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| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's do this thing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load progressive1" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Four p.m. and they're all gone, every last one of them. Little brats Floyd | made of spittle and claws. Paint-spilling, dirt-tracking, Floyd | crayon-smearing babies in kindergarteners' clothing. The day you took Floyd | your job was the day you lost your mind. Floyd | Floyd | Not that you have other prospects, though. This is what you've got and Floyd | it isn't all that safe. And besides, it gets better now. Now you make Floyd | order from chaos. Now you spin gold from straw. You're going to wipe Floyd | every last bit of color and clutter off the face of this room and get Floyd | out by five-thirty sharp. Floyd | Floyd | IF Progressive Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by The IF Progessive Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 090623 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Classroom Floyd | Is there a national conspiracy to make young eyes pop out by age five Floyd | from overstimulation? Must be. Every last inch of wall space here, Floyd | save for the window, is plastered with needless decor: nature Floyd | caricatures, inspirational glurge, posters with cartoon letters and Floyd | plus signs. The floor's no better; the brats didn't pick up when Miss Floyd | Lauren told them to pick up and now it's cluttered with gaudy plastic. Floyd | The books are tossed into the carpet square pile and someone's dripped Floyd | tempera paint onto every table. You could go on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | What's there to see? Short hair that the kids nevertheless keep Floyd | fussing with, sensible clothes on a stocky frame. Arms, legs, hands, Floyd | feet. Nothing to set you apart. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | You look up and then you see it. There's a balloon, floating through Floyd | the window and stopping right in front of your face - no, not stopping Floyd | exactly. Stopping would be too tidy. It's hovering. Balloons shouldn't Floyd | do that. They should stay put on strings. You're sure this has to be Floyd | some kind of fire hazard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Oh yeah, not werewolf." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Please use f instead of wf, please." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Good conservative habit to have, though." | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x balloon" | ||||
Floyd | When did America decide balloon inflation, of all things, was too hard Floyd | for them? It's got too much air and is liable to pop any minute. All Floyd | the better to accentuate the sub-tie-dye coloring catastrophe. Oranges Floyd | clashing with purples, reds superimposed on top of greens and blues Floyd | turning them into bright but somehow murky muddle. You thought only Floyd | Mylar could support this many godawful neons, but apparently you were Floyd | wrong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take balloon" | ||||
Floyd | "Don't touch that!" someone almost shrieks. A kid? No, too old. A Floyd | teacher? Too unfamiliar. You have no idea who this is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Classroom Floyd | Every last inch of wall space here, save for the window, is plastered Floyd | with needless decor: nature caricatures, inspirational glurge, posters Floyd | with cartoon letters and plus signs. The floor's no better; the brats Floyd | didn't pick up when Miss Lauren told them to pick up and now it's Floyd | cluttered with gaudy plastic. The books are tossed into the carpet Floyd | square pile and someone's dripped tempera paint onto every table. And Floyd | there's more, it seems, every second. Leaves and dirt by the doorway. Floyd | Shredded paper that's not in the waste bin. Floyd | Floyd | A balloon hovers around your face, insect-like. Floyd | Floyd | "Isn't it wonderful? Everything is better with balloons. Now listen to Floyd | me. Today we're going to have some fun!" You're've never heard anyone Floyd | talk this loudly, not even to kids. It's unnerving. "Let's play a Floyd | game. Let's go play outside! Just walk right on out of there. To the Floyd | south." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You're've is a cool word." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Is the balloon talking??" | ||||
| Touchy says, "ah instructions" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "huh. We're not even gonna pick anything up?" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at EmacsUser), "For you!" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Jacqueline), "Sounds like a frog barfing." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | The kids sit on carpet squares when Miss Lauren reads to them. In a Floyd | perfect world, they'd stack the books separately, but apparently they Floyd | can't tell a book from a carpet. Of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take books" | Lucea says, "eeeagh" | |||
Floyd | You dig through the pile a bit, but it just collapses in on itself. Floyd | Ugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "(at you're've)" | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "ask balloon about game" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shredded paper" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "You sound like a frog barfing." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Classroom Floyd | Every last inch of wall space here, save for the window, is plastered Floyd | with needless decor: nature caricatures, inspirational glurge, posters Floyd | with cartoon letters and plus signs. The floor's no better; the brats Floyd | didn't pick up when Miss Lauren told them to pick up and now it's Floyd | cluttered with gaudy plastic. The books are tossed into the carpet Floyd | square pile and someone's dripped tempera paint onto every table. And Floyd | there's more, it seems, every second. Leaves and dirt by the doorway. Floyd | Shredded paper that's not in the waste bin. Floyd | Floyd | A balloon hovers around your face, insect-like. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x plastic" | ||||
Floyd | The economic crisis hasn't hit the tacky toy industry, it seems, Floyd | because these things keep multiplying: flimsy chunks of plastic in Floyd | neon colors that really should disappear in the fall, like with Floyd | fashion. In theory they'd disappear into the bin, but these people Floyd | just do not understand theory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bin" | ||||
Floyd | The toy bin wasn't always bright red. When you started working you Floyd | replaced it with a streamlined, sensible white plastic cube. An oasis Floyd | of good design in this crapstorm. But then it got finger painted, and Floyd | left out in the rain, and finally taken away altogether for this Floyd | monstrosity. It isn't even designed well. The curving of the walls is Floyd | all wrong. It won't let you stack more than a level or two. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick asks, "Shall we move south?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "yeah" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Really, this was just a glorified hallway. You used to like places Floyd | like this. Tiles and cinderblocks. No-nonsense, nothing gaudy. They do Floyd | just what they promise: take you from room to room without asserting Floyd | themselves. But something's gone terrible wrong. The whole floor is Floyd | lousy with confetti, thick as snow and almost painful to look at. Floyd | Floyd | "Looks a lot better now, doesn't it?" shouts the voice. You've never Floyd | heard such a loud question. "Now get out. Fast." You notice the door Floyd | to the east is ajar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "er" | |||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if confetti explodes if you look at it too long." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I doubt it." | ||||
| Lucea asks, "did we get the balloon?" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "e?" | ||||
| Alex says (to EmacsUser), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that e is 2.71828183." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Nope." | ||||
| Mick says, "No, the voice said not to touch it" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Lucea), "I think the balloon is the tutorial actor." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Lucea), "no, the balloon is following us. It's like an NPC." | ||||
| Lucea says, "oh, right" | ||||
| Lucea says, "how silly of me" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Huh?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "yeah, really" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "duh!?" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "I though the voice was in our head. It _is_ the balloon?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we should go east." | ||||
| Lucea says, "well, I did write the thing, you'd think I'd remember" | ||||
| Lucea says, "well, this part of the thing" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "Hmm, choices choices" | |||
| Lucea says, "ok, yeah, I don't think I wrote this part" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "We can't return west?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "North is the only direction we haven't gone." | ||||
| Jacqueline enjoys watching everyone discuss symbolism, allegory, etc. Is the balloon talking? Is it in our head? Is our PC crazy? Fascinating. | ||||
| Lucea says, "I'm OK with north" | ||||
| Lucea says, "(I haven't seen the rest of this yet, which is terrible on my part" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "north" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | An angry crow darts around. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ha ha, first sentence" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x crow" | ||||
Floyd | The crow obviously has a bad attitude. It caws noisily at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "ditto Lucea" | |||
| Touchy says, "A brown door. How exicting. Let's open it." | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the brown door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask crow about cheese" | ||||
Floyd | The crow obviously has a bad attitude. It caws noisily at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | (first unlocking the brown door) Floyd | You lack a key that fits the brown door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks (of Johnny), "What's keeping us from going back south?" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break door" | ||||
Floyd | You try a little shadow boxing in the direction of the brown door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "We need a brown key" | |||
| Touchy says (to Mick), "haha" | ||||
| Touchy says, "We need idclip." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crow" | ||||
Floyd | The crow obviously has a bad attitude. It caws noisily at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I bet we need a bar, not a brown key." | |||
| DavidW says, "crow + bar = crowbar." | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says (to DavidW), "Quite a stretch but turned out ok... :)" | |||
| Johnny says, "Oh yeah." | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "knock crow" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Either way, I think we need to explore the other directions from Behind School." | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | Floating into the area is a pink balloon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Okay, so it doesn't work like Earl Grey." | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "take balloon" | ||||
Floyd | A waft of air blows the pink balloon out of your reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "smell balloon" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "ask balloon about weather" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is a different balloon." | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "eat balloon" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the pink balloon) Floyd | A waft of air blows the pink balloon out of your reach. Floyd | Floyd | The pink balloon floats away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the lush tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | Propping up a machine is as good a use for math as any, in your Floyd | opinion. It seems to have a page missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x page" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "read book" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I think it might be a bad idea to get the book" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||||
Floyd | It is too tall for you to reach its top. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "let's try it" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||||
Floyd | As you move the book, the metal machine rocks scarily. You instantly Floyd | desist. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "TERRIBLE idea" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Yes, a bad idea." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "timing." | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||||
Floyd | It is too tall for you to reach its top. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The machine only has 'tallness'?" | |||
| Touchy says, "hehe" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "It's not a machine that does something?" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "climb machine" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "switch on machine" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push machine" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "push book" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick machine" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Well, it also has the property of being metallic." | |||
| DavidW says, "kick narrator" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x leaves" | ||||
Floyd | You find a paper page among the leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "Lacking any description, I'm going to assume it's a giant cappuccino maker." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take page" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read page" | ||||
Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x page" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x page" | ||||
Floyd | You shudder at the sight of triangles and equations -- MATH! Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You shudder at the sight of triangles and equations -- MATH! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Haha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put page in book" | ||||
Floyd | You wedge all the pages back into the book. The metal machine shifts Floyd | only slightly, but something falls off the top! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wooden slingshot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "yay" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take slingshot" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x slingshot" | ||||
Floyd | It must have been seized from a grubby little terrorist wannabe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "That must have been a thick page" | |||
| Touchy asks, "Where the hell did the page come from?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Leaves in tree." | ||||
| Mick says, "We found it in the leaves" | ||||
| Touchy says, "oh the tree" | ||||
