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| DavidW says, "I'm not sure which we should play first. I've played Heliopause, and I strongly suspect I've played the original game that Every Day is based on." | ||||
| DB asks, "Maybe he'll be around for spoilers?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Where ``last week'' refers to the telling, not the playing." | ||||
| DB asks (of DavidW), "Which do you think will be shorter?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to DB), "well, I would guess Every Day would be shorter, if it's the game I'm thinking of." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's play the shorter one first." | ||||
| DB says, "I remember playing the flash game." | ||||
| Lucea says, "I tested Heliopause, so I might have to sit that one out. besides, I might not be here for it anyway" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I am curious if the text version brings anything new to the party, so to speak." | ||||
| DB says, "I wonder how some of the visuals will translate into text, like the long line of cubicles." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I agree. Let's play Every Day first." | ||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| EmacsUser clears the save counter. | Jacqueline says, "Okay, then let's do it." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load everydaythesamedream" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to the rat race. Floyd | Floyd | Every Day the Same Dream Floyd | A text adventure game based on the game by the same name created by Floyd | molleindustria.org. An accurate remake of Floyd | [LINK] Floyd | m.html by Luis Gonzalez The release number is 1 Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 100619 / Inform 7 build 6E59 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | You are standing by your bed. There is a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a drawer (in which is a suit), an alarm clock and a Floyd | nightstand here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a pair of Newcastle United boxer shorts (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "molleindustria.org, huh?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shorts" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the pair of Newcastle United boxer Floyd | shorts. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "Newcastle United?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | Your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x alarm clock" | ||||
Floyd | This alarm clock features nice large numbers that are easy for tired Floyd | or blurry eyes to see. It reads: 9:04 am It has a blinking red Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | The alarm clock is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "That's a new detail." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off clock" | ||||
Floyd | The blinking red light stops. Floyd | Floyd | You switch the alarm clock off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's a football team in England." | |||
| DB says, "I realise that, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nightstand" | ||||
Floyd | There is only one of them here. You prefer having one night stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | You are standing by your bed. There is a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a drawer (in which is a suit), an alarm clock and a Floyd | nightstand here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay." | |||
| DB says, "I just don't think that was in the orig." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take suit" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||||
Floyd | A tailor made garment set consisting of a jacket, trousers, shirt, tie Floyd | and shiny black shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||||
Floyd | You change into business clothes. Its a tight fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the room used for cooking and food preparation. Something Floyd | smells good coming from the stove. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a television, your wife and a stove here. Floyd | Floyd | Your wife greets you: "Morning dear." Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x wife" | ||||
Floyd | The young woman engrossed in making breakfast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss wife" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x television" | ||||
Floyd | The television is a Toshiba 15LV505 15.6-Inch LCD TV. The channel is Floyd | stuck on Animal planet. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "good to know the TV is a higher priority in the pc's mind than his wife" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stove" | ||||
Floyd | Its an electric stove. You have no clue how to use it. It is being Floyd | used at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| DB says, "hah" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn off tv" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "greet wife" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to wife" | ||||
Floyd | She says: "C'mon honey you're late." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x food" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open stove" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x breakfast" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the room used for cooking and food preparation. Something Floyd | smells good coming from the stove. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a television, your wife and a stove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I guess we don't get fed. Go onward?" | |||
| DB says, "I imagine it's all pretty sparsely implemented." | ||||
| Lucea says, "sure" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Which way is onward?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "East, I bet." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Okay." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The corridor is lined with lights against the wall. The elevator door Floyd | is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a button here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||||
Floyd | The round button will summon the elevator for you. There is only one Floyd | button going down. Floyd | Floyd | The button is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | The button lights up. You hear a strange mechanical noise getting Floyd | closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | The button lights up. You hear a strange mechanical noise getting Floyd | closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "oh, is there a driver?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Lucea), "no. I'm just overeager. Sorry." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says (to DavidW), "I don't mind if you'd like to drive." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "More waiting, do you think?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nor I" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dooro" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The elevator door is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Enter." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The corridor is lined with lights against the wall. The elevator door Floyd | is open. It looks like you can enter the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a button here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Uh..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter elevator" | ||||
Floyd | Elevator Floyd | You are in a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people Floyd | or goods between floors of a building. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Elevator lady here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Right-o." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lady" | ||||
Floyd | There is a woman in the elevator across from you. She knows all. She Floyd | is also too old for you to consider.... or is she? Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "It was modeled as a container, not a room." | |||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "goose lady" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kiss woman" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask woman about herself" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "talk to lady" | ||||
Floyd | She says: "5 more steps and you will be a new person." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Elevator Floyd | You are in a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people Floyd | or goods between floors of a building. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Elevator lady here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask lady about me" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I can't tell if the elevator is moving or not." | |||
| Lucea asks, "this wasn't done in inform, was it?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I thought "woman" was an automatic synonym" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Lucea), "yes, it was in Inform." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kiss lady" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exit elevator" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ok, so I guess that bit about considering was just one-off" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Entrance Floyd | You are standing outside your apartment complex. You can go either Floyd | east or west. Floyd | Floyd | You find yourself outside the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "east" | ||||
Floyd | Freeway (in the car) Floyd | You are on a highway. There is considerable traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "exit car" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "INSTANT CAR" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the car. Floyd | Floyd | Freeway Floyd | You are on a highway. There is considerable traffic. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a car (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||||
Floyd | A pinto with great gas mileage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "kick car" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm" | |||
| DavidW says, "We're gonna be so late for work." | ||||
| GDorn says, "oh, I see what this is" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks (of GDorn), "?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I hate to say this, but I think I'm seeing why it didn't do well compared to z's game." | ||||
| DB says (to DavidW), "I think in this game you're always 'late' for work." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "The original game was very interesting in toto." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Meadow Floyd | A secret spot with grass. You can see the freeway in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cow here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cow" | ||||
Floyd | A female of domestic cattle. She has black and white spots. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cow" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "pet cow" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the cow would care for that. | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "tip cow" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You slowly put your hand on the cow's head. You are one with nature. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "whoa" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "milk cow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY" | |||
| Lucea says, "I was just screwing around" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's pretty awesome." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat cow" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the cow) Floyd | I don't suppose the cow would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "oh" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "ride cow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "the score wasn't for the cow tipping" | |||
| Lucea says, "aw." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Except that wasn't you tipping it, that was Gdorn petting it." | ||||
| DB asks, "Time to get back in the car?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think it was 'pet cow' that worked." | ||||
| DavidW says (to DB), "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 1 out of a possible 5, in 48 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Freeway Floyd | You are on a highway. There is considerable traffic. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a car (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | parking lot Floyd | A parking lot. There is alot of parking spaces. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a car (empty) and a tree (in which is a leaf) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get leaf" | ||||
