  
 
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 Heroes, written by Sean Barrett. Heroes was released as part of the 2001 Interactive Fiction competition, where it took third place. It was nominated for Xyzzies for Best Setting and Best Use of Medium. 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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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load heroes" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Do not rise. You must rest, dearest. Rest, and I will tell you a Floyd | story. Floyd | Floyd | No. Five stories. Floyd | Floyd | Only one is true. But it would not have mattered which. Floyd | Floyd | You will understand soon enough. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "If a numpad is good enough for nethack, it's good enough for mudding!" | Limax says, "Sure" | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [press a key] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%showpartial" | ||||
| Floyd > Do you want to play as an [a]dventurer, an [e]nchanter, a [t]hief, | ||||
| Floyd > [r]oyalty, or a [d]ragon? | Limax asks, "Where's cook?" | |||
| Binder asks, "alphabetical?" | ||||
| EmacsUser arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Binder says, "that's my attempt to suggest 'adventurer' to start" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Sure - that's arbitrary enough." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to play as an [a]dventurer, an [e]nchanter, a [t]hief, Floyd | [r]oyalty, or a [d]ragon? a | Limax says, "Okay" | |||
| Binder says, "<- arbitrary enough" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%showpartial" | ||||
| Floyd > Do you want this character to be [m]ale or [f]emale? | Limax says, "I'm wondering if people choose that first a lot since it's first in the list" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "M or F?" | ||||
| Limax says, "Yes" | ||||
| Binder says, "F" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "female?" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "Android. (Whaddya ean that's not an option?)" | ||||
| Limax says, "I have no preference" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want this character to be [m]ale or [f]emale? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Adventurer: Floyd | Floyd | Baron Sedmon Ventillado. Sedmon Dragonslayer, now. The bastard. And in Floyd | the meantime you've gone from Adrienne the Adventurer to Adrienne the Floyd | Ruffian, the Rogue, or, most often, "You there!" Floyd | Floyd | Were you twenty years younger, it would be your name on everyone's Floyd | lips. Your face on the popular paintings. And the Dragon Gem would be Floyd | yours for everyone to covet. Funny when they tell you you shouldn't Floyd | feel that way. And what do they tell you to feel instead? Floyd | Floyd | No regrets. Your days of heroism ceased when Thorn's Companions Floyd | disbanded, yet your life--a new life--went on. Ha. You could never Floyd | feel that way. For what kind of life is this? Your knowledge has Floyd | faded. Your reflexes dulled. Your strength depleted. You've hardly Floyd | cared if you live. Floyd | Floyd | But now... the winds bring rumor that Sedmon means to give the Gem to Floyd | Blackhelm. Blackhelm. That villain--the Dragon Gem is said to have Floyd | powers, powers that one such as Blackhelm could bring to bear on those Floyd | of Thorn's Companions who survived. With that threat, you find you do Floyd | want to live after all. So you find yourself rebuilding your strength, Floyd | retraining your eye, relearning your stratagems. Because you certainly Floyd | know the solution to this problem. Floyd | Floyd | The best way to be sure the Dragon Gem stays out of Blackhelm's hands? Floyd | Get it in yours. Floyd | Floyd | Heroes Floyd | an interactive vice-tainter Floyd | Copyright 2001, Sean Barrett Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 011130 / Inform v6.21vs Library 6/10stb Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way Floyd | The grimy, ramshackle buildings of Oldtown dutifully try to reform Floyd | themselves as you progress east down Temple Way, but nothing besides Floyd | the temple itself makes any real pretense of belonging anywhere other Floyd | than Oldtown. Or rather, nothing besides the temple and Baron Sedmon's Floyd | nearby mansion. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way opens up onto the well-lit Temple Square to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A large crate sits beside one of the buildings. Floyd | Floyd | [Type 'ABOUT' for important commands you can use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to canadianpuzzler), "androidgynous" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Great. It's going to trigger my hilighting everytime it says her name :P" | ||||
| Limax asks, "Oh?" | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "vice tainter?!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "By the way, I'm totally not driving (not feeling great) but knew it was tricky to get this started, so I got it started." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "<- Adri" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | As Adrienne, you can talk to other characters using "ASK x ABOUT y" or Floyd | "TELL x ABOUT y". Floyd | Floyd | You can also switch to a different story by typing "STORY". Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "oh, we can switch horses midstream?" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way Floyd | The grimy, ramshackle buildings of Oldtown dutifully try to reform Floyd | themselves as you progress east down Temple Way, but nothing besides Floyd | the temple itself makes any real pretense of belonging anywhere other Floyd | than Oldtown. Or rather, nothing besides the temple and Baron Sedmon's Floyd | nearby mansion. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way opens up onto the well-lit Temple Square to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A large crate sits beside one of the buildings. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The trick, should I disappear, is that if Floyd seems stuck, say %showpartial to him so you can see if he's stuck on some question you're supposed to answer." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x crate" | ||||
Floyd | A large, wooden crate marked with Lennitt's seal. Floyd | Floyd | > | canadianpuzzler says, "Better an interactive vice tainter then an unrated Ev adventure." | |||
| Binder says, "I'm happy to let someone else drive or slow down if it's too textdumpy." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x seal" | ||||
Floyd | You've done some laboring for Lennitt in the past, and you recognize Floyd | this seal as that which marks her crates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x temple" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the Temple of Justice, the Temple Way or the Temple Floyd | Square? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "justice" | ||||
Floyd | The Temple of Justice lies at the far side of the Temple Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x temple way" | ||||
Floyd | Temple Way is one of the rare paved roads of Oldtown, in disrepair Floyd | further west, but smooth as a Hip O' Grif's backside to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open crate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||||
Floyd | A well-worn lantern you've held onto from the days when you would take Floyd | point for Thorn, leading the Companions into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The brass lamp is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rub lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Adrienne the laze-about, sometime laborer, and, until a few days ago, Floyd | the full-time drunkard. Hopefully your epitaph will mention Thorn's Floyd | Companions instead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mansion" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I like us already." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x temple" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the Temple of Justice, the Temple Way or the Temple Floyd | Square? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "square" | ||||
Floyd | You travel east for a closer look. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | (where Sedmon's mansion can be found) and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x branna" | ||||
Floyd | One of the Royal Crown's many Temple guards. You know this one well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | One of the Royal Crown's many Temple guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "is anyone mapping?" | |||
| inky says, "I don't think this place is that huge" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "branna about sedmon" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "ask branna about sedmon" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "They say he slew the dragon that lived underneath Mount Floyd | Griondol. Brought back the Dragon Gem as proof." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to inky), "all righty" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask branna about thorn" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "One of the greats, they say. His death marked the end of Floyd | Thorn's Companions, for without him they were nothing." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask branna about me" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "I know you well enough, Adrienne. Not the most Floyd | trustworthy person I know, but you'll do in a pinch." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "HA" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Aw." | ||||
| inky asks, "has the game told us what we are supposed to be doing more specifically?" | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | inky asks, "besides "stealing the gem"?" | |||
| Limax says, "Well, well..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's all I got." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I think that's it?" | ||||
| Limax says (to inky), "I thinkthat's all it said" | ||||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||||
| Gerynar has connected. | inky says, "okey doke" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x garden" | ||||
Floyd | Though not quite so colorful in the evening light as they are during Floyd | the day, the many kinds of flowers in the garden still lend an air of Floyd | happiness and beauty that seems quite inappropriate to the area. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask branna about gem" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "A bunch of magic mumbo-jumbo about it, but I don't Floyd | believe a word of it. It's pretty enough, though." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "stealing it or somehow thwarting blackhelm. murder might do it." | |||
| canadianpuzzler asks, "isn't our character supposedto be the one doing the pinching?" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, I guess the room description says the guy's mansion is to the north" | ||||
| Lionheart wakes | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or it did" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look north" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x north" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x droop lane" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane winds slowly upwards through poorly tended warehouses, Floyd | until it pauses here atop a hill, with Baron Sedmon's mansion facing Floyd | the street from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there we go" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The guard says, "Hey now Adrienne, I'm sure you're curious about the Floyd | Dragon Gem, but you can't just waltz in to take a look at it. I Floyd | suppose I could describe it for you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | His outfit bears Sedmon's coat of arms, although you've never seen him Floyd | around here before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask guard about gem" | ||||
Floyd | The guard says, "The Dragon Gem is, well, it's beautiful. The Baron's Floyd | got it on display in his trophy room. It's secured pretty well; he Floyd | doesn't really need me to protect it. Which is a good thing, since Floyd | he's probably going to fire me when he finds out what I did." He Floyd | sighs. "I'm in big trouble." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "the plot thickens" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask guard about trouble" | ||||
Floyd | The guard says, "Gambling debts, what else." He sighs again. Floyd | "Actually, I paid off the gambling debts. But I hocked something of Floyd | the Baron's; a trifling nothing, just enough so I could pay them off. Floyd | I figured I'd recover it before he found out. But my luck hasn't Floyd | turned yet. Hey, Adrienne, didn't you used to work for Beldano? That's Floyd | where the Baron's item is, his pawn shop. I don't suppose... if you Floyd | could somehow recover it for me, I'd be in your debt." Floyd | Floyd | Thievery. That's a line you haven't crossed in a few years, although Floyd | you've done far worse. Floyd | Floyd | And there was that one time Beldano hid a key in his foyer's gutter Floyd | when he didn't realize you were watching... Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, here is some direction" | |||
| Binder says, "Just In Time Plot Direction" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask guard about beldano" | ||||
Floyd | The guard says, "Don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask guard about pawn shop" | ||||
Floyd | The guard says, "Don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess if we wander around we will find it" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane winds slowly upwards through poorly tended warehouses, Floyd | until it pauses here atop a hill, with Baron Sedmon's mansion facing Floyd | the street from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Maybe it's under that curtain" | |||
| inky says, "or behind the picture frame" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops, sorry" | |||
| Binder says, "no worries" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way Floyd | The grimy, ramshackle buildings of Oldtown dutifully try to reform Floyd | themselves as you progress east down Temple Way, but nothing besides Floyd | the temple itself makes any real pretense of belonging anywhere other Floyd | than Oldtown. Or rather, nothing besides the temple and Baron Sedmon's Floyd | nearby mansion. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way opens up onto the well-lit Temple Square to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A large crate sits beside one of the buildings. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "...wait, this room is by the guy's mansion too?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mansion" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "must be a lot of real estate" | |||
| inky says, "oh, I guess they just mean "nearby" as in "east, then north"" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You consider abandoning your mission, but it's really now or never, Floyd | for it's rumored Blackhelm will move to acquire the Dragon Gem Floyd | tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "e, then?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask branna about pawnshop" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "Don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "s?" | |||
| Alex says (to Binder), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that S is all curvy-like. That's why it's the bestest letter." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask branna about beldano" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "Don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Wow" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to and end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery; you've done odd jobs for him before. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "yar har" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gutter" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see the roof from down here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "I guess the crate" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way Floyd | The grimy, ramshackle buildings of Oldtown dutifully try to reform Floyd | themselves as you progress east down Temple Way, but nothing besides Floyd | the temple itself makes any real pretense of belonging anywhere other Floyd | than Oldtown. Or rather, nothing besides the temple and Baron Sedmon's Floyd | nearby mansion. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way opens up onto the well-lit Temple Square to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A large crate sits beside one of the buildings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get crate" | ||||
Floyd | The crate is too tall and too heavy to pick up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push crate east" | ||||
Floyd | It's fairly heavy, but it's not like you've never done this before. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | The other guard walks over to you, looking the crate up and down. Floyd | "What's this?" he asks. "Let me see your movers' permit." Floyd | Floyd | Branna calls over, "Let her be, man; she's done moving for Lennitt Floyd | before." Floyd | Floyd | He shrugs and walks back to the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "just taking my crate for a walk..." | |||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push crate south" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane kicks the bucket here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb on crate" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push crate south" | ||||
Floyd | It won't fit through the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on crate" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane (on the crate) Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a gutter (in which is a pawnshop key) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the crate. Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | ||||
Floyd | (with the pawnshop key) Floyd | You unlock the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "nice" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You pass through the foyer into the pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the brass lamp on. Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps the more expensive property lurks behind the hangings to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a crystalline sphere, an envelope (which is Floyd | closed), and a tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ha." | |||
| canadianpuzzler says, "I have a thought." | ||||
| inky asks, "yeah?" | ||||
| Binder asks, "is the thought that we should save?" | ||||
| EmacsUser clears the save counter. | inky says, "my recollection is this game can't be made unwinnable but I wouldn't swear to it" | |||
| canadianpuzzler says, "(Whoops,my client stopped scrolling and somebody else already had it *blushes*" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to canadianpuzzler), "No worries." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I'll save while we're thinking of it." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok so I guess we don't actually know what the guy pawned here" | |||
| inky says, "but presumably it is something that belonged to the other dude" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | A long white candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "maybe it'll be made obvious by examination" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Take everything and sort it out later :P" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x holder" | ||||
Floyd | Shabbily made of brass, showing signs of regular use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see inside, since the envelope is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | Sparkling and flawless. Just large enough you can't wrap your hand all Floyd | the way around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok I guess the envelope is probably the most interesting thing here" | |||
| Binder says, "neat, the envelope only has one side, and it's enclosed" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You open the envelope, revealing some powder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x powder" | ||||
Floyd | Most people wouldn't recognize it: a green-white powder from the Floyd | crushed leaves of the oinciea plant. You first learned of it from the Floyd | Zan centaurs, who used darts to deliver it into the bloodstream of Floyd | their enemies. You've since determined that it's just as deadly if Floyd | swallowed, but harmless in contact with flesh. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get envelope" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Do want." | |||
| Binder exclaims, "anthrax!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is the location where Beldano stores his most valuable Floyd | properties. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner of the room is a metal barrel with some liquid in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x barrel" | ||||
Floyd | This is a barrel full of a crystal-clear acid. You can see clear Floyd | through to the bottom, where there is a gold statuette. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x statuette" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tiny figurine, a simplified human form, abstracted, with its Floyd | arms in front, hands together. Floyd | Floyd | Great. Just great. Some "trifle". It's probably the most valuable Floyd | thing in the whole place. And the best secured thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Binder says, "I'm starting to really like this Beldano fellow." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I do not have a plan for getting a statue out of a barrel of acid" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Well, since we have undo..." | ||||
| Binder laughs | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get statue" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach into the barrel of acid bare-handed! Floyd | Floyd | And of course Beldano wasn't foolish enough to leave a tool around Floyd | that could survive that acid. It'll probably take something magical. Floyd | Where was that weird rune-engraved pole you saw somewhere in this part Floyd | of town? Floyd | Floyd | Oh, right. On display in the Temple of Justice. Floyd | Floyd | Crud. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "oh great" | |||
| inky says, "wow" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Lionheart), "Nice." | ||||
| inky says, "this really is just-in-time plot" | ||||
| Binder says, "these yaks won't just shave themselves" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "who are we this time?" | ||||
| inky says, "the adventurer" | ||||
| inky says, "whose shtick is apparently that they know everybody and everything" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "ok so where was the temple?" | |||
| Alex says (to inky), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that temple is where Adam lived when he was the god-king of the Wamkizz people." | ||||
| Binder says, "we've been working our Charisma stat" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps expensive property lurks behind the hangings to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a crystalline sphere and a tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x grue" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple of Justice Floyd | Everything in this forecourt is hard, strict, vertical lines, no doubt Floyd | to put people in the right frame of mind for the proceedings in the Floyd | temple. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the Temple wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||
Floyd | Wrought of iron. Sturdy. Effectively impenetrable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | A number of guards are loitering in the guardroom, talking amongst Floyd | themselves and playing Hip O' Grif. One of them notices you looking Floyd | in. "Hey there, Adrienne. Just the gal we need. Run over to the Floyd | Barking Mermaid and pick us up a keg." She walks over to the window Floyd | and thrusts a small bag of coins into your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Ha ha" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x coins" | ||||
Floyd | There's enough here for a keg, with a little left over. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "thanks" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "when the game closes a gate, it opens a window" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barking Mermaid Tavern Floyd | The Barking Mermaid Tavern is hardly your kind of place. Poorly-built Floyd | wooden benches with horrific stains, largely disreputable and somewhat Floyd | unruly patrons, wretched-tasting but cheap ale; at first glance it's Floyd | just perfect, but this close to the Temple of Justice, there's an Floyd | unseemly lawfulness pervading the place. Floyd | Floyd | The tavernkeeper is keeping an eye on his guests and the servers. Floyd | Floyd | A spoon with a round hole in it has been discarded in a corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spoon" | ||||
Floyd | A sturdy wooden spoon with a perfectly round hole carefully cut Floyd | through the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get spoon" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I am not sure what good this spoon is for" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give coins to tavernkeeper" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing is on sale. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy keg" | ||||
Floyd | Dob says, "You want an ale? Oh, a whole keg? Have you got the money Floyd | for... oh, I see you do. You'll be wanting that special strong ale you Floyd | always get, you will. Careful not to drink too much." He hands you a Floyd | medium-sized keg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dob" | ||||
Floyd | Dob's his name. The Barking Mermaid's not a hangout of yours, but Floyd | you've come here often enough after a job that Dob knows you pretty Floyd | well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x servers" | ||||
Floyd | The servers are busy with their jobs, and you have a mission to attend Floyd | to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "acid-proof spoon maybe?" | |||
| inky asks, "are we really supposed to poison the guards here?" | ||||
| inky says, "that seems to be the implication but it's kind of a jerky move" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "No, no, give us the extra special extra strong ale that'll make me pass out after one tankard" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Maybe. We could also put some acid in the keg." | ||||
| Ellison says, "this game isn't called Jerks" | ||||
| inky says, "Princesses Dig Jerx" | ||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a keg of ale, a spoon, a bag of coins, an envelope Floyd | (which is open), inside which is some powder, a pawnshop key, and a Floyd | brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x powder" | ||||
Floyd | Most people wouldn't recognize it: a green-white powder from the Floyd | crushed leaves of the oinciea plant. You first learned of it from the Floyd | Zan centaurs, who used darts to deliver it into the bloodstream of Floyd | their enemies. You've since determined that it's just as deadly if Floyd | swallowed, but harmless in contact with flesh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple of Justice Floyd | Everything in this forecourt is hard, strict, vertical lines, no doubt Floyd | to put people in the right frame of mind for the proceedings in the Floyd | temple. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the Temple wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "dang. I was hoping it was dehabilitating, not fatal." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give keg to guards" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put keg in window" | ||||