| Touchy says, "oh my" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Where else to find a leaf from a book?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, and why not look there if our stupid protagonist cannot try to take the book to make it shake in the right way..." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > | * Doug has left the channel. | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x leaf" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get slingshot" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "sling slingshot" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "we need projectiles" | |||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we need a stone-like thing now." | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Floating into the area is a pink balloon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "that balloon" | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Muddy Area Floyd | You try to keep your shoes as clean as possible here. The only way is Floyd | back west. Floyd | Floyd | A shallow hole has been dug by some small archaeologist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | You retrieve two small marbles from it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A cobblestone driveway, maybe, might have the stone we want." | |||
| Lucea says, "oh HELLO" | ||||
| Lucea says, "we have ammunition" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x marbles" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "Let's go balloon hunting" | |||
| Touchy says, "marbles huh... woohoo" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Shall we scare the crow?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Lucea), "So you haven't played the rest of this, then, huh?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x marble" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the small marble. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "Nope." | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "s" | Lucea says, "I know nothing beside the part I've played" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "u" | DavidW asks, "Marbles?" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A pink balloon floats here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "er, s/played/written" | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "sling marble at balloon" | Lucea says, "ok" | |||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline nods. | |||
| DavidW asks, "When did we get marbles?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "they were in the hole" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put marble in sling" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | two small marbles Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | The pink balloon floats away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | two small marbles Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "that might be bad" | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put marble in slingshot" | ||||
Floyd | Hmm, I take it you want to shoot something with this device? Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I don't know if it's bad or not" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "shoot _ with slingshot ?" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "shoot balloon with slingshot" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "just shoot..." | |||
| DavidW says, "or just 'shoot crow'" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "shoot balloon" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "It floated away." | |||
| Lucea says, "the balloon's gone" | ||||
| Mick says, "oh right" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Balloon comes and goes" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | An angry crow darts around. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick asks, "shoot the crow?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Sure" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "shoot crow" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to shoot the angry crow with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "shoot crow with marble" | ||||
Floyd | The crow obviously has a bad attitude. It caws noisily at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "try slingshot" | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | two small marbles Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "shoot crow with slingshot" | ||||
Floyd | You take careful aim at the angry crow and ... MISS!! Floyd | Floyd | It looks ticked-off now, and starts circling the area! Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Harder to hit now." | |||
| Mick asks, "again?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | The animal is moving too fast, and you can't find your target. Floyd | Floyd | The crow is still flying around excitedly! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | An angry crow darts around. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the crow lining up for a run at you! Watch out! Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "ha!" | |||
| Lucea says, "we lost our marbles" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a small marble Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | The angry crow makes its move! Floyd | Floyd | The bird dives at your head and dropping a "bomb" -- DIRECT HIT!! Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "Can we get the crow to ram the door?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "yikes" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "oh, sad" | ||||
| Mick says, "No, we still have one" | ||||
| Touchy says, "eeeagh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You have been pooed on." | ||||
| Mick says, "eww" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bomb" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the green mess. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mess" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Can we not retrieve our ammo?" | |||
| Johnny says, "Ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a green mess Floyd | a small marble Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "clean me" | ||||
Floyd | Smearing it around with your hands probably won't help. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drop mess" | ||||
Floyd | Smearing it around with your hands probably won't help. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha ha" | |||
| Johnny asks, "Nothing special huh? Persistent status message?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | Try taking inventory. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ha ha" | |||
| Mick says, "I dislike this crow" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get stink" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | green mess: Smearing it around with your hands probably won't help. Floyd | small marble: Dropped. Floyd | wooden slingshot: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take inventory" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a green mess Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | wooden slingshot: Taken. Floyd | small marble: Taken. Floyd | brown door: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Sorry, I shouldn't try to break the game." | |||
| Johnny says, "Aargh, it stuck to our hands" | ||||
| Mick asks, "Who says it's on our hands?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Probably important, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think it's on our hands." | ||||
| Lucea says, "it's in our inventory" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Maybe we can attract a green balloon now." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the brown door) Floyd | (first unlocking the brown door) Floyd | You lack a key that fits the brown door. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "smell mess" | ||||
Floyd | It's a really stinky bomb the crow dropped ... you have to get rid of Floyd | this somehow! Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think it is merely in our hair and we are disinclined to put our hands in it and smear it through our hair, despite whatever gloss or shine that action may impart." | |||
| Lucea says (to flod), "s" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, it's a puzzle" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "rub mess on tree" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to rub the green mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "bah" | |||
| Lucea says, "that didn't work" | ||||
| Mick asks, "Can we go back inside?" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "hit tree with head" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the lush tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get leaves" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | Floating into the area is a pink balloon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "do we mess with the balloon" | |||
| Lucea says, "maybe it's a thing-carrying balloon" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "balloon, remove mess" | ||||
| Lucea says, "although if I recall correctly the first one was a bomb, so" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot balloon with slingshot" | ||||
Floyd | You take careful aim at the pink balloon and ... THWACK!! A direct hit Floyd | pops the balloon and something falls out. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a toilet roll here. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take toilet roll" | EmacsUser says, "solution" | |||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | Used to clean things, especially the backside. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "clean mess" | ||||
Floyd | You tear some paper off of the toilet roll and the mess cleans right Floyd | up. Plus you find something in the goo! Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ew" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "wow" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "poor bird" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "poor bird" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh man, this game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "ha" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I hope for its sake that is a small key" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bronze key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell key" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Yep, nothing unexpected." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the brown door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the brown door) Floyd | Floyd | Dark Entryway Floyd | The light is dim, and exits are west and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You know, I'd like to point out that maga and I wrote a game about a key-pooping-critter long before this game came out." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You take a few steps before the floor collapses. | Lucea says, "what" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | It seems like a good idea to scream, so you do so. | EmacsUser asks, "?" | |||
| DavidW says, ""Things"" | ||||
| Lucea says, "uh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Things." | ||||
| Lucea says, "uhhhh" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | But that gets boring after a while, and you start wondering what's Floyd | going to happen. | maga says, "man, that needs to be an ifdb keyphrase" | |||
| maga says, "Critter Poops Key" | ||||
| Lucea says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "heehee" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "touch wall" | ||||
Floyd | Maybe this is no ordinary fall, but some kind of trip through a Floyd | magical portal into another world! | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Hey, this is just like Alice in Wonderland! | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | You're practicing saying "Yes, your majesty, I would care for another Floyd | cup of tea, thank you kindly," when your downward motion is suddenly Floyd | arrested by a large pile of dead leaves. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere Rustly Floyd | At least, you assume this is leaves. It's dark enough that you can't Floyd | really tell anything except it's a big pile and you're in the middle Floyd | of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "This game is so weird." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd..floyd), "count leaves" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "count leaves" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "aw." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You struggle to your feet, strewing rustly stuff everywhere. Somewhere Floyd | in the process of doing so you bump against a light switch or Floyd | something, and things become brighter. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x leaves" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search paper" | ||||
Floyd | You pick up all the larger pieces you can find. There are four. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a noise from above your head, and look up just in time to see Floyd | a small metal object falling from the sky. It bounces painfully off Floyd | your head and disappears into the pile of shredded paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "what is it with us and stuff falling on our head" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search paper" | ||||
Floyd | You'd think this would be like trying to find a, uh, small metal thing Floyd | in a large pile of other stuff, but in fact it's not that bad, since Floyd | this particular bit of metal talks. "--Come on come on I'm right over Floyd | here this is totally obv--" it is saying as you pick it up. "Finally! Floyd | It's about time you found me!" Floyd | "Uh, what?" you say. Floyd | "It's me! Roz!" And you finally realize it's the same voice as Floyd | earlier. "You popped my balloon! It took me forever to get down here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "We popped her balloon?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "So the key is the voice." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "How'd she get in a balloon?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Wait.." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roz" | ||||
Floyd | It's a pyramid-shaped piece of metal which, surprisingly, can talk. Floyd | For instance, right now it says "Quit starin' at me and get on with Floyd | things!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a khaki-colored resume piece Floyd | an ecru-colored resume piece Floyd | a beige-colored resume piece Floyd | a cream-colored resume piece Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "oh my..." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x resume piece" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the khaki-colored resume piece, the ecru-colored Floyd | resume piece, the beige-colored resume piece or the cream-colored Floyd | resume piece? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x khaki" | ||||
Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on khaki-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: Floyd | "Certifications: Pommelation (Basic and Advanced), Chuffling, Floyd | Black-Belt Lean Six Sigma", "Blood type: O" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "ask key about balloon" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| Mick asks, "I'm lost, where'd we get all these resume pieces?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "maybe it's a function of not being in the corporate world but Six Sigma is inherently funny" | ||||
| Lucea says, "they were in the pile" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I mixed the key with Roz." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Roz is the talker, not the key." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x ecru" | ||||
Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on ecru-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "Years of Floyd | experience: 1", "Ever since I was a mere pod, my ambition to be a Floyd | Waffgasketeer has been ..", "Hobbies: Trandozian bass, flapjacks" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x beige" | ||||
Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on beige-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "It is my Floyd | fondest hope that as a Jark Inverter I will ..", "Education: Yalneeple Floyd | College of Higher Kurfting, "D4", "With my fifteen years of experience Floyd | .." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The resume pieces came from the 'pile of leaves'." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x cream" | ||||
Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on cream-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "0 Floyd | (approximate)", "Scent glands: removed (references available on Floyd | request)", "Languages known: none." Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "; wait, scent glands removed" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about resume" | ||||
Floyd | "Why don't you apply for a new job? I know you hate the one you've Floyd | got. Go for it! This is so exciting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about balloon" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't think you noticed what was in that balloon back in the Floyd | classroom." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about roz" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm Roz! I'm a control unit! I can talk to Sally and Leon and all the Floyd | other units and they have to do what I say." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about sally" | ||||
Floyd | "Sally's a teleportation unit. If you want to go visit her, just say Floyd | her name and I'll tell her to bring us in." Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick asks, "Is that OUR resume?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about leon" | ||||
Floyd | "Leon's a supply unit. He helps me all the time by giving me things Floyd | for playing games with, like confetti and poison gas and marbles and Floyd | explosives and balloons and razor blades." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "poison gas and razor blades?" | |||
| two-star arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about units" | ||||
Floyd | "There's a bunch of different kinds. There's teleportation units and Floyd | supply units and there's control units like me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Should we summon Sally?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||||
Floyd | The machine takes up the entire north wall. Given the circumstances Floyd | and the large label it is easy to identify this as an enormous Floyd | shredder. There is a small hatch near floor level, and a large funnely Floyd | sort of thing up top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about machine" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't know what it's for either." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||||
Floyd | The hatch is labelled "MAINTENANCE". It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | You open the hatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in hatch" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hatch" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick asks, "So is this like a Men in Black type of thing?" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Are these beings also disgruntled with their work then?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we found a Job Fair." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x beings" | ||||
Floyd | Some have fur, some have claws, some have tails, some have ears, some Floyd | have green skin, some have blue skin. But judging by the papers Floyd | they're holding, what they all have is a determination to get a job. Floyd | Floyd | "What does he mean, overqualified?" says a furred lizard-thing, Floyd | angrily, to its scaled bear-thing companion. "I have a mere sixteen Floyd | years of experience!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "someone I know did a painting that is eerily similar to this" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "So where's our resume? Do we combine our scraps to make it?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "the odd shape beings and everything" | ||||
| DavidW says (to EmacsUser), "I'm not sure. Maybe." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x booths" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x lines" | ||||
Floyd | The line of interviewees snakes (literally, for some of them) through Floyd | the conference hall. You suppose you could wait in it if you really Floyd | wanted to. It must be better than substitute teaching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "wait in line" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the line, and wait. And wait, and wait. Eventually you Floyd | reach the front, where you are scrutinized by a sort of mutant Floyd | crab-zebra thing. "WHERE'S YOUR RESUME?" it roars. "GET OUT OF HERE!" Floyd | To the accompaniment of menacing pincer snaps and glares from the Floyd | other interviewees, you slink out of the line. Floyd | Floyd | A nearby vendor suddenly leaps out of her booth. "I hate this job!" Floyd | she shouts. "I'm finding a new one!" She disappears into the crowd, Floyd | leaving the empty booth abandoned behind her. You look over at it, Floyd | curiously. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we can wander in any direction." | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "enter booth" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, that won't do at all," says an interviewer at one of the Floyd | booths to a gelatinous blob. "I'm afraid chuffling certification is an Floyd | absolute requirement for any job here." The blob jiggles unhappily and Floyd | oozes away. The interviewer shrugs and shoves the blob's resume into a Floyd | nearby tube, where it's immediately sucked out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "sit at booth" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "I think you're right about us combining the resume" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x booth" | ||||
Floyd | This display booth is empty, at least of people. A colorful sign on Floyd | the booth says "THE AMAZING UNSHRED-O-MATIC" and sitting on the booth Floyd | is what you presume to be the unshred-o-matic in question. Floyd | Floyd | A mime uses its tentacles to give an impromptu demonstration of being Floyd | trapped in an invisible rocket ship and walking against a tractor Floyd | beam. Its interviewer is unimpressed, however, and consigns the mime's Floyd | resume to a shredder tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Tough crowd." | |||
| Gerynar arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Johnny says, "Oho, unshred-o-matic" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, we can use that." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask mime about unshred" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to flod), "x interviewer" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x interviewer" | ||||
Floyd | The line of interviewees snakes (literally, for some of them) through Floyd | the conference hall. You suppose you could wait in it if you really Floyd | wanted to. It must be better than substitute teaching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a khaki-colored resume piece Floyd | an ecru-colored resume piece Floyd | a beige-colored resume piece Floyd | a cream-colored resume piece Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | "Only four years?" a green chimpanzee says to a blue chimpanzee. Floyd | "They'll never take anyone with that little." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put khaki in unshred-o-matic" | ||||
Floyd | You put the khaki-colored resume piece into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ecru in it" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | Two aliens get into an argument over who was next in line. The debate Floyd | is resolved when the smaller one unhinges its jaw surprisingly far and Floyd | eats the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "opps unshred-o-matic" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put all pieces in unshred-o-matic" | ||||
Floyd | ecru-colored resume piece: Done. Floyd | beige-colored resume piece: Done. Floyd | cream-colored resume piece: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put ecru in unshred-o-matic" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the ecru-colored resume piece before you can Floyd | put it into something else. Floyd | Floyd | An armadillo-like alien has a conversation with a vendor in a nearby Floyd | booth about their new line of metallic post-it notes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You push the unshredder button. The unshredder hums in a pleased Floyd | fashion, then sucks in all the scraps in its bin. There is a brief Floyd | rrihw, and then a tan resume comes out the top of the unshredder. You Floyd | pick it up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "wait in line" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the line, and wait. And wait, and wait. Eventually you Floyd | reach the front, where you are scrutinized by a sort of mutant Floyd | crab-zebra thing. "GIVE ME THAT RESUME!" it roars, snatching it from Floyd | you. Then it produces a pair of surprisingly small spectacles and Floyd | settles them on its eyestalks as it reads over your resume. "Good .. Floyd | good .. nice genetic structure .. excellent center of mass .." Floyd | Suddenly it stops and looks up at you. "YOU'RE OVERQUALIFIED!". With Floyd | one enormous claw, it shoves your resume into a nearby tube which, you Floyd | fear, leads directly to the shredder. "GET OUT OF HERE!" To the Floyd | accompaniment of menacing pincer snaps and glares from the other Floyd | interviewees, you slink out of the line. Floyd | Floyd | A mime uses its tentacles to give an impromptu demonstration of being Floyd | trapped in an invisible rocket ship and walking against a tractor Floyd | beam. Its interviewer is unimpressed, however, and consigns the mime's Floyd | resume to a shredder tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ok." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tan resume" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "put khaki in machine" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | "What does he mean, overqualified?" says a furred lizard-thing, Floyd | angrily, to its scaled bear-thing companion. "I have a mere sixteen Floyd | years of experience!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "I think we have to only combine specific poieces" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| Lucea asks, "so wait, is this a treasure hunt?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Yeah. We should shred it." | ||||
| Lucea asks, "also, where'd the pieces go?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "We should have added some toilet paper." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Back out the hatch." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It was shredded again" | ||||
| Mick says, "other side of that hatch" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get resume" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So back south and pick up the pieces" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||||
Floyd | You pick up all the larger pieces you can find. There are four. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a khaki-colored resume piece Floyd | an ecru-colored resume piece Floyd | a beige-colored resume piece Floyd | a cream-colored resume piece Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "read all pieces" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "So what shall we omit?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x khaki" | ||||
Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on khaki-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: Floyd | "Certifications: Pommelation (Basic and Advanced), Chuffling, Floyd | Black-Belt Lean Six Sigma", "Blood type: O" Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "We need chuffling" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ecru" | ||||
Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on ecru-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "Years of Floyd | experience: 1", "Ever since I was a mere pod, my ambition to be a Floyd | Waffgasketeer has been ..", "Hobbies: Trandozian bass, flapjacks" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Remember too that the machine sucked them all in, so we have to leave the omissions in this room." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beige" | ||||
Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on beige-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "It is my Floyd | fondest hope that as a Jark Inverter I will ..", "Education: Yalneeple Floyd | College of Higher Kurfting, "D4", "With my fifteen years of experience Floyd | .." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Plus, we have the pyramid to ask about stuff." | |||
| Mick says, "we need to leave out beige" | ||||
| Touchy says, "I say we add toilet paper." | ||||
| Mick says, "Too many years" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cream" | ||||
Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on cream-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "0 Floyd | (approximate)", "Scent glands: removed (references available on Floyd | request)", "Languages known: none." Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says (to EmacsUser), "Well, they were all in the machine." | |||
| EmacsUser goes back to read. | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put all except beige into unshred-o-matic" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put khaki into unshred-o-matic" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I agree that we need to leave out the beige one." | |||
| DavidW says (to Mick), "the machine is NORTH" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a khaki-colored resume piece Floyd | an ecru-colored resume piece Floyd | a beige-colored resume piece Floyd | a cream-colored resume piece Floyd | a Roz pyramid | Mick asks, "am I spelling something wrong?" | |||
Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "ooooo" | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "drop beige" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put all pieces into unshred-o-matic" | ||||
Floyd | khaki-colored resume piece: Done. Floyd | ecru-colored resume piece: Done. Floyd | cream-colored resume piece: Done. Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, that won't do at all," says an interviewer at one of the Floyd | booths to a gelatinous blob. "I'm afraid chuffling certification is an Floyd | absolute requirement for any job here." The blob jiggles unhappily and Floyd | oozes away. The interviewer shrugs and shoves the blob's resume into a Floyd | nearby tube, where it's immediately sucked out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "put toilet paper into unshred-o-matic" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put toilet in unshred-o-matic" | ||||
