ClubFloyd Transcript:
Rogue of the Multiverse by C.E.J. Pacian
As played on ifMUD on November 27, 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 Rogue of the Multiverse, written by C.E.J. Pacian. Rogue of the Multiverse was originally released as part of the 2010 Interactive Fiction Competition, where it took second place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

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

Floyd | > Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
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Floyd | Rogue of the Multiverse
Floyd | by C.E.J.  Pacian
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Floyd | Great towers rise from the desert, beneath a clear blue sky.  Their
Floyd | mirrored sides reflect the afternoon sun through a shimmering heat
Floyd | haze.  Specks hover over the city on veined wings or burning jets.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Press space...)
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Floyd | [Enter 'about' for more info, 'credits' to see who made the game
Floyd | possible, and 'hint' if you get stuck.]
Floyd |
Floyd | The klaxon sounds briefly, and your cell door rattles open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've only been in this prison a few days, and you're not confident
Floyd | that you'll make it through too many more.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cell
Floyd | The cracked tiles of your small cell have been defaced by decades of
Floyd | graffiti.  The metal door out stands open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Springs protrude from your decrepit old bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Welcome to the Imbroglio, human.  Enter simple imperative commands, or
Floyd | click on hyperlinks to perform actions.  Type directions to move
Floyd | between locations.  You can attempt to interact with any object in your
Floyd | current location.
Floyd |
Floyd | To read a brief list of the most common commands in this game, enter
Floyd | INSTRUCTIONS.  Even experienced players might like to take a quick look
Floyd | at the parts about movement and disambiguation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's definitely you.  How exactly you wound up in this jail is an
Floyd | interesting question.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying nothing, and are wearing an orange uniform.
Floyd |
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Floyd | It identifies you as convict #76954, albeit not in human numerals.
Floyd |
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Floyd | A big, slightly springy mattress suitable for a wide variety of
Floyd | species.
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Floyd | A lot of it's in languages you've never even seen before.  You
Floyd | recognise some apian gang symbols, some vulgar saurian poetry, and some
Floyd | crude drawings of octopodes in coitu.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | They might have looked nice once, in an institutional kind of way.
Floyd |
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Floyd | You see nothing unusual under the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's a cold and uncaring Multiverse out there to be running around
Floyd | naked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Cell Block X
Floyd | Rotating fan vents light this wide corridor with harsh, flickering
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orange suited prisoners drift listlessly forwards.
Floyd |
Floyd | Saurian guards keep a close eye on the inmates.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Burly, reptilian bipeds in thick body armour.  From experience you know
Floyd | they're just looking for an excuse to use their shock sticks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Organics and androids, bipeds and octopodes...  Humans are conspicuous
Floyd | by their absence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Obvious exits lead in, back to the cell; and forwards.
Floyd |
Floyd | (You can control the exit listings with the EXITS command.  EXITS
Floyd | STATUS shows the exit list in the status line, EXITS LOOK shows a full
Floyd | exit list in each room description, EXITS ON shows both, and EXITS OFF
Floyd | turns off both kinds of exit lists.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The list of exits will not be shown in the status line, and will be
Floyd | included in room descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Cell Block X
Floyd | Rotating fan vents light this wide corridor with harsh, flickering
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orange suited prisoners drift listlessly forwards.
Floyd |
Floyd | Saurian guards keep a close eye on the inmates.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: In, Forwards
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Capable of doling out agonising pain and leaving no perceptible marks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Many of them lethal killing machines to varying degrees of literalness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Generally squishy and full of fluid, just like you, although many have
Floyd | exoskeletons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A cheap solution to both lighting and ventilation.  That's saurians for
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Skyway
Floyd | A raised skyway between Cell Block X and the rest of the prison tower.
Floyd | It provides a view of the endless wasteland you'd have to traverse if
Floyd | you even managed to escape.  Wire mesh prevents inmates from throwing
Floyd | themselves over the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | A burly guard stands watch by the way forwards.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two inmates - one saurian, one apian - are dawdling on the skyway.  The
Floyd | apian nudges her companion and points at you.  "What's that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | He guffaws.  "Ain't you never seen a human before?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Forwards, Backwards
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Her black and yellow exoskeleton has been scrimshawed with elaborate
Floyd | gang carvings.
Floyd |
Floyd | She looks back at you.  "Oh honey, what juicy eyes you have."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Isn't human," the apian says, "like, the other other white meat?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "No fur," the saurian muses, looking you up and down, "no exoskeleton
Floyd | or scales.  Like a walking buffet."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Razor sharp teeth, hungry eyes and green-scaled skin that's stretched
Floyd | taut over his muscles.
Floyd |
Floyd | He stares back at you.  "What are you looking at, chimp?"
Floyd |
Floyd | The guard draws his shock stick.  "Break it up you three.  This isn't a
Floyd | social club."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your two new friends walk away laughing, the saurian pausing to thump
Floyd | you on the back.  "We'll catch you for a bite later, hey pal?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command.
Floyd |
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Floyd | Checkpoint
Floyd | A number of scanners and drone turrets are arrayed around a low
Floyd | platform, overseen by a smiley face on a computer screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The smiley-faced computer assembles a sentence out of painfully
Floyd | cheerful soundbites.  "Greetings!  Convict 76954!  Please!  Stand on
Floyd | the!  Scanning platform!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Forwards, Backwards
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A simple cartoon face that corresponds to the eye and mouth placements
Floyd | of most saurians, apians and lesser octopodes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You stand on the platform.  The scanners begin to whir around you,
Floyd | beams tingling over your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Thank you!" the computer chirps, "For your!  Co-operation!  Please
Floyd | wait...  For the scan to complete..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Scuffed by countless feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing on the scanning platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Scanning..." the computer drones.  "Scanning..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Checkpoint (standing on the scanning platform)
Floyd | A number of scanners and drone turrets are arrayed around a low
Floyd | platform, overseen by a smiley face on a computer screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Forwards, Backwards
Floyd |
Floyd | "Scan complete!" the computer announces.  "The scan found!  No!
Floyd | Contraband!  Congratulations!  You have also been selected for!
Floyd | Scientific experimentation!  Please go!  Forward!  And collect your
Floyd | prize..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first getting off of the scanning platform)
Floyd | "Please!" the computer sings.  "Proceed!  Forward!  To!  Participate in
Floyd | a scientific experiment!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The drone turrets swivel to aim multi-barrelled machineguns at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

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

Floyd | The word "guns" is not necessary in this story.
Floyd |
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Floyd | They look like they could put a real dent in your day.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

