  
 
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 Flight of the Hummingbird, written by Michael Martin. Flight of the Hummingbird was originally released as part of the 2010 Interactive Fiction Competition, where it took eighth 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. |
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| McMartin says, "It's filed under 'hummingbird'" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ah" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Are we ready?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "the filing of the hummingbird" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Or, at least, are the rest of you ready?" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Fair warning: There will be certain sequences in this game that, when active, will absolutely require there be a driver." | ||||
| McMartin says, "Others, not so much" | ||||
| smartgenes exclaims, "ready!" | ||||
| EmacsUser arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| EmacsUser recaps. | McMartin says, "It will be pretty clear which is which." | |||
| Touchy says, "I can haz teh readiez." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load hummingbird" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | December 31st, 2014. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't Floyd | entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big and it's Floyd | based in his island fortress. This is clearly a task for one of the Floyd | world's mightiest champions! Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, they've had to send you instead; the world's mightiest Floyd | champions have other emergencies to deal with. New Year's Eve is Floyd | always rough. Floyd | Floyd | Regardless, this looks by-the-book so far. The containment fields have Floyd | been put in place. Now all you have to do is get over to his island Floyd | base, infiltrate it, defeat him, and bring him in. Floyd | Floyd | Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | An Interactive Costumed Caper by Michael Martin Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 110101 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | [Type ABOUT for information unique to this game, even if you've played Floyd | Interactive Fiction before.] Floyd | Floyd | Shalestorm Shingle Floyd | City Hall teleported you here to Shalestorm Shingle mainly for the Floyd | drama of the name. Small rocks and stones litter the ground here, but Floyd | it dissolves to good clean sand a little ways to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The city's containment force fields wall off the area to the north and Floyd | east. The great Pacific Ocean stretches out to the west. Across the Floyd | sea some distance, you can see Dr. Sinister's island fortress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||||
| Rotonoto has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | eladnarra says, "oo, a costumed caper" | |||
| smartgenes says, "intriguing start" | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Hints Floyd | Return to game | DavidW says, "yup. superhero time." | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | > Special commands Floyd | Hints Floyd | Return to game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | > Special commands Floyd | Hints Floyd | Return to game | Gerynar asks, "ok, I forget, which button is the "enter" key?" | |||
| DavidW says, "push enter" | ||||
| McMartin says, "This is actually the post-comp version" | ||||
| Touchy says, "space" | ||||
| McMartin presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This game will occasionally put critical information in the status Floyd | line by default. If you are using a restricted interpreter that cannot Floyd | render status lines, the command STATUS ON will cause this data to Floyd | instead be dumped to the main window every turn that it is relevant. Floyd | This can be ugly, however, and so it may also be disabled with the Floyd | command STATUS OFF. Floyd | Floyd | As more special commands become available, this section will expand to Floyd | keep a record of them. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| Gerynar pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | > Special commands Floyd | Hints Floyd | Return to game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | > Special commands Floyd | Hints Floyd | Return to game | DavidW says, "'push enter' and 'push space' are two buttons in the toyroom that somehow magically tell Floyd to do those things." | |||
| smartgenes says, "pushy" | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "n. n." | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | Special commands Floyd | > Hints Floyd | Return to game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | Special commands Floyd | > Hints Floyd | Return to game | ||||
| vimes arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Hints Floyd | > Return to game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Hints Floyd | > Return to game | ||||
| Gerynar presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Hints Floyd | > Return to game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shalestorm Shingle Floyd | City Hall teleported you here to Shalestorm Shingle mainly for the Floyd | drama of the name. Small rocks and stones litter the ground here, but Floyd | it dissolves to good clean sand a little ways to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The city's containment force fields wall off the area to the north and Floyd | east. The great Pacific Ocean stretches out to the west. Across the Floyd | sea some distance, you can see Dr. Sinister's island fortress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "status on" | ||||
Floyd | FLIGHT OF THE HUMMINGBIRD will now dump important information to the Floyd | main window instead of leaving it in the status line like usual. To Floyd | restore default behavior, enter the command STATUS OFF. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "so, I guess it'd be a good idea to turn on the ... um yeah" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Sorry." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "that's handy for Floyd" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh yeah. You'll need that." | ||||
| McMartin says, "very much so" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x ocean" | ||||
Floyd | The seas look deceptively quiet, but they nevertheless unnerve you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||||
Floyd | The sand on this beach is dark and gritty, no doubt ground down from Floyd | the rocks to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x fortress" | ||||
Floyd | It juts out of the island to the west, probably reaching at least a Floyd | hundred feet into the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "sorry~" | |||
| eladnarra asks, "should someone drive?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to eladnarra), "I think we're okay for now." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are The Hummingbird. Not really the kind of totemic resonance that Floyd | lets you play in the really big leagues, but you've managed a bit of Floyd | recognition, and a lot of the other heroes give you credit for coming Floyd | by your powers the hard way. Floyd | Floyd | Your Hummingbird Suit lets you, when suitably charged up, flap your Floyd | arms fast enough to actually maintain flight. You've got to have a lot Floyd | of energy available to do that, of course, but you can still manage Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | You're particularly proud of the fact that unlike most of your heroic Floyd | comrades-in-arms, you have a proper excuse for your ridiculously Floyd | overdeveloped pectoral muscles. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Basically, the only time it's crucial is when you're getting extra information that would be on the status line for whatever reason" | |||
| smartgenes asks, "i think someone was gonna check special instructions?" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Also note for those who have played before - this is the post-comp edition, so some puzzles have been reworked slightly." | ||||
| McMartin says (to smartgenes), "Done already; it's basically the 'if you're playing on something like floyd, do this' thing, and this is done." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the HummingBelt (being worn) Floyd | an energy drink Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x belt" | ||||
Floyd | This is a masterpiece of engineering, built to your specifications. It Floyd | lets you carry an enormous amount of stuff without unbalancing your Floyd | flight at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Nice." | |||
| eladnarra says, "hehehe, a silly power <3" | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x energy drink" | ||||
Floyd | This drink is an incredibly powerful concoction of sugar and Floyd | electrolytes. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that it is the Floyd | source of all your power. Given the energy contained within it, the Floyd | properties of your suit, and your superhuman pectorals, you can fly Floyd | and even hover under your own power. Floyd | Floyd | You only need a small amount to activate your powers, so this canteen Floyd | has more than enough to keep you supplied for the duration of the Floyd | mission. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "As a general reminder (which may well be entirely unneeded for this game), the special command %showpartial will cause Floyd to show you any partial line prompt he's seen but hasn't displayed yet." | |||
| McMartin says, "I hope that's unneeded, but there are occasional 'press space to continue' sequences." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need any rocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Shall we fly?" | |||
| smartgenes asks, "south first?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sable Strand Floyd | The rocky beach from the north tapers off a bit; down here, closer to Floyd | the water, the rocks have been worn down to black sand. To the west is Floyd | the ocean itself (and beyond that, Sinister's island fortress); the Floyd | sand gives way to concrete to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get sand" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need any sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "South again?" | |||
| smartgenes says, "i like it's straight-to-the-pointedness" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Shack Floyd | The containment field makes a sharp turn here, blocking travel to the Floyd | south as well as the east. Metallic wreckage is strewn throughout this Floyd | corner of the beach. Possibly this is the work of Dr. Sinister on his Floyd | latest rampage, but you suspect that this is actually what's left of Floyd | some innocent building torn apart by the creation of the containment Floyd | field. Floyd | Floyd | The coastline extends to the north, while the Pacific Ocean lies to Floyd | the west. You can also make out Dr. Sinister's island fortress out at Floyd | sea. Floyd | Floyd | An enormous rumbling noise comes from the tower on the island. You Floyd | cover your eyes as the shockwave hits, and as you recover, you see a Floyd | rocket streaking up towards the sky. Floyd | Floyd | You think you can hear Dr. Sinister's malicious laughter, but it's Floyd | surely just a trick of the wind. He's far too far away to be audible. Floyd | Floyd | Great. Well, hopefully you'll still be able to thwart him with what's Floyd | left in the base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "follow sinister" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vimes disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | EmacsUser asks, "Okay to go west?" | |||
| smartgenes has disconnected. | ||||
| smartgenes has connected. | ||||
| smartgenes disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "fine by me. I'm hoping I can just mostly watch today." | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Shack Floyd | The containment field makes a sharp turn here, blocking travel to the Floyd | south as well as the east. Metallic wreckage is strewn throughout this Floyd | corner of the beach. Possibly this is the work of Dr. Sinister on his Floyd | latest rampage, but you suspect that this is actually what's left of Floyd | some innocent building torn apart by the creation of the containment Floyd | field. Floyd | Floyd | The coastline extends to the north, while the Pacific Ocean lies to Floyd | the west. You can also make out Dr. Sinister's island fortress out at Floyd | sea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x wreckage" | ||||
Floyd | It's a pile of metal beams, once an innocent building. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "search wreckage" | ||||
Floyd | You select a small, crowbar-like piece of metal, and pick it up. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to Gerynar), "Ah, smart." | |||
| smartgenes has disconnected. | ||||
| smartgenes has connected. | ||||
| smartgenes disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Water isn't particularly good for your suit. Besides, Dr. Sinister has Floyd | an ugly penchant for genetically engineering nasty sea life. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | (first stowing the crowbar) Floyd | You take a quick swig of your mighty energy drink and are charged with Floyd | unbelievable energy. You quickly re-stow the drink and begin to flap Floyd | your arms with all your might. Floyd | Floyd | [Now that you've charged up, you may start or stop flying with FLY or Floyd | LAND. You may change your altitude with UP and DOWN as usual.] Floyd | Floyd | [Your altitude will be marked in the status line at the top of the Floyd | screen, and in the main text with brackets after each turn. If you Floyd | would rather restrict this information to the status line, keeping the Floyd | main text less cluttered, the command STATUS OFF will do so.] Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You fly off the shore and out to sea. Floyd | Floyd | Above the Ocean (skimming the waves) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies a good distance to Floyd | the west, while the main shore is just to the east. Floyd | Floyd | [You are skimming the waves.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I'm just going to keep going. Say something if you want to stop." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Above the Ocean (skimming the waves) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies a good distance to Floyd | the west, while the main shore is a bit to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Below you, you think you catch sight Floyd | of a green fin breaking the waves, and some larger things lurking in Floyd | the deeps. Floyd | Floyd | Looks like the Doctor has been modifying the local sea life. At least Floyd | it isn't a synthetic plague of poisonous frogs like the last time he Floyd | made headlines. Floyd | Floyd | [You are skimming the waves.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "up? just in case some engineered sea life likes to jump..." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "'K." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Any higher do you think?" | |||
| smartgenes has disconnected. | ||||
| smartgenes has connected. | ||||
| smartgenes disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Above the Ocean (25 feet above the water) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies off to the west, Floyd | while the main shore is off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Above the Ocean (25 feet above the water) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies off to the west, Floyd | while the main shore is off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy fails you, and your old nemesis gravity reasserts his Floyd | dominance. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Uh oh." | |||
| DavidW says, "As sailors need to get their sea-legs, you'll need to get your midair-arms." | ||||
| Gerynar says, "time for a pick-me-up I think" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | Your recharge didn't have quite enough altitude to work in, so you hit Floyd | the water at great speed. At this height it's only slightly less Floyd | resilient than concrete, really. Floyd | Floyd | Well, at least that means you don't have to worry about drowning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are a shooting star *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 2 out of a possible 50, in 24 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Wild Talent. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to have had a flight mishap. These are rather severe; a Floyd | single UNDO is unlikely to put you in a position where you can Floyd | continue. Two, however, should usually suffice for a safe landing, and Floyd | three should guarantee you a survivable option in even the most Floyd | extreme of circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Hm. It occurs to me I didn't think to check if Floyd supported multiple-UNDO." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "oh dear~" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to McMartin), "Usually Floyd does." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: [Restore succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | You're already too energetic for mundane activity; you won't be able Floyd | to recharge until your current surge is fully spent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Above the Ocean (50 feet above the water) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies off to the west, Floyd | while the main shore is off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy fails you, and your old nemesis gravity reasserts his Floyd | dominance. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | You frantically refuel as you fall earthwards. After a few sips you've Floyd | regained enough power to renew your flapping and stay aloft. Floyd | Floyd | [You are skimming the waves.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hm... flying minigame" | |||
| Touchy says, "I kinda like it." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "up again :D" | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Above the Ocean (50 feet above the water) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies off to the west, Floyd | while the main shore is off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Above the Ocean (50 feet above the water) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies a bit to the west, Floyd | while the main shore is a good distance to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "must be a funny sight, someone flying up, then falling back down, frantically trying to drink..." | |||
| Gerynar agrees | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Above the Ocean (50 feet above the water) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies just to the west, Floyd | while the main shore is a good distance to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy fails you, and your old nemesis gravity reasserts his Floyd | dominance. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | You perform another mid-air refueling and regain your flight Floyd | capability. Floyd | Floyd | [You are skimming the waves.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "up. up." | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "he's not quite The Might Thor is he" | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Below you, the sea gives way to solid ground once again. Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Shore (50 feet above the ground) Floyd | This is the southernmost reach of Sinister Isle's shoreline reachable Floyd | inside the containment fields. The rest of the beach stretches out to Floyd | the north, while the island itself spreads off to the west. Dr. Floyd | Sinister's enormous tower awaits you to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "land" | ||||
Floyd | You can't just stop flying in midair like that; the excess energy has Floyd | to go somewhere, and you'd just plummet, twitching, from the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | You lower yourself down a bit. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | You lower yourself down a bit. Floyd | Floyd | You settle back to earth, your energy exhausted. Floyd | Floyd | Finally. Man, that was a pain. One of these days you're going to have Floyd | to get one of those hats with the drink holders and the long straws. Floyd | Floyd | As you catch your breath, you hear a soft chime. The Coalition wants Floyd | to talk. Floyd | Floyd | You activate the communicator in your Hummingbird suit. "Hummingbird Floyd | here. I'm on the island, but there's been a complication." Floyd | Floyd | The voice on the other end is half frantic. "We had no idea Sinister Floyd | was space capable! We've been tracking his rocket since launch, and Floyd | have found both him and the base he's flying to. North American Space Floyd | Command is ready to scramble a full set of LEO hunter-killer drones. Floyd | Incidentally, don't even try to get to the island - it's out of your Floyd | range and he's probably infested the waters." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Beyond my range?" Floyd | [2] "Way to warn me in advance, guys - I'm on the island now." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "I'm not sure this was clear enough, but after the first shot at it, it will accept FLY after you take off the first time." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "You may want to update that profile. I'm on the island now." Floyd | Floyd | "What? But..." Floyd | Floyd | "Later. For now..." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "We don't have the full story yet. I'm going to investigate." Floyd | [2] "I'm not willing to let NASC kill everyone unless it's our last Floyd | option." Floyd | [3] "Have NASC take the shot. It's the only way to be sure." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks (of McMartin), "I guess I'm confused; does FLY mean take a sip of the energy drink?" | |||