Floyd | You put the toilet roll into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You push the unshredder button. Nothing happens besides an angry buzz, Floyd | probably because the unshredder has something in it that it doesn't Floyd | know how to unshred. Floyd | Floyd | An armadillo-like alien has a conversation with a vendor in a nearby Floyd | booth about their new line of metallic post-it notes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh, that's probably a bad idea." | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "It went in!" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "take toilet paper" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the toilet roll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "take toilet roll" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take toilet" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | Two aliens get into an argument over who was next in line. The debate Floyd | is resolved when the smaller one unhinges its jaw surprisingly far and Floyd | eats the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You push the unshredder button. The unshredder hums in a pleased Floyd | fashion, then sucks in all the scraps in its bin. There is a brief Floyd | rrihw, and then a tan resume comes out the top of the unshredder. You Floyd | pick it up and discard the remaining resume pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x tan" | ||||
Floyd | The resume lists a number of hobbies and qualifications you don't Floyd | really understand, but you do manage to make out a claim of 10 years Floyd | of experience, a request for a position as a Waffgasketeer, and Floyd | multiple certifications. Floyd | Floyd | "Only four years?" a green chimpanzee says to a blue chimpanzee. Floyd | "They'll never take anyone with that little." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tan" | ||||
Floyd | The resume lists a number of hobbies and qualifications you don't Floyd | really understand, but you do manage to make out a claim of 10 years Floyd | of experience, a request for a position as a Waffgasketeer, and Floyd | multiple certifications. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "wait in line" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the line, and wait. And wait, and wait. Eventually you Floyd | reach the front, where you are scrutinized by a sort of mutant Floyd | crab-zebra thing. "GIVE ME THAT RESUME!" it roars, snatching it from Floyd | you. Then it produces a pair of surprisingly small spectacles and Floyd | settles them on its eyestalks as it reads over your resume. "Good .. Floyd | good .. nice genetic structure .. excellent center of mass .." Floyd | Suddenly it stops and looks up at you. "YOU'LL DO." Before you can Floyd | react, it has grabbed you and shoved you through the door behind it. Floyd | "HR WILL BE IN TOUCH" is the last thing you hear as the door closes Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | Metal Box Room Floyd | Metal Box Room. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank goodness I'm here!," Roz says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Metal Box Room Floyd | Metal Box Room. Floyd | Floyd | "Yessir, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have any way of getting Floyd | out," Roz says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask roz about me" | ||||
Floyd | "That's boring." Floyd | Floyd | "If you want help getting out of here, just ask," Roz says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask roz for help" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask roz about help" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | "Ask me, that is," Roz says. "If you weren't sure." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||||
Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Aye-aye!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch is latched shut. Floyd | Floyd | And yet, someone must be spending a lot of time in here, because Floyd | there's a small cot resting on a couple of planks. Floyd | Floyd | On the small cot are a Sally pyramid and a dream diary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "what?" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x pyramid" | ||||
Floyd | (the Roz pyramid) Floyd | It's a pyramid-shaped piece of metal which, surprisingly, can talk. Floyd | For instance, right now it says "Quit starin' at me and get on with Floyd | things!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "gets ally" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get sally" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x dream d" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the dream diary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take diary" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "read dream" | ||||
Floyd | "I've been having really weird dreams since I started sleeping in the Floyd | machine on top of the old abandoned school, so I thought I should try Floyd | to write them down and figure out what they mean. I'll start with the Floyd | dream I had las night: I was in some kind of lab or military complex Floyd | or something in a dystopian future, and they were doing something with Floyd | corn. The corn was very sinister, very menacing. I think it Floyd | represented death. In the end I escaped the whole thing in a Floyd | rocketship, which is a blatant phallic symbol. So I guess that's about Floyd | sex as a bid for immortality or something? I dunno, my subconscious Floyd | has weird ideas sometimes." Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ha ha more" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Day 2. Last night's dream was one of those shifting ones than never Floyd | really settles on a theme. At first I was a spy or something, and I Floyd | was trying to escape from enemies in a hotel which was also a lab Floyd | which was also a sultan's palace, or something like that. And I Floyd | escaped them by rail through some kind of fantasy kingdom accompanied Floyd | by a weasel. I'm having trouble finding symbols here. I guess the Floyd | sense of running away from things was strong, but only in the Floyd | beginning." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Day 3. I was back in my old house, the one from before I moved to the Floyd | machine, but it was empty, and the world was ruled by insectoid Floyd | aliens, but I just accepted that as good, because they had Floyd | mind-control powers or something. I escaped by riding a missile Floyd | (another blatant phallic symbol), and wound up on the moon, in another Floyd | of those strange laboratories which seem to be the most common feature Floyd | of my dreams these days. Maybe this is has something to do with those Floyd | four days I can't remember? I was guided some of the time by a Floyd | disembodied voice, which is traditionally supposed to be a Floyd | manifestation of the divine or something. I hope I don't start hearing Floyd | it in real life." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "TOO FAST" | |||
| Lucea says, "sorry" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Day 4. I was in the desert, which shifted between being a Floyd | post-apocalyptic wasteland and the outskirts of Las Vegas and I think Floyd | Egypt at one point. I was looking for a treasure, which turned out to Floyd | be a goddess, and a blatantly erotic one too. Putting her at the end Floyd | of a search in the desert is probably a sorry commentary on my sex Floyd | life. The only other thing I remember was a disgusting dog who kept Floyd | showing up and hindered me at every turn. I think he represented my Floyd | father." Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "sounds like my dreams" | |||
| DavidW says, "I recognize these." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Day 5. I don't remember a lot about this dream, but I have a feeling Floyd | it was more coherent than the others. I was back in the old school, Floyd | cleaning up after the children, and there was a disembodied voice that Floyd | wanted me to stop working there. But then the voice turned out to be Floyd | coming from a small metal pyramid, just like the one I use as a Floyd | pillow. There were lots of pyramids like that, and they had names like Floyd | Sally and Jojo. That's all I remember." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "These all refer to the IF Whispers games." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Jojo?!?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "and this one" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about jojo" | EmacsUser asks, "ask Roz about Jojo?" | |||
Floyd | "Jojo, she left us. Wanted a solitary life, on one of those empty Floyd | backwater planets. Guess you could visit her, if you need a vacation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "read diaryt" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "oops diary" | ||||
Floyd | The rest of the pages are blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sally about jojo" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "just ``jojo?''" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | small cot: Taken. Floyd | rusty hatch: That's hardly portable. Floyd | cogwheels: That's hardly portable. Floyd | planks: They're hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think so" | |||
| Johnny says, "Er." | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "A cot?" | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x cot" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the small cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "throw cot" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "look under cot" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A cot is like a bed." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open hatch" | ||||
Floyd | You open the rusty hatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "turn wheels" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the rusty hatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're on top of the school again." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch leads out into the fresh air. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small cot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | It smells nasty in here. The sooner you get back out into the fresh Floyd | air, the happier you'll be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall we 'jojo'?" | |||
| EmacsUser shrugs. | ||||
| DavidW says, "We haven't seen Leon yet either." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||||
Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Teleport activating now!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | It holds a scrap of green, continous paper in one of the tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bowl (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "``continous'' - continuous?" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm, not sure what it means. Perhaps a scroll of paper that rolls around." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yeah, I was confused by the juxtaposition of ``scrap''" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Like on a pair of rollers." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "yeah, 'scrap' doesn't fit with that, does it?" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Anyway, what now?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x green paper" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scrap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't make it out as long as it's in the robots claw. Floyd | Floyd | Bamf! The Sally pyramid disappears! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jojo" | ||||
Floyd | (the robot) Floyd | You see nothing special about the robot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "makes me think of that fanfold paper with the green & white bars on it" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jojo about jojo" | ||||
Floyd | (the robot about that) Floyd | The robot seems to ignore you purposefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bowl" | ||||
Floyd | A small bowl, perhaps for mixing dough in it? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dish" | ||||
Floyd | The hut, judging from the random sparks, draws enegry from the air Floyd | somehow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||||
Floyd | It is old, spotted with rust, but surprisingly clean. It has a single Floyd | button. In it you see nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x recipe" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tickle jojo" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mattress" | ||||
Floyd | It's a comfy looking mattress." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on it" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "go south?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on it" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under mattress" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | It's a blue, wooden wardrobe. It looks too small to store all of the Floyd | stuff one may need, but maybe it's bigger on the inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | It's locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jojo about wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | (the robot about that) Floyd | The robot seems to ignore you purposefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tentacles" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wires" | ||||
Floyd | These loose wires, judging by their color, seem to stem from all kind Floyd | of sources, varying in thickness and level of insulation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull wires" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "I'm sorry" - why do all computer voices have to be female - "It looks Floyd | like you forgot to insert something into the oven." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take bowl" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to cook something, but we have! no! ingredients!" | |||
| Johnny asks, "put diary in oven?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "No." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at DavidW), "Some poo fell from the sky!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We may need to go south, as suggested." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Eew" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I should have been more subtle and merely pointed out that ingredients have indeed fallen from the sky in this game." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I hear it helps waiting outside for things to fall from the sky if you want to cook something." | ||||
| DavidW says, "There's no sky inside the hut. We should go south." | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You step outside and find yourself under a clear, disturbingly puple Floyd | sky, where yellow lightning flashes silently in dark, grey clouds. The Floyd | air is humid and humming with life. Almost invisible, transparent Floyd | insects swirl round your head, and in the distance, some unseen birds Floyd | chirp and flutter.The hut and it's surroundings seem to be inside some Floyd | sort of transparent energy dome. Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick asks, "puple?" | |||
| DavidW says, "purple" | ||||
| PaulSharke arrives, full of fun and funk. | Mick says, "And I thought it was the color of puppies." | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x pen" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x dome" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think this is a cage-type of pen." | |||
| Mick says, "I think we need to cook the lizard." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lizard" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the lizard. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need a recipe before we can cook anything." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "The green paper?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure, but that's my best guess so far." | ||||
| Mick says, "Roast Lizard. Ingredients: Lizard (1)" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "take lizard?" | ||||
| DavidW asks (of Mick), "Why would we need a roast lizard?" | ||||