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

Floyd | Interview Room
Floyd | Cosily lit, with a messy noticeboard on one wall.  A narrow desk takes
Floyd | up the centre of the room, strewn with notes.  An empty chair is turned
Floyd | slightly towards you.
Floyd |
Floyd | A saurian in a labcoat sits on the opposite side of the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | A muscular guard blocks the exit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Out
Floyd |
Floyd | The saurian smiles, baring her pointed teeth.  "Well, hello!  I'm Dr.
Floyd | Sliss.  Are those appendages prehensile?  How wonderful!  Why don't you
Floyd | take a seat and we'll begin?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Her skin consists of shimmering green scales, and her golden,
Floyd | slit-pupil eyes hold a calculating beauty.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss is wearing a labcoat, a white blouse, a grey skirt, and red
Floyd | shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't be shy," Dr. Sliss says.  "I won't bite."
Floyd |
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Floyd | (on the chair)
Floyd | Intended for saurian backsides, the chair is less than comfortable.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now," Dr. Sliss says, "let's get down to business.  Would you start by
Floyd | confirming your name?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Enter your name:>>

Floyd | "Hunkomeat!" the doctor repeats cheerfully.  "How barely pronounceable!
Floyd | And do you identify as male or female, Hunkomeat?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could say male, or female.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "But of course," the doctor says.  "Now, some questions about your
Floyd | medical history.  Please be honest."
Floyd |
Floyd | She turns to the first page of her notes.  "Have you ever been exposed
Floyd | to more than 200 yegs of radiation?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could say yes or no.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The doctor scribbles down your answer.  "I see. Has your head ever been
Floyd | detached from its current body?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could say yes or no.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The doctor scribbles down your answer.  "If you say so. Have you ever
Floyd | had any form of unprotected sex with an entity that exists in more than
Floyd | four macroscopic spatial dimensions?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could say yes or no.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The doctor scribbles down your answer.  "Really?  You should try it
Floyd | sometime. Have your actions ever been controlled by hive-linked cortex
Floyd | worms?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could say yes or no.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The doctor scribbles down your answer.  "The fact you can admit it
Floyd | proves you've recovered. Now, the following questions attempt to gauge
Floyd | your personality.  There are no right or wrong answers, so just relax
Floyd | and answer truthfully.  Are you now or have you ever been a member of
Floyd | the Apian Individualist Coalition, or AIC?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could say yes or no.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The doctor scribbles down your answer.  "That should please the
Floyd | bean-counters. Have you ever consumed your own offspring?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could say yes or no.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The doctor scribbles down your answer.  "I certainly don't judge you
Floyd | for it. Finally, I see you're serving a life sentence.  Well...  Did
Floyd | you do it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could say yes or no.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The doctor scribbles down your answer.  "And I believe you, even though
Floyd | there's absolutely nothing I can do about it. Well, I'm pleased to say
Floyd | that you meet all of the requirements of my research - especially the
Floyd | parts that prohibit experiments on fellow saurians."
Floyd |
Floyd | She nods to the guard.  "You may shock him now."
Floyd |
Floyd | Something cold and metallic touches the back of your neck - and then
Floyd | you taste burning and everything goes white.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Press space...)
Floyd |
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Floyd | You're awoken by an unfamiliar beeping sound.  You sit bolt upright and
Floyd | look around.
Floyd |
Floyd | Holding Cell (sitting on the bed)
Floyd | A bare room of white walls.  Strip lights glare down from the ceiling,
Floyd | and there's an intercom next to the way out.
Floyd |
Floyd | A white, saurian-style bed occupies the middle of the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something in the room seems to be beeping.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Out
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Raised up off the floor, with a gap in the middle for your tail to go
Floyd | through when you're lying on your back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are sitting on the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something in the room seems to be beeping.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | How do you get in these predicaments?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Something in the room seems to be beeping.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see nothing unusual under the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | A simple grille in the wall.  There's a big red button beneath it.  The
Floyd | beeping seems to be coming from the intercom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A simple grille in the wall.  There's a big red button beneath it.  The
Floyd | beeping seems to be coming from the intercom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The kind of cosy lighting that might be at home in a morgue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying nothing, and are wearing a collar and an orange
Floyd | uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something in the room seems to be beeping.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A leather collar with a small metal box at the throat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's slightly warm to the touch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something in the room seems to be beeping.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Dr. Sliss' voice crackles through the speaker.  "Rise and shine!
Floyd | Welcome to the Long Range Matter Transmission Complex!  Isn't this much
Floyd | nicer than that nasty prison?  Nobody here is carving makeshift blades
Floyd | to stab you with.  As far as I know."
Floyd |
Floyd | The door unlocks with a click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first standing up, then opening the door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss leans over the catwalk railing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the antechamber, or back to the holding cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor waves down at you.  "Do you like your new fashion accessory?
Floyd | With that collar, I can always keep tabs on my favourite chimp.  No,
Floyd | don't try to remove it - the explosive charge will blow your head off."
Floyd |
Floyd | After a moment, she adds, "Also, you might want to keep your distance
Floyd | from microwave ovens."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | How do you get in these predicaments?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now," Dr. Sliss says with a grin, "why don't you step into the
Floyd | antechamber.  There may be a banana in it for you!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A leather collar with a small metal box at the throat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Members of various sapient species, all wearing black armour.  Their
Floyd | brains seem to have been replaced with an exposed mass of wiring and
Floyd | tubes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A narrow catwalk, utilitarian and sturdy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss is standing on the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cyborgs are standing on the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Antechamber
Floyd | A long, narrow room, the walls bulging with strange pipes and
Floyd | machinery.  The most notable feature is the thickly armoured airlock
Floyd | door leading further in.  Either side of the airlock are an equipment
Floyd | rack and a glass tube.  A more conventional exit leads back out.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the equipment rack are a launcher, a scanner, and a retrieval
Floyd | beacon.  The glass tube contains an environment suit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: In, Out
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the transmission chamber, or back to the complex
Floyd | lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | A wall-mounted monitor flickers to life, displaying Dr Sliss' face.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Through that airlock is the matter transmission chamber.  You're going
Floyd | to be performing a routine, uh, salvage detail on a non-Treaty world.
Floyd | Which world?  Who knows, there are millions."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's closed, and contains an environment suit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr Sliss peers around the room from the monitor.  "You'll need all this
Floyd | equipment if you want to return in one piece.  Which is not to say that
Floyd | our advanced medical facility is unable to cope with multiple pieces,
Floyd | but bio-glue doesn't come cheap."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | On the equipment rack are a launcher, a scanner, and a retrieval
Floyd | beacon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It looks kind of like a gun, only weirder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen is blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | An orange cylinder with RETRIEVAL BEACON stencilled on it.  A thin cord