Floyd | You can't fit it through the bars in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "debilitating? whatever" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The guard says, "Just bring that through the gate, Adry. Oh, wait, Floyd | it's locked, isn't it? Hang on a second." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, I guess let's try a few things" | |||
| Binder says, "YESSSS, now they have to open the gate" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, so maybe we just sneak in when they do or something" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | A guard appears at the gate and unlocks it. He turns back inside Floyd | before you can say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the gate is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You open the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A guard meets you here and takes the keg from you. With a look he Floyd | dispatches you back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple of Justice Floyd | Everything in this forecourt is hard, strict, vertical lines, no doubt Floyd | to put people in the right frame of mind for the proceedings in the Floyd | temple. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in window" | ||||
Floyd | The guards are sitting around, drinking the dregs of the keg. One Floyd | guard spots you and says to another, "Hey, it's your turn to pay for Floyd | the round." The guard rises slowly and hands you some coins through Floyd | the window. "Another one, just like that." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ah ok" | |||
| inky says, "so we can just get them drunk" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. I guess we have to." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Or that." | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "let the drinking continue!" | ||||
| inky says, "that is reassuring" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I thought it was giving us another chance to drug them." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Barking Mermaid Tavern Floyd | The Barking Mermaid Tavern is hardly your kind of place. Poorly-built Floyd | wooden benches with horrific stains, largely disreputable and somewhat Floyd | unruly patrons, wretched-tasting but cheap ale; at first glance it's Floyd | just perfect, but this close to the Temple of Justice, there's an Floyd | unseemly lawfulness pervading the place. Floyd | Floyd | Dob, the tavernkeeper, is keeping an eye on his guests and the Floyd | servers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "buy keg" | ||||
Floyd | Dob says, "You want another keg? Must be some party, it must. Here you Floyd | go." He hands you a medium-sized keg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple of Justice Floyd | Everything in this forecourt is hard, strict, vertical lines, no doubt Floyd | to put people in the right frame of mind for the proceedings in the Floyd | temple. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "let us incapacitate the forces of good and law" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A slightly stumbling guard meets you here and takes the keg from you. Floyd | With a look he dispatches you back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple of Justice Floyd | Everything in this forecourt is hard, strict, vertical lines, no doubt Floyd | to put people in the right frame of mind for the proceedings in the Floyd | temple. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Through the window you listen to the guards refilling their cups and Floyd | returning to their debates. The previously boisterous level rises for Floyd | a time, but it slows again as, one by one, the guards pass out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the tiny entrance. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | The Temple of Justice is the Royal Crown's great equalizer. Within the Floyd | Temple there is no special treatment based on class, wealth, or Floyd | heritage. So the Royal Crown proclaims; so the claim is undisputed. Floyd | The richly decorated ceiling arching over the whole place suggests Floyd | majesty, money, and only the mildest hint of mysticism. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "There we go." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pole" | ||||
Floyd | A long, copper, rune-covered pole with a mechanical claw mounted atop. Floyd | The bottom is capped with a dial. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pole" | ||||
Floyd | The magic field is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hooks" | ||||
Floyd | The hooks are mounted against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "oh right" | |||
| inky says, "this is a weird setup" | ||||
| Binder says, "what? I have one just like this in my house" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "But is it covered in runes?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x magic field" | ||||
Floyd | It's a glowing hemisphere of force, shimmering lightly. It's centered Floyd | over the hooks in the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to EmacsUser), "Not /entirely/ covered" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | The Temple of Justice is the Royal Crown's great equalizer. Within the Floyd | Temple there is no special treatment based on class, wealth, or Floyd | heritage. So the Royal Crown proclaims; so the claim is undisputed. Floyd | The richly decorated ceiling arching over the whole place suggests Floyd | majesty, money, and only the mildest hint of mysticism. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a spoon, a bag of coins, an envelope (which is open), Floyd | inside which is some powder, a pawnshop key, and a brass lamp Floyd | (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put spoon in field" | ||||
Floyd | The magic field is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x claw" | ||||
Floyd | This mechanical claw opens and closes when the dial is turned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "open field" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw spoon at hooks" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "touch field" | ||||
Floyd | Your hand it stopped at the surface of the field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | This dial can be turned. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "go ask someone about magic fields?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Worth a shot." | ||||
| Idd asks, "turn dial?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | The magic field is in the way. Floyd | You can't reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "The sentence it seemed to have an extraneous pronoun." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "nope" | ||||
| Binder says (to Idd), "can't touch it yet" | ||||
| Idd says, "ah" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yep, s/t/s/" | ||||
| Binder says, "I was just peeking ahead to what we can do once we have our rod of rune." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple of Justice Floyd | Everything in this forecourt is hard, strict, vertical lines, no doubt Floyd | to put people in the right frame of mind for the proceedings in the Floyd | temple. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "I'm back" | |||
| Limax says, "Are we still the adventurer" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yep." | ||||
| Limax asks, "?" | ||||
| Limax says, "Okay" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask branna about magic" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "Don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask branna about magic field" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "Don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart exclaims, "Limax he has returned!" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask branna about temple" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "Don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask branna about rod" | ||||
Floyd | Branna says, "Don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "hm" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x branna" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||
Floyd | What a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "whoops sorry" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Have we been to the warehouse?" | |||
| Lionheart says, "Aye" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x branna" | ||||
Floyd | One of the Royal Crown's many Temple guards. You know this one well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x other guard" | ||||
Floyd | One of the Royal Crown's many Temple guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Wait, we have?" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way Floyd | The grimy, ramshackle buildings of Oldtown dutifully try to reform Floyd | themselves as you progress east down Temple Way, but nothing besides Floyd | the temple itself makes any real pretense of belonging anywhere other Floyd | than Oldtown. Or rather, nothing besides the temple and Baron Sedmon's Floyd | nearby mansion. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way opens up onto the well-lit Temple Square to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Oh, I guess we've been to the pawnshop rather" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ah, ok." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Lennitt's warehouse has no door on this side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane winds slowly upwards through poorly tended warehouses, Floyd | until it pauses here atop a hill, with Baron Sedmon's mansion facing Floyd | the street from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The north lane leads into Newtown, but you lack the pass necessary for Floyd | defying Newtown curfew. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way Floyd | The grimy, ramshackle buildings of Oldtown dutifully try to reform Floyd | themselves as you progress east down Temple Way, but nothing besides Floyd | the temple itself makes any real pretense of belonging anywhere other Floyd | than Oldtown. Or rather, nothing besides the temple and Baron Sedmon's Floyd | nearby mansion. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way opens up onto the well-lit Temple Square to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Buildings block the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's possible the other stuff in the pawn shop is useful" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps expensive property lurks behind the hangings to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a crystalline sphere and a tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "like we didn't do anything with that crystal sphere" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | Illustrated with an ugly picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Right, candles sound interesting too." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "oh, can we burn the wooden pins somehow?" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wow, inventory limits" | |||
| inky says, "this game really is set in olden times" | ||||
| Binder says, "on an ADVENTURER" | ||||
| Binder says, "endless looting is our defining trait" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a spoon, a bag of coins, an envelope (which is open), Floyd | inside which is some powder, a pawnshop key, and a brass lamp Floyd | (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "extinguish lamp" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Well we're done with that key" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "drop key" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get sphere" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh olden times" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | Sparkling and flawless. Just large enough you can't wrap your hand all Floyd | the way around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I didn't even want to wrap my hand all the way around it until it told me I couldn't." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps expensive property lurks behind the hangings to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves is a tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pawnshop key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | * ghira has left the channel. | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "wrap hand around sphere" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "oh. the tablecloth is on the shelf, not the table? Hm." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "can we bundle things up in the tablecloth?" | ||||
| Idd says (to Floyd), "look in sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put sphere in bag" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything but money in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to genericgeekgirl), "That's a good idea." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "make bindle" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to Lionheart), "ha" | |||
| Binder says, "maybe that's where the spoon comes in" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag of coins, an Floyd | envelope (which is open), inside which is some powder, and a brass Floyd | lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "spread the tablecloth, put stuff on it, gather the corners up through the hole in the spoon." | |||
| Lionheart says, "Maybe the spoon is for emptying the acid, just reaaaaally slowly" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put coins in envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You're not letting it out of your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "drop coins" | ||||
Floyd | You're not letting it out of your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "mmm munny" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "close envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You close the envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm ok" | |||
| Lionheart says, "How like a rogue." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "look in sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light candle" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing to light it with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "look through sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "light candle with lantern" | ||||
Floyd | You can't light it with the brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rub sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "scry with sphere" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "ohwell" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "look in sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe we can beam someone in the head with it later." | |||
| Binder says, "again with the beaming" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smash sphere" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put envelope on table" | ||||
Floyd | You put the envelope on the tables. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | Illustrated with an ugly picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "spread tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||||
Floyd | Illustrated with an ugly picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "open tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Beaming isn't the answer to this one, probably" | |||
| Binder says, "hurm" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||||
Floyd | Illustrated with an ugly picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Nor beaning." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a tablecloth, a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag of Floyd | coins, and a brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put spoon in tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "eat coins" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "okthen" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put coins in spoon" | ||||
Floyd | You're not letting it out of your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Idd goes home. | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps expensive property lurks behind the hangings to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are an envelope (which is closed), some candlestick Floyd | holders, and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pawnshop key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take candle" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "smash inventory" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Hmm, well shall we try our current inventory on the field?" | |||
| inky says, "sure" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "wear tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks, "What did the field do to us?" | |||
| inky says, "kept us from getting the magic staff" | ||||
| Binder says, "resist our advances" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Forced us." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple of Justice Floyd | Everything in this forecourt is hard, strict, vertical lines, no doubt Floyd | to put people in the right frame of mind for the proceedings in the Floyd | temple. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the tiny entrance. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | The Temple of Justice is the Royal Crown's great equalizer. Within the Floyd | Temple there is no special treatment based on class, wealth, or Floyd | heritage. So the Royal Crown proclaims; so the claim is undisputed. Floyd | The richly decorated ceiling arching over the whole place suggests Floyd | majesty, money, and only the mildest hint of mysticism. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "hit field" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "is the magic staff what we're trying to get?" | |||
| Binder says (to Ellison), "Yes" | ||||
| Johnny says, "Allegedly magic." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "It" | ||||
| inky says, "apparently that is what we need to get the thingy out of the acid" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We need it to get the statue (?) in the acid, I think" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a tablecloth, a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag of Floyd | coins, and a brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x field" | ||||
Floyd | It's a glowing hemisphere of force, shimmering lightly. It's centered Floyd | over the hooks in the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "touch sphere to field" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to touch the crystalline Floyd | sphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "touch field with sphere" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to touch the magic field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "touch field" | ||||
Floyd | Your hand it stopped at the surface of the field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw sphere at rod" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "throw sphere at staff" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "tsk" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "throw sphere at hook" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw sphere at pole" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "throw sphere at field" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x spehere" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "cover field with tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cover the magic field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | Sparkling and flawless. Just large enough you can't wrap your hand all Floyd | the way around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "kick pole" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "cover field" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "oh." | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "open field" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a tablecloth, a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag of Floyd | coins, and a brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "stir field" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pegs" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "put tablecloth on floor" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "xwooden" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wooden" | ||||
Floyd | (the spoon) Floyd | A sturdy wooden spoon with a perfectly round hole carefully cut Floyd | through the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "turn off lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the brass lamp off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "put sphere on spoon" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the spoon would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I think that we're missing some clue yet." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hooks" | ||||
Floyd | The hooks are mounted against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it does kind of feel like that" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "put spoon on hooks" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | The magic field is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "are there any rooms we haven't checked out?" | |||
| Binder says, "yeah, we haven't provoked the just in time plot needed." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get staff with spoon" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hm, I haven't been mapping carefully." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||||
Floyd | The magic field is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | The Temple of Justice is the Royal Crown's great equalizer. Within the Floyd | Temple there is no special treatment based on class, wealth, or Floyd | heritage. So the Royal Crown proclaims; so the claim is undisputed. Floyd | The richly decorated ceiling arching over the whole place suggests Floyd | majesty, money, and only the mildest hint of mysticism. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a tablecloth here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I'm unclear on if we can get into the warehouse" | |||
| inky says, "well, ok, let's wander around a bit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Guardhouse Floyd | This is the guardroom in the Temple of Justice. Theoretically. The Floyd | temple foyer lies south, while a solid metal door fills the doorway to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Scattered around the room are more than a few guards, all passed out. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner of the room is a panel with two levers and two knobs. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oho." | |||
| inky says, "hey, like that" | ||||
| Binder says, "HA" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | The panel has no interesting features beyond the left lever, the right Floyd | lever, the left knob, and the right knob. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Well." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn left knob" | ||||
Floyd | From the temple you hear a faint grinding noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn right knob" | ||||
Floyd | From the temple you hear a faint grinding noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Too many controls for just the field." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the tiny entrance. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | The Temple of Justice is the Royal Crown's great equalizer. Within the Floyd | Temple there is no special treatment based on class, wealth, or Floyd | heritage. So the Royal Crown proclaims; so the claim is undisputed. Floyd | The richly decorated ceiling arching over the whole place suggests Floyd | majesty, money, and only the mildest hint of mysticism. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a tablecloth here. Floyd | Floyd | The hooks look different from before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hooks" | ||||
Floyd | The hooks are mounted against the wall. Both hooks are pointing Floyd | rightwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky asks, "ok, so the knobs rotated them, I guess?" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Ahs" | ||||
| jenrexrode arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | EmacsUser says, "Seems like it." | |||
| Binder asks, "turn them each again?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Guardhouse Floyd | This is the guardroom in the Temple of Justice. Theoretically. The Floyd | temple foyer lies south, while a solid metal door fills the doorway to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Scattered around the room are more than a few guards, all passed out. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner of the room is a panel with two levers and two knobs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn right knob" | ||||
Floyd | From the temple you hear a faint grinding noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn left knob" | ||||
Floyd | From the temple you hear a faint grinding noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the tiny entrance. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | The Temple of Justice is the Royal Crown's great equalizer. Within the Floyd | Temple there is no special treatment based on class, wealth, or Floyd | heritage. So the Royal Crown proclaims; so the claim is undisputed. Floyd | The richly decorated ceiling arching over the whole place suggests Floyd | majesty, money, and only the mildest hint of mysticism. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a tablecloth here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hooks" | ||||
Floyd | The hooks are mounted against the wall. Both hooks are upside-down. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Levers still to be explained." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Guardhouse Floyd | This is the guardroom in the Temple of Justice. Theoretically. The Floyd | temple foyer lies south, while a solid metal door fills the doorway to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Scattered around the room are more than a few guards, all passed out. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner of the room is a panel with two levers and two knobs. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "How are they holding the pole?" | |||
| jenrexrode says, "hi" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull left lever" | ||||
Floyd | The lever won't go any further that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to jenrexrode), "Hi." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push left lever" | ||||
Floyd | From the temple you hear a faint sliding noise, and then a sudden Floyd | clatter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Hi jen" | |||
| Binder says (to EmacsUser), "magic" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the tiny entrance. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | The Temple of Justice is the Royal Crown's great equalizer. Within the Floyd | Temple there is no special treatment based on class, wealth, or Floyd | heritage. So the Royal Crown proclaims; so the claim is undisputed. Floyd | The richly decorated ceiling arching over the whole place suggests Floyd | majesty, money, and only the mildest hint of mysticism. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a copper pole and a tablecloth here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ta-da" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yay" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice: Foyer Floyd | An imposing foyer, designed carefully to the Royal Crown's Floyd | specifications. The corridor narrows slowly to the east, making it Floyd | seem impossibly long. This is enough to scare off some visitors. Floyd | Moreover, a supplicant desiring to appear in the Temple of Justice Floyd | proper must endure a long walk under the watchful eye of the guards in Floyd | the guardhouse to the north. The Royal Highness has found this Floyd | effective at dissuading supplicants from raising their original Floyd | complaints once they enter the temple to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Yay." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple of Justice Floyd | Everything in this forecourt is hard, strict, vertical lines, no doubt Floyd | to put people in the right frame of mind for the proceedings in the Floyd | temple. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the brass lamp on. Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps expensive property lurks behind the hangings to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are an envelope (which is closed), some candlestick Floyd | holders, and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pawnshop key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This is the location where Beldano stores his most valuable Floyd | properties. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner of the room is a barrel of acid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get statue with pole" | ||||