Floyd | You take the leaf and examine it closely. It once was green and full Floyd | of life but struggles to maintain the routine of being a leaf. Floyd | Press any key to continue... | ||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | You are standing by your bed. There is a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a drawer (in which is a suit), an alarm clock and a Floyd | nightstand here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "what?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "It's a dream." | ||||
| DB says, "Hm..." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "The same one over and over." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off clock" | ||||
Floyd | The blinking red light stops. Floyd | Floyd | You switch the alarm clock off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take suit" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||||
Floyd | You change into business clothes. Its a tight fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "(I think.)" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get help for existential angst" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the room used for cooking and food preparation. Something Floyd | smells good coming from the stove. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a television, your wife and a stove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss stove" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "Hold on, what if we walk out into the kitchen without the suit on?" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "pet stove" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, if I weren't so pleased with my current connect and olounge I would totally be working in 'You slowly put your hand on the cow's head. You are one with nature.'" | |||
| DavidW says (to DB), "I was saving that for a later iteration." | ||||
| DB says, "Okedoke." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I was hoping we could, at least once, play through the *normal* variant." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "kiss wife" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DB says, "hah... give it a shot." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x wife" | ||||
Floyd | The young woman engrossed in making breakfast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat breakfast" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask wife about breakfast" | ||||
Floyd | She smirks cryptically. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hey, Gerynar." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The corridor is lined with lights against the wall. The elevator door Floyd | is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a button here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "ask wife what she put in the breakfast" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of GDorn), "sorry. Should we return?" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | The button lights up. You hear a strange mechanical noise getting Floyd | closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "nah, I'm just making jokes" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter elevator" | ||||
Floyd | Elevator Floyd | You are in a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people Floyd | or goods between floors of a building. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Elevator lady here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | You are standing outside your apartment complex. You can go either Floyd | east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Freeway (in the car) Floyd | You are on a highway. There is considerable traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | parking lot Floyd | A parking lot. There is alot of parking spaces. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a car (empty) and a tree (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | front office Floyd | Welcome to your work environment. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a chart and Boss here. Floyd | Floyd | The boss looks at you. He says: "You are late." Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Yay Clubfloyd." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "The game state is preserved: no leaf." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "hit boss" | ||||
Floyd | There is a red line indicating the financial health of your company. Floyd | It is showing normal levels. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boss" | ||||
Floyd | The man. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take boss" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose Boss would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kill boss" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fight boss monster" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to fight Boss. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "I think that should actually read 'The Man'." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | first office hallway Floyd | A hallway with five office drones sitting inside their cubicles Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "talk to boss" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drones" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter cubicle" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | second office hallway Floyd | A longer hallway. You see even more office drones sitting inside their Floyd | cubicles Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | third office hallway Floyd | An even longer hallway with even more office drones sitting inside Floyd | their cubicles. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cubicle (in which is a chair) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter cubicle" | ||||
Floyd | You step inside your cubicle and slowly wither your life away with Floyd | every keystroke. Floyd | Press any key to continue... | ||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | You are standing by your bed. There is a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a drawer (in which is a suit), an alarm clock and a Floyd | nightstand here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "No points for that run?" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "east" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the room used for cooking and food preparation. Something Floyd | smells good coming from the stove. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a television, your wife and a stove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The no-pants run now?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Looks like it." | ||||
| DB says (to DavidW), "Sounds good." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x television" | ||||
Floyd | The television is a Toshiba 15LV505 15.6-Inch LCD TV. The channel is Floyd | stuck on Animal planet. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick tv" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "turn off television" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the television off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn off television" | ||||
Floyd | That's already off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x wife" | ||||
Floyd | The young woman engrossed in making breakfast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch myself" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove all" | ||||
Floyd | (the pair of Newcastle United boxer shorts) Floyd | You take off the pair of Newcastle United boxer shorts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB exclaims, "Whoa... there's something you can't do in the Flash version!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give shorts to wife" | ||||
Floyd | Your wife doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop shorts" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to DB), "For good reason, no doubt." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "talk to wife" | ||||
Floyd | She ignores you and continues to cook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Women." | |||
| DavidW says, "The text author probably didn't think of it." | ||||
| GDorn says, "jearl says we should have tried to blow on the cow" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Always cooking and ignoring pantslessness." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to pg), "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Anyway, shall we continue sans pants AND shorts?" | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Remind me what you're (re)playing?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Every Day the Same Dream" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Might as well." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The corridor is lined with lights against the wall. The elevator door Floyd | is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a button here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Might as well give the naked run a try." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | The button lights up. You hear a strange mechanical noise getting Floyd | closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter elevator" | ||||
Floyd | Elevator Floyd | You are in a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people Floyd | or goods between floors of a building. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Elevator lady here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "dance for lady" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hug lady" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "make it rain" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Hm." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | You are standing outside your apartment complex. You can go either Floyd | east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Freeway (in the car) Floyd | You are on a highway. There is considerable traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "What is west?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | parking lot Floyd | A parking lot. There is alot of parking spaces. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a car (empty) and a tree (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "You can't make it rain without a blond wig, right?" | |||
| DavidW says (to EmacsUser), "Back inside." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to DB), "That's last week's game." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "curl into fetal position with angst" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A wishbringer stone and an umbrella will also work." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | front office Floyd | Welcome to your work environment. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a chart and Boss here. Floyd | Floyd | The boss looks at you. He says: "What? Where is your tie? You're Floyd | fired." Floyd | Press any key to continue... | DB says, "Kooky rain spells." | |||
| GDorn says, "haha" | ||||
| GDorn says, "nevermind the lack of pants, it's the tie the boss cares about" | ||||
| DB says, "haha" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Kudos to the pun on ``lot'' in ``a lot of parking spaces.''" | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | You are standing by your bed. There is a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a drawer (in which is a suit), an alarm clock and a Floyd | nightstand here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the suit) Floyd | You change into business clothes. Its a tight fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the room used for cooking and food preparation. Something Floyd | smells good coming from the stove. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pair of Newcastle United boxer shorts, a television, Floyd | your wife and a stove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "oops" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get shorts" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "We're going commando, apparently." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take shorts" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "wear shorts on head" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to wear the pair of Newcastle Floyd | United boxer shorts. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DB asks, "Can we wear them over the suit?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thinking outside the box." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put shorts on stove" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the stove would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on stove" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put shorts on wife" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on your wife would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open stove" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wife, follow me" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat my shorts" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "onward?" | |||
