ClubFloyd Transcript:
The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread by David Welbourn
Tin by Jim Aikin
and Folkar Station by Doug Jones
As played on ifMUD on July 31, 2010

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of three IntroComp Games by Various Authors.

Fox, Dragon, Bread was originally released as part of the 2005 IntroComp, where it took third place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

Tin was originally released as part of the 2007 IntroComp, where it took second place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki. You can jump straight to this game in the transcript by clicking here.

Folkar Station was originally released as part of the 2007 IntroComp, where it placed in the Honorable category. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki. You can jump straight to this game in the transcript by clicking here.



WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
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Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd | "My hike was long, ov?r this peak.
Floyd | More than a day, less than a week.
Floyd | Come hear the tale I have to speak,

Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh.
Floyd |
Floyd | "A brand new town I soon shall see.
Floyd | New people, I shall sing for thee.
Floyd | A happy bard then I shall be,
Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh.

Floyd |
Floyd | "But first I must find food to eat.
Floyd | I ate my cheese! I ate my meat!
Floyd | An apple core would be a treat,
Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh.
Floyd |

Floyd | "No rabbits found I for my pot.
Floyd | I looked for roots. I found them not.
Floyd | These hunger pains! They must be fought!
Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Why do no birds fly overhead?

Floyd | Would not roast fowl taste good with bread?
Floyd | When was the last time that I fed?
Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread

Floyd | A Bizarre Fairytale Adventure.  Story & Program by David Welbourn.
Floyd | Release 1 for IntroComp 2005.  For some background info, type ABOUT.
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 050723 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10
Floyd |
Floyd | Mountain Trail
Floyd | You are on a lonely mountain trail. Trees grow sparsely this high up

Floyd | on the mountain, and even less so back up the trail to the northeast.
Floyd | To the west, the trail heads down past the treeline into a forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | And not a moment too soon. You are positively famished.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Since you are a bard, you are cursed with natural good looks. Clear,
Floyd | unblemished skin. Thick wavy black hair. Eyes so deep a brown, one
Floyd | could gaze into them forever. Except for that birthmark on your

Floyd | never-you-mind-where, you would be just about perfect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying:

Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   a knife (worn on your right hip)
Floyd |   your moneypurse (worn on your left hip and closed)
Floyd |   a rucksack (which is closed)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread got its initial
Floyd | inspiration from Emily Short's game Savoir-Faire. Yes, I know. This
Floyd | game is nothing like that one. Let me explain.
Floyd |

Floyd | What happened was that Emily and I had a brief little discussion on
Floyd | the ifMud about how objects were coded in her game. Apparently some
Floyd | game-objects represented multiple objects within the game, and I
Floyd | interpreted this to mean that some objects were like extras in a
Floyd | theatre play. So, perhaps in the Living Room, Joe Extra played the
Floyd | role of the fox on the wallpaper, but in the Bedroom, Joe Extra played

Floyd | the role of the dragon carving.
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, I was wrong about that. That wasn't how Emily did it at all. But
Floyd | I still liked the idea of the fox, the dragon, and yes, the stale loaf
Floyd | of bread being actors, and then I started thinking of them as NPCs and
Floyd | PCs, and, well, I like fairy tales, and thus was born the idea of this

Floyd | unlikely trio helping some other guy on his quest. That guy being you.
Floyd | You help them out, and then they'd be obligated to help you out.
Floyd | Simple enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | Simple, except for one of the trio being a stale loaf of bread. That's
Floyd | really weird y'know? What motivates a loaf of bread? What can it

Floyd | possibly do to help? That's going to be a fun question to answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | By the way, I must apologize for the complete lack of testing in this
Floyd | game. I foolishly left things until the very last minute, and I know
Floyd | that the game is not as robust or as bulletproof as I'd like.
Floyd | Hopefully, the Spirit of IntroComp will bless this mess, understanding

Floyd | that the beginning of a game is going to lack a little completeness in
Floyd | any case.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You open the rucksack, revealing a tinderbox, your lute and a bag of
Floyd | spices.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It is a tiny brown bag of soft leather that contains your motley
Floyd | collection of spices. It is laced tightly closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You open the bag, revealing mixed spices.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot eat spices by themselves! You would only make yourself sick
Floyd | if you did that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A mixture of salt, pepper, crushed garlic, and chives - but mostly
Floyd | salt. When you are lucky enough to catch wild game, you like to
Floyd | sprinkle on a little of this onto the meat to make it extra tasty.
Floyd | Just looking at the spices makes your mouth water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You moisten a finger and dab a little of the mixed spices onto your
Floyd | tongue. Mmm. Salty.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | A short servicable knife. It would not be much good in a fight, but
Floyd | every bit helps.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | A small cloth moneypurse, dyed black.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It is a sturdy walking stick just over five feet long. You made it
Floyd | yourself by trimming a fallen tree branch that you found soon after
Floyd | you began your trek through the mountains almost a week ago.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Your lute is perhaps your most prized possession, since it provides
Floyd | you with your livelihood, but you could build another if you had to.
Floyd | Master Dorien showed you how to carve its pear-shaped body out of

Floyd | pine, how to lightly string it with catgut so the instrument does not
Floyd | break under its own tension, and (of course) how to tune the thing
Floyd | fifty times a day. It is very lightweight and somewhat delicate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first taking the lute)
Floyd | You play a few chords on the lute.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Your singing is delightful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small battered tinderbox made of tin, containing the necessary tools
Floyd | for lighting a fire. Your father helped you put it together when you
Floyd | were a boy, and it is the oldest thing you own.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [You do not need to open or close the tinderbox. Just type LIGHT
Floyd | <object> WITH TINDERBOX when you want to start a fire.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You make your way down the mountain. As you pass the treeline, you
Floyd | hear a loud SNAP! followed by a sharp cry of pain.
Floyd |

Floyd | Tall Pines
Floyd | The mountain trail continues under a canopy of tall shady pine trees.
Floyd | The trail continues down to the southwest, and up to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | To one side, you see a fox, its hind leg caught fast in a steel trap.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The steel trap is like a jaw: two rows of zigzag metal "teeth" hinged
Floyd | on one side, with a heavy spring holding them clamped together.
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, almost together. The steel trap is currently clamped around the

Floyd | hind leg of a fox.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | And lose a potential meal?

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | This is a full-grown lady fox, with a cloth cap on her head and a
Floyd | steel trap on one leg. Despite her obvious pain, she neither cries nor

Floyd | whimpers, but watches your every move with wide brown eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your stomach chooses this moment to growl.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Before you can eat the fox, you will have to kill it. You take out
Floyd | your knife. But the sight of the knife terrifies the captured animal!
Floyd | "DON'T EAT ME!" it says weakly.

Floyd |
Floyd | The words, faint as they are, freeze you where you stand. It's not
Floyd | merely that you're never heard a fox speak before. You haven't. But
Floyd | somehow, she has invoked magic here. Like a ritual. Or a promise. Or
Floyd | an oath.
Floyd |

Floyd | "DON'T EAT ME," the fox says again, stronger now. Or perhaps the world
Floyd | has gone silent instead, to hear her all the better. "If you spare me
Floyd | and free me, I will help you later. You will not regret it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you accept my offer?" >>

Floyd |
Floyd | The scene darkens briefly as a cloud passes over the face of the sun.

Floyd | "So be it," says the fox, and says no more.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You quickly slice open the fox's neck; it dies instantly. Blood now
Floyd | stains your knife and hands, but that couldn't be helped.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have never eaten fox before, but doubtless it is similar to
Floyd | rabbit.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You have never eaten a fox raw, and you are not about to start now.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | (first taking the dead fox)
Floyd | It is too awkward and messy to carry both fox and trap together. You
Floyd | must remove the trap first.

Floyd |
Floyd | You wonder which part of the fox might be the most tasty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first taking the dead fox)
Floyd | It is too awkward and messy to carry both fox and trap together. You
Floyd | must remove the trap first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | What do you want to pry the steel trap with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's awkward, but using the walking stick as a lever, you successfully
Floyd | pry the steel trap open. After the fox's leg falls free, you carefully
Floyd | SNAP the trap closed and pick up both it and the fox's body. Waste
Floyd | not, want not.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You have never eaten a fox raw, and you are not about to start now.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You have yet to skin the animal first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You remove the bloodied cloth cap from the dead fox.
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin the messy work of skinning the fox. First you turn the fox
Floyd | onto its back and make a long vertical incision...