| eladnarra says, "haha, they don't have much confidence in energy-drink-reliant powers..." | ||||
| McMartin says (to EmacsUser), "Yeah, they're synonymous, but only once you've shown you know what it implies." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah, okay." | ||||
| McMartin says, "(That 'Special Commands' thing expands to fill in with stuff like this, but that's a pain in Floyd)" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Wait, what's this about NASC trying to kill everyone?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "They have killer drones as a last resort." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "must confess, FLY didn't seem same as DRINK to me either" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "I say we investigate" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "yeah, investigate" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Sounds good to me. Later, I'd like to see what happens if we choose 3." | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "...for now, you're all going off half-cocked. We've seen a rocket Floyd | launch. That might be the Doctor. It might be the key to his plan. It Floyd | might be part of it. It might be a feint to throw us off the scent. Floyd | I'm here, so I'm going to see what's going on." Floyd | Floyd | "Fair enough, Hummingbird. We'll tell NASC to stand by until we know Floyd | more. We'll be in touch later." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Sinister Isle Shore Floyd | This is the southernmost reach of Sinister Isle's shoreline reachable Floyd | inside the containment fields. The rest of the beach stretches out to Floyd | the north, while the island itself spreads off to the west. Dr. Floyd | Sinister's enormous tower awaits you to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser votes for north. | |||
| smartgenes says, "let's go n" | ||||
| Gerynar concours | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Shore Floyd | The shore of Sinister Isle continues to the north and south from here, Floyd | while the Doctor's imposing tower stands directly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Shore Floyd | Sinister Isle's beach is full of sparkling sand, and would make an Floyd | excellent vacation spot were it not for the enormous tower of doom to Floyd | the southwest. The shore continues for some distance to the south, Floyd | while the containment fields prevent further travel north. The island Floyd | itself continues off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||||
Floyd | Unlike the black, gritty sand on the mainland, this island's shoreline Floyd | is full of sparkling sand only a few shades off from white. It would Floyd | make an excellent vacation spot, if you discount the whole Evil Lair Floyd | thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Hmm. Well, continue circling the tower?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste sand" | ||||
Floyd | That sounds vaguely unsanitary. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "hehe" | |||
| DavidW says, "(if it was salt or sugar, I'd like to know)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Circling the tower sounds good." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | Dr. Sinister may be evil, but he's obviously not part of the desolate Floyd | and blasted stronghold school. West of the sparkling sands of this Floyd | beach, the island shifts over to verdant fields. It's also clear that Floyd | he or his minions take good care of it; the grass around here is so Floyd | well-kept it could practically be a lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The massive main door of the tower is to the south, and a path cut out Floyd | of the grass leads from it off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x lawn" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x grass" | ||||
Floyd | A path is cut into the grass, leading in a neat path around the tower. Floyd | You suppose even evil masterminds appreciate the occasional bit of Floyd | good landscaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | The force field shifts direction here, forming the northwest corner of Floyd | the containment zone. The tower itself is off to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A path is cut into the grass leading south and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Wait, does the containment field not have a ceiling? Or how did the rocket get through?" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search grass" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Good observation. I suppose there's no top to it." | |||
| smartgenes says, "could be one of those receding roofs" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | The tower of Dr. Sinister stands proudly to the east of here, its grey Floyd | bulk left a bit greenish by the glow of the containment fields to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | A path leads from north to south around the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x path" | ||||
Floyd | A path is cut into the grass, leading in a neat path around the tower. Floyd | You suppose even evil masterminds appreciate the occasional bit of Floyd | good landscaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | The containment fields block you from moving any further to the south Floyd | or west here, while the tower rises to the northeast. A neatly-trimmed Floyd | path cut into the grass here leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel truck sits quietly on the path here. Good to see the Doctor Floyd | didn't destroy all his supplies when he left. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "did we search the wreckage near the start? could be nothing,like" | |||
| McMartin says, "They did" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x containment field" | ||||
Floyd | In the interests of containing the forces of villainy, the local Floyd | authorities have surrounded the area with impenetrable green force Floyd | walls. It should go down once you get your man. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x truck" | ||||
Floyd | This truck looks like it's been around for awhile, but it's got the Floyd | distinctive shape of a fuel truck. A hose is attached to the tanks on Floyd | the back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x truck" | ||||
Floyd | This truck looks like it's been around for awhile, but it's got the Floyd | distinctive shape of a fuel truck. A hose is attached to the tanks on Floyd | the back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the HummingBelt (being worn) Floyd | an energy drink Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter truck" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the fuel truck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Sinister Isle (in the fuel truck) Floyd | The containment fields block you from moving any further to the south Floyd | or west here, while the tower rises to the northeast. A neatly-trimmed Floyd | path cut into the grass here leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x truck" | ||||
Floyd | The truck's interior is functional, but not uncomfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open glove compartment" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm... I wonder if we can" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't started the truck yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "start truck" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have a key that starts the ignition. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ah." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the fuel truck. Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | The containment fields block you from moving any further to the south Floyd | or west here, while the tower rises to the northeast. A neatly-trimmed Floyd | path cut into the grass here leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel truck sits quietly on the path here. Good to see the Doctor Floyd | didn't destroy all his supplies when he left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x hose" | ||||
Floyd | A long rubber hose is connected to the fuel tanks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x tanks" | ||||
Floyd | A long rubber hose is connected to the fuel tanks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "Put hose in self" | ||||
Floyd | You don't run on that kind of fuel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink petrol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to McMartin), "Nice." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink fuel" | ||||
Floyd | It's got a perfectly good pump. Siphoning rocket fuel by mouth is just Floyd | going to end in tears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x pump" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "different response :-D" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "My current bet is that we need to find another rocket and follow Dr. Sinister into space." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Keep exploring?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | Dr. Sinister clearly doesn't follow the usual rules for evil Floyd | strongholds. His evil tower is on a lovely coastline and is surrounded Floyd | on all other sides by well-kept grass. This section of the island Floyd | could almost be a lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The tower is to the north of you, and the containment fields block you Floyd | to the south. A path cut out of the grass leads east to the beach and Floyd | west to the rest of the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "yar" | |||
| smartgenes asks, "follow the well-trodden path?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Shore Floyd | This is the southernmost reach of Sinister Isle's shoreline reachable Floyd | inside the containment fields. The rest of the beach stretches out to Floyd | the north, while the island itself spreads off to the west. Dr. Floyd | Sinister's enormous tower awaits you to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Shore Floyd | The shore of Sinister Isle continues to the north and south from here, Floyd | while the Doctor's imposing tower stands directly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Shore Floyd | Sinister Isle's beach is full of sparkling sand, and would make an Floyd | excellent vacation spot were it not for the enormous tower of doom to Floyd | the southwest. The shore continues for some distance to the south, Floyd | while the containment fields prevent further travel north. The island Floyd | itself continues off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | Dr. Sinister may be evil, but he's obviously not part of the desolate Floyd | and blasted stronghold school. West of the sparkling sands of this Floyd | beach, the island shifts over to verdant fields. It's also clear that Floyd | he or his minions take good care of it; the grass around here is so Floyd | well-kept it could practically be a lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The massive main door of the tower is to the south, and a path cut out Floyd | of the grass leads from it off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the massive door) Floyd | The door is too heavy to open by main strength. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You take another sip of your energy drink and are fully recharged. You Floyd | flap your arms with all your power and again defy gravity. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | While energized to fly, you can't do much with your arms besides buzz. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The massive door towers impressively above you. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "darn" | |||
| DavidW says, "so, we've circled the tower and found door, truck, and sand. Plus the tower, of course." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Up?" | ||||
| eladnarra asks, "any windows we can fly into?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Or use the truck." | ||||
| DavidW says, "The rocket must've come from somewhere." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x tower" | ||||
Floyd | Dr. Sinister's evil tower looms high above you. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "land" | ||||
Floyd | You force yourself into an early landing and then concentrate for a Floyd | few seconds until the shakes from the excess energy go away. It's Floyd | never pleasant to have to do this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You take a drink, and take wing, once again. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "jemmy the huge door?" | |||
| eladnarra asks, "oright, there's a crowbar, isn't there?" | ||||
| Gerynar asks, "knock?" | ||||
| DavidW asks (of Gerynar), "Gonna pretend we're missionaires or Avon calling?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Sinister Isle (50 feet above the ground) Floyd | Dr. Sinister may be evil, but he's obviously not part of the desolate Floyd | and blasted stronghold school. West of the sparkling sands of this Floyd | beach, the island shifts over to verdant fields. It's also clear that Floyd | he or his minions take good care of it; the grass around here is so Floyd | well-kept it could practically be a lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The massive main door of the tower is to the south, and a path cut out Floyd | of the grass leads from it off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You hover in place. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | You lower yourself down a bit. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy fails you, and your old nemesis gravity reasserts his Floyd | dominance. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "land" | ||||
Floyd | You'll be landing faster than you'd like soon enough, unless you do Floyd | something! Floyd | Floyd | After a long fall with no power, you slam into the ground at Floyd | incredible speed. Though you do have superhuman strength, it doesn't Floyd | translate into resistance to that kind of damage. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a good impression *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 5 out of a possible 50, in 83 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Third-String Hero. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to have had a flight mishap. These are rather severe; a Floyd | single UNDO is unlikely to put you in a position where you can Floyd | continue. Two, however, should usually suffice for a safe landing, and Floyd | three should guarantee you a survivable option in even the most Floyd | extreme of circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Sinister Isle (25 feet and falling) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Sinister Isle (50 feet above the ground) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You hover in place. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy fails you, and your old nemesis gravity reasserts his Floyd | dominance. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | You recharge and renew your flight. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Sorry, I messed it up with the wait." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You force yourself into an early landing and then concentrate for a Floyd | few seconds until the shakes from the excess energy go away. It Floyd | doesn't get easier with time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "pry door" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the crowbar) Floyd | Even with the help of the crowbar, you cannot pry open this massive Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tower" | ||||
Floyd | Dr. Sinister's evil tower looms high above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | You rap smartly on the massive doors, producing a hollow sound but no Floyd | response. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I was hoping we'd get an estimate of the tower's height." | |||
| McMartin asks, "Hm. In response to which command?" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "it said earlier hundreds of feet i think" | ||||
| DavidW says (to McMartin), "My command, of course. 'x tower'" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Ah, right" | ||||
| McMartin says, "It actually did that when you saw it from a distance." | ||||
| McMartin makes a note | ||||
| McMartin says, "('about a hundred feet' when you did it on the shore)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "So we only flew up 50 feet. We didn't fly high enough." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ok; another go." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | (first stowing the crowbar) Floyd | You recharge and start flying. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 75 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | You are now level with the tower's roof. You could land on the roof by Floyd | going to the south. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 100 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You fly over the lip of the tower roof. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Tower (flying) Floyd | You're hovering above the top of Dr. Sinister's stronghold. Most of Floyd | the roof is curved into a retractable dome, except for the access path Floyd | ringing the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch sits on the floor of the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | You settle down on the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "yay~" | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "yay!" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes exclaims, "it is indeed a retractable roof!" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we were talking about the forcefield earlier." | ||||
| DavidW says, "y'know, for the longest time when I first played, I thought the forcefield was the Doctor's forcefield, to keep meddlers out, rather than the good guy agency, to keep him in." | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "not the roof of the tower which the rocket came from?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open dome" | ||||
Floyd | The launch door is enormous. There's no way you'll be able to budge it Floyd | with personal strength. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x path" | ||||
Floyd | Most of the roof is curved into a retractable dome, except for the Floyd | access path ringing the roof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||||
Floyd | (the access hatch) Floyd | It's flush with the rest of the walkway, except for a small handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x handle" | ||||
Floyd | It's flush with the rest of the walkway, except for a small handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "don't we have to land?" | |||
| DavidW says (to smartgenes), "The roof of the tower is retractable, yes." | ||||
| DavidW says, "And we did land." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Our energy ran out at exactly the point we reached the roof." | ||||
| McMartin says, "If you run out of power at a point where a safe landing is possible, you just touch down." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "It was automatic; | You settle down on the walkway." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Timing." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open hatch" | ||||
Floyd | (the access hatch) Floyd | It's stuck; you don't seem able to pry it open with your bare hands. Floyd | There is a grip for a good solid pull on it, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "pry hatch" | ||||
Floyd | (the access hatch) Floyd | (first taking the crowbar) Floyd | Ah, the crowbar. Truly a tool with a thousand uses. You make quick Floyd | work of whatever was making the hatch stick, and it pops open with a Floyd | gratifying hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "ah yes i see now,,assumed we were still hovering" | |||
| McMartin says, "Fun fact: The sequence you just completed was the single most common complaint about this comp game." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Okay, someone else should drive for a while; I feel like I'm hogging the controls." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go hatch" | ||||