| DB says, "S'pose so." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The corridor is lined with lights against the wall. The elevator door Floyd | is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a button here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | The button lights up. You hear a strange mechanical noise getting Floyd | closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter elevator" | ||||
Floyd | Elevator Floyd | You are in a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people Floyd | or goods between floors of a building. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Elevator lady here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | You are standing outside your apartment complex. You can go either Floyd | east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Freeway (in the car) Floyd | You are on a highway. There is considerable traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | parking lot Floyd | A parking lot. There is alot of parking spaces. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a car (empty) and a tree (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | front office Floyd | Welcome to your work environment. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a chart and Boss here. Floyd | Floyd | The boss looks at you. He says: "You are late." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||||
Floyd | There is a red line indicating the financial health of your company. Floyd | It is showing normal levels. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | first office hallway Floyd | A hallway with five office drones sitting inside their cubicles Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | second office hallway Floyd | A longer hallway. You see even more office drones sitting inside their Floyd | cubicles Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | third office hallway Floyd | An even longer hallway with even more office drones sitting inside Floyd | their cubicles. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cubicle (in which is a chair) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | last room Floyd | You find yourself outside your work building. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cliff here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cliff" | ||||
Floyd | There is a cliff to the east. It looks like a long way down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You rest your suit case on the floor and climb the fence toward the Floyd | cliff. After taking a deep breath, you jump off. Floyd | Press any key to continue... | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | You are standing by your bed. There is a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a drawer (in which is a suit), an alarm clock and a Floyd | nightstand here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 4 out of a possible 5, in 120 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure what else to try." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take clock" | DB asks, "One more, 'ey?" | |||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "I think I know." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Or maybe the last is a freebie?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DB), "go for it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to DB), "feel free to drive." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "get suit" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||||
Floyd | You change into business clothes. Its a tight fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DB), "I have perhaps lived too long adjacent to the Canadian border, but I've been wondering where your particular spelling of eh (ey) comes from." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the room used for cooking and food preparation. Something Floyd | smells good coming from the stove. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a television, your wife and a stove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I know this is very off-topic." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The corridor is lined with lights against the wall. The elevator door Floyd | is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a button here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Then again, you're driving now, so." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | The button lights up. You hear a strange mechanical noise getting Floyd | closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Indeed, comment later." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "enter eleveator" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "enter elevator" | ||||
Floyd | Elevator Floyd | You are in a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people Floyd | or goods between floors of a building. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Elevator lady here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "talk to elevator lady" | ||||
Floyd | She says: "1 more steps and you will be a new person." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | You are standing outside your apartment complex. You can go either Floyd | east or west. | DavidW says, "ooh" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | You are on the corner of your block. East goes back to your Floyd | apartment. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a homeless man here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aha" | |||
| DB says, "Here we go." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I was wrong about 'west' there." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x homeless" | ||||
Floyd | The homeless man sits peacefully on the sidewalk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "talk to homeless man" | ||||
Floyd | He says: "I can take you to a peaceful place". The homeless man Floyd | escorts you to an old cemetary nearby reminding you of your short Floyd | existance. Floyd | Press any key to continue... | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | You are standing by your bed. There is a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a drawer (in which is a suit), an alarm clock and a Floyd | nightstand here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "How beautiful." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Though your idea makes sense if you think of a side-scrolling flash game." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Um... did he kill us?" | ||||
| DB asks, "So, how 'bout some death?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Jacqueline), "I don't think so." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Last dream now, I think." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clock" | ||||
Floyd | This alarm clock features nice large numbers that are easy for tired Floyd | or blurry eyes to see. It reads: 11:12 am It has a blinking red Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | The alarm clock is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to Jacqueline), "I think it was like the leaf." | |||
| DB says, "Yeah, I think that's how the author got his east/west directions." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "(darn)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I don't think the author reset the clock time." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x clock" | ||||
Floyd | This alarm clock features nice large numbers that are easy for tired Floyd | or blurry eyes to see. It reads: 11:13 am It has a blinking red Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | The alarm clock is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "I don't think I'll try, but I wonder what would happen if we just sat around watching the clock?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Or we are constantly waking up later." | ||||
| DB asks, "Would a whole day pass?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Probably it is the Inform built-in clock, so yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It wouldn't affect the world, though." | ||||
| DB says, "So, like, you could be REALLY late for work." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take suit" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||||
Floyd | You change into business clothes. Its a tight fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the room used for cooking and food preparation. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a television and a stove here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims (at DB), "Or on time!" | |||
| DavidW says, "No wife." | ||||
| DB exclaims, "hahaha!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We're on the last dream, definitely." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tv" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says (to DavidW), "Definitely." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x television" | ||||
Floyd | The television is a Toshiba 15LV505 15.6-Inch LCD TV. The channel is Floyd | stuck on Animal planet. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The corridor is lined with lights against the wall. The elevator door Floyd | is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a button here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | The button lights up. You hear a strange mechanical noise getting Floyd | closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter elevator" | ||||
Floyd | Elevator Floyd | You are in a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people Floyd | or goods between floors of a building. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No lady." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | You are standing outside your apartment complex. You can go either Floyd | east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crosswalk Floyd | You are on the corner of your block. East goes back to your Floyd | apartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No homeless dude." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | You are standing outside your apartment complex. You can go either Floyd | east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Freeway (in the car) Floyd | You are on a highway. There are no cars on the road. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | parking lot Floyd | A parking lot. There is alot of parking spaces. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a car (empty) and a tree (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front office Floyd | Welcome to your work environment. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a chart here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ominous music crescendos..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||||
Floyd | There is a red line indicating the financial health of your company. Floyd | It is showing normal levels. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | first office hallway Floyd | A hallway with five empty cubicles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | second office hallway Floyd | A longer hallway. Nobody appears to be at their desks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | third office hallway Floyd | An even longer hallway with even more office drones sitting inside Floyd | their cubicles. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cubicle (in which is a chair) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "The financial health of the company is always normal?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "East or sit?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "So far." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Let's try sitting." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drones" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to sit on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "chair" | ||||
Floyd | (getting into the cubicle) Floyd | Floyd | You step inside your cubicle and slowly wither your life away with Floyd | every keystroke. Floyd | Press any key to continue... | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | You are standing by your bed. There is a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a drawer (in which is a suit), an alarm clock and a Floyd | nightstand here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm, oh." | |||