| Lucea asks, "Why not?" | ||||
| Mick asks, "Why would we need to shoot a crow?" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "Why is the lizard in a pen?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It was annoying us." | ||||
| Mick says, "Maybe the lizard looks tasty." | ||||
| Johnny says, "It's nothing special." | ||||
| DavidW says, "You see nothing tasty about the lizard." | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "taste lizard" | ||||
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "Ok fair enough" | |||
| DavidW says, "The pond might have tasty fish." | ||||
| DavidW says, "(there's a pond WEST, and mountains EAST)" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Rocky Area Floyd | Some rocks have fallen from the Mountains outside the dome, building Floyd | one of those rocky landscapes where climbing children hopefully fall Floyd | and break their little necks. Stupid brats. Floyd | Floyd | A smaller rock lies a few feet apart from the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x smaller" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x rock" | ||||
Floyd | It's a rock the size of a fist, powdery, but hard. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh, unless I goofed on the directions." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search rocks" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | You are near a pond of yellowish water. Floyd | Floyd | Dead at your feet lies some sort of black creature. Floyd | Floyd | And there it sits, in the middle of the pond - the Jark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x jark" | ||||
Floyd | A jark is a jark is a jark. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Man, the PC hates kids." | |||
| Lucea says, "can a jark be rocked" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x creature" | ||||
Floyd | The creature is small, shorter than you, and pitch black. It has an Floyd | oblong head, no ears, tiny black eyes, and sharp, black teeth clearly Floyd | visible behind a lipless mouth. It has a name tag saying hr. Ah, the Floyd | guy they told you about at the job center. He's clearly dead, though, Floyd | and therefore somewhat unhelpful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. | EmacsUser asks, "...with a sling shot?" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "throw rock at jark" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "smell water" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get name tag" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter water" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | You are near a pond of yellowish water. Floyd | Floyd | And there it sits, in the middle of the pond - the Jark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter pond" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kill jark" | ||||
Floyd | You try a little shadow boxing in the direction of the Jark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "search creature" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "take jark" | ||||
Floyd | You touch the Jark, and die a jarkingly, horrible death, additionally Floyd | discgracing your whole field of work. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "eep" | |||
| Lucea says, "well then" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I hope we don't need to go back and re-read our tan resume." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Is the dead guy the one we're replacing?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "chuffle" | ||||
| Mick says, "The resume requests a position as a Waffgasketeer" | ||||
| DavidW says, "chuffle" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "chuffle" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "chuffle jark" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Not ``that's not a verb i recognize''" | |||
| Johnny asks, "What's with that message?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Chuffle is some kind of noun the game knows about." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I think." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about jark" | ||||
Floyd | Curious things, aren't they? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "chuff me" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask roz about creature" | ||||
Floyd | "That's boring." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to EmacsUser), "actually, I was mistaken." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask roz about jark" | ||||
Floyd | Curious things, aren't they? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It doesn't know the word at all." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Ok." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | HR Floyd | a rock Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask roz about hr" | ||||
Floyd | Famous Jark inverter. Helped some dude escape somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Yeah, it's just a broken thing." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hr" | ||||
Floyd | The creature is small, shorter than you, and pitch black. It has an Floyd | oblong head, no ears, tiny black eyes, and sharp, black teeth clearly Floyd | visible behind a lipless mouth. It has a name tag saying hr. Ah, the Floyd | guy they told you about at the job center. He's clearly dead, though, Floyd | and therefore somewhat unhelpful. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "inverter" | |||
| Johnny says, "That msg" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "invert me" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to Jarks! Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "oho" | |||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "invert jark" | ||||
Floyd | You skillfully invert the Jark, rendering it harmless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x jark" | ||||
Floyd | A jark is a jark is a jark. It's quite harmless now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get jark" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Whoa." | |||
| Lucea says, "what the hell just happened" | ||||
| Mick says, "We inverted the jark. Duh" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "What? Where did 'invert' come from??" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "clever" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "it made sense to the pc anyway" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I asked Roz about HR" | ||||
| Lucea says, "the dead creature" | ||||
| Lucea says, "and she mentioned he was some kind of "jark inverter'" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "So, we're not getting the job?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "So we're good at our new job: jark inversion." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Well, there's a position newly open." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Timing." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pond" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | You are near a pond of yellowish water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Jark Floyd | HR Floyd | a rock Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Did the jark change in appearnce after the inversion?" | |||
| DavidW says, "No." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jark" | ||||
Floyd | A jark is a jark is a jark. It's quite harmless now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "It's still a jark, just a more harmless version" | |||
| Lucea says, "if it did, we'll never know" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah, sorry, see that." | ||||
| Touchy says, "This is quite surreal..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not at all sure what to try next." | ||||
| Mick exclaims, "Cook it!" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "Do something with the lizard?" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Right, what's that for?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "taste jark" | ||||
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I vote for visiting Leon, myself. We can return here later." | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "invert jark" | ||||
Floyd | You skillfully uninvert the Jark, rendering it deadly. Erm, you know, Floyd | that means to you as well. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Sorry." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||||
| Mick says, "That's a typical newbie jark inverter mistake." | ||||
| Lucea says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Lucea says, "so do we bring the dead jark back as a trophy or something" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Can we at least see if the robot reacts to us now?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "A delicious trophy." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I need more info before I know what to do." | ||||
| DavidW says, "So I'd either visit Leon or try to get that green paper from Jojo." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Or ask Roz more questions." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about oven" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about bowl" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask roz about poison gas" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't think you noticed what was in that balloon back in the Floyd | classroom." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask roz about razor blades" | ||||
Floyd | "Those things are so useful!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Well, that's why the balloon was hovering---and why we weren't supposed to touch it." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard looks at you longingly and starts to hiss. Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Feed lizard?" | |||
| Lucea says, "oh right" | ||||
| Lucea says, "now I remember" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "longingly?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ah. Maybe lizards like to see jarks." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "drop jark" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "give jark to lizard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the Jark) Floyd | The lizard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "or not" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x pen" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jark" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard backs away suddenly, as if scared by your movements, and Floyd | starts to hiss. Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "wave hr" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show jark to lizard" | ||||
Floyd | The lizard is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard backs away suddenly, as if scared by your movements, and Floyd | starts to hiss. Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "hiss" | ||||
Floyd | You hiss. The lizard suddenly gives you bedroom eyes and lays an egg. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard snaps at its own tail. Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "invert lizard" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to Jarks! Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Hoo boy." | |||
| Mick says, "take egg" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh, egg" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard backs away suddenly, as if scared by your movements, and Floyd | starts to hiss. Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tasty looking lizard egg. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard blinks. Floyd | > | Mick exclaims, "Ok, it's tasty. Can we cook it now?!" | |||
| DavidW says, "tasty!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Yes. Cook that." | ||||
| Gerynar asks (of Mick), "Hungry?" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | It holds a scrap of green, continous paper in one of the tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Huh. Probably shouldn't scramble it in front of the lizard though." | |||
| Johnny says, "Nothing like an egg straight from the oven." | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put egg in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You put the egg into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put bowl in oven" | ||||
Floyd | You don't feel like toying around with the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Should we break it first?" | |||
| Johnny says, "No." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get paper" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully remove the paper from the claw. The robot doesn't seem Floyd | to mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put egg in oven" | ||||
Floyd | You don't feel like toying around with the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | I WANT COOKIE - CAN GIVE YOU SOMETHING- RECIPE - CUKROVINCA FLOUR - AN Floyd | EGG - A JARK- Floyd | "Wow" says Roz, "she off the hook." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We might need a recipe, just the same." | |||
| Lucea says, "oh hey" | ||||
| Mick says, "oh we need flour" | ||||
| Lucea asks, "what's cukrovinca flour?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "put jark in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You put the Jark into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "put egg in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the egg before you can put it into something Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "The rock!" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get egg" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "put egg in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You put the egg into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||||
Floyd | It's a rock the size of a fist, powdery, but hard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break rock" | ||||
Floyd | You try a little shadow boxing in the direction of the rock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "put rock in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You only want stuff from the recipe in there. Floyd | Floyd | You put the rock into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about flour" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get rock" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm." | |||
| Lucea asks, "I guess it's not the rock?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "or is it the rock" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask roz about rock" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about cukrovinca flour" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh, it's made from rocks. Not healthy for humans, I've heard. But Floyd | neither is poison gas, eh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mick asks, "roz about cukrovinca" | Johnny says, "mountains" | |||
| Lucea says, "ok, so it is the rock" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "crumble rock" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "hit rock" | ||||
Floyd | You try a little shadow boxing in the direction of the rock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "crumbl" | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "put bowl in oven" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You don't feel like toying around with the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "crumble" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "crush rock" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | Lucea says, "whoa" | |||
| EmacsUser gets IF Programmer Barbie. | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| EmacsUser drops IF Programmer Barbie. | EmacsUser says, "The commands ``g i'' and ``f i'' are _not_ the same." | |||