Floyd | You lower the pole down into the acid. You settle the claw around the Floyd | statuette, then turn the dial to close the claw around the gold Floyd | statuette, and pull it out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "yeah, don't mind us branna, just sauntering around with one of your holy artifacts" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tiny figurine, a simplified human form, abstracted, with its Floyd | arms in front, hands together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a copper pole, a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag Floyd | of coins, and a brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps expensive property lurks behind the hangings to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are an envelope (which is closed), some candlestick Floyd | holders, and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pawnshop key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane winds slowly upwards through poorly tended warehouses, Floyd | until it pauses here atop a hill, with Baron Sedmon's mansion facing Floyd | the street from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | His outfit bears Sedmon's coat of arms, although you've never seen him Floyd | around here before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give statue to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the gold statuette) Floyd | The claw isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open claw" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and release the gold statuette, grabbing it before Floyd | it falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give statue to guard" | ||||
Floyd | The guard takes the gold statue from you. "Thanks. I don't know how Floyd | you did it, but you can be sure I won't be telling anyone about it. Go Floyd | on in. Just don't touch anything." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The guard says, "Sorry, Adrienne, but you might be able to grab the Floyd | Dragon Gem with that--you'll have to leave it out here with me." He Floyd | points at the copper pole. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, we won't touch anything. We promise.." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Aw." | ||||
| Binder says, "that just means we can steal the gem without it" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "tie tablecloth to pole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Time period be-damned, it should be called Sean Pawnery." | |||
| inky says, "wait, I thought the whole point was the guard was letting us in to steal stuff" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop pole" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The guard says, "Go down the back corridor and take your first right Floyd | to get into the trophy room." Floyd | Floyd | You follow his directions. Floyd | Floyd | Display Room Floyd | Sedmon displays his prized possessions in this ostentatious two-story Floyd | chamber. Paintings and torches alternate around the perimeter at Floyd | various heights. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "No, just to look." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||||
Floyd | Supported by a complex array of wooden beams and struts, the glass Floyd | platform seems nearly amongst the rafters. Down at the base of the Floyd | platform is a suspiciously vacant notch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "No, the guard was asking us to steal stuff in exchange for letting us in" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gem" | ||||
Floyd | Shimmering, many-facetted, it inspires envy in both rich and poor. You Floyd | can feel a compulsion beyond what its mere beauty should produce. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x notch" | ||||
Floyd | A hole leads into the innards of the platform and the beams supporting Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm interesting" | |||
| inky says, "oh, spoon" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put spoon in notch" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aw c'mon" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag of coins, and a Floyd | brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x innards" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "sphere?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "swap sphere with gem" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sphere in notch" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "hrmph" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "put sphere in spoon" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter notch" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "maybe one of the knobs from the other room is removable?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Maybe." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Display Room Floyd | Sedmon displays his prized possessions in this ostentatious two-story Floyd | chamber. Paintings and torches alternate around the perimeter at Floyd | various heights. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x torches" | ||||
Floyd | Flickering flames, providing light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take torch" | ||||
Floyd | You already have a light source. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag of coins, and a Floyd | brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "maybe a candle holder goes in a notch?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "maybe a candle or a candlestick or something from the pawn shop?" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn off lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the brass lamp off. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "yeah, that." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Display Room Floyd | Sedmon displays his prized possessions in this ostentatious two-story Floyd | chamber. Paintings and torches alternate around the perimeter at Floyd | various heights. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x paintings" | ||||
Floyd | They'd probably be wonderful if pictures were your bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), ">open painting. put all in painting." | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "(just making sure there wasn't anything only visible by torchlight)" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Wander some more?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Binder), "haha" | ||||
| Binder says, "to pawnshop, I'd say" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, let's grab that candle" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You head back out through the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | North Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane winds slowly upwards through poorly tended warehouses, Floyd | until it pauses here atop a hill, with Baron Sedmon's mansion facing Floyd | the street from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a copper pole and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the brass lamp on. Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps expensive property lurks behind the hangings to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are an envelope (which is closed), some candlestick Floyd | holders, and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pawnshop key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get candle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane winds slowly upwards through poorly tended warehouses, Floyd | until it pauses here atop a hill, with Baron Sedmon's mansion facing Floyd | the street from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a copper pole and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way down the back corridor. Floyd | Floyd | Display Room Floyd | Sedmon displays his prized possessions in this ostentatious two-story Floyd | chamber. Paintings and torches alternate around the perimeter at Floyd | various heights. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put candle in notch" | ||||
Floyd | The candle almost, but doesn't quite, fit in the notch. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "grr" | |||
| Limax says, "Ooo Gem" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Need the holder then." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut candle" | ||||
Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shave candle" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "candles are malleable?" | |||
| inky says, "yeah I guess" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane winds slowly upwards through poorly tended warehouses, Floyd | until it pauses here atop a hill, with Baron Sedmon's mansion facing Floyd | the street from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a copper pole and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnery Shop Floyd | Shelves line the walls of this open room, with tables arranged around Floyd | the center. The shop door leads out to the north. The back room where Floyd | Beldano keeps expensive property lurks behind the hangings to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are an envelope (which is closed) and some candlestick Floyd | holders. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pawnshop key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Eat cancle" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get holders" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "the candle is lit?" | |||
| Limax says, "Ugh" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "can we melt it and stuff it in the hole?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Ellison), "No." | ||||
| inky says, "no, it's not lit" | ||||
| Limax asks, "What all are we carying?" | ||||
| inky says, "and we don't have a fire source, as far as I know" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a candle, a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag of Floyd | coins, and a brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a candle, a crystalline sphere, a spoon, a bag of Floyd | coins, and a brass lamp (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put candle in spoon" | ||||
Floyd | You try to wedge the candle into the hole in the spoon, but it doesn't Floyd | quite fit. Flakes of wax fall to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there we go" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "can we reach the torches?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | South Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane comes to an end here amongst an array of storefronts. To Floyd | the south lies Beldano's Pawnery. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder exclaims, "aha!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | Temple Square marks the east end of Oldtown. The Royal Crown's Floyd | pretended attempts to improve Oldtown bear their only fruit here: the Floyd | well-tended flower garden, the omnipresent guards, and the Floyd | overdramatic Temple of Justice rising out of darkness to the east. But Floyd | even here, the inadequecies of El's policies can be seen: Lennitt's Floyd | warehouse presents an ugly back wall to the square to the northwest, Floyd | while the entrance to The Barking Mermaid to the southwest hardly Floyd | leads into the most beautiful establishment in Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Way leads westward, away from the Temple; Droop Lane runs north Floyd | and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Branna and another guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Droop Lane Floyd | Droop Lane winds slowly upwards through poorly tended warehouses, Floyd | until it pauses here atop a hill, with Baron Sedmon's mansion facing Floyd | the street from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a copper pole and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way down the back corridor. Floyd | Floyd | Display Room Floyd | Sedmon displays his prized possessions in this ostentatious two-story Floyd | chamber. Paintings and torches alternate around the perimeter at Floyd | various heights. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put candle in notch" | ||||
Floyd | The candle almost, but doesn't quite, fit in the notch. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "?!?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Torches, I bet are an alternate solution." | ||||
| Ellison says, "we should light it. maybe that'll cut the size down a bit. there are torches in this room." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "light candle" | ||||
Floyd | Oddly, there's no wick, but you manage to melt the end of the candle Floyd | and make it rather soft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put candle in spoon" | ||||
Floyd | You work the softened end of the candle into the spoon, uniting them. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Er, alternative." | |||
| Binder asks, "yay?" | ||||
| inky says, "uh, ok, now I am confused what I'm doing" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "put candle in notch" | ||||
Floyd | You work the melted end of the candle into the notch. Floyd | Floyd | The candle wax hardens. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess maybe this is right" | |||
| inky says, "aha, I see" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull spoon" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn spoon" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the crank with a careful motion, and the platform slowly Floyd | descends to shoulder level. Floyd | Floyd | For a moment, you feel as if you are being watched, and you look Floyd | around the room slowly, half expecting to see a phantom stalker or the Floyd | like--but there is nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gem" | ||||
Floyd | Shimmering, many-facetted, it inspires envy in both rich and poor. You Floyd | can feel a compulsion beyond what its mere beauty should produce. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gem" | ||||
Floyd | You snatch the Dragon Gem off of the platform, then look around Floyd | nervously. No alarms are sounding, but best not to wait. Floyd | Floyd | You're unsure what to expect from enchanters. You've never worried Floyd | about the occasional fellow you've taken care of getting Floyd | resurrected--after all, since El took power, only the former bard Floyd | conducts The Way of the Grave; and even so it requires already knowing Floyd | who the murderer was. As long as their abilities with stolen items are Floyd | similar, you'll be safe. Floyd | Floyd | You hide the Gem under your cloak and walk back down the passage into Floyd | the evening air. You notice Sedmon's guard is gone, but the moment of Floyd | worry passes quickly as your hand brushes the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have finished this story. But four more remain. Floyd | | Binder says, "clever, very clever" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "sweet" | ||||
| Ellison says, "tricky" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "score" | Ellison says, "one of those had-no-idea-what-we-were-doing-until-we-were-doing-it things" | |||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "%showpartial" | ||||
| Floyd > Do you want to play as an [e]nchanter, a [t]hief, [r]oyalty, or a | ||||
| Floyd > [d]ragon? | Binder says, "hooray, I remembered something" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to play as an [e]nchanter, a [t]hief, [r]oyalty, or a Floyd | [d]ragon? e | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "m" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want this character to be [m]ale or [f]emale? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Enchanter: Floyd | Floyd | Baron Sedmon Ventillado. Sedmon Dragonslayer, now. Laughable. Floyd | Floyd | Were you twenty years younger, it would be your name on everyone's Floyd | lips. Your face on the popular paintings. And the Dragon Gem would be Floyd | yours for everyone to covet. It is astonishing the progress you have Floyd | made. The focus and concentration on the Art you can engage now--for Floyd | you have conquered such distractions. So. Floyd | Floyd | No regrets. Your days of heroism ceased when Thorn's Companions Floyd | disbanded, yet your life--a new life--went on. A Master Thaumaturge. Floyd | Your advances in divining from water ripples have given you a name in Floyd | certain Circles, and you'd have thought your future assured. Floyd | Floyd | But now... the winds bring rumor that Sedmon means to give the Gem to Floyd | Blackhelm. Blackhelm. That villain--the Dragon Gem is said to have Floyd | powers, powers that one such as Blackhelm could bring to bear on those Floyd | of Thorn's Companions who survived. Blackhelm. A mere dabbler in the Floyd | Art; but... You possess too little knowledge of Summoning to know what Floyd | use the Dragon Gem would have, but you do not care to find out from Floyd | the wrong end. Floyd | Floyd | The best way to be sure the Dragon Gem stays out of Blackhelm's hands? Floyd | Get it in yours. Floyd | Floyd | East-West Road Floyd | Randomly arranged paving stones form this street, proceeding east Floyd | towards a more attractive arrangement. The darkened buildings lean Floyd | sloppily over the edge of the street, reducing the energetic potential Floyd | of the strict east-west layout. West the road leads back into the Floyd | seething mess that is Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | [Type 'ABOUT' for important commands you can use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Wait, is this that game that the Theory Reader was talking about?" | |||
| inky says, "quite possibly" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x stones" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "It took me this long to realize that." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East-West Road Floyd | Randomly arranged paving stones form this street, proceeding east Floyd | towards a more attractive arrangement. The darkened buildings lean Floyd | sloppily over the edge of the street, reducing the energetic potential Floyd | of the strict east-west layout. West the road leads back into the Floyd | seething mess that is Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "huh, interesting changes" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south--Sedmon's mansion lies along the former. Floyd | Floyd | You can see two guards here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guards" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | One of the Royal Crown's useless lackeys. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enchant guard" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a spell book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x self" | ||||
Floyd | Volthar the Thaumaturge, once a somewhat famous-hero; fortunately, a Floyd | careful word here and there has erased that memory from popular Floyd | culture, and the Circle knows you only as a studious, productive Floyd | researcher. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | You had to hurry when you heard about Blackhelm, and you couldn't find Floyd | your favorite spell book, so you grabbed the first one to hand. It Floyd | turned out to be an old and not very good one. Floyd | Floyd | It contains the following spells: Floyd | Floyd | gnusto inscribe a spell in your spell book Floyd | rezrov open even locked or enchanted objects Floyd | jindak detect magic Floyd | frotz cause magical light Floyd | zifmia magically summon visible creature Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "zifmia" | ||||
Floyd | (the guard) Floyd | You don't have the zifmia spell memorized. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "memorize zifmia" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the zifmia spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "memorize zifmia" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the zifmia spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "zifmia" | ||||
Floyd | (the guard) Floyd | That would accomplish nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, I see. Summon does not mean bring into existence." | |||
| inky says, "yeah, more of a teleport" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize jindak" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the jindak spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "memorize jindak" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the jindak spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "here, kitty kitty" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jindak" | ||||
Floyd | You detect no magic in the vicinity. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we memorize more than one spell at a time?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "zifmia" | ||||
Floyd | (the guard) Floyd | That would accomplish nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ok." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "memorize rezrov" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the rezrov spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "memorize gnusto" | ||||
Floyd | You have the gnusto spell permanently memorized. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Was checking whether we could have like.. only one prepared at any given time." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "memorize frotz" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the frotz spell, but with so many spells to keep track Floyd | of, you probably forgot one of the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." | |||
| jenrexrode says, "ah" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to genericgeekgirl), "You were right." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | You currently have the frotz, zifmia, rezrov, and jindak spells Floyd | memorized (in addition to the gnusto spell which you've memorized Floyd | permanently). Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "cool" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "frotz" | ||||
Floyd | (the guard) Floyd | A blue glow appears around the guard and slowly intensifies to a Floyd | regular, pale blue light. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "the thin blue light that are the cops^Wguards" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x branna" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, lighting one up breaks apart the guards" | |||
| Binder says, "Branna doesn't kick it with no thaumaturges, y0" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North-South Road Floyd | The road from Newtown to Oldtown crests a hill beside Baron Sedmon's Floyd | mansion to the east. You sense a resonance, and suspect this location Floyd | marks the intersection of two ley lines. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | Must be a lackey of Sedmon, by his garb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The guard blocks your path. "Hey, you can't go in there." He eyes your Floyd | clothing. "And don't think you can do any of those magic tricks on me. Floyd | The Baron's put a spell of protection over me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jindak" | ||||
Floyd | The guard shimmers strangely. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to inky), "Right, because we can refer to them as, the lit and the unlit guard." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "frotz guard" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have the frotz spell memorized. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "learn frotz" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the frotz spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "frotz guard" | ||||
Floyd | The guard shakes his head at you. "Don't be silly." Nothing else Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks, "How about tripping him?" | |||
| Ellison asks, "there aren't any other rooms yet?" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Road Floyd | A winding road leads off to the north through haphazardly placed and Floyd | designed buildings. To the south is a magic shop you've visited upon Floyd | occasion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "I suppose we could go see if we can go rezrov that crate in the street, if its there this time" | |||
| inky says, "I guess this guy doesn't know about the tavern" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "yeah, different interests" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x magic shop" | ||||
Floyd | Although its primary function is as an exchange store for mundanes, Floyd | you've only ever visited it to supply yourself from the magical Floyd | odds-and-ends found in the back room. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "We've not been to the temple yet, either, have we?" | |||
| inky says, "also, he thinks the pawn shop is a magic shop" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rezrov door" | ||||
Floyd | In a flash of blue light the door opens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a spell book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You pass through the foyer into the pawnshop. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "frotz book" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have the frotz spell memorized. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Road Floyd | A winding road leads off to the north through haphazardly placed and Floyd | designed buildings. To the south is a magic shop you've visited upon Floyd | occasion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize frotz" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the frotz spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "frotz book" | ||||
Floyd | A blue glow appears around the spell book and slowly intensifies to a Floyd | regular, pale blue light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east Floyd | counterbalance a door to the west that you recall, but cannot see. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a power sphere, a tablecloth, and an envelope Floyd | (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see inside, since the envelope is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You open the envelope, revealing some powder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | A crystalline ball often sold as decoration, but useful to specialists Floyd | in Arts other than those you practice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x powder" | ||||
Floyd | A fine white powder of unknown origins. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "taste powder" | ||||
Floyd | You'd best not, since you don't know what it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to inky), "heh heh heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rub sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | Haphazardly folded, it features an illustration of some imagined Floyd | pastoral landscape with a far too regular arrangement of trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Ooo... powder to sniff" | |||
| inky says, "interesting" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | What is valuable to others is not what is valuable to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, I see" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x west door" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | There's just a blank wall there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize jindak" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the jindak spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "jindak wall" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jindak. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x w" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jindak" | ||||
