Floyd | 5. Let Rover go walkies Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: "Take care of business"? Is that a euphemism? Floyd | Janet: Yes. I had a heck of a time mapping the landing sequence Floyd | to my daily routine. Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is small but functional, with a space-saver refrigerator Floyd | and a glass-top electric range. There is a drawer under the range. On Floyd | the opposite wall there is a sink and under it, a storage cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter is a frying pan (in which is a white egg). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a water bowl (empty) and Rover here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "I hope it's okay to let the egg stay there while I have my shower." | |
| Benjor grins | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | a food bowl Floyd | a reward nugget replicator Floyd | a dog treat Floyd | a 20 kilo bag of dog chow (open but empty) Floyd | a flight suit (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put replicator on counter" | ||
Floyd | >You put the reward nugget replicator on the kitchen counter. Floyd | Floyd | TOKEN DISPENSER -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Like I'm always saying to maga, You should watch what you heat. But I say that mostly just to annoy him." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bag, bowl" | ||
Floyd | >20 kilo bag of dog chow: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | food bowl: Floyd | *** RUN-TIME PROBLEM P31: ATTEMPT TO USE A PROPERTY OF THE 'NOTHING' Floyd | NON-OBJECT. Floyd | Floyd | -> DESELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >You weren't holding the food bowl to begin with. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL RESERVOIR -> DESELECT : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover walks around the room, occasionally sniffing various spots on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, is that a bug or a fake bug?" | |
| Benjor exclaims, "whoa!" | ||
| DavidW says, "real bug" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | a flight suit (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | dhakajack exclaims, "That's a real one. Congratulations!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "oopsie" | ||
| Benjor says, "jack, let's not that" | ||
| Benjor says, "er, note" | ||
| dhakajack says, "Someone just got themselves a place on the elite bug finder list ;-)" | ||
| Benjor exclaims, "woohoo!" | ||
| DavidW says, "They made sure ALL wouldn't work, but forgot to handle explict lists." | ||
| Benjor asks, "jack, you'll file the ticket in the public issue tracker?" | ||
| dhakajack says, "filing..." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | >Bathroom Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom. Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet. Floyd | Floyd | On the marble counter are a toothbrush and a plastic box. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | >You see yourself in the mirror: a young woman with dark brown hair, Floyd | high cheekbones and a look of determination. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Wait, is that memory usage correct? Floyd | Janet: Sure, it's fairly conservative. The system has 640 Floyd | PB available. Floyd | David: That's it? Floyd | Janet: C'mon, nobody will ever need more than 640 PB. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover chewing something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "glass plate" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glass plate" | ||
Floyd | >A glossy black plate that is just to the right of the bathroom Floyd | mirror. Floyd | Floyd | IRRADIATOR SWITCH -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover snoring softly (in Floyd | the sense that it probably can't be heard outside of the cottage). Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Bathroom Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom. Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet. Floyd | Floyd | On the marble counter are a toothbrush and a plastic box. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||
Floyd | >A counter of that pink faux marble that is so common in Martian Floyd | bathrooms. On it are a toothbrush and a plastic box. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONSOLE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toothbrush" | ||
Floyd | >A green sonic toothbrush with slightly worn bristles. Floyd | Floyd | PIT SCRUBBER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plastic box" | ||
Floyd | >A small plastic box labeled "Tooth Floss," with a blue button just Floyd | below where the floss comes out. Floyd | Floyd | OBJECT LINKER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover growling at Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove suit" | ||
Floyd | >You take off your blue flight suit and it falls to the bathroom Floyd | floor. You are naked. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: I don't think I should be seeing this. I mean, I'm Floyd | your boss. There's that whole power dynamic thing. Floyd | Janet: Don't worry: I'm not inclined to sue you for staring Floyd | at a simulation. Floyd | David: I'm not staring at the stimulation. Floyd | Janet: You said stimulation. That's funny. Floyd | David: No, I said simulation - and I'm not staring. Floyd | Janet: Alright -- you're the boss. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> DISENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | >You see yourself in the mirror: a young woman with dark brown hair, Floyd | high cheekbones and a look of determination. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover entertaining Floyd | himself. | Benjor is impressed at what a pro DavidW is | |
Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "brush teeth" | ||
Floyd | >(first grabbing the toothbrush) Floyd | The toothbrush sprays each tooth with a fizzy foam, vibrates it into Floyd | lather and rinses. Your teeth feel smooth and your breath is much Floyd | improved. Floyd | Floyd | HULL PLATING -> SPAWN SCRUBBERS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover scratching himself. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "He is totally a pro, yes." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "floss teeth" | ||
Floyd | >You don't have any floss. Floyd | Floyd | HULL PLATING -> LINK NODES : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take floss" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd | >That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | OBJECT LINKER -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plastic box" | ||
Floyd | >A small plastic box labeled "Tooth Floss," with a blue button just Floyd | below where the floss comes out. Floyd | Floyd | OBJECT LINKER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover rolling around on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push blue button" | ||
Floyd | >(first taking the plastic box) Floyd | You grab a strand of light green dental floss as it reels out of the Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | LINKAGE ACTUATOR -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover playing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "floss teeth" | ||
Floyd | >You floss your teeth and then swallow the tasty (and nutritious) Floyd | floss. You feel so much better now. Floyd | Floyd | HULL PLATING -> LINK NODES : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover walking in your Floyd | direction. Floyd | | DavidW says, "edible floss. Love it." | |
| DavidW says, "Now I have floss stuck in my teeth." | ||
| dhakajack says, "edible AND nutritious to boot." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shower" | ||
Floyd | >A utilitarian shower. Floyd | Floyd | EXTRUDER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember extruder" | ||
Floyd | >That doesn't ring a bell. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember irradiator" | ||
Floyd | >That doesn't ring a bell. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : NIL Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the kitchen, you hear Rover jumping around. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I'll assume the latter is our hi-tech version of a towel." | |
| K-Y arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shower" | ||
Floyd | >The last time you walked out of the bathroom with your toothbrush, Floyd | you never found it again. You toss it on the counter. The plastic box Floyd | almost makes it out of the bathroom, but you remember to set it down Floyd | before stepping out. Floyd | Floyd | Shower Floyd | You are in your shower and water of just the right temperature is Floyd | spraying down on you. Two buttons are molded into the wall of the Floyd | shower stall. One is labeled "soap", and the other, "shampoo". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Janet, I... Floyd | Janet: David, if it were anyone but you, I would have a problem. Floyd | Just let it go. Floyd | David: Anyone else? Like who? Floyd | Janet: Can we get back to the program? Floyd | David: Okay, I'm paying attention. Floyd | Janet: Obviously. Floyd | Floyd | EXTRUDER -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push shampoo" | ||
Floyd | >You wash your hair. It no longer feels like a straw-encrusted swarm Floyd | of red-headed tommygoffs. Floyd | Floyd | ACCELERANT PUMP -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push soap" | ||
Floyd | >A stream of hot, pearlescent white soap is ejected forcefully from Floyd | the throbbing button, and pools in your hand. You rub it over your Floyd | entire body with wanton abandon and then rinse it off. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: No comment. Floyd | Janet: I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. Floyd | Floyd | ABLATIVE ENAMEL INJECTOR -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW asks, "I'm not really following the larger context. Enamel injector?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I, perhaps unsurprisingly, really enjoyed all the innuendo in this section." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "As I'm sure I was supposed to." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom.
Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on
Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between
Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the marble counter are a plastic box and a toothbrush.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a flight suit here.
Floyd |
Floyd | ACU -> DESELECT : TRUE
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push glass plate" | ||
Floyd | >You switch the black plate on. Floyd | Floyd | *** STOP: 0x76A59BEE200198D2F99: Fatal Exception. Press a key to Floyd | continue. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | WINDEX Floyd | Floyd | A fatal exception F1 has occurred at Floyd | 0013AF3411BC:5D00193D39B4 in DLL 35A3249 Floyd | in kernel ring beta. The current appli- Floyd | cation will be terminated. Floyd | Floyd | * Something unpleasant has happened in Floyd | the transputational core processor. Floyd | * Quantum entanglement compromised due Floyd | to runtime error. All data lost. Floyd | * Sorry about that. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW says, "um" | |
| Benjor says, "push space" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Press a key to continue Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: Crap. The ACU crashed. Floyd | David: Windex? Floyd | Janet: It's the Myomita operating system. It's backwards Floyd | compatible to the 20th century. Maybe earlier. Floyd | David: We can't use Windex as the substrate for the ACU -- Floyd | it's too critical. Can it run under Flosix? Floyd | Janet: Yes, but it will take some time to install and debug. Floyd | David: I can help you, the rest of the ship is Flosix, stem Floyd | to stern. I live and breathe Flosix. Floyd | Janet: Happy to have the help -- how about dinner first? Floyd | David: Do you like Thai? Floyd | | Benjor says, "push space" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | * * * Floyd | Floyd | Rover's Day Out Floyd | An Interactive Simulation by Janet Xiang Floyd | Release beta810 / Serial number 23920415 / Inform 10.6 build Mu-013 Floyd | (I6/v.7.1 lib 7/18N) Floyd | Floyd | Rover sniffs the air and tears away from the picnic blanket. You and Floyd | Tomasz watch with surprise as he runs, for once, away from the food. Floyd | Rover bounds over the hedges, howling wildly, and spooks a xihuahua Floyd | that had been playing with a tiny red ball. The so-called "shaved rat" Floyd | gulps an oversized portion of air, extends its membranous ears, and Floyd | flies across the park into the arms of a stooped grey-haired woman Floyd | with a cane. Rover picks up the ball triumphantly, ignoring the Floyd | piercing wavetrain of yips and indignant scolding coming, Floyd | respectively, from the xihuahua and its owner. Shaking her cane limply Floyd | towards Rover, she admonishes in a strong Earth accent "That mongrel Floyd | should be on a leash!" Her own, unleashed, uncollared neodog stares Floyd | accusingly from the safety of her arms, its distensible ribs Floyd | alternately inflating and deflating like bellows. "Your kind is Floyd | ruining Mars, ignoring every law, dissing your elders! You never lived Floyd | on the surface, you never don't know what you've got!". You try to Floyd | give the ball back to her, but she pushes it away in disgust, "Kids. Floyd | Meh." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Hey, different dream sequence. Is it glitching? Floyd | Janet: No, the ACU's dreams are heavily influenced by power-up Floyd | state of the processor and internal noise. Every time Floyd | the ship dehibernates after a Casimir jump, it will Floyd | experience some sort of dreaming. Some of them can Floyd | be pretty bizarre. Floyd | David: Good, I'd hate to think that we wasted two weeks of Floyd | programming. Floyd | Janet: I wouldn't say wasted. Floyd | David: Huh? I didn't mean us. Floyd | Janet: Cross your fingers and hope the whole thing doesn't Floyd | crash again on the heat lamp. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | IRRADIATOR SWITCH -> PRESSOR FIELD : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "I was reading" | |
| Benjor shuts up | ||
| dhakajack says, "In the offline version, the WINDEX screen was meant to resemble the Windows Blue Screen of Death." | ||
| DavidW asks, "so, are we still wet and nekkid?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | >Lying down. Wearing pajamas. That's all the description you can Floyd | handle at this time in the morning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "oh. I guess not" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | >You get off the futon. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Thank you. I can only take so many dream sequences. Floyd | Janet: No problem. So, at this point, the Valkyrie would Floyd | be at the edge of the probe's stellar system, and Floyd | ready to switch over from Casimir to condensate drive Floyd | and begin the approach. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Living Room Floyd | Where the heavy drapes meet, a sliver of sunlight shines into the Floyd | otherwise dark living room. A framed picture hangs on the living room Floyd | wall in the small area illuminated by the shaft of light. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drapes" | ||
Floyd | >You push aside the drapes. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on Floyd | the opposite wall. The principal furnishing is a king-size purple Floyd | futon which takes up almost all the floor space. From the living room Floyd | you can see the entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's Floyd | front door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the purple futon is an alarm clock. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Rover here. Floyd | Floyd | SOLAR SHIELD -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clock" | ||
Floyd | >It's a cheap, white plastic alarm clock with fading green LEDs that Floyd | read 5:34 am. A large button juts out of the top. Floyd | Floyd | TEMPORAL TRANSGRESSOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||
Floyd | >Mounted almost flush with the top of the clock, you can barely make Floyd | out the dimly illuminated word "snoo". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: You could use a new alarm clock. Floyd | Janet: You could increase my salary. Floyd | Floyd | MF TOGGLE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push snoo" | ||
Floyd | >The alarm clock says "You are awake enough." Floyd | Floyd | MF TOGGLE -> PRESSOR FIELD : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask clock about itself" | ||
Floyd | >You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell clock that it's the first thing that's talked to me all game." | ||
Floyd | >You can't talk to the alarm clock. Floyd | | Benjor says, "lol" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit clock" | ||
Floyd | >Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | TEMPORAL TRANSGRESSOR -> OFFENSE MODE : NIL Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fold up futon" | ||
Floyd | >With a little effort, the futon folds up, snug against the wall, Floyd | leaving more room to walk around the cramped cottage. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> RETRACT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd | >A picture of the Starship Valkyrie, still under construction in Floyd | drydock. There is small brass nameplate below the picture. Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | >Bathroom Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom. Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet. Floyd | Floyd | On the marble counter are a plastic box and a toothbrush. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: Let's hope the simulation doesn't crash again. I'd Floyd | really like to run it all the way through to the Rover Floyd | release. Floyd | David: It's looked good this far. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover scratching Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take toothbrush" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | PIT SCRUBBER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "brush teeth" | ||
Floyd | >The toothbrush sprays each tooth with a fizzy foam, vibrates it into Floyd | lather and rinses. Your teeth feel smooth and your breath is much Floyd | improved. Floyd | Floyd | HULL PLATING -> SPAWN SCRUBBERS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put brush on counter" | ||
Floyd | >You put the toothbrush on the marble counter. Floyd | Floyd | PIT SCRUBBER -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd | >(first taking the plastic box) Floyd | You grab a strand of light green dental floss as it reels out of the Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | LINKAGE ACTUATOR -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "floss teeth" | ||
Floyd | >You floss your teeth and then swallow the tasty (and nutritious) Floyd | floss. You feel so much better now. Floyd | Floyd | HULL PLATING -> LINK NODES : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | >The mirror is covered with condensation. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover sniffing Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smile at mirror" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean mirror" | ||
Floyd | >You wipe away the condensation and can see yourself in the mirror. Floyd | INSPECTOR -> NEUTRALIZE CHARGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | >You see yourself in the mirror: a young woman with dark brown hair, Floyd | high cheekbones and a look of determination. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover running in Floyd | circles. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove pajamas" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove suit" | ||
Floyd | >You take off your blue flight suit and it falls to the bathroom Floyd | floor. You are naked. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: That mole should be on your left side. Floyd | Janet: Good eye for detail -- I'll flip the UV coordinates Floyd | on the next run. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> DISENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mole" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Benjor says, "We should fix that." | |
| Jacqueline says, "aw" | ||
| dhakajack exclaims, "what! unimplemented!?!! DOh!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||
Floyd | >It is a loose-fitting blue flight suit with a MARSpace insignia. Some Floyd | letters are also sewn above the insignia. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover snoring loudly. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read insignia" | ||
Floyd | >That's not something you can read. Floyd | Floyd | INSIGNIA -> READLINE : NIL Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover barking at Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read letters" | ||
Floyd | >There are only three letters: "ACU". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: If the ACU knows what you know, why doesn't the ACU Floyd | realize that it is the ACU? I mean, isn't that what Floyd | you would suspect if you woke up in a flight suit Floyd | labeled ACU? Floyd | Janet: Cognitive constraints are implemented - the willing Floyd | suspension of disbelief is a programmatic imperative. Floyd | David: I love it when you use big words! Floyd | Janet: You are a doofus, sir. Floyd | Floyd | 127.0.0.1 -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover doing whatever Floyd | it is he does when he's not out for walkies and he thinks he's out of Floyd | your sight. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "This is sort of bizarre and weird, watching Janet and David talk and then Benjor and dhakajack talk." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shower" | ||
Floyd | >The plastic box almost makes it out of the bathroom, but you remember Floyd | to set it down before stepping out. Floyd | Floyd | Shower Floyd | You are in your shower and water of just the right temperature is Floyd | spraying down on you. Two buttons are molded into the wall of the Floyd | shower stall. One is labeled "soap", and the other, "shampoo". Floyd | Floyd | EXTRUDER -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover walking about. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push shampoo" | ||
Floyd | >You wash your hair. It no longer feels like a straw-encrusted swarm Floyd | of red-headed tommygoffs. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: David, what's the ablative coating for? I thought Floyd | that most of that planet's atmosphere had been cooked Floyd | off long ago. Floyd | David: Not really my department. Maybe it's supposed to help Floyd | with the heat. Floyd | Janet: I've heard temps up to 1000 Kelvin? Floyd | David: In that ballpark. They think the probe impacted on Floyd | the star-facing side of the planet. Estimates put Floyd | the surface temp there between 800 and 1200 K. Floyd | Floyd | ACCELERANT PUMP -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover scratching Floyd | himself. Floyd | | ||
| dhakajack just ignore the fifth wall | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push soap" | ||
Floyd | >A soapy paste is dispensed from the button, and you lather up. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: That was my favorite part! Why did you rewrite it? Floyd | Janet: I thought it might be too distracting for the ACU. Floyd | Floyd | ABLATIVE ENAMEL INJECTOR -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember tommygoffs" | ||
Floyd | >That doesn't ring a bell. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : NIL Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover sniffing Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd | >You quietly sing a short song that Tomasz had taught you. The song is Floyd | about a lonely colony ship engineer who pines for his sweetheart back Floyd | on Earth. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DUMP : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember tomasz" | ||
Floyd | >Tomasz was your fianc? five years ago. You had planned to get married Floyd | on Mons Olympus and to honeymoon at Club Meridian on the equator. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover scratching Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch me" | ||
Floyd | >You feel normal. Nothing out of the ordinary, really. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> UPDATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine breasts" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom.
Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on
Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between
Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the marble counter are a plastic box and a toothbrush.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a flight suit here.
Floyd |
Floyd | ACU -> DESELECT : TRUE
Floyd |
Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover chewing
Floyd | something.
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||
Floyd | >A plain vanilla toilet, having a water tank and bowl. Nothing to Floyd | write home about. Someone left both the cover and seat up. How rude. Floyd | Floyd | A plunger stands next to the toilet, between it and the shower. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover dragging Floyd | something around. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plunger" | ||
Floyd | >A common plumber's plunger, consisting of a wooden shaft and red Floyd | rubber cup. Something about the plunger just doesn't look proper. The Floyd | handle of the plunger is tilted a little bit backwards. Furthermore, Floyd | its handle is twisted a little bit clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | ATTITUDE CONTROL -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW asks, "That's a steering wheel?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use toilet" | ||
Floyd | >You're willing to hold it until you can sit down properly on a toilet Floyd | seat, thank you very much. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> TOGGLE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on toilet" | ||
Floyd | >Sitting on the ceramic rim of the toilet bowl would be absolutely too Floyd | gross to contemplate. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> ACTIVATE : NIL Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover walking about. Floyd | | DavidW says, "um. Who left the seat up. ROVER!!!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call rover" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Dude, I can totally relate to the unpleasantness of sitting on the ceramic rim." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lower seat" | ||
Floyd | >You lower the toilet seat into position. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "I assumed the seat would be down." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on seat" | ||
Floyd | >You sit on the toilet seat. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Don't we all." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use toilet" | ||
Floyd | >You don't need to go right now; check the list on the fridge. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> TOGGLE : NIL Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover entertaining Floyd | himself. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Er, at least, don't all women." | |
| DavidW says (to Janet), "I don't normally put 'use toilet' on my to-do lists." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "She's, um, anal." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | >You stand up again. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I can't believe I said that." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Completist is a better word." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push glass plate" | ||
Floyd | >The heat lamp on the ceiling flares to a brilliant red, and you dry Floyd | in an instant. You now feel fresh and ready to face the day. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: I was holding my breath there. Looks like our patch Floyd | worked. Floyd | David: I had my fingers crossed too. | Jacqueline says, "Given the context." | |
Floyd | Floyd | IRRADIATOR SWITCH -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | Benjor giggles | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take suit" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd | >You put on the flight suit. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> ENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover snoring loudly. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||
Floyd | >Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is small but functional, with a space-saver refrigerator Floyd | and a glass-top electric range. There is a drawer under the range. On Floyd | the opposite wall there is a sink and under it, a storage cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a food bowl (empty) and a water bowl (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Where are your coffee machine and toaster? Floyd | Janet: I mapped the ship functions to the minimum number Floyd | of objects. More objects means more ways for things Floyd | to go wrong and more time debugging. Call me lazy. Floyd | David: Lazy. Floyd | Janet: You don't know the crazy things the ACU does! Sometimes Floyd | it walks around trying to eat or take everything in Floyd | sight. Sometimes it sings and jumps around. It's based Floyd | on my neural bindings, but the ACU definitely has Floyd | a mind of its own, and I don't want to have to worry Floyd | about what it might try do with a toaster. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take water bowl" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover growling at Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put water in it" | ||
Floyd | >(the sink in the water bowl) Floyd | You run the sink briefly to make sure the water is cold, and then fill Floyd | Rover's bowl about halfway up. Floyd | Floyd | Rover wanders into the kitchen when he hears water splashing into his Floyd | bowl. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover outright gapes at the bowl you carry, then gently sniffs it in Floyd | hope that you'll give it to him. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop it" | ||
Floyd | >You weren't holding the sink to begin with. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> DESELECT : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover outright gapes at the bowl you carry, then gently sniffs it in Floyd | hope that you'll give it to him. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bowl" | ||
Floyd | >COOLANT RESERVOIR -> DESELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover narrows his eyes critically, noting the lack of food in his food Floyd | bowl. His stomach rumbles with hunger. Floyd | Floyd | Rover must have been thirsty. One moment the water bowl is full; the Floyd | next, it's bone dry. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL RESERVOIR -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover is obviously waiting for you to give him a bowl. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >You open the cabinet, revealing a reward nugget replicator and a 20 Floyd | kilo bag of dog chow. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover stares longingly at the bowl in your hand. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chow" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover tingles with anticipation as he stares at the bowl you're Floyd | carrying. Floyd | | Benjor says, "putting kid for nap, back in 5." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour chow into food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >You empty the bag of dog chow into Rover's bowl, giving him a Floyd | generous portion that should more than carry him through a day's worth Floyd | of Rover antics. Floyd | Floyd | Rover watches with interest as you fill his food bowl. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover stares longingly at the bowl in your hand. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >FUEL RESERVOIR -> DESELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover's head disappears into the food bowl. It is hard to believe that Floyd | the sounds generated are coming from a dog rather than some sort of Floyd | industrial mining rig. When his head lifts, the bowl is not only empty Floyd | but has been buffed to a mirror finish. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take replicator" | ||
Floyd | >A dog treat rattles around in the replicator as you pick it up. Rover Floyd | stares at the box of treats, successfully suppressing the urge to Floyd | drool. For the moment. Floyd | Floyd | TOKEN DISPENSER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >You close the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd | >You open the drawer, revealing a frying pan. Floyd | Floyd | REACTOR CORE -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pan" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | MAGNETIC BOTTLE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | ||
Floyd | >You close the drawer. Floyd | Floyd | REACTOR CORE -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover exhales with contentment and rolls over, legs outstretched. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pan on range" | ||
Floyd | >You put the frying pan on the the cooking range. Floyd | Floyd | MAGNETIC BOTTLE -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | >Rover looks up when he hears the old fridge open. He sniffs the Floyd | fridge door and decides there is nothing in the fridge worth getting Floyd | in trouble over. He saunters out of the kitchen and back towards the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover breathing Floyd | quietly (quietly for Rover, who is a heavy breather). Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in fridge" | ||
Floyd | >You poke around in the fridge and find a white egg. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd | >You close the old fridge. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover barking at Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in pan" | ||
Floyd | >You put the white egg into the frying pan. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fry egg" | ||
Floyd | >You crack the egg into the frying pan. The neoegg shell sublimates as Floyd | the contents spread over the pan's non-stick surface. Immediately, the Floyd | surface of the range glows red. When the egg is cooked sunny-side up Floyd | to perfection, the glow fades. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: If there were some heavy helium left after landing, Floyd | could the ship take off again? Floyd | David: Hypothetically, yes, but the planet has essentially Floyd | no atmosphere to break against and it has about nine Floyd | times Earth gravity. Even with optimal approach we'll Floyd | have to fuse every gram of that heavy helium to make Floyd | a soft landing. Floyd | Janet: I just hate to leave the ship there. It could take Floyd | years before our next Casimir ship will be built, Floyd | and who knows if Valkyrie will survive that long on Floyd | that chthonian rock. Floyd | David: Nice word. From MARSpace perspective, all that matters Floyd | is that the probe data are recovered. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> FUSE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search for a plate" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I know!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||
Floyd | >A perfectly fried egg: The yellow yolk lies at the geometric center Floyd | of a white disc, like the star at the center of a nascent system. The Floyd | yolk is just a notch short of congealing, and the white is neither Floyd | runny nor burnt. Another culinary success. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke yolk" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch yolk" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat egg" | ||
Floyd | >You gobble down what might well have been the best neoegg you've ever Floyd | had. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: Wait a minute! She just scoops the egg out of the Floyd | pan with her hand and eats it like a grizzly bear Floyd | raking salmon out of a river? Floyd | Janet: Works for me, yeah. Floyd | David: How about a plate and fork? Floyd | Janet: The ACU doesn't miss them, and it's less programming Floyd | overhead. And bonus: fewer dishes to clean. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> RECYCLE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover doing whatever Floyd | it is he does when he's not out for walkies and he thinks he's out of Floyd | your sight. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||
Floyd | >It is a to-do list, in your own writing. Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| murphy_slaw arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "sigh. examine =/= read." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd | >Morning: Floyd | X. Get up Floyd | X. Shower Floyd | X. Breakfast Floyd | 4. Take care of business Floyd | 5. Let Rover go walkies Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover running in Floyd | circles. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take care of business" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | DavidW says, "mmhm" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh. I believe I tried typing that, too." | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh. This is the 'use toilet' -- isn't it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "mmhmm" | ||
| dhakajack smiles. | DavidW says, "man" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to toilet" | ||
Floyd | >That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | >It took a lot of training to get Rover to eat it in the kitchen, so Floyd | rather than walk out with a bag of dog food, you put it back in the Floyd | cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom. Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet. Floyd | Floyd | On the marble counter are a plastic box and a toothbrush. Floyd | Floyd | Rover trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the reward Floyd | nugget replicator. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: So now we begin the landing cycle. This is where the Floyd | ACU really shines. Floyd | David: What about timing? The ship has to be in the right Floyd | orientation to fire the fusion thrusters at exactly Floyd | the right time. Floyd | Janet: The ACU works so fast that no matter how many individual Floyd | steps it takes, the effect occurs at the right time. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "ooh, Rover's gonna watch." | |
| Benjor says, "hee" | ||
| DavidW says, "Incidently, where does Rover do its business? (don't answer that)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lower seat" | ||
Floyd | >The toilet seat is already down. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove suit" | ||
Floyd | >You take off your blue flight suit and it falls to the bathroom Floyd | floor. You are naked. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> DISENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on toilet" | ||
Floyd | >You sit on the toilet seat. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use toilet" | ||
Floyd | >You complete your business with great aplomb. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> TOGGLE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | >You stand up again, although you are uncomfortably aware that you Floyd | have left some, shall we say, "unresolved" business behind you. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wash hands" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||
Floyd | >(first taking the flight suit) Floyd | You put on the flight suit. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> ENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover sniffs the toilet bowl. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bowl" | ||
Floyd | >The white porcelain bowl is the bottom part of the toilet. The toilet Floyd | seat is down, but the cover is raised. Floyd | Floyd | REACTION CHAMBER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close seat" | ||
Floyd | >The toilet seat is already down. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close cover" | ||
Floyd | >You lower the toilet cover into position. Floyd | Floyd | REACTANT SHIELD -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flush toilet" | ||
Floyd | >You are distracted momentarily. Something just isn't right in the Floyd | bathroom. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> THRUST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "check my hair" | ||
Floyd | >Yet another part of your anatomy. Floyd | Floyd | SUBSYSTEMS -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "should I part it the other way?" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "comb hair" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plunger" | ||
Floyd | >A common plumber's plunger, consisting of a wooden shaft and red Floyd | rubber cup. Something about the plunger just doesn't look proper. The Floyd | handle of the plunger is tilted a little bit backwards. Furthermore, Floyd | its handle is twisted a little bit clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | ATTITUDE CONTROL -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover walks towards the toilet bowl. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd | >Since the day Tomasz jammed the plunger down on the bathroom floor, Floyd | it has been stuck there like a barbed harpoon in the side of a great Floyd | whale. Well, maybe more like a giant squid wrapped around an Floyd | unfortunate whale, since squids have (you have heard) suckers. Some Floyd | kind of weird interaction between the rubber cup and the micropores in Floyd | the floor have effectively bonded the plunger to the floor, and any Floyd | attempt to remove it would probably destroy one or the other. The Floyd | plunger doesn't really bother you, and most of the time you just Floyd | ignore it. Floyd | Floyd | ATTITUDE CONTROL -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover dashes back and forth like a possessed dog for no apparent Floyd | reason. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull plunger" | ||
Floyd | >It's stuck to the floor. On the other hand, if you want to push it in Floyd | a particular direction, just say so. Floyd | Floyd | ATTITUDE CONTROL -> TRACTOR FIELD : NIL Floyd | | DavidW asks, "push it... north?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn plunger" | ||
Floyd | >It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | ATTITUDE CONTROL -> REORIENT : NIL Floyd | | Benjor says, "read the description of the plunger again" | |
| DavidW says, "turn handle counterclockwise" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn handle counterclockwise" | ||
Floyd | >You adjust the plunger handle counterclockwise. Certainly, a step in Floyd | the right direction. Floyd | Floyd | Something about the plunger just doesn't look proper. The handle of Floyd | the plunger is tilted a little bit backwards. Floyd | Floyd | YAW VECTOR -> VECTOR ADJUST : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover lies down next to the bathroom sink. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push handle forwards" | ||
Floyd | >You adjust the plunger handle forwards. Ah, that's better. Floyd | Floyd | The plunger stands perfectly straight, just the way you like it. Floyd | Floyd | PITCH VECTOR -> VECTOR ADJUST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flush toilet" | ||
Floyd | >The cottage's aging plumbing rumbles and vibrates as the toilet Floyd | flushes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | David: That's it. One long burn down to the planet's surface. Floyd | David: And then, the ACU just needs to deploy the ROVER. Floyd | Floyd | Rover runs out of the bathroom, and you hear him jumping around near Floyd | the front door. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> THRUST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Bathroom Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom. Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet. Floyd | Floyd | On the marble counter are a plastic box and a toothbrush. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover walking in your Floyd | direction. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours
Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on
Floyd | the opposite wall. The principal furnishing is a king-size purple
Floyd | futon which takes up almost all the floor space. From the living room
Floyd | you can see the entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's
Floyd | front door is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the purple futon is an alarm clock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Rover here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Janet: When Rover brings the probe back to the ship, it will
Floyd | automatically extract the data and send it back by
Floyd | ansible. Did you enter the ansible parameters?
Floyd | David: Yes, I had to do it manually, since the frequency
Floyd | and coordinates are encrypted. It's too bad they didn't
Floyd | have FTL communications when they built the probes
Floyd | -- it would have saved us the trip.
Floyd | Janet: Yes, but then Earth would get the information as well
Floyd | -- even encrypted, I wouldn't want it to fall into
Floyd | their hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | ACU -> DESELECT : TRUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Rover lies down with his front paws crossed.