| Johnny says, "]:" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub rock" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a rock Floyd | a scrap Floyd | HR Floyd | a bowl Floyd | an egg Floyd | a Jark Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "crack egg" | ||||
Floyd | You try a little shadow boxing in the direction of the egg. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You put the egg into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | Mick asks, "What's with the run time error?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Bug with Inform 7." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "I suppose that we've not gotten the razor blades yet. Leon?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ah. That might work." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Mick), "or the program." | ||||
| Johnny asks, "We have to cut the flour?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, try it." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Johnny), "I'm shooting in the dark here." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leon" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about leon" | ||||
Floyd | "Leon's a supply unit. He helps me all the time by giving me things Floyd | for playing games with, like confetti and poison gas and marbles and Floyd | explosives and balloons and razor blades." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "say leon" | ||||
Floyd | (to the Roz pyramid) Floyd | (If you're trying to give Roz the name a pyramid, just type the name Floyd | at the command prompt.) Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leon" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | EmacsUser furrows his brow. Hmm. | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "leo" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "It's not a show-stopping, error, right? Like, it's informative, but not breaking things?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz for razor blades" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW says, "I don't know." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Jacqueline), "Something the game is trying to do isn't happening, so it could be show-stopping." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's what I was wondering, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "The transcript isn't showing what command made this error start." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "It appears in conjunction with ``That noun did not make sense in this context,'' so the parser might be in trouble." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "crush rock" | ||||
| Mick asks, "can we undo past where it started?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Actually, it's going every turn since it started." | ||||
| DavidW says (to EmacsUser), "that wasn't it." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks (of DavidW), "huh?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "belated s/appears/appeared/" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think someone whispered a command to Floyd that wasn't displayed." | ||||
| EmacsUser goes back to look. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut rock" | ||||
Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rock in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You only want stuff from the recipe in there. Floyd | Floyd | You put the rock into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bowl" | ||||
Floyd | A small bowl, perhaps for mixing dough in it? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | In the bowl are an egg and a Jark. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||||
Floyd | It is old, spotted with rust, but surprisingly clean. It has a single Floyd | button. In it you see nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x stove" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "No, I think it's just that the error didn't print until after the prompt." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. So maybe it was my 'crush rock' command after all that started this." | ||||
| DavidW says, "ok. So it was my fault. bah." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Well, given the kind of error, it was probably an accumulation of confusing commands." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That seems an innocent enough thing to try, crushing the rock." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "What EU said." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I also suspect it's the code for handling the bowl that's somehow confusing things." | ||||
| EmacsUser is the European Union :). | ||||
| DavidW says, "There was another game where a container somehow started a similar error." | ||||
| Mick says, "maybe we should remove everything from the bowl" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "We can try..." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from bowl" | ||||
Floyd | egg: Taken. Floyd | Jark: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | Johnny says, "Or restore to before I re-inverted the jark." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bowl" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | EmacsUser says, "cf2 was the one before" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "That's the latest." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Do people want to restore? Sounds like a plan." | ||||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "that works, we just need to hiss at the lizard and get the egg to be back where we are now" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hiss" | ||||
Floyd | You hiss. The lizard suddenly gives you bedroom eyes and lays an egg. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard blinks. Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard looks at you longingly and starts to hiss. Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "hiss" | ||||
Floyd | You hiss - but alas! -it's already routine, and the lizard is Floyd | unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, and we can get the green paper." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | It holds a scrap of green, continous paper in one of the tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Right, though we may not need it now." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully remove the paper from the claw. The robot doesn't seem Floyd | to mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||||
Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | I WANT COOKIE - CAN GIVE YOU SOMETHING- RECIPE - CUKROVINCA FLOUR - AN Floyd | EGG - A JARK- Floyd | "Wow" says Roz, "she off the hook." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about cookie" | ||||
Floyd | "As I said, Jojo went a little flaky in exile." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tasty looking lizard egg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leon" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser notices that he hasn't gotten any work done in the last two hours. Oops. | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure you have." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Jacqueline), "Point taken, but this falls in the fun bucket." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard backs away suddenly, as if scared by your movements, and Floyd | starts to hiss. Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leon" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder why we can't get to Leon." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Did we do things in the wrong order?" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Leon should have been before Sally?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "We could, I suppose, so to Sally and try to go to Leon from there?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "er go to Sally" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "That's a good idea." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||||
Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Aye-aye!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch leads out into the fresh air. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small cot (on which is a Sally pyramid) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leon" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sally about leon" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sally" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the Sally pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can I recheck the classroom?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Really, this was just a glorified hallway. You used to like places Floyd | like this. Tiles and cinderblocks. No-nonsense, nothing gaudy. They do Floyd | just what they promise: take you from room to room without asserting Floyd | themselves. But something's gone terrible wrong. The whole floor is Floyd | lousy with confetti, thick as snow and almost painful to look at. The Floyd | door is ajar, swinging a bit in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search confetti" | ||||
Floyd | You sift through the confetti, but find nothing but more of it. What Floyd | were you hoping for? Gold? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take confetti" | ||||
Floyd | There's too much of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Classroom Floyd | Every last inch of wall space here, save for the window, is plastered Floyd | with needless decor: nature caricatures, inspirational glurge, posters Floyd | with cartoon letters and plus signs. The floor's no better; the brats Floyd | didn't pick up when Miss Lauren told them to pick up and now it's Floyd | cluttered with gaudy plastic. The books are tossed into the carpet Floyd | square pile and someone's dripped tempera paint onto every table. And Floyd | there's more, it seems, every second. Leaves and dirt by the doorway. Floyd | Shredded paper that's not in the waste bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x posters" | ||||
Floyd | You look at one poster: The letter Q with a smiley face in the middle Floyd | of the circle, which just destroys the structure of the letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You look at one poster: A dentally suspect goat grinning like Floyd | something out of Revelations. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You look at one poster: You're guessing this used to be the D'Nealian Floyd | alphabet but some kid ripped it up and beheaded the b. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You look at one poster: Autumn leaves and acorns arranged without any Floyd | regard to symmetry or aesthetics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You look at one poster: A bunch of sunflowers count to five, using Floyd | those loosey-goosey curlicue 2's that you hate seeing in people's Floyd | handwriting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You look at one poster: The letter Q with a smiley face in the middle Floyd | of the circle, which just destroys the structure of the letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "What is the D'Nealian alphabet?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about d'nealian alphabet" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Not that it matters, probably." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about miss lauren" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | It's always open, rain or shine, wind or cold. It's high enough, mind Floyd | you, that kids can't get through it no matter how hard they try, but Floyd | weather is always more persistent. Today wasn't so bad - just mildly Floyd | breezy - but you still feel wind whenever you walk past it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | small metal pyramid: Taken. Floyd | leaves: Not without your gloves, and you're not sure where you left Floyd | those. Of course. Floyd | paper: That's hardly portable. Floyd | books: You dig through the pile a bit, but it just collapses in on Floyd | itself. Ugh. Floyd | tables: They're hardly portable. Floyd | window: That's hardly portable. Floyd | posters: You'd love to. It'd be nice to see the walls look crisp Floyd | again. But yo u're forbidden to, and close enough to being fired as it Floyd | is. Floyd | toys: You pick up a toy and stack it in the bin, but by the time you Floyd | get back to the pile there just seem to be more. What fool decided to Floyd | make toys reproduce? Floyd | bin: You're not really in good enough standing with Miss Lauren to try Floyd | replacing it again. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ah, it's actually a form of print. [LINK]" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a small metal pyramid Floyd | a scrap Floyd | an egg Floyd | a Jark Floyd | HR Floyd | a rock Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "slash cursive" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x small metal pyramid" | ||||
Floyd | It has the word "BRENDA" embossed on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about brenda" | ||||
Floyd | "I left Brenda playing with toys. If you want to go visit her, just Floyd | say the word." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Whoa. Good catch." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask brenda about brenda" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I dunno. I think she's like Sally. Just a quick way back here." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Ah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about gloves" | ||||
Floyd | "That's boring." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about pyramids" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about pyramid" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm Roz! I'm a control unit! I can talk to Sally and Leon and all the Floyd | other units and they have to do what I say." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about units" | ||||
Floyd | "There's a bunch of different kinds. There's teleportation units and Floyd | supply units and there's control units like me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about teleportation units" | ||||
Floyd | "There's a bunch of different kinds. There's teleportation units and Floyd | supply units and there's control units like me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Well, if we can't get to Leon, maybe razor blades aren't the way to crush the rock." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "noel" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Mick says (to Floyd), "brenda" | ||||
Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Teleport activating now!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, but nothing else seems to happen. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Classroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Classroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Classroom Floyd | Every last inch of wall space here, save for the window, is plastered Floyd | with needless decor: nature caricatures, inspirational glurge, posters Floyd | with cartoon letters and plus signs. The floor's no better; the brats Floyd | didn't pick up when Miss Lauren told them to pick up and now it's Floyd | cluttered with gaudy plastic. The books are tossed into the carpet Floyd | square pile and someone's dripped tempera paint onto every table. And Floyd | there's more, it seems, every second. Leaves and dirt by the doorway. Floyd | Shredded paper that's not in the waste bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Yep, a problem with understanding." | |||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps a verb that it doesn't know causes the problem, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I wondered if Leon got scrambled somehow." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "How about the shredder? Can we shred a rock?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. maybe" | ||||