Floyd |
Floyd | Let us make a long story shorter. When you are done, you have a
Floyd | carcass of uncooked fox meat and a fox pelt. Incidently, you made a
Floyd | bundle with the fox's cap and the unedible bits and chucked it far off
Floyd | into the forest. You also cleaned off your knife and put it back on
Floyd | your hip.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which do you mean, the fox pelt or the fox carcass?
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | There is nothing nearby to cook with.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It has soft fox fur on one side, and bloody skin on the other. You are
Floyd | not sure what it is worth, but perhaps you can trade it for a nice
Floyd | bottle of wine.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | (first taking the tinderbox)
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Tall Pines
Floyd | The mountain trail continues under a canopy of tall shady pine trees.
Floyd | The trail continues down to the southwest, and up to the east.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are pleased to be amongst trees again, to be enclosed in their
Floyd | most welcome shelter.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You do not need to worry about the trees.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | By the Firepit
Floyd | The trail widens here, passing through a small level clearing. A thick

Floyd | forest of trees surrounds the clearing. From here, you can follow the
Floyd | trail down to the west, or up to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | To one side of the trail, there is an old firepit, and a short boulder
Floyd | sits beside it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The firepit is just a circle of white stones at the side of the trail.
Floyd | It does not look like it has been used for a long time. In the firepit
Floyd | are some dry twigs and leaves.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Using your tinderbox, you easily set the twigs and leaves ablaze.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Which do you mean, the fox pelt or the fox carcass?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cook the slab of fox meat. It looks and smells wonderful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You need to be holding the mixed spices before you can put them on top
Floyd | of something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a tinderbox
Floyd |   a fox pelt
Floyd |   a slab of fox meat

Floyd |   a steel trap (which is closed)
Floyd |   a knife (worn on your right hip)
Floyd |   your lute
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   your moneypurse (worn on your left hip and closed)
Floyd |   a rucksack (which is open)

Floyd |     a bag of spices (which is open)
Floyd |       some mixed spices
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot pick up the mixed spices with your bare hands. Just
Floyd | sprinkle them on your food directly from the bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [Pouring and sprinkling is not yet properly supported. It will be in
Floyd | the full game.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You eat the cooked fox meat. Not bad. For fox meat, that is.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It is just an ordinary gray boulder, but it is just the right size to
Floyd | sit on and has been pushed up close to the firepit.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You rest your Johnny-sit-me-down on the boulder.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | By the Firepit (on the boulder)
Floyd | The trail widens here, passing through a small level clearing. A thick
Floyd | forest of trees surrounds the clearing. From here, you can follow the
Floyd | trail down to the west, or up to the northeast.

Floyd |
Floyd | To one side of the trail, there is an old firepit (containing a
Floyd | bonfire), and a short boulder sits beside it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You'll have to get off the boulder first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You get off the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | By the Firepit
Floyd | The trail widens here, passing through a small level clearing. A thick

Floyd | forest of trees surrounds the clearing. From here, you can follow the
Floyd | trail down to the west, or up to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | To one side of the trail, there is an old firepit (containing a
Floyd | bonfire), and a short boulder sits beside it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Jumble of Rocks
Floyd | The mountain trail crosses east to west over uneven and broken ground;

Floyd | a wagon could have real trouble passing through here. Rockslides from
Floyd | the north pose an additional ongoing hazard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That is not something you need to refer to in the course of this game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There is a name for people who climb treacherous rockslides. "Dead."
Floyd | Do not go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There is a name for people who climb treacherous rockslides. "Dead."
Floyd | Do not go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Mountain Vale
Floyd | The ground dips down here into a small valley on the mountainside, and
Floyd | a much greater variety of trees compete for the space here.
Floyd | Fortunately, even though the road is covered with leaves, it is still
Floyd | wide enough to see that it goes both southwest and east.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in the Road
Floyd | The road bends sharply here around a large boulder, heading up to the

Floyd | northeast and down to the southeast. A lesser travelled footpath goes
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The path is overgrown, forcing you to duck and push branches out of
Floyd | the way. Suddenly, there are no more trees, and you look up and see

Floyd | what they hid.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scenic View
Floyd | You stand at the top of a cliff overlooking a lake far below. The
Floyd | expanse is breathtaking. Look there at that lake so clear and blue: it
Floyd | contains a small wooded island, and on that island is a curious white

Floyd | dome. Or look at that cliff. Tall it is here, and tall it remains as
Floyd | it traverses a great C-shaped arch around the lake. Halfway into that
Floyd | arch is a majestic waterfall, pouring its liquid bounty into the
Floyd | waters below. Then look you further. Also on the cliff, opposite and
Floyd | across the lake, is a village and castle. Be it a true kingdom or the
Floyd | strange keep of barbarians, you do not know, but it must be an abode

Floyd | of men. Civilization, at last.
Floyd |
Floyd | The scene as a whole sings with vitality and life. Scarcely have you
Floyd | seen a place so pregnant with power, so rich in air, earth, and water.
Floyd | Alas, no path from here proceeds. You must needs regain your road to
Floyd | the north.

Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the hoots of several birds having a noisy argument below the
Floyd | cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You hear the chirping of many birds having a noisy argument below the
Floyd | cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | A finch zooms in from below and travels in a lazy circle above the

Floyd | lake. Cawing, it then flies out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That is too far away.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | [Perhaps in the full game, you may be allowed to jump to your death.
Floyd | But not now. Not today.]
Floyd |

Floyd | A goose appears from below and flaps its wings furiously. Another bird
Floyd | gives you the eagle eye before flying down below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Those are too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Since you are a bard, you are cursed with natural good looks. Clear,
Floyd | unblemished skin. Thick wavy black hair. Eyes so deep a brown, one
Floyd | could gaze into them forever. Except for that birthmark on your
Floyd | never-you-mind-where, you would be just about perfect.

Floyd |
Floyd | A goose appears from below and screams something in pidgin Pigeonese.
Floyd | Cawing, it then flies out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You push through the trees, back to the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in the Road

Floyd | The road bends sharply here around a large boulder, heading up to the
Floyd | northeast and down to the southeast. A lesser travelled footpath goes
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You sigh. You cannot ignore the stale loaf of braad. You are starving.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "My hike was long, ov?r this peak.
Floyd | More than a day, less than a week.

Floyd | Come hear the tale I have to speak,
Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh.
Floyd |
Floyd | "A brand new town I soon shall see.
Floyd | New people, I shall sing for thee.
Floyd | A happy bard then I shall be,

Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But first I must find food to eat.
Floyd | I ate my cheese! I ate my meat!
Floyd | An apple core would be a treat,
Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh.

Floyd |
Floyd | "No rabbits found I for my pot.
Floyd | I looked for roots. I found them not.
Floyd | These hunger pains! They must be fought!
Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh.
Floyd |

Floyd | "Why do no birds fly overhead?
Floyd | Would not roast fowl taste good with bread?
Floyd | When was the last time that I fed?
Floyd | Hey diddle diddle aye-oh."
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread
Floyd | A Bizarre Fairytale Adventure.  Story & Program by David Welbourn.
Floyd | Release 1 for IntroComp 2005.  For some background info, type ABOUT.
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 050723 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10
Floyd |
Floyd | Mountain Trail

Floyd | You are on a lonely mountain trail. Trees grow sparsely this high up
Floyd | on the mountain, and even less so back up the trail to the northeast.
Floyd | To the west, the trail heads down past the treeline into a forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | And not a moment too soon. You are positively famished.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You spent most of the last week traversing that mountain pass. You are
Floyd | not going back that way now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You make your way down the mountain. As you pass the treeline, you
Floyd | hear a loud SNAP! followed by a sharp cry of pain.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tall Pines
Floyd | The mountain trail continues under a canopy of tall shady pine trees.
Floyd | The trail continues down to the southwest, and up to the east.

Floyd |
Floyd | To one side, you see a fox, its hind leg caught fast in a steel trap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Before you can eat the fox, you will have to kill it. You take out
Floyd | your knife. But the sight of the knife terrifies the captured animal!
Floyd | "DON'T EAT ME!" it says weakly. Its voice is female.
Floyd |
Floyd | The words, faint as they are, freeze you where you stand. It's not
Floyd | merely that you're never heard a fox speak before. You haven't. But

Floyd | somehow, she has invoked magic here. Like a ritual. Or a promise. Or
Floyd | an oath.
Floyd |
Floyd | "DON'T EAT ME," the fox says again, stronger now. Or perhaps the world
Floyd | has gone silent instead, to hear her all the better. "If you spare me
Floyd | and free me, I will help you later. You will not regret it.

Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you accept my offer?" >>

Floyd |
Floyd | A sudden breeze blows by; leaves fly by in its wake. "Then free me,

Floyd | man," says the fox.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's awkward, but using the walking stick as a lever, you successfully

Floyd | pry the steel trap open without causing further damage.
Floyd |
Floyd | Freed of the trap, the fox gets gingerly to her feet. "I thank you,
Floyd | man. I will remember my promise to you, and return when your need for
Floyd | me is greatest. Until then, fare well." You watch as she hobbles away
Floyd | into the forest and is lost from view.

Floyd |
Floyd | You then take a moment more to SNAP the trap closed and pick it up.
Floyd | Waste not, want not.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | By the Firepit
Floyd | The trail widens here, passing through a small level clearing. A thick
Floyd | forest of trees surrounds the clearing. From here, you can follow the
Floyd | trail down to the west, or up to the northeast.
Floyd |

Floyd | To one side of the trail, there is an old firepit, and a short boulder
Floyd | sits beside it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It is just an ordinary gray boulder, but it is just the right size to
Floyd | sit on and has been pushed up close to the firepit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The firepit is just a circle of white stones at the side of the trail.
Floyd | It does not look like it has been used for a long time. In the firepit
Floyd | are some dry twigs and leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Jumble of Rocks
Floyd | The mountain trail crosses east to west over uneven and broken ground;
Floyd | a wagon could have real trouble passing through here. Rockslides from

Floyd | the north pose an additional ongoing hazard.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lying on one of the rock piles, a baby dragon is crying pitiously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The baby dragon has green scales with a blue underbelly and is about
Floyd | the size of an adult wolf. It is lying on its back and whimpering,

Floyd | probably because of the rusty iron nail stuck in its left foot.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dragon steak is supposed to be a delicacy. This must be your lucky
Floyd | day.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Before you can eat the baby dragon, you will have to kill it. You take
Floyd | out your knife. As with the fox, the sight of your knife conveys your
Floyd | terrible intent only too well. "DON'T EAT ME!" says the dragon,

Floyd | between sobs.
Floyd |
Floyd | Startled, you stop in place. Did this creature of myth and legend,
Floyd | young as it is, truly speak? No, no, that cannot be. Not eat it? Of
Floyd | course you want to eat it. You're hungry!
Floyd |

Floyd | "DON'T EAT ME," the baby dragon says again, more forcefully, and there
Floyd | is no mistaking it this time. Your ears seem to roar as the words echo
Floyd | within your head. You hear nothing else. "If you spare me and pull
Floyd | this nail out of my paw, I will help you later. You will not regret
Floyd | it.
Floyd |

Floyd | "Do you accept my offer?" >>

Floyd |
Floyd | Without warning, a dove flies west, singing joyfully, the first bird
Floyd | you have heard in days. "Then please. Pull out this nail," says the

Floyd | baby dragon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Sensing your intent, the dragon holds still as you approach. You grasp
Floyd | the nail with your bare hand and pull, but it is no use. You just
Floyd | cannot get a strong enough grip on it. You will need a tool of some
Floyd | kind.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a knife

Floyd |   a steel trap (which is closed)
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   your moneypurse (worn on your left hip and closed)
Floyd |   a rucksack (which is closed)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The nail is embedded pretty deep in the baby dragon's foot. It looks
Floyd | like one of those long nails used to hold a wagon wheel on its axle.
Floyd | Ouch. That must be incredibly painful.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Good idea. The steel trap should get a better grip on the nail than
Floyd | your fingers. Unfortunately, the trap is closed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Put the trap on the ground first.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Put the trap on the ground first.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | That is not something you can pry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You open the trap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Picking up an open steel trap would be extremely hazardous to your
Floyd | fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You need to be holding the steel trap before you can put it on top of
Floyd | something else.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to get the steel trap.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You need to be holding the baby dragon before you can put him into
Floyd | something else.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't suppose the baby dragon would care for that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pull the rusty iron nail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a knife
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   your moneypurse (worn on your left hip and closed)
Floyd |   a rucksack (which is closed)
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The steel trap is like a jaw: two rows of zigzag metal "teeth" hinged
Floyd | on one side. The trap is currently open, its heavy spring at high
Floyd | tension. Anything put inside that deadly circle is likely to trigger

Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You insert the walking stick into the trap, which dutifully SNAPs shut

Floyd | on it, leaving a gap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Aha. With the walking stick holding the trap slightly open, you are
Floyd | able to put the trap on the nail. That is, the nail is now in the gap
Floyd | between the trap's jaws.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dragon watches you curiously as you perform this operation.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You pull the walking stick out from the trap's jaws, and the trap
Floyd | SNAPs around the head of the rusty iron nail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | With the steel trap firmly gripping the nail between its teeth, you
Floyd | are able to grab onto the trap in turn, and pull the troublesome nail
Floyd | out of the baby dragon's paw. Before your disbelieving eyes, the wound

Floyd | heals in seconds without the iron nail to prevent it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The child of dragons, no longer sobbing, gets to its feet. Its large
Floyd | reptilian eyes stare at you, and you back up a step. You suddenly
Floyd | realize you are face-to-face with a deadly monster. It is still only
Floyd | the size of a wolf, true, but that is plenty big enough, and somehow

Floyd | you forgot that wolves can be dangerous too.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Be at peace," says the dragon. "I have no love of mankind, nor that
Floyd | hated iron. But you alone need not fear me. You have helped me as I
Floyd | asked and our bargain stands. I will remember my promise to you, and
Floyd | return when your need for me is greatest. Until then, fare well." You

Floyd | stop breathing when the dragon jumps, but it is only to catch the air
Floyd | in its leathery wings, and then it flies off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tension in your body relaxes, and you start breathing normally
Floyd | again. You also remember that you are still hungry.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Jumble of Rocks
Floyd | The mountain trail crosses east to west over uneven and broken ground;
Floyd | a wagon could have real trouble passing through here. Rockslides from
Floyd | the north pose an additional ongoing hazard.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Mountain Vale
Floyd | The ground dips down here into a small valley on the mountainside, and

Floyd | a much greater variety of trees compete for the space here.
Floyd | Fortunately, even though the road is covered with leaves, it is still
Floyd | wide enough to see that it goes both southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in the Road
Floyd | The road bends sharply here around a large boulder, heading up to the

Floyd | northeast and down to the southeast. A lesser travelled footpath goes
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stale loaf of bread has fallen into a gutter on the far side of the
Floyd | road.
Floyd | You sigh. You cannot ignore the stale loaf of braad. You are starving.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A reddish-brown loaf of bread, gone hard and stale. Apart from being a

Floyd | item of food, it looks totally unremarkable.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bread. Food. Mine, mine, mine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in the Road
Floyd | The road bends sharply here around a large boulder, heading up to the

Floyd | northeast and down to the southeast. A lesser travelled footpath goes
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stale loaf of bread has fallen into a gutter on the far side of the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |

Floyd | Sure, it may be a stale loaf of bread, but you do not care at this
Floyd | point.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | When you pick up the loaf of bread, it suddenly shakes and squeals,
Floyd | "DON'T EAT ME!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You have got to be kidding me. Baked goods are inanimate objects and

Floyd | they do not talk. You must be delirious from hunger. Yes, of course.
Floyd | The strange events of the day are repeating in your mind and you only
Floyd | think that the bread is talking. Of course the cure to such delusions
Floyd | is to digest some food...
Floyd |
Floyd | "DON'T EAT ME," the stale loaf of bread says again, and you cannot

Floyd | help but notice it is scolding you, just like Grandma Zedna did when
Floyd | you tried to steal some cookies. The voice of "Grainma" continues, "I
Floyd | am not food to eat. I am a bird. Uh-huh. Looks like delirium is
Floyd | contagious.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I was riding on the back of a wagon when it hit a bump in the road

Floyd | and I fell here. I think my wings are broken; I could not fly away. I
Floyd | need to rejoin my fellow birds who can help me. Please. I can hear
Floyd | some birds just south of here. If you spare me and take to them, I
Floyd | will help you later. You will not regret it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you accept my offer?" >>

Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>

Floyd |
Floyd | You feel you must be out of your mind, but you agree. "Wonderful,"
Floyd | says Grainma. "Take me to them."