| DB asks, "Not the last dream?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | third office hallway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You must name something more substantial. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Hm, east then." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You walk to the cliff and see someone jumping off. You have Floyd | won. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 5 out of a possible 5, in 153 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Sitting was the wrong action to take." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Yay." | ||||
| DB says, "Huh. I kinda thought it might try to explain why seeing someone jump off was a win." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hooray" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "35 minutes. Not bad." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There were some fun moments, too." | ||||
| DB says, "Indeed." | ||||
| DavidW says (to DB), "I don't think the original explained anything either. The player is meant to draw his/her own conclusions, I think." | ||||
| Nitku has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline asks, "Any discussion, or do we need a five minute break, or should we just jump right into Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home?" | |||
| DB says, "Right, but it started explaining some of the other stuff, like petting the cow and feeling at one with nature." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing. Sounds like we're discussing." | ||||
| DB says, "Well, we could jump into the next if you'd like." | ||||
| Cathy arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DB says, "I'll just go grab a drink of water." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps the drones were following our example?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "mmkay. Let's start at twenty 'til?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Jacqueline), "Okay." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "i.e. 3-4 min" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "I hadn't thought of that interpretation." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Everyone, even, our wife included." | ||||
| DB asks, "But then how come none of them went to work pantsless or started petting cows?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Well, if we go with this hypothesis, perhaps they did. But after jumping they still wouldn't be doing that." | ||||
| DB says, "I always assumed it was more like people were commiting suicide as protest." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "What I first thought was that we were seeing ourself." | ||||
| DavidW says, "A scene where 50 people are all trying to pet the same cow would be funny." | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Hehe!" | ||||
| DB exclaims, "haha!" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Poor cow." | ||||
| DB says, "I'd like to see the look of confusion on the cow's face." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Cow jumps off cliff. *** The cow has won ***" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, shall we start the next game?" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yeah" | ||||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load heliopause" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Myrmidal is the queen of the bright worlds, and you've walked her Floyd | million cities beneath her sky and beyond it. Myrmidal laughs and Floyd | Myrmidal dances; they say no one weeps on Myrmidal, except for moments Floyd | on the stage. Floyd | Floyd | But even on Myrmidal the sun rises and sets, and the music grows tinny Floyd | and harsh when you weary of dancing. Your best stories and your best Floyd | lies draw the same fond laughter. This morning you decide to rise to Floyd | the docks, and rouse your Horizon of Night from her sleep, and raise Floyd | her sails. Somewhere are worlds you have never seen. And if your Floyd | friends miss you at the dance, they can tell you so when you return. Floyd | Floyd | Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home Floyd | Interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin Floyd | Release 5 / Serial number 100617 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Myrmidal -- the Docks Floyd | The Horizon of Night is a sweet tiny sailer; you have missed her more Floyd | than you remembered. Now she comes alive for you. The keel hums with Floyd | power; the monomolecular sails are reefed and ready. The compass spins Floyd | to the touch of the Galaxy's magnetic currents. You have only to weigh Floyd | anchor, and leave Myrmidal behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | K-Y asks, "belatedly, was this just a straight recreation of the Flash game?" | |||
| DavidW says (to K-Y), "It seems so, yes." | ||||
| K-Y says, "odd" | ||||
| DB says, "Except that you could run around naked." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are an improved model. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "!" | |||
| DavidW says, "Except that the shorts had a sports team, and the tv had a named program in this version. Also, you can talk to the elevator lady." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Are we not human?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We are not." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Emacs), "It would seem not." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x horizon" | ||||
Floyd | The Horizon of Night is just the right size for a ship -- big enough Floyd | to be comfortable, not so large as to be lonely. She gleams in the Floyd | light of Myrmidal's sun; but her sails are furled. Floyd | Floyd | > | K-Y says, "I figure it probably doesn't call for a literal interpretation of events" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You own nothing of value, besides the Horizon of Night. Floyd | Floyd | > | K-Y says, "but oh, next game is on" | |||
| Lucea says, "indeed it is" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Enter?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sails" | ||||
Floyd | The Horizon's sails are kilometers of shimmering monomolecule -- Floyd | charged silver lace ready to spread in the night. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "sure" | |||
| DavidW says, "I've played, so I'll try to keep silent until everyone's stuck." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Kilometers! Not what I think of as a small ship." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter ship" | ||||
Floyd | You go aboard Horizon. Her airlock closes with a familiar hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "At first I thought the sails were the size of a molecule, but I stand corrected." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x compass" | ||||
Floyd | The compass rests in its bath of liquid helium. Subtle magnetic fields Floyd | stir between the stars, a sailor knows, and the compass shifts on Floyd | their breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x keel" | ||||
Floyd | The keel runs the Horizon's length, its rhodomagnetic core and axis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x anchor" | ||||
Floyd | Your anchor is a disk of whirling strange matter. It's dug deeply into Floyd | the bent space-time of Myrmidal's planetary orbit, holding the Floyd | Horizon's keel in its frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DB asks, "Raise anchor?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Myrmidal -- the Docks Floyd | The Horizon of Night is a sweet tiny sailer. The keel hums with power; Floyd | the monomolecular sails are reefed and ready. The compass spins to the Floyd | touch of the Galaxy's magnetic currents. You have only to weigh Floyd | anchor, and leave Myrmidal behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "weight anchor" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "weigh anchor" | ||||
Floyd | The anchor precesses. Floyd | Floyd | Horizon shakes, waking the speed which has slept these past years. Floyd | Myrmidal's magnetic halo bucks her keel high; high and out through the Floyd | rings of city and industry and careless Myrmidal society. When the Floyd | anchor falls into place along the keel, Horizon rings bell-clear, and Floyd | the sky is black. Floyd | Floyd | Myrmidal -- Far Orbit Floyd | You are circling the outer fringe of Myrmidal's system, where your Floyd | keel's rhodomagnetics balance the solar winds. You pass snow-miners Floyd | and farfactories, humming cheerfully in their work. Floyd | Floyd | Already the quiet is a relief. But this is still civilization, and Floyd | this star has nothing for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is really, really lovely." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It probably helps that I'm presently listening to Deuter." | ||||
| DavidW says, "The imagery? Yes, indeed." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yes" | ||||
| DB says, "Hm..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x workers" | ||||
Floyd | You have no interest in Myrmidal's extended industrial belt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x ship" | ||||
Floyd | The Horizon of Night gleams in the light of Myrmidal's sun; but her Floyd | sails are furled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "unfurl sails" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open sails" | ||||
Floyd | The sails begin to unfurl. They catch sunlight. The Horizon of Night Floyd | shifts gladly around her keel, and slides into interstellar space. Floyd | Floyd | The Hinder Arm Floyd | The bright worlds fade behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere out there, you sense, are treasures worthy of your Floyd | attention. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You spread the sails wider. The ship accelerates. Floyd | Floyd | The Spindrift Stars Floyd | Stars thin around you as you leave the bright worlds behind. Nebulae Floyd | drift past. Floyd | Floyd | You won't get far into the unknown at this rate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "unfurl sails" | ||||
Floyd | You stretch the sails to their fullest spread. The Horizon of Night Floyd | leans forward eagerly, and springs out into the void. Floyd | Floyd | The Dark Reaches Floyd | The bright worlds are far behind Horizon now. Darkness clots thickly Floyd | between the stars, out here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Timing." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Does it matter that we did that and sped way up?" | ||||
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "Do you want me to answer that or no?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Since, really, we just all typed the same command near simultaneously?" | ||||
| DB says, "I think we were supposed to speed up." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yes, ``You won't get far into the unknown at this rate.''" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Though I may be wrong." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, so it does say." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No, you're right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's sail." | ||||
| DB says, "Right." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x stars" | ||||
Floyd | The stars are infinite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x darkness" | ||||
Floyd | The stars are infinite. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "btw, The status line says: (sails fully raised)" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Shall we lower them now?" | ||||
| DB says (to DavidW), "I suppose that is useful information." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm just saying that the status line is used to tell you the status of the sails." | ||||
| Lucea says, "it's not required, just a good reminder" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Are you running this on your own machine and mirroring our commands?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes" | ||||
| DavidW says, "If someone wants 'status', I'll tell you what the status line says." | ||||
| DB says, "Sounds good." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Horizon speeds silently through the Reaches. Floyd | Floyd | The Dark Reaches Floyd | You speed through the void. Darkness clots thickly between the stars. Floyd | Floyd | A petite golden star catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Nice." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm actually surprised there's no built in command for it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "status" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x golden star" | ||||
Floyd | It's common enough for a star of its spectral class. However, you hear Floyd | a faint jangling from its direction, in the long-wave band. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "listen to star" | ||||