| DavidW says, "lessee ... that was through the brown door, then a fall." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Really, this was just a glorified hallway. You used to like places Floyd | like this. Tiles and cinderblocks. No-nonsense, nothing gaudy. They do Floyd | just what they promise: take you from room to room without asserting Floyd | themselves. But something's gone terrible wrong. The whole floor is Floyd | lousy with confetti, thick as snow and almost painful to look at. The Floyd | door is ajar, swinging a bit in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Entryway Floyd | The light is dim, and exits are west and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Well, the floor to the east is basically an open pit now, but you know Floyd | the fall is survivable. So after a brief hesitation, you fling Floyd | yourself in. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, that won't do at all," says an interviewer at one of the Floyd | booths to a gelatinous blob. "I'm afraid chuffling certification is an Floyd | absolute requirement for any job here." The blob jiggles unhappily and Floyd | oozes away. The interviewer shrugs and shoves the blob's resume into a Floyd | nearby tube, where it's immediately sucked out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shredder" | ||||
Floyd | On this side, the shredder has a number of tubes leading into it, and, Floyd | of course, the maintenance hatch near the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rock in shredder" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze the rock into one of the tubes, ignoring the looks from Floyd | the surrounding beings. The shredder makes some horrible gnashing Floyd | noises, but you think you heair a faint sputtering from the Shredder Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | "Only four years?" a green chimpanzee says to a blue chimpanzee. Floyd | "They'll never take anyone with that little." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | A neat heap of Cukrovinca flour is on top of the other heap. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "GENIUS!" | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take flour" | ||||
Floyd | You easily scoop it into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||||
Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Teleport activating now!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You put the egg into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put jark in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You put the Jark into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mick says, "You might want to save" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put flour in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | You insert the last ingredient and shake the bowl a bit. Wow, thanks Floyd | to the astonishing qualities of the jark, you now have some delicious Floyd | dough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bowl in oven" | ||||
Floyd | The oven is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||||
Floyd | You open the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bowl in oven" | ||||
Floyd | You put the bowl into the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close oven" | ||||
Floyd | You close the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | The oven starts to hum. Hidden speakers play a nice little melody, and Floyd | 20 uneventful minutes later, there's a *bing*. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||||
Floyd | You open the oven, revealing a bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bowl" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bowl" | ||||
Floyd | In the bowl is a cookie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cookie" | ||||
Floyd | Hm, it looks delicious beyond words. So there you go then. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give cookie to jojo" | ||||
Floyd | (the robot) Floyd | One of the tentacles graps the cookie eagerly. Something inside the Floyd | machines starts to rattle and click, and then an unseen opening spits Floyd | out more green continous paper. It reads Floyd | THANKS - NOW CAN FEED LIZARD - DUCK. Floyd | As you try to bring the image of the lizard together with a duck, the Floyd | wardrobe behind you squeaks and something hits you quit hard in the Floyd | back of the head. Floyd | "Tarquin!" shouts Roz in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "WAIT EAT COOKIE UNDO" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Yeah." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Hut Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "eat cookie" | ||||
Floyd | You nibble a bit on it - it tastes horrible! Appearances really can be Floyd | deceiving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "give cookie to jojo" | ||||
Floyd | (the robot) Floyd | One of the tentacles graps the cookie eagerly. Something inside the Floyd | machines starts to rattle and click, and then an unseen opening spits Floyd | out more green continous paper. It reads Floyd | THANKS - NOW CAN FEED LIZARD - DUCK. Floyd | As you try to bring the image of the lizard together with a duck, the Floyd | wardrobe behind you squeaks and something hits you quit hard in the Floyd | back of the head. Floyd | "Tarquin!" shouts Roz in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "BOO" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "What is a tarquin?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Another pyramid's name, I'm guessing." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a Brenda pyramid Floyd | a scrap Floyd | HR Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a small metal pyramid here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "``the name of two semilegendary Etruscan kings of ancient Rome''" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tarquin" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly a swirl of energy engulfs you, and an HR-tinged voice beckons Floyd | your very being. Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | Bare white painted walls make up three sides of this room. The Floyd | fourth, which happens to be the northern wall, is taken up by a large Floyd | pair of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||||
Floyd | Although they're glass, they're frosted over so you can't see through Floyd | them. There is a giant letter H on the left door, and a giant letter Floyd | R on the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I don't think we wanted to teleport right away, did we?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "I though we were meant to feed the lizard." | ||||
| Johnny shrugs. | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "We have a fairly close save, so we might as well continue." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "We can jojo back, I guess?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "I bet so." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||||
Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Gotcha, boss!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a Brenda pyramid Floyd | a scrap Floyd | HR Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | The lizard blinks. Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Also, is the wardrobe open now?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about tarquin" | ||||
Floyd | "Good old Tarquin.He's the smart one. Well, not as smart as me. Floyd | Anyway, he tried to investigate the machine, but I can't reach him Floyd | anymore." Floyd | Floyd | The lizard backs away suddenly, as if scared by your movements, and Floyd | starts to hiss. Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks (of DavidW), "Did we lose our way to get to HR?" | |||
| DavidW says, "argh, I hope not." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | You are near a pond of yellowish water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tarquin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | It's a blue, wooden wardrobe. It looks too small to store all of the Floyd | stuff one may need, but maybe it's bigger on the inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | It's locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tarquin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tarquin" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Lucea is gonna get back baby bad balls to you, love, cretin. | ||||
| Lucea has disconnected. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Hut Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "booray" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "duck" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Pen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about duck" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quack" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Pen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose we must restore." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "We need to bake again." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed lizard" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l.i." | ||||
Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Brenda pyramid Floyd | a scrap Floyd | HR Floyd | a bowl Floyd | Dough Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||||
Floyd | You open the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put dough in oven" | ||||
Floyd | You don't feel like toying around with the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put bowl in oven" | ||||
Floyd | You put the bowl into the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | The oven door suddenly swings shut. Floyd | Floyd | The oven starts to hum. Hidden speakers play a nice little melody, and Floyd | 20 uneventful minutes later, there's a *bing*. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||||
Floyd | You open the oven, revealing a bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take bowl" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take cookie" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "give cookie to robot" | ||||
Floyd | One of the tentacles graps the cookie eagerly. Something inside the Floyd | machines starts to rattle and click, and then an unseen opening spits Floyd | out more green continous paper. It reads Floyd | THANKS - NOW CAN FEED LIZARD - DUCK. Floyd | As you try to bring the image of the lizard together with a duck, the Floyd | wardrobe behind you squeaks and something hits you quit hard in the Floyd | back of the head. Floyd | "Tarquin!" shouts Roz in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Jojo was suggesting that *we* duck so Tarquin doesn't hit us on the head." | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Aha!" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Makes perfect sense." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "(now)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I must go away from keyboard for a couple minutes." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "So do we feed the lizard or is the robot happy that it can feed its lizard?" | ||||
| EmacsUser thinks that the lizard ought not eat its own unborn young. | ||||
| Johnny says, "The egg was never fertilized." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Also, cookie gone." | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x cookie" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "So take tarquin?" | |||
| Johnny says, "That's how we got to HR." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take tarquin" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly a swirl of energy engulfs you, and an HR-tinged voice beckons Floyd | your very being. Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | Bare white painted walls make up three sides of this room. The Floyd | fourth, which happens to be the northern wall, is taken up by a large Floyd | pair of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Argh." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "Weren't we supposed to feed the lizard?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh, I thought not." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, I got the feeling that we were now able to feed the lizard, like, permitted to feed the lizard." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "You can press restore. We saved right before." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Not that we had any lizard food, though." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "But I interpreted it as the robot could now feed the lizard; it itself does not eat." | ||||
| DavidW says, "For all I know, this is the entrance to the H and R lizard supplies warehouse." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "We can check..." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the large pair of glass doors) Floyd | Floyd | HR Central Floyd | This is the nerve center of the Human Resources operation. The room's Floyd | vastness is matched only by the amount of noise being generated. Floyd | People are walking everywhere and you're constantly ducking and Floyd | weaving to avoid being bumped into. You think you can see a disused Floyd | cubicle off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tarquin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s;x tarquin;n" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | HR Central Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s.x tarquin.n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | Bare white painted walls make up three sides of this room. The Floyd | fourth, which happens to be the northern wall, is taken up by a large Floyd | pair of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x tarquin. n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | HR Central Floyd | This is the nerve center of the Human Resources operation. The room's Floyd | vastness is matched only by the amount of noise being generated. Floyd | People are walking everywhere and you're constantly ducking and Floyd | weaving to avoid being bumped into. You think you can see a disused Floyd | cubicle off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Sorry." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. So Tarquin disappears completely. Poor design." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "It might be intentional." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cubicle Floyd | This cubicle has seen better days, but at least it's out of the way of Floyd | all the madness outside. A desk and a couple of chairs are here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an office chair (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | Just an ordinary office chair, with a worn cushion and five wheels Floyd | splayed out from a central column. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | A large green metal desk. There's nothing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is an astonishingly uninteresting location." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chair" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to sit on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the office chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "chair" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Cubicle Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Cubicle (in the office chair) Floyd | This cubicle has seen better days, but at least it's out of the way of Floyd | all the madness outside. A desk and a couple of chairs are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, two chairs." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "I have no idea what to do here." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna suggest standing and putting 'HR' itself in the chair." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Go for it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the office chair. Floyd | Floyd | Cubicle Floyd | This cubicle has seen better days, but at least it's out of the way of Floyd | all the madness outside. A desk and a couple of chairs are here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an office chair (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hr in chair" | ||||