Floyd | A door-shaped blue glow appears in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the glowing door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Back Room Floyd | The octagonal layout of this room aligns to suppress all but the most Floyd | powerful magics. Various implements, utensils, and materials of magic Floyd | line the free-standing shelves in the room. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves is a decaying scroll. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden chest (which is closed) and a glass case (which Floyd | is closed) (in which is a black scroll) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x decaying scroll" | ||||
Floyd | This tattered and worn scroll contains the inspi rotation spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize inspi" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a spell in your spell book! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto inspi" | ||||
Floyd | The spell fizzles out, ineffective. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get decaying" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess they said this room is mostly anti-magic" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Get out of the octagonal room?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east wall cover Floyd | an irrelevant passage. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a power sphere, a tablecloth, and an envelope (in Floyd | which is some powder). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glowing door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Yeah." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Your spell book gets slowly warm and glows faintly; then there is a Floyd | sudden flash from the decaying scroll. When the light fades, the Floyd | decaying scroll is gone, but your spell book contains a new spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | Your old spell book contains the spells: Floyd | Floyd | inspi rotate object Floyd | gnusto inscribe a spell in your spell book Floyd | rezrov open even locked or enchanted objects Floyd | jindak detect magic Floyd | frotz cause magical light Floyd | zifmia magically summon visible creature Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "maybe gnusto the scroll itself?" | |||
| inky says, "rotate object, hunh" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "You" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "gnusto scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart asks, "You're gonna leave the black scroll?" | |||
| inky says, "but there are also those other things in that room" | ||||
| Ellison says, "oops" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "back in to check out the hest and stuff?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Back Room Floyd | The octagonal layout of this room aligns to suppress all but the most Floyd | powerful magics. Various implements, utensils, and materials of magic Floyd | line the free-standing shelves in the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden chest (which is closed) and a glass case (which Floyd | is closed) (in which is a black scroll) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "chest, rather" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||||
Floyd | Bound with mage-forged iron, this chest is clearly unopenable by Floyd | normal means, lacking any visible mechanism for unlocking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "learn rezrov" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the rezrov spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||||
Floyd | In the glass case is a black scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x black scroll" | ||||
Floyd | This black vellum scroll would most likely contains the smolpa Floyd | invisibility spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "rezrov chest" | ||||
Floyd | The spell fizzles out, ineffective. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aha" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "push chest e?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get chest" | ||||
Floyd | The chest is too heavy to carry. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "yeah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push chest east" | ||||
Floyd | You push mightily, and the chest slides slowly. Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east wall cover Floyd | an irrelevant passage. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a power sphere, a tablecloth, and an envelope (in Floyd | which is some powder). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glowing door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "so much for security" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rezrov chest" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have the rezrov spell memorized. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks, "Can we frotz the chest?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize rezrov. rezrov chest" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the rezrov spell. Floyd | In a flash of blue light the wooden chest opens, revealing a gilded Floyd | scroll and six pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gilded" | ||||
Floyd | This fancily bordered scroll contains the azeppo teleportation spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto gilded" | ||||
Floyd | You're not holding the gilded scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gilded" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto gilded" | ||||
Floyd | Your spell book gets slowly warm and glows faintly; then there is a Floyd | sudden flash from the gilded scroll. When the light fades, the gilded Floyd | scroll is gone, but your spell book contains a new spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax exclaims, "Pebbles!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pebbles" | ||||
Floyd | pebble: Taken. Floyd | pebble: Taken. Floyd | pebble: Taken. Floyd | pebble: Taken. Floyd | pebble: Taken. Floyd | pebble: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "are pebbles good?" | |||
| EmacsUser shrugs. | ||||
| Limax says, "Why not? We can leave them and see where we've been" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "the question is, are pebbles not GREAT?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Back Room Floyd | The octagonal layout of this room aligns to suppress all but the most Floyd | powerful magics. Various implements, utensils, and materials of magic Floyd | line the free-standing shelves in the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case (which is closed) (in which is a black Floyd | scroll) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glass case" | ||||
Floyd | In the glass case is a black scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "On one of the mucks I frequent, pebbles are currency. So yay, pebbles ;)" | |||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "so this black scroll is invisibility, which presumably lets us get past the guard to the gem" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open case" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "push case e" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||||
Floyd | Is that the best you can think of? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | In the glass case is a black scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but I don't know how to open the case" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break case" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying six pebbles and a spell book (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw pebbles at case" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit case with pebbles" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "I guess we need a key?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "the sphere, maybe? might be heavyish" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I just like breaking things." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east wall cover Floyd | an irrelevant passage. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a power sphere, a tablecloth, and an envelope (in Floyd | which is some powder). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden chest (which is empty) and a glowing door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sphere" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Back Room Floyd | The octagonal layout of this room aligns to suppress all but the most Floyd | powerful magics. Various implements, utensils, and materials of magic Floyd | line the free-standing shelves in the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case (which is closed) (in which is a black Floyd | scroll) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw sphere at case" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break case with sphere" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "we can only break the animate? excellent" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "hmpf" | ||||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||||
Floyd | In the glass case is a black scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "break is an attack synonym, it looks like" | |||
| Binder asks, "more looking around for stuff?" | ||||
| inky says, "we haven't been to the temple yet" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east wall cover Floyd | an irrelevant passage. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a tablecloth and an envelope (in which is some Floyd | powder). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden chest (which is empty) and a glowing door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "maybe there's something in the temple" | |||
| nothings arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x holders" | ||||
Floyd | Shabbily made of brass, showing signs of regular use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | A long white candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | * nothings has joined the channel. | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Road Floyd | A winding road leads off to the north through haphazardly placed and Floyd | designed buildings. To the south is a magic shop you've visited upon Floyd | occasion. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "scroll of dispell magic or something?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Rotation must be useful somehow." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple Floyd | The architects of this temple were careful to construct hard vertical Floyd | lines on the building itself to maximize phasic flow, but you can Floyd | sense the groundflow lacks focus. The square lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate stands between you and the temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, I'm thinking rotation for the pegs" | |||
| Ellison asks, "so no spells should work in the magic shop except for gnusto, right?" | ||||
| inky says (to nothings), "there's also #cfspoilers if you want to give commentary" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The window looks into a guardroom full of guards--more than you could Floyd | handle alone. Fortunately they don't seem to be looking this way. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Ellison), "I'm not even sure gnusto works in that room" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Even gnusto doesn't work in the octagonal room." | ||||
| Ellison says, "ah, ok" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Er, timing." | ||||
| inky says, "I assume we can open the gate with rezrov, but then I dunno how to sneak by the guards" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize rezrov" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the rezrov spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rezrov gate" | ||||
Floyd | In a flash of blue light the gate opens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Foyer Floyd | You stand at the west end of a long foyer leading to a small doorway Floyd | into the temple itself. Windows in the north wall look into a Floyd | guardhouse full of guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Although the guards are not incredibly attentive to the foyer, they're Floyd | watching it closely enough that they'd spot anyone who tried to run Floyd | through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x windows" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to get close enough to the windows to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spellbook" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a power sphere, six pebbles and a spell book Floyd | (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spell book" | ||||
Floyd | Your old spell book contains the spells: Floyd | Floyd | azeppo teleport caster to object eventually Floyd | inspi rotate object Floyd | gnusto inscribe a spell in your spell book Floyd | rezrov open even locked or enchanted objects Floyd | jindak detect magic Floyd | frotz cause magical light Floyd | zifmia magically summon visible creature Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ooh, azeppo." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, ""eventually"" | ||||
| Binder asks, "maybe distract guards with pebbles?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "We should figure out how this spell works." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw pebbles" | ||||
Floyd | pebble: Dropped. Floyd | pebble: Dropped. Floyd | pebble: Dropped. Floyd | pebble: Dropped. Floyd | pebble: Dropped. Floyd | pebble: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "Can you toss a pebble where you want to go?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple Foyer Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Johnny), "oh, that's a good idea" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Foyer Floyd | You stand at the west end of a long foyer leading to a small doorway Floyd | into the temple itself. Windows in the north wall look into a Floyd | guardhouse full of guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x doorway" | ||||
Floyd | You see the main temple area through this inviting yet susprisingly Floyd | small doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw pebble at doorway" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the pebble into the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple Foyer Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Looks promising." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azeppo. azeppo pebble" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the azeppo spell. Floyd | A faint blue glow surrounds the pebble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw pebble at doorway" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the pebble into the temple. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a brief moment of disorientation. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Floyd | Lines of power converge in the center of the vaulted ceiling above Floyd | you. Enormous scripted letters cover the west wall over the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | A penetration field glows steadily against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | In the penetration field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a Floyd | Kriit). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a pebble here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "awesome" | |||
| Binder says, "clever" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pebble" | ||||
Floyd | (the pebble) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "sweet" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x kriit" | ||||
Floyd | The Kriit is a copper, rune-covered pole with a metal claw mounted Floyd | atop and a dial on the bottom. You have no training in the ritual Floyd | magic uses of the Kriit, but its plane-shifting power is supposed to Floyd | require no training, only potential. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, I see we know all the names for stuff here" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x letters" | ||||
Floyd | The Royal Crown's justice begins with the casting of the cadalk spell Floyd | to remove any spell effects made by the criminal. The spell is written Floyd | here for convenient reference. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize caldak" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a spell in your spell book! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto cadalk" | ||||
Floyd | Your spell book gets slowly warm and glows faintly; then there is a Floyd | sudden flash from the script. When the light fades, your spell book Floyd | contains a new spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Nice." | |||
| inky says, "not sure what good that does us, but might as well learn all the spells" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x field" | ||||
Floyd | The penetration field resists all physical motion into it, making it Floyd | impossible to reach into it or throw things into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "That should let us disenchant the guard, no?" | |||
| Lionheart says, "Might be for guard" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Right" | ||||
| Binder says, "or the anti-magic magic shop" | ||||
| inky says, "oh hmm" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Binder), "Maybe, but I think the cause there is the room shape, not magic." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spell book" | ||||
Floyd | Your old spell book contains the spells: Floyd | Floyd | cadalk dispell enchantments cast by target Floyd | azeppo teleport caster to object eventually Floyd | inspi rotate object Floyd | gnusto inscribe a spell in your spell book Floyd | rezrov open even locked or enchanted objects Floyd | jindak detect magic Floyd | frotz cause magical light Floyd | zifmia magically summon visible creature Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize inspi" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the inspi spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize inspi" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the inspi spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to EmacsUser), "Probably right." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize inspi" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the inspi spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize inspi" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the inspi spell, but with so many spells to keep track Floyd | of, you probably forgot one of the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "inspi left hook" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x field" | ||||
Floyd | The penetration field resists all physical motion into it, making it Floyd | impossible to reach into it or throw things into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hooks" | ||||
Floyd | The hooks are mounted against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "inspi hooks" | ||||
Floyd | A shimmering blue glow surrounds one of the hooks, which turns slowly Floyd | around its axis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "inspi hooks" | ||||
Floyd | A shimmering blue glow surrounds one of the hooks, which turns slowly Floyd | around its axis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hooks" | ||||
Floyd | The hooks are mounted against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "I wondered at the low number of thaumaturges in UFC." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "inspi hooks" | ||||
Floyd | A shimmering blue glow surrounds one of the hooks, which turns slowly Floyd | around its axis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hooks" | ||||
Floyd | The hooks are mounted against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "I guess I am either doing it wrong or I dunno what" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x left hook" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "we still have to open the hooks.. remember the lever?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "inspi kriit" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have the inspi spell memorized. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to ggg), "solutions are most likely different in this path" | |||
| inky asks, "oh, they're closed or open?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize rezrov" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the rezrov spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rezrov hooks" | ||||
Floyd | A blue glow appears around the pair of wooden hooks for a moment, then Floyd | fades. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh, now I see what you mean" | |||
| Ellison says, "huh" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize jindak. jindak" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the jindak spell. Floyd | The spell book gives off a faint blue glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny asks, "Did you re-un-rotate the hooks again?" | |||
| inky says, "I dunno, I rotated them too many times to keep track" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I didn't really understand the hook configuration in the last path" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "They have been thrice turned." | ||||
| Ellison says, "do it one more time" | ||||
| inky says, "I think the hooks are originally pointing upwards, then right, then upside-down" | ||||
| Binder says, "in the first run, the knobs rotated them 90 degrees." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I think the last time, one hook was turned outwards" | ||||
| inky says, "then pulling the lever lowers a hook so the staff falls off if they're upside-down" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Can't we unmagic the field?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ah, ok" | ||||
| inky says (to Emacs), "well, it says "dispels enchantments cast by target"" | ||||
| inky asks, "do we know who cast the field?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x field" | ||||
Floyd | The penetration field resists all physical motion into it, making it Floyd | impossible to reach into it or throw things into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh. Drat." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azeppo" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the azeppo spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azeppo staff" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azeppo kriit" | ||||
Floyd | A faint blue glow surrounds the Kriit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The faint blue glow around the Kriit disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "darn" | |||
| inky says, "oh hmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize inspi" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the inspi spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "inspi kriit" | ||||
Floyd | A shimmering blue glow surrounds the Kriit, which slowly rotates, Floyd | turning around to face away--nearly falling off the hooks as it Floyd | does--and then back, then spinning slowly along its long axis, then Floyd | finally tilting upward, slipping through the hooks and falling to the Floyd | floor as it continues turning, balancing on its point, and finally Floyd | coming to rest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get kriit" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ta-da" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x kriit" | ||||
Floyd | The Kriit is a copper, rune-covered pole with a metal claw mounted Floyd | atop and a dial on the bottom. You have no training in the ritual Floyd | magic uses of the Kriit, but its plane-shifting power is supposed to Floyd | require no training, only potential. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the claw closes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "clever" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the claw opens. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't really know what good this does" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shift planes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You'd be spotted running out just as easily as you'd have been spotted Floyd | running in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Floyd | Lines of power converge in the center of the vaulted ceiling above Floyd | you. Enormous scripted letters cover the west wall over the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | A penetration field glows steadily against the back wall. Floyd | Floyd | In the penetration field is a pair of wooden hooks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x doorway" | ||||
Floyd | You see the foyer through this inviting doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azeppo. azeppo pebble" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the azeppo spell. Floyd | A faint blue glow surrounds the pebble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw pebble at doorway" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the pebble far along the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a brief moment of disorientation. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Foyer Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pebble here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pebble" | ||||
Floyd | (the pebble) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Before the Temple Floyd | The architects of this temple were careful to construct hard vertical Floyd | lines on the building itself to maximize phasic flow, but you can Floyd | sense the groundflow lacks focus. The square lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Road Floyd | A winding road leads off to the north through haphazardly placed and Floyd | designed buildings. To the south is a magic shop you've visited upon Floyd | occasion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east wall cover Floyd | an irrelevant passage. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a tablecloth and an envelope (in which is some Floyd | powder). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden chest (which is empty) and a glowing door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Back Room Floyd | The octagonal layout of this room aligns to suppress all but the most Floyd | powerful magics. Various implements, utensils, and materials of magic Floyd | line the free-standing shelves in the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case (which is closed) (in which is a black Floyd | scroll) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get black scroll with kriit" | ||||
Floyd | The glass case isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open case with kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave kriit" | ||||
Floyd | You wave the Kriit. The runes on it glow faintly, but nothing else Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "read kriit" | ||||
Floyd | The Kriit is a copper, rune-covered pole with a metal claw mounted Floyd | atop and a dial on the bottom. You have no training in the ritual Floyd | magic uses of the Kriit, but its plane-shifting power is supposed to Floyd | require no training, only potential. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x read runes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I imagine the invisibility scroll is a red herring to distract one away from the pebble teleporting" | |||
| Ellison says, "(maybe not, though)" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Will the pebble teleporting get us into the mansion?" | ||||
| inky says, "well, there's still the guard by the dragon gem" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ah, ok" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, I know" | ||||
| inky says, "hrm, no, wait" | ||||
| inky says, "the guard by the mansion does have a protection spell on him cast by that seldon guy" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put kriit in case" | ||||