Floyd | protrudes from it with a ring on the end, begging to be pulled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | launcher: You sling the launcher over your shoulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You can use the launcher to tag valuables," Dr. Sliss tells you.  "At
Floyd | the end of the mission, anything you've tagged will be matter
Floyd | transmitted into one of our five retrieval tanks for salvage."
Floyd |
Floyd | After a moment's thought, she adds, "Please note that the Complex has
Floyd | an ample supply of bananas.  Do not tag bananas."
Floyd |
Floyd | The exit locks with a chunky click.
Floyd |
Floyd | scanner: The scanner fits neatly in your palm.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The scanner is able to detect points of interest within five
Floyd | kitrecks," Dr. Sliss says.  "Go to these points of interest and tag
Floyd | anything valuable with the launcher."
Floyd |
Floyd | retrieval beacon: You find the beacon adheres somehow to the front of
Floyd | your outfit.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The beacon is your way home," Dr. Sliss says.  "If everything goes
Floyd | wrong, or if you've tagged everything valuable in sight, just pull the
Floyd | cord on the beacon and we'll retrieve you whether the mission clock has
Floyd | run out or not.  And don't worry if you're too wounded or dismembered
Floyd | to pull the cord: the lifesign monitors on your collar will fulfil the
Floyd | same function when you're near death."
Floyd |
Floyd | environment suit:
Floyd | (first opening the glass tube)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | "We don't exactly want you running around the complex with a blast
Floyd | launcher," Dr. Sliss adds, "so you'll have to return all the equipment
Floyd | before you can leave."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You step into the suit and fasten the seals.  Your ears pop slightly as
Floyd | it pressurises.
Floyd |
Floyd | "If something should happen to you," Dr. Sliss explains, "the bright
Floyd | yellow colour of the suit will make it easier to retrieve your - uh,
Floyd | yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's it," Dr. Sliss says, "you're ready.  Enter the airlock and it's
Floyd | nothing but open skies and banana trees from here on."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You're Hunkomeat, the male human.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you've scored a job as a lab rat.  Keep it up!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | (first opening the airlock door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Transmission Chamber
Floyd | An enormous metal dome lit by the distant floodlights that surround an
Floyd | armoured observation window.  A huge antenna aims directly down at you
Floyd | from above.
Floyd |
Floyd | A metal chair is bolted to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armoured airlock door leads out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Out Dr. Sliss appears at the observation window.
Floyd |
Floyd | Her voice booms over a loudspeaker.  "When you're ready to begin the-"
Floyd | she clears her throat, "salvage mission, please take a seat.  We'll
Floyd | retrieve you when 50 seegols have elapsed, when you activate your
Floyd | beacon, or when you're about to die.  Whichever happens first."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | It looks like it has a lot of zap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (on the metal chair)
Floyd | You sit on the metal chair.  Restraints clunk into place around your
Floyd | wrists and ankles.  "Just relax," Dr. Sliss says.  "I've transmitted
Floyd | several warm-blooded organisms and very few experienced anatomical
Floyd | inversion."
Floyd |
Floyd | Everything begins to glow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss continues, "You may feel a sensation like every molecule in
Floyd | your body being forced through a microscopic wormhole like so much
Floyd | toothpaste.  Don't be alarmed.  It's merely that this is exactly what's
Floyd | happening."
Floyd |
Floyd | Everything seems to be growing extremely elongated and distant.  Before
Floyd | the whole world disappears with a snap, you hear Dr. Sliss say,
Floyd | "Remember!  Tag valuable objects!  Bananas aren't valuable!"
Floyd |
Floyd | (Press space...)
Floyd |
Floyd | With the sound of billions of molecules snapping into place, you pop
Floyd | back into existence - falling some distance to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | City 0 E 0 N (lying on the ground)
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an automated news stand here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A coin-operated newspaper stand with a pair of robot arms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -3 E, -3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at 3 E, 4 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -4 E, -1 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -3 E, 3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -2 E, 3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -1 E, -3 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the automated news stand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -3 E, -3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at 3 E, 4 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -4 E, -1 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -3 E, 3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -2 E, 3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -1 E, -3 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first standing up)
Floyd | City 1 E 0 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 2 E 0 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a hovercar here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Sleek and curvaceous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the hovercar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Lavish, curvaceous and streamlined, all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 3 E -1 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | City 3 E -2 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a hovercar here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the hovercar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 6 E, -5 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -1 E, -3 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 6 E, -5 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -1 E, -3 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 4 E -2 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | City 5 E -2 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | City 6 E -3 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | City 7 E -4 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 5 E, -5 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 6 E -4 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | City 5 E -5 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | A smiling android cop patrols the streets.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | She's wearing a smart blue uniform and a peaked hat.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cop leaves to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 6 E, -5 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 4 E -4 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 6 E, -5 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 3 E -3 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 6 E, -5 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -1 E, -3 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 4 E -2 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 7 E, -5 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 5 E -1 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | City 5 E 0 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 5 E 1 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an automated hotdog stand here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A coin-operated hotdog stand with a pair of robot arms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the automated hotdog stand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 2 E, 5 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 4 E 2 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 2 E, 5 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at 2 E, 6 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 3 E 3 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 3 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 2 E, 5 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -2 E, 3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at 2 E, 6 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 2 E 4 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 1 E, 5 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -2 E, 3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at 1 E, 6 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at 0 E, 8 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 1 E 5 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | An android housewife is window-shopping here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the housewife.  The housewife grabs the tag and pulls it off.
Floyd |
Floyd | The housewife flees to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 1 E 5 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 1 E 4 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | An android housewife is window-shopping here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | She's wearing a modest dress and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at 0 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 5 E, 1 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at 2 E, 0 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at 1 E, 4 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -3 E, 3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -2 E, 3 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at 2 E, 6 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at -1 E, 8 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying a launcher, a scanner, and a retrieval beacon, and
Floyd | you're wearing a collar, an environment suit, and an orange uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | The housewife leaves to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | City 2 E 5 N