Floyd | (the access hatch) Floyd | You climb down into Dr. Sinister's island tower. Floyd | Floyd | Hangar Catwalk Floyd | You're standing on a narrow catwalk ringing a vast hangar. To the west Floyd | is an airlock leading into a bright yellow rocket that fills most of Floyd | the area. A ladder leads both up through the ceiling, and down to the Floyd | floor of the hangar proper. The roof forms a dome about 30 feet above Floyd | your head. You could also easily take off from here, if you were so Floyd | inclined. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch stands open on the ceiling, leading up and Floyd | out of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | Right then. Time to get to work. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Because of the possible need for multiple undo?" | |||
| DavidW says, "That's neat: I wouldn't expect 'go hatch' to work." | ||||
| McMartin says, "No - because in version 1, the crowbar was a mandatory item and this broke their immersion." | ||||
| McMartin says, "This version actually has it *technically* possible to beat the game with no item usage beyond the energy drink, but this is more on the 'stunt' level than the expected playthrough." | ||||
| DavidW says, "huh" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You enter the rocket. Floyd | Floyd | Rocket Interior Floyd | The rocket interior is small, but isn't quite to the level of Floyd | "cramped". An acceleration chair takes up most of the floor, and a Floyd | friendly-looking control panel sits in front of it. The exit hatch Floyd | leads east to the hangar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under chair" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | It's clearly designed to be user-friendly; there's nothing on it right Floyd | now but a big green button marked "LAUNCH". Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I have never heard of a rocket's control panel described as friendly-looking." | |||
| DavidW says, "hee hee" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sit chair" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sit in chair" | ||||
Floyd | As you sit in the acceleration chair, a variety of webs and restraints Floyd | affix you to the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to EmacsUser), "I have. In every IF game." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Touche." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "now i think safe to press the big button" | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, every IF game with a rocket control panel, that is." | ||||
| McMartin says, "Dr. Sinister is very concerned with clear labeling in emergency equipemnt!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to smartgenes), "uh, the barn door is closed." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Details." | ||||
| olethros asks, "and who might be within?" | ||||
| McMartin says, "This is why we have time control!" | ||||
| DavidW asks (of smartgenes), "How do you plan to move the rocket through the roof?" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "oh yeah,, thats why i'm not employed by NASA" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stand up" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the acceleration chair. Floyd | Floyd | Rocket Interior Floyd | The rocket interior is small, but isn't quite to the level of Floyd | "cramped". An acceleration chair takes up most of the floor, and a Floyd | friendly-looking control panel sits in front of it. The exit hatch Floyd | leads east to the hangar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the rocket. Floyd | Floyd | Hangar Catwalk Floyd | You're standing on a narrow catwalk ringing a vast hangar. To the west Floyd | is an airlock leading into a bright yellow rocket that fills most of Floyd | the area. A ladder leads both up through the ceiling, and down to the Floyd | floor of the hangar proper. The roof forms a dome about 30 feet above Floyd | your head. You could also easily take off from here, if you were so Floyd | inclined. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch stands open on the ceiling, leading up and Floyd | out of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "it's open" | |||
| DavidW says, "The *hatch* is open. The roof isn't open." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dome" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roof" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see much through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open roof" | ||||
Floyd | The roof doesn't open by muscle power. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back out into the sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Tower Floyd | You're standing on the top of Dr. Sinister's stronghold. Most of the Floyd | roof is curved into a retractable dome, except for the access path Floyd | ringing the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch stands open, leading down into the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x roof" | ||||
Floyd | Most of the roof is curved into a retractable dome, except for the Floyd | access path ringing the roof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You once again infiltrate the Doctor's compound. Floyd | Floyd | Hangar Catwalk Floyd | You're standing on a narrow catwalk ringing a vast hangar. To the west Floyd | is an airlock leading into a bright yellow rocket that fills most of Floyd | the area. A ladder leads both up through the ceiling, and down to the Floyd | floor of the hangar proper. The roof forms a dome about 30 feet above Floyd | your head. You could also easily take off from here, if you were so Floyd | inclined. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch stands open on the ceiling, leading up and Floyd | out of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x hangar" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake tush" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hangar Floyd | This enormous hangar appears to take up nearly all the space in this Floyd | tower-or, at least, the space in the tower that's above the ground. Floyd | Most of the space in the hangar is taken up by an enormous, yellow, Floyd | finned rocket. A catwalk far above leads into it. Floyd | Floyd | A ladder leads up to the catwalk, and then further up to provide roof Floyd | access. The roof itself looks quite solid, and you don't expect that Floyd | rocket will be able to launch through it as-is. Floyd | Floyd | A hallway large enough to pass a freight train leads off to the south, Floyd | to some kind of staging area. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | You suppress an involuntary but unheroic shudder. If he was willing to Floyd | abandon an entire base to further his plot, it must be a big one. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(I always want to shake my li'l tush on the catwalk. The catwalk, yeah.)" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Three directions and you choose the wall." | |||
| smartgenes says, "too sexy for your cat what you think about that" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "actually just pressed wrong key and it repeated my last command" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Try east or west." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "actually just pressed wrong key and it repeated my last command" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Votes for west first." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "crikey did it again" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Er, :" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "east" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "do the hokey cokey" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x beds" | ||||
Floyd | At this point they're just an array of hard mattresses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under beds" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | You can only see part of it from here, but it's pretty imposing even Floyd | from this distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "So he took his minions with him?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Possibly" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Minions... In... SPAAAAaaace" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | It would look out of place anywhere else in the base, but here, it Floyd | provides an excellent sense of power and control. The right-hand side Floyd | of it includes a small drawer, easily accessible whether or not one is Floyd | seated in the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | As you open the desk, you barely get a glimpse of its contents - a Floyd | silver key - before the floor opens up beneath you, revealing a vast Floyd | pit below! Floyd | Floyd | You drop like a rock. Floyd | Floyd | Pit Trap (175 feet and falling) Floyd | This pit trap is almost two hundred feet deep, and surrounded by Floyd | smooth walls on all sides. Nevertheless, the bottom seems mostly Floyd | clean. Perhaps he has some means of flushing it out - or maybe it's Floyd | just never been used to dispose of anyone. Floyd | Floyd | Down at the bottom of the pit you can see a wooden crate and a Floyd | large-handled key. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 175 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "oops" | |||
| DavidW says, "I love that 'easily accessible wheter or not one is seated' bit." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "should've sat down" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That was a HINT" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "And I thought it was just to make the implementation easier." | ||||
| McMartin says, "Cleverly disguised as an excuse for the implementor to be lazy" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, sip yer drink and not die." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "haha" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink drink wherever you may be" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to drink the energy drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "(There's a similar one later that really *was* the implementer being lazy, but it requires you to kind of look for it)" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Wait, do we accelerate if we don't sip?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 150 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 125 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ah, so terminal velocity is 25ft/turn." | |||
| DavidW asks, "er, what are you doing?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Sorry." | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "we want the key anyway?" | ||||
| McMartin says, "I figured he was testing the mechanics" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to McMartin), "Yeah." | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "drink closer to the bottom?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Yes, we want the key anyway, so I suppose this strategem is as good as any." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 100 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 75 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | (first stowing the crowbar) Floyd | You make an undignified crash as the pit trap's floor does what it was Floyd | designed to do - be solid and a long way down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You've fallen for the oldest trick in the book *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 10 out of a possible 50, in 135 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Third-String Hero. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to have had a flight mishap. These are rather severe; a Floyd | single UNDO is unlikely to put you in a position where you can Floyd | continue. Two, however, should usually suffice for a safe landing, and Floyd | three should guarantee you a survivable option in even the most Floyd | extreme of circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, it takes a turn to get the drink." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Pit Trap (50 feet and falling) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Pit Trap (75 feet and falling) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | (first stowing the crowbar) Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | You recharge and renew your flight. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "And it takes another turn to stow other crap you're carrying." | |||
| DavidW says, "And a turn to free up your flying hands." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Good to know." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You come to a safe landing at the bottom of the pit trap. Ha HA! Take Floyd | that, hidebound traditional villains! Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Also, there's something fun about the command ``drink drink.''" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Pit Trap Floyd | This pit trap is almost two hundred feet deep, and surrounded by Floyd | smooth walls on all sides. Nevertheless, the bottom seems mostly Floyd | clean. Perhaps he has some means of flushing it out - or maybe it's Floyd | just never been used to dispose of anyone. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden crate and a large-handled key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x crate" | ||||
Floyd | It's pretty big, but it's just a wooden crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "touch crate" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open crate" | ||||
Floyd | You open the wooden crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look in crate carefully" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look in the wooden crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look in crate carefully" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look in the wooden crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look in crate" | ||||
Floyd | The wooden crate is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "I didn't implement an adverb system" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | From the size and shape of this key, you'd guess it's for a vehicle of Floyd | some kind. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "IF tends not to understand adverbs like 'carefully'." | |||
| smartgenes says, "know this,just playing" | ||||
| EmacsUser wonders what the crate is for. | ||||
| DavidW says, "As far as I know, the crate is something to torment the player with." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "ok yes why a crate" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Primarily, catharsis for people who played too much Half-Life" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "dismantle crate" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "break crate" | ||||
Floyd | You unleash your devastating fighting techniques, swiftly reducing the Floyd | crate to a pile of splintered wood. Floyd | Floyd | It's still empty, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Pit Trap Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to McMartin), "Since I know zilch about Half-Life, you'll need to explain." | |||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "break crate with crowbar" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the crowbar) Floyd | It's been known for decades that wrecking crates with crowbars has a Floyd | proven cathartic effect. You swiftly reduce the crate to a pile of Floyd | splintered wood. Floyd | Floyd | It's still empty, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "You spend a lot of time in it breaking crates with crowbars to get powerups." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Pit Trap Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kick crate" | ||||
Floyd | You've really spent most of your career focusing on your upper body Floyd | strength. If you're going to hit things, you should stick to punches Floyd | or hand weapons. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "The crates in Half-Life were originally all empty, but beta-testing showed that some players methodically broke all of them; hence that mechanic." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "throw crate at wall" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the wooden crate) Floyd | That won't accomplish anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put crate on head" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Okay, back up." | |||
| McMartin says, "As it turns out, there's one semi-useful thing you can do with the crate, but you haven't reached the point where it would be relevant" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Only the amazing ANT-MAN can see his own head!" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You're not flying at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | (first stowing the large-handled key) Floyd | (first stowing the wooden crate) Floyd | That crate is almost as big as you are. You are not going to be able Floyd | to stow it on your belt. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "aha finally found a game limitation hehe" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drop crate" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | You recharge and start flying. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 75 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 100 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy fails you, and your old nemesis gravity reasserts his Floyd | dominance. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 125 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You continue your plummet earthwards. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 100 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | You recharge and renew your flight. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 75 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 100 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "what is g short for?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 125 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aGain" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Again." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 150 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 175 feet above the bottom.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You fly back up into the office. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office (flying) Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Most of the floor is gone at the moment, revealing an ominous pit that Floyd | leads down a good distance. At the bottom you can just make out a Floyd | wooden crate. Someone standing could still walk to either door, Floyd | though. Floyd | Floyd | You settle down on one of the few safe spots in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stick fingers up at dr sinister" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So.. what was in the drawer, btw?" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "The key, no?" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x drawer" | ||||
Floyd | This small drawer is part of the desk. It's on the right-hand edge if Floyd | one is sitting in the chair, and it looks easily reachable even if one Floyd | were merely standing near it. It's open, revealing a silver key. Floyd | Floyd | In the small drawer is a silver key. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, maybe not." | |||
| DavidW says, "Different key." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "don't eat the clues" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x silver key" | ||||
Floyd | It's probably not really silver, but it is metallic and shiny. It's no Floyd | larger than a housekey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take silver key" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | It looks quite comfortable, though it also looks like the doctor Floyd | welded it to the floor as a safety precaution. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull drawer" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x welding" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra asks, "close it?" | |||
| McMartin says, "The floor's already gone" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "nice welding job" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | ||||
Floyd | You close the small drawer. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Oh, the floor doesn't come back?" | |||
| DavidW says, "There's a way to get the floor back." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sit in chair" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the leather chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office (on the leather chair) Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Most of the floor is gone at the moment, revealing an ominous pit that Floyd | leads down a good distance. At the bottom you can just make out a Floyd | wooden crate. Someone standing could still walk to either door, Floyd | though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "gloat" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, there's another door to the west." | |||
| smartgenes says, "we know" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "unlock door with silver key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "unlock door with silver key" | ||||