Floyd | The glass case is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "you'd think the plane-shifting would allow us to reach through the glass somehow" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the claw closes. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "We are in a no-magic zone." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the claw opens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Back Room Floyd | The octagonal layout of this room aligns to suppress all but the most Floyd | powerful magics. Various implements, utensils, and materials of magic Floyd | line the free-standing shelves in the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case (which is closed) (in which is a black Floyd | scroll) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "maybe it's just for the final puzzle, yeah" | |||
| inky says, "well, it says "all but the most powerful magics"" | ||||
| inky says, "so we might still be able to use this crazy claw thing" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to inky), "Point." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "shift plane" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "Use the claw." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scroll with claw" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the claw) Floyd | That seems to be a part of the Kriit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "wave kriit" | ||||
Floyd | You wave the Kriit. The runes on it glow faintly, but nothing else Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kriit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scroll with kriit" | ||||
Floyd | The Kriit is a copper, rune-covered pole with a metal claw mounted Floyd | atop and a dial on the bottom. You have no training in the ritual Floyd | magic uses of the Kriit, but its plane-shifting power is supposed to Floyd | require no training, only potential. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The glass case isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit case with kriit" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open case with kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get scroll with kriit" | ||||
Floyd | The glass case isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "potential.." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "tap kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "rub kriit" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "that must mean something?" | |||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "put kriit in case" | ||||
Floyd | The glass case is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "So we need to accumulate electrons." | |||
| Limax asks, "Break the case?" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "hit case" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "lift case" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get case" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I suspect, based on our previous experience, that we need to go clue hunting." | |||
| inky asks, "well ok, are there rooms we missed?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east wall cover Floyd | an irrelevant passage. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a tablecloth and an envelope (in which is some Floyd | powder). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden chest (which is empty) and a glowing door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Road Floyd | A winding road leads off to the north through haphazardly placed and Floyd | designed buildings. To the south is a magic shop you've visited upon Floyd | occasion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East-West Road Floyd | Randomly arranged paving stones form this street, proceeding east Floyd | towards a more attractive arrangement. The darkened buildings lean Floyd | sloppily over the edge of the street, reducing the energetic potential Floyd | of the strict east-west layout. West the road leads back into the Floyd | seething mess that is Oldtown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Not while such an important task remains. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Building walls limit your movements. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Building walls limit your movements. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North-South Road Floyd | The road from Newtown to Oldtown crests a hill beside Baron Sedmon's Floyd | mansion to the east. You sense a resonance, and suspect this location Floyd | marks the intersection of two ley lines. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't return to Newtown until you finish your task. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spell book" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spell book" | ||||
Floyd | Your old spell book contains the spells: Floyd | Floyd | cadalk dispell enchantments cast by target Floyd | azeppo teleport caster to object eventually Floyd | inspi rotate object Floyd | gnusto inscribe a spell in your spell book Floyd | rezrov open even locked or enchanted objects Floyd | jindak detect magic Floyd | frotz cause magical light Floyd | zifmia magically summon visible creature Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize cadalk" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the cadalk spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cadalk guard" | ||||
Floyd | The guard smiles at you. "Not me, bub." Nothing else happens. Floyd | Floyd | You really should have brought a good spell book along. Perhaps there Floyd | are some better options at the magic shop south of the square. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "maybe if we examine scenery enough, we'll find an animal" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize cadalk" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the cadalk spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cadalk me" | ||||
Floyd | The light from the spell book goes out. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the guard goes out. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh cool" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Square Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "cast cadalk on sedmon" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "can we find sedmon somehow?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask guard about sedmon" | ||||
Floyd | One such as this wouldn't know anything you'd care to hear. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "ha" | |||
| Ellison asks, "we could also just cast jindak in every room randomly, right?" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "Did he enchant the guard personally?" | ||||
| inky says, "that is true" | ||||
| inky says, "well, the guard implied he had" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Maybe the candles or such are enchanted?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "every guard likes to feel self-important" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Road Floyd | A winding road leads off to the north through haphazardly placed and Floyd | designed buildings. To the south is a magic shop you've visited upon Floyd | occasion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east wall cover Floyd | an irrelevant passage. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a tablecloth and an envelope (in which is some Floyd | powder). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden chest (which is empty) and a glowing door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | A long white candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize jindak" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the jindak spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh right, we already jindaked." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Back Room Floyd | The octagonal layout of this room aligns to suppress all but the most Floyd | powerful magics. Various implements, utensils, and materials of magic Floyd | line the free-standing shelves in the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case (which is closed) (in which is a black Floyd | scroll) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x implements" | ||||
Floyd | Tools and technologies for the workings of numerous magical paradigms, Floyd | but nothing that would serve you today. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x black scroll" | ||||
Floyd | This black vellum scroll would most likely contains the smolpa Floyd | invisibility spell. Floyd | Floyd | More serious magics will be required to get this out. You recall a Floyd | Kriit in the Royal Crown's temple of 'justice'; its plane-shifting Floyd | powers might work here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "grah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave kriit" | ||||
Floyd | You wave the Kriit. The runes on it glow faintly, but nothing else Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lipa goes home. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave kriit at scroll" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to wave the Kriit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x kriit" | ||||
Floyd | The Kriit is a copper, rune-covered pole with a metal claw mounted Floyd | atop and a dial on the bottom. You have no training in the ritual Floyd | magic uses of the Kriit, but its plane-shifting power is supposed to Floyd | require no training, only potential. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shift planes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "weird" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "invoke kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings asks, "'get scroll with kriit' maybe?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "activate kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scroll with kriit" | ||||
Floyd | The glass case isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "(I am totally guessing)" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open case with kriit" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | This dial can be turned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x claw" | ||||
Floyd | This mechanical claw opens and closes when the dial is turned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shift kriit" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x pole" | ||||
Floyd | The Kriit is a copper, rune-covered pole with a metal claw mounted Floyd | atop and a dial on the bottom. You have no training in the ritual Floyd | magic uses of the Kriit, but its plane-shifting power is supposed to Floyd | require no training, only potential. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "push dial" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shift scroll" | ||||
Floyd | The glass case isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "push dial" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "pull dial" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | This dial can be turned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "shift case" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x runes" | ||||
Floyd | The runes describe the postra spell, which creates a momentary Floyd | sequence of portals through alternate planes of existence to create a Floyd | portal to a nearby objects, allowing you to handle them at a distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "..." | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Wait!" | ||||
| inky says, "oh!" | ||||
| inky says, "man oh man" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I thought I tried that." | ||||
| inky says, "good call" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ah" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "postra scroll" | ||||
Floyd | At first, nothing happens. The Kriit vibrates slightly, and an ominous Floyd | hum sounds. It builds, and for a moment you are disoriented. With a Floyd | sudden flash, a spinning vortex of blue light appears next to you as Floyd | simultaneously another appears next to the black scroll. You reach Floyd | through the portal and watch your hand emerge from the other one. Floyd | Floyd | You fumble for the black scroll and barely notice a slight tug at your Floyd | other hand. As you pull the scroll back through both portals, you see Floyd | the Kriit disappearing through the portal next to you, clutched by a Floyd | scale-covered hand. Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, the vortices disappear. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I think you tried to read them? Not examine" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Ahh." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Which is an annoying differentiation." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||||
Floyd | This black vellum scroll contains the smolpa invisibility spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "oh. of course." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pawnshop Floyd | Meticulously placed shelves set off the bounds of the room, with Floyd | tables placed just offset from center. Hangings on the east wall cover Floyd | an irrelevant passage. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a tablecloth and an envelope (in which is some Floyd | powder). Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden chest (which is empty) and a glowing door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "gnusto smolpa" | ||||
Floyd | Your spell book gets slowly warm and glows faintly; then there is a Floyd | sudden flash from the black scroll. When the light fades, the black Floyd | scroll is gone, but your spell book contains a new spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Road Floyd | A winding road leads off to the north through haphazardly placed and Floyd | designed buildings. To the south is a magic shop you've visited upon Floyd | occasion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize smolpa" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the smolpa spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "smolpa me" | ||||
Floyd | A faint blue glow surrounds you for a moment, and then the glow Floyd | disappears--and so do you, at least to yourself--since with a smolpa Floyd | spell, other people can still see you fine. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smolpa guard" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have the smolpa spell memorized. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize smolpa" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the smolpa spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smolpa guard" | ||||
Floyd | A faint blue glow surrounds the guard for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, I guess I didn't understand that" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "punch guard" | ||||
Floyd | Why waste your time on mundanes? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize smolpa" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the smolpa spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North-South Road Floyd | The road from Newtown to Oldtown crests a hill beside Baron Sedmon's Floyd | mansion to the east. You sense a resonance, and suspect this location Floyd | marks the intersection of two ley lines. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "maybe cast it on one of the two guards" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "smolpa guard" | ||||
Floyd | The guard glances away, and you release the spell. A faint flash fills Floyd | your vision. The guard looks back, and looks right past you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The guard blocks your path. "What is that glowing book I see hovering Floyd | in mid-air?" Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "haha" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha dammit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | North-South Road Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Wow." | |||
| Limax says, "Oops" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | North-South Road Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "caldak me" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Square Floyd | A small, well-tended flower garden lies at the center of this square. Floyd | Lines of symmetry cross in several directions through the center of Floyd | the garden: the garden, the brick pavement, and the temple to the east Floyd | all reflect these symmetries; a matching pair of roads lead north and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard and a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "memorize cadalk" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the cadalk spell, but with so many spells to keep track Floyd | of, you probably forgot one of the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cadalk me" | ||||
Floyd | The light from the spell book goes out. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the guard goes out. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "now try" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North-South Road Floyd | The road from Newtown to Oldtown crests a hill beside Baron Sedmon's Floyd | mansion to the east. You sense a resonance, and suspect this location Floyd | marks the intersection of two ley lines. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smolpa guard" | ||||
Floyd | The guard glances away, and you release the spell. A faint flash fills Floyd | your vision. The guard looks back, and looks right past you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You slip into the mansion and find your way to Sedmon's trophy room. Floyd | Floyd | Tall Chamber Floyd | Sedmon's prized possessions are arrayed in meaningless patterns around Floyd | this two-story chamber. A careful arrangement of paintings and torches Floyd | alternate around the walls of the room. A doorway leads out to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | You have a strange feeling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gem" | ||||
Floyd | Shimmering, many-facetted, it inspires envy in both sorcerer and Floyd | mundane alike. You can feel a compulsion beyond what its mere beauty Floyd | should produce. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spell book" | ||||
Floyd | Your old spell book contains the spells: Floyd | Floyd | smolpa become invisible to single creature Floyd | cadalk dispell enchantments cast by target Floyd | azeppo teleport caster to object eventually Floyd | inspi rotate object Floyd | gnusto inscribe a spell in your spell book Floyd | rezrov open even locked or enchanted objects Floyd | jindak detect magic Floyd | frotz cause magical light Floyd | zifmia magically summon visible creature Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "memorize jindak" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the jindak spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "jindak" | ||||
Floyd | A glowing latticework webbing appears around the platform. A moment Floyd | later you notice a faint glowing face in one of the paintings. Floyd | Floyd | So. A trap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x face" | ||||
Floyd | The face, lacking in distinguishing characteristics, looks like an Floyd | apparation created by the rotinom spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "how did that all work exactly?" | |||
| inky asks (of Ellison), "the part that ggg did?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "The invisibility spell makes the target unable to see others." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize smolpa" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the smolpa spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "smolpa rotinom" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "smolpa face" | ||||
Floyd | A faint blue glow surrounds the glowing face for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "punch face" | ||||
Floyd | That is insubstantial. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ah, ok, I thought it just made you invisible to yourself" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Ellison), "That would be a tricky spell to use." | ||||
| inky says, "well, I cast it on myself because I thought that was how it worked" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x paintings" | ||||
Floyd | Mostly portraits, a few pretentious landscapes. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Now I am trying to imagine a puzzle where that version could be the solution." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azeppo" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the azeppo spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azeppo gem" | ||||
Floyd | There's some sort of magical trap around the platform, that would have Floyd | unknown effects if you cast a spell into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trap" | ||||
Floyd | The strands of the web crisscross all over the surface of the Floyd | platform, making it impossible to work any magic on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||||
Floyd | Supported by a complex array of wooden beams and struts, the glass Floyd | platform seems nearly amongst the rafters. Down at the base of the Floyd | platform is a suspiciously vacant notch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x paintings" | ||||
Floyd | Mostly portraits, a few pretentious landscapes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x notch" | ||||
Floyd | A hole leads into the innards of the platform and the beams supporting Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x beams" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "cast jindak here? has jindak been important yet?" | |||
| inky says, "yeah, jindak is what found us the trap and the face" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x face" | ||||
Floyd | The face, lacking in distinguishing characteristics, looks like an Floyd | apparation created by the rotinom spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh, gotcha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize zifmia" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the zifmia spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "zifmia face" | ||||
Floyd | There is a crack of thunder as the air displaces around a figure Floyd | appearing suddenly before you. Black boots, a red cloak, a black Floyd | hood--you recognize the figure. Floyd | Floyd | Blackhelm. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Volthar, it seems perhaps I underestimated you," she says. Floyd | Floyd | You laugh. "You always have, Merresin. Even back in the days of the Floyd | Companions." Floyd | Floyd | She shrugs. "Even so, you will not find me unprepared." Floyd | Floyd | She quickly begins gesturing magically. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops, maybe I should have prepared better" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Tall Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Old skool" | |||
| EmacsUser exclaims (at inky), "Memorize away!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize smolpa" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the smolpa spell, but with so many spells to keep track Floyd | of, you probably forgot one of the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | You currently have the azeppo, smolpa, jindak, and zifmia spells Floyd | memorized (in addition to the gnusto spell which you've memorized Floyd | permanently). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize inspi" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the inspi spell, but with so many spells to keep track Floyd | of, you probably forgot one of the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | You currently have the azeppo, inspi, jindak, and zifmia spells Floyd | memorized (in addition to the gnusto spell which you've memorized Floyd | permanently). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "forget azeppo" | ||||
Floyd | You allow the azeppo spell to pass from your memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize smolpa" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the smolpa spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | You currently have the smolpa, inspi, jindak, and zifmia spells Floyd | memorized (in addition to the gnusto spell which you've memorized Floyd | permanently). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "zifmia face" | ||||
Floyd | There is a crack of thunder as the air displaces around a figure Floyd | appearing suddenly before you. Black boots, a red cloak, a black Floyd | hood--you recognize the figure. Floyd | Floyd | Blackhelm. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Volthar, it seems perhaps I underestimated you," she says. Floyd | Floyd | You laugh. "You always have, Merresin. Even back in the days of the Floyd | Companions." Floyd | Floyd | She shrugs. "Even so, you will not find me unprepared." Floyd | Floyd | She quickly begins gesturing magically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "inspi blackhelm" | ||||
Floyd | A shimmering blue glow surrounds Merresin Blackhelm, who slowly Floyd | rotates, turning around to face away and then back, then turning over Floyd | upside downand continuing until he rights himself and then turning Floyd | over sideways like hands on a clock, from midnight through morning and Floyd | back to noon. Floyd | Floyd | With a final gesture, Blackhelm disappears in a puff of grey smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops, gender mismatch" | |||
| nothings says, "whoops" | ||||
| Johnny says, "woo" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trap" | ||||
Floyd | The strands of the web crisscross all over the surface of the Floyd | platform, making it impossible to work any magic on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so did we win? I can't really tell" | |||
| inky says, "it looks like this trap is still around" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I think we're in trouble next turn." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Blackhelm seems to have wanted to vanish." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Huh." | |||
| inky says, "hmm, ok, maybe you're right" | ||||
| inky says, "like maybe she went invisible, I guess" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tall Chamber Floyd | Sedmon's prized possessions are arrayed in meaningless patterns around Floyd | this two-story chamber. A careful arrangement of paintings and torches Floyd | alternate around the walls of the room. A doorway leads out to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x paintings" | ||||
Floyd | Mostly portraits, a few pretentious landscapes. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "It said ``With a final gesture...'" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "So that's how I read it." | ||||
| inky says, "ok new idea" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "could we have cast the disenchanting spell on him?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Likely." | |||
| inky says, "yeah let's try that" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | You currently have the smolpa, inspi, jindak, and zifmia spells Floyd | memorized (in addition to the gnusto spell which you've memorized Floyd | permanently). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "forget inspi" | ||||
Floyd | You allow the inspi spell to pass from your memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize cadalk" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the cadalk spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "zifmia face" | ||||
Floyd | There is a crack of thunder as the air displaces around a figure Floyd | appearing suddenly before you. Black boots, a red cloak, a black Floyd | hood--you recognize the figure. Floyd | Floyd | Blackhelm. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Volthar, it seems perhaps I underestimated you," she says. Floyd | Floyd | You laugh. "You always have, Merresin. Even back in the days of the Floyd | Companions." Floyd | Floyd | She shrugs. "Even so, you will not find me unprepared." Floyd | Floyd | She quickly begins gesturing magically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cadalk blackhelm" | ||||
Floyd | There's a flash from the plaftorm. Floyd | Floyd | With a final gesture, Blackhelm disappears in a puff of grey smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, so that did dispel the trap" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "So now the only spell in effect is the grey smoke one, right?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azeppo" | ||||
Floyd | You memorize the azeppo spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azeppo gem" | ||||