Floyd | Elegant art deco buildings line the streets, futurist skyscrapers
Floyd | pierce the skyline and the pavements are all clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest,
Floyd | Southeast, Southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | Your watch starts vibrating.  Everything begins to glow.  You feel a
Floyd | sensation like being pulled backwards down your own throat.
Floyd |
Floyd | You materialise in the matter transmission chamber with a pop, and fall
Floyd | flailing to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Transmission Chamber (lying on the floor)
Floyd | An enormous metal dome lit by the distant floodlights that surround an
Floyd | armoured observation window.  A huge antenna aims directly down at you
Floyd | from above.
Floyd |
Floyd | A metal chair is bolted to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armoured airlock door leads out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss looks down at you from the observation window.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Out
Floyd |
Floyd | "Welcome home, Hunkomeat," the doctor booms over the tannoy.  "It looks
Floyd | like 4 of our retrieval tanks received salvage.  Let's see what you
Floyd | tagged..."
Floyd |
Floyd | (Press space...)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss touches her chin thoughtfully.  "Hey, chimpy-boy, what do you
Floyd | say we incentivise you?  I'll give you 10% of the value of everything
Floyd | you, ahem, salvage.  It's only fair - you do take at least part of the
Floyd | risk."
Floyd |
Floyd | "A cheap robot and a load of news articles about another timeline.  I
Floyd | don't see the market for it, to be honest."
Floyd | [Cash +100]
Floyd |
Floyd | "An actual hovercar.  On the one hand: supersonic jet engine.  On the
Floyd | other: no seatbelts."
Floyd | [Cash +400]
Floyd |
Floyd | "An actual hovercar.  On the one hand: supersonic jet engine.  On the
Floyd | other: no seatbelts."
Floyd | [Cash +400]
Floyd |
Floyd | "A robot that sells elongated packets of cooked offal.  I smell a new
Floyd | fast food craze in the offing."
Floyd | [Cash +250]
Floyd |
Floyd | Then she looks down at you and grins.  "You know, a lot of my subjects
Floyd | are gibbering wrecks by this point.  I knew you were a good candidate.
Floyd | Why don't you take some time to relax before coming back for your next
Floyd | mission?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | (first standing up)
Floyd |
Floyd | Antechamber
Floyd | A long, narrow room, the walls bulging with strange pipes and
Floyd | machinery.  The most notable feature is the thickly armoured airlock
Floyd | door leading further in.  Either side of the airlock are an equipment
Floyd | rack and a glass tube.  A more conventional exit leads back out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: In, Out, Forwards, Backwards
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the complex lower level, or back to the
Floyd | transmission chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | You change out of your environment suit and return your equipment to
Floyd | the racks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The exit unlocks with a click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first opening the exit)
Floyd |
Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Forwards, Backwards
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the holding cell, left to the infirmary, right to
Floyd | a long corridor, or back to the antechamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss walks out onto the catwalk overhead.  "I've given you access
Floyd | to some of the other areas of the complex," she says.  "Have a look
Floyd | around.  Just don't forget to go on missions or I may have to turn you
Floyd | into one of these lobotomised cyborgs!"
Floyd |
Floyd | She laughs playfully, her pointed teeth glinting in the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Infirmary
Floyd | A single white bed stands in the centre of the room, overlooked by an
Floyd | expansive observation window.
Floyd |
Floyd | A long mechanical arm hangs from the ceiling, ending in the torso of a
Floyd | white auto-doc.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Out
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | An androgynous android with numerous arms ending in advanced medical
Floyd | instruments.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Wonder if..." the auto-doc begins, trailing off thoughtfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, you're now lying on the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The auto-doc orbits the infirmary anti-clockwise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | "Singular airway and oesophagus," the auto-doc notes.  "Choking
Floyd | hazard."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, you're now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Unnecessary organs noted," the auto-doc announces.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Obvious exits: Left, Right, Forwards, Backwards
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to a long corridor, left to the holding cell, right
Floyd | to the antechamber, or back to the infirmary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | What do you want to get out of?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Obvious exits lead left; right, to the antechamber; forwards; and
Floyd | backwards, back to the infirmary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The list of exits will no longer be shown in either the status line or
Floyd | room description.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Antechamber
Floyd | A long, narrow room, the walls bulging with strange pipes and
Floyd | machinery.  The most notable feature is the thickly armoured airlock
Floyd | door leading further in.  Either side of the airlock are an equipment
Floyd | rack and a glass tube.  A more conventional exit leads back out.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the equipment rack are a scanner, a retrieval beacon, and a
Floyd | launcher.  The glass tube contains an environment suit.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the transmission chamber, or back to the complex
Floyd | lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | You don the environment suit and grab your equipment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The exit slides shut and locks with a click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first opening the exit)
Floyd |
Floyd | You change out of your environment suit and return your equipment to
Floyd | the racks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The exit unlocks with a click.
Floyd |
Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the holding cell, left to the infirmary, right to
Floyd | a long corridor, or back to the antechamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the emergency exit, left to the bathroom, right
Floyd | to the canteen, or back to the complex: lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The screen is blank.  There's a tempting button beneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | To your surprise, the screen fills with text.  Seems kind of lo-fi.
Floyd |
Floyd | --WELCOME TO--
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Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd | Matter Transmission Made Easy
Floyd |
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Floyd | provides illumination for all levels.  Worked examples unravel the
Floyd | tough mathematics of intra-planar matter transmission and inter-planar
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Floyd | 2 - Dryzandia Drift
Floyd | 3 - Drone Fantasies Illustrated
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Floyd | 5 - Matter Transmission Made Easy
Floyd | 6 - Introduction to Octopode Art
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Floyd | 3 - Drone Fantasies Illustrated
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Floyd | 5 - Matter Transmission Made Easy
Floyd | 6 - Introduction to Octopode Art
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Floyd |
Floyd | Introduction to Octopode Art
Floyd |
Floyd | Looking for some culture, but just not able to get a handle on those
Floyd | four dimensional holograms?  Worried you might not be able to see the
Floyd | same colour spectrum as a lesser octopode?  Trying to maintain a
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Floyd | everything you need to know in this layman's guide to avant garde
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Floyd | 2 - Dryzandia Drift
Floyd | 3 - Drone Fantasies Illustrated
Floyd | 4 - Lord Jim
Floyd | 5 - Matter Transmission Made Easy
Floyd | 6 - Introduction to Octopode Art
Floyd |
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Floyd |
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Floyd | 2 - Pyjamas
Floyd | 3 - Swimsuit
Floyd | 4 - Tuxedo
Floyd | 5 - Evening dress
Floyd |
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Floyd | Swimsuit
Floyd |
Floyd | The latest saurian style will keep you cool in roasting heat while you
Floyd | dip your toes in the sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | Price: 200 credits.
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Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - LRMT uniform
Floyd | 2 - Pyjamas
Floyd | 3 - Swimsuit
Floyd | 4 - Tuxedo
Floyd | 5 - Evening dress
Floyd |
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Floyd | 3 - Books
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Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Octopode holo-gallery
Floyd | 2 - Double bed
Floyd | 3 - Lava lamp
Floyd | 4 - Saurian sculpture
Floyd | 5 - Apian glowlamp
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Floyd |
Floyd | Octopode holo-gallery
Floyd |
Floyd | Bring some tentacular culture to your living room with this
Floyd | holo-gallery of works by famous octopode artists.
Floyd |
Floyd | Price: 1000 credits.
Floyd | Your balance: 1150 credits.
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Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Octopode holo-gallery
Floyd | 2 - Double bed
Floyd | 3 - Lava lamp
Floyd | 4 - Saurian sculpture
Floyd | 5 - Apian glowlamp
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