Floyd | You put HR into the office chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hr" | ||||
Floyd | The creature is small, shorter than you, and pitch black. It has an Floyd | oblong head, no ears, tiny black eyes, and sharp, black teeth clearly Floyd | visible behind a lipless mouth. It has a name tag saying hr. Ah, the Floyd | guy they told you about at the job center. He's clearly dead, though, Floyd | and therefore somewhat unhelpful. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Oh, we were carrying a dude." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake hr" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I thought it was a nametag." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hr" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "A surprisingly fitting default response." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put brenda in chair" | ||||
Floyd | You put the Brenda pyramid into the office chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take brenda" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "interview hr" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hr on chair" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the office chair would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Cubicle Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Cubicle Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "wtfman" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from chair" | ||||
Floyd | The office chair is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push chair sw" | ||||
Floyd | Wouldn't it be more fun to ride on it? Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "Aha!" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter chair. sw" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the office chair. Floyd | Floyd | HR Central (in the office chair) Floyd | This is the nerve center of the Human Resources operation. The room's Floyd | vastness is matched only by the amount of noise being generated. Floyd | People are walking everywhere and you're constantly ducking and Floyd | weaving to avoid being bumped into. You think you can see a disused Floyd | cubicle off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "ride" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ride? Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You must name something more substantial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance (in the office chair) Floyd | Bare white painted walls make up three sides of this room. The Floyd | fourth, which happens to be the northern wall, is taken up by a large Floyd | pair of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | HR Central (in the office chair) Floyd | This is the nerve center of the Human Resources operation. The room's Floyd | vastness is matched only by the amount of noise being generated. Floyd | People are walking everywhere and you're constantly ducking and Floyd | weaving to avoid being bumped into. You think you can see a disused Floyd | cubicle off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You push off into the throng of passers-by, and skilfully guide your Floyd | new hot-rod through the vast HR cubicle maze. Or, y'know, maybe the Floyd | workers here are just avoiding the maniac on the chair. Eventually Floyd | you make a wrong turn and the wheels catch on the threshold of an Floyd | office doorway. The chair tips over and you're dumped onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | As you slowly get up, you hear the door swing shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | HR Office Floyd | Unlike the cubicles outside, this office has a real door and a real Floyd | window. The noise of the HR worker bees outside is almost completely Floyd | shut out. You look around in wonder, and see a desk, a chair, some Floyd | paintings on the wall, and a fake potted plant. Floyd | Floyd | Before you can react, a question is shot at you like an arrow that's, Floyd | um, question-mark shaped. Floyd | Floyd | "Who the hell are you?" asks the questioner in a booming voice. Floyd | Floyd | You spin around to see a large and imposing man turn towards you, a Floyd | sweaty hand clicking the door carefully shut. You stammer out an Floyd | introduction and the man relaxes (just a little). Floyd | Floyd | "Ah," he says. "I am Mr Hokensox. Your resume was sent along by one Floyd | of our lobster-horses." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I thought it was a crab-zebra," you venture. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, no, although they do like to get stripe tattoos, don't they? Floyd | Have a seat and we'll get your forms sorted and set up your Floyd | orientation schedule." Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a small wooden chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Whoa." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "whoa indeed" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | (the small wooden chair) Floyd | You sit uncomfortably down in the wooden chair and look up at Mr. Floyd | Hokensox. Floyd | Floyd | He peers more at the papers in his hand and says, "I see that you Floyd | used to be a teacher. You should fit in quite well here. We have Floyd | numerous people who act like kids. Ha ha." Floyd | Floyd | You smile weakly, thinking that you have landed somwhere very much Floyd | like where you left. Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm... Okay, please have these forms filled out by your orientation, Floyd | which starts in one hour." Floyd | Floyd | Mr. Hockensox hands you forms XY11, UT18 and TB06. Floyd | "Now," says Mr Hokensox, "let me show you to your new workplace." Floyd | Floyd | Mr Hokensox puffs around the desk and unlocks the door. He leads you Floyd | out into the main office again, and then through a maze of cubicles. Floyd | You try to concentrate on the path you take, but soon you're Floyd | hopelessly lost. He stops abruptly in front of a cubicle that looks Floyd | like every other one. "Here you are, cubicle number 78-33183. I'll Floyd | leave you to get settled in and fill out those forms. If you have any Floyd | questions, don't hesitate to ask." Floyd | Floyd | Before you can draw in a breath, Mr Hokensox turns and leaves with Floyd | such a speed that defies his size, leaving you alone clutching your Floyd | forms. Floyd | Floyd | Cubicle 78-33183 Floyd | Four grey walls. At least the school had some more color than this. Floyd | They haven't even had time to put a desk in here yet, nor a chair. Floyd | The corridor leads out to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hooray for lobster-horses and crab-zebras." | |||
| olethros asks, "is this axe-cop?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| DavidW says, "My stomach just went off. I must get food." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Adios." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "(If you meant that you're going AFK.)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "No one tell roommate I brought food into my food." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "shh" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x form xy11" | ||||
Floyd | It's a blank sheet of paper with XY11 at the top scribbled in crayon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill out xy11" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Cubicle 78-33183 Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "complete xy11" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Cubicle 78-33183 Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about xy11" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Do we have anything to write with?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about forms" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Form TB06 Floyd | Form UT18 Floyd | Form XY11 Floyd | a Brenda pyramid Floyd | HR Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a scrap Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tb06" | ||||
Floyd | It's a blank sheet of paper with TB06 at the top scribbled in finger Floyd | paint. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ut18" | ||||
Floyd | It's a blank sheet of paper with UT18 at the top scribbled in magic Floyd | marker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "read tb06" | ||||
Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about finger paint" | ||||
Floyd | "You're so lucky to have fingers you can paint with." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "And we don't know what to write." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about magic marker" | ||||
Floyd | "That's boring." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about crayon" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about crayons" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "So we need finger paint, maybe?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Nondescript Corridor Floyd | There is nothing but cubicles as far as you can see to the north and Floyd | southwest. Your cubicle lies to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "In case we get lost." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Though I hope that can't happen." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm too busy eating to concentrate. Must keep eating." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You head north through the maze and find yourself at a wall, which you Floyd | follow. A little farther down the wall, you find an opening, which Floyd | you duck into. Floyd | Floyd | As you take in the filth and splendor that is the break room, you hear Floyd | from behind you, "Oh hi! You must be the new person!" Floyd | Floyd | You spin around to see someone (something?) walking toward you. It's Floyd | hard to tell behind the pile of papers this person is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm Ferd. I've been assigned as your orientation guide!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ferd, hello" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about forms" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about xy11" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Ferd suddenly belches in an uncomfortable-looking way, then taps his Floyd | chest (or so you assume, behind the pile of papers). "Guess my Floyd | ticker's acting up again," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Wrong form of conversation, maybe?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show xy11 to ferd" | ||||
Floyd | Ferd is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about hr" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about orientation" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | "I hope it doesn't explode again," Ferd says. "Destroyed most of the Floyd | planet I was on. They had to clean up for years!" Floyd | "Oh no!" Roz says. "This is a job for George!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "George?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Yet another pyramid?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Also, if he's an orientation guide, maybe he's like a compass." | ||||
| Gerynar has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "I bet so." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask Roz about George" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about ticker" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about job" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | "Under the circumstances, it's unfortunate I have to keep following Floyd | you," says Ferd. "But rules are rules." Floyd | "Shouldn't I contact George?" Roz asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh." | |||
| Johnny says, "We already have a compass in our head." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Johnny), "True." | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "roz, call george" | ||||
Floyd | (If you're trying to give Roz the name a pyramid, just type the name Floyd | at the command prompt.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "george" | ||||
Floyd | The Roz pyramid says "Here goes nothin'!" You have a moment of Floyd | vertigo. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | An enormous metal pyramid suddenly appears in mid-air and falls on Floyd | Ferd, squashing him flat. There is a muffled explosion but it barely Floyd | takes out any walls and, at least in some sense, Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woohoo" | |||
| Johnny says, "Um" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "Hoo ray?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| EmacsUser has no idea how to react to that. | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Why the heck is that a win?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "IRTA 'meat pyramid,' which seemed like a win, but it's just a metal pyramid." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Well, source code is available." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe someone just got the wrong deadflag?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "Hm, true." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I7 doesn't do 'deadflag' per se." | ||||
| EmacsUser just checked the source. That is the intended winning ending. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I know. You know what I mean, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of EU), "Srsly?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ferd is actually deadly, but we never led him around to find out." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "aha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That would change things, true." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Break Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Nondescript Corridor Floyd | There is nothing but cubicles as far as you can see to the north and Floyd | southwest. Your cubicle lies to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | Ferd staggers after you, somehow managing to keep up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We never fed the lizard. We never unlocked the wardrobe. We never filled out the forms." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You wander down the maze of cubicle before getting yourself completely Floyd | turned around. Somehow you manage to wind up back outside your Floyd | cubicle. Floyd | Floyd | "Oops, I guess I--" Ferd starts to say, and then explodes. Weird. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Ha ha" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "The lizard cannot be fed..." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Weird." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Wardrobe cannot be unlocked..." | ||||
| Nitku says, "This is basically a bunch of speed-ifs stitched together so I wouldn't expect too much from it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "and forms cannot be filled out." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It had its moments." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "So we did just fine." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That ending is severely anti-climactic." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Also belatedly, hey, it's H.R." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "After a while, I liked some of the trippiness." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmhmm" | ||||
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