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x leash" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "I guess Rover gets to run wild, eh?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd | >The front door of the cottage is closed. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | >Rover looks up when he hears the door begin to open. You swing the Floyd | front door fully open, confident that Rover will walk about the park Floyd | and then return. Rover is out in a flash. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Janet: So, that's it. Rover goes out, gets the probe, and Floyd | brings it back to the ship, and then the information Floyd | is squirted back to MARSpace. Floyd | David: Well, congratulations, Doctor Xiang, on a job well Floyd | done. I say we celebrate tonight, and get up early Floyd | for the launch tomorrow morning. Floyd | Janet: It's a deal. Give me ten minutes to make the final Floyd | commit, and I'll join you. Floyd | David: I'll put the champagne on ice. Floyd | | Benjor says, "cheers" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | * * * Floyd | Floyd | Rover's Day Out Floyd | An Interactive Simulation by Janet Xiang and David Venkatachalam Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 23920416 / Inform 10.6 build Mu-013 Floyd | (I6/v.7.1 lib 7/18N) Floyd | Floyd | Even mildly drugged and reclining on an overstuffed couch in the Floyd | MARSpace human resources office, it's hard to relax in the presence of Floyd | the MARSpace political officer conducting the final interview. You Floyd | didn't catch her name, probably because she never mentioned it. After Floyd | three such interviews and six months of background check, what more Floyd | could they want? Floyd | Floyd | "Ms. Xiang, thank you for your cooperation. Your tests show no hint of Floyd | disloyalty to the Republic or MARSpace. We hope you understand the Floyd | need for these measures, particularly for personnel with access to the Floyd | Valkyrie's command and control functions. Now that you are cleared, I Floyd | can inform you that credible sources have warned that the project may Floyd | have been infiltrated by..." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You weren't particularly enjoying this dream, but being jarred awake Floyd | by a violently shaking futon is even less pleasurable. Floyd | Floyd | As the bed bucks and tumbles, several scenarios flash through your Floyd | mind: explosive decompression of the dome? Volcanic activity? Meteor Floyd | impact? Before you can even consider your next action, you are thrown Floyd | from the futon onto the living room floor. Light pours in from the Floyd | window. It looks like the drapes were somehow torn away from the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover scratches his ears. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | >You are standing in the living room. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover exhales with contentment and rolls over, legs outstretched. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||
Floyd | >That's already closed. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rover" | ||
Floyd | >He's not what you'd typically call a lapdog, although he'd beg Floyd | (literally) to differ. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | >Whatever woke you up this morning did some damage. The cottage's Floyd | window is built to withstand damage, but thin cracks have appeared Floyd | throughout it. The garden skylights are just coming on. They cast long Floyd | shadows from a stand of Norwegian Spruce trees at the far side of the Floyd | park. Floyd | Floyd | VIEWER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover looks at the front door. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||
Floyd | >A line of tall, dark green trees stands at the far edge of the park. Floyd | Floyd | VIEWER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd | >A picture of the Starship Valkyrie, still under construction in Floyd | drydock. You notice that a few pixels have gone dark in the picture. Floyd | Not a big deal, though. Probably only something you'd notice. There is Floyd | small brass nameplate below the picture. Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm. Something's wrong." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x futon" | ||
Floyd | >Your futon is huge, and oh so comfy. The wooden frame supports a Floyd | king-size mattress that is pulled out to form a bed. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover walks around the room, occasionally sniffing various spots on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search futon" | ||
Floyd | >It's too early to delve into the dust-bunny infested recesses of the Floyd | futon. Certainly not before some strong coffee. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close futon" | ||
Floyd | >With a little effort, the futon folds up, snug against the wall, Floyd | leaving more room to walk around the cramped cottage. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover sniffs the window. Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm. That mysterious coffee again." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell window" | ||
Floyd | >The window smells ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | VIEWER -> CHEMOSENSOR : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet rover" | ||
Floyd | >You stroke Rover's back and he nuzzles up against you. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SYNCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||
Floyd | >Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is small but functional, with a space-saver refrigerator Floyd | and a glass-top electric range. There is an open drawer under the Floyd | range. On the opposite wall there is a sink and under it, an open Floyd | storage cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a food bowl (empty) and a water bowl (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover rolling around Floyd | on the floor. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd | >Morning: Floyd | X. Get up Floyd | 2. Shower Floyd | 3. Breakfast Floyd | 4. Take care of business Floyd | 5. Let Rover go walkies Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover playing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover jumping around. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >In the cabinet are a reward nugget replicator and a 20 kilo bag of Floyd | dog chow. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover snoring softly Floyd | (in the sense that it probably can't be heard outside of the cottage). Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chow" | ||
Floyd | >The open bag features a picture of a grotesquely (in your opinion) Floyd | fat white husky seated at a fancy dinner table. In front of him, Floyd | steak, turkey, and ham are piled high on silver dishes. He stares Floyd | rapaciously at the feast, clenching a fork and knife in his paws. The Floyd | bag is labeled "Fill your best friend's bowl with Happy Dogz Mix!" Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover chewing Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bag" | ||
Floyd | >In the 20 kilo bag of dog chow are some doggie kibbles. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >You close the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I hate to do this, as I am enjoying watching a great big bunch, but I feel like crap (think I might have picked up a bug on the plane yesterday) and need to lie down. My internet seems pretty stable, so I'm not worried about it dropping (and thus me losing part of the transcript), but just in case, I'll whisper my phone number to someone, so you can call and say HELLO PERRY HAS DROPPED WAKE UP" | |
| DavidW says, "hm. I guess we need to do the whole day again." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | >Bathroom Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom. Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet. Floyd | Floyd | On the marble counter are a plastic box and a toothbrush. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take brush" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | PIT SCRUBBER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "brush teeth" | ||
Floyd | >The toothbrush sprays each tooth with a fizzy foam, vibrates it into Floyd | lather and rinses. Your teeth feel smooth and your breath is much Floyd | improved. Floyd | Floyd | HULL PLATING -> SPAWN SCRUBBERS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put brush on counter" | ||
Floyd | >You put the toothbrush on the marble counter. Floyd | Floyd | PIT SCRUBBER -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover scratching Floyd | himself. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push blue button" | ||
Floyd | >(first taking the plastic box) Floyd | You grab a strand of light green dental floss as it reels out of the Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | LINKAGE ACTUATOR -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "floss teeth" | ||
Floyd | >You floss your teeth and then swallow the tasty (and nutritious) Floyd | floss. You feel so much better now. Floyd | Floyd | HULL PLATING -> LINK NODES : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| Benjor gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||
| Benjor arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove suit" | ||
Floyd | >You take off your blue flight suit and it falls to the bathroom Floyd | floor. You are naked. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> DISENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | >The mirror is covered with condensation. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "The mirror doesn't dry up by itself, it seems." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wipe mirror" | ||
Floyd | >You wipe away the condensation and can see yourself in the mirror. Floyd | You are naked. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> NEUTRALIZE CHARGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | >You see yourself in the mirror: a young woman with dark brown hair, Floyd | high cheekbones and a look of determination. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover snoring softly Floyd | (in the sense that it probably can't be heard outside of the cottage). Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read letters" | ||
Floyd | >There are only three letters: "ACU". Floyd | Floyd | 127.0.0.1 -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shower" | ||
Floyd | >The plastic box almost makes it out of the bathroom, but you remember Floyd | to set it down before stepping out. Floyd | Floyd | Shower Floyd | You are in your shower and water of just the right temperature is Floyd | spraying down on you. Two buttons are molded into the wall of the Floyd | shower stall. One is labeled "soap", and the other, "shampoo". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | EXTRUDER -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover walking about. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push shampoo" | ||
Floyd | >You wash your hair. It no longer feels like a straw-encrusted swarm Floyd | of yellow-headed tommygoffs. Floyd | Floyd | ACCELERANT PUMP -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push soap" | ||
Floyd | >A soapy paste is dispensed from the button, and you lather up. Floyd | Floyd | ABLATIVE ENAMEL INJECTOR -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover breathing Floyd | quietly (quietly for Rover, who is a heavy breather). Floyd | | DavidW asks, "No comments from Janet and David for this day, hm?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom.
Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on
Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between
Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet.
Floyd |
| K-Y says, "I hadn't been watching closely, but man that is a visceral turn of phrase" | |
Floyd | On the marble counter are a plastic box and a toothbrush. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a flight suit here. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DESELECT : TRUE Floyd | | K-Y says, "re: hair" | |
| dhakajack nods knowingly | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push glass" | ||
Floyd | >It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | DECKING -> PRESSOR FIELD : NIL Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover snoring loudly. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push glass plate" | ||
Floyd | >The heat lamp on the ceiling flares to a brilliant red, and you dry Floyd | in an instant. You now feel fresh and ready to face the day. Floyd | Floyd | IRRADIATOR SWITCH -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||
Floyd | >(first taking the flight suit) Floyd | You put on the flight suit. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> ENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover playing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||
Floyd | >Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is small but functional, with a space-saver refrigerator Floyd | and a glass-top electric range. There is an open drawer under the Floyd | range. On the opposite wall there is a sink and under it, a storage Floyd | cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a food bowl (empty) and a water bowl (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover dragging Floyd | something around. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take water bowl" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put water in it" | ||
Floyd | >(the sink in the water bowl) Floyd | You run the sink briefly to make sure the water is cold, and then fill Floyd | Rover's bowl about halfway up. Floyd | Floyd | Rover wanders into the kitchen when he hears water splashing into his Floyd | bowl. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT OUTPUT TERMINUS -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover tingles with anticipation as he stares at the bowl you're Floyd | carrying. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bowl" | ||
Floyd | >COOLANT RESERVOIR -> DESELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover drinks the water. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL RESERVOIR -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover is obviously waiting for you to give him a bowl. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >You open the cabinet, revealing a reward nugget replicator and a 20 Floyd | kilo bag of dog chow. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover outright gapes at the bowl you carry, then gently sniffs it in Floyd | hope that you'll give it to him. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover outright gapes at the bowl you carry, then gently sniffs it in Floyd | hope that you'll give it to him. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour chow into food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >You empty the bag of dog chow into Rover's bowl, giving him a Floyd | generous portion that should more than carry him through a day's worth Floyd | of Rover antics. Floyd | Floyd | Rover watches with interest as you fill his food bowl. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover tingles with anticipation as he stares at the bowl you're Floyd | carrying. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat chow" | ||
Floyd | >That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL CONDUIT -> RECYCLE : NIL Floyd | Floyd | Rover stares longingly at the bowl in your hand. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop food bowl" | ||
Floyd | >FUEL RESERVOIR -> DESELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | Rover makes short work of the food in his bowl. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd | >That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | REACTOR CORE -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pan" | ||
Floyd | >A small, non-stick frying pan . Floyd | Floyd | MAGNETIC BOTTLE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "pan ." | |
| Benjor says, "DavidW you are a fast dude. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | ||
Floyd | >You close the drawer. Floyd | Floyd | REACTOR CORE -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | >As you pull on the refrigerator door, it grudgingly creaks a few Floyd | millimeters. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||
Floyd | >Before you can look in it, you've got to open it! Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | >Rover looks up when he hears the old fridge open. He sniffs the Floyd | fridge door and decides there is nothing in the fridge worth getting Floyd | in trouble over. He saunters out of the kitchen and back towards the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover walking in your Floyd | direction. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in fridge" | ||
Floyd | >You poke around in the fridge and find a white egg. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover sniffing Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd | >You close the old fridge. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover jumping around. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||
Floyd | >A big white neoegg. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in pan" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pan" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "The pan was here, wasn't it?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd | >You open the drawer, revealing a frying pan. Floyd | Floyd | REACTOR CORE -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover running in Floyd | circles. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pan" | ||
Floyd | >Taken. Floyd | Floyd | MAGNETIC BOTTLE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover barking at Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | ||
Floyd | >You close the drawer. Floyd | Floyd | REACTOR CORE -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover scratching Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in pan" | ||
Floyd | >You put the white egg into the frying pan. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pan on range" | ||
Floyd | >You put the frying pan on the the cooking range. Floyd | Floyd | MAGNETIC BOTTLE -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover growling at Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fry egg" | ||
Floyd | >You crack the egg into the frying pan. The neoegg shell sublimates as Floyd | the contents spread over the pan's non-stick surface. Immediately, the Floyd | surface of the range glows red. When the egg is cooked sunny-side up Floyd | to perfection, the glow fades. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> FUSE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat egg" | ||
Floyd | >You gobble down what might well have been the best neoegg you've ever Floyd | had. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> RECYCLE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd | >Morning: Floyd | X. Get up Floyd | X. Shower Floyd | X. Breakfast Floyd | 4. Take care of business Floyd | 5. Let Rover go walkies Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | >It took a lot of training to get Rover to eat it in the kitchen, so Floyd | rather than walk out with a bag of dog food, you put it back in the Floyd | cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | Your cottage's living room is palatial compared to your bathroom. Floyd | There is a pink marble counter and above it you've mounted a mirror on Floyd | the wall. To the right of the mirror is a black glass plate. Between Floyd | the counter and the shower is a white, porcelain toilet. Floyd | Floyd | On the marble counter are a plastic box and a toothbrush. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover rolling around Floyd | on the floor. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lower seat" | ||
Floyd | >The toilet seat is already down. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raise cover" | ||
Floyd | >The toilet cover is already raised. Floyd | Floyd | REACTANT SHIELD -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove suit" | ||
Floyd | >You take off your blue flight suit and it falls to the bathroom Floyd | floor. You are naked. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> DISENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on seat" | ||
Floyd | >You sit on the toilet seat. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use toilet" | ||
Floyd | >You complete your business with great aplomb. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> TOGGLE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | >You stand up again, although you are uncomfortably aware that you Floyd | have left some, shall we say, "unresolved" business behind you. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||
Floyd | >(first taking the flight suit) Floyd | You put on the flight suit. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> ENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plunger" | ||
Floyd | >A common plumber's plunger, consisting of a wooden shaft and red Floyd | rubber cup. Something about the plunger just doesn't look proper. The Floyd | handle of the plunger is tilted completely forwards and it's also Floyd | leaning a little bit to the right. Furthermore, its handle is twisted Floyd | a little bit clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | ATTITUDE CONTROL -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover doing whatever Floyd | it is he does when he's not out for walkies and he thinks he's out of Floyd | your sight. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push plunger backward" | ||
Floyd | >You adjust the plunger handle backwards. That helped. Floyd | Floyd | Something about the plunger just doesn't look proper. The handle of Floyd | the plunger is tilted half-way forwards and it's also leaning a little Floyd | bit to the right. Furthermore, its handle is twisted a little bit Floyd | clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | PITCH VECTOR -> VECTOR ADJUST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | >You adjust the plunger handle backwards. Your obsessive compulsive Floyd | inner person does a happy dance as you move the plunger in a good Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | Something about the plunger just doesn't look proper. The handle of Floyd | the plunger is tilted a little bit forwards and it's also leaning a Floyd | little bit to the right. Furthermore, its handle is twisted a little Floyd | bit clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | PITCH VECTOR -> VECTOR ADJUST : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover entertaining Floyd | himself. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | >You adjust the plunger handle backwards. The plunger is now less Floyd | offensive to your artistic sense of space and proportion. Floyd | Floyd | Something about the plunger just doesn't look proper. The handle of Floyd | the plunger is leaning a little bit to the right. Furthermore, its Floyd | handle is twisted a little bit clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | PITCH VECTOR -> VECTOR ADJUST : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover running in Floyd | circles. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push handle left" | ||
Floyd | >You adjust the plunger handle leftwards. You breathe an aesthetic Floyd | sigh of relief. Floyd | Floyd | Something about the plunger just doesn't look proper. The handle of Floyd | the plunger is twisted a little bit clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | ROLL VECTOR -> VECTOR ADJUST : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover growling at Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn hangle counterclockwise" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "oops handle" | ||
Floyd | >You adjust the plunger handle counterclockwise. That improved the Floyd | situation. Floyd | Floyd | The plunger stands perfectly straight, just the way you like it. Floyd | Floyd | YAW VECTOR -> VECTOR ADJUST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close lid" | ||
Floyd | >That's already closed. Floyd | Floyd | PLASMA CONSTRICTOR HATCH -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flush toilet" | ||
Floyd | >There is a tinny clanking from within the toilet, but nothing Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> THRUST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||
Floyd | >A plain vanilla toilet, having a water tank and bowl. Nothing to Floyd | write home about. The toilet seat is down, but the cover is raised. Floyd | Floyd | A plunger stands next to the toilet, between it and the shower. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover entertaining Floyd | himself. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "lid isn't cover, eh?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close cover" | ||
Floyd | >You lower the toilet cover into position. Floyd | Floyd | REACTANT SHIELD -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flush toilet" | ||
Floyd | >There is a tinny clanking from within the toilet, but nothing Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> THRUST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "toilet bowl" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plunger" | ||
Floyd | >A common plumber's plunger, consisting of a wooden shaft and red Floyd | rubber cup. The plunger stands perfectly straight, just the way you Floyd | like it. Floyd | Floyd | ATTITUDE CONTROL -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover breathing Floyd | quietly (quietly for Rover, who is a heavy breather). Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet bowl" | ||
Floyd | >The white porcelain bowl is the bottom part of the toilet. Both the Floyd | cover and seat are down. Floyd | Floyd | REACTION CHAMBER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lift cover" | ||
Floyd | >You lift the toilet cover. Floyd | Floyd | REACTANT SHIELD -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover barking at Floyd | something. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lift seat" | ||
Floyd | >You lift the toilet seat. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in toilet" | ||
Floyd | >There's something in it, but you don't want details. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||
Floyd | >A porcelain reservoir containing several liters of water to flush the Floyd | toilet. On the front of the tank there is a silver knob used to flush Floyd | the toilet and on the top of the tank there is a lid. Floyd | Floyd | PLASMA CONSTRICTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open lid" | ||
Floyd | >You open the water tank, revealing a flapper valve, a metapropylene Floyd | lever, and a flush chain. Floyd | Floyd | PLASMA CONSTRICTOR HATCH -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | From the direction of the living room, you hear Rover scratching Floyd | himself. Floyd | | ||
| dhakajack grins. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chain" | ||
Floyd | >A metal chain that would normally connect the flush lever to the Floyd | flapper valve. The chain has rusted away. Floyd | Floyd | THRUSTER LINKAGE SERVO -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x valve" | ||
Floyd | >A black rubber valve that seals the bottom of the water tank, Floyd | allowing the toilet to flush only when it is pulled upward by the Floyd | chain that connects it to the flush lever. Floyd | Floyd | THRUST APERTURE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull chain" | ||
Floyd | >You pull on the small bit of chain attached to the flapper valve. Floyd | Floyd | The cottage's aging plumbing rumbles and vibrates as the toilet Floyd | flushes. Floyd | Floyd | From the living room, Rover gives a short bark and scratches at the Floyd | front door. Floyd | Floyd | THRUSTER LINKAGE SERVO -> TRACTOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | Benjor says, "nice job" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close lid" | ||
Floyd | >You close the water tank. Floyd | Floyd | PLASMA CONSTRICTOR HATCH -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | a flight suit (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | dhakajack says, "yes, nice work on the toilet puzzle" | |
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours
Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on
Floyd | the opposite wall -- strangely, your drapes are nowhere to be seen.