Floyd | You are detecting a faint, musical jangling from the petite golden Floyd | star's vicinity. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Long wave band is probably radio. Maybe that's earth?" | |||
| DB asks, "Any idea how we head toward this musical jangling?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "lower sails" | ||||
Floyd | You begin bringing in the sails. But Horizon's velocity is too great; Floyd | you whip past the star in a shallow hyperbola, and are flung away into Floyd | the void. The petite golden star disappears behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The Dark Reaches Floyd | Wide sunless spaces stretch between distant stars, out here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Jacqueline was right; our speed does matter." | |||
| DB says, "Hm..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "status: (sails partly raised)" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Too late?" | ||||
| DB says, "Is there any way to check our heading? Perhaps we can turn our ship around and let the solar winds blow us aback." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x compass" | ||||
Floyd | The compass rests in its bath of liquid helium. Subtle magnetic fields Floyd | stir between the stars, a sailor knows, and the compass shifts on Floyd | their breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Horizon moves silently through the Reaches. Floyd | Floyd | The Dark Reaches Floyd | Wide sunless spaces stretch between distant stars, out here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This game is Merciful, btw. You can't really make any mistakes, as far as I know." | |||
| DB asks, "Should we try bringing the sails all the way up?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DB), "Go ahead and drive." | ||||
| DB says, "Alrighty, let" | ||||
| DB says, "Let's try some things." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "furl sails" | ||||
Floyd | You trim the sails to a narrow edge. The ship slows to a sedate pace. Floyd | Floyd | The Dark Reaches Floyd | The bright worlds are far behind you now. Darkness clots thickly Floyd | between the stars. Floyd | Floyd | A blue star catches your interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x blue star" | ||||
Floyd | It's common enough for a star of its spectral class. However, you hear Floyd | a faint jangling from its direction, in the long-wave band. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "listen to star" | ||||
Floyd | You are detecting a faint, musical jangling from the blue star's Floyd | vicinity. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "go to star" | |||
| DB says, "Oops." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "go to star" | ||||
Floyd | You furl your sails, and descend into the blue star's outer system. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere -- Far Orbit Floyd | This blue star is circled by the usual assortment of barren rocks. Floyd | However, a faint, long-wave jangling radiates from one fat gas giant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "go to gas giant" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the anchor. Horizon curves gracefully in to meet the gas Floyd | giant in its orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Gas Giant -- Atmosphere Floyd | Horizon hangs within the cloud layers of the nameless gas giant. Mauve Floyd | and violet bands of cloud slide past you. Floyd | Floyd | Something iridescent drifts out from behind a cloud. You think of a Floyd | bubble, and then a jellyfish. By the time the scale registers, others Floyd | have followed: vast floating shapes, gaseous and shimmering, each a Floyd | kilometer long. Floyd | Floyd | Incomprehensible long-wave harmony rings through the clouds. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Not only is Andrew a brilliant programmer, this reminds me again what a great writer he is. Rare breed, to have someone so accomplished at both." | |||
| DB says, "Hm, this is a bit weird." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "greet jellyfish" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd be very surprised if this doesn't get a nomination for Best Writing." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x jellyfish" | ||||
Floyd | A flock of vast, gaseous jellyfish-beings move across the face of the Floyd | world. Floyd | Floyd | You notice sheets of iridescent tissue peeling from some of them and Floyd | drifting away through the clouds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x tissue" | ||||
Floyd | You do not know why the floating beings shed this substance, but it Floyd | drifts away from the flock in long, iridescent streamers. Each one Floyd | twists slowly through the clouds, until it is lost from sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Definitely." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "get tissue" | ||||
Floyd | You glide cautiously below the flock, and gather a sample of the shed Floyd | tissue. Up close, it is more like cloth than a grown membrane, Floyd | although it lacks the regularity of artificial fabric. In any case, Floyd | the fibers are incredibly fine -- almost transparent. Floyd | Floyd | You have seen nothing like it before. And you are certain that, within Floyd | d'Accord, you are the first. You stow your prize in the hold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have the iridescent cloth, safely stowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x cloth" | ||||
Floyd | You have lengths of the iridescent tissue neatly packed in the hold. Floyd | It is nearly weightless, but it catches the light in a way that even Floyd | monomolecular cloth cannot match. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take jellyfish" | ||||
Floyd | You do not wish to approach the floaters too closely. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "Is anyone reminded of The Odyssey a little?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I hadn't thought ot that." | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, of that" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DB), "A little. Or the argonauts." | ||||
| DB says (to EmacsUser), "If it's the Argonauts, I hope we get to battle an army of skeletons." | ||||
| DB says, "Though that doesn't seem too likely." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Shall we find another planet? Or look around some more?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hmm, an IF version of the Argonauts would be wonderful." | ||||
| DB asks, "Well, shall we weigh anchor or does anyone else wanna hang around the blue planet?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Work time." | ||||
| ParserGirl goes home. | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "weigh anchor" | ||||
Floyd | Somewhere -- Far Orbit Floyd | This blue star is circled by the usual assortment of barren rocks. The Floyd | alien signal fades as you circle outward from the gas giant. Floyd | Floyd | This iridescent substance is an enthralling start to your journey. Floyd | Even d'Accord technology cannot create all things, and a new form of Floyd | matter may benefit lives across the bright worlds. If the stars before Floyd | you are as rich in wonders as this, you will be a nine-days' wonder Floyd | when you return home. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "I wonder if we can head back to the golden star?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Sorry. I didn't mean to press enter quite yet." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "That's the trouble with an enter key next to the left arrow." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "eat cloth" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I suspect that if we sail long enough we will see the yellow star." | |||
| Lucea is gonna get back baby bad balls to you, love, cretin. | ||||
| Lucea has disconnected. | DB asks, "Okay, let's try that. Our sails are still furled?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Yep." | ||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "unfurl sails" | ||||
Floyd | You hoist the sails once again. Horizon swings outward from the blue Floyd | star, into the spaces beyond. Floyd | Floyd | Nebula Periphery Floyd | Tendrils of dust encroach on these straits, hazing the stars. A Floyd | stellar nebula looms ahead -- a fantastic web of blue, green, and Floyd | violet vapor, stirred by internal currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x nebulae" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "it seems like the game i left last week" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Also, Andrew did a good job in the design: if we hadn't been encouraged to get to full speed, we wouldn't have flown past the first planet, and I at least would not have realized that there are many to visit." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "opps nebula" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x nebula" | ||||
Floyd | A nebula is splashed colorfully across space, directly ahead. It looks Floyd | promising. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hi, smartgenes." | |||
| DB asks, "So... how 'bout this nebula?" | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "hi i need to restart pc.. did i miss a few hours?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Just one hour." | ||||
| DB says (to smartgenes), "We haven't been playing too long." | ||||
| DB says (to smartgenes), "Though you missed the first game." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "off i go into a nebula" | ||||
| smartgenes goes home. | EmacsUser says, "Huh. I wonder why he didn't hang around." | |||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||||
| DavidW says, "Dunno." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh, ``need to restart,'' not ``needed to restart.''" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, he needs to reboot, I think." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Nebula Periphery Floyd | Tendrils of dust encroach on these straits, hazing the stars. A Floyd | stellar nebula looms ahead -- a fantastic web of blue, green, and Floyd | violet vapor, stirred by internal currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "go to nebula" | ||||
Floyd | You adjust the sails, and drift into the nebula. Floyd | Floyd | Interior of Nebula Floyd | Clouds of dust roil around you, confusing your sight. Slow, heavy Floyd | stellar winds perturb the nebula; Horizon heaves uneasily as she Floyd | wallows through the currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x dust" | ||||
Floyd | The nebula is all around you. Surely there is something to discover in Floyd | its depths. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I wonder if directions are defined here." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Such directions have no meaning for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Nope." | |||
| DavidW says, "status: (sails slightly raised)" | ||||
| DB asks, "Huh. Even though we have the compass?" | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Interior of Nebula Floyd | Clouds of dust roil around you, confusing your sight. Slow, heavy Floyd | stellar winds perturb the nebula; Horizon heaves uneasily as she Floyd | wallows through the currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Well, we are in the middle of space." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "lower sails" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to strike your sails completely, not out here in the Floyd | void. That would leave Horizon an aimless comet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drop anchor" | ||||
Floyd | Out here? There's nowhere in sight to anchor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take dust" | ||||
Floyd | The nebula is too vast and intangible to affect. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "Maybe we should raise the sails?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Go ahead." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "raise sails" | ||||
Floyd | You spread the sails, but Horizon only shakes more violently. Floyd | Floyd | Interior of Nebula Floyd | You are lost in clouds of dust. The stellar winds are thick and turgid Floyd | here. Horizon heaves uneasily as she moves across the currents. Floyd | Floyd | Your sails are too taut for this dense environment, you realize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x sails" | ||||
Floyd | The sails are spread. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm, no good." | |||
| DavidW says, "read carefully" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "loosen sails" | ||||