Floyd | That's unlocked at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Sorry." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look through door" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first getting off the leather chair) Floyd | Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Dr. Sinister seems to have found an interesting solution to the Floyd | problem of maintaining operational security: he has placed his master Floyd | command center in his bedroom. A surprisingly humble bed sits off Floyd | against the south wall, while an impressive command terminal full of Floyd | controls and displays occupies most of the opposite one. The Doctor's Floyd | office lies back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull bed" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x terminal" | ||||
Floyd | The terminal's displays are all dark. Beneath the displays, you note Floyd | that the defense grid switch and the launch hatch switch are on, and Floyd | the master power switch and the main door switch are switched off. Floyd | There is also a button marked "TRAP TOGGLE". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x controls" | ||||
Floyd | The terminal's displays are all dark. Beneath the displays, you note Floyd | that the defense grid switch and the launch hatch switch are on, and Floyd | the master power switch and the main door switch are switched off. Floyd | There is also a button marked "TRAP TOGGLE". Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "And here we hit the implementor laziness. Watch this" | |||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "Sit on bed" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "More complicated controls than in the rocket." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It's little more than a cot, really. You wonder if he sleeps here Floyd | normally, or if this was just for the occasional all-nighter. It Floyd | certainly doesn't match up with the ostentation out in the main Floyd | office. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd | You've got vastly more important things to be doing. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "heh" | |||
| McMartin says, "So, in the comp version I failed to check if the player was on the bed or at the console." | ||||
| McMartin says, "As you will soon see, I found an elegant solution to this." | ||||
| Bert arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW asks (of McMartin), "What are you talking about?" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x south wall" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn on power" | ||||
Floyd | (not first getting out of the bed - Dr. Sinister clearly has his Floyd | priorities straight) Floyd | The displays flicker to life. The old status screen appears Floyd | momentarily - you can just make out the words "POST-LAUNCH SHUTDOWN Floyd | COMPLETE" before they turn to other feeds. The terminal's displays are Floyd | now showing various parts of the base. One view looks at the closed Floyd | bulk of the main gate, while another shows the roof of the hangar Floyd | opening up, revealing the blue sky above. Other images flicker through Floyd | the displays, but the only other one that catches your eye is the grid Floyd | of light starting to flicker to life, sealing off the hangar from the Floyd | main halls. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "That." | |||
| EmacsUser smiles. | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha 'not first'" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks (of eladnarra), "Do you want to drive for a while?" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "um, I could try? ^_^;;" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Go for it." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "haha, no idea what to do, though" | ||||
| McMartin ducks out to grab a quick lunch | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Command Center (on the bed) Floyd | Dr. Sinister seems to have found an interesting solution to the Floyd | problem of maintaining operational security: he has placed his master Floyd | command center in his bedroom. A surprisingly humble bed sits off Floyd | against the south wall, while an impressive command terminal full of Floyd | controls and displays occupies most of the opposite one. The Doctor's Floyd | office lies back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i guess examine the grid" | |||
| DavidW says (to McMartin), "That's what *I* wanna dooooo!" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x terminal" | ||||
Floyd | The terminal's displays are now showing various parts of the base. One Floyd | view looks at the closed bulk of the main doors, while another gazes Floyd | out the hangar into the blue sky. Other images flicker through the Floyd | displays, but the only other one that catches your eye is the grid of Floyd | light that seems to be sealing off the hangar from the main halls. Floyd | Beneath the displays, you note that the master power switch, the Floyd | defense grid switch, and the launch hatch switch are on, and the main Floyd | door switch is switched off. There is also a button marked "TRAP Floyd | TOGGLE". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x grid" | ||||
Floyd | This switch is labeled "DEFENSE GRID". Floyd | Floyd | The defense grid switch is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "push trap toggle" | ||||
Floyd | The pit in the next room closes up, restoring the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "'mkay, I assume we want the defense grid off" | |||
| smartgenes says, "pretty tight game mcmartin" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "switch off defense grid" | ||||
Floyd | The switch is stuck. You pull with all your might, and then the switch Floyd | gives suddenly. Unfortunately, it hasn't actually switched off; the Floyd | switch itself has crumbled to powder in your grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh no." | |||
| eladnarra says, "bugger" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "oh no indeed :D" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "uh-oh spaghetti-ohs" | ||||
| eladnarra asks, "continue with broken switch, or undo?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Continue; we have cf5 not too long ago." | |||
| smartgenes says, "uh-oh spaghetti-ohs" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look behind terminals" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x defense grid" | ||||
Floyd | This switch is labeled "DEFENSE GRID". However, the switch itself has Floyd | broken off and it is wedged in the ON position. Floyd | Floyd | The broken defense grid switch is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar thinks we shouldn't let eladnarra drive anymore, she broke the game | |||
| smartgenes says, "lol" | ||||
| eladnarra exclaims, "hahaha~ the first time I've driven, too!" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "Not that I'd be any better myself" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "any ideas on how to fix a broken switch? or... hm." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "lol" | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a silver key Floyd | the HummingBelt (being worn) Floyd | an energy drink Floyd | a large-handled key Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "use the crowbar?" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Can we just go around the grid by flying again?" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "if the switch is unfixable the difficulty level of the game will go up on the Baf Cruelty Scale" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "we can go take a look..." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first getting off the bed) Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to smartgenes), "Actually, no. The difficulty is unchanged." | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "search bunks" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "there was a route east as well" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | However, access to the hangar is currently blocked by a grid of Floyd | shimmering light beams. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Was the scale Baf's or Zarf's?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Zarf's" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Okay, but used by Baf's guide, no?" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x light beams" | ||||
Floyd | This circular doorway leads to the hangar. Beams of coruscating light Floyd | crisscross the doorway. They don't look terribly friendly. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "yeh that's right,my mistake" | |||
| DavidW says, "No, Baf's guide never recorded it." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "haha, unfriendly indeed" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "doesn't look like something we can fly over, though" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "baf does have the rating in the database when adding games" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Light beams: unfriendly. Rocket control panel: friendly." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "hehe" | ||||
| EmacsUser Hummingbird's Guide to Diabolical Contrivances. | ||||
| eladnarra says, "okay, well I can only think of returning and trying to pry the switch." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "what would han solo do in this situation" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Baf's doesn't record cruelty. It never has." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to eladnarra), "Sounds like a plan." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "he does davidw" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "Han Solo would shoot first, but sadly we don't have a gun..." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to smartgenes), "Prove it." | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Dr. Sinister seems to have found an interesting solution to the Floyd | problem of maintaining operational security: he has placed his master Floyd | command center in his bedroom. A surprisingly humble bed sits off Floyd | against the south wall, while an impressive command terminal full of Floyd | controls and displays occupies most of the opposite one. The Doctor's Floyd | office lies back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "pry switch" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the master power switch, the broken defense grid Floyd | switch, the main door switch, or the launch hatch switch? Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "just go to his database and add a game" | |||
| eladnarra exclaims, "oh!" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to smartgenes), "Do you mean the IFDB? That's separate." | ||||
| DavidW says, "For f**k's sake. He doesn't have a cruelty field." | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "broken defense grid" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the crowbar) Floyd | There isn't a switch there anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Yes, the IFDB is not Baf's Guide. They are two different indexes." | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "pry launch hatch switch" | ||||
Floyd | There's no reason to force it; simply toggling the launch hatch switch Floyd | will suffice. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "yes the IFDB.." | |||
| EmacsUser is sorry he brought the topic up. | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "toggle launch hatch switch" | ||||
Floyd | On the displays, you see a dome close over the top of the hangar, Floyd | roofing it off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | On the displays, you see the hangar roof retract, revealing an Floyd | inviting blue sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "sorry, just messing" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "toggle master power switch" | ||||
Floyd | As the displays shut down, you can see the hangar's launch hatch Floyd | beginning to close and the light beams in the hangar flicker and go Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "ah. hm..." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Can we use the truck in any way? Since we have the key." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | The displays flicker to life. The terminal's displays are now showing Floyd | various parts of the base. One view looks at the closed bulk of the Floyd | main gate, while another shows the roof of the hangar opening up, Floyd | revealing the blue sky above. Other images flicker through the Floyd | displays, but the only other one that catches your eye is the grid of Floyd | light starting to flicker to life, sealing off the hangar from the Floyd | main halls. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "And a main door switch, though I'm not sure that it will stay open with the power off." | |||
| eladnarra asks, "I would think the rocket needs the fuel? maybe?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Probably." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "can try opening the door and seeing what happens when the power is turned off" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "toggle door switch" | ||||
Floyd | On the displays, you see the massive main doors to the base slowly Floyd | swing open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "toggle main power switch" | ||||
Floyd | As the displays shut down, you can see the main doors and the hangar's Floyd | launch hatch each beginning to close. The light beams in the hangar Floyd | also flicker and go out. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm." | |||
| eladnarra says, "darn~" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Have we explored everywhere?" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x defense grid switch" | ||||
Floyd | This switch is labeled "DEFENSE GRID". However, the switch itself has Floyd | broken off and it is wedged in the ON position. Floyd | Floyd | The broken defense grid switch is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra asks, "I'm not sure?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Let me look..." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wedge crowbar" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put crowbar in hole" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Not east of the staging area yet..." | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move desk" | ||||
Floyd | Wow. It is heavy. You don't seem to be able to budge it at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Nor have we flown in the hangar, though maybe that won't reveal anything." | |||
| eladnarra says, "oh, sorry" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Hall Floyd | Colorful tapestries hang on the wall here. Most of them carry the Floyd | series of red slashes that are Dr. Sinister's trademark insignia, but Floyd | a few others show his benevolent face smiling down upon any visitors Floyd | from the main entrance to the north, or perhaps to inspire his troops Floyd | marching out from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove tapestry" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x tapestries" | ||||
Floyd | Dr. Sinister's logo looks pretty good at that scale, but his face Floyd | doesn't. It's a little too clean-shaven and managerial-looking. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "haha, he isn't evil-looking enough~" | |||
| eladnarra asks, "north?" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "maybe he's a misunderstood philanthropist" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Can we get out?" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | This is, in all likelihood, more of an "exit hall" than an "entrance Floyd | hall." Dr. Sinister is unlikely to be receiving visitors often, and Floyd | this "entrance" is broad enough to let a budding overlord's armies Floyd | march out twenty abreast and still have room to move out vehicles Floyd | after them. Floyd | Floyd | That does raise the question of how he planned on getting them to the Floyd | mainland, but you suppose that's neither here nor there. Floyd | Floyd | The huge doors to the north bar your passage. Floyd | Floyd | Your suit chimes again. "Hummingbird here. Good timing; I've finished Floyd | my investigation." Floyd | Floyd | "What did you find?" Floyd | Floyd | "The base is abandoned. Whatever Sinister's up to is entirely in Floyd | orbit." Floyd | Floyd | "So does that mean the strike force gets a green light?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Yes - that should stop him." Floyd | [2] "No - there's enough here that I can stop him." Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra asks, "2?" | |||
| smartgenes says, "i guess we could do it ourselves with a fixed switch" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Sure; let's not give up yet." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | "No. Dr. Sinister always keeps redundant backup plans - in this case, Floyd | he has a separate launch rocket and fuel still in the base. I can give Floyd | chase." Floyd | Floyd | "All right, but be quick about it. They won't wait forever." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The massive door towers impressively above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "should we try flying about the hangar? there was some text earlier that kinda suggested it" | |||
| DavidW says, "There was a switch for the main door on the control panel." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "i'd still like to think the crowbar could be used as the switch" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "the door closes again when you hit the power switch. so yeah, we'd need to find a way to work the defense grid switch" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Hmm, I think the main lead is to get fuel here. Maybe the hose can fit through the grid, and we can fly around?" | ||||
| eladnarra asks, "where would we fly?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "We could go out the main door and then back in through the hatch on the roof." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Getting the truck to the rocket seems like more of a problem though." | ||||
| eladnarra asks, "we have a key, don't we?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yep." | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||
| Ellison has connected. | eladnarra says, "I'm still not sure what you mean about the flying though, so you can take over if you like ^_^" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Hmm, okay. I'll get us are far as I can see ahead." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | This is, in all likelihood, more of an "exit hall" than an "entrance Floyd | hall." Dr. Sinister is unlikely to be receiving visitors often, and Floyd | this "entrance" is broad enough to let a budding overlord's armies Floyd | march out twenty abreast and still have room to move out vehicles Floyd | after them. Floyd | Floyd | The huge doors to the north bar your passage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Hall Floyd | Colorful tapestries hang on the wall here. Most of them carry the Floyd | series of red slashes that are Dr. Sinister's trademark insignia, but Floyd | a few others show his benevolent face smiling down upon any visitors Floyd | from the main entrance to the north, or perhaps to inspire his troops Floyd | marching out from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Dr. Sinister seems to have found an interesting solution to the Floyd | problem of maintaining operational security: he has placed his master Floyd | command center in his bedroom. A surprisingly humble bed sits off Floyd | against the south wall, while an impressive command terminal full of Floyd | controls and displays occupies most of the opposite one. The Doctor's Floyd | office lies back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | The terminal's displays are all dark. Beneath the displays, you note Floyd | that the broken defense grid switch, the main door switch, and the Floyd | launch hatch switch are on, and the master power switch is switched Floyd | off. There is also a button marked "TRAP TOGGLE". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "toggle power" | ||||
Floyd | The displays flicker to life. The terminal's displays are now showing Floyd | various parts of the base. One view shows the main doors starting to Floyd | majestically swing open to the island, while another shows the roof of Floyd | the hangar opening up, revealing the blue sky above. Other images Floyd | flicker through the displays, but the only other one that catches your Floyd | eye is the grid of light starting to flicker to life, sealing off the Floyd | hangar from the main halls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "toggle door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "toggle door switch" | ||||