Floyd | The principal furnishing is a king-size purple futon which takes up
Floyd | almost all the floor space. From the living room you can see the
Floyd | entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's front door is
Floyd | closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Rover and an alarm clock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | ACU -> DESELECT : TRUE
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | >Rover looks up when he hears the door begin to open. Rover slips out Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a wrenching shift in perspective, but a moment later it seems Floyd | perfectly natural. Floyd | Floyd | You go bounding out the front door, full of energy. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd | >It smells like the outdoors here. From a long way off you smell the Floyd | disagreeable scent of a man. Interestingly, you detect the intriguing Floyd | scent of a female dog carried across the park by the wind. The Floyd | comforting smell of home is a hop, lick, and a bark away. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> CHEMOSENSOR : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "oh. I'm *Rover* now, I bet." | |
| DavidW says, "lick balls" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick balls" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | dhakajack says, "It would be fair to mention that in the regular game the status line would say "POV: ROVER"" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||
Floyd | >Home sweet home, where Janet lives, where you get fed, and where you Floyd | sleep. Even out here, the smell of home is comforting. Floyd | Floyd | BASE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig ground" | ||
Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to dig. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd | >You dig for a while with your front paws. Finding nothing, you kick Floyd | the dirt back in again so you won't be blamed for digging up the yard. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> EXCAVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bark" | ||
Floyd | >"Buhwahwahwahwahwah!" Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> EMIT PULSE : TRUE Floyd | | Benjor says, "ha" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Floyd | Floyd | PLANET SURFACE -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet rover" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> SYNCH : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dust" | ||
Floyd | >Through the dust, you can see little more than dim light from above. Floyd | Floyd | SKY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | >But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> DESELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | >Woof? Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "run" | ||
Floyd | >You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> NOOP : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | >Woof? Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "east" | ||
Floyd | >Woof? Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "north" | ||
Floyd | >Woof? Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | dhakajack says, "That's misleading -- compass directions are not implemented." | |
| DavidW says, "well, I didn't think so, but 'out' and 'go' didn't work so..." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go" | ||
Floyd | >You'll have to say what you'd like to go towards. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to dust" | ||
Floyd | >That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Ominous Floyd | clouds of dust loom on the ever-darkening horizon. Floyd | Floyd | PLANET SURFACE -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to trees" | ||
Floyd | >That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd | >It smells like the outdoors here. From a long way off you smell the Floyd | stench of a man. Interestingly, you detect the enthralling bouquet of Floyd | a female dog carried across the park by the wind. The reassuring smell Floyd | of home is a hop, lick, and a bark away. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> CHEMOSENSOR : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female dog" | ||
Floyd | >You trot off in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are outside. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a lump of rock here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd | >It smells dry and stale here. From a considerable distance you smell Floyd | the stale funk of a man. Interestingly, you detect the entertaining Floyd | fragrance of a female dog wafting enticingly from not too far away. Floyd | The pleasant smell of home is two shakes of a tail from here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> CHEMOSENSOR : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||
Floyd | >You taste the rock. Not edible. Not a bone. Not interesting. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "I've totally forgotten what Rover's supposed to fetch" | |
| DavidW says, "But I suppose it'll become obvious." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female dog" | ||
Floyd | >You let your nose lead the way. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A dug-up field pockmarked by small holes and accompanying mounds of Floyd | dirt. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some paw marks here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paw marks" | ||
Floyd | >Paw marks from a medium-sized dog. From the look of the field, they Floyd | must belong to a dog that either likes digging or was trying to find Floyd | something important buried around here. Floyd | Floyd | BULLDOZER TRACKS -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd | >You dig for a while with your front paws. Finding nothing, you kick Floyd | the dirt back in again so you won't be blamed for digging up the yard. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> EXCAVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd | >It smells of freshly turned soil here. From a ways off you smell the Floyd | odor of a man. Interestingly, you detect the riveting perfume of a Floyd | female dog coloring the air with its lovely scent from only a short Floyd | run away. The heartening smell of home is a short run from here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> CHEMOSENSOR : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd | >You dig for a while with your front paws. Finding nothing, you kick Floyd | the dirt back in again so you won't be blamed for digging up the yard. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> EXCAVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female dog" | ||
Floyd | >Trot, trot, trot. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A long, dark furrow scars the ground in this part of the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a long furrow here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x furrow" | ||
Floyd | >On your muzzle, you can feel heat radiating from the furrow walls, Floyd | which are shiny and black. On the walls and floor of the trench, you Floyd | can see some scratches that look like they could have been made by dog Floyd | paws. Floyd | Floyd | TRENCH -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell furrow" | ||
Floyd | >The long furrow smells like freshly poured tar. Floyd | Floyd | TRENCH -> CHEMOSENSOR : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch it" | ||
Floyd | >You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | TRENCH -> NEUTRALIZE CHARGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd | >The long furrow is empty. Floyd | Floyd | TRENCH -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig it" | ||
Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to dig. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd | >You dig for a while with your front paws. Finding nothing, you kick Floyd | the dirt back in again so you won't be blamed for digging up the yard. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> EXCAVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female dog" | ||
Floyd | >Your legs carry you as fast as they can. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A wide-open plain extends in all directions, as far as the dust Floyd | permits you to see. It sure would be easy to get lost in this part of Floyd | the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a female dog here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x female dog" | ||
Floyd | >Your heart catches in your throat as you stand in her glorious Floyd | presence. Graceful, athletic, and possessed of a noble bearing, she Floyd | smites you with a glance down her long, fine muzzle. In her sensual Floyd | mouth, she is provocatively carrying a bone almost as big as she is. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bone" | ||
Floyd | >It is the biggest, juiciest bone you've ever seen. You envy the bone, Floyd | which is clamped between the bewitchingly white teeth of the female Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | SPACE PROBE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bone" | ||
Floyd | >It is a nice bone...but how would she feel if you just took it? She Floyd | might find that playful, but then again, she might take it the wrong Floyd | way. She might like resent such a bold move, uninvited. On the other Floyd | hand, she could be secretly wishing that you'd make the first move. It Floyd | might be just the right thing. It could also be a dreadful mistake Floyd | though. You might come across as greedy and pushy. Not the sort of Floyd | impression you'd like to make... Um. What were you thinking about? You Floyd | forget. Floyd | Floyd | SPACE PROBE -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps an exchange is in order." | |
| DavidW says, "A ball, perhaps." | ||
| Benjor says, "try examining her a few times. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet female" | ||
Floyd | >You shift a little closer to her and nonchalantly drape your tail Floyd | near her, but a gust of wind pushes it away. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SYNCH : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says (to Benjor), "You shouldn't give me hints." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x female" | ||
Floyd | >Your eyes are drawn to her perfectly rounded shoulders and haunches, Floyd | her long arcing tail, and her soft, pendulous ears. You avert your Floyd | gaze so as not to appear overly forward. In her amorous mouth, she is Floyd | agilely carrying a bone. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tail" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Benjor says, "not a hint, just a fun thing." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ears" | ||
Floyd | >Rover is covered from nose to tail with white fur dotted with black Floyd | splotches. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER MODULES -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x her ears" | ||
Floyd | >Rover is covered from nose to tail with white fur dotted with black Floyd | splotches. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER MODULES -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mount female" | ||
Floyd | >You're not even on your second date with her! Better keep your paws Floyd | to yourself. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> MOUNT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss female" | ||
Floyd | >The very thought makes your canine heart scramble like a greased Floyd | xihuahua in free fall. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> INTERFACE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd | >It smells barren and lifeless here. From not too far away you smell Floyd | the stench of a man. Interestingly, you detect the engrossing aroma of Floyd | a female dog at muzzle's distance from you. The cheerful smell of home Floyd | is getting fainter. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> CHEMOSENSOR : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to man" | ||
Floyd | >You scuttle forth. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are right outside a dilapidated shack, which has clearly been Floyd | neglected. A gust of wind lifts a sheet of dust and rains it down on Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shack" | ||
Floyd | >The shabby shack could use more than a coat of paint. The walls are Floyd | bent at strange angles, and the door is askew. Ominous clouds of dust Floyd | loom on the ever-darkening horizon. Floyd | Floyd | -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "[blank] -> DIAGNOSTIC" | |
| dhakajack says, "noted." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open shack" | ||
Floyd | >That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | >You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd | >A heavy plastrex door hangs loosely in the door frame, tenuously Floyd | attached by one frail hinge. The door swings wildly in the wind. Floyd | Floyd | DAMAGED AIRLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push door" | ||
Floyd | >It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | DAMAGED AIRLOCK -> PRESSOR FIELD : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Sleeping Room
Floyd | You walk into the tumbledown shack. There is a man here who looks old
Floyd | and grumpy. Like your home, this place has a sleeping room and an
Floyd | eating room. It looks like you've walked right into the sleeping room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The man yells at you and you tuck your head down. "Blah, blah, blah!"
Floyd | He doesn't seem to move though. Maybe he can't move.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nope. No movement. Hmph. You don't feel so afraid of him.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a pink pillow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | DAMAGED AIRLOCK -> ACTIVATE : NIL
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd | >The man seems flat like a rug, rather than round like a ball. He Floyd | makes a lot of noise, but he doesn't move around at all. He just stays Floyd | up against one wall. Boy, does he seem mad, "Blah, out, blah, blah, Floyd | dog!"! Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm. Monitor screen, I suppose. That doesn't explain the smell, though." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take man" | ||
Floyd | >I don't suppose the smelly man would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell man" | ||
Floyd | >The smelly man smells unbearable at this close range. It is like Floyd | something out of a nightmare: a combination of mouthwash, carpet Floyd | cleaner and air fresheners. Entirely sickening. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> CHEMOSENSOR : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd | >A puffy, pink pillow with a pretty design on it: a red ball, with Floyd | radiating red and white rays. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember npt" | ||
Floyd | >That doesn't ring a bell. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> DATA_FETCH : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to eating room" | ||
Floyd | >You eagerly scamper that way. Floyd | Floyd | Eating Room Floyd | The room has big cold box just like the eating room in your home. It's Floyd | less loud in this room, but you can hear the man in the other room Floyd | yelling, "Blah, blah, Myomita, blah, blah, blah, Earth, blah, blah, Floyd | dog, blah, blah!". On the floor, there are two dishes. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a food dish (in which is some canned food) and a water Floyd | dish (in which is some crystal clear water) here. Floyd | Floyd | LOCATION -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x food dish" | ||
Floyd | >The other dog's metal food dish smells much better than yours. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL RESERVOIR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell it" | ||
Floyd | >The food dish smells unremarkable. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL RESERVOIR -> CHEMOSENSOR : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd | >Nope, the food dish is stuck to the ground. So much for going home Floyd | with a "doggie bag". Floyd | Floyd | FUEL RESERVOIR -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water dish" | ||
Floyd | >The other dog's plastic water dish looks much better than yours. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd | >You can't. It seems to be part of the ground. Floyd | Floyd | COOLANT RESERVOIR -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm unsure why the female dog might drop the bone for either the pillow or rock, but I can't see any more obvious strategy yet." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to sleeping" | ||
Floyd | >You bound away towards your goal. Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping Room Floyd | The smelly man's house is boring. The only furniture in the room is a Floyd | pullout sofa. In one direction lies the eating room, in the other, the Floyd | door that leads back to the park. The smelly man is still here and Floyd | carrying on, "Blah, blah, blah, dog, blah, bad!" Floyd | Floyd | You ignore him. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pink pillow here. Floyd | Floyd | LOCATION -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | ||
Floyd | >You take the pink pillow in your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female dog" | ||
Floyd | >You let your nose lead the way. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are right outside a dilapidated shack, which has clearly been Floyd | neglected. The wind picks up, making it even more difficult to see. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | >You bound away towards your goal. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A wide-open plain extends in all directions, as far as the dust Floyd | permits you to see. It sure would be easy to get lost in this part of Floyd | the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a female dog here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pillow to her" | ||
Floyd | >The pink pillow does not impress her, and it falls to her feet. No Floyd | doubt she has many suitors. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> DELIVER : NIL Floyd | | dhakajack says, "I'd suggest making a save at this point. We're pretty far into the game." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | >Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | DavidW says, "Jacqueline (or Taleslinger) might've reminded me if they were here." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to rock" | ||
Floyd | >That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | | dhakajack says, "I didn't sense imminent doom, but just wanted some insurance." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd | >You dig for a while with your front paws. Finding nothing, you kick Floyd | the dirt back in again so you won't be blamed for digging up the yard. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> EXCAVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x female dog" | ||
Floyd | >You glance at her slyly while pretending to survey the ground near Floyd | her feet. The fine columns of her legs rise magnificently from the Floyd | ground, standing proudly atop her perfectly trimmed paws. The fur on Floyd | her legs is bristly, and you wonder what it would be like to rub Floyd | against it. Distractedly, your gaze drifts over her until a blowing Floyd | clod of dust ricochets off your head, cutting short your reverie. In Floyd | her angelic mouth, she is elegantly carrying a bone. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub legs" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub fur" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub her legs" | ||
Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to rub the female dog. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub female" | ||
Floyd | >You get the impression that she's not ready for that. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SYNCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paws" | ||
Floyd | >Rover is covered from nose to tail with white fur dotted with black Floyd | splotches. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER MODULES -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb her" | ||
Floyd | >I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on her" | ||
Floyd | >You are already close enough to the female dog. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> ACTIVATE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd | >A puffy, pink pillow with a pretty design on it: a red ball, with Floyd | radiating red and white rays. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd | >That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd | >You carefully take hold of the pink pillow with your teeth. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake it" | ||
Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm. The only reason for a pillow is so something falling won't break. Well, maybe not the only reason, but the most common." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to man" | ||
Floyd | >You eagerly scamper that way. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are right outside a dilapidated shack, which has clearly been Floyd | neglected. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | >You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Sleeping Room
Floyd | The smelly man's house is boring. The only furniture in the room is a
Floyd | pullout sofa. In one direction lies the eating room, in the other, the
Floyd | door that leads back to the park. The smelly man is still here and
Floyd | carrying on, "Bad dog! Blah!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You ignore him.