Floyd | You loosen the sails to catch the thick dust-currents. Horizon pitches Floyd | once; but then the sails billow and fill, and she comes to hand. You Floyd | steer her inwards, shifting deftly with the nebula's roiling, until Floyd | the clouds part before you. Floyd | Floyd | Pulsar's Nest Floyd | Horizon circles the rim of a vast, empty bubble -- a void swept clear Floyd | by the bright-beating pulsar at its heart. Hot radiation sleets around Floyd | you, most intensely in the pulsar's whirling beams. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB exclaims, "Nice!" | |||
| DavidW says, "status: (sails loose, partly raised)" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I didn't realize that we had that verb." | ||||
| DavidW says, "This game actually knows quite a lot of words." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "This was a comp, right?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "*in a comp" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It was written for a @party demoparty comp." | ||||
| GDorn asks, "what does that mean?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "um, I'm not entirely clear on that. It's a European concept that only recently migrated to North America." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at GDorn), "You're a nut! You're crazy as a coconut!" | ||||
| EmacsUser is mighty confused. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry. Song reference." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'll look up 'demoparty' on Wikipedia later." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh okay." | ||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | EmacsUser says, "I thought Flourish said something about a demoparty not long ago; she might know also." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x pulsar" | ||||
Floyd | A pulsar is the core of a dead star -- its bulk long since blasted Floyd | away, dispersed to the dust that surrounds this place. The tiny dense Floyd | remnant has not yet cooled, after these aeons. It blazes hot and Floyd | clear, and casts two polar beams in wild spirals as it whirls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "brb" | |||
| Jacqueline | demoparties are creative gatherings of a subculture called demoscene. for some people there are similarities to lan-parties, art festivals or even woodstock. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "As per demoparty.net" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x beams" | ||||
Floyd | The radiation in this space is a pure hot high-energy blaze -- very Floyd | different from the dust-thick currents out in the nebula. The pulsar's Floyd | beams whirl around the bubble in a spiralling sweep. (48.327 rotations Floyd | per second, whispers the compass.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen to the compass" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x bubble" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "go to pulsar" | ||||
Floyd | A close approach to such an energetic dead star would kill you, Floyd | despite Horizon's protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter beam" | ||||
Floyd | That's what sails are for. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "raise sails" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the sails, fighting to angle their lax fabric against the Floyd | pulsar-light. Horizon accelerates skittishly until it hurtles around Floyd | the edge of the bubble. But speed will do you no favors once you are Floyd | embroiled in the dust. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "status: (sails loose, fully raised)" | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "tighten sails" | ||||
Floyd | You tighten sail somewhat. It helps; the sails begin to thrum in the Floyd | clear, hot energy-flow. But it is not enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "What's our sail status?" | |||
| DavidW says, "status: (sails fully raised)" | ||||
| DB says, "Hm... still not enough, it says." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Tighten = out, not in, makes sense." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "That other cloth can't help us, can it?" | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have the iridescent cloth, safely stowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "put cloth on sails" | ||||
Floyd | The iridescent cloth is invaluable, and you have perfectly good sails Floyd | already. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The descript- oh." | |||
| DB asks, "I guess not?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, nevermind." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "``Catches light...?''" | ||||
| Gerynar asks, "can it replace the monomolecular sails?" | ||||
| DB says, "Looks like it's too valuable." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "raise cloth" | ||||
Floyd | The iridescent cloth is invaluable, and you have perfectly good sails Floyd | already. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The cloth description compaired it to monomolecular cloth and said it surpassed it in its ability to catch light, so yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But evidently not." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x anchor" | ||||
Floyd | Your anchor is a disk of whirling strange matter. It's secured by the Floyd | keel, edge-on so that it slips without drag through space-time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "tighten sails" | ||||
Floyd | You tighten the sails, taut as you can pull them, and steer into the Floyd | pulsar's beam. The sails sing in the pure clear high-energy stream; Floyd | the Horizon of Night thrums, blazes, and flings herself out through Floyd | the veils of dust. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor in Nebula Floyd | You are streaking along a narrow passage, an open lane through the Floyd | nebula's streams of dust. Far behind you, the pulsar illuminates your Floyd | sails every .02 seconds or so. Floyd | Floyd | A small blue-white star stands out in this empty zone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Ah! Go figure." | |||
| DavidW says, "status: (sails taut, fully raised)" | ||||
| DB asks, "Okay, so I guess the tightness of the sails has three values?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice." | ||||
| DavidW says (to DB), "yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but this time it seemed like we took it four." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I must have just misinterpreted." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Go to star? Or are we moving too fast?" | ||||
| DB says, "I vote go to star." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "go to star" | ||||
Floyd | You vector for the star. But Horizon's velocity is too great; you whip Floyd | past the star in a shallow hyperbola, and are flung away into the Floyd | void. Floyd | Floyd | Interior of Nebula Floyd | Slow, thick stellar winds perturb the nebula. You are lost in clouds Floyd | of gas. Horizon heaves frighteningly as she crashes through the Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | You will have to loosen sail to gain control. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "loosen sail" | ||||
Floyd | You partially relax the sails, and Horizon begins to ease. Floyd | Floyd | Interior of Nebula Floyd | Clouds of gas swirl. The winds are turgid and heavy, here in the Floyd | nebula; Horizon heaves uneasily as she crashes through the currents. Floyd | Floyd | You will have to loosen sail to gain control. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You loosen the sails to catch the thick dust-currents. Horizon pitches Floyd | once; but then the sails billow and fill, and she comes to hand. You Floyd | steer her inwards, shifting deftly with the nebula's roiling, until Floyd | the clouds part before you. Floyd | Floyd | Pulsar's Nest Floyd | Horizon circles the rim of a vast, empty bubble -- a void swept clear Floyd | by the bright-beating pulsar at its heart. Hot radiation sleets around Floyd | you, most intensely in the pulsar's whirling beams. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Second try..." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "lower sails" | ||||
Floyd | You lower the loose sails, and slow. Horizon still handles unevenly, Floyd | even at this speed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "tighten sails" | ||||
Floyd | You tighten sail somewhat. It helps; the sails begin to thrum in the Floyd | clear, hot energy-flow. But it is not enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You tighten the sails, taut as you can pull them, and steer into the Floyd | pulsar's beam. The sails sing in the pure clear high-energy stream; Floyd | the Horizon of Night thrums, blazes, and flings herself out through Floyd | the veils of dust. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor in Nebula Floyd | You are diving along a narrow passage, an open lane through the Floyd | nebula's streams of dust. Far behind you, the pulsar illuminates your Floyd | sails every .02 seconds or so. Floyd | Floyd | A small blue-white star stands out in this empty zone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "lower sails" | ||||
Floyd | You furl your sails, and descend into the blue-white star's outer Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere Else -- Far Orbit Floyd | This blue-white sun has no planets, only a broad ring of asteroidal Floyd | trash. One planetoid seems touched with an unusual glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x trash" | ||||
Floyd | Only one planetoid is unusual enough be worth a look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x planetoid" | ||||
Floyd | The planetoid seems laced with a faint glow, even on its dark side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "go to planetoid" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the anchor; Horizon swings slowly into the asteroid belt. You Floyd | maneuver towards the odd planetoid. Floyd | Floyd | By Planetoid Floyd | This is a dusty, cratered potato of a rock just like billions of Floyd | others... except for the strange pale light which pools in the deepest Floyd | craters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x craters" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||||
Floyd | The light seems fluid -- as if starlight had condensed on this lonely Floyd | rock, and dripped down to puddle in the cracks and crevices. You know Floyd | no chemistry which could explain such a phenomenon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take light" | ||||
Floyd | You venture out with several storage carboys. The liquid light Floyd | registers no mass nor temperature, but it seems to respect the Floyd | fused-quartz surface of the containers. You fill them, and stow your Floyd | prize in the hold, where it gleams gently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Oh, gosh, I hope this light doesn't infect the water supply..." | |||
| DB says, "... never mind..." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Weigh anchor?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "weigh anchor" | ||||
Floyd | Somewhere Else -- Far Orbit Floyd | This blue-white sun has no planets, only a broad ring of asteroidal Floyd | trash. One planetoid seems touched with an unusual glow. Floyd | Floyd | The fluid luminescence is unique in your memory and experience. The Floyd | light, together with the iridescent cloth -- discoveries like these Floyd | will assure your fame. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB exclaims, "Weigh anchor, cap'n!" | |||
| DB says, "Yay." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "raise sails" | ||||
Floyd | You raise sail to pulsar-light. Horizon rides a long crest out through Floyd | the nebula and into the star-clusters beyond. Floyd | Floyd | Galactic Halo Floyd | This region is dominated by old, old stars -- the suns of the early Floyd | universe, scant of life's rich elements. Perhaps they have nothing for Floyd | you. But a fey mood is on you, and you determine to forge ahead until Floyd | you have found something worthy of your time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "status: (sails slightly raised)" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You allow the Horizon to move on. Floyd | Floyd | Bubble Floyd | You have passed into a starless bubble in the cluster. Solar winds Floyd | howl through the space. The galactic spiral is spread in a long Floyd | glorious arc below you. Floyd | Floyd | You feel, more than hear, an eerie shift in the neutrino flux. It's Floyd | not a signal... you think; but the natural white noise of neutrinos Floyd | has modulated to a spectral opalescence. And the odd flux is coming Floyd | from straight ahead, on the far side of the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | At your slow speed, Horizon succumbs to the powerful solar winds of Floyd | the bubble. She shifts off-course, into the halo reaches. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in the Halo Floyd | You trawl among the halo's ancient stars. You can no longer sense the Floyd | eerie neutrino signal; but you are certain that it is somewhere Floyd | nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB asks, "Guess we have to speed up?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "I guess so." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Once we find our way back." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You allow the Horizon to move on. Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Space Floyd | You have entered a starless bubble in the cluster. Solar winds howl Floyd | through the space. Floyd | Floyd | You sense the eerie flux once again. It is coming from straight ahead, Floyd | on the far side of the bubble. You're not sure you can reach it, in Floyd | these crosscurrents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "raise sails" | ||||