Floyd | On the displays, you see the massive main doors to the base slowly Floyd | swing shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | However, access to the hangar is currently blocked by a grid of Floyd | shimmering light beams. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Hall Floyd | Colorful tapestries hang on the wall here. Most of them carry the Floyd | series of red slashes that are Dr. Sinister's trademark insignia, but Floyd | a few others show his benevolent face smiling down upon any visitors Floyd | from the main entrance to the north, or perhaps to inspire his troops Floyd | marching out from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "nn" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | This is, in all likelihood, more of an "exit hall" than an "entrance Floyd | hall." Dr. Sinister is unlikely to be receiving visitors often, and Floyd | this "entrance" is broad enough to let a budding overlord's armies Floyd | march out twenty abreast and still have room to move out vehicles Floyd | after them. Floyd | Floyd | The huge doors to the north bar your passage. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Wait... did I do that wrong?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||||
Floyd | The massive door towers impressively above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ah, I did." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Sorry." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "huh" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Hall Floyd | Colorful tapestries hang on the wall here. Most of them carry the Floyd | series of red slashes that are Dr. Sinister's trademark insignia, but Floyd | a few others show his benevolent face smiling down upon any visitors Floyd | from the main entrance to the north, or perhaps to inspire his troops Floyd | marching out from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | However, access to the hangar is currently blocked by a grid of Floyd | shimmering light beams. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Dr. Sinister seems to have found an interesting solution to the Floyd | problem of maintaining operational security: he has placed his master Floyd | command center in his bedroom. A surprisingly humble bed sits off Floyd | against the south wall, while an impressive command terminal full of Floyd | controls and displays occupies most of the opposite one. The Doctor's Floyd | office lies back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "toggle door switch" | ||||
Floyd | On the displays, you see the massive main doors to the base slowly Floyd | swing open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | However, access to the hangar is currently blocked by a grid of Floyd | shimmering light beams. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Hall Floyd | Colorful tapestries hang on the wall here. Most of them carry the Floyd | series of red slashes that are Dr. Sinister's trademark insignia, but Floyd | a few others show his benevolent face smiling down upon any visitors Floyd | from the main entrance to the north, or perhaps to inspire his troops Floyd | marching out from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | This is, in all likelihood, more of an "exit hall" than an "entrance Floyd | hall." Dr. Sinister is unlikely to be receiving visitors often, and Floyd | this "entrance" is broad enough to let a budding overlord's armies Floyd | march out twenty abreast and still have room to move out vehicles Floyd | after them. Floyd | Floyd | The huge doors to the north stand open to the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You walk back out into the sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | Dr. Sinister may be evil, but he's obviously not part of the desolate Floyd | and blasted stronghold school. West of the sparkling sands of this Floyd | beach, the island shifts over to verdant fields. It's also clear that Floyd | he or his minions take good care of it; the grass around here is so Floyd | well-kept it could practically be a lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The massive main door of the tower is to the south, and a path cut out Floyd | of the grass leads from it off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | The force field shifts direction here, forming the northwest corner of Floyd | the containment zone. The tower itself is off to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A path is cut into the grass leading south and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | The tower of Dr. Sinister stands proudly to the east of here, its grey Floyd | bulk left a bit greenish by the glow of the containment fields to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | A path leads from north to south around the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | The containment fields block you from moving any further to the south Floyd | or west here, while the tower rises to the northeast. A neatly-trimmed Floyd | path cut into the grass here leads north and east. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel truck sits quietly on the path here. Good to see the Doctor Floyd | didn't destroy all his supplies when he left. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter truck" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the fuel truck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "start truck" | ||||
Floyd | You put the large-handled key into the ignition and start the truck. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle (in the fuel truck) Floyd | The tower of Dr. Sinister stands proudly to the east of here, its grey Floyd | bulk left a bit greenish by the glow of the containment fields to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | A path leads from north to south around the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Hrm" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle (in the fuel truck) Floyd | The force field shifts direction here, forming the northwest corner of Floyd | the containment zone. The tower itself is off to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A path is cut into the grass leading south and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle (in the fuel truck) Floyd | Dr. Sinister may be evil, but he's obviously not part of the desolate Floyd | and blasted stronghold school. West of the sparkling sands of this Floyd | beach, the island shifts over to verdant fields. It's also clear that Floyd | he or his minions take good care of it; the grass around here is so Floyd | well-kept it could practically be a lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The massive main door of the tower is to the south, and a path cut out Floyd | of the grass leads from it off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You go back into the tower. Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall (in the fuel truck) Floyd | This is, in all likelihood, more of an "exit hall" than an "entrance Floyd | hall." Dr. Sinister is unlikely to be receiving visitors often, and Floyd | this "entrance" is broad enough to let a budding overlord's armies Floyd | march out twenty abreast and still have room to move out vehicles Floyd | after them. Floyd | Floyd | The huge doors to the north stand open to the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Hall (in the fuel truck) Floyd | Colorful tapestries hang on the wall here. Most of them carry the Floyd | series of red slashes that are Dr. Sinister's trademark insignia, but Floyd | a few others show his benevolent face smiling down upon any visitors Floyd | from the main entrance to the north, or perhaps to inspire his troops Floyd | marching out from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area (in the fuel truck) Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | However, access to the hangar is currently blocked by a grid of Floyd | shimmering light beams. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, of course." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "stop truck" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the ignition off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The fuel truck won't fit through that door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "exit truck" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the fuel truck. Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | However, access to the hangar is currently blocked by a grid of Floyd | shimmering light beams. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fuel truck here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Dr. Sinister seems to have found an interesting solution to the Floyd | problem of maintaining operational security: he has placed his master Floyd | command center in his bedroom. A surprisingly humble bed sits off Floyd | against the south wall, while an impressive command terminal full of Floyd | controls and displays occupies most of the opposite one. The Doctor's Floyd | office lies back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "toggle power" | ||||
Floyd | As the displays shut down, you can see the main doors and the hangar's Floyd | launch hatch each beginning to close. The light beams in the hangar Floyd | also flicker and go out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fuel truck here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter truck" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the fuel truck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "start truck" | ||||
Floyd | You put the large-handled key into the ignition and start the truck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hangar (in the fuel truck) Floyd | This enormous hangar appears to take up nearly all the space in this Floyd | tower-or, at least, the space in the tower that's above the ground. Floyd | Most of the space in the hangar is taken up by an enormous, yellow, Floyd | finned rocket. A catwalk far above leads into it. Floyd | Floyd | A ladder leads up to the catwalk, and then further up to provide roof Floyd | access. The roof itself looks quite solid, and you don't expect that Floyd | rocket will be able to launch through it as-is. Floyd | Floyd | A hallway large enough to pass a freight train leads off to the south, Floyd | to some kind of staging area. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "stop truck" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the ignition off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the fuel truck. Floyd | Floyd | Hangar Floyd | This enormous hangar appears to take up nearly all the space in this Floyd | tower-or, at least, the space in the tower that's above the ground. Floyd | Most of the space in the hangar is taken up by an enormous, yellow, Floyd | finned rocket. A catwalk far above leads into it. Floyd | Floyd | A ladder leads up to the catwalk, and then further up to provide roof Floyd | access. The roof itself looks quite solid, and you don't expect that Floyd | rocket will be able to launch through it as-is. Floyd | Floyd | A hallway large enough to pass a freight train leads off to the south, Floyd | to some kind of staging area. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fuel truck here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fuel rocket" | ||||
Floyd | You hook the hose up to the rocket, refuel its tanks, and replace the Floyd | hose on the side of the truck. It should be ready for launch now. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "yay~" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Dr. Sinister seems to have found an interesting solution to the Floyd | problem of maintaining operational security: he has placed his master Floyd | command center in his bedroom. A surprisingly humble bed sits off Floyd | against the south wall, while an impressive command terminal full of Floyd | controls and displays occupies most of the opposite one. The Doctor's Floyd | office lies back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "toggle power" | ||||
Floyd | The displays flicker to life. The terminal's displays are now showing Floyd | various parts of the base. One view shows the main doors starting to Floyd | majestically swing open to the island, while another shows the roof of Floyd | the hangar opening up, revealing the blue sky above. Other images Floyd | flicker through the displays, but the only other one that catches your Floyd | eye is the grid of light starting to flicker to life, sealing off the Floyd | hangar from the main halls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Office Floyd | This luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his Floyd | time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of Floyd | the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door Floyd | hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Minions' Chambers Floyd | The base continues from east to west. This area looks like a barracks; Floyd | rows and rows of empty bunk beds line the halls. This must be where Floyd | his minions slept when they weren't on-duty. Floyd | Floyd | To the west you can see a fancy desk. Looks like the boss had an Floyd | open-door policy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Staging Area Floyd | This large area looks like it was once central to Dr. Sinister's Floyd | operations. However, any signs of his plots based here have been Floyd | removed. There hasn't been much time for dust to accumulate, either; Floyd | he must have been expecting to leave this base behind. Floyd | Floyd | This area continues off to the east, and narrows considerably to the Floyd | west. The rocket hangar lies through the huge archway to the north. Floyd | However, access to the hangar is currently blocked by a grid of Floyd | shimmering light beams. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Hall Floyd | Colorful tapestries hang on the wall here. Most of them carry the Floyd | series of red slashes that are Dr. Sinister's trademark insignia, but Floyd | a few others show his benevolent face smiling down upon any visitors Floyd | from the main entrance to the north, or perhaps to inspire his troops Floyd | marching out from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | This is, in all likelihood, more of an "exit hall" than an "entrance Floyd | hall." Dr. Sinister is unlikely to be receiving visitors often, and Floyd | this "entrance" is broad enough to let a budding overlord's armies Floyd | march out twenty abreast and still have room to move out vehicles Floyd | after them. Floyd | Floyd | The huge doors to the north stand open to the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You walk back out into the sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | Sinister Isle Floyd | Dr. Sinister may be evil, but he's obviously not part of the desolate Floyd | and blasted stronghold school. West of the sparkling sands of this Floyd | beach, the island shifts over to verdant fields. It's also clear that Floyd | he or his minions take good care of it; the grass around here is so Floyd | well-kept it could practically be a lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The massive main door of the tower is to the south, and a path cut out Floyd | of the grass leads from it off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | (first stowing the silver key) Floyd | (first stowing the crowbar) Floyd | (first stowing the large-handled key) Floyd | You recharge and start flying. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is beginning to flag. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 50 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 75 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | You are now level with the tower's roof. You could land on the roof by Floyd | going to the south. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 100 feet above the ground.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You fly over the lip of the tower roof. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Tower (flying) Floyd | You're hovering above the top of Dr. Sinister's stronghold. Most of Floyd | the roof is curved into a retractable dome, except for the access path Floyd | ringing the roof. The dome is currently open, revealing the cavernous Floyd | hangar below. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch stands open, leading down into the tower. Floyd | Floyd | You settle down on the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | You go back into the tower. Floyd | Floyd | Hangar Catwalk Floyd | You're standing on a narrow catwalk ringing a vast hangar. To the west Floyd | is an airlock leading into a bright yellow rocket that fills most of Floyd | the area. A ladder leads both up through the ceiling, and down to the Floyd | floor of the hangar proper. Sunlight streams in from the open launch Floyd | hatch, illuminating the entire area. You could also easily take off Floyd | from here, if you were so inclined. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch stands open on the ceiling, leading up and Floyd | out of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "woot" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Okay. Sorry for all of the scrolling room discriptions." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "haha, no problem" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Rocket: fueled. Roof: open. Hero: catwalk." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Wait, did we in fact open the roof?" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "I feel silly; I am directionally challenged in games, it seems :D" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "look up" | ||||
Floyd | The roof is largely gone, flooding the hangar with sunlight from a Floyd | clear blue sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ah, ok." | |||
| DavidW says, "Go get 'im, Hummingbird, you hero you." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Well, I am sillier; I didn't realize that we could toggle the grid once the truck was inside." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You enter the rocket. Floyd | Floyd | Rocket Interior Floyd | The rocket interior is small, but isn't quite to the level of Floyd | "cramped". An acceleration chair takes up most of the floor, and a Floyd | friendly-looking control panel sits in front of it. The exit hatch Floyd | leads east to the hangar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | (on the acceleration chair) Floyd | As you sit in the acceleration chair, a variety of webs and restraints Floyd | affix you to the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | As you press the launch button, machinery rumbles to life underneath Floyd | you. You hear a chime, and a pleasant genderless voice comes from the Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | "Good morning, O most worthy overlord. It's too bad that it has become Floyd | necessary to flee your lovely island base. I will be your autopilot Floyd | today. Please sit tight while I take us to your orbital redoubt." Floyd | Floyd | Well, that's a good sign, at least. You relax a bit while the Floyd | landscape dwindles below you and the sky darkens above you. Floyd | Floyd | After a few more minutes, the autopilot chimes again. "We're nearly Floyd | here. I've put you into an east-to-west orbit approaching the station, Floyd | but you will have to perform the final approach yourself." The launch Floyd | button recesses into the control panel, and a control stick emerges. Floyd | "I will, as always, keep your orbit stable as you move. Docking arms Floyd | will engage once you are stopped at location (1, 0, 0)." Floyd | Floyd | Displays bloom around the window, indicating your present position and Floyd | velocity. The station itself is now clearly visible to the west. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (10, 10, 0) VEL: (0, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "time for the friendly controls \o/" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "I guess at this point I can mention it here - one of the things the crate is actually good for is that you can use its wreckage to experiment safely with the grid" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, this puzzle. I didn't like the piloting puzzle." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I couldn't visualize what was happening." | ||||
| McMartin says, "I have to consider it worth it just for the way at least two people solved it." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "y'ouch flight-sim" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "uh oh" | ||||
| McMartin says, "(Which was by remembering a bit from some old SF novel)" | ||||
| Bishop says, "Oh, I totaslly did it by trial-and-error on indivudual actinos rather than getting any sort of Big Picture." | ||||
| Bishop says, "Er, individual actions." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think I got there by accident on the third orbit or something." | ||||
| eladnarra asks, "so what do you do? move the control stick around?" | ||||
| McMartin says, "You could try that, I guess." | ||||
| DavidW says, "There's a control stick." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x control stick" | ||||
Floyd | It's a simple joystick. It will let you control the flight of the Floyd | rocket as easily as you would move in any direction. The direction Floyd | away from you is marked WEST. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (10, 10, 0) VEL: (0, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "hm" | |||
| DavidW says, "Our target is (1, 0, 0)" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "may I have a go? if you don't mind me screwing it up..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Go ahead." | ||||