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Floyd | Your balance: 1150 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Clothes
Floyd | 2 - Furniture
Floyd | 3 - Books
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | Have a nice day.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the emergency exit, left to the bathroom, right
Floyd | to the canteen, or back to the complex: lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | A utilitarian shower and a saurian toilet, all lit harshly by
Floyd | fluorescent lights that emit a sickly hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | A voice whispers from the toilet bowl.  "Hey!  Over here!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You peer cautiously into the toilet bowl.  An enormous, seemingly
Floyd | eyeless white worm, easily the size of your whole arm, looks back at
Floyd | you from within.  "Finally!" the worm says.  "Look, you're not alone in
Floyd | this mess.  The name's Sola.  Also known as Test Subject 13, the one
Floyd | that got away."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | You flush the toilet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sola gurgles, "Blub!  You're not getting rid of me that easily."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Look," Sola says, "I'm an undercover agent from the Core Alliance.  I
Floyd | escaped into the sewer system when that damn saurian scientist started
Floyd | to twig, but I need your help."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A massive white worm, vaguely transparent.  Hir only real features are
Floyd | a surprisingly dextrous mouth and the silhouette of hir elongated
Floyd | brain.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey, what's your name, anyway?"  Sola asks.  "Hunkomeat?  I guess you
Floyd | need teeth to pronounce that properly."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You chat to Sola for a while, but don't learn anything important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Sola sighs.  "I'm sure Dr. Sliss means well, in her own way.  And
Floyd | ultimately it's the government of Dryzandia that should be held
Floyd | responsible.  Still, she's a complete whackjob."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "You're standing on it," Sola says.  "Almost uninhabitable, no valuable
Floyd | exports, but they've made a fortune incarcerating prisoners from other
Floyd | Treaty worlds.  Not exactly the route to power and prestige though,
Floyd | which is probably why they've started pillaging non-Treaty worlds."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "The Mutual Defence and Non-Aggression Treaty," Sola says.  "The most
Floyd | advanced worlds in the Imbroglio sign up to it to get protection from
Floyd | interdimensional bandits and rogue states.  Of course, to remain a
Floyd | member there's a minimum standard of conduct."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Treaty worlds have two main obligations," Sola says.  "They have to
Floyd | contibute to the military and police forces that protect all Treaty
Floyd | worlds - you know, schmucks like me.  And they have to refrain from
Floyd | violating the sovereignty of other civilised or pristine worlds,
Floyd | whether those worlds are a part of the Treaty or not."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You chat to Sola for a while, but don't learn anything important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You chat to Sola for a while, but don't learn anything important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You chat to Sola for a while, but don't learn anything important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You chat to Sola for a while, but don't learn anything important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "What's there to know?"  Sola says.  "Pretty typical nematode.  I was a
Floyd | cop in the Squirm for a couple of decades, but I got sick of the
Floyd | corruption.  I joined the Core Alliance out of some misplaced sense of
Floyd | duty, got assigned to the worst undercover job in history, wriggled out
Floyd | of my exploding collar and now live down the shitter.  No family back
Floyd | home, but thinking of having kids through autogamy - if I ever get out
Floyd | of here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You chat to Sola for a while, but don't learn anything important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Easy enough to slip out of it if you don't have any bones," Sola says.
Floyd | "Although it did explode shortly after."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "That's where you are right now," Sola explains, "and every place
Floyd | you've ever been.  The Imbroglio consists of countless worlds, all
Floyd | inter-connected across time, space and alternate realities.  The most
Floyd | habitable, most interconnected worlds form the Core Alliance.  Most
Floyd | other worlds worth a damn are part of the MDANA treaty."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Sola looks around furtively.  "The Core Alliance knows that Dryzandia
Floyd | has an unlicensed matter transmitter, but they don't know where, and
Floyd | they don't know what it's being used for.  Dr. Sliss is giving you an
Floyd | incentive, right?  There's a shopping terminal right next to the exit.
Floyd | I need you to buy some common household items for me, so I can assemble
Floyd | a makeshift cross-planar quantum packet modulator."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Okay, listen up," Sola says.  "With a cross-planar quantum packet
Floyd | modulator I can contact my superiors without anyone on Dryzandia
Floyd | noticing.  I should be able to make one with parts from a holo-gallery
Floyd | and a lava lamp.  But I'll need to read up on the theory first."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | A utilitarian shower and a saurian toilet, all lit harshly by
Floyd | fluorescent lights that emit a sickly hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sola looks up at you from the toilet bowl.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the canteen, left to the emergency exit, right to
Floyd | the complex: lower level, or back to the bathroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Canteen
Floyd | Decorated in a homely style - for saurians.  The cactus-print wallpaper
Floyd | is peeling and torn.
Floyd |
Floyd | Various chairs are scattered around a single long table.
Floyd |
Floyd | A brightly coloured food dispenser stands against the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The gaudy advertising copy claims it will combine whatever nutrients
Floyd | your biology requires into "palatable" food.  The saurian on the logo
Floyd | certainly seems to be enjoying his snake kebab.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a big button smack in the middle of the thing.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | The gaudy advertising copy claims it will combine whatever nutrients
Floyd | your biology requires into "palatable" food.  The saurian on the logo
Floyd | certainly seems to be enjoying his snake kebab.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a big button smack in the middle of the thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You press the button.  A bowl and spoon plop out onto the dispenser's
Floyd | tray.  With a sound like someone farting in the bath, the bowl is
Floyd | quickly filled with gruel.
Floyd |
Floyd | After a couple of seconds, a banana drops into the gruel with a splat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Capable of sustaining orphans, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Not likely to be much help tunnelling out of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You eat the gruel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Property of the Long Range Matter Transmission Complex.  Please return
Floyd | to dispenser tray after use."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You're Hunkomeat, the male human.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've earned 1150 credits after 1 mission.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | On the dispenser tray are a bowl and a spoon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Yellowest of all fruit, save perhaps the lemon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Canteen
Floyd | Decorated in a homely style - for saurians.  The cactus-print wallpaper
Floyd | is peeling and torn.
Floyd |
Floyd | Various chairs are scattered around a single long table.
Floyd |
Floyd | A brightly coloured food dispenser stands against the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dispenser tray are a bowl and a spoon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Before leaving, you return your leftovers to the dispenser.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the bathroom, left to the complex: lower level,
Floyd | right to the emergency exit, or back to the canteen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see no distinct banana here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying nothing, and are wearing a collar and an orange
Floyd | uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first trying to open the exit)
Floyd | The exit seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You suspect the only way this thing moving is with Dr. Sliss' consent.
Floyd | It's closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Obvious exits lead left; right; forwards, to the bathroom; and
Floyd | backwards, back to the canteen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the infirmary, left to the antechamber, right to
Floyd | the holding cell, or back to a long corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the emergency exit, left to the bathroom, right
Floyd | to the canteen, or back to the complex: lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The screen is blank.  There's a tempting button beneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The screen fills with text.
Floyd |
Floyd | --WELCOME TO--
Floyd | --VALU-NET SHOPPING DIRECTORY--
Floyd | Your balance: 1150 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Clothes
Floyd | 2 - Furniture
Floyd | 3 - Books
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | --Please wait...  OK.--
Floyd |
Floyd | --Books--
Floyd | Your balance: 1150 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - A Tale of Two Timelines
Floyd | 2 - Dryzandia Drift
Floyd | 3 - Drone Fantasies Illustrated
Floyd | 4 - Lord Jim
Floyd | 5 - Matter Transmission Made Easy
Floyd | 6 - Introduction to Octopode Art
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | --Please wait...  OK.--
Floyd |
Floyd | Matter Transmission Made Easy
Floyd |
Floyd | Aimed at undergraduates, this entertaining and informative textbook
Floyd | provides illumination for all levels.  Worked examples unravel the
Floyd | tough mathematics of intra-planar matter transmission and inter-planar
Floyd | information transmission, before bringing the two together in a final
Floyd | argument for the simple elegance of travel throughout the Multiverse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Price: 100 credits.
Floyd | Your balance: 1150 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | YES to confirm purchase, any other to return:>>