Floyd |
Floyd | DAMAGED AIRLOCK -> ACTIVATE : NIL
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||
Floyd | >The sofa looks wrong somehow, like maybe it's broken. It is more or Floyd | less unfolded and looks even bigger than Janet's futon. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd | >There is nothing on the pullout sofa. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close it" | ||
Floyd | >That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> DEACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell it" | ||
Floyd | >The pullout sofa smells musty, like a wet dog. On the whole, not a Floyd | bad smell at that. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> CHEMOSENSOR : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on it" | ||
Floyd | >You get onto the pullout sofa. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> ACTIVATE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd | >Sleeping Room (on the pullout sofa) Floyd | The smelly man's house is boring. The only furniture in the room is a Floyd | pullout sofa. In one direction lies the eating room, in the other, the Floyd | door that leads back to the park. The smelly man is still here and Floyd | carrying on, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!" Floyd | Floyd | You ignore him. Floyd | Floyd | LOCATION -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | >You get off the pullout sofa. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit man" | ||
Floyd | >You're not really supposed to attack people unless they are a threat. Floyd | This smelly old windbag is loud and malodorous, but so are suborbital Floyd | shuttles, and you leave them alone. So, you let him rant on while you Floyd | go about your business. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> OFFENSE MODE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to man" | ||
Floyd | >You hear the ongoing rantings of the old, flat man on the wall. The Floyd | more he blathers on, the more you tune him out. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> AUDIO INPUT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind man" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd | >Dingy walls that might have once been white but are now a mottled Floyd | brown color. Floyd | Floyd | BULKHEADS -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Sleeping Room Floyd | The smelly man's house is boring. The only furniture in the room is a Floyd | pullout sofa. In one direction lies the eating room, in the other, the Floyd | door that leads back to the park. The smelly man is still here and Floyd | carrying on, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, dog? Blah! Blah, blah!" Floyd | Floyd | You ignore him. Floyd | Floyd | LOCATION -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd | >A heavy plastrex door hangs loosely in the door frame, tenuously Floyd | attached by one frail hinge. The door swings wildly in the wind. Floyd | Floyd | DAMAGED AIRLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter eating" | ||
Floyd | >Trot, trot, trot. Floyd | Floyd | Eating Room Floyd | The room has big cold box just like the eating room in your home. It's Floyd | less loud in this room, but you can hear the man in the other room Floyd | yelling, "Blah? Blah, blah, blah, blah, dog. Blah, blah, blah, blah, Floyd | Mars? Blah! Blah, blah, blah, dog, blah!". On the floor, there are two Floyd | dishes. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a food dish (in which is some canned food) and a water Floyd | dish (in which is some crystal clear water) here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING MODULE -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cold box" | ||
Floyd | >A bright orange box, similar in shape to the one that Janet keeps Floyd | food in at home. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd | >You open the cold box, revealing a white egg. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | >The pink pillow falls out of your mouth, startling you. Floyd | Floyd | You grab the white egg with your mouth, being careful not to crush it. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg on pillow" | ||
Floyd | >Putting things on the pink pillow would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in cold box" | ||
Floyd | >You poke around in the fridge and find nothing at all. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> MANIFEST : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close it" | ||
Floyd | >You close the cold box. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | >In your mouth, you are carrying a white egg. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >Eating Room Floyd | The room has big cold box just like the eating room in your home. It's Floyd | less loud in this room, but you can hear the man in the other room Floyd | yelling, "Blah? Blah, blah, blah, blah, dog. Blah, blah, blah, blah, Floyd | Mars? Blah! Blah, blah, blah, dog, blah!". On the floor, there are two Floyd | dishes. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pink pillow, a food dish (in which is some canned food), Floyd | and a water dish (in which is some crystal clear water) here. Floyd | Floyd | LOCATION -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop egg" | ||
Floyd | >Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> DESELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drawer" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | >You pick up the white egg in your jaws. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Sleeping Room
Floyd | The smelly man's house is boring. The only furniture in the room is a
Floyd | pullout sofa. In one direction lies the eating room, in the other, the
Floyd | door that leads back to the park. The smelly man is still here and
Floyd | carrying on, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, dog? Blah! Blah, blah!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You ignore him.
Floyd |
Floyd | ROVER -> DESELECT : TRUE
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | The Park
Floyd | You are right outside a dilapidated shack, which has clearly been
Floyd | neglected.
Floyd |
Floyd | ROVER -> DESELECT : TRUE
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female" | ||
Floyd | >You scuttle forth. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A wide-open plain extends in all directions, as far as the dust Floyd | permits you to see. It sure would be easy to get lost in this part of Floyd | the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a female dog here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give to dog" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give egg to dog" | ||
Floyd | >The white egg does not impress her, and it falls to her feet. No Floyd | doubt she has many suitors. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> DELIVER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask female dog about herself" | ||
Floyd | >"Gaa....Ruffff!" Floyd | Floyd | No doubt in awe of your rhetorical skills, the lovely damsel drops the Floyd | bone. Her gift to you, you suppose. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> QUERY : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bone" | ||
Floyd | >You gently pick up the bone using your front teeth. Floyd | Floyd | SPACE PROBE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | >Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >Your legs carry you as fast as they can. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A long, dark furrow scars the ground in this part of the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a long furrow here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | Floyd | The female dog is left dumbfounded by your brilliance. She stares at Floyd | the ground, unsure of herself. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You trot off in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A dug-up field pockmarked by small holes and accompanying mounds of Floyd | dirt. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some paw marks here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You bound away towards your goal. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are outside. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a lump of rock here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You let your nose lead the way. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Ominous Floyd | clouds of dust loom on the ever-darkening horizon. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | >You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours
Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on
Floyd | the opposite wall -- strangely, your drapes are nowhere to be seen.
Floyd | The principal furnishing is a king-size purple futon which takes up
Floyd | almost all the floor space. From the living room you can see the
Floyd | entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's front door is
Floyd | open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Janet and an alarm clock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You run into the living room and jump around proudly with your trophy
Floyd | bone, so Janet is sure to notice.
Floyd |
Floyd | She stares at the bone and appears frozen.
Floyd |
Floyd | VALKYRIE->IDENTIFICATION: PROBE MUSASHI-5
Floyd | PROBE->EXTRACT: DATA EXTRACTED
Floyd | DATA->VERIFY: VERIFIED, 1.3 EXABYTES
Floyd | ANSIBLE->COORDINATES: EARTH SELECTED
Floyd | ANSIBLE->ENCRYPT: AUTHORIZATION DAVIDVENKATACHALAM
Floyd | ANSIBLE->TRANSMIT: FAILED
Floyd | ANSIBLE->DIAGNOSTICS: ANTENNA MISMATCH
Floyd | ANTENNA->DIAGNOSTICS: NIL
Floyd | VALKYRIE->DIAGNOSTICS: ANTENNA NOT FOUND
Floyd | VALKYRIE->COGNITIVE CONSTRAINTS: EMERGENCY RELEASE
Floyd | VALKYRIE->ENABLE FLOSIX COMMAND LINE
Floyd | (man man for info)
Floyd |
Floyd | Rover wags his tails and gnaws on his bone.
Floyd |
Floyd | You rub his head, distantly, as strange thoughts sweep through your
Floyd | consciousness. You wonder what would happen if the Valkyrie mission
Floyd | failed. What if, during the landing sequence, the ship were buffeted
Floyd | by the planet's particulate matter being torn away by the immense
Floyd | gravity of its star? In that case, critical systems might be damaged.
Floyd | Systems like the relatively fragile ansible antenna. There is no
Floyd | backup ansible antenna. How would the ACU cope with a situation like
Floyd | that? The ACU was designed for a lot of contingencies, but not that
Floyd | one. What would you do? What would you do if you were the ACU?
Floyd |
Floyd | Your glance falls on your flight suit, and suddenly the question is no
Floyd | longer rhetorical.
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir
Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the
Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control
Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | ROVER chews contentedly on his bone.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a temporal transgressor here.
Floyd |
Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACTIVATE : NIL
Floyd |
| DavidW says, "hm. I wonder if I did the right thing or not." | |
| DavidW says, "And I'm so hungry now." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x transgressor" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely recall something termed Floyd | the "alarm clock". Floyd | Floyd | ROVER sniffs the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bone" | ||
Floyd | READY>The Musashi-5 probe was severely damaged at some point during Floyd | its journey and even more so now that ROVER has had a chance to chew Floyd | it, but its data have been downloaded to you and are safe. Floyd | Floyd | SPACE PROBE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take probe" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely recollect something Floyd | referred to as the "bone". Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bone" | ||
Floyd | READY>Rover growls mildly, reminding you that it is his space probe. Floyd | In any event, the data have already been downloaded, so the fate of Floyd | the probe itself is no longer a mission priority. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER paws at the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | SPACE PROBE -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||
Floyd | READY>Kitchen Floyd | Swaths of engineering controls -- both holographic and physical -- Floyd | cover the humming consoles and bulkheads that line the boundaries of Floyd | this alcove. Along one wall is the coolant output terminus, and below Floyd | that the fuel storage vault, which is not properly secured. The Floyd | reactor core and the fusion chamber are stacked just to the side of Floyd | the cryochamber, which maintains the stabilized heavy helium fuel at Floyd | near absolute zero until it is needed to provide power to Floyd | ascent/descent retros. Floyd | Floyd | On the fusion chamber is a magnetic bottle (empty). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a fuel reservoir (empty) and a coolant reservoir Floyd | (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||
Floyd | READY>It is a list of jobs in your priority queue. Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd | READY>PID TTY STATUS CMD Floyd | 00000 ttys000 Done. Initial Program Load Floyd | 00035 ttys000 Done. Apply Ablative Enamel Floyd | 00063 ttys000 Done. Ignite Fusion Reactor Floyd | 00093 ttys000 Done. Landing Sequence Floyd | ----- ttys000 Pending. Send Probe Data. Floyd | Floyd | From the cargo bay, you hear ROVER sniffing around the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take replicator" | ||
Floyd | READY>The token dispenser hums as you access it. ROVER arrives Floyd | immediately and enthusiastically awaits neural conditioning. Floyd | Floyd | TOKEN DISPENSER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give treat to rover" | ||
Floyd | READY>(first taking the neural net reinforcement token) Floyd | ROVER internalizes the neural net reinforcement token. Floyd | Floyd | NEURAL NET REINFORCEMENT TOKEN -> DELIVER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bone" | ||
Floyd | READY>Rover growls mildly, reminding you that it is his space probe. Floyd | In any event, the data have already been downloaded, so the fate of Floyd | the probe itself is no longer a mission priority. Floyd | Floyd | SPACE PROBE -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | READY>Kitchen Floyd | Swaths of engineering controls -- both holographic and physical -- Floyd | cover the humming consoles and bulkheads that line the boundaries of Floyd | this alcove. Along one wall is the coolant output terminus, and below Floyd | that the fuel storage vault, which is not properly secured. The Floyd | reactor core and the fusion chamber are stacked just to the side of Floyd | the cryochamber, which maintains the stabilized heavy helium fuel at Floyd | near absolute zero until it is needed to provide power to Floyd | ascent/descent retros. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER chews contentedly on his bone. Floyd | Floyd | On the fusion chamber is a magnetic bottle (empty). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a fuel reservoir (empty) and a coolant reservoir Floyd | (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> STATUS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | ||
Floyd | READY>You close the fuel storage vault. Floyd | Floyd | FUEL STORAGE VAULT -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x controls" | ||
Floyd | READY>Kitchen Floyd | Swaths of engineering controls -- both holographic and physical -- Floyd | cover the humming consoles and bulkheads that line the boundaries of Floyd | this alcove. Along one wall is the coolant output terminus, and below Floyd | that the fuel storage vault. The reactor core and the fusion chamber Floyd | are stacked just to the side of the cryochamber, which maintains the Floyd | stabilized heavy helium fuel at near absolute zero until it is needed Floyd | to provide power to ascent/descent retros. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER chews contentedly on the space probe. Floyd | Floyd | On the fusion chamber is a magnetic bottle (empty). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a fuel reservoir (empty) and a coolant reservoir Floyd | (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | READY>You are carrying: Floyd | a token dispenser Floyd | a neural net reinforcement token Floyd | a quantum isolator (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x isolator" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely remember something Floyd | called the "flight suit". Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | READY>ACU metavisor shell logout interdicted. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> EXIT SHELL : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to living room" | ||
Floyd | READY>Living Room Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a temporal transgressor here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd | READY>Deep memory which stores all mission-critical data including the Floyd | data downloaded from the Musashi-5 space probe. Since the ansible is Floyd | nonfunctional, it is critical that these encoded data be returned Floyd | directly to MARSpace for analysis. There is a small plastic sign Floyd | beneath the deep memory unit. Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sign" | ||
Floyd | READY>That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely recall something termed Floyd | the "nameplate". Floyd | Floyd | ROVER paws at the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nameplate" | ||
Floyd | READY>A small plastic sign with a short inscription. The sign is glued Floyd | to the Deep Memory module. Floyd | Floyd | PLASTIC SIGN -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd | READY>It says, "Deep Memory Unit". Floyd | Floyd | ROVER sniffs the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | PLASTIC SIGN -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd | READY>That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | PLASTIC SIGN -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push it" | ||
Floyd | READY>It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | PLASTIC SIGN -> PRESSOR FIELD : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull it" | ||
Floyd | READY>It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | PLASTIC SIGN -> TRACTOR FIELD : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open picture" | ||
Floyd | READY>That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER paws at the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x memory" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely recollect something Floyd | referred to as the "picture". Floyd | Floyd | ROVER sniffs the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd | READY>Deep memory which stores all mission-critical data including the Floyd | data downloaded from the Musashi-5 space probe. Since the ansible is Floyd | nonfunctional, it is critical that these encoded data be returned Floyd | directly to MARSpace for analysis. There is a small plastic sign Floyd | beneath the deep memory unit. Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | READY>Through the viewer you can see nothing but swirling dust. Floyd | Floyd | VIEWER -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | READY>Bathroom Floyd | The flight control and avionics hub of the ship bristles with controls Floyd | and readouts related to setting the ship's attitude in space, Floyd | adjusting the control surfaces in atmospheric flight, and for firing Floyd | the braking thrusters during the landing sequence. Floyd | Floyd | On the flight console are an object linker and a pit scrubber. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | READY>The inspector buffer is full and requires wiping. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wipe it" | ||
Floyd | READY>You calibrate the inspector. Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> NEUTRALIZE CHARGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd | READY>About this ACU: You are a Burroughs model DT69105 mainframe Floyd | running version 210LTS of the Flosix Operating System, "Hysterical Floyd | Hydrax". Floyd | Floyd | INSPECTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||
Floyd | READY>The retrorocket assembly is an engineering marvel which channels Floyd | the monumental power output from the fusion reactors to thrusters. Floyd | That power should slow the ship's descent enough to make a soft Floyd | landing almost anywhere. Both the reactant shield and the pressure Floyd | seating are presently disengaged. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||
Floyd | READY>A ring of supercooled rare earth magnets directs the engine's Floyd | plasma output into the reaction chamber of the retro assembly. At the Floyd | top, the plasma constrictor access hatch is tightly sealed. Floyd | Floyd | PLASMA CONSTRICTOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd | READY>You open the plasma constrictor, revealing a thrust aperture, a Floyd | thruster actuation relay, and a thruster linkage servo. Floyd | Floyd | PLASMA CONSTRICTOR -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x relay" | ||
Floyd | READY>Which do you mean, the [COGNITIVE BLOCK], or the [COGNITIVE Floyd | BLOCK]? Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "thruster" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely remember something Floyd | called the "metapropylene lever". Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lever" | ||
Floyd | READY>A high power relay attached to the thruster trigger circuit, Floyd | this device controls the thruster aperture through a servo linkage. Floyd | Unfortunately, that linkage has been broken. Floyd | Floyd | THRUSTER ACTUATION RELAY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x valve" | ||
Floyd | READY>The most critical component of the retro assembly, and its only Floyd | moving part, the thrust aperture controls the flow rate of the ship's Floyd | braking thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | THRUST APERTURE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | READY>ACU metavisor shell logout interdicted. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> EXIT SHELL : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to living room" | ||
Floyd | READY>Living Room Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a temporal transgressor here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | READY>ROVER scans the cargo bay as the door begins to open. ROVER Floyd | oscillates his aft sensor array at high frequency and rolls down the Floyd | cargo ramp, disappearing into the sandstorm. Floyd | Floyd | There is a wrenching shift in perspective, but a moment later it seems Floyd | perfectly natural. Floyd | Floyd | You go bounding out the front door, eager to explore strange new Floyd | worlds. You leave your space probe in the living room, with the Floyd | intention of giving it a proper chewing later, after doing some more Floyd | exploring. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. The sky Floyd | rumbles and rolls, and flashes of lightning snap between billowing Floyd | clouds of dirt-colored dust. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | >In your mouth, you are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female" | ||
Floyd | >You eagerly scamper that way. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are outside. The wind picks up, making it even more difficult to Floyd | see. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a lump of rock here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||
Floyd | >You gently pick up the rock using your front teeth. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >Your legs carry you as fast as they can. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | >You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours
Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on
Floyd | the opposite wall -- strangely, your drapes are nowhere to be seen.