| McMartin says, "From this point on in the game it is impossible to die" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "haha, that's good to know :D" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | As you are in a broader orbit, you are now drifting away from the Floyd | station's longitude. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (10, 10, 1) VEL: (1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to McMartin), "Except for the abandoned mutant sharks." | |||
| McMartin says, "You can't reach those anymore" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "uh oh" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Hrm, some drift." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (11, 10, 0) VEL: (0, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I mean, the sharks can die. Unloved and alone and abandoned." | |||
| McMartin says, "Oh, I see" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Well, they're superintelligent; they should be able to get by" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust laterally to your orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (11, 9, 0) VEL: (0, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "I meant it was impossible for the game to end in anything other than victory or > QUIT at this point, though." | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (11, 8, 0) VEL: (0, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | As you are in a broader orbit, you are now drifting away from the Floyd | station's longitude. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (11, 7, 1) VEL: (1, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "hm" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (12, 6, 0) VEL: (0, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "haha, I am really getting further away on the x-coordinate" | |||
| McMartin says, "Well, you did the same thing twice, and it did the same thing twice" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'd be little better. I was a clueless monkey on this piloting puzzle." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (12, 5, 0) VEL: (0, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks (of McMartin), "Can we drift off arbitrarily far?" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | As you are in a tighter orbit, you are now catching up to the Floyd | station's longitude. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (12, 4, -1) VEL: (-1, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "you sunk my battleship?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I suspect the best strategy is to go slow and drift the right way, if we can." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (11, 3, -1) VEL: (-1, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says (to EmacsUser), "If you get far enough away, the puzzle will reset." | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (10, 2, -1) VEL: (-1, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Ah; autopilot takes over?" | |||
| DavidW says (to EmacsUser), "If we drift too far, the autopilot pulls us back to ... yeah." | ||||
| McMartin says, "Right. It will also refuse to let you deorbit too far in either direction" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "oops, don't remember the direction to reverse y movement" | ||||
| McMartin says, "You are currently drifting north" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust laterally to your orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (9, 2, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "okies" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust laterally to your orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (8, 1, -1) VEL: (-1, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You are now aligned with the station's latitude. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (7, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, -1, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I can't tell at all which direction we're flying." | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust laterally to your orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (6, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "SW, I think?" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (5, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (4, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, ""VEL" is velocity - you're currently going straight west" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "I'm just watching the numbers, not the commands, so I could be wrong." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "I'm guessing I could go faster, but waiting is easier" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (3, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (2, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (1, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "pull back?" | |||
| eladnarra says, "oops~" | ||||
| DavidW says, "too late." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "sorry" | ||||
| McMartin says, "There's still undo" | ||||
| smartgenes goes home. | ||||
| smartgenes has disconnected. | EmacsUser asks, "And we could go around, no?" | |||
| DavidW says (to eladnarra), "Your choice, of course." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "er... :D" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | You are now aligned with the station's height. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (0, 0, -2) VEL: (-2, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We don't want two people entering commands for this section." | |||
| McMartin says, "Whoa" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "kinda lost track of what I was doing" | ||||
| McMartin says, "That's a bug" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "yeah, that seems odd" | ||||
| McMartin says, "You are currently not aligned with the station's height, you are in fact directly underneath the station." | ||||
| McMartin says, "Messaging error. Flight mechanics are still fine." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x controls" | ||||
Floyd | It's clearly designed to be user-friendly; there's nothing on it right Floyd | now but a control joystick. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-2, 0, -2) VEL: (-2, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "oh dear~" | |||
| eladnarra says, "thought I had the hang of this, but now I'm lost. I may take forever at this rate..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Stop and turn back? :)" | ||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | McMartin says, "There was in fact a point not too far back where you could have completed it in one move" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-4, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to smartgenes), "Your MUD client seems unhappy today." | |||
| eladnarra says, "bah" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "That was right." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "really? now I'm even more confused" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "i think that time was just timeout due to no key depressions as you drift into infinite space" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "this is silly. someone else should drive." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-5, 0, 0) VEL: (0, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "(1,0,0) ?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | As you are in a tighter orbit, you are now drifting away from the Floyd | station's longitude. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-5, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(1,0,0) is the target" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-6, 0, -2) VEL: (-2, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think you're going the wrong way?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Er, wrong way." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "yeah" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-8, 0, -1) VEL: (-1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-9, 0, 0) VEL: (0, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | As you are in a broader orbit, you are now catching up to the Floyd | station's longitude. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-9, 0, 1) VEL: (1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-8, 0, 2) VEL: (2, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust, pushing yourself out into a broader orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-6, 0, 3) VEL: (3, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-3, 0, 2) VEL: (2, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (-1, 0, 1) VEL: (1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You are now aligned with the station's height. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (0, 0, 1) VEL: (1, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You fire your retros, falling into a slightly tighter orbit. Floyd | Floyd | [POS: (1, 0, 0) VEL: (0, 0, 0)] Floyd | Floyd | You hear a loud clang as the station's docking arms steady the ship. Floyd | The autopilot chimes, and announces, "Here we are. Thank you for Floyd | flying with me, sir." The control stick folds back into the control Floyd | panel, revealing the launch button once again. Floyd | Floyd | A few moments later, the exit hatch opens, revealing a walkway out Floyd | into the station proper. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by ten points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hooray!" | |||
| eladnarra says, "haha, yay" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "McMartin What was the bit about an old SF novel then?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the acceleration chair. Floyd | Floyd | Rocket Interior Floyd | The rocket interior is small, but isn't quite to the level of Floyd | "cramped". An acceleration chair takes up most of the floor, and a Floyd | friendly-looking control panel sits in front of it. The way out leads Floyd | to the space station. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the rocket. Floyd | Floyd | Station Rocketway Floyd | Dr. Sinister's space station seems to be reasonably well put together. Floyd | This extensible walkway fits snugly against your rocket's airlock. Floyd | Since the station is spinning, that direction feels like "down". The Floyd | station proper awaits you up above, towards the center. Floyd | Floyd | A ladder is just visible up at the top of the chamber. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "There's a novel by Larry Niven called 'The Smoke Ring', about people who live in vaguely orbital environments, and there's this rhyme that begins 'east takes you out' that more or less summarizes the mechanics this simulates." | |||
| McMartin says, "I'd read its prequel, but not it." | ||||
| McMartin says, "I don't think" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Hmm. Interesting." | ||||
| McMartin says, "So I was amused" | ||||
| vimes says, "The Integral Trees is the first book in the bilogy" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Right. I read the Integral Trees, but I don't *think* I read the Smoke Ring." | ||||
| eladnarra asks, "up?" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "sounds good to me" | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the ceiling from here, and the ladder is well out of Floyd | reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "oh noes" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | You recharge and start flying. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Trapped! We'll never get up there." | |||
| DavidW says, "Except we totally can." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "hehehe. the command "drink drink" really is fun to use~" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Though it's space, right?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Not as much as "punch punch"." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "yeah, well. Artificial gravity, y'know?" | ||||
| McMartin says (to Johnny), "Violence isn't the answer to this one." | ||||
| Gerynar says, "I'm guessing 'artificial gravity'" | ||||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| eladnarra says, "our evil nemesis gravity is allied with the villain..." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Haha." | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | With some trepidation, you work your way up the access tube. The spin Floyd | of the station is not playing well with your sense of balance, and you Floyd | carom off the walls a few times on your way to the top of the chamber. Floyd | Floyd | But you do make it, and a hand closes on the bottommost rung of the Floyd | ladder. Your weight pulls the ladder down to the bottom of the Floyd | chamber, taking you with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "carom" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||||
Floyd | It looks sturdy, and it takes up most of the rocketway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You climb the ladder confidently, but still, you worry. Your arrival Floyd | was not exactly stealthy, and it can't have gone unnoticed. Where's Floyd | the welcoming committee? You strain your ears listening for ambushes Floyd | or other traps as you ascend into the station proper. Floyd | Floyd | You're almost relieved when you find four goons waiting for you up Floyd | top. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | smartgenes says, "if that's not a word it should be" | |||
| [LINK] | ||||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | They spring into action as soon as you become visible. Fortunately, Floyd | this involves more screaming into headsets and retreating than Floyd | hammering you while you can't fight back. Floyd | Floyd | "It's the Hummingbird! He's bypassed our teleport blockers and is in Floyd | the Vestibule! Initiating lockdown procedures!" Floyd | Floyd | They're fast. By the time you pull yourself all the way through the Floyd | hatch, they're gone and the hatches out of this chamber are sealed. Floyd | Floyd | You pause for a moment to catch your breath and get your bearings. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vestibule Floyd | This is actually pretty swank for a space station. Every gram counts Floyd | in rocketry, yet not only has the Doctor lifted up a full set of Floyd | draperies for the walls, the floor here is even carpeted. Floyd | Floyd | Portholes lead spinward, antispinward, out, and down. All but the down Floyd | porthole are firmly sealed. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's voice crackles over the intercom. "The Hummingbird? I Floyd | invest all this in an island fortress and a space station - a space Floyd | station - and all CPR sees fit to send is the Hummingbird? Pah!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | EmacsUser says, "McMartin This is a fun read." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "(insert ..)" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "taunt sinister" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x draperies" | ||||
Floyd | Fancy curtains bedeck the walls of this room. At least they're light; Floyd | they'd probably have packed well in the rocket. One of them seems to Floyd | be billowing a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "we got this far. he shouldn't be so dismissive :D" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x billowing" | ||||
Floyd | Fancy curtains bedeck the walls of this room. At least they're light; Floyd | they'd probably have packed well in the rocket. One of them seems to Floyd | be billowing a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "look behind draperies" | ||||
Floyd | Checking behind the billowing curtain, you find a passageway leading Floyd | into darkness! It must head to the maintenance tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | You pull down the curtain covering it and stow it in your belt. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's voice booms out once again through the public address Floyd | system. "Fall back to the Hub, men; our visitor won't be going Floyd | anywhere, and even if he somehow does, your numbers will be more than Floyd | enough to fight him back until the cannon is charged." Floyd | Floyd | You sneer inwardly. You're ten times the fighter of any minions the Floyd | Doctor could gather. Floyd | Floyd | Here's hoping he didn't gather twenty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I tip my hat to you folks for getting this far without a status line." | |||
| eladnarra says, "hehe" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We have STATUS ON" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Well, we didn't get this far without -- yeah." | ||||
| Johnny says (to DavidW), "I see!" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "poor Hummingbird, not equal to twenty minions..." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Vestibule Floyd | This is actually pretty swank for a space station. Every gram counts Floyd | in rocketry, yet not only has the Doctor lifted up a full set of Floyd | draperies for the walls, the floor here is even carpeted. Floyd | Floyd | Portholes lead spinward, antispinward, out, and down. All but the down Floyd | porthole are firmly sealed. A passage leads inward to darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've always wondered why we take the curtain." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x curtain" | ||||
Floyd | (the hanging draperies) Floyd | Fancy curtains bedeck the walls of this room. At least they're light; Floyd | they'd probably have packed well in the rocket. The gap you tore in Floyd | them leads to the maintenance passageway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the HummingBelt (being worn) Floyd | some torn curtains Floyd | an energy drink Floyd | a large-handled key Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | a silver key Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Most PCs don't take curtains." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "wave curtains" | ||||
Floyd | (the hanging draperies) Floyd | But you aren't holding those. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear curtain" | ||||
Floyd | (the hanging draperies) Floyd | (first taking the hanging draperies) Floyd | There's nothing else of interest behind the draperies. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser shrugs. | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You duck into the maintenance tunnels. Hopefully this will get you Floyd | closer to Dr. Sinster's inner sanctum. Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 1 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 1: VESTIBULE". The Floyd | corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | [As you are on a spinning spacecraft, normal compass directions no Floyd | longer apply. UP, DOWN, IN, and OUT all still work as expected, and Floyd | the new directions SPINWARD and ANTISPINWARD are available. While on Floyd | the station, these may be abbreviated SW and ASW.] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i feel dizzy already" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "asw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 4 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 4: CREW POD". The Floyd | corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's like a spoked wheel, and we're walking around the edge, kinda." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "In or antispinwards?" | ||||
| McMartin says, "If you're one of those people who think 'east' and 'west' should start applying to the spin of the station instead of the Earth, they are also synonyms for sw and asw" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "I vote in. we might meet more minions \o/" | ||||
| DavidW says, "In is good." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You emerge from the maintenance tunnels back into the starbase proper. Floyd | Floyd | Crew Pod Floyd | Dr. Sinister appears to keep better care of his minions when they're Floyd | in outer space. The cots in this crew section look a lot softer than Floyd | the bunks back on the island. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway leads out to the center of the station, while an access Floyd | hatch leads back down into the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x cots" | ||||
Floyd | These cots are space-ready, made mostly of webbed mattresses to keep Floyd | the sleeper in place. Floyd | Floyd | On the cots are some blankets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x blankets" | ||||
Floyd | The blankets are pretty fluffy. You're not sure how this doesn't Floyd | produce dangerous floating fibers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take blankets" | ||||
Floyd | You strip the blankets from the cots. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Curtains and blankets." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some blankets Floyd | the HummingBelt (being worn) Floyd | some torn curtains Floyd | an energy drink Floyd | a large-handled key Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | a silver key Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put blankets in belt" | ||||