Floyd |
Floyd | Birdsong trills to the south. It is a fool's errand, but you are
Floyd | losing your taste for food that talks to you. So why not humor the old
Floyd | bread?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | At the moment, "it" means the steel trap, "him" means the stale loaf
Floyd | of bread, "her" is unset and "them" is unset.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The path is overgrown, forcing you to duck and push branches out of
Floyd | the way. Suddenly, there are no more trees, and you look up and see
Floyd | what they hid.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scenic View
Floyd | You stand at the top of a cliff overlooking a lake far below. The

Floyd | expanse is breathtaking. Look there at that lake so clear and blue: it
Floyd | contains a small wooded island, and on that island is a curious white
Floyd | dome. Or look at that cliff. Tall it is here, and tall it remains as
Floyd | it traverses a great C-shaped arch around the lake. Halfway into that
Floyd | arch is a majestic waterfall, pouring its liquid bounty into the
Floyd | waters below. Then look you further. Also on the cliff, opposite and

Floyd | across the lake, is a village and castle. Be it a true kingdom or the
Floyd | strange keep of barbarians, you do not know, but it must be an abode
Floyd | of men. Civilization, at last.
Floyd |
Floyd | The scene as a whole sings with vitality and life. Scarcely have you
Floyd | seen a place so pregnant with power, so rich in air, earth, and water.

Floyd | Alas, no path from here proceeds. You must needs regain your road to
Floyd | the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the hoots of several birds having a loud to-do below the
Floyd | cliff.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a stale loaf of bread
Floyd |   a steel trap (which is closed)
Floyd |     a rusty iron nail
Floyd |   a walking stick

Floyd |   a knife
Floyd |   your moneypurse (worn on your left hip and closed)
Floyd |   a rucksack (which is closed)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Of the part of the cliff on which you stand, you can see little but
Floyd | the grass and weeds at your feet. You must be on an outcropping of
Floyd | sorts and the rock wall must curve inwards, for you can see only the
Floyd | lake below and no hint of any beach or whatever the birds are

Floyd | squabbling about.
Floyd |
Floyd | Further away, encircling the lake, the cliff is a testament to ages
Floyd | past, recorded in the strata laid bare. Although the layers of rock
Floyd | are in many hues, the dominant color is a pale yellow bronze flecked
Floyd | with gold. Indeed, you think the wall sparkles with the glint of gold,

Floyd | but that may well be a trick of the light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Only two more details intrude upon the cliff's face: the waterfall,
Floyd | and a thin vertical line underneath the castle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You throw the stale loaf of bread over the cliff towards the birds,
Floyd | and for a moment it seems to hover in mid-air.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Bless you! I am free! Free!" the bread shouts. "I will remember my

Floyd | promise and return to youuuuuu...."
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh dear. Look at it plummet. And there goes every bird in the sky
Floyd | after it. My my. Goodness, what a racket those birds are making.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Most of the birds are not visible, since they are somewhere below you
Floyd | down the cliff. But every so often one or two fly up mere yards out of
Floyd | reach, but within throwing distance, shall we say.
Floyd |
Floyd | What is peculiar is just how many different types of birds there seem
Floyd | to be down there. What could the attraction be?

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but it is not clear whom.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A huge waterfall is falling from the top of the eastern side of the
Floyd | cliff and into the lake far below. Every now and then, you can see a
Floyd | faint rainbow within its attendent mist: one end appearing in the
Floyd | waterfall itself, and the other end on the dome on the island.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | If you really want to go down the cliff and smash against the rocks
Floyd | below, then jump. But it is not recommended.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [Perhaps in the full game, you may be allowed to jump to your death.
Floyd | But not now. Not today.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but it is not clear whom.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a steel trap (which is closed)
Floyd |     a rusty iron nail

Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   a knife
Floyd |   your moneypurse (worn on your left hip and closed)
Floyd |   a rucksack (which is closed)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You cannot see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You push through the trees, back to the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in the Road

Floyd | The road bends sharply here around a large boulder, heading up to the
Floyd | northeast and down to the southeast. A lesser travelled footpath goes
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Mountain Vale
Floyd | The ground dips down here into a small valley on the mountainside, and
Floyd | a much greater variety of trees compete for the space here.

Floyd | Fortunately, even though the road is covered with leaves, it is still
Floyd | wide enough to see that it goes both southwest and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in the Road
Floyd | The road bends sharply here around a large boulder, heading up to the
Floyd | northeast and down to the southeast. A lesser travelled footpath goes

Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |

Floyd | Foothills
Floyd | You are in the foothills of the local mountain range, where a variety
Floyd | of weeds and purple flowers grow between the trees and tree stumps.
Floyd | The road begins its ascent into the mountains to the northwest. To the
Floyd | southeast, the road continues on a more gentle slope into farmland.
Floyd |

Floyd | You cannot help thinking you have racked up a lot of karma today.
Floyd | Somebody owes you big time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Farmlands
Floyd | This part of the road passes by barren farmland to the east. Although

Floyd | the view is uninteresting in the extreme, at least the land is flat,
Floyd | the road is straight, and the stones are few, for which your feet are
Floyd | truly thankful. To the south, you see a bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | North of Bridge
Floyd | You are on the north side of a bridge. Farmlands are north, or go
Floyd | south over the bridge.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That verb was not recognized.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You tramp noisily over the bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | South of Bridge

Floyd | The south side of the bridge is somewhat more thrilling than the north
Floyd | side. The road on this side is made of green bricks, and it continues
Floyd | south towards a village. And surely, where there's a village, there
Floyd | must be food! Huzzah! A good meal at last.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The brick road turns west before entering the village proper.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the village, you decide to sing:

Floyd |    "Ohhhhh, the fish was long and the fish was wide
Floyd |    But you will never ever guess what I found inside..."
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The intro is over * Your destiny awaits ***
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

Floyd |

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Day after endless day, stuck in this hideous palace.  Its very

Floyd | greenness mocks you: There are no trees here that you can cut down.
Floyd | Every day you spend an hour or two whacking on the big log they put in
Floyd | your suite, but it's just not the same.  For companions you have only
Floyd | an endless stream of anonymous, fawning courtiers, that dunce of a
Floyd | Scarecrow, the pathetically neurotic Lion, and - every time you turn
Floyd | around, it seems - the ill-mannered, ill-tempered brat and her

Floyd | yapping, incontinent dog.
Floyd |
Floyd | The brat - give her her proper name, Dorothy - is the worst of the
Floyd | lot.  Some way has got to be found to send her back to Kansas.  And
Floyd | quickly!
Floyd |

Floyd | The Wizard is useless, of course.  Hides himself away in his chamber
Floyd | and throws open the doors only when he's ready to show off some new
Floyd | bit of stage magic even more pathetic than the last bit.  After which
Floyd | everyone tells him how wonderful and magnificent he is, kiss, kiss.
Floyd | No, you'll have to manage it somehow with or without his aid.  To make
Floyd | matters worse, you have no idea where Kansas is, or how one might get

Floyd | there from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nor is Dorothy being cooperative.  She doesn't want to go back to
Floyd | Kansas, that's abundantly clear.  Oh, once in a while she delivers a
Floyd | pious, tearful speech about how terribly she misses her Aunt Em.  But
Floyd | most of the time she's all too happy jumping out from behind the

Floyd | furniture and shouting "Boo!" to torment the poor Lion, or flicking
Floyd | lighted matches at the Scarecrow, or gorging herself on endless mounds
Floyd | of caramels.
Floyd |
Floyd | But this time she's truly gone too far: She's stolen your oilcan.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Tin
Floyd |
Floyd | An irreverent visit to the Emerald City, for children of all ages.
Floyd |

Floyd | By Jim Aikin
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Private Suite
Floyd | Green walls, green ceiling, green floor, green curtains on the windows

Floyd | - yes, whoever designed this city had definite ideas about attractive
Floyd | color schemes.  After you started attacking the furniture with your
Floyd | axe (strictly out of boredom), they took the furniture away and
Floyd | replaced it with an enormous log.  The log has, at least, the virtue
Floyd | that it's not green.  And since you never sit or lie down, you have no
Floyd | need of chairs or a bed.

Floyd |
Floyd | The entire floor is littered with wood chips.  The door is to the
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (with your axe)
Floyd | You take a few swipes at the log with the axe - chunk, chunk, chunk!
Floyd | Chips fly.  But your heart just isn't in it.  Also, your elbows are
Floyd | getting pretty rusty.  You really do need to find that oilcan.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The floor is at least two inches deep in wood chips, and beneath the
Floyd | chips is a layer of sawdust.  Visible in the dust, in addition to the

Floyd | well-defined tracks of your own passage, are a number of crooked
Floyd | trails that appear to be tiny footprints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You poke around half-heartedly among the wood chips.  You weren't
Floyd | really expecting to find your oilcan buried among them, and sure
Floyd | enough - you don't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The footprints could have been made by a mouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The tiny footprints crisscross one another in a haphazard way.
Floyd | There's no telling which way they came from, or which way they're
Floyd | going.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | west wall: You see nothing unusual about it.
Floyd | east wall: You see nothing unusual about it.
Floyd | north wall: You see nothing unusual about it.

Floyd | south wall: You see nothing unusual about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The word "rage" is not necessary in this story.