Floyd | A faint blue glow surrounds the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a brief moment of disorientation. Floyd | Floyd | Tall Chamber (on the platform) Floyd | Floyd | On the platform you can see the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gem" | ||||
Floyd | You pick up the Dragon Gem with a small smile. Merresin never was a Floyd | winner in your competitions, even back in the days when you were both Floyd | Thorn's companions. Floyd | Floyd | You activate a spell of recall which leaves you at the bottom of a Floyd | prepared hole; you climb out, remove the ladder, and seal the hole Floyd | shut. Enough to delay magical pursuers long enough not to be able to Floyd | trace your second recall. Floyd | Floyd | For a moment you wonder about the strange disappearance of the Kriit, Floyd | but it is of no real moment in the face of Blackhelm's defeat. Floyd | Floyd | As you realize you've kept the Gem from Blackhelm, you begin to ponder Floyd | to what uses you might be able to put it in your own Art, cupping it Floyd | fondly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have finished this story. But three further stories remain. Floyd | | Ellison says, "nice" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Hmm. What would have happened had we not escaped?" | ||||
| inky says, "good question" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Still, yay!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | inky says, "oops, that is going to screw stuff up" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "%showpartial" | ||||
| Floyd > Do you want to play as a [t]hief, [r]oyalty, or a [d]ragon? | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "%showpartial" | ||||
| Floyd > Do you want to play as a [t]hief, [r]oyalty, or a [d]ragon? | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "t" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to play as a [t]hief, [r]oyalty, or a [d]ragon? t | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want this character to be [m]ale or [f]emale? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thief: Floyd | Floyd | Baron Sedmon Ventillado. Sedmon Dragonslayer, now. Strutting in the Floyd | limelight like a puffed-up peacock. And those fools believe him. Floyd | Floyd | Were you twenty years younger, it would be your name on everyone's Floyd | lips. Your face on the popular paintings. And the Dragon Gem would be Floyd | yours for everyone to covet. Ah, the foolishness of youth, for what Floyd | wine would those words buy? What men would such pictures bed? Far Floyd | better to simply sell the thing to a dandy like Ventillado. Too bad it Floyd | went for such a pittance, since nobody else would touch the damn Floyd | thing. Floyd | Floyd | No regrets. Your days of heroism ceased when Thorn's Companions Floyd | disbanded, yet your life--a new life--went on. A better life. For Floyd | thieving is best practised in secret, and now your skills have grown Floyd | far beyond what your companions might have ever imagined you could Floyd | possess. Enough to rob a sleeping dragon in his very lair. Floyd | Floyd | But now... the winds bring rumor that Sedmon means to sell the Gem to Floyd | Blackhelm. Blackhelm. That villain--the Dragon Gem is said to have Floyd | powers, powers that one such as Blackhelm could bring to bear on those Floyd | of Thorn's Companions who survived. Knowing Blackhelm, it was not Floyd | chance, after all, that you overheard gossip about the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Easy to imagine Blackhelm pulling the strings from behind the scene, Floyd | playing you for the fool. So. Floyd | Floyd | The best way to be sure the Dragon Gem stays out of Blackhelm's hands? Floyd | Get it back in yours. Floyd | Floyd | Shadowy Road Floyd | Sturdy, functional buildings lie in and out of shadow on the road to Floyd | the temple square. Simple architecture, devoid of handholds; closely Floyd | spaced buildings, devoid of alleyways; uncut walls, devoid of windows: Floyd | the builders in this area knew how to encourage amateurs to go Floyd | elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Sedmon's mansion lies somewhere north of the square to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A crate sits in the shadow of a building to the north. Floyd | Floyd | [Type 'ABOUT' for important commands you can use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "zifmia face" | ||||
Floyd | There is a crack of thunder as the air displaces around a figure Floyd | appearing suddenly before you. Black boots, a red cloak, a black Floyd | hood--you recognize the figure. Floyd | Floyd | Blackhelm. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, Volthar, it seems perhaps I underestimated you," she says. Floyd | Floyd | You laugh. "You always have, Merresin. Even back in the days of the Floyd | Companions." Floyd | Floyd | She shrugs. "Even so, you will not find me unprepared." Floyd | Floyd | She quickly begins gesturing magically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | With a final gesture, Blackhelm disappears in a puff of grey smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh, ok" | |||
| inky says, "I guess she basically just runs away when we summon her" | ||||
| inky says, "so the point is just to summon her to dispel her protection on the platform" | ||||
| inky says, "(I guess it probably makes sense for her to run away given that we're prepared and she probably isn't as much)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "But she doesn't come back?" | |||
| inky says, "doesn't look like it" | ||||
| EmacsUser shrugs. | ||||
| Ellison says, "she's not really invested in her Dragon Gem protecting" | ||||
| inky says, "anyway, let's thief it up" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shadowy Road Floyd | Sturdy, functional buildings lie in and out of shadow on the road to Floyd | the temple square to the east. Simple architecture, devoid of Floyd | handholds; closely spaced buildings, devoid of alleyways; uncut walls, Floyd | devoid of windows: the builders in this area knew how to encourage Floyd | amateurs to go elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | A crate sits in the shadow of a building to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a dagger (in ankle sheath) Floyd | a length of wire (in left tunic pocket) Floyd | a set of lockpicks (in left sleeve pocket) Floyd | a vial of grease (in right cloak pocket) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wire" | ||||
Floyd | Two foot of wire--plenty for all but the widest necks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x grease" | ||||
Floyd | A vial full of grease, useful for guaranteeing silent operation. Ten Floyd | eldars, mostly for the vial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dagger" | ||||
Floyd | Finely balanced, designed to your exact specifications, with a good Floyd | steel edge. It cost you eighty-five eldars, although nobody else would Floyd | want to pay more than sixty for it. Yenalda's fifth rule: Love your Floyd | weapons better than your coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lockpicks" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lockpicks" | ||||
Floyd | Three major components--optimal trade-off between functionality versus Floyd | ability to recognize them by feel. Yenalda's second rule: If you can't Floyd | do it in the dark, you can't do it. One hundred and forty-five eldars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You strike quite a figure in your black cloak, black hood, black Floyd | tunic, black leggings, and silent black shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shadowy Road Floyd | Sturdy, functional buildings lie in and out of shadow on the road to Floyd | the temple square to the east. Simple architecture, devoid of Floyd | handholds; closely spaced buildings, devoid of alleyways; uncut walls, Floyd | devoid of windows: the builders in this area knew how to encourage Floyd | amateurs to go elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | A crate sits in the shadow of a building to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crate" | ||||
Floyd | A large, wooden crate. Its contents--if any--could be worth anywhere Floyd | from ten eldars to two hundred eldars. No time to find out exactly Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Buildings block the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get a good enough reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb on crate" | ||||
Floyd | You climb silently onto the crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You pull yourself up to the roof. Floyd | Floyd | Warehouse Roof Floyd | The chimneys and extruded beams on this roof offer few places to hide; Floyd | the stars shining from everywhere in the sky leave no particular Floyd | shadows. The roof abuts the roof of a house to the north. From here Floyd | you can go back down to the street. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I bet it's nine eldars and six pebbles" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Atop A House Floyd | A lightly sloping roof with a convenient chimney to hide along. An Floyd | extension to the east makes it plausible to descend to an empty road, Floyd | while the roof connects to a warehouse to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You're not sure you'll be able to get back up, but you've got to go Floyd | down at some point; might as well be now. Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | This road winds up the hill towards Sedmon's mansion, which is just Floyd | around the curve to the north, and back down to the square to the Floyd | south. A wall of shrubbery to the northeast offers a purely Floyd | psychological barrier to casual trespassers. You descended from a Floyd | house to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shrubbery" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside a Mansion Floyd | Sedmon seems to have mounted guards at both of the entrances to his Floyd | mansion, so your only option from here is back to the street to the Floyd | southwest, assuming you keep to the ground. The windowless wall to Floyd | your north wears a decorative lip ten feet above ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lip" | ||||
Floyd | The lip looks like it extends around to the front and back of the Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we need like a grappling hook or something" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | This road winds up the hill towards Sedmon's mansion, which is just Floyd | around the curve to the north, and back down to the square to the Floyd | south. A wall of shrubbery to the northeast offers a purely Floyd | psychological barrier to casual trespassers. You descended from a Floyd | house to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Or a crate?" | |||
| inky says, "hmm, could be" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Defying your own expectations, you manage to work your way back on top Floyd | of the house. Floyd | Floyd | Atop A House Floyd | A lightly sloping roof with a convenient chimney to hide along. An Floyd | extension to the east makes it plausible to descend to an empty road, Floyd | while the roof connects to a warehouse to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | This road winds up the hill towards Sedmon's mansion, which is just Floyd | around the curve to the north, and back down to the square to the Floyd | south. A wall of shrubbery to the northeast offers a purely Floyd | psychological barrier to casual trespassers. You descended from a Floyd | house to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North of Square Floyd | Deep shadows cast by an awning (two eldars) leave this edge of the Floyd | square, and the road leading north, dark. The warehouse on one side is Floyd | fully exposed, but the route to the temple, to the southeast, is Floyd | partially covered. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I guess we can't get into the alleys directly from here as the thief" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | This road winds up the hill towards Sedmon's mansion, which is just Floyd | around the curve to the north, and back down to the square to the Floyd | south. A wall of shrubbery to the northeast offers a purely Floyd | psychological barrier to casual trespassers. You descended from a Floyd | house to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You peer around the curve from the shadow to consider your approach, Floyd | but the guard in front of the mansion turns to look in your direction Floyd | almost the instant you look out, and you're forced to withdraw to Floyd | avoid detection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North of Square Floyd | Deep shadows cast by an awning leave this edge of the square, and the Floyd | road leading north, dark. The warehouse on one side is fully exposed, Floyd | but the route to the temple, to the southeast, is partially covered. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or to that other room" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x awning" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East of Square Floyd | A shadowed forecourt between the temple and the square offers you good Floyd | cover from sight. The face of the temple offers limited opportunities Floyd | to scale it, and the sole window is likely not where you want to go. Floyd | You can skirt around the edge of the square northwest or southwest. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the temple wall to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or, wait, I guess the square is a lot bigger than with the other people" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||
Floyd | Cast iron. Sturdy. Stops a few feet short of the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You scramble up and over the top of the gate, squeezing partially Floyd | between two bars. Floyd | Floyd | Shadowed Corridor Floyd | You stand at the end of a long foyer leading east to a narrow doorway Floyd | into the temple itself. Light pours through windows in the north wall Floyd | looking into a roomful of guards, leaving crisscrossing shadows. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Yeah, I'm having a hard time with the geograph at this pace." | |||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | inky says, "ok, lemme slow down then, since I am kind of lost myself" | |||
| DavidW says, "sorry I'm late." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Outnumbered as you are, you couldn't overcome those guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The guards are scarcely attentive to the foyer, so you have no trouble Floyd | sneaking from one patch of darkness to the other, right under their Floyd | noses. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Interior Floyd | Given your choice of career, it's perhaps somewhat surprising this is Floyd | only your second opportunity to see the interior of this place. It's Floyd | pretty nice: hiding places aplenty, deep shadows at either side, and a Floyd | suspicious dark hole in the back wall near the ceiling. The shadowed Floyd | corridor lies west. Floyd | Floyd | An odd crack in the left side of the back wall catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks (of DavidW), "It's cool. Have you played this one before?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Heroes? Yes." | ||||
| inky says, "nice that the thief can just sneak down the corridor when the enchanter can't" | ||||
| nothings says, "it's just a ring of four rooms around the square since the thief stays 'on the boundaries' of things" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | Looks like a secret door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's been a long time, though." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't tell what it is at this distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You pry at the crack and quickly lever open a secret door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend a dark, sloping corridor which, halfway up, doubles-back to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Overlook Floyd | This tiny chamber looks out over the temple to the west through a Floyd | waist-high hole, opposite a dark passage leading back down. Floyd | Floyd | Directly below, a magic field glows against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Which character are we, currently?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "theif" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "uh thief rather" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "oho, I liked Heroes" | |||
| schep arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a dagger (in ankle sheath) Floyd | a length of wire (in left tunic pocket) Floyd | a set of lockpicks (in left sleeve pocket) Floyd | a vial of grease (in right cloak pocket) | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x field" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The magic field stops just a fraction shy of the wall; you can even Floyd | see a sliver of unblocked hook if you look down the wall just right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bend wire" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn hook with wire" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the pair of wooden Floyd | hooks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn hooks with wire" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the pair of wooden Floyd | hooks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn hooks" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "put wire in field" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get staff with wire" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pole with wire" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Interior Floyd | Given your choice of career, it's perhaps somewhat surprising this is Floyd | only your second opportunity to see the interior of this place. It's Floyd | pretty nice: hiding places aplenty, deep shadows at either side, and a Floyd | suspicious dark hole in the back wall near the ceiling. The shadowed Floyd | corridor lies west. Floyd | Floyd | A section of the east wall is turned out, revealing a tight corridor Floyd | sloping up into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple Overlook Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | canadianpuzzler asks, ">use wire on hooks ?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use wire on hooks" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "hook hooks" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I think what we need is a saw kind of deal" | |||
| inky says, "to cut through the hooks" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take dagger" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "copper pole? I hardly..." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Do we have a dagger?" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "loop wire" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut hooks with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cut the pair of wooden Floyd | hooks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cut hooks" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut hooks" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "perhaps we should visit the shop that figured into the other two chars so far" | |||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| inky says, "ok fair enough" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Interior Floyd | Given your choice of career, it's perhaps somewhat surprising this is Floyd | only your second opportunity to see the interior of this place. It's Floyd | pretty nice: hiding places aplenty, deep shadows at either side, and a Floyd | suspicious dark hole in the back wall near the ceiling. The shadowed Floyd | corridor lies west. Floyd | Floyd | A section of the east wall is turned out, revealing a tight corridor Floyd | sloping up into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You sneak back past the guards. Floyd | Floyd | Shadowed Corridor Floyd | You stand at the end of a long foyer leading east to a narrow doorway Floyd | into the temple itself. Light pours through windows in the north wall Floyd | looking into a roomful of guards, leaving crisscrossing shadows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back over the gate. Floyd | Floyd | East of Square Floyd | A shadowed forecourt between the temple and the square offers you good Floyd | cover from sight. The face of the temple offers limited opportunities Floyd | to scale it, and the sole window is likely not where you want to go. Floyd | You can skirt around the edge of the square northwest or southwest. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the temple wall to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | Just south of the square, the road dead-ends amidst a wall of stores, Floyd | with no safe route out but back northeast to the temple. To the south, Floyd | Beldano's Pawnery and Sometime Fencing Operation offers itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says, "maybe it'll sell some cool ninja stars this time" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Nice." | ||||
| inky says, "this Beldano dude works all the angles" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pick lock" | ||||
Floyd | (with the lockpicks) Floyd | You pull the lockpicks out. Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the door. Floyd | Floyd | You put the lockpicks back in your left sleeve pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You pass through the foyer into the pawn shop. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a dagger (in ankle sheath) Floyd | a length of wire (in left tunic pocket) Floyd | a set of lockpicks (in left sleeve pocket) Floyd | a vial of grease (in right cloak pocket) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "I wonder what this character does for light" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "go steal someone's lantern? :)" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "There are torches." | ||||
| inky says, "hmm, could be" | ||||
| Limax asks, "Is it green?" | ||||
| Johnny says, "perhaps it involves greasing a pig" | ||||
| inky asks, "where are the torches?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "The mansion." | ||||
| Ellison says, "let's examine the store from outside. maybe there's a window." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | Just south of the square, the road dead-ends amidst a wall of stores, Floyd | with no safe route out but back northeast to the temple. To the south, Floyd | Beldano's Pawnery and Sometime Fencing Operation offers itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x store" | ||||
Floyd | Although not the most physically secure of buildings you've Floyd | encountered, Beldano's contacts guarrantee him and his wares relative Floyd | safety. You'd best not take anything idly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East of Square Floyd | A shadowed forecourt between the temple and the square offers you good Floyd | cover from sight. The face of the temple offers limited opportunities Floyd | to scale it, and the sole window is likely not where you want to go. Floyd | You can skirt around the edge of the square northwest or southwest. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the temple wall to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North of Square Floyd | Deep shadows cast by an awning leave this edge of the square, and the Floyd | road leading north, dark. The warehouse on one side is fully exposed, Floyd | but the route to the temple, to the southeast, is partially covered. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Some day I will be able to actually pay attention to what's going on" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | This road winds up the hill towards Sedmon's mansion, which is just Floyd | around the curve to the north, and back down to the square to the Floyd | south. A wall of shrubbery to the northeast offers a purely Floyd | psychological barrier to casual trespassers. You descended from a Floyd | house to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oops. ``You descended from a house to the west.''" | |||
| nothings says, "ugh. i got really sloppy with the characters i wrote later" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You peer around the curve from the shadow to consider your approach, Floyd | but the guard in front of the mansion turns to look in your direction Floyd | almost the instant you look out, and you're forced to withdraw to Floyd | avoid detection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside a Mansion Floyd | Sedmon seems to have mounted guards at both of the entrances to his Floyd | mansion, so your only option from here is back to the street to the Floyd | southwest, assuming you keep to the ground. The windowless wall to Floyd | your north wears a decorative lip ten feet above ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| nothings says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend the side of the building to a lip on the second floor. You Floyd | work your way around to the back of the building, where you find a Floyd | small covered shutter. Opening it, you slip inside. Floyd | Floyd | Rafters Floyd | You stand amongst strange vertical shadows in the rafters of a fancy Floyd | little trophy room of sorts, with paintings and torches arranged at Floyd | various heights along the walls. An open window leads out to the east. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room an intricate platform rises high up, but out Floyd | of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, heh" | |||
| inky says, "I had assumed there was a whole thing for this but I guess not" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gem" | ||||
Floyd | Shimmering, many-facetted, it inspires envy in both skillful and Floyd | talentless. You can feel a compulsion beyond what its mere beauty Floyd | should produce. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gem" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get torch" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb platform" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay torch!" | |||
| inky says, "oh I see, we're in the ceiling" | ||||
| inky says, "so we need the kriit to grab it from here" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You slip out the window, around the mansion, and drop lightly to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | Beside a Mansion Floyd | Sedmon seems to have mounted guards at both of the entrances to his Floyd | mansion, so your only option from here is back to the street to the Floyd | southwest, assuming you keep to the ground. The windowless wall to Floyd | your north wears a decorative lip ten feet above ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | canadianpuzzler says, "That was the conclusion I came to, Inky." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | This road winds up the hill towards Sedmon's mansion, which is just Floyd | around the curve to the north, and back down to the square to the Floyd | south. A wall of shrubbery to the northeast offers a purely Floyd | psychological barrier to casual trespassers. You descended from a Floyd | house to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North of Square Floyd | Deep shadows cast by an awning leave this edge of the square, and the Floyd | road leading north, dark. The warehouse on one side is fully exposed, Floyd | but the route to the temple, to the southeast, is partially covered. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East of Square Floyd | A shadowed forecourt between the temple and the square offers you good Floyd | cover from sight. The face of the temple offers limited opportunities Floyd | to scale it, and the sole window is likely not where you want to go. Floyd | You can skirt around the edge of the square northwest or southwest. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the temple wall to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | Just south of the square, the road dead-ends amidst a wall of stores, Floyd | with no safe route out but back northeast to the temple. To the south, Floyd | Beldano's Pawnery and Sometime Fencing Operation offers itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | Flickering shadows dance about the room from the shelves around the Floyd | walls and the tables in the center. Beldano keeps most of his Floyd | wares--whether pawned, fenced, or just for sale here. A door leads out Floyd | to the street, while hangings cover a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a glass ball, an envelope (which is closed), and a Floyd | tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||