Floyd | You haul the sails higher. Horizon accelerates across the void, Floyd | towards the source of the neutrino shift. Floyd | Floyd | Dust Whorl Floyd | Stellar gas presses in on you, drawn together by who knows what Floyd | confluence of nebular magnetism and solar winds. Floyd | Floyd | The odd neutrino flux is coming from beyond the clouds. But your sails Floyd | are shuddering. Controlling Horizon is difficult. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Loosen, maybe?" | |||
| DB says, "Loosen or furl, I guess." | ||||
| DB says, "Try loosening." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "loosen sails" | ||||
Floyd | You relax the sails. They billow, catching the dense solar currents, Floyd | and you steer Horizon into the cluster. Floyd | Floyd | Copse of Suns Floyd | You have passed into a dense cluster of ancient stars. Murky currents Floyd | swirl around you. Somewhere out of sight, you hear a nova-chain Floyd | crackling away. Floyd | Floyd | The odd neutrino flux is off to the side, tangled in the maze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x flux" | ||||
Floyd | The normal white hiss of the neutrino background -- the cosmic noise Floyd | of burning stars -- has shifted, somewhere to the side. One flavor Floyd | follows another in a delicate, shimmering opalescence. You know of no Floyd | property of space which could cause such a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I like this location name." | |||
| DB says, "Yeah, me, too." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "go to chain" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "lower sails" | ||||
Floyd | You lower the sails, and steer carefully into the cluster. Floyd | Floyd | Stellar Nursery Floyd | New suns are condensing here -- an unusual phenomenon in these halo Floyd | reaches. Their ultraviolet flares have swept this region free of the Floyd | dust that birthed them. Floyd | Floyd | The odd neutrino flux is coming from beyond the binary. But your sails Floyd | are rippling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "tighten sails" | ||||
Floyd | You tighten sail. Horizon shivers, catching the energetic radiation, Floyd | and draws in on the neutrino source. Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Space Floyd | You have passed into a starless bubble in the cluster. Solar winds Floyd | howl through the space. Somewhere out of sight you can hear a variable Floyd | star thumping. Floyd | Floyd | The odd neutrino flux is coming from straight ahead, on the far side Floyd | of the bubble. You will have to accelerate to reach it across these Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Stellar Nursery Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I've goofed up on mirroring this section." | |||
| DB asks, "Wait, we didn't want to go into the Hollow Space?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DB), "We've been there before." | ||||
| DavidW says, "ok, I'm at Stellar Nursery now." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "lower sails" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to strike your sails completely, not out here in the Floyd | void. That would leave Horizon an aimless comet. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "status: (sails loose, slightly raised)" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "go to binary" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Sounds correctly synced." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drop anchor" | ||||
Floyd | Out here? There's nowhere in sight to anchor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Stellar Nursery Floyd | New suns are condensing here -- an unusual phenomenon in these halo Floyd | reaches. Their ultraviolet flares have swept this region free of the Floyd | dust that birthed them. Floyd | Floyd | The odd neutrino flux is coming from beyond the binary. But your sails Floyd | are rippling loosely. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Zarf's done some clever tricks with randomizing the experience that isn't obvious without replaying like I am." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Maybe we do want to tighten the sails?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Ah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "huh. Neat." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Does someone else want to drive? I've been hogging the controls for a while." | ||||
| DB says, "I can try, I suppose." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm enjoying the ride myself." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Stellar Nursery Floyd | New suns are condensing here -- an unusual phenomenon in these halo Floyd | reaches. Their ultraviolet flares have swept this region free of the Floyd | dust that birthed them. Floyd | Floyd | The odd neutrino flux is coming from beyond the binary. But your sails Floyd | are rippling loosely, unable to resist the ultraviolet storm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "tighten sails" | ||||
Floyd | You tighten sail. Horizon shivers, catching the energetic radiation, Floyd | and draws in on the neutrino source. Floyd | Floyd | Empty Void Floyd | You have passed into a starless bubble in the cluster. Solar winds Floyd | howl through the space. Somewhere out of sight you can hear a variable Floyd | star thumping. Floyd | Floyd | The odd neutrino flux is coming from straight ahead, on the far side Floyd | of the bubble. You will have to accelerate to reach it across these Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "unfurl sails" | ||||
Floyd | You haul the sails higher. Horizon accelerates across the void, Floyd | towards the source of the neutrino shift. Floyd | Floyd | Approaching Brown Dwarf Floyd | Here at the heart of the halo cluster, a brown dwarf star slowly Floyd | gutters towards exhaustion. Floyd | Floyd | The odd neutrino flux is coming from the vicinity of the dwarf star. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "Aha!" | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "go to dwarf star" | ||||
Floyd | You furl your sails, and descend into the brown dwarf star's outer Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere Again -- Far Orbit Floyd | The brown dwarf, you discover, is circled by a lone, frozen planet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x planet" | ||||
Floyd | The ice-world is the source, or at least the locus, of the neutrino Floyd | shift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "land at planet" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to land. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "go to planet" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the anchor. Horizon glides in towards the dwarf star and its Floyd | icy companion. Floyd | Floyd | Ice-World Floyd | This planet might once have been a chilly wasteland. Now it is nothing Floyd | but slabs of black ice, layered with the ancient snow that was once an Floyd | atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | Or, no. Those protrusions of ice are too angular to be natural. They Floyd | are monuments -- how old, you have no way of knowing. But sheltering Floyd | beneath them are row upon row of engraved tablets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x tablets" | EmacsUser says, "Ooh." | |||
Floyd | You can make nothing of the engravings. You will have to bring them Floyd | back to the linguists of d'Accord. Floyd | Floyd | The tablets themselves have a vitreous shine. You realize, inspecting Floyd | carefully, that they are pure helium -- frozen helium, a substance Floyd | that should not exist on the surface of a world. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "get tablets" | ||||
Floyd | You seal several of the tablets in layers of vacuum insulation -- and Floyd | then layers on top of that. Moving as delicately as you can, you Floyd | transport the bulky packages to your cryohold. A few tense moments Floyd | reveal no sublimation of the frozen helium, to your relief. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "weigh anchor" | ||||
Floyd | Somewhere Again -- Far Orbit Floyd | The ice-world shrinks behind you, as you rise to the edge of the brown Floyd | dwarf's orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Civilizations are fragile, and the relics of an unknown race -- a Floyd | people who might have bloomed billions of years past, in the cold Floyd | unlight of a dwarf star -- these tablets must be incalculably Floyd | valuable. You are torn: should you come around, and begin the journey Floyd | back to the bright worlds? Floyd | Floyd | But so much remains out there for you to take. Just one more Floyd | discovery. Perhaps two. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "raise sail" | ||||
Floyd | You hoist the sails once again. Slowly, the infrared glow of the dwarf Floyd | fills them, and Horizon moves out into the galactic halo. Floyd | Floyd | Approaching Roiling Star Floyd | A rare sight drifts into view, far ahead: a red supergiant guttering Floyd | on the edge of catastrophe. It is a crimson, billowing cauldron of Floyd | turbulent fire -- pulsing irregularly, choked with helium and carbon Floyd | ash. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Let me know if I get going too fast." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "You're doing just fine." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yep" | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "go to star" | ||||
Floyd | You vector for the supergiant. Horizon's fast approach compresses its Floyd | history. Carbon roils in the star's atmosphere; shock-waves roll in Floyd | fast-forward across its surface. Floyd | Floyd | By the time you see oxygen and argon boiling into the red star's Floyd | corona, it is too late to turn aside. The light of fusing metals Floyd | washes over Horizon, and the shockwave is only fractionally behind. Floyd | | DavidW says, "push space" | |||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | Lights appear on the control consoles, one by one. Horizon of Night is Floyd | coming back to life. The walls around you are dim and Floyd | radiation-scarred; you have no idea how long it's taken the ship to Floyd | recover enough function to support you. But you are awake. You stretch Floyd | in your couch, shudder, and take stock. Floyd | Floyd | Outside is blackness, pure and opaque. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have the helium tablets, the liquid light, and the iridescent Floyd | cloth, all safely stowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "Phew!" | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x blackness" | ||||
Floyd | You are surrounded by blackness, pure and opaque. Whatever corner of Floyd | space you've been flung into, it's dense enough to block all Floyd | starlight. Only the vague thermal wash of microwaves reassures you Floyd | that the universe is out there at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to EmacsUser), "Don't celebrate too soon." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "raise sails" | ||||
Floyd | You scan the spars, and then scan them again, but it is just as you Floyd | expected: your sails are gone. The monomolecular lace was surely Floyd | blasted apart in the first instant of the disaster. Floyd | Floyd | But then, if the sails had held against the shockwave, you suppose you Floyd | would have been swept into the next galaxy. Small blessings. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Now it seems to be time for Jacqueline's suggestion." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x ship" | ||||
Floyd | Horizon of Night is wounded, but she lives. The hull is sound. The Floyd | controls and the shipframe are more or less functional. But the sails Floyd | are destroyed, and the compass must have cracked. Worse: her senses Floyd | are quite dead. You will have to steer by eye; and there is nothing Floyd | outside to see, at all. Floyd | Floyd | Stowed in Horizon's hold are the helium tablets, the liquid light, and Floyd | the iridescent cloth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "port" | ||||