Floyd |
Floyd | (If this was an accidental misspelling, you can correct it by typing
Floyd | OOPS followed by the corrected word now.  Any time the story points
Floyd | out an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your
Floyd | next command.)
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't go that way.  The only obvious exit leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Eeiieyikgkgkgx!  Every time you move, your joints make horrible
Floyd | noises.
Floyd |
Floyd | A Wide Green Hallway
Floyd | The wide green hallway provides access to the private suites in which
Floyd | the Wizard's special guests are lodged.  The door to your own suite is

Floyd | to the south, and the Lion's door is across the hall to the north.
Floyd | You can proceed down the hallway to the east, or descend the broad
Floyd | stairway to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Sssccrriikkkh....
Floyd |
Floyd | The Lion's Private Suite
Floyd | The suite provided for the Lion is remarkable chiefly for the enormous

Floyd | bed, which is not only wide and long but also equipped with unusually
Floyd | long legs and a green bedspread, which hangs down nearly to the floor.
Floyd | Your olfactory sensors, while not very sensitive, work well enough to
Floyd | indicate the presence of an earthy animal odor.  The exit from the
Floyd | room is to the south.
Floyd |

Floyd | The edge of the bedspread twitches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you attempt to lift the edge of the bedspread so as to look under

Floyd | the bed, a low-pitched, gruff, tremulous, and rather muffled voice
Floyd | says, "G-g-grrr.  G-g-g-grrrrr!  G-g-go away, or I"ll ee-ee-eat you!
Floyd | I m-m-m-mean it!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The word "boo" is not necessary in this story.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (with your axe)
Floyd | Hacking at random objects with your axe would make you fairly
Floyd | unpopular, fairly quickly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (with your axe)
Floyd | Hacking at random objects with your axe would make you fairly
Floyd | unpopular, fairly quickly.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Subjecting the Lion to the harsh light of day would be cruel.  He
Floyd | seems to be happy under there (or at least as happy as he's capable of
Floyd | being).  Why not leave the bedspread be?

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "I'm wondering," you venture.  "Might you be able to help me get my
Floyd | oilcan back from Dorothy?"

Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't see how," the Lion replies.  "She has no r-r-respect for
Floyd | m-m-me, as you well know."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Couldn't you roar at her or something?"
Floyd |

Floyd | "I doubt she'll respond to th-th-threats," the Lion says.  "I think
Floyd | you need a strategem.  But I couldn't really tell you what to
Floyd | t-t-t-try."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "That w-w-wretched little girl!  Whenever I least expect it, just when
Floyd | I start to regain my c-c-composure, she leaps out at me and screams!
Floyd | And then, when I react, as is only natural - I'm not m-m-m-made of

Floyd | stone, you know - she laughs.  She fairly shrieks with laughter!  Oh,
Floyd | it's too much.  I am the King of Beasts, after all.  To be
Floyd | hu-m-m-miliated like that!
Floyd |
Floyd | I've made up my mind: I'm not coming out from under here until she's
Floyd | gone.  P-p-promise me you'll think of a way to get rid of her.

Floyd | P-p-please?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The Cowardly Lion does not respond.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Gggghhhrrggkk.  The noise coming from your knees is appalling.  Your
Floyd | joints feel alarmingly stiff when you move.

Floyd |
Floyd | A Wide Green Hallway
Floyd | The wide green hallway provides access to the private suites in which
Floyd | the Wizard's special guests are lodged.  The door to your own suite is
Floyd | to the south, and the Lion's door is across the hall to the north.
Floyd | You can proceed down the hallway to the east, or descend the broad

Floyd | stairway to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Eeeiicchrxkk!  What a racket!

Floyd |
Floyd | A Wide Green Hallway
Floyd | The wide green hallway extends westward from here.  The doorway to the
Floyd | north leads to the Scarecrow's private suite, while the doorway to the
Floyd | south leads to Dorothy's suite.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Xxxxxx....  What a racket!  Your joints are definitely binding each
Floyd | time you move.  You'll need to locate the oilcan before long.
Floyd |

Floyd | The Scarecrow's Private Suite
Floyd | The suite in which the Scarecrow has been staying is furnished only
Floyd | with a few decorative sheaves of corn and a large green chalkboard.
Floyd | The door is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Scarecrow is standing at the chalkboard, looking befuddled,

Floyd | baffled, and bemused.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | >

Floyd | "You say Dorothy took it?  Well, I can't say I'm surprised.  I do hope
Floyd | you'll be able to get it back before too very long.  You're sounding
Floyd | just a little creaky, if you don't mind my saying so." The Scarecrow's

Floyd | eyes droop with painted sadness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Me?  I'm nothing," he says.  "Or practically nothing.  Just a patchy

Floyd | old suit stuffed with straw.  Of course, if I had a brain in my head,
Floyd | I'm sure everyone would admire me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The chalkboard fills most of one wall.  Most of it appears quite
Floyd | pristine, as if it has never been written on at all.  Toward the right
Floyd | end, however, the incomplete equation "2 + 2 =   " has been scribbled.
Floyd | At least, that's what it looks like.  The space to the right of the
Floyd | equals sign has been repeatedly smudged and haphazardly erased, as if
Floyd | whoever was writing there (and you have a shrewd idea who that would

Floyd | be) was growing more and more frustrated.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Such a dear sweet little thing!" The Scarecrow's head bobs up and

Floyd | down in a way that you'd probably find quite comical if you had a
Floyd | sense of humor.  (A sense of humor is not included in the
Floyd | specification of the DWC-397.)  "I only wish she wasn't quite so full
Floyd | of mischief," he goes on.  "Do you think you could find out where she
Floyd | gets the matches?  And - if it's not asking too much - would you mind
Floyd | very much asking her to give them to you?

Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm quite immune to most sorts of danger, you know.  I can fall from
Floyd | a great height and get up and walk away.  Doesn't bother me a bit.
Floyd | But I am flammable.  And she knows that, I know she does.  I've told
Floyd | her a dozen times.
Floyd |

Floyd | "Maybe she's just forgetful.  I could understand that.  I'm quite
Floyd | forgetful myself, you know.  Comes of having no brains.  Maybe you
Floyd | could just remind her that it's not nice trying to set her friends on
Floyd | fire.  If you'd be so good, dear chap."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The Scarecrow's attention seems to have been captured by a spider
Floyd | dangling down from the ceiling.  He doesn't reply to your request.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Rrtktktkrriieee!  That horrible grinding noise....
Floyd |
Floyd | A Wide Green Hallway
Floyd | The wide green hallway extends westward from here.  The doorway to the

Floyd | north leads to the Scarecrow's private suite, while the doorway to the
Floyd | south leads to Dorothy's suite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Eeiieyikgkgkgx!  What a racket!
Floyd |
Floyd | Dorothy's Private Suite
Floyd | This room has been extravagantly outfitted with every manner of
Floyd | luxury, from frilly curtains and cozy throw-pillows (all of them
Floyd | green) to a clutter of dolls and music boxes.  Standing next to the

Floyd | enormous, puffy chair is a spindly glass table.  Dangling down behind
Floyd | the chair, in a position that makes it easy to reach without standing,
Floyd | is a long green silk rope with a green tassel on the end.  The door is
Floyd | to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dorothy is sitting in the overstuffed green chair, with a big silver

Floyd | tray heaped with caramels on the table at her elbow.  When she sees
Floyd | you, her eyes light up with mischief.  "Hello, Tin Woodman," she says
Floyd | sweetly.  "You're sounding a little squeaky today, aren't you?" She
Floyd | covers her mouth to stifle a giggle.
Floyd |
Floyd | Toto is curled up in Dorothy's lap.  His yellow eyes are fixed on you

Floyd | with either disdain or veiled hostility.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You give the silk rope a gentle experimental tug.  There's a distant

Floyd | tinkling sound, as if it's attached to a bell in a nearby room.  In a
Floyd | moment a green-clad servant scurries into the suite bearing an
Floyd | enormous plate piled high with caramels.  After bowing deeply to
Floyd | Dorothy, he starts to put the fresh tray of caramels on the little
Floyd | table beside the girl's chair.  But then he sees that the tray on the
Floyd | table is still piled high with caramels.  After a puzzled moment, he

Floyd | shrugs and strides away again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The caramels look very gooey.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "The Scarecrow tells me you've been flicking matches at him again,"
Floyd | you say sternly.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, pooh," Dorothy replies, unconcerned.  "He's exaggerating.  I only
Floyd | did it once or twice.  And anyhow, it didn't hurt him, did it?"
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The DWC-397 Deluxe Wood Chopper is not powered by organic substances.
Floyd | You never eat.  In fact, you have no stomach.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Dorothy glances surreptitiously at the big wicker basket at her feet,
Floyd | and then looks slyly at you to see whether you noticed.  "I'm very
Floyd | sure I don't know what you're talking about," she says prettily.