Floyd | Purchase successful.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your purchase has been matter transmitted to your billing address.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you wish to make another transaction?>>

Floyd | --Please wait...  OK.--
Floyd |
Floyd | --Books--
Floyd | Your balance: 1050 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - A Tale of Two Timelines
Floyd | 2 - Dryzandia Drift
Floyd | 3 - Drone Fantasies Illustrated
Floyd | 4 - Lord Jim
Floyd | 5 - Introduction to Octopode Art
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

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Floyd | Your balance: 1050 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Clothes
Floyd | 2 - Furniture
Floyd | 3 - Books
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

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Floyd | Your balance: 1050 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Octopode holo-gallery
Floyd | 2 - Double bed
Floyd | 3 - Lava lamp
Floyd | 4 - Saurian sculpture
Floyd | 5 - Apian glowlamp
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | --Please wait...  OK.--
Floyd |
Floyd | Octopode holo-gallery
Floyd |
Floyd | Bring some tentacular culture to your living room with this
Floyd | holo-gallery of works by famous octopode artists.
Floyd |
Floyd | Price: 1000 credits.
Floyd | Your balance: 1050 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | YES to confirm purchase, any other to return:>>

Floyd | Purchase successful.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your purchase has been matter transmitted to your billing address.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you wish to make another transaction?>>

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Floyd |
Floyd | --Furniture--
Floyd | Your balance: 50 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Double bed
Floyd | 2 - Lava lamp
Floyd | 3 - Saurian sculpture
Floyd | 4 - Apian glowlamp
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Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | --Please wait...  OK.--
Floyd |
Floyd | Lava lamp
Floyd |
Floyd | This unique product of saurian culture can add a real talking point to
Floyd | your room.  Are its ever-moving blobs representative of the ceaseless
Floyd | drive of saurians for progress, or our vibrant, party-loving nature?
Floyd |
Floyd | Price: 250 credits.
Floyd | Your balance: 50 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | YES to confirm purchase, any other to return:>>

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Floyd | --Furniture--
Floyd | Your balance: 50 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Double bed
Floyd | 2 - Lava lamp
Floyd | 3 - Saurian sculpture
Floyd | 4 - Apian glowlamp
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Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

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Floyd | Your balance: 50 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Clothes
Floyd | 2 - Furniture
Floyd | 3 - Books
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | Have a nice day.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Obvious exits lead left, to the bathroom; right, to the canteen;
Floyd | forwards; and backwards, back to the complex: lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first trying to open the exit)
Floyd | The exit seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | A utilitarian shower and a saurian toilet, all lit harshly by
Floyd | fluorescent lights that emit a sickly hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sola looks up at you from the toilet bowl.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying nothing, and are wearing a collar and an orange
Floyd | uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the canteen, left to the emergency exit, right to
Floyd | the complex: lower level, or back to the bathroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the infirmary, left to the antechamber, right to
Floyd | the holding cell, or back to a long corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Holding Cell
Floyd | A bare room of white walls.  Strip lights glare down from the ceiling,
Floyd | and there's an intercom next to the way out.
Floyd |
Floyd | A white, saurian-style bed occupies the middle of the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bookshelf is affixed to one wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pleasing shapes float in the air over an octopode holo-projector.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bookshelf is Matter Transmission Made Easy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A silver widget a bit like a desk lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | bed: The bed is too heavy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Matter Transmission Made Easy: Taken.
Floyd | Octopode holo-gallery: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the antechamber, left to a long corridor, right
Floyd | to the infirmary, or back to the holding cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the emergency exit, left to the bathroom, right
Floyd | to the canteen, or back to the complex: lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | A utilitarian shower and a saurian toilet, all lit harshly by
Floyd | fluorescent lights that emit a sickly hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sola looks up at you from the toilet bowl.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You are carrying Matter Transmission Made Easy and an Octopode
Floyd | holo-gallery, and you're wearing a collar and an orange uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There are those, of course, who say, "Why meddle?  Why pick apart the
Floyd | vague beauty of the Multiverse?  Why try to expose mysteries and unlock
Floyd | power we are unlikely to use wisely?"
Floyd |
Floyd | It is worth noting how many of these naysayers are in their thirties or
Floyd | forties.  How many are in their fifties, sixties or even older.
Floyd | Because it is precisely the drive of intelligent, questioning minds to
Floyd | find out what is true, how things work, to try to unravel the secrets
Floyd | of even something as sacred as the living body - it is precisely that
Floyd | drive which has enabled them to live to such a ripe old age that they
Floyd | can preach nostalgically about more ignorant times.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some would suggest that to see a flower as an inscrutable object of
Floyd | bright colours is more romantic, more inspiring, than to appreciate its
Floyd | inner workings as a complex structure of intricate cells, nourished by
Floyd | waves of energy from its nearest stars, part of a complex, changing
Floyd | ecosystem and an ancient, unspoken symbiosis.
Floyd |
Floyd | As someone with a more thorough grounding in science than art, I cannot
Floyd | dispute this view, much as I may feel quite the opposite.  But however
Floyd | unromantic the scientist's flower may be, even less appealing is the
Floyd | plague; the child who dies in infancy; the cry for help that travels
Floyd | too slow.
Floyd |
Floyd | If the role of dispelling mystery, crushing fancy and profaning the
Floyd | sacred is one to be shunned, I still embrace it, as the alternative is
Floyd | far worse still.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The cover shows a swirl of tesselating shapes that give you a slight
Floyd | headache.  The author's picture on the back is disturbingly familiar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Lisella Sliss is a graduate of Srrisni
Floyd | University with as many widely accepted theories to her name as
Floyd | controversial hypotheses.  She is currently working for the Dryzandian
Floyd | government on an undisclosed project."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You chat to Sola for a while, but don't learn anything important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Wait," Sola says, "she wrote this?  Ah well, it'll do."
Floyd |
Floyd | Zie swallows the book whole.  "I still need an Octopode holo-gallery,
Floyd | and a lava lamp."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A silver widget a bit like a desk lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Excellent," Sola says.  "Now I just need to strip out the
Floyd | hyperdimensional EM-threader and unplug the magnetic tape heads."
Floyd |
Floyd | Zie swallows the projector whole.  "Now all I need is a lava lamp."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