Floyd | You put the blankets into the HummingBelt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tear blankets" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie blankets to torn curtains" | ||||
Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "BUILD SPACE ELEVATOR" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rip blankets" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ha." | |||
| eladnarra says, "hahaha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to McMartin), "yeah, well." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "We just open a window and lower our makeshift rope, eh?" | ||||
| McMartin says, "I'm not totally sure what you have in mind here but that was what came in first" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Out and around before we tackle the hub?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure what Hummingbird has in mind either." | ||||
| McMartin says, "He just does what the voices in his head tell him to!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "There is a game called Voices, y'know." | ||||
| DavidW says, "anyway, keep exploring, someone." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | There's a good fifteen or so unfriendly-looking goons in the hub of Floyd | the station. That's more than you feel comfortable taking on; you'll Floyd | have to do something to diminish their numbers, or at least make them Floyd | less effective. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Er, how do I go rimwards?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Crew Pod Floyd | Dr. Sinister appears to keep better care of his minions when they're Floyd | in outer space. The cots in this crew section look a lot softer than Floyd | the bunks back on the island. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway leads out to the center of the station, while an access Floyd | hatch leads back down into the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | You hear some muttering from the guards in the central hub. Floyd | Floyd | "We've been up for awhile now. Bob, it's your turn to fetch the Floyd | coffee." Floyd | Floyd | "Roger that." Floyd | Floyd | You hear some quick movement, then the motion stops as the guards Floyd | return to their normal posts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You duck back into the tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 4 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 4: CREW POD". The Floyd | corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "You're right, I should totally have HUB(WARDS) and RIM(WARDS) as synonyms for Up and Down." | |||
| McMartin says, "The goons are blocking the hubwards route, though. They're OUT, but that's probably some horribly distended version of "north"" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Well, rimwards would feel like down." | ||||
| McMartin says, "Right, and it accepts Up and Down." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "And the room descrition clearing things up." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "asw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 3 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 3: RECREATION POD". Floyd | The corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back into the starbase's main quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Recreation Pod Floyd | Dr. Sinister clearly retains a higher class of minion than your normal Floyd | supervillain; this rec room is full of bookcases, with a game console Floyd | in one corner for more interactive pursuits. A kitchen nook with an Floyd | integrated sink and coffeemaker protrudes from the wall opposite the Floyd | books. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway leads out to the center of the station, while an access Floyd | hatch leads back down into the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | All the books here are covered in a noticable layer of dust. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Sad." | |||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Recreation Pod Floyd | Dr. Sinister clearly retains a higher class of minion than your normal Floyd | supervillain; this rec room is full of bookcases, with a game console Floyd | in one corner for more interactive pursuits. A kitchen nook with an Floyd | integrated sink and coffeemaker protrudes from the wall opposite the Floyd | books. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway leads out to the center of the station, while an access Floyd | hatch leads back down into the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Darn it, that's not right. I should change that after you notice this" | |||
| McMartin says, "But at least he tries." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Wow, could not type before. s/descrition/description/;s/clearing/clears/" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to McMartin), "Yeah." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||||
Floyd | Reasonably modern, but locked in a case for the moment. No gameplaying Floyd | while duty calls, you suppose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||||
Floyd | Reasonably modern, but locked in a case for the moment. No gameplaying Floyd | while duty calls, you suppose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x nook" | ||||
Floyd | In the kitchen nook are a coffeemaker and a sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need to lie down for 5 or 10 minutes. Didn't get enough sleep last night. But carry on." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter nook" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | The sink is another hole in the nook with a faucet sprayer extending Floyd | from it. The faucet is flush with the top of the counter, you suppose Floyd | to deal with the fact that the not-quite-gravity might make water Floyd | spray everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x coffeemaker" | ||||
Floyd | This coffee machine is part of the wall itself in the kitchen nook - Floyd | it is a receptacle carved into the wall with a burner at the bottom to Floyd | heat a coffee pot - if that. It looks like the receptacle itself might Floyd | double as the pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "So, we could lie in wait here until minions come for coffee." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x pot" | ||||
Floyd | This coffee machine is part of the wall itself in the kitchen nook - Floyd | it is a receptacle carved into the wall with a burner at the bottom to Floyd | heat a coffee pot - if that. It looks like the receptacle itself might Floyd | double as the pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Recreation Pod Floyd | Dr. Sinister clearly retains a higher class of minion than your normal Floyd | supervillain; this rec room is full of bookcases, with a game console Floyd | in one corner for more interactive pursuits. A kitchen nook with an Floyd | integrated sink and coffeemaker protrudes from the wall opposite the Floyd | books. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway leads out to the center of the station, while an access Floyd | hatch leads back down into the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Ideas here, or more exploring?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||||
Floyd | No time to read now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "make coffee" | ||||
Floyd | You can't actually find where the coffee itself is; the burner is Floyd | obvious, but you can't find where the beans themselves are. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "darn" | |||
| eladnarra says, "explore, I guess~" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You duck back into the tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 3 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 3: RECREATION POD". Floyd | The corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "asw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 2 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 2: SUPPLY POD". The Floyd | corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Coffee beans might be in here." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back into the starbase's main quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Supply Pod Floyd | Dr. Sinister continues to show his maniacal levels of organization. Floyd | This pod is lined with storage lockers packed tightly together and Floyd | with no visible seams. The only gap is the doorway out to the center Floyd | of the station. The way down to the maintenance tunnels is also clear. Floyd | Floyd | Disrupting the neatness is a crate in the corner labeled Floyd | "COUNTERMEASURES". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x countermeasures" | ||||
Floyd | Searching through the crate, you find a platinum-studded rope. Colonel Floyd | Spectacular would be hard-pressed to escape from this. Floyd | Floyd | Other unidentified items still remain in the crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "search crate" | ||||
Floyd | Searching through the crate, you find some vials. They're labeled as Floyd | various bromine compounds. Halogens like these could seriously ruin Floyd | Mr. Mysterious's day. Floyd | Floyd | A cursory glance doesn't identify anything else, but more Floyd | investigation might help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Searching through the crate, you find a box with circuitry you Floyd | recognize as a teleport blocker. If the Coalition of Powered Response Floyd | had sent Star-R-Star, he'd be fighting with his hands tied. Floyd | Floyd | You put the teleport blocker back in the crate, near some other things Floyd | you haven't checked yet. Floyd | Floyd | More voices from the hub. "Dave. Coffee. Fast." More motion. Though Floyd | the voice is still quite alert, you can hear the fatigue behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "uh oh. he's prepared for the major heroes" | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "But not us!" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "hehe" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Should we keep looking?" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "could do" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "search countermeasures" | ||||
Floyd | Searching through the crate, you find a tuning fork. You give it an Floyd | experimental strike, and it produces a clean-high note. You recognize Floyd | it immediately as A-880 - the precise tone that shifts the Ethereal Floyd | Wonder into the physical realm. Floyd | Floyd | You've almost finished completely sorting through the crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra asks, "I wonder if minions will fall asleep if coffee deprived?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "search countermeasures" | ||||
Floyd | Searching through the crate, you find some jars full of Floyd | brightly-colored reflective dust. That would negate a lot of Floyd | Justice-Bot's firepower. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister was ready for anyone. Well. Anyone but you. He'll pay for Floyd | that oversight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | jars full of brightly-colored reflective dust: Taken. Floyd | vials: Taken. Floyd | teleport blocker: Taken. Floyd | platinum-studded rope: Taken. Floyd | tuning fork: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "hehehe" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You duck back into the tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 2 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 2: SUPPLY POD". The Floyd | corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 3 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 3: RECREATION POD". Floyd | The corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back into the starbase's main quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Recreation Pod Floyd | Dr. Sinister clearly retains a higher class of minion than your normal Floyd | supervillain; this rec room is full of bookcases, with a game console Floyd | in one corner for more interactive pursuits. A kitchen nook with an Floyd | integrated sink and coffeemaker protrudes from the wall opposite the Floyd | books. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway leads out to the center of the station, while an access Floyd | hatch leads back down into the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "hit coffeemaker" | ||||
Floyd | This thing is well-enough integrated into the countertop that you Floyd | can't do much damage to it with your bare hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a tuning fork Floyd | a platinum-studded rope Floyd | a teleport blocker Floyd | some vials Floyd | some jars full of brightly-colored reflective dust Floyd | the HummingBelt (being worn) Floyd | some blankets Floyd | some torn curtains Floyd | an energy drink Floyd | a large-handled key Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | a silver key Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "hm" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "pry coffeemaker" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the crowbar) Floyd | The coffeemaker has no obvious lock to force. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh yeah. Pry == unlock by default." | |||
| DavidW says, "back" | EmacsUser says (to DavidW), "Better rested? We found you a coffeemaker." | |||
| eladnarra says, "but no coffee beans :(" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "yeah? What sort of coffee?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's probably some non-allergenic cruelty-free soybean sythentic coffee." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Don't know yet." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra asks, "have we explored all the rooms?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vials" | ||||
Floyd | These vials are labeled neatly - they all seem to be various bromine Floyd | compounds. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I think so, but let me scroll back." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Also, poison the coffee is an idea." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "there was a vestibule when we first entered the tunnel, I think. or maybe I'm imagining it" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, vestibule was the first one." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "empty vials into coffeemaker" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to empty the vials. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put vials into coffeemaker" | ||||
Floyd | You check through the vials, looking for anything you could safely Floyd | spike the coffee with. You settle on potassium bromide. If you Floyd | remember right, about 40 grams of this spread through the coffeepot Floyd | should slow down that platoon of thugs without permanently harming any Floyd | of them. Floyd | Floyd | Now you just need to wait for them to get it into their system. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "ah, never mind then~" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You duck back into the tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 3 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 3: RECREATION POD". Floyd | The corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra exclaims, "woot!" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Access Corridor, Quadrant 4 Floyd | This narrow access tunnel seems to ring the entire station. A small Floyd | sign near a hatch on the ceiling reads "QUADRANT 4: CREW POD". The Floyd | corridor continues both spinwards and antispinwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back into the starbase's main quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Crew Pod Floyd | Dr. Sinister appears to keep better care of his minions when they're Floyd | in outer space. The cots in this crew section look a lot softer than Floyd | the bunks back on the island. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway leads out to the center of the station, while an access Floyd | hatch leads back down into the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sit on cot" | ||||
Floyd | You're in enemy territory! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "A chain of z's? I think it's just time based." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear some barked orders as the minions order up another quick Floyd | coffee break. Floyd | Floyd | Sounds like they've taken some of the doctored coffee. Good. That Floyd | should take the edge off of them and maybe give you a fighting chance. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Phew." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "When I played, I spiked the coffee too, but I think there is at least one other method." | |||
| EmacsUser asks (of DavidW), "Oh?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | a tuning fork Floyd | a platinum-studded rope Floyd | a teleport blocker Floyd | some vials Floyd | some jars full of brightly-colored reflective dust Floyd | the HummingBelt (being worn) Floyd | some blankets Floyd | some torn curtains Floyd | an energy drink Floyd | a large-handled key Floyd | a silver key Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know what, though." | |||
| eladnarra says, "interesting..." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks (of Gerynar), "Care to drive?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "(Maybe he's idle, though.)" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe a sonic attack after plugging one's ears with torn curtain?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Heehee." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x torn curtain" | ||||
Floyd | You tore this off of the curtains in the vestibule. It's about 20 Floyd | square feet of cloth. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "the tuning fork didn't seem to bother us, though" | |||
| Gerynar says, "I'm doing three things at once (watching TV, watching this, working on my WIP" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "strike fork" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "There are various ways of neutralizing the coffee, yes." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah well." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Is there a hole the minions can fall through, if you cover the hole with curtain? (I really don't know why we have a curtain.)" | ||||
| McMartin says, "You came close to one other one but didn't quite hit the syntax for it - attacking the coffeemaker with the crowbar will destroy it outright" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "Gerynar is a master multitasker~" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "What happens if we wait indefinitely in the rec room?" | ||||
| eladnarra asks, "how does destroying it help? do they get sleepy without coffee?" | ||||
| DavidW asks (of McMartin), "oh, and without coffee, they loose their edge?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "er lose" | ||||
| DavidW says, "(I'm sleepy)" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You stride into the main hall, where fifteen of Dr. Sinister's finest Floyd | await you. That's well past your comfort zone, but they're not looking Floyd | like they're really in fighting trim. Floyd | Floyd | However, they're still numerous enough that you cannot battle your way Floyd | through to the central bridge access ladder they guard. You make a Floyd | careful retreat before the situation gets any worse. Floyd | Floyd | They do not follow. Floyd | Floyd | That's good for your prospects of survival, at least in the short Floyd | term, but not so great for your long-term prospects of success. You've Floyd | weakened their forces some, but it looks like you'll need to either Floyd | weaken them some more or strengthen yourself to actually break Floyd | through. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Drink drink?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yup" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | (first stowing the vials) Floyd | (first stowing the platinum-studded rope) Floyd | (first stowing the tuning fork) Floyd | (first stowing the crowbar) Floyd | (first stowing the jars full of brightly-colored reflective dust) Floyd | (first stowing the teleport blocker) Floyd | You recharge and start flying. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You flutter through into the main hall, where fifteen of Dr. Floyd | Sinister's finest await you. That's normally just a tad more than Floyd | you're comfortable facing alone, but they were expecting someone Floyd | coming in on the ground. More fool they. While you'd perhaps hoped to Floyd | just fly over all of them, the spun gravity sends you careening about Floyd | the room like a pinball, whacking and bowling over most of the men Floyd | hoping to ambush you. Floyd | Floyd | Before the ones left conscious can regroup, you tilt your flight path Floyd | to the central bridge's access ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | EmacsUser says, "Haha." | |||