Floyd | "Anyway, you still seem to be moving around pretty good.  I don't know
Floyd | why you're so worried about your silly old oilcan."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The wicker basket is sitting at Dorothy's feet.  Within it is a plump
Floyd | green cushion, which is stained a rather darker green in the middle,
Floyd | as if a small dog who is not very clean is in the habit of lying
Floyd | there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That is not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you reach out toward the wicker basket, Toto snarls and snaps at
Floyd | you.  In a make-believe adult voice, Dorothy says, "Trying to take
Floyd | nice doggy's nice basket.  Shame on you!" She strokes the disgusting
Floyd | little animal's head and fondles his ears lingeringly.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you reach out toward the wicker basket, Toto snarls and snaps at

Floyd | you.  In a make-believe adult voice, Dorothy says, "Trying to take
Floyd | nice doggy's nice basket.  Shame on you!" She strokes the disgusting
Floyd | little animal's head and fondles his ears lingeringly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Toto is a small, bad-tempered black dog.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Moving with as much stealth as possible, given the amount of noise
Floyd | your joints are making, you sidle up to the caramel tray and pounce on
Floyd | it!

Floyd |
Floyd | After leveling a smoky glare at you, Dorothy calmly reaches up and
Floyd | pulls the bell rope behind her chair.  You hear a distant tinkle.
Floyd | Shortly a green-clad servant rushes into the suite bearing an enormous
Floyd | plate piled high with caramels.  After bowing deeply to Dorothy, the
Floyd | servant puts the fresh tray of caramels on the little table beside the

Floyd | girl's chair, gently but firmly removes the other tray from your
Floyd | grasp, empties the remaining caramels from it onto the fresh tray
Floyd | (which causes a few of them to cascade onto the floor), and, with
Floyd | another bow, withdraws.
Floyd |
Floyd | Deliberately not looking at you, Dorothy takes a fresh caramel, pops

Floyd | it into her mouth, and chews with great determination.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying your axe.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Dorothy's Private Suite
Floyd | This room has been extravagantly outfitted with every manner of

Floyd | luxury, from frilly curtains and cozy throw-pillows (all of them
Floyd | green) to a clutter of dolls and music boxes.  Standing next to the
Floyd | enormous, puffy chair is a spindly glass table.  Dangling down behind
Floyd | the chair, in a position that makes it easy to reach without standing,
Floyd | is a long green silk rope with a green tassel on the end.  The door is
Floyd | to the north.

Floyd |
Floyd | Dorothy is sitting in the overstuffed green chair, with a big silver
Floyd | tray heaped with caramels on the table at her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Toto is curled up in Dorothy's lap.  His yellow eyes are fixed on you
Floyd | with either disdain or veiled hostility.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Pushing the silver tray has no effect.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Moving with as much stealth as possible, given the amount of noise
Floyd | your joints are making, you sidle up to the caramel tray and pounce on

Floyd | it!
Floyd |
Floyd | After leveling a smoky glare at you, Dorothy calmly reaches up and
Floyd | pulls the bell rope behind her chair.  You hear a distant tinkle.
Floyd | Shortly a green-clad servant rushes into the suite bearing an enormous
Floyd | plate piled high with caramels.  After bowing deeply to Dorothy, the

Floyd | servant puts the fresh tray of caramels on the little table beside the
Floyd | girl's chair, gently but firmly removes the other tray from your
Floyd | grasp, empties the remaining caramels from it onto the fresh tray
Floyd | (which causes a few of them to cascade onto the floor), and, with
Floyd | another bow, withdraws.
Floyd |

Floyd | Deliberately not looking at you, Dorothy takes a fresh caramel, pops
Floyd | it into her mouth, and chews with great determination.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see nothing unusual about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see nothing on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Xxxxxx....  Need that oilcan!
Floyd |
Floyd | A Wide Green Hallway
Floyd | The wide green hallway extends westward from here.  The doorway to the

Floyd | north leads to the Scarecrow's private suite, while the doorway to the
Floyd | south leads to Dorothy's suite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Rrtktktkrriieee!  That horrible grinding noise....
Floyd |
Floyd | A Wide Green Hallway
Floyd | The wide green hallway provides access to the private suites in which
Floyd | the Wizard's special guests are lodged.  The door to your own suite is
Floyd | to the south, and the Lion's door is across the hall to the north.

Floyd | You can proceed down the hallway to the east, or descend the broad
Floyd | stairway to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | If you go down the stairs before you find that oilcan and get your
Floyd | joints oiled, you'll never be able to get back up again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Eeeiicchrxkk!  The noise coming from your knees is appalling.  Need
Floyd | that oilcan!!
Floyd |
Floyd | A Wide Green Hallway
Floyd | The wide green hallway extends westward from here.  The doorway to the
Floyd | north leads to the Scarecrow's private suite, while the doorway to the

Floyd | south leads to Dorothy's suite.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.  Obvious exits lead north, to the the
Floyd | scarecrow's private suite; south, to Dorothy's private suite; and
Floyd | west, back to the green hallway.
Floyd |

Floyd | Gggghhhrrggkk.  You're able to move only with difficulty.  This is
Floyd | going to be a real problem before very much longer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dorothy's Private Suite
Floyd | This room has been extravagantly outfitted with every manner of
Floyd | luxury, from frilly curtains and cozy throw-pillows (all of them

Floyd | green) to a clutter of dolls and music boxes.  Standing next to the
Floyd | enormous, puffy chair is a spindly glass table.  Dangling down behind
Floyd | the chair, in a position that makes it easy to reach without standing,
Floyd | is a long green silk rope with a green tassel on the end.  The door is
Floyd | to the north.
Floyd |

Floyd | Dorothy is sitting in the overstuffed green chair, with a big silver
Floyd | tray heaped with caramels on the table at her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Toto is curled up in Dorothy's lap.  His yellow eyes are fixed on you
Floyd | with either disdain or veiled hostility.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The curtains, pillows, dolls, and music boxes are not the sort of
Floyd | thing that a DWC-397 Deluxe Wood Chopper would ever concern himself
Floyd | with.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (with your axe)
Floyd | You wait until a moment when Dorothy is letting Toto lick her face,

Floyd | and sidle over to the bell rope (moving very cautiously so as not to
Floyd | alert her by making any squeaking noises.  A stealthy backhand blow
Floyd | from your trusty axe severs the rope up near the ceiling.  It sighs
Floyd | down into a little coil on the floor, like a dead snake.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | When she notices that the tray of caramels is not conveniently
Floyd | positioned at her elbow, Dorothy turns to grab the bell rope.  When
Floyd | she sees it coiled on the floor, she belatedly realizes that her ready

Floyd | supply of caramels has been cut off.  "You give me back those right
Floyd | now!" she shrieks.  "Give them back at once, do you hear?" You make a
Floyd | noble but perhaps ineffective attempt not to smirk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Oh, all right, all right." Dorothy wrinkles her upper lip.  "Just
Floyd | give me back my nice caramels, and I'll give you your stupid oilcan.
Floyd | It's a fair trade."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Dorothy looks doubtfully from the plate of caramels (which you're
Floyd | holding) to the wicker basket at her feet.  Her little brows wrinkle
Floyd | up, and you're afraid she's about to go into the gallons-of-tears
Floyd | routine.  But then she says, sniffling, "If I give you the oilcan,
Floyd | will you give me back my nice caramels?"
Floyd |

Floyd | Since that was the whole point of cutting the rope and grabbing the
Floyd | caramels (what other earthly use would you have for the sticky
Floyd | things?), you say with dignity, "We can trade, if you like."
Floyd |
Floyd | Without further ado, Dorothy reaches down into the big wicker basket
Floyd | at her feet, gropes under the green cushion, extracts the oilcan, and

Floyd | holds it out to you by the spout in a stiff fist.  It requires an
Floyd | effort not to lunge at it and grab it, but you don't want to give her
Floyd | the satisfaction.  You unwrap her fingers from around the spout quite
Floyd | gently, take the can, and give her the tray of caramels.  She promptly
Floyd | stuffs half a dozen of them into her mouth and chews with great
Floyd | determination, glaring at you the while.  You've spoiled her fun.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Doink, doink.  Doink-doink-doink!  Working swiftly, you apply oil to
Floyd | each of your joints in turn.  Ahh, how soothing!  In short order

Floyd | you're as good as new.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** You have succeeded in lubricating your joints. ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO
Floyd | the last move, or QUIT?