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

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the canteen, left to the emergency exit, right to
Floyd | the complex: lower level, or back to the bathroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the infirmary, left to the antechamber, right to
Floyd | the holding cell, or back to a long corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Antechamber
Floyd | A long, narrow room, the walls bulging with strange pipes and
Floyd | machinery.  The most notable feature is the thickly armoured airlock
Floyd | door leading further in.  Either side of the airlock are an equipment
Floyd | rack and a glass tube.  A more conventional exit leads back out.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the equipment rack are a scanner, a retrieval beacon, and a
Floyd | launcher.  The glass tube contains an environment suit.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the transmission chamber, or back to the complex
Floyd | lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | You don the environment suit and grab your equipment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The exit slides shut and locks with a click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Transmission Chamber
Floyd | An enormous metal dome lit by the distant floodlights that surround an
Floyd | armoured observation window.  A huge antenna aims directly down at you
Floyd | from above.
Floyd |
Floyd | A metal chair is bolted to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armoured airlock door leads out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss appears at the observation window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (on the metal chair)
Floyd | You sit on the metal chair.  Restraints clunk into place around your
Floyd | wrists and ankles.  As the transmission machinery hums to life, the
Floyd | world elongates into a one-dimensional line - which then disappears.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Press space...)
Floyd |
Floyd | With the sound of billions of molecules snapping into place, you pop
Floyd | back into existence - falling some distance to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Asteroid 0 E 0 N (lying on the ground)
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A moving blip at 3 E, 2 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first standing up)
Floyd | Asteroid 1 E 1 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid 2 E 2 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid 3 E 2 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | A mining drone drills into the rock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the mining drone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The mining drone lifts its drill from the ground and turns to face you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A moving blip at 3 E, 2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |
Floyd | The mining drone drills your right arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid 2 E 1 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've escaped the mining drone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which arm do you mean, your right arm, or your left arm?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Your right arm is injured.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A moving blip at 3 E, 2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid 1 E 2 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid 0 E 3 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at -2 E, 6 N.
Floyd |    A moving blip at 3 E, 2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -1 E 4 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -2 E 5 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -2 E 6 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a gold vein here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the gold vein.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at -2 E, 6 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at -5 E, 5 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -3 E 5 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -4 E 5 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -5 E 5 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a meteorite here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | What other kind of rock would be sitting in the middle of a crater like
Floyd | that?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the meteorite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at -2 E, 6 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at -5 E, 5 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | Asteroid -6 E 5 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -7 E 5 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at -5 E, 5 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -6 E 4 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -5 E 3 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -4 E 2 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at -2 E, 6 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A large blip at -6 E, -2 N.
Floyd |    A large blip at -5 E, 5 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -5 E 1 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -6 E 0 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -6 E -1 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -6 E -2 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a meteorite here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the meteorite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at -6 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at -6 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -5 E -3 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -4 E -4 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A large blip at -6 E, -2 N.  (Tagged.)
Floyd |    A moving blip at -2 E, -6 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -5 E -5 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -4 E -6 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -3 E -6 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -2 E -6 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A moving blip at -2 E, -7 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -2 E -7 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | An insectoid sea skater glides over the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | The science rover leaves to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see no distinct skater here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see no distinct skater here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A moving blip at -3 E, -7 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Asteroid -3 E -7 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | An insectoid sea skater glides over the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see no distinct skater here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A small, ergonomic gizmo with a bright LCD screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen shows:
Floyd |    A moving blip at -3 E, -7 N.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your watch starts vibrating.  Everything begins to glow.  You feel a
Floyd | sensation like being pulled backwards down your own throat.
Floyd |
Floyd | You materialise in the matter transmission chamber with a pop, and fall
Floyd | flailing to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Transmission Chamber (lying on the floor)
Floyd | An enormous metal dome lit by the distant floodlights that surround an
Floyd | armoured observation window.  A huge antenna aims directly down at you
Floyd | from above.
Floyd |
Floyd | A metal chair is bolted to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armoured airlock door leads out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss looks down at you from the observation window.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Welcome home, Hunkomeat," the doctor booms over the tannoy.  "It looks
Floyd | like 4 of our retrieval tanks received salvage.  Let's see what you
Floyd | tagged..."
Floyd |
Floyd | (Press space...)
Floyd |
Floyd | "A mining drone full of valuable space rocks.  Don't mind if I do
Floyd | thanks."
Floyd | [Cash +500]
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh ho ho, some bona fide gold.  You're one sharp prospector,
Floyd | Hunkomeat."
Floyd | [Cash +500]
Floyd |
Floyd | "An asteroid full of valuable space metals."
Floyd | [Cash +300]
Floyd |
Floyd | "An asteroid full of valuable space metals."
Floyd | [Cash +300]
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss literally jumps for joy.  "Hoo boy, what a treasure trove!  I
Floyd | could kiss you, Hunkomeat - you know, if you weren't a monkey."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taking back one turn: "x scanner".
Floyd |
Floyd | Asteroid -3 E -7 N
Floyd | Warped dunes and craters curve dramatically towards the near horizon,
Floyd | beneath a starry, airless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | An insectoid sea skater glides over the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aim the launcher, squeeze its trigger, and splatter a sticky homing
Floyd | tag onto the science rover.
Floyd |
Floyd | The science rover flees to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your watch starts vibrating.  Everything begins to glow.  You feel a
Floyd | sensation like being pulled backwards down your own throat.
Floyd |
Floyd | You materialise in the matter transmission chamber with a pop, and fall
Floyd | flailing to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Transmission Chamber (lying on the floor)
Floyd | An enormous metal dome lit by the distant floodlights that surround an
Floyd | armoured observation window.  A huge antenna aims directly down at you
Floyd | from above.
Floyd |
Floyd | A metal chair is bolted to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armoured airlock door leads out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss looks down at you from the observation window.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Welcome home, Hunkomeat," the doctor booms over the tannoy.  "All five
Floyd | retrieval tanks received salvage!  Let's see what you tagged..."
Floyd |
Floyd | (Press space...)
Floyd |
Floyd | "A mining drone full of valuable space rocks.  Don't mind if I do
Floyd | thanks."
Floyd | [Cash +500]
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh ho ho, some bona fide gold.  You're one sharp prospector,
Floyd | Hunkomeat."
Floyd | [Cash +500]
Floyd |
Floyd | "An asteroid full of valuable space metals."
Floyd | [Cash +300]
Floyd |
Floyd | "An asteroid full of valuable space metals."
Floyd | [Cash +300]
Floyd |
Floyd | "Someone else's robotic probe, and all their lovely research data.  The
Floyd | very best kind of theft, in my experience."
Floyd | [Cash +250]
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Sliss literally jumps for joy.  "Hoo boy, what a treasure trove!  I
Floyd | could kiss you, Hunkomeat - you know, if you weren't a monkey."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | (first standing up)
Floyd |
Floyd | Antechamber
Floyd | A long, narrow room, the walls bulging with strange pipes and
Floyd | machinery.  The most notable feature is the thickly armoured airlock
Floyd | door leading further in.  Either side of the airlock are an equipment
Floyd | rack and a glass tube.  A more conventional exit leads back out.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the complex lower level, or back to the
Floyd | transmission chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | You change out of your environment suit and return your equipment to
Floyd | the racks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The exit unlocks with a click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (first opening the exit)
Floyd |
Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the holding cell, left to the infirmary, right to
Floyd | a long corridor, or back to the antechamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Infirmary
Floyd | A single white bed stands in the centre of the room, overlooked by an
Floyd | expansive observation window.
Floyd |
Floyd | A long mechanical arm hangs from the ceiling, ending in the torso of a
Floyd | white auto-doc.
Floyd |
Floyd | The auto-doc tends to your injuries.  "Be sure to get a check-up before
Floyd | you shed your next exoskeleton."
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel much better now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to a long corridor, left to the holding cell, right
Floyd | to the antechamber, or back to the infirmary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the emergency exit, left to the bathroom, right
Floyd | to the canteen, or back to the complex: lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The screen fills with text.
Floyd |
Floyd | --WELCOME TO--
Floyd | --VALU-NET SHOPPING DIRECTORY--
Floyd | Your balance: 1900 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Clothes
Floyd | 2 - Furniture
Floyd | 3 - Books
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | --Please wait...  OK.--
Floyd |
Floyd | --Books--
Floyd | Your balance: 1900 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - A Tale of Two Timelines
Floyd | 2 - Dryzandia Drift
Floyd | 3 - Drone Fantasies Illustrated
Floyd | 4 - Lord Jim
Floyd | 5 - Introduction to Octopode Art
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | --WELCOME TO--
Floyd | --VALU-NET SHOPPING DIRECTORY--
Floyd | Your balance: 1900 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Clothes
Floyd | 2 - Furniture
Floyd | 3 - Books
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | --Please wait...  OK.--
Floyd |
Floyd | --Furniture--
Floyd | Your balance: 1900 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - Double bed
Floyd | 2 - Lava lamp
Floyd | 3 - Saurian sculpture
Floyd | 4 - Apian glowlamp
Floyd |
Floyd | Input selection or 0 to exit:>>