Floyd | Spaceships really only fly forwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah - perhaps." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "forwards" | ||||
Floyd | Your sails are gone; only ruined tatters of lace remain on the spars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "paddle" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Use the light?" | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "use light" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||||
Floyd | The hold contains several carboys of the pale liquid light. It seems Floyd | to pulse faintly in its containers. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "It seems that we have sail, compass, and light replacements on-board." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Open carboys?" | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "open carboys" | ||||
Floyd | You lever the carboys out of the hold, crack the seals, and expose the Floyd | liquid light to space. Floyd | Floyd | A thin streamer of light spreads from Horizon's hold. It does little Floyd | to shift the darkness... but another streamer rolls outward, and then Floyd | more. Soon you can make out dust particles and shreds of debris -- a Floyd | star's remains, now aggregated by chance or Horizon's own gravity into Floyd | a swirling mass. Some aeon this might become a planet. Floyd | Floyd | The light diffuses quickly, but your surroundings are illuminated now. Floyd | You have a chance of getting clear of this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Debris Floyd | You are surrounded by thick, swirling debris. It is dangerous, but you Floyd | might navigate it -- if you had a compass. And sails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x debris" | ||||
Floyd | You are surrounded by thick, swirling debris. It is dangerous, but you Floyd | might navigate it -- if you had a compass. And sails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "put cloth on mast" | ||||
Floyd | You unroll the iridescent cloth from your hold, and begin fastening it Floyd | to Horizon's spars. Floyd | Floyd | The tissue seems strong and it plays well upon your lines. Even Floyd | reefed, it rolls eagerly in the dust currents. After a timeless Floyd | interval of labor, you have its full measure rigged and ready to Floyd | unfurl. Floyd | Floyd | But you notice a faint silver vapor subliming from the new sails. Floyd | Apparently this material, light as it is, is not perfectly suited for Floyd | space travel. Best you hurry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "x compass" | ||||
Floyd | The compass housing is ridged with barely-healed scars. It must have Floyd | cracked in the disaster; most of its superfluid helium has boiled Floyd | away. If the ship had not managed this repair, the entire compass Floyd | assembly might have been hopelessly quenched. No doubt the Floyd | course-memory of your travels has been lost. But the mechanism itself Floyd | looks sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "melt tablets" | ||||
Floyd | You can think of no other choice. Floyd | Floyd | You fashion a capillary line from the last of your insulation, and Floyd | connect it to the compass chamber. Carefully, you lower the line onto Floyd | the first of the frozen helium tablets. The thermal gradient shifts; Floyd | the priceless artifact begins to melt. Floyd | Floyd | The arrangement works perfectly, of course. One by one, the tablets Floyd | liquefy and are drawn up into the compass. By the time the last one is Floyd | gone, the helium bath is full enough to function. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB exclaims, "Sucks we had to lose all those sweet artefacts that were gonna make us famous!" | |||
| DavidW says, "heh." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Debris Floyd | You are surrounded by thick, swirling debris. It is dangerous, but you Floyd | are sure you can navigate it. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Even without the famous part, yeah." | |||
| DavidW says, "status: (sails furled)" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "We were too greedy." | ||||
| DB says, "Should've gotten something for keeps off that gold star's planet." | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "unfurl sails" | ||||
Floyd | You hoist the sails -- what has yet survived your touch -- and bring Floyd | Horizon of Night under way. Floyd | | DavidW says, "push space" | |||
| DB pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | You are not so far from Myrmidal, at this end of your wandering. You Floyd | pass by suns on the way home; they do not hold your interest, not long Floyd | enough to slow Horizon in its course. And there are the sails, to be Floyd | sure. You leave a trail of vapor in your wake, as the iridescent Floyd | fabric decays. Delay is no temptation now. Floyd | Floyd | In the end, it is the touch of Myrmidal's solar wind that brushes the Floyd | last shreds of sail away. Floyd | Floyd | Horizon falls across the system, through the staticky noise of Floyd | civilization, until the patrol tenders match your course and bring you Floyd | in tow. They jibe your ill luck, and offer you the gossip of your Floyd | centuries outward-gone. You swap them stories of treasures found; Floyd | floating creatures and icy ruins; the sound a ship's sails make as Floyd | they explode in supernova-light. The patrollers laugh and applaud a Floyd | lie well-told. You leave it at that. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Home *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Really, really nice." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Gets a vote for best writing for me." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | How many nautical-style actions did you try? The game recognizes quite Floyd | a range, mostly things you can do to sails: "raise", "lift", "hoist", Floyd | "heave", "haul", "spread", "widen", "broaden", "lower", "unfurl", Floyd | "unfold", "unreef", "reef", "narrow", "furl", "fold", "trim", Floyd | "tauten", "slacken", and "rig". You can also say "set sail", "strike Floyd | sail", "more sail", or "less sail". Floyd | Floyd | The ship will move if you say "go", "fly", "forward", "ahead", or even Floyd | "push on" or "forge onward". You can "go to", "fly toward", "vector Floyd | toward", or "steer toward". Floyd | Floyd | But don't try "warp 8". That would be silly. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Myrmidal is the queen of the bright worlds, and you've walked her Floyd | million cities beneath her sky and beyond it. Myrmidal laughs and Floyd | Myrmidal dances; they say no one weeps on Myrmidal, except for moments Floyd | on the stage. Floyd | Floyd | But even on Myrmidal the sun rises and sets, and the music grows tinny Floyd | and harsh when you weary of dancing. Your best stories and your best Floyd | lies draw the same fond laughter. This morning you decide to rise to Floyd | the docks, and rouse your Horizon of Night from her sleep, and raise Floyd | her sails. Somewhere are worlds you have never seen. And if your Floyd | friends miss you at the dance, they can tell you so when you return. Floyd | Floyd | Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home Floyd | Interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin Floyd | Release 5 / Serial number 100617 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Myrmidal -- the Docks Floyd | The Horizon of Night is a sweet tiny sailer; you have missed her more Floyd | than you remembered. Now she comes alive for you. The keel hums with Floyd | power; the monomolecular sails are reefed and ready. The compass spins Floyd | to the touch of the Galaxy's magnetic currents. You have only to weigh Floyd | anchor, and leave Myrmidal behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "You're going to try warp 8, aren't you?" | |||
| DB says, "hehehe" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Hehe... yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "I knew it!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter horizon" | ||||
Floyd | You go aboard Horizon. Her airlock closes with a familiar hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "raise sails" | ||||
Floyd | You can't raise sail here! The docking environment is crowded with Floyd | ships and equipment. Your sails would be destroyed immediately, and Floyd | with a terrible mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB exclaims (at EmacsUser), "Warp 8!" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g. g." | ||||
Floyd | You can't raise sail here! The docking environment is crowded with Floyd | ships and equipment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "We would kill people!" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Oops." | ||||
| DavidW says, "raise anchor, cap'm" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "raise anchor" | ||||
Floyd | The anchor precesses. Floyd | Floyd | Horizon shakes, waking the speed which has slept these past years. Floyd | Myrmidal's magnetic halo bucks her keel high; high and out through the Floyd | rings of city and industry and careless Myrmidal society. When the Floyd | anchor falls into place along the keel, Horizon rings bell-clear, and Floyd | the sky is black. Floyd | Floyd | Myrmidal -- Far Orbit Floyd | You are circling the outer fringe of Myrmidal's system, where your Floyd | keel's rhodomagnetics balance the solar winds. You pass snow-miners Floyd | and farfactories, humming cheerfully in their work. Floyd | Floyd | Already the quiet is a relief. But this is still civilization, and Floyd | this star has nothing for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "raise sails" | ||||
Floyd | The sails begin to unfurl. They catch sunlight. The Horizon of Night Floyd | shifts gladly around her keel, and slides into interstellar space. Floyd | Floyd | The Outer Marches Floyd | Stars thin around you as you leave the bright worlds behind. A Floyd | globular cluster drifts by. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere out there, you sense, are treasures worthy of your Floyd | attention. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g. g." | ||||
Floyd | You spread the sails wider. The ship accelerates. Floyd | Floyd | The Spindrift Stars Floyd | The stars thin around you as you leave the bright worlds behind. Floyd | Floyd | You won't get far into the unknown at this rate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You stretch the sails to their fullest spread. The Horizon of Night Floyd | leans forward eagerly, and springs out into the void. Floyd | Floyd | The Dark Reaches Floyd | The bright worlds are far behind Horizon now. Emptiness hangs wide Floyd | between the stars, out here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "warp 8" | ||||
Floyd | You recall, from a quixotic interest in antique blue-water sailing Floyd | jargon, that "to warp" is to draw a sea-ship into dock by pulling on Floyd | ropes. But it really isn't meaningful for starships. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB exclaims, "Oh, hold on!" | |||
| EmacsUser asks (of DB), "?" | ||||
| DB says (to Floyd), "engage" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Dang." | |||
| DB says (to Floyd), "slow to impulse" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DB says, "Double dang, but equally expected." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Anyway, I liked this one a lot, though it was a tad sadder than I anticipated it being." | ||||
| DB says, "Yeah, I sorta wish we had some stuff left over to show for centuries of adventuring." | ||||
| DB says, "But so it goes." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Had some of the best treasures in a game, too." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's not every game that offers tablets of frozen helium." | ||||
| DB says, "Discovering frozen helium tablets of a lost civilization definitely beats picking up yon random gem." | ||||
| DB says, "Vivid, overall." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DB), "But ye can't get ye gem." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This was a fun day. Thanks for suggesting these games, David." | ||||
| DB exclaims, "Agreed. Thanks, David!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It sorta reminded me of Violet, that quixotic (if that's the word) have a treasure, lose a treasure aspect." | ||||
| DB says, "Yeah, like when you have to spoiler the spoiler so you won't spoiler." | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh heh" | ||||
| DB says (to Jacqueline), "I should also mention, ye can totally getteth yon gem of some sort." | ||||
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