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd | The buzzing of the klaxon is the first thing you hear as you awake.
Floyd | You realize that there must be something wrong, or else you would not

Floyd | have been revived.  Through your cryosleep haze, you hear the PA
Floyd | system: "ALL EVACUATION PODS ARE AWAY.  STATION IS SECURE."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your first task will be to find what's wrong and then approach fixing
Floyd | the problem.
Floyd |

Floyd | Repository (standing in the clone tank)
Floyd | Clone tanks line one wall of the room.  Various other machinery lines
Floyd | the other walls.  Doorways lead northeast to the control room and east
Floyd | to the maintenance area.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Of all the machinery in the room, the only items of interest to you
Floyd | are the card dispenser, the computer terminal and the food dispenser.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (out of the clone tank)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer in the clone tank.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are a standard clone, made for routine duties and emergency
Floyd | situations.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying nothing, and are wearing some coveralls.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The terminal is here for your use to look up procedures on your
Floyd | various tasks and emergency situations around the station.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The card dispenser is where you can get keycards for various parts of
Floyd | the station when you have been called on to service the station.  It
Floyd | consists of a button and a receptacle for receiving the card.

Floyd | Attatched to the front of the machine is a sign.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The card dispenser is where you can get keycards for various parts of

Floyd | the station when you have been called on to service the station.  It
Floyd | consists of a button and a receptacle for receiving the card.
Floyd | Attatched to the front of the machine is a sign.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sign says 'OUT OF ORDER.  Please see the maintenance chief in
Floyd | ACA-Beta-268.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It helps keep clones fed and strong.  It consists of a lever and a
Floyd | chute.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You do not need nourisment at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | What do you want to look that up in?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That is not something you can consult.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The computer screen is blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (the computer terminal)
Floyd | As you switch on the computer, the screen comes to life and scrolls
Floyd | out your current instructions.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The screen displays the following instructions:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1.  Get oxygen tanks and welding torch from cabinets in the

Floyd | maintenance room
Floyd |
Floyd | 2.  Find a way into Gamma Quarters
Floyd |
Floyd | 3.  Weld the breach shut with the welding torch
Floyd |

Floyd | It is clear to you that there's a chance you won't be returning from
Floyd | repairing the hull.  You hope that the memory transference is still
Floyd | working so that your other clones can continue working on the other
Floyd | problems.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Repository
Floyd | Clone tanks line one wall of the room.  Various other machinery lines
Floyd | the other walls.  Doorways lead northeast to the control room and east
Floyd | to the maintenance area.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Maintenance Area
Floyd | Usually this place would be bustling with workers, but with the
Floyd | station evacuated, it's as quiet as a morgue.  A workbench sits along
Floyd | one wall of the room, with cabinets on either side of it.  The control

Floyd | room lies to the north, and the clone repository is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the workbench is a wrench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Those are not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The cabinets both stand on either side of the workbench.  They're 6
Floyd | feet tall with double doors and a slot in the front.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The word "slot" is not necessary in this story.
Floyd |
Floyd | (If this was an accidental misspelling, you can correct it by typing

Floyd | OOPS followed by the corrected word now.  Any time the story points
Floyd | out an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your
Floyd | next command.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which cabinet do you mean, the right cabinet, or the left cabinet?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The right cabinet seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The left cabinet seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying a wrench, and you're wearing some coveralls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It stands about 6 feet high with one set of double doors.  There is a
Floyd | slot on the front side.  It's closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Control Room
Floyd | A big screen dominates the north wall where you can see the Martian
Floyd | surface displayed.  Below the screen is a panel on which you can see
Floyd | indicators giving the status of various parts of the station.  From
Floyd | here you can see some of the panels blinking red, indicating problems
Floyd | with the station.  The clone repository lies to the southwest.  The

Floyd | maintenance area is to the south and you can exit into the corridor to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Repository
Floyd | Clone tanks line one wall of the room.  Various other machinery lines
Floyd | the other walls.  Doorways lead northeast to the control room and east

Floyd | to the maintenance area.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The clone tanks aren't important.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There are six other tanks in the room.  In one of the tanks, a copy of
Floyd | you is being created just in case something happens to you during the

Floyd | course of your mission.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Control Room
Floyd | A big screen dominates the north wall where you can see the Martian
Floyd | surface displayed.  Below the screen is a panel on which you can see

Floyd | indicators giving the status of various parts of the station.  From
Floyd | here you can see some of the panels blinking red, indicating problems
Floyd | with the station.  The clone repository lies to the southwest.  The
Floyd | maintenance area is to the south and you can exit into the corridor to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You can see a portion of the Martian surface below and you can see the
Floyd | temporary facility planetside.  It's pretty clear that the inhabitants
Floyd | evacuated there while you take care of the situation on the station.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It appears that a meteor struck the station right above the living
Floyd | quarters in the Gamma area of section ACA.  The result was a hull

Floyd | breach in that area.  The force of the impact caused a leak in the
Floyd | radiation core in the engine room, which keeps the station in its
Floyd | orbit.  Sensors also indicate an experimental virus loose in the
Floyd | medical lab, probably due to a failed containment field.
Floyd |
Floyd | (NOTE: You can check what you have left to do at any time by typing in

Floyd | 'TODO')
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | 1.  Fix the breach in the station hull

Floyd |
Floyd | 2.  Contain the radiation leak and recover orbit integrity
Floyd |
Floyd | 3.  Contain the experimental virus
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-3
Floyd | This is a north-south corridor that leads toward the hub to the north,
Floyd | and toward the living quarters to the south.  The control room is to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-2
Floyd | This is a north-south corridor that leads toward the hub to the north,
Floyd | and toward the living quarters to the south.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-1
Floyd | This is a corridor that leads toward the hub to the north.  The living

Floyd | quarters are to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | ACA Living Quarters

Floyd | This is the central hub of the living quarters for section ACA.  Alpha
Floyd | quarters are to the west, Beta quarters are to the southwest and Gamma
Floyd | quarters are to the south.  The corridor leading to Gamma quarters has
Floyd | been sealed by a door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You wander down the corridor a little ways trying some of the doors,
Floyd | but find none open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | After wandering down the hallway a little ways, you find a room
Floyd | unlocked, and duck into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Foreman's Room - ACA Beta Room 268

Floyd | The room is very spartan in nature.  Just a bed, a desk, and a closet
Floyd | for clothes.  The corridor is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Just a simple writing surface with a single drawer.  Not much more to
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Opening the desk drawer reveals a cabinet keycard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It is embossed with the foreman's name on one side and has a magnetic

Floyd | strip on the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Just a place to keep clothing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The closet isn't important.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't go that way.  The only obvious exit leads northwest, back to
Floyd | ACA Living Quarters.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You exit the room and head back to the hub of the living quarters.
Floyd |

Floyd | ACA Living Quarters
Floyd | This is the central hub of the living quarters for section ACA.  Alpha
Floyd | quarters are to the west, Beta quarters are to the southwest and Gamma
Floyd | quarters are to the south.  The corridor leading to Gamma quarters has
Floyd | been sealed by a door.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The door has been sealed shut due to the hull breach on the other
Floyd | side.  You spot an access panel next to the door for overriding in
Floyd | case of electrical failure.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The access panel is just to the right of the door and about shoulder

Floyd | height.  It's closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Opening the door access panel reveals a Gamma Quarters manual access

Floyd | bolt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The bolt is for manually opening the door in case of electrical

Floyd | failure, or in your case, sealed due to hull breach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You're just about to open a door that could potentially lead into the
Floyd | vacuum of space.  Should't you put on a breathing apparatus?

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You must be more specific about whom you want to talk to.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Since you're probably trying to open this door to fix the hull breach,
Floyd | shouldn't you have something to fix it with?

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You turn the bolt, and the doors inch their way open, with a big rush
Floyd | of air through them.  You are sucked through the doors, dropping your

Floyd | wrench in the process, and down through the corridor and out through
Floyd | the hull into the vacuum of space.
Floyd |
Floyd | Since you were foolish enough to open the door without taking the
Floyd | proper precautions, you are sucked out into space and your lungs
Floyd | explode, dooming the space station.

Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO
Floyd | the last move, or QUIT?
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Taking back one turn: "turn bolt".
Floyd |
Floyd | ACA Living Quarters
Floyd | This is the central hub of the living quarters for section ACA.  Alpha
Floyd | quarters are to the west, Beta quarters are to the southwest and Gamma
Floyd | quarters are to the south.  The corridor leading to Gamma quarters has

Floyd | been sealed by a door.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door access panel contains a Gamma Quarters manual access bolt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't go that way.  Obvious exits lead south; east, to Corridor
Floyd | ACA-1; west; and southwest, back to the foreman's room - aca beta room
Floyd | 268.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-1
Floyd | This is a corridor that leads toward the hub to the north.  The living

Floyd | quarters are to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-2

Floyd | This is a north-south corridor that leads toward the hub to the north,
Floyd | and toward the living quarters to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-3
Floyd | This is a north-south corridor that leads toward the hub to the north,
Floyd | and toward the living quarters to the south.  The control room is to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Control Room
Floyd | A big screen dominates the north wall where you can see the Martian
Floyd | surface displayed.  Below the screen is a panel on which you can see
Floyd | indicators giving the status of various parts of the station.  From

Floyd | here you can see some of the panels blinking red, indicating problems
Floyd | with the station.  The clone repository lies to the southwest.  The
Floyd | maintenance area is to the south and you can exit into the corridor to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Maintenance Area
Floyd | Usually this place would be bustling with workers, but with the
Floyd | station evacuated, it's as quiet as a morgue.  A workbench sits along
Floyd | one wall of the room, with cabinets on either side of it.  The control

Floyd | room lies to the north, and the clone repository is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Those are not something you can unlock.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Those are not something you can unlock.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The word "slot" is not necessary in this story.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't put anything in the cabinets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It stands about 6 feet high with one set of double doors.  There is a
Floyd | slot on the front side.  It's closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The word "Oi" is not necessary in this story.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Opening the left cabinet reveals some oxygen tanks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Opening the right cabinet reveals a welding torch.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Control Room
Floyd | A big screen dominates the north wall where you can see the Martian
Floyd | surface displayed.  Below the screen is a panel on which you can see
Floyd | indicators giving the status of various parts of the station.  From

Floyd | here you can see some of the panels blinking red, indicating problems
Floyd | with the station.  The clone repository lies to the southwest.  The
Floyd | maintenance area is to the south and you can exit into the corridor to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the oxygen tanks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A portable breathing apparatus for airless environments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Standard uniform for all the clones, suitable for all operations
Floyd | inside the station and out.  Over your left breast, there is a patch
Floyd | with the title 'ACA-001' on it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | 1.  Fix the breach in the station hull

Floyd |
Floyd | 2.  Contain the radiation leak and recover orbit integrity
Floyd |
Floyd | 3.  Contain the experimental virus
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-3
Floyd | This is a north-south corridor that leads toward the hub to the north,

Floyd | and toward the living quarters to the south.  The control room is to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-4
Floyd | This is a north-south corridor that leads toward the hub to the north,
Floyd | and toward the living quarters to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You decide that taking care of the hull breach is much more important
Floyd | than exploring the rest of the station.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-3
Floyd | This is a north-south corridor that leads toward the hub to the north,

Floyd | and toward the living quarters to the south.  The control room is to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor ACA-2
Floyd | This is a north-south corridor that leads toward the hub to the north,
Floyd | and toward the living quarters to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor ACA-1
Floyd | This is a corridor that leads toward the hub to the north.  The living

Floyd | quarters are to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.  Obvious exits lead north, back to Corridor
Floyd | ACA-2; and west, to ACA Living Quarters.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.  Obvious exits lead north, back to Corridor

Floyd | ACA-2; and west, to ACA Living Quarters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | ACA Living Quarters

Floyd | This is the central hub of the living quarters for section ACA.  Alpha
Floyd | quarters are to the west, Beta quarters are to the southwest and Gamma
Floyd | quarters are to the south.  The corridor leading to Gamma quarters has
Floyd | been sealed by a door.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door access panel contains a Gamma Quarters manual access bolt.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You turn the bolt, and the doors inch their way open, with a big rush
Floyd | of air through them.  You are sucked through the doors, dropping your

Floyd | wrench in the process, and down through the corridor and out through
Floyd | the hull into the vacuum of space.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sharp edge on the hole slices through the hose of your oxygen tanks,
Floyd | and slows you down just enough to grab hold of the outside of the
Floyd | space station.  You hold your breath, but you know you're not going to

Floyd | last long.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Station
Floyd | You are clinging to the outside of Folkar Station just outside Gamma
Floyd | Quarters.  You can see into the corridor from the hole in the hull,
Floyd | but there's no way to climb back in.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taking back one turn: "turn bolt".

Floyd |
Floyd | ACA Living Quarters
Floyd | This is the central hub of the living quarters for section ACA.  Alpha
Floyd | quarters are to the west, Beta quarters are to the southwest and Gamma
Floyd | quarters are to the south.  The corridor leading to Gamma quarters has
Floyd | been sealed by a door.

Floyd |
Floyd | The door access panel contains a Gamma Quarters manual access bolt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You turn the bolt, and the doors inch their way open, with a big rush
Floyd | of air through them.  You are sucked through the doors, dropping your
Floyd | wrench in the process, and down through the corridor and out through

Floyd | the hull into the vacuum of space.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sharp edge on the hole slices through the hose of your oxygen tanks,
Floyd | and slows you down just enough to grab hold of the outside of the
Floyd | space station.  You hold your breath, but you know you're not going to
Floyd | last long.

Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Station
Floyd | You are clinging to the outside of Folkar Station just outside Gamma
Floyd | Quarters.  You can see into the corridor from the hole in the hull,
Floyd | but there's no way to climb back in.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Jagged edges surround the hole.  It's impossible to get back into the
Floyd | station through it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The edges of the hole are too far apart.  You cannot weld them
Floyd | together.

Floyd |
Floyd | It's beginning to be difficult to hold your breath.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (the jagged hole)
Floyd | Jagged edges surround the hole.  It's impossible to get back into the
Floyd | station through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your concentration begins to falter as you struggle to hold your
Floyd | breath a little longer.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see no tank here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying a cabinet keycard and a welding torch, and you're
Floyd | wearing some coveralls and some oxygen tanks.
Floyd |

Floyd | You find that you cannot hold your breath any longer, and the vacuum
Floyd | of space is a bad place to try and breathe.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO

Floyd | the last move, or QUIT?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taking back one turn: "i".
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Station

Floyd | You are clinging to the outside of Folkar Station just outside Gamma
Floyd | Quarters.  You can see into the corridor from the hole in the hull,
Floyd | but there's no way to climb back in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taking back one turn: "x station".
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Station
Floyd | You are clinging to the outside of Folkar Station just outside Gamma

Floyd | Quarters.  You can see into the corridor from the hole in the hull,
Floyd | but there's no way to climb back in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taking back one turn: "weld hole".
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Station
Floyd | You are clinging to the outside of Folkar Station just outside Gamma
Floyd | Quarters.  You can see into the corridor from the hole in the hull,
Floyd | but there's no way to climb back in.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taking back one turn: "x hole".

Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Station
Floyd | You are clinging to the outside of Folkar Station just outside Gamma
Floyd | Quarters.  You can see into the corridor from the hole in the hull,
Floyd | but there's no way to climb back in.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Taking back one turn: "turn bolt".
Floyd |
Floyd | ACA Living Quarters

Floyd | This is the central hub of the living quarters for section ACA.  Alpha
Floyd | quarters are to the west, Beta quarters are to the southwest and Gamma
Floyd | quarters are to the south.  The corridor leading to Gamma quarters has
Floyd | been sealed by a door.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door access panel contains a Gamma Quarters manual access bolt.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You turn the bolt, and the doors inch their way open, with a big rush
Floyd | of air through them.  You are sucked through the doors, dropping your
Floyd | wrench in the process, and down through the corridor and out through
Floyd | the hull into the vacuum of space.

Floyd |
Floyd | A sharp edge on the hole slices through the hose of your oxygen tanks,
Floyd | and slows you down just enough to grab hold of the outside of the
Floyd | space station.  You hold your breath, but you know you're not going to
Floyd | last long.
Floyd |

Floyd | Outside Station
Floyd | You are clinging to the outside of Folkar Station just outside Gamma
Floyd | Quarters.  You can see into the corridor from the hole in the hull,
Floyd | but there's no way to climb back in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't put anything in the jagged hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There's no good surface on the jagged hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's beginning to be difficult to hold your breath.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The hole is much too jagged and small for you to climb back through.
Floyd | It's a wonder you were sucked out it in the first place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your concentration begins to falter as you struggle to hold your

Floyd | breath a little longer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The word "self" is not necessary in this story.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (the jagged hole)
Floyd | Jagged edges surround the hole.  It's impossible to get back into the
Floyd | station through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You find that you cannot hold your breath any longer, and the vacuum
Floyd | of space is a bad place to try and breathe.

Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO
Floyd | the last move, or QUIT?
Floyd |

Floyd | >