Floyd | --Please wait...  OK.--
Floyd |
Floyd | Lava lamp
Floyd |
Floyd | This unique product of saurian culture can add a real talking point to
Floyd | your room.  Are its ever-moving blobs representative of the ceaseless
Floyd | drive of saurians for progress, or our vibrant, party-loving nature?
Floyd |
Floyd | Price: 250 credits.
Floyd | Your balance: 1900 credits.
Floyd |
Floyd | YES to confirm purchase, any other to return:>>

Floyd | Purchase successful.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your purchase has been matter transmitted to your billing address.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you wish to make another transaction?>>

Floyd | Have a nice day.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the infirmary, left to the antechamber, right to
Floyd | the holding cell, or back to a long corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Holding Cell
Floyd | A bare room of white walls.  Strip lights glare down from the ceiling,
Floyd | and there's an intercom next to the way out.
Floyd |
Floyd | A white, saurian-style bed occupies the middle of the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bookshelf is affixed to one wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lava lamp throws strange patterns against the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A cheap plastic tube full of glowing, slowly undulating fluid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the antechamber, left to a long corridor, right
Floyd | to the infirmary, or back to the holding cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Complex: Lower Level
Floyd | An expansive, drab space.  Perhaps a factory floor after the machinery
Floyd | has been cleared out.  A catwalk crosses the room above, beneath the
Floyd | dusty rays of grubby skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | A number of armed cyborgs look down from the catwalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the antechamber, left to a long corridor, right
Floyd | to the infirmary, or back to the holding cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | This functional corridor ends in a thick steel door marked "Exit".  The
Floyd | bare concrete floor has been scratched and scored by heavy machinery,
Floyd | the breezeblock walls dented and stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small terminal is fixed to the wall beside the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go forward to the emergency exit, left to the bathroom, right
Floyd | to the canteen, or back to the complex: lower level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | A utilitarian shower and a saurian toilet, all lit harshly by
Floyd | fluorescent lights that emit a sickly hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sola looks up at you from the toilet bowl.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Okay," Sola says.  "This should have the isotopes I need."
Floyd |
Floyd | Zie swallows the lamp whole.  "That's it!  It'll take some time to get
Floyd | this thing assembled and transmitting, so you might like to get some
Floyd | sleep or take a mission or something.  After that, the cavalry should
Floyd | be here in an instant..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Sola disappears down the U-bend.
Floyd |
Floyd | >