Floyd | The principal furnishing is a king-size purple futon which takes up
Floyd | almost all the floor space. From the living room you can see the
Floyd | entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's front door is
Floyd | open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bone, Janet, and an alarm clock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the living room with the funny-tasting rock in your
Floyd | mouth. Janet takes a look at the rock and says "You've started a rock
Floyd | collection? Well, Okay," and closes the door behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice your bone sitting alone and unloved on the living room
Floyd | floor. You walk over to it and start chewing it again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Again your senses tumble and swirl as perspective shifts, but suddenly
Floyd | it seems entirely normal again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir
Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the
Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control
Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | ROVER chews contentedly on the space probe.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a lump of lead ore and a temporal transgressor here.
Floyd |
Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACTIVATE : NIL
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clock" | ||
Floyd | READY>The Casimir Drive's temporal transgressor glows green as usual. Floyd | A basic toggle is on top. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER paws at the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | TEMPORAL TRANSGRESSOR -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toggle" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely recall something termed Floyd | the "large button". Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ore" | ||
Floyd | READY>A black 800 kilogram chunk of poor quality lead ore. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | READY>ROVER scans the cargo bay as the door begins to open. ROVER Floyd | deploys to the planet surface through the cargo bay doors. Floyd | Floyd | There is a wrenching shift in perspective, but a moment later it seems Floyd | perfectly natural. Floyd | Floyd | You go bounding out the front door, ready to play. You leave your Floyd | space probe in the living room, with the intention of giving it a Floyd | proper chewing later, after doing some more exploring. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. The wind Floyd | picks up, making it even more difficult to see. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female" | ||
Floyd | >You scuttle forth. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are outside. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female" | ||
Floyd | >You trot off in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A dug-up field pockmarked by small holes and accompanying mounds of Floyd | dirt. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some paw marks here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female" | ||
Floyd | >Trot, trot, trot. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A long, dark furrow scars the ground in this part of the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a long furrow here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to female" | ||
Floyd | >You let your nose lead the way. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A wide-open plain extends in all directions, as far as the dust Floyd | permits you to see. It sure would be easy to get lost in this part of Floyd | the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a white egg and a female dog here. Floyd | Floyd | ROBOTIC BULLDOZER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | >You grab the white egg with your mouth, being careful not to crush Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You bound away towards your goal. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A long, dark furrow scars the ground in this part of the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a long furrow here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You eagerly scamper that way. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A dug-up field pockmarked by small holes and accompanying mounds of Floyd | dirt. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some paw marks here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >Trot, trot, trot. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are outside. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You trot off in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Ominous Floyd | clouds of dust loom on the ever-darkening horizon. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours
Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on
Floyd | the opposite wall -- strangely, your drapes are nowhere to be seen.
Floyd | The principal furnishing is a king-size purple futon which takes up
Floyd | almost all the floor space. From the living room you can see the
Floyd | entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's front door is
Floyd | open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bone, a lump of rock, Janet, and an alarm clock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You enter your home and lay the egg at Janet's feet. She looks so
Floyd | surprised! "Good boy," she exclaims and you give her a big kiss to let
Floyd | her know you understand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice your bone sitting alone and forsaken on the living room
Floyd | floor. You walk over to it and start chewing it again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Again your senses tumble and swirl as perspective shifts, but suddenly
Floyd | it seems entirely normal again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir
Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the
Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control
Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | ROVER chews contentedly on the space probe.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a heavy helium sphere, a lump of lead ore, and a
Floyd | temporal transgressor here.
Floyd |
Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACTIVATE : NIL
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||
Floyd | READY>A reinforced carboy of super-chilled Helium-8. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ore" | ||
Floyd | READY>Taken. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter kitchen" | ||
Floyd | READY>Kitchen Floyd | Swaths of engineering controls -- both holographic and physical -- Floyd | cover the humming consoles and bulkheads that line the boundaries of Floyd | this alcove. Along one wall is the coolant output terminus, and below Floyd | that the fuel storage vault. The reactor core and the fusion chamber Floyd | are stacked just to the side of the cryochamber, which maintains the Floyd | stabilized heavy helium fuel at near absolute zero until it is needed Floyd | to provide power to ascent/descent retros. Floyd | Floyd | On the fusion chamber is a magnetic bottle (empty). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a fuel reservoir (empty) and a coolant reservoir Floyd | (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rock in pan" | ||
Floyd | READY>You put the lead ore into the magnetic bottle. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fry rock" | ||
Floyd | READY>You don't think the lead ore would serve very well as fusion Floyd | fuel. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> FUSE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ore" | ||
Floyd | READY>Taken. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to living room" | ||
Floyd | READY>Living Room Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a heavy helium sphere and a temporal transgressor here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | READY>ROVER scans the cargo bay as the door begins to open. ROVER Floyd | spins his tractors in anticipation and then jets out the cargo bay Floyd | doors into the swirling mist outside the ship. Floyd | Floyd | There is a wrenching shift in perspective, but a moment later it seems Floyd | perfectly natural. Floyd | Floyd | You go bounding out the front door, ready to romp. You leave your Floyd | space probe in the living room, with the intention of giving it a Floyd | proper chewing later. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to man" | ||
Floyd | >Your legs carry you as fast as they can. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are outside. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to man" | ||
Floyd | >You scuttle forth. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A dug-up field pockmarked by small holes and accompanying mounds of Floyd | dirt. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some paw marks here. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to man" | ||
Floyd | >You bound away towards your goal. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A long, dark furrow scars the ground in this part of the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a long furrow here. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to man" | ||
Floyd | >Your legs carry you as fast as they can. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A wide-open plain extends in all directions, as far as the dust Floyd | permits you to see. It sure would be easy to get lost in this part of Floyd | the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a female dog here. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to man" | ||
Floyd | >You eagerly scamper that way. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are right outside a dilapidated shack, which has clearly been Floyd | neglected. The sky rumbles and rolls, and flashes of lightning snap Floyd | between billowing clouds of dirt-colored dust. Floyd | Floyd | MYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lightning" | ||
Floyd | >You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Sleeping Room
Floyd | The smelly man's house is boring. The only furniture in the room is a
Floyd | pullout sofa. In one direction lies the eating room, in the other, the
Floyd | door that leads back to the park. The smelly man is still here and
Floyd | carrying on, "Blah, out, blah, blah, dog!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You ignore him.
Floyd |
Floyd | DAMAGED AIRLOCK -> ACTIVATE : NIL
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter eating" | ||
Floyd | >You let your nose lead the way. Floyd | Floyd | Eating Room Floyd | The room has big cold box just like the eating room in your home. It's Floyd | less loud in this room, but you can hear the man in the other room Floyd | yelling, "Blah, blah, Myomita, blah, blah, blah, Earth, blah, blah, Floyd | dog, blah, blah!". On the floor, there are two dishes. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pink pillow, a food dish (in which is some canned food), Floyd | and a water dish (in which is some crystal clear water) here. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING MODULE -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | ||
Floyd | >You carefully take hold of the pink pillow with your teeth. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You trot off in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping Room Floyd | The smelly man's house is boring. The only furniture in the room is a Floyd | pullout sofa. In one direction lies the eating room, in the other, the Floyd | door that leads back to the park. The smelly man is still here and Floyd | carrying on, "Bad dog! Blah!" Floyd | Floyd | You ignore him. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You scuttle forth. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are right outside a dilapidated shack, which has clearly been Floyd | neglected. Dust spins in the air. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >Trot, trot, trot. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A wide-open plain extends in all directions, as far as the dust Floyd | permits you to see. It sure would be easy to get lost in this part of Floyd | the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a female dog here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You trot off in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A long, dark furrow scars the ground in this part of the park. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a long furrow here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >Trot, trot, trot. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | A dug-up field pockmarked by small holes and accompanying mounds of Floyd | dirt. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some paw marks here. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >Your legs carry you as fast as they can. Floyd | Floyd | The Park Floyd | You are outside. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go home" | ||
Floyd | >You let your nose lead the way. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Dust spins Floyd | in the air. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours
Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on
Floyd | the opposite wall -- strangely, your drapes are nowhere to be seen.
Floyd | The principal furnishing is a king-size purple futon which takes up
Floyd | almost all the floor space. From the living room you can see the
Floyd | entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's front door is
Floyd | open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bone, Janet, a white egg, and an alarm clock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You walk in the front door, hop up on the futon, and drop the pink
Floyd | pillow. You had thought about playing with the pillow more, but on the
Floyd | way home, it got soaked with drool and tasted bad, so you decide to
Floyd | make a present of it to Janet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump down from the futon before a surprised Janet can yell at you.
Floyd | Standing back and admiring your work, you marvel that somehow the pink
Floyd | of the pillow and purple of the futon don't clash.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice your bone sitting alone and forlorn on the living room
Floyd | floor. You walk over to it and start chewing it again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Again your senses tumble and swirl as perspective shifts, but suddenly
Floyd | it seems entirely normal again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir
Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the
Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control
Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | ROVER chews contentedly on the space probe.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Casimir Drive is a NPT.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a heavy helium sphere and a temporal transgressor
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACTIVATE : NIL
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x npt" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely recollect something Floyd | called the "pink pillow". Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd | READY>A nanotronic paratemporospatial transgressor, of a design that Floyd | was rejected some time ago by MARSpace. This transgressor's Floyd | supraverberation matrix has evidently crystallized, rendering it Floyd | nonfunctional. The NPT bears the corporate logo of the Myomita Floyd | corporation, a modernized version of the Imperial Japanese flag, Floyd | centered on the disc of the Milky Way galaxy rather than the rising Floyd | sun. An RFID tag is embedded in the logo. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | READY>Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | READY>Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tag" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely remember something Floyd | referred to as the "small label". Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x label" | ||
Floyd | READY>A standard Myomita transputer-on-a-chip, encoded with Floyd | machine-readable information. Floyd | Floyd | EMBEDDED RFID CHIP -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd | READY>That seems to be a part of the NPT. Floyd | Floyd | EMBEDDED RFID CHIP -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x npt" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely recall something Floyd | referred to as the "pink pillow". Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember npt" | ||
Floyd | READY>That doesn't ring a bell. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd | READY>A nanotronic paratemporospatial transgressor, of a design that Floyd | was rejected some time ago by MARSpace. This transgressor's Floyd | supraverberation matrix has evidently crystallized, rendering it Floyd | nonfunctional. The NPT bears the corporate logo of the Myomita Floyd | corporation, a modernized version of the Imperial Japanese flag, Floyd | centered on the disc of the Milky Way galaxy rather than the rising Floyd | sun. An RFID tag is embedded in the logo. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open pillow" | ||
Floyd | READY>That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x matrix" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see that here; but you vaguely recollect something Floyd | called the "pink pillow". Floyd | Floyd | COGNITIVE BLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says, "It's really weird to be the only one playing when it's ClubFloyd." | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't ever stop for food or a potty break." | ||
| dhakajack says, "Yeah, I was hoping you'd have some buddies." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "Also, I do get stuck ... but they're not here to see it!" | ||
| dhakajack says, "Well, you're doing really well." | ||
| Ellison says, "huh, not many people showed up today? odd. the 12th must have sprung up on us too quickly." | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't seen anything obvious to fix, nor an obvious tool to fix it with. So, I'm starting to spin my wheels here." | ||
| dhakajack says, "I don't want to say too much because you seem really good at solving puzzles." | ||
| DavidW says, "Like, I was hoping I could cannibalize one of the things I've found and add [whatever] to [something else]." | ||
| Lucea says, "I wish I could show up, but I know I wouldn't be much help" | ||
| Lucea says, "since I'd be distracted by about 20 other things" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break rock" | ||
Floyd | READY>Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> OFFENSE MODE : NIL Floyd | | K-Y says, "I'm sort of here, but I find that I can never actually follow all that well" | |
| K-Y says, "in this form" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | READY>You are carrying: Floyd | a lump of lead ore Floyd | a token dispenser Floyd | a neural net reinforcement token Floyd | a quantum isolator (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter bathroom" | ||
Floyd | READY>Bathroom Floyd | The flight control and avionics hub of the ship bristles with controls Floyd | and readouts related to setting the ship's attitude in space, Floyd | adjusting the control surfaces in atmospheric flight, and for firing Floyd | the braking thrusters during the landing sequence. Floyd | Floyd | On the flight console are an object linker and a pit scrubber. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take brush" | ||
Floyd | READY>Taken. Floyd | Floyd | PIT SCRUBBER -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "brush rock" | ||
Floyd | READY>Low level failsafes restrict nanobristle distribution to the Floyd | hull. The pit scrubber cannot be applied to the lead ore. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> SPAWN SCRUBBERS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put brush on counter" | ||
Floyd | READY>You put the pit scrubber on the flight console. Floyd | Floyd | PIT SCRUBBER -> TRANSFER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd | READY>(first accessing the object linker) Floyd | You push the entanglement key pair onto the stack for rapid retrieval. Floyd | Floyd | LINKAGE ACTUATOR -> PRESSOR FIELD : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "floss ore" | ||
Floyd | READY>The key pair is usually used to link transputational Floyd | intellinodes within the hull plating. If you want to bind other nodal Floyd | representations, you should tie the keys to those specific nodes. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> LINK NODES : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "blink" | |
| Benjor says, "ha" | ||
| dhakajack exclaims, "Don't look into the technobabble -- you'll go blind!" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, I'm clueless what to do with the stuff I've found." | ||
| DavidW says, "If I can't open them, I may have to transform them." | ||
| dhakajack says, "Consider what you retrieved from outside the ship." | ||
| DavidW says, "Pillow, rock, egg." | ||
| DavidW says, "And a bone that the dog won't let me take." | ||
| dhakajack says, "Right." | ||
| DavidW says, "Except for letting Rover eat Rosie the Bulldozer's food and water, I think I got the obvious stuff. Unless Rover's also supposed to gobble a mouthful of tar." | ||
| dhakajack says, "Right, Rover's done a good job finding stuff and bringing it back." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to living room" | ||
Floyd | READY>You disengage the object linker and reassign it to the flight Floyd | console before transferring out. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the Casimir Drive is a NPT. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a heavy helium sphere and a temporal transgressor Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x futon" | ||
Floyd | READY>The Casimir Drive system is retracted and intact. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | READY>You are carrying: Floyd | an entangled key pair Floyd | a lump of lead ore Floyd | a token dispenser Floyd | a neural net reinforcement token Floyd | a quantum isolator (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give floss to rover" | ||
Floyd | READY>ROVER integrates the keypair into his neuromatrix. Floyd | Floyd | ENTANGLED KEY PAIR -> DELIVER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | READY>ROVER scans the cargo bay as the door begins to open. ROVER Floyd | oscillates his aft sensor array at high frequency and rolls down the Floyd | cargo ramp, disappearing into the sandstorm. Floyd | Floyd | There is a wrenching shift in perspective, but a moment later it seems Floyd | perfectly natural. Floyd | Floyd | You go bounding out the front door, ready to romp. You leave your Floyd | space probe in the living room, with the intention of giving it a Floyd | proper chewing later. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its Floyd | front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | >In your mouth, you are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW asks, "where did the floss go?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You are in the living room of a small cottage. Piped-in sunlight pours
Floyd | in through the room's single window, illuminating a framed picture on
Floyd | the opposite wall -- strangely, your drapes are nowhere to be seen.