Floyd | Sparkling and flawless. Just large enough you can't wrap your hand all Floyd | the way around it. Eleven eldars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x open envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | ||||
Floyd | You open the envelope, revealing some powder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x powder" | ||||
Floyd | A fine white powder. You don't know what it is to assign it a value. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "taste powder" | ||||
Floyd | Yenalda's nineteenth rule: Don't eat it if you don't know what it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Haha." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | Illustrated with a landscape, probably five eldars. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Aw" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||
Floyd | Sparkling and flawless. Just large enough you can't wrap your hand all Floyd | the way around it. Eleven eldars. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "But but--Hotdogs!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | A long white candle, perhaps worth half an eldar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x candlestick" | ||||
Floyd | Shabbily made of brass, worth no more than four eldars together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This windowless chamber is where Beldano stores his most valuable Floyd | properties. The main room lies back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner of the room is a barrel with some liquid in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x barrel" | ||||
Floyd | This is a barrel full of a crystal-clear acid. You can see clear Floyd | through to the bottom, where there is a gold statuette. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x statuette" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tiny figurine, a simplified human form, abstracted, with its Floyd | arms in front, hands together. At least eight hundred eldars, possibly Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Ellison says, "I think my nephew was saying earlier today that he wished his younger brother was named 'Hotdog'" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Room Floyd | This windowless chamber is where Beldano stores his most valuable Floyd | properties. The main room lies back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner of the room is a barrel of acid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "oh I know" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh I know" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "empty vial" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the vial of grease out. Floyd | Floyd | You pour out the grease on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | You put the empty vial back in your right cloak pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fill vial with acid" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the empty vial out. Floyd | Floyd | You carefully scoop a small amount of the acid into the vial. Floyd | Floyd | You put the vial of acid back in your right cloak pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | Flickering shadows dance about the room from the shelves around the Floyd | walls and the tables in the center. Beldano keeps most of his Floyd | wares--whether pawned, fenced, or just for sale here. A door leads out Floyd | to the street, while hangings cover a room to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a glass ball, an envelope (in which is some Floyd | powder), and a tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | Just south of the square, the road dead-ends amidst a wall of stores, Floyd | with no safe route out but back northeast to the temple. To the south, Floyd | Beldano's Pawnery and Sometime Fencing Operation offers itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East of Square Floyd | A shadowed forecourt between the temple and the square offers you good Floyd | cover from sight. The face of the temple offers limited opportunities Floyd | to scale it, and the sole window is likely not where you want to go. Floyd | You can skirt around the edge of the square northwest or southwest. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the temple wall to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the gate is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | You scramble up and over the top of the gate, squeezing partially Floyd | between two bars. Floyd | Floyd | Shadowed Corridor Floyd | You stand at the end of a long foyer leading east to a narrow doorway Floyd | into the temple itself. Light pours through windows in the north wall Floyd | looking into a roomful of guards, leaving crisscrossing shadows. Floyd | Floyd | Your torch casts flickering patterns of light across the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Yenalda's first rule: Focus. They may be idiots, but they'd notice Floyd | that torch you've got there, no problem. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "crazy" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop torch" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You sneak past the guards. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Interior Floyd | Given your choice of career, it's perhaps somewhat surprising this is Floyd | only your second opportunity to see the interior of this place. It's Floyd | pretty nice: hiding places aplenty, deep shadows at either side, and a Floyd | suspicious dark hole in the back wall near the ceiling. The shadowed Floyd | corridor lies west. Floyd | Floyd | A section of the east wall is turned out, revealing a tight corridor Floyd | sloping up into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You ascend a dark, sloping corridor which, halfway up, doubles-back to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | Temple Overlook Floyd | This tiny chamber looks out over the temple to the west through a Floyd | waist-high hole, opposite a dark passage leading back down. Floyd | Floyd | Directly below, a magic field glows against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour acid on hooks" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the vial of acid out. Floyd | Floyd | You pour the acid against the wall over one of the hooks. The acid Floyd | runs down the wall, slipping past the magic field, until it reaches Floyd | the joint of the hook with the wall. There's a sizzle, and a moment Floyd | later one of the hooks breaks free and falls to the ground straight Floyd | through the field, the copper pole slipping and falling beside it with Floyd | a clatter. Floyd | Floyd | Moments later a guard looks into the room--you resist the temptation Floyd | to duck, remaining perfectly still--but after a moment she returns to Floyd | the guardroom. Floyd | Floyd | You put the empty vial back in your right cloak pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Interior Floyd | Given your choice of career, it's perhaps somewhat surprising this is Floyd | only your second opportunity to see the interior of this place. It's Floyd | pretty nice: hiding places aplenty, deep shadows at either side, and a Floyd | suspicious dark hole in the back wall near the ceiling. The shadowed Floyd | corridor lies west. Floyd | Floyd | A section of the east wall is turned out, revealing a tight corridor Floyd | sloping up into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a broken hook and a copper pole here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Clever." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You sneak back past the guards. Floyd | Floyd | Shadowed Corridor Floyd | You stand at the end of a long foyer leading east to a narrow doorway Floyd | into the temple itself. Light pours through windows in the north wall Floyd | looking into a roomful of guards, leaving crisscrossing shadows. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a torch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | inky says, "well, somebody had earlier suggested getting the acid" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get torch" | ||||
Floyd | You can only carry one loose item while remaining stealthy. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "not a very good guard!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back over the gate. Floyd | Floyd | East of Square Floyd | A shadowed forecourt between the temple and the square offers you good Floyd | cover from sight. The face of the temple offers limited opportunities Floyd | to scale it, and the sole window is likely not where you want to go. Floyd | You can skirt around the edge of the square northwest or southwest. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the temple wall to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North of Square Floyd | Deep shadows cast by an awning leave this edge of the square, and the Floyd | road leading north, dark. The warehouse on one side is fully exposed, Floyd | but the route to the temple, to the southeast, is partially covered. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of guards stand at the center of the square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | This road winds up the hill towards Sedmon's mansion, which is just Floyd | around the curve to the north, and back down to the square to the Floyd | south. A wall of shrubbery to the northeast offers a purely Floyd | psychological barrier to casual trespassers. You descended from a Floyd | house to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Beside a Mansion Floyd | Sedmon seems to have mounted guards at both of the entrances to his Floyd | mansion, so your only option from here is back to the street to the Floyd | southwest, assuming you keep to the ground. The windowless wall to Floyd | your north wears a decorative lip ten feet above ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Rafters Floyd | You stand amongst strange vertical shadows in the rafters of a fancy Floyd | little trophy room of sorts, with paintings and torches arranged at Floyd | various heights along the walls. An open window leads out to the east. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room an intricate platform rises high up, but out Floyd | of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gem with pole" | ||||
Floyd | The pole isn't quite long enough to reach all the way onto the Floyd | platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aw man dang" | |||
| schep says, "well, the guard is an NPC and the PC is a professional thief" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | You probably couldn't get back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||||
Floyd | Supported by a complex array of wooden beams and struts, the glass Floyd | platform rises up more than a story. Along the ceiling between you and Floyd | it is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hook" | ||||
Floyd | A metal hook used for hanging pulleys is fastened to the ceiling Floyd | partway between the rafter and the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put wire on hook" | ||||
Floyd | That's not long enough to reach the hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "We could get the statuette, though what for, I don't know." | |||
| Ellison says, "if we use what we've learned in the other sections, maybe we can connect the pole to a candle" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn hook" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | canadianpuzzler says, "what kind of thief would get the gem before getting the statue anyway? ;-)" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn hook with pole" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "c'mon, the gem is worth a zillion" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gem" | ||||
Floyd | Shimmering, many-facetted, it inspires envy in both skillful and Floyd | talentless. You can feel a compulsion beyond what its mere beauty Floyd | should produce. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a copper pole Floyd | an empty vial (in right cloak pocket) Floyd | a dagger (in ankle sheath) Floyd | a length of wire (in left tunic pocket) Floyd | a set of lockpicks (in left sleeve pocket) Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "didn't you read the character intro? it's for personal reasons!" | |||
| Ellison says, "personal checking account is more like it" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put pole in hook" | ||||
Floyd | You maneuver the claw at the end of the pole onto the hook, then turn Floyd | the dial to close the hook, keeping careful hold on the pole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You probably couldn't get back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb pole" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gem" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swing" | ||||
Floyd | You test your weight carefully, then swing out on the pole, avoiding Floyd | recollection of Yenalda's twelfth rule. Floyd | Floyd | Rafters (hanging from a copper pole on a hook) Floyd | You hang amongst strange vertical shadows in the rafters of a fancy Floyd | little trophy room of sorts, with paintings and torches arranged at Floyd | various heights along the walls. An open window leads out to the east. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room an intricate platform rises high up, but out Floyd | of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "well, he's stealing it back from the only guy who would buy it, so I doubt he'll be able to sell it back to him *again*" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "good point" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gem" | ||||
Floyd | You reach down one-handed and grab the gem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swing" | ||||
Floyd | You shift your weight, causing the pole to swing wider. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to get out of the copper pole first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You jump back to the rafters. Moments later, a guard enters the room Floyd | from the doorway below. As his eyes go up to the platform, you slip Floyd | the gem in a your left cloak pocket and slide out the window unseen. Floyd | So much for Yenalda's third rule. Floyd | Floyd | You slip around the side of the building and descend, checking to make Floyd | sure the Gem is still in your pocket. Floyd | Floyd | This has to have been the messiest job you've ever taken. You should Floyd | have known better than to trust Sedmon, after the last job he offered Floyd | you. "It's a harmless artifact called a kriit. Nobody will miss Floyd | it."--when your researcher said it was used for a ritual called "The Floyd | Way of the Dead", you turned it down right away, before even learning Floyd | what a kriit was or what exactly the ritual did. Floyd | Floyd | Still, you got the upper hand this time: stole the dragon's treasure, Floyd | got paid for it by the Baron, and ended up with the Gem yourself. Not Floyd | a bad week. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have finished this story. But another two remain. Floyd | | inky says, "hey, backstory" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Neat." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Let's be a plumber this time." | ||||
| schep asks, "which ones have you finished?" | ||||
| inky says, "adventurer, enchanter, thief" | ||||
| Johnny says, ">PLUNGE GUARD" | ||||
| nothings says, "they're powering through in order without any switching" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That leaves king and dragon, iirc." | ||||
| inky says, "royalty and dragon, yeah" | ||||
| inky says, "so this backstory bit says we stole the dragon's treasure and got paid for it by the baron" | ||||
| nothings says, "(in case anyone doesn't know, this is my game)" | ||||
| inky asks, "was that something we-as-thorn's-company did? or we as the thief after thorn's company broke up?" | ||||
| nothings says, "i think the dragon's initial character thing explains that" | ||||
| inky says, "ah ok" | ||||
| inky says, "well, I guess we will get to it in a bit then" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "> r ?" | ||||
| inky says, "but first, royalty" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "r" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to play as [r]oyalty or a [d]ragon? r | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "m" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want this character to be [m]ale or [f]emale? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Royalty: Floyd | Floyd | Baron Sedmon Ventillado. Sedmon Dragonslayer, now. The peasantry do Floyd | love to forget a title and pretend a hero is one of theirs. Floyd | Floyd | Were you twenty years younger, it would be your name on everyone's Floyd | lips. Your face on the popular paintings. And the Dragon Gem would be Floyd | yours for everyone to covet. Of course, it is your name on the royal Floyd | decrees, your face on the coins, and your pick of the Royal Jewels for Floyd | your costume each day. But you detect an honesty in the grotesque Floyd | admiration for the Baron--one you'll not find in the simpering toadies Floyd | who serve you. But no. Floyd | Floyd | No regrets. Your days of heroism ceased when Thorn's Companions Floyd | disbanded, yet your life--a new life--went on. The things you did Floyd | then--the life you abandoned--all small prices to have paid for the Floyd | luxurious lifestyle you've gained. Floyd | Floyd | But now... the winds bring rumor that Ventillado means to give the Gem Floyd | to Blackhelm. Blackhelm. That villain--the Dragon Gem is said to have Floyd | powers, powers that one such as Blackhelm could bring to bear on those Floyd | of Thorn's Companions who survived. Thankfully, Ventillado is said to Floyd | be a loyal citizen of the crown. And you can afford to be generous in Floyd | recompense. Floyd | Floyd | The best way to be sure the Dragon Gem stays out of Blackhelm's hands? Floyd | Get it in yours. Floyd | Floyd | Avenue Floyd | This broad avenue leads right into Temple Square, the heart of Floyd | fabulous New Oldtown. Towering over the square to the east you do Floyd | perceive your stark white Temple of Justice, beautiful and Floyd | well-appointed, offering a statement to the neighborhood: this, this Floyd | is what progress is about. Sadly, the buildings around you are Floyd | scarcely up to this new standard; Baron Ventillado's house north of Floyd | the square is much more satisfactory. How you hate having to come Floyd | here. This would all be so much simpler if Blackhelm were found dead Floyd | one morning, but it's never happened yet, despite your best efforts. Floyd | Floyd | [Type 'ABOUT' for important commands you can use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | As King Elando, you can give orders to the other characters, as in Floyd | "GENE, GIVE AXE TO BOB". Characters can FOLLOW you or other Floyd | characters. If a character is bothering you, you might try getting Floyd | someone to ARREST or EXECUTE them. If you're in a nicer mood, you can Floyd | just DISMISS them yourself. Floyd | Floyd | You can also switch to a different story by typing "STORY". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh yeah, you have a retinue of attendants." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Wow, I suppose that this one will play quite differently." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Avenue Floyd | This broad avenue leads right into Temple Square, the heart of Floyd | fabulous New Oldtown. Towering over the square to the east you do Floyd | perceive your stark white Temple of Justice, beautiful and Floyd | well-appointed, offering a statement to the neighborhood: this, this Floyd | is what progress is about. Sadly, the buildings around you are Floyd | scarcely up to this new standard; Baron Ventillado's house north of Floyd | the square is much more satisfactory. Floyd | Floyd | Lord Raburba, Baronet Soatannishoy, Baroness Woya, and Peeress Floyd | Dwojadsa arrive, along with several guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "raburba, arrest blackhelm" | ||||
Floyd | Lord Raburba looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Baronet Soatannishoy, "Baronet Juffannazlo Floyd | was with Princess Gubi in a room at the embassy, and they were Floyd | pondering arguing!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Woya says to Knight Dwelubi, "Lord Miyaz was with Baron Liyaz Floyd | at a stony brook near the palace, and they were arguing with Lady Floyd | Pimmish!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi replies, "My, my, my." Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Nurziburzoy arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Lord Raburba says to Baroness Nurziburzoy, "I was there when it Floyd | happened! Peeress Pargel is under arrest for attempting an Floyd | assassination from the royal treehouse!" Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Nurziburzoy replies, "Oh my." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "this is going to be awesome" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Wow." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "raburba, arrest Nurziburzoy" | ||||
Floyd | Lord Raburba orders a royal guard to arrest Baroness Nurziburzoy. The Floyd | royal guard points her sword at Baroness Nurziburzoy, who looks at you Floyd | for a moment, then nods her head. The two leave together. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says to Baroness Woya, "Lord Purzurabo was in the best Floyd | room in the palace arguing with Knight Brojess." Floyd | Floyd | Baronet Soatannishoy says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "Rumor has it that Lady Floyd | Pishel was with Peer Kloppom by the river, and they were partying." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Avenue Floyd | This broad avenue leads right into Temple Square, the heart of Floyd | fabulous New Oldtown. Towering over the square to the east you do Floyd | perceive your stark white Temple of Justice, beautiful and Floyd | well-appointed, offering a statement to the neighborhood: this, this Floyd | is what progress is about. Sadly, the buildings around you are Floyd | scarcely up to this new standard; Baron Ventillado's house north of Floyd | the square is much more satisfactory. Floyd | Floyd | You can see four royal guards, Knight Hedarg Dwelubi, Lord Romegh Floyd | Raburba, Baronet Klojsa Soatannishoy, Baroness Holfoy Woya, and Floyd | Peeress Thiyess Dwojadsa here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Baroness Woya, "I saw it with my own eyes! Floyd | Lady Pishel was by a brook partying, if you know what I mean, with Floyd | Peer Kloppom!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see two royal guards here. Floyd | Floyd | Lord Pojadubiur, Baronet Soatannishoy, and Baroness Woya arrive, along Floyd | with several guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Slovenly Tavern Floyd | The Barking Mermaid Tavern is hardly your kind of place. Poorly-built Floyd | wooden benches with horrific stains, largely disreputable and unruly Floyd | patrons, disgusting foam-dripping ale. An enticing exit leads Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A tavernkeeper is trying to keep an eye on his guests and the servers. Floyd | Floyd | Baronet Soatannishoy and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "baronet, dismiss tavernkeepere" | ||||
Floyd | Baronet Soatannishoy looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm Floyd | not sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Baronet Soatannishoy says to Knight Dwelubi, "Baronet Juffannazlo was Floyd | with Princess Gubi in a guest room in the palace, and they were Floyd | working on yelling at each other." Floyd | Floyd | Lord Pojadubiur arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "baronet, dismiss tavernkeeper" | ||||
Floyd | Baronet Soatannishoy looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm Floyd | not sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says to Lord Pojadubiur, "Baronet Juffannazlo was with Floyd | Princess Gubi in the best room in the palace, and they were planning Floyd | on smelling each other." Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Woya and Peeress Dwojadsa arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dang" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Lord Romegh Raburba and three royal guards here. Floyd | Floyd | Lord Pojadubiur, Baronet Soatannishoy, and Peeress Dwojadsa arrive, Floyd | along with several guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "planning on smelling each other" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of nothings), "Did you just type randomly to come up with these names, or was there a method to the madness?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Well-Traveled Road Floyd | This north-south road winds up the hill to Newtown through burnt-out Floyd | warehouses and poorly-maintained homes. You've never understood why Floyd | Baron Ventillado chose to place his house here, on the east side of Floyd | the road, unless perhaps for the view. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Ventillado's servant here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x servant" | ||||
Floyd | This must be one of Baron Ventillado's servants, despite appearances, Floyd | since even barons are not allowed personal guards. Floyd | Floyd | Baronet Soatannishoy arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "'dismiss' means 'dismiss from retinue', i think" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You stride through bright corridors to Ventillado's display room. Floyd | Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | Sedmon displays his prized possessions in this shabby two-story Floyd | chamber. Paintings and torches alternate randomly around the walls at Floyd | various heights. A doorway leads west. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Baron Ventillado here. Floyd | Floyd | Ventillado's servant follows you in from outside. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x baron" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about Baron Ventillado. Floyd | Floyd | Baronet Soatannishoy arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says (to Jacqueline), "they're generated randomly" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gem" | ||||
Floyd | Shimmering, many-facetted, it inspires envy in both tasteful and Floyd | tasteless alike. You can feel a compulsion beyond what its mere beauty Floyd | should produce. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask baron about gem" | ||||
Floyd | Baron Ventillado says, "I'm afraid I'm a bit fuzzy-headed today, Your Floyd | Highness. I don't know what to say." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "baron, give gem to me" | ||||
Floyd | Baron Ventillado turns to his servant. "Could you give the Dragon Gem Floyd | to His Majesty, please?" Floyd | Floyd | yourself, please?" Floyd | Floyd | Ventillado's servant says, "I'm afraid we can't get it without the Floyd | Baron's crank, and it appears he's misplaced it. If we had a pole we Floyd | could probably knock it down. We don't have anything like that, but I Floyd | imagine your people can find something that would serve." Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "because you can dismiss/kill them, but more will arrive, so there needed to be an endless supply" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I'm sitting here sipping theraflu and dipping in and out." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That makes sense, though." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Wait, the baron will just give it to us if he can get at it?" | ||||
| inky says, "yes" | ||||
| inky says, "but he wants the kriit" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We are the flame that moths are attracted to." | ||||