| Gerynar says, "nice" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "hehe" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "press space" | ||||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | As you climb, the Hub narrows into a ring-shaped corridor. It's almost Floyd | as if there's some long, thin object running the length of the Floyd | station. Floyd | Floyd | You recall the Doctor mentioning some kind of beam weapon when you Floyd | first entered the station. You can only hope you aren't... Floyd | Floyd | ...well, it looks like you aren't too late after all. A display on the Floyd | wall prominently announces "3:47:32 to full beam charge". That more or Floyd | less matches your position over the Pacific when you first docked - Floyd | unless his master plan involves ruining a cruise ship's day, you Floyd | should be able to wrap this up with time to spare. Floyd | Floyd | You continue your climb to Dr. Sinister's inner sanctum. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | eladnarra says, "pinball attack~" | |||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You tense as you slip into the central bridge, ready for anything. Who Floyd | knows what forces could guard Dr. Sinister's sanctum sanctorum? Floyd | Floyd | It turns out the answer is "nothing"; there isn't anyone here except Floyd | Dr. Sinister himself, flipping through paperwork behind a mahogany Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | How on Earth did he manage to spare the mass to send up a mahogany Floyd | desk? Ah well. No time to question his priorities; you've got an Floyd | evildoer to stop. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Your fiendish scheme ends here!" Floyd | [2] "Your sinister plan is foiled!" Floyd | [3] [Punch him.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "punch him then undo" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | You advance on the doctor, winding up. He puts his paper down and Floyd | makes some futile warding gestures. "Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, Floyd | Hummingbird. What did I ever do to you?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Super-sharks." Floyd | [2] "Orbital Doom Cannons." Floyd | [3] "It doesn't matter what you've done to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Still undo?" | |||
| Gerynar says, "I don't know" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "I dunno. could follow this for a few turns" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Actually, undo then save" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Central Bridge Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "lol" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: [Save succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "sounds good" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | You advance on the doctor, winding up. He puts his paper down and Floyd | makes some futile warding gestures. "Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, Floyd | Hummingbird. What did I ever do to you?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Super-sharks." Floyd | [2] "Orbital Doom Cannons." Floyd | [3] "It doesn't matter what you've done to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Since undo is per-line and if you want to replay this a few times that is maximally convenient" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Ok. Now what?" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "punch him again, and go through the routines, if we don't like, restore and try one of the others" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "I like 1, but not really consistent with our gameplay..." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "We can explore." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "Well, there was your army of genetically-modified sharks." Floyd | Floyd | Sinister blanches. "You were able to defeat them? They should have Floyd | been more than a match for the likes of you." Floyd | Floyd | You think back. "Actually, now that you mention it, no; I just flew Floyd | out of their reach." Floyd | Floyd | "You can fly. Doesn't count." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Trap doors." Floyd | [2] "Orbital Doom Cannons." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "1 again, since it too doesn't count." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "?" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "go for it" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "There's the deadfall in your office." Floyd | Floyd | "You can fly. Doesn't count." Floyd | Floyd | "But..." Floyd | Floyd | "And you shouldn't have been rummaging through my stuff." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Orbital Doom Cannons." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "There's this entire station, which you've built around a huge Floyd | doomcannon." Floyd | Floyd | "That never threatened you. It would have been able to hold the world Floyd | hostage in a few more hours, but..." Floyd | Floyd | "I've wasted far too much time with this as it is. Enough." You wind Floyd | up again, but Dr. Sinister again waves you off. Floyd | Floyd | "No, really, that won't be necessary. I'll come quietly. I know when Floyd | I'm beaten." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 50 out of a possible 50, in 410 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Moving Up In The World. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, read the ENDNOTES, or QUIT? Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "!" | |||
| eladnarra says, "huh~" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "wow" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "it seems...violence was the answer to this one" | ||||
| DavidW says, "There's another ending, but I don't know how to reach it." | ||||
| Gerynar says, "well, threat of violence" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Shall we view other conversation paths then?" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "threatened violence /is/ the answer" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I got it once but couldn't duplicate it." | ||||
| McMartin says (to DavidW), "That was reworked in version 2 slightly" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "try the others" | ||||
| eladnarra says, "other conversation paths, yeah~" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: [Restore succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "The conversation can go a bit differently if you take the Maximum Possible Destruction path, basically." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | You advance on the doctor, winding up. He puts his paper down and Floyd | makes some futile warding gestures. "Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, Floyd | Hummingbird. What did I ever do to you?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Super-sharks." Floyd | [2] "Orbital Doom Cannons." Floyd | [3] "It doesn't matter what you've done to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "This is now tracked independently as an apendix to your score." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "So, can we reach it?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | "This isn't about me." Floyd | Floyd | "Isn't it?" Floyd | Floyd | "Of course it isn't. I'm not here because of some vendetta against Floyd | you; I'm here because of your giant orbital doom cannon. You certainly Floyd | aren't up here for me; all your preparations were for heroes a lot Floyd | more powerful than I was." Floyd | Floyd | "And while we talk, the cannon keeps charging." Floyd | Floyd | "It will never finish." Floyd | Floyd | "Really." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "You're about to run out of time." Floyd | [2] "You've always just been a bit player." Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Not from where you are." | |||
| McMartin says, "IIRC off the top of my head, you have to have cast your initial infiltration as 'investigation', you have to have blown something unimportant up in the defense grid, and then one of your distraction mechanisms had to be creating a pressure hazard by trying to hole the hull" | ||||
| McMartin says, "If you argue with dispatch that you're the less violent option, he will refuse to do the latter because it's not a very less violent option." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "huh~" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | You harden your expression. "We don't have time for this. You have no Floyd | idea how precarious your situation is right now." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh?" Floyd | Floyd | "CPR knows exactly where you are and is completely ready to blow all Floyd | of us out of space before you get anywhere near the West Coast. You've Floyd | been doomed basically since you took off in the first place." Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister narrows his eyes. "Why send you, then?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] "To save you guys." Floyd | [2] "To make them unnecessary." Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Once you win, hit ENDNOTES and it'll go into it." | |||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "You might have missed this, but I'm one of the good guys. I'm not a Floyd | fan of pointlessly wasting lives. That includes yours and your men's." Floyd | Floyd | You gesture at the door. "It's over. Save who you can, and just come Floyd | quietly." Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister considers you, and nods slowly. "If what you say is true, Floyd | it sounds like I may owe you my thanks." Just then the screens on his Floyd | desk glow red. He looks at it briefly. "Yes. Thank you. Let's go." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 50 out of a possible 50, in 410 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Moving Up In The World. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, read the ENDNOTES, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "endnotes" | ||||
Floyd | Congratulations on completing the game! In this playthrough, you Floyd | completed zero out of five optional challenges. They will be listed Floyd | along with your full score. You have five optional challenges Floyd | remaining: Floyd | Floyd | - Complete two navigation puzzles simultaneously. Floyd | - Beat the target time for the docking puzzle, earning the "ace Floyd | flying" score. Floyd | - Complete the game with minimum endangerment of enemies, and make Floyd | sure everyone else does too. Floyd | - Complete the game with maximum endangerment of enemies, and Floyd | leverage the results for good. Floyd | - Complete the game without using any takable items besides the Floyd | energy drink. Floyd | Floyd | In less serious suggestions, have you tried... Floyd | - XYZZY? Floyd | - and the two nonstandard followups cued thereby? Floyd | - Taking the rocket? Floyd | - Twice? Floyd | - STEALing any small object? Floyd | - Taking the tower? Floyd | - Tying the rope to anything? Floyd | - Falling, unpowered, through the open launch hatch? Floyd | - Throwing something plot non-critical (like the silver key or the Floyd | splintered wood) at the defense grid while it's on? Floyd | - Or something plot-critical like the energy drink? Floyd | - Or messing with it in any way afterwards? Floyd | - Kicking things? Floyd | - Screaming? Floyd | - While falling? Floyd | - Immediately before an impact? Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, read the ENDNOTES, or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "interesting. So there's 'achievements' in this game." | |||
| McMartin says, "Pretty much, though it's not possible to do all of them in one run." | ||||
| McMartin says, "The 'ace flying' thing used to be the LLP" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "May I try xyzzy?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, read the ENDNOTES, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: [Restore succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | You find yourself suddenly remembering your battle against the Floyd | nefarious Lord Chitin and his army of zyzzyva weevils. It doesn't seem Floyd | to help in your current situation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "zyzzyva" | ||||
Floyd | No! Lord Chitin is in jail! You've got to focus! Focus! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "focus" | ||||
Floyd | You mentally slap yourself upside the head. You feel much better now. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "hehehe" | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | [I need some kind of reaction from you to continue the scene. Enter a Floyd | number, or say REPEAT to reacquaint yourself with your options.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | [I need some kind of reaction from you to continue the scene. Enter a Floyd | number, or say REPEAT to reacquaint yourself with your options.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "2311" | ||||
Floyd | [Valid responses range from 1-3. Type REPEAT to relist the options.] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "You're in conversation here, you can't do normal actions." | |||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "heh, oops" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "restore an earlier save" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore" | McMartin says, "If you want to mess with flight stuff, there's a handy gigantic playground right at the start" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: [Restore succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Above the Ocean (25 feet above the water) Floyd | The sea extends in all directions. An island lies a good distance to Floyd | the west, while the main shore is a bit to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy is about to run out. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the water.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | There is no real need for a cathartic scream at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | Your energy fails you, and your old nemesis gravity reasserts his Floyd | dominance. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet and falling.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Er..." | |||
| Gerynar says, "lol" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Well, nothing else to do at this point. "AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA--" Floyd | Floyd | Several hundred movies and comic books to the contrary, water makes a Floyd | terrible cushion for crash landings. Falling that far without a Floyd | recharge, it's only slightly less resilient than concrete, really. Floyd | Floyd | Well, at least that means you don't have to worry about drowning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are a shooting star *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 2 out of a possible 50, in 24 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Wild Talent. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to have had a flight mishap. These are rather severe; a Floyd | single UNDO is unlikely to put you in a position where you can Floyd | continue. Two, however, should usually suffice for a safe landing, and Floyd | three should guarantee you a survivable option in even the most Floyd | extreme of circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | see the FULL score for that game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "how about just a restart?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | December 31st, 2014. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't Floyd | entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big and it's Floyd | based in his island fortress. This is clearly a task for one of the Floyd | world's mightiest champions! Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, they've had to send you instead; the world's mightiest Floyd | champions have other emergencies to deal with. New Year's Eve is Floyd | always rough. Floyd | Floyd | Regardless, this looks by-the-book so far. The containment fields have Floyd | been put in place. Now all you have to do is get over to his island Floyd | base, infiltrate it, defeat him, and bring him in. Floyd | Floyd | Flight of the Hummingbird Floyd | An Interactive Costumed Caper by Michael Martin Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 110101 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | [Type ABOUT for information unique to this game, even if you've played Floyd | Interactive Fiction before.] Floyd | Floyd | Shalestorm Shingle Floyd | City Hall teleported you here to Shalestorm Shingle mainly for the Floyd | drama of the name. Small rocks and stones litter the ground here, but Floyd | it dissolves to good clean sand a little ways to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The city's containment force fields wall off the area to the north and Floyd | east. The great Pacific Ocean stretches out to the west. Across the Floyd | sea some distance, you can see Dr. Sinister's island fortress. Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "I gotta go eat" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Adios." | ||||
| eladnarra says, "bye folks~" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "drop drink" | ||||
Floyd | Drop the source of all your power? I think not! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the HummingBelt (being worn) Floyd | an energy drink Floyd | Floyd | > | eladnarra says, "McMartin- cool game ^_^" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "kick rocks" | ||||
Floyd | You've really spent most of your career focusing on your upper body Floyd | strength. If you're going to hit things, you should stick to punches Floyd | or hand weapons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eladnarra goes home. | Gerynar says, "yeah" | |||
| EmacsUser agrees. | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "punch rocks" | ||||
Floyd | Violence definitely has its uses, but that isn't one of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "steal rocks" | ||||
Floyd | (first reclassifying as heroic appropriation of the rocks in a time of Floyd | great need) Floyd | You don't need any rocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "lol" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: [Restore succeeded.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take tower" | ||||
Floyd | If you could pick up giant works of architecture, the Coalition of Floyd | Powered Response wouldn't consider you to be a mere Class III. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Tower Floyd | You're standing on the top of Dr. Sinister's stronghold. Most of the Floyd | roof is curved into a retractable dome, except for the access path Floyd | ringing the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch sits on the floor of the walkway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "pry hatch" | ||||
Floyd | (the access hatch) Floyd | (first taking the crowbar) Floyd | Ah, the crowbar. Truly a tool with a thousand uses. You make quick Floyd | work of whatever was making the hatch stick, and it pops open with a Floyd | gratifying hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb down into Dr. Sinister's island tower. Floyd | Floyd | Hangar Catwalk Floyd | You're standing on a narrow catwalk ringing a vast hangar. To the west Floyd | is an airlock leading into a bright yellow rocket that fills most of Floyd | the area. A ladder leads both up through the ceiling, and down to the Floyd | floor of the hangar proper. The roof forms a dome about 30 feet above Floyd | your head. You could also easily take off from here, if you were so Floyd | inclined. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch stands open on the ceiling, leading up and Floyd | out of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | Right then. Time to get to work. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take rocket" | ||||
Floyd | You're as likely to manage that as to take the entire tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You're as likely to manage that as to take the entire tower. And no, Floyd | you wouldn't be capable of taking the tower, either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | [The parser couldn't handle that sentence. Try rephrasing it, or use a Floyd | different verb.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back out into the sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Sinister's Tower Floyd | You're standing on the top of Dr. Sinister's stronghold. Most of the Floyd | roof is curved into a retractable dome, except for the access path Floyd | ringing the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A small round access hatch stands open, leading down into the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the energy drink) Floyd | (first stowing the crowbar) Floyd | You recharge and start flying. Floyd | Floyd | [You are flying.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Flapping your arms mightily, you ascend. Floyd | Floyd | [You are 25 feet above the roof.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, wait." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Well, we can try the rest offline." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "That sounds like we're done then. Yes?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yes, with plaudits to McMartin." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Good game." | ||||
| McMartin says, "Thanks guys" | ||||
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