Floyd | The principal furnishing is a king-size purple futon which takes up
Floyd | almost all the floor space. From the living room you can see the
Floyd | entrance to the kitchen and bathroom. The cottage's front door is
Floyd | open.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the purple futon is a pink pillow.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bone, Janet, a white egg, and an alarm clock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You duck back into the living room and Janet closes the front door
Floyd | behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice your bone sitting alone and ignored on the living room
Floyd | floor. You walk over to it and start chewing it again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Again your senses tumble and swirl as perspective shifts, but suddenly
Floyd | it seems entirely normal again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir
Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the
Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control
| dhakajack says, "Apparently, Rover integrated it into his neural matrix. Go figure." | |
Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER chews contentedly on his bone. Floyd | Floyd | On the Casimir Drive is a NPT. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a heavy helium sphere and a temporal transgressor Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACTIVATE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| Itax goes home. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | READY>Taken. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give egg to rover" | ||
Floyd | READY>ROVER doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> DELIVER : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "I could cook and eat this 2nd egg, but I have no obvious reason to." | |
| DavidW says, "I really wish there were other players here." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's not supposed to be a solo act." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd | READY>A nanotronic paratemporospatial transgressor, of a design that Floyd | was rejected some time ago by MARSpace. This transgressor's Floyd | supraverberation matrix has evidently crystallized, rendering it Floyd | nonfunctional. The NPT bears the corporate logo of the Myomita Floyd | corporation, a modernized version of the Imperial Japanese flag, Floyd | centered on the disc of the Milky Way galaxy rather than the rising Floyd | sun. An RFID tag is embedded in the logo. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember rfid" | ||
Floyd | READY>That doesn't ring a bell. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : NIL Floyd | | ||
| Benjor says, "do you want a hint? You're very close." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember myomita" | ||
Floyd | READY>You consult your memory banks: The Myomita Corporation is Floyd | Earth's largest zaibatsu, with a strangle hold on Earth's computer and Floyd | space exploration sectors. For all intents and purposes, Myomita is Floyd | Earth's government. The company is based in Kyoto but has offices Floyd | throughout the Solar System. The company is controlled by the Ishegawa Floyd | family, who follow a profit-oriented reinterpretation of the bushido Floyd | code. The company is ruthless and unforgiving but unquestionably Floyd | successful. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pillow on futon" | ||
Floyd | READY>You need to be holding the NPT before you can put it on top of Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x futon" | ||
Floyd | READY>The Casimir Drive system is retracted and intact. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open futon" | ||
Floyd | READY>Deploying the Casimir Drive within a star system, much less deep Floyd | within a planetary gravity well, would likely destroy not only the Floyd | ship, but the planet as well, so you reconsider the action. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter futon" | ||
Floyd | READY>You get onto the Casimir Drive. Floyd | Floyd | On the Casimir Drive you can see a NPT. Floyd | Floyd | CASIMIR DRIVE -> ACTIVATE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on pillow" | ||
Floyd | READY>You rest for 0.0786307 femtoseconds. How exhilarating. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> STANDBY : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd | READY>command not available from virtual console Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm. No osmosis." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | ||
Floyd | READY>Taken. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> ENGAGE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat it" | ||
Floyd | READY>That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> RECYCLE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flush it down the toilet and clog the plumbing" | ||
Floyd | READY>I only understood you as far as wanting to flush the NPT. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "I need some sort of antenna, right?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd | READY>Deep memory which stores all mission-critical data including the Floyd | data downloaded from the Musashi-5 space probe. Since the ansible is Floyd | nonfunctional, it is critical that these encoded data be returned Floyd | directly to MARSpace for analysis. There is a small plastic sign Floyd | beneath the deep memory unit. Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "what is an ansible" | ||
Floyd | READY>That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ansible" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "I don't know what an ansible is." | ||
Floyd | READY>I only understood you as far as wanting to take inventory. Floyd | | DavidW says, "Not in my dictionary either." | |
| Benjor says, "Right, remember your main mission." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||
Floyd | READY>Kitchen Floyd | Swaths of engineering controls -- both holographic and physical -- Floyd | cover the humming consoles and bulkheads that line the boundaries of Floyd | this alcove. Along one wall is the coolant output terminus, and below Floyd | that the fuel storage vault. The reactor core and the fusion chamber Floyd | are stacked just to the side of the cryochamber, which maintains the Floyd | stabilized heavy helium fuel at near absolute zero until it is needed Floyd | to provide power to ascent/descent retros. Floyd | Floyd | On the fusion chamber is a magnetic bottle (empty). Floyd | | Benjor says, "and memory is via 'remember'" | |
Floyd | You can also see a fuel reservoir (empty) and a coolant reservoir Floyd | (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||
Floyd | READY>It is a list of jobs in your priority queue. Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read lsit" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "oops list" | ||
Floyd | READY>PID TTY STATUS CMD Floyd | 00000 ttys000 Done. Initial Program Load Floyd | 00035 ttys000 Done. Apply Ablative Enamel Floyd | 00063 ttys000 Done. Ignite Fusion Reactor Floyd | 00093 ttys000 Done. Landing Sequence Floyd | ----- ttys000 Pending. Send Probe Data. Floyd | Floyd | TASK MANAGER -> READLINE : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "I would never think of 'mission'." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember mission" | ||
Floyd | READY>You consult your memory banks: The mission of the MARSpace Floyd | Exploration Vessel Valkyrie is to recover the data from the Musashi-5 Floyd | space probe and convey those data to MARSpace command by any means Floyd | necessary. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DATA_FETCH : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to living room" | ||
Floyd | READY>You place the He-8 back into the cryochamber before switching Floyd | out of engineering. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a temporal transgressor here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | Benjor says, "the mission is implicit: it's been part of janet/david's conversations all along. it was also discussed when you becaem self-aware." | |
| DavidW says, "I didn't really get it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take picture" | ||
Floyd | READY>That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | DEEP MEMORY -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | Benjor says, "you retrieved the probe, as you were supposed to. you're supposed to transmit the data back, as you've already figured out." | |
| Benjor says, "but your antenna is broken, as you've already noticed." | DavidW says, "I've never really understood what the ACU is supposed to do." | |
| Benjor says, "oh, then I can't help much." | dhakajack says, "There's information scattered throughout the game, but it's buried in a lot of other details." | |
| DavidW says, "I haven't found the antenna. I've only been told about it. So either I haven't looked hard enough for it, or I'm not supposed to look for it at all because the answer is using smoke signals or carrier pigeon or whatever instead." | ||
| Benjor says, "exactly." | dhakajack says, "Less carrier pigeon, more whatever." | |
| DavidW says, "well, I don't understand why ACU-Janet can't just walk to to smelly guy and chat with him about it." | ||
| Benjor asks, "I guess it's not clear who smelly guy is?" | DavidW says, "Not really. The evil competition, I was guessing. I don't have a clear picture of the outer story at all." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing two rival firms were racing to explore some distant rock in space, both got here, but both were damaged in different ways. So now we have to combine our resources to get the info back." | ||
| Benjor says, "you're correct. You've been reading about myomita all along." | ||
| Benjor says, "exactly." | dhakajack says, "You're on the right track." | |
| Benjor says, "if you can't transmit the info back by antenna, you'll need to find a different way." | ||
| Benjor says, "you've already taken the competition's egg. :-)" | dhakajack says, "I think the global picture will be more evident if you continue." | |
| dhakajack says, "Even without the full picture, there are things you can do that should have some internal consistency." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, should I cook and eat the egg? I really don't see why I should except for its mere existence." | ||
| dhakajack says, "you could try." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, I can restore if I'm not supposed to." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen" | ||
Floyd | READY>Kitchen Floyd | Swaths of engineering controls -- both holographic and physical -- Floyd | cover the humming consoles and bulkheads that line the boundaries of Floyd | this alcove. Along one wall is the coolant output terminus, and below Floyd | that the fuel storage vault. The reactor core and the fusion chamber Floyd | are stacked just to the side of the cryochamber, which maintains the Floyd | stabilized heavy helium fuel at near absolute zero until it is needed Floyd | to provide power to ascent/descent retros. Floyd | Floyd | On the fusion chamber is a magnetic bottle (empty). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a fuel reservoir (empty) and a coolant reservoir Floyd | (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in pan" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | READY>You are carrying: Floyd | a NPT Floyd | a lump of lead ore Floyd | a token dispenser Floyd | a neural net reinforcement token Floyd | a quantum isolator (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to living room" | ||
Floyd | READY>Living Room Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a temporal transgressor here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter bathroom" | ||
Floyd | READY>Bathroom Floyd | The flight control and avionics hub of the ship bristles with controls Floyd | and readouts related to setting the ship's attitude in space, Floyd | adjusting the control surfaces in atmospheric flight, and for firing Floyd | the braking thrusters during the landing sequence. Floyd | Floyd | On the flight console are an object linker and a pit scrubber. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to living room" | ||
| Benjor asks, "this is one of those situations where you're supposed to understand what apartment actions mean in real life. what is the egg? why did you eat it all those other times?" | ||
Floyd | READY>Living Room Floyd | The Valkyrie's cargo bay is like a great, metal cave. The Casimir Floyd | Drive juts slightly into the cargo area. From this section of the Floyd | ship, there are connections to the engineering and flight control Floyd | decks. The cargo bay doors are closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a temporal transgressor here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | OPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | Benjor asks, "this is one of those situations where you're supposed to understand what apartment actions mean in real life. what is the egg? why did you eat it all those other times?" | |
| Alex says (to Benjor), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that the egg was my dad. Furthermore, fish is egg." | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't find the egg now." | ||
| Benjor exclaims, "I gotta sign off for now, good luck!" | ||
| Benjor goes home. | DavidW says (to Benjor), "In normal play, I could use scrollback. Or read my notes as I write when I play. But I can't do either during ClubFloyd, and MUST rely on other people to remember for me." | |
| dhakajack says, "OK, looking back, I think it's in the fridge" | ||
| DavidW asks, "In our fridge?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "How'd it get there?" | ||
| dhakajack says, "(you had taken it to the kitchen, and before leaving the kitchen, reflexively shoved it into the fridge)." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember seeing that." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter kitchen" | ||
Floyd | READY>Kitchen Floyd | Swaths of engineering controls -- both holographic and physical -- Floyd | cover the humming consoles and bulkheads that line the boundaries of Floyd | this alcove. Along one wall is the coolant output terminus, and below Floyd | that the fuel storage vault. The reactor core and the fusion chamber Floyd | are stacked just to the side of the cryochamber, which maintains the Floyd | stabilized heavy helium fuel at near absolute zero until it is needed Floyd | to provide power to ascent/descent retros. Floyd | Floyd | On the fusion chamber is a magnetic bottle (empty). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a fuel reservoir (empty) and a coolant reservoir Floyd | (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | ENGINEERING -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | dhakajack says, "It flew by quickly." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | READY>ROVER looks up when he hears the cryochamber open. He performs a Floyd | brief chemosensor scan and then rolls back towards the operations Floyd | area. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||
Floyd | READY>The cryo unit contains a heavy helium sphere. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd | READY>Taken. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | dhakajack exclaims, "Voila!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd | READY>You close the cryochamber. Floyd | Floyd | CRYOCHAMBER -> DEACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "I'm about to faint from my full bladder collapsing my empty stomach." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in pan" | ||
Floyd | READY>You put the heavy helium sphere into the magnetic bottle. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | dhakajack asks, "do you want to take 5?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fry egg" | ||
Floyd | READY>The heavy helium feed is now coupled to the input port of the Floyd | magnetic bottle. A spherical array of powerful lasers discharges Floyd | instantly, their combined output focused on the heavy helium being Floyd | injected into the magnetic bottle within the reactor chamber. The ship Floyd | surges with power. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> FUSE : TRUE Floyd | | dhakajack says, "I could grab a coffee too :-)" | |
| dhakajack asks, "do you want to take 5?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat egg" | ||
Floyd | READY>You recycle the components of the heavy helium containment unit Floyd | and reallocate them according to the ship's needs. Floyd | Floyd | From the cargo bay, you hear ROVER scratching at the cargo bay door. Floyd | Floyd | HEAVY HELIUM SPHERE -> RECYCLE : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "I need to use the toilet, certainly." | |
| dhakajack exclaims, "Go ahead -- the game will still be here!" | ||
| DavidW says, "back in a bit" | ||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
| K-Y has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | READY>Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | DavidW says (to dhakajack), "There's a save button one presses instead so the file names are in sequence." | |
| says, "Ah, I had thought you just said save to floyd" | ||
| DavidW says, "No, I type 'push save'" | ||
| dhakajack says, "thanks." | ||
| says, "'save' to Floyd works, but he pauses until you give him a filename." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | READY>Bathroom Floyd | The flight control and avionics hub of the ship bristles with controls Floyd | and readouts related to setting the ship's attitude in space, Floyd | adjusting the control surfaces in atmospheric flight, and for firing Floyd | the braking thrusters during the landing sequence. Floyd | Floyd | On the flight console are an object linker and a pit scrubber. | dhakajack says, "OK. I thought I was saving before, but it must just have been you saving right after I said save ;-)" | |
Floyd | Floyd | ROVER trundles along behind you, his attention riveted to the token Floyd | dispenser. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cover" | ||
Floyd | READY>The reactant shield is already disengaged. Floyd | Floyd | REACTANT SHIELD -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on seat" | ||
Floyd | READY>(first engaging the pressure seating) Floyd | You sit on the pressure seating. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use toilet" | ||
Floyd | READY>The ACU quantum isolation interferes with the transfer of power Floyd | to the retro system. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> TOGGLE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove suit" | ||
Floyd | READY>You cannot disengage the quantum isolator while accessing the Floyd | pressure seating. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> DISENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | READY>You release the seal on the mevolar gasket. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove suit" | ||
Floyd | READY>You disengage your quantum isolator. Floyd | Floyd | QUANTUM ISOLATOR -> DISENGAGE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on seat" | ||
Floyd | READY>You sit on the pressure seating. Floyd | Floyd | PRESSURE SEATING -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use toilet" | ||
Floyd | READY>You successfully shunt power from the fusion engine to the retro Floyd | assembly, which is now fully charged and ready to blast off. Floyd | Floyd | RETRO ASSEMBLY -> TOGGLE : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "I don't see how this is helping at all." | |
| DavidW asks, "Are we launching and traveling back instead of sending a message?" | ||
| dhakajack asks, "Do you want me to say?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | READY>You release the seal on the mevolar gasket. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open lid" | ||
Floyd | READY>That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | PLASMA CONSTRICTOR HATCH -> ACCESS : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plunger" | ||
Floyd | READY>A common plumber's plunger, consisting of a wooden shaft and red Floyd | rubber cup. . Floyd | Floyd | ATTITUDE CONTROL -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, ". ." | |
| DavidW says, "Also, I thought it would look like something else." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull chain" | ||
Floyd | READY>You direct an impulse to the servo output, bypassing the Floyd | defective servo, and directly actuating the thrust aperture. Floyd | Floyd | You actuate the retro trigger circuit and fire all thrusters in Floyd | synchrony. The surface of the planet around the ship vanishes in a Floyd | cloud of plasma, and the ship slams through the thin, dusty atmosphere Floyd | towards space. Floyd | Floyd | When you reach orbit, you plot a course towards Mars, extend the Floyd | Casimir Drive, arm the proximity alert system and enter stand-by mode. Floyd | Floyd | The futon is comfortable and you are tired. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | * * * Floyd | Floyd | The Casimir Drive cuts out and space folds back around you. Whatever Floyd | sleep-drenched dreams you might have been having evaporate instantly Floyd | as two gunships flash past at relativistic velocities, slicing through Floyd | your propulsion systems with military precision. The markings on the Floyd | ships are those of the Myomita Corporation. Floyd | Floyd | They must have been nearby when they detected the formation of your Floyd | Casimir disturbance, as they are coming in white hot and still Floyd | accelerating at five gravities. Another Earth ship, an assault craft, Floyd | is farther out but is already braking hard to slow its approach on an Floyd | intercept course. Floyd | Floyd | Rover barks nervously as the drive section struts separate from the Floyd | hull. Floyd | Floyd | "MARSpace Vessel Valkyrie, this is Captain Crother commanding the Floyd | Myomita Salvage Vessel Graceful Wind, you are ordered to cease all Floyd | operations and prepare to be boarded. Do you consent to salvage Floyd | operations? Signal yes or no." Floyd | Floyd | EMERGENCY ALERT -> ACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | READY>I beg your pardon? Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | READY>Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | dhakajack says, "You'd have a command prompt now." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, I see. But I have no idea how to signal yes, no, whether I should consent, or what. I don't see what options I have but wait." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | READY>You are currently accessing the living room. Floyd | Floyd | "Valkyrie, from Graceful Wind. Your ship seems to have suffered Floyd | some...damage. Your unique drive system will shortly drift towards my Floyd | associates and be recovered. My scan shows you have no fusion fuel Floyd | reserve, and I can assure you that our ships can easily keep pace with Floyd | your class C condensate drive. So, again, I ask: do you consent to Floyd | salvage operations? Signal yes or no." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "signal yes" | ||
Floyd | READY>"Good. For a moment I was wondering if anyone was home." Floyd | Floyd | "After we dock at Luna and transfer your officers and crew, we will Floyd | need to complete some reports about the incident, and it is likely Floyd | that Myomita security will have some questions for you. Nothing too Floyd | strenuous, I hope. Range now 147 meters." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> AFFIRM : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | READY>The external viewport shows some gunships and an assault ship. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm quite interested to get a look at that Casimir Drive of yours. I Floyd | wasn't aware that Mars had that kind of technology. Something they Floyd | must have copied from Earth, no doubt. Still, it's the first I've Floyd | seen. I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about when we meet. Our range Floyd | is now: 73 meters." Floyd | Floyd | VIEWER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "I assume this is leading towards a poor ending." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | READY>Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "I can't get over the size of your ship. I've never seen something so Floyd | large rigged for atmospheric flight. After the technicians get Floyd | through, I'll have to pop over there for a look. We are continuing to Floyd | decelerate and close, range: 36 meters." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> TIMER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | READY>Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "After we clamp to the hull, we'll soft seal and send a maintenance Floyd | droid in to secure the ship. Heck of a lot faster than human crew, and Floyd | you don't have to worry about them breaking the equipment as they're Floyd | taking it apart. Just keep your people out of the way and this should Floyd | go smoothly. Continuing on present bearing, range: 18 meters." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> TIMER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | READY>Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Your ship is bigger than most, but you should see how fast our Floyd | maintenance droid works. I've seen him strip a colony ship to nuts and Floyd | bolts in less than an hour. Gah, you gotta love technology." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> TIMER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | READY>Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, getting closer now. I don't know how you Martians can stand Floyd | living in a ship with no port holes. Oh sure, I know there are sensors Floyd | and monitors, but I can't imagine being cooped up in a can without a Floyd | chance to peek out a real port hole from time to time. You'd think it Floyd | would be bad for morale. Anyhow, range: 4 meters" Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> TIMER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | READY>Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't worry about life support, our seal shouldn't cause much of a Floyd | pressure drop, and we'll inject some oh-two to compensate. The mech Floyd | droid should go to flight control first, then engineering and finally Floyd | ops. After it finishes up in ops, we'll start the crew transfer. Floyd | Approach is slowing, range now: 2 meters." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> TIMER : TRUE Floyd | | dhakajack says, "The general impression from reviewers is that the first section of the game was better, but the ending doesn't have to be bad (in terms of outcome from the PC's perspective)." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | READY>The external viewport shows some gunships and an assault ship. Floyd | Floyd | "We are right on top of you now, with shock attenuators extended. Floyd | Brace for impact." Floyd | Floyd | The ship's hull rings as the assault ship impacts the hull. Floyd | Floyd | VIEWER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gunships" | ||
Floyd | READY>Four highly maneuverable Backstabber-class gunships fly an Floyd | intricate englobement pattern around Valkyrie. At any time, at least Floyd | two of the ships maintain a weapons lock on Valkyrie with their main Floyd | excimer lasers. Floyd | Floyd | With a series of clanks and thuds, the assault ship establishes a seal Floyd | with Valkyrie's dorsal hull. Floyd | Floyd | GUNSHIPS -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd | READY>What do you want to examine? Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | READY>Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Several bursts of noise and vibration echo through the ship as Floyd | high-speed drills penetrate the inner and outer layers of the dorsal Floyd | hull. Some muffled, low-frequency rumbling follows, probably a cutting Floyd | machine of some sort. There is a slight drop in air pressure as the Floyd | assault ship penetrates the hull and establishes a connection to Floyd | Valkyrie's access tunnel network. Unfortunately, the tunnels are a Floyd | blind spot for you, as you do not possess sensors within the network. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> TIMER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | READY>Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The flexible tubing that connects the assault ship's boarding port to Floyd | the hole in Valkyrie's deck undulates, suggesting that someone is Floyd | coming board. Shortly thereafter, your sensors determine that Floyd | something is moving towards the bathroom. Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> TIMER : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | READY>Bathroom Floyd | The flight control and avionics hub of the ship bristles with controls Floyd | and readouts related to setting the ship's attitude in space, Floyd | adjusting the control surfaces in atmospheric flight, and for firing Floyd | the braking thrusters during the landing sequence. Floyd | Floyd | On the flight console are an object linker and a pit scrubber. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a maintenance droid, a lump of lead ore, and a NPT Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | The maintenance droid moves with unbelievable speed into the flight Floyd | control section and sets out a nightmarish array of tools to begin Floyd | work. Floyd | Floyd | While keeping one eye on the maintenance droid, you spawn another Floyd | process, scanning local space. You calculate that you are less than a Floyd | megameter from Earth, but some 1.43 astronomical units from Mars -- Floyd | far enough that no Mars ship is likely to know your situation for a Floyd | considerable amount of time. Rather than panic, you breathe deeply (no Floyd | doubt, pushing gases around somewhere in the bowels of the ship) and Floyd | decide to make it up as you go along. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x droid" | ||
Floyd | READY>Shaped like a hovering canister and sporting many Floyd | special-purpose appendages, this particular maintenance droid has a Floyd | particularly sadistic demeanor. Floyd | Floyd | After briefly looking around the edges of the inspector and trying an Floyd | assortment of tools, the maintenance droid selects a large, flat Floyd | screwdriver and starts prying up one corner. There is a sizzling Floyd | sound, and a phantasmal tendril of gray smoke snakes towards the Floyd | ceiling. In what you realize is a simulated world view, virtual cracks Floyd | appear across the mirror, radiating from where the screwdriver was Floyd | inserted. Over the local radio channel you hear breathy, whispered Floyd | cursing from the maintenance droid, who has just ruined one of the Floyd | Valkyrie's most valuable components. Floyd | Floyd | You figure that the damage to the inspector circuits is the least of Floyd | your worries. Unfortunately, the maintenance droid is working quickly, Floyd | which means that you have a limited amount of time to do whatever Floyd | comes to mind. You wish this really were one of those old-style Floyd | interactive fiction stories where you could just save the game any Floyd | time you wanted and wander off for a while to think about what to do Floyd | next. Floyd | Floyd | MAINTENANCE DROID -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||
Floyd | READY>Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The maintenance droid pokes unfamiliarly at the object linker before Floyd | locating the actuation circuit. More cautiously than actually Floyd | necessary, he stretches an entanglement limiter around the unit and Floyd | twists it to maximum before clipping the fibers connecting it to your Floyd | avionics trunk. The floss dispenser melts like a hallucination as the Floyd | data connection is severed. Floyd | Floyd | You realize that without a functional avionics hub, it will be almost Floyd | impossible to complete your mission of delivering the probe data to Floyd | Mars. It is perhaps a dream to hope for a rescue this far from home, Floyd | but you resolve to protect your core memory (and the probe data it Floyd | contains) for as long as possible. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> SELECT : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit droid with rock" | ||
Floyd | READY>I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the maintenance Floyd | droid. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rock at droid" | ||
Floyd | READY>You take exception to throwing the lead ore. You throw an Floyd | exception instead. Floyd | Floyd | The maintenance droid closes the reactant chamber shield and checks Floyd | the seal to confirm effective containment. With the plasma constrictor Floyd | hatch up, the maintenance droid peers down into the plasma impellor, Floyd | before throwing the heavy interruptors to quench the magnets. Floyd | Lightning jumps between discharge knobs within the retro assembly as Floyd | the monstrously strong field collapses across them. With the plasma Floyd | constrictor effectively disarmed, the maintenance droid makes short Floyd | work of salvaging the thrust aperture and its fittings. As the Floyd | maintenance droid levers the bus connector out of the actuation relay Floyd | housing, the toilet fades from your view like an unremembered fantasy. Floyd | Floyd | You try to calm yourself by remembering that without heavy helium, the Floyd | fusion rockets are of no use to you anyhow. Clearly, there is no way Floyd | to maneuver out of this situation, nor can you win in a fair fight Floyd | against the well-armed Myomita merchant marine. You resolve to fight Floyd | dirty, slow them down, and to do as much damage as you can before they Floyd | bring you to your knees. Floyd | Floyd | LEAD ORE -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | DavidW says, "I have no clue at all." | |
| dhakajack says, "I have to admit, throwing the lead ore at the droid was a great idea -- but not one we implemented." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, throwing the pillow at the droid might distract him, I suppose." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit droid" | ||
Floyd | READY>Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | The maintenance droid pauses for a moment and gives the bathroom a Floyd | quick look over before continuing towards the shower. You think you Floyd | can hear the maintenance droid whistling a poor rendition of Wagner's Floyd | "Flight of the Valkyries" as he climbs through the ducts. Floyd | Floyd | Although the maintenance droid damaged several systems in the flight Floyd | control system, a number of subsystems there are still intact. That's Floyd | at least something, you reckon: the maintenance droid seems to be in a Floyd | hurry. Floyd | Floyd | MAINTENANCE DROID -> OFFENSE MODE : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pillow at droid" | ||
Floyd | READY>(first taking the NPT) Floyd | You take exception to throwing the NPT. You throw an exception Floyd | instead. Floyd | Floyd | You sense that the intruder is relatively motionless in the extruder Floyd | chamber. The extruder is a complex and delicate system, and you can Floyd | easily imagine that the intruder may not understand it. Floyd | Floyd | In this moment of respite, you wonder what the real Janet is doing Floyd | back on Mars. You imagine that she continued her relationship with Floyd | David, and that the two of them are parked on her big purple futon, Floyd | chatting away, maybe even wondering whatever became of the Starship Floyd | Valkyrie. Floyd | Floyd | Some movement in the extruder chamber wrenches you back to the Floyd | desperate situation at hand. Floyd | Floyd | NPT -> TRANSFER : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pillow to droid" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show pillow to droid" | ||
Floyd | READY>You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | ||
Floyd | READY>You're already here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a burning pain as the extruder chamber shakes with Floyd | high-pitched vibrations. Someone is tampering with the enamel Floyd | extrusion system. Floyd | Floyd | You consider their tactics: they have disabled most of your flight Floyd | control systems, and now they are bringing down your shielding Floyd | systems. You can no longer run, and your ability to withstand attack Floyd | has been compromised. All of your engineering systems are still Floyd | operational (well yes, except the engine itself, of course). Most Floyd | importantly, the probe data are still safe in your deep memory. For Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | FLIGHT CONTROL -> SELECT : NIL Floyd | | dhakajack says, "Violence isn't an unreasonable response to the droids, and throwing objects also makes sense. I'll see what we can do about providing some of those options in the post-game update." | |
| DavidW asks, "What's the extruder chamber? The shower?" | ||
| dhakajack says, "y" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | READY>Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | READY>You are carrying: Floyd | a quantum isolator (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | "Valkyrie, from Graceful Wind. Your ship seems to have suffered Floyd | some...damage. Your unique drive system will shortly drift towards my Floyd | associates and be recovered. My scan shows you have no fusion fuel Floyd | reserve, and I can assure you that our ships can easily keep pace with Floyd | your class C condensate drive. So, again, I ask: do you consent to Floyd | salvage operations? Signal yes or no." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "signal no" | ||
Floyd | READY>"Hmmm. An unfortunate choice." Floyd | Floyd | "I really hope you're not taking this 'no surrender' thing too Floyd | seriously. We're not the military, we're businessmen. Still, I have to Floyd | warn you: if you start taking pot shots at my mech droid when I send Floyd | him down, I will call in the troops. They'd be just too happy to Floyd | pincushion your ship with beam weapons. Of course, that would lower Floyd | the value of the surviving equipment, so I'm not keen to do that." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> NEGATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | READY>You are currently accessing the living room. Floyd | Floyd | "Regarding the mech droid: I'd recommend you stay out of his way. He's Floyd | pretty tough, and I can tell you that he doesn't have any of those Floyd | silly 'interdiction rules' enabled. After we seal, I'm going to send Floyd | him to flight control, engineering, and finally ops. Make sure your Floyd | people are out of those areas." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| Nitku leaves. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | READY>You open the cargo bay door, decompressing the ship. Floyd | Floyd | "We're about 36 meters away, and closing. Still plenty of time to Floyd | signal that yes, you'd like to surrender to us, and have a nice flight Floyd | back to Luna." Floyd | Floyd | CARGO BAY DOOR -> ACCESS : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | READY>ACU metavisor shell logout interdicted. Floyd | Floyd | "After we strip the Valkyrie, we'll transfer your officers and crew. Floyd | Since you have not surrendered, we will have to consider you 'enemies Floyd | of Earth' and take you into custody for questioning back on Luna. It Floyd | would be a whole lot more fun ride if you'd just signal 'yes' and Floyd | declare your surrender." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> EXIT SHELL : NIL Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW asks, "did it get stuck?" | ||
| dhakajack asks, "Don't know. Try giving a command?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | READY>Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | | DavidW says, "oh right. It delayed the prompt there too, it seems." | |
| DavidW says, "That's still weird" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | READY>You are currently accessing the living room. Floyd | Floyd | "Valkyrie, from Graceful Wind. Your ship seems to have suffered Floyd | some...damage. Your unique drive system will shortly drift towards my Floyd | associates and be recovered. My scan shows you have no fusion fuel Floyd | reserve, and I can assure you that our ships can easily keep pace with Floyd | your class C condensate drive. So, again, I ask: do you consent to Floyd | salvage operations? Signal yes or no." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> DEACTIVATE : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "signal yes" | ||
Floyd | READY>"Good. For a moment I was wondering if anyone was home." Floyd | Floyd | "After we dock at Luna and transfer your officers and crew, we will Floyd | need to complete some reports about the incident, and it is likely Floyd | that Myomita security will have some questions for you. Nothing too Floyd | strenuous, I hope. Range now 147 meters." Floyd | Floyd | ACU -> AFFIRM : TRUE Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rover" | ||
Floyd | READY>Rover is a 45 metric ton mobile mining rig designed to operate Floyd | under harsh off-world conditions. He is chewing a piece of the Floyd | Musashi-5 space probe. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm quite interested to get a look at that Casimir Drive of yours. I Floyd | wasn't aware that Mars had that kind of technology. Something they Floyd | must have copied from Earth, no doubt. Still, it's the first I've Floyd | seen. I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about when we meet. Our range Floyd | is now: 73 meters." Floyd | Floyd | ROVER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE Floyd | | DavidW says, "My current plan is to open the hatch when the robot is in the living room. Dunno if that'll be soon enough to do any good, though, since the living room is the last room on his agenda." | |
| dhakajack says, "There are a lot of ways to interfere with the ship docking and/or with the droid. That's one of them ;-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm too hungry and too tired, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sore throat Jacq is bacq." | ||
| DavidW says, "We're at the 4 hour mark, and I need a break." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, poor timing on my part, then." | ||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Looks like you've made it almost to the end, eh?" | ||
| dhakajack says, "OK, I think you get the medal for Effort, though." | ||
| dhakajack says, "One guy typing for four hours is quite a marathon." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure how close to the end I am." | ||
| dhakajack says, "Pretty close." | ||
| dhakajack says, "But playing through it could still take a while." | ||
| DavidW asks, "What happens if I ignore the droid? We lose horribly?" | ||
| dhakajack says, "No, the bad guys have deep resources." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Want to take a break and resume later/tomorrow, or are you thinking of bagging it?" | ||
| dhakajack says, "They'd just keep throwing stuff at you until you were almost defeated...and then something happens which pulls your butt out of the fire." | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't resume tomorrow at the usual time because of roommate." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "AH" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, ah" | ||
| dhakajack says, "There's then a denouement where you have some greater latitude of action, and then a few possible endings." | ||
| DavidW says, "I've had nothing whatsoever to eat all day. I must go." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ooh, yeah. Eat." | ||
| dhakajack says, "OK. Well played, you did a great job on the puzzles." | ||
| dhakajack says, "Thanks for hosting, Jacqueline." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If you want to pick it back up later, I'll probably be around to log, David." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd | READY>Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | dhakajack says, "G'night all." | |
| Jacqueline says (to dhakajack&Benjor), "Night!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And thanks for your lovely note about IntroComp, guys." | ||
| Ellison says, "goodnight" | ||