| Limax says, "I'm busy keeping kids busy" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Well-Traveled Road Floyd | This north-south road winds up the hill to Newtown through burnt-out Floyd | warehouses and poorly-maintained homes. You've never understood why Floyd | Baron Ventillado chose to place his house here, on the east side of Floyd | the road, unless perhaps for the view. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Lord Prazed Pojadubiur and a royal guard here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Lord Pojadubiur says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "Baronet Juffannazlo was Floyd | with Princess Gubi in a guest room in the palace, and they were Floyd | discussing getting intimate." Floyd | Floyd | Ventillado's servant emerges from the house. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "Of course. You are the King." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Baroness Holfoy Woya, Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm and Floyd | three royal guards here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Woya says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "Did you hear? Lord Purzurabo Floyd | was with Knight Brojess in the throne room in the palace, and they Floyd | were arguing!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm says to Baroness Woya, "Rumor has it that Lord Floyd | Pazib is getting buried!" Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | A closed gate is built into the Temple wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a window here. Floyd | Floyd | The gate swings open and a temple guard emerges. "Your Majesty! We Floyd | heard you were coming. I hope we can be of service to you." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The window looks into a guardroom full of guards who come to attention Floyd | when they see you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "see it is way better to have this one at the end after all the difficulty of the other characters" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | Glorious. If only you could build something this grand in Newtown; but Floyd | there's little need to mete out the King's justice there. Since it's Floyd | the off-season, the throne, altar, iron maiden, and other implements Floyd | of justice have been removed for maintainence, but the majesty of the Floyd | vaulted ceiling still shines through nearly as well. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pole" | ||||
Floyd | A long, copper, rune-covered pole with a mechanical claw mounted atop. Floyd | The bottom is capped with a dial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||||
Floyd | It would be inappropriate to do that yourself. You're the king! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "peeress, get pole" | ||||
Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says, "The magic field isn't open." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "peeress, open field" | ||||
Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says, "That's not something I can open." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guards, open field" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guard, open field" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, the temple guard or a royal guard? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "temple" | ||||
Floyd | The temple guard says, "Your Majesty, you yourself ordered that pole Floyd | secured many years ago. Your minister of internal affairs took the Floyd | talisman needed to disable the field. That would have been Knight Floyd | Dwelubi, back before he lost his position to overindulgence." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| EmacsUser shakes his head. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dwelubi" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | canadianpuzzler says, "I'm not entirely sure if I have any bright ideas to help us with this, but this one is getting thumbs up from me for the funny stuff" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a royal guard and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Baroness Holfoy Woya, Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm and Floyd | three royal guards here. Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Woya says to Knight Fleghannolfimm, "I overheard someone say Floyd | Lady Pishel was with Peer Kloppom by the river, and they were sharing Floyd | an opium dream!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm replies, "Outrageous!" Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so we need this knight dwelubi guy" | |||
| inky says, "who has the talisman to open the field to get the pole to knock down the gem" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | As King Elando, you can give orders to the other characters, as in Floyd | "GENE, GIVE AXE TO BOB". Characters can FOLLOW you or other Floyd | characters. If a character is bothering you, you might try getting Floyd | someone to ARREST or EXECUTE them. If you're in a nicer mood, you can Floyd | just DISMISS them yourself. Floyd | Floyd | You can also switch to a different story by typing "STORY". Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "wasn't that the first guy you had arrested?" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky asks, "shit, was it?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "No, that was a baroness." | ||||
| inky says, "hmm, here was around before" | ||||
| DavidW says, "If it was, perhaps you can pardon and summon him." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "Dwojadsa, summon Dwelubi" | ||||
Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Baroness Woya, "I saw it with my own eyes! Floyd | Baronet Juffannazlo was with Princess Gubi in the best room in the Floyd | palace, and they were working on necking!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "I heard that Lady Floyd | Pishel was by the waterfall on the river sharing a pipe with Peer Floyd | Kloppom!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "maybe he's in the tavern? he's a drunk or something, right?" | |||
| canadianpuzzler says, "He's in your retinue, wait for him to catch up." | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Baroness Woya, "I overheard someone say Lady Floyd | Pishel was by a waterfall blowing smoke at Peer Kloppom." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't have time to wait!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Slovenly Tavern Floyd | The Barking Mermaid Tavern is hardly your kind of place. Poorly-built Floyd | wooden benches with horrific stains, largely disreputable and unruly Floyd | patrons, disgusting foam-dripping ale. An enticing exit leads Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A tavernkeeper is trying to keep an eye on his guests and the servers. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Knight Hedarg Dwelubi and Lord Romegh Raburba here. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says to Lord Raburba, "Rumor has it that Lord Miyaz was Floyd | with Baron Liyaz by a brook, and they were arguing with Lady Pimmish." Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi's eyes grow wide as you enter. "Your Majesty! It's not Floyd | how it appears, I swear. I just needed to wet my whistle." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Ellison), "good call, my man" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "(Well, he was. Guess he got left behind.)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, follow me" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "By your command." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Lord Raburba, "I personally saw Lord Floyd | Purzurabo was behind the throne in the palace yelling at Knight Floyd | Brojess." Floyd | Floyd | Lord Raburba says, "My goodness." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see three royal guards, Baroness Holfoy Woya and Knight Floyd | Gessann Fleghannolfimm here. Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Woya says to Knight Fleghannolfimm, "Did you hear? Baronet Floyd | Juffannazlo was with Princess Gubi in a guest room in the palace, and Floyd | they were pondering making out!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm says, "My, my, my." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a royal guard and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dwelubi" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh c'mon" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see three royal guards, Peeress Thiyess Dwojadsa, Baroness Floyd | Holfoy Woya, and Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm here. Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Woya says to Knight Fleghannolfimm, "An acquiantance told me Floyd | that Lady Pishel was near Westfall acting firey towards Peer Kloppom." Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ah there" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a royal guard and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a temple guard, three royal guards and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see three royal guards, Knight Hedarg Dwelubi, Peeress Thiyess Floyd | Dwojadsa, Baroness Holfoy Woya, and Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Woya says to Knight Dwelubi, "I've heard that Lord Pazib Floyd | died!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "Inconceivable!" Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, follow me" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "By your command." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a royal guard and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm and Knight Dwelubi arrive, along with several Floyd | guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Peeress Thiyess Dwojadsa, Knight Hedarg Dwelubi, a Floyd | royal guard, and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "I personally saw Lord Pazib Floyd | died of the plague." Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, follow me" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "By your command." Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and Knight Dwelubi arrive, along with several guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, e" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "Yes, Majesty. At once." With that, he departs. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | Glorious. If only you could build something this grand in Newtown; but Floyd | there's little need to mete out the King's justice there. Since it's Floyd | the off-season, the throne, altar, iron maiden, and other implements Floyd | of justice have been removed for maintainence, but the majesty of the Floyd | vaulted ceiling still shines through nearly as well. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Knight Hedarg Dwelubi here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dwelubi" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi is a simple-minded brute with a brain dysfuction whose Floyd | only mention-worthy detail is his uncontrollable twitch which always Floyd | makes you laugh aloud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x peeress" | ||||
Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa is an instantly forgettable noblewoman with a Floyd | hyperactive gait whose only interesting aspect is her romantic pursuit Floyd | of the unwilling women of the court. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "the only thing that would make these descriptions better is if they were dinosaurs" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | King Elando, it has such a good ring, does it not? Far better than Floyd | 'Elando the bard'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x knight" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi is a simple-minded brute with a brain dysfuction whose Floyd | only mention-worthy detail is his uncontrollable twitch which always Floyd | makes you laugh aloud. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "haha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, open field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "That's not something I can open." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, open field with talisman" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "well you have to wait for the final character for that" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, wave talisman" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "good point!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, give talisman to me" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uhh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, unlock field" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want Knight Dwelubi to unlock the magic field with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "ask dwelubi about talisman" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "I believe the talisman for releasing the magic Floyd | field in the Temple was a glass ball that was put into storage in a Floyd | pawnshop some years ago. I can't imagine why whoever it was chose that Floyd | location." Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "talisman" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh aha" | |||
| inky says, "so this was all a waste of time" | ||||
| inky says, "dammit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "Did you hear? Lady Floyd | Pishel was in Westfall arguing with Peer Kloppom!" Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a royal guard and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f w" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see three royal guards and Baroness Holfoy Woya here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shoddy Road Floyd | An road in a horrible state of disrepair leads north to the Temple and Floyd | its glories, away from the mishmash of hideously designed buildings Floyd | that feebly present themselves for your inspection here. A pawn shop Floyd | with an air of desperation sits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pawn shop" | ||||
Floyd | A miserable little shop that tries to be everything to everyone. The Floyd | only part that's not ugly is the protruding foyer in front. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think he knew the story, though." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guard, open door" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, the temple guard or a royal guard? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard says, "I don't have the key." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, break door" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard barrels into the door, smashing it open. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shop Floyd | This section of the shop is rudely furnished with ugly shelves and Floyd | tables, offset by gorgeous hangings on the east wall. The exit lies Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a crystal ball, an envelope (which is closed), and Floyd | a tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky asks, "are our guards carrying a light?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x guards" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I guess so." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x royal guard" | ||||
Floyd | One of your many guardswomen. This one is fat and lithe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guard, open envelope" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, the temple guard or a royal guard? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard opens the envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, taste powder" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dammit" | |||
| Ellison says, "heh fat and lithe" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "``Fat and lithe?''" | ||||
| nothings says, "aw man, that should have worked" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "royal guard, eat powder" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "perhaps I needed my royal food-taster instead" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in envelope" | ||||
Floyd | In the envelope is some powder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shop Floyd | This section of the shop is rudely furnished with ugly shelves and Floyd | tables, offset by gorgeous hangings on the east wall. The exit lies Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a crystal ball, an envelope (in which is some Floyd | powder), and a tablecloth. Floyd | Floyd | On the tables are some candlestick holders and a candle. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a temple guard and two royal guards here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "royal guard, take envelope" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard picks up the envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "feed powder to guard" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, the temple guard or a royal guard? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "temple guard, get ball" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||
Floyd | Flawless, but awfully plain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, get ball" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard picks up the crystal ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "royal guard, taste powder" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings asks, "wha?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x temple guard" | ||||
Floyd | One of your many guardswomen. This one is tall and frail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "temple guard, follow me" | ||||
Floyd | The temple guard says, "By your command." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "royal guard, lick envelope" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "The royal guard is the one with the talisman, no?" | |||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "feed powder to temple guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the powder) Floyd | It would be inappropriate to do that yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read envelope" | ||||
Floyd | Quite plain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "royal guard, follow me" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard says, "By your command." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Off to open the field?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shoddy Road Floyd | An road in a horrible state of disrepair leads north to the Temple and Floyd | its glories, away from the mishmash of hideously designed buildings Floyd | that feebly present themselves for your inspection here. A pawn shop Floyd | with an air of desperation sits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the pawn shop has been knocked off its hinges. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Knight Hedarg Dwelubi here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do you have a talisman?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see three royal guards and Baroness Holfoy Woya here. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "The royal guard does." | |||
| inky says, "yeah, the sphere is the talisman" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a royal guard and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi and several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Peeress Thiyess Dwojadsa and Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Knight Fleghannolfimm, "I personally saw Lord Floyd | Pazib was ruined by the plague." Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | Glorious. If only you could build something this grand in Newtown; but Floyd | there's little need to mete out the King's justice there. Since it's Floyd | the off-season, the throne, altar, iron maiden, and other implements Floyd | of justice have been removed for maintainence, but the majesty of the Floyd | vaulted ceiling still shines through nearly as well. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, unlock field with talisman" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard says, "I don't know how to unlock that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, unlock field" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want the royal guard to unlock the magic field with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "talisman" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard says, "I don't know how to unlock that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, open field" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard says, "That's not something I can open." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "royal guard, give me the talisman" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard gives the crystal ball to yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, open field with talisman" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard says, "I don't know how to unlock that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock field" | ||||
Floyd | (with the crystal ball) Floyd | It would be inappropriate to do that yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask dwelubi about field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi replies, "I don't know anything about that, Your Floyd | Majesty". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give crystal ball to dwelubi" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi accepts the crystal ball from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, unlock field with ball" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "I don't know how to unlock that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, unlock field with talisman" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "I don't know how to unlock that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, unlock field" | ||||
Floyd | (with the crystal ball) Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "I don't know how to unlock that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, put ball in field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "That's not something I can open." Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "gah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x field" | ||||
Floyd | It's a glowing hemisphere of force, shimmering lightly. It's centered Floyd | over the hooks in the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jenrexrode wanders off. | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask Dwelubi about crystal ball" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi replies, "I know nothing about that, Your Majesty". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, get pole" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "The magic field isn't open." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, wave talisman" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, open field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "That's not something I can open." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "dwelubi use, talisman" | ||||
Floyd | To talk to someone, try "someone, hello" or some such. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Perhaps you need to learn how the talisman is used?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask dwelubi about talisman" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "I believe the talisman for releasing the magic Floyd | field in the Temple was a glass ball that was put into storage in a Floyd | pawnshop some years ago. I can't imagine why whoever it was chose that Floyd | location." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "dwelubi, use talisman" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, release field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask dwelubi about field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi replies, "I don't know anything about that, Your Floyd | Majesty". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, invoke crystal ball" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, release field with ball" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, wave ball" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "man, i have no idea what i was thinking here" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask dwelbui about ball" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "wait wait" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "adk dwelubi about talisman" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, smash ball" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi orders a temple guard to smash the crystal ball. The Floyd | temple guard strikes the crystal ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "oh never mind" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "did that work?" | |||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "show crystal ball to delubi" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, smash me" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, get pole" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I couldn't allow Floyd | you to come to harm." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Um?" | |||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "The magic field isn't open." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "!" | |||
| inky says, "uh-oh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think the ball was destroyed." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dwelubi" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi is a simple-minded brute with a brain dysfuction whose Floyd | only mention-worthy detail is his uncontrollable twitch which always Floyd | makes you laugh aloud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "hmm, was that back far enough?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings asks, "could you ever x ball when someone else had it?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dwelubi" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi is a simple-minded brute with a brain dysfuction whose Floyd | only mention-worthy detail is his uncontrollable twitch which always Floyd | makes you laugh aloud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, give ball to me" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi gives the crystal ball to yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, so the ball is around here" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Phew." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps throw the ball at the field?" | ||||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, rub ball" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, throw ball at field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "I lack the skill, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| nothings says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, put ball in field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says, "That's not something I can open." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says (to floyd), "show ball to delubi" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | Glorious. If only you could build something this grand in Newtown; but Floyd | there's little need to mete out the King's justice there. Since it's Floyd | the off-season, the throne, altar, iron maiden, and other implements Floyd | of justice have been removed for maintainence, but the majesty of the Floyd | vaulted ceiling still shines through nearly as well. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back wall of the temple is a glowing magic field. Floyd | Floyd | In the magic field is a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper Floyd | pole). Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Knight Hedarg Dwelubi, a temple guard, a royal guard, Floyd | and a royal guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask temple guard about talisman" | ||||
Floyd | The temple guard says, "I'll need to be holding the talisman to turn Floyd | off the field." Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ha" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "There we go." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, turn off field" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, give talisman to emple guard" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "dwelubi, give talisman to temple guard" | ||||
Floyd | Knight Dwelubi gives the crystal ball to the temple guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "ask temple guard about talisman" | ||||
Floyd | The temple guard says, "I'll return in a moment." Floyd | Floyd | The temple guard leaves west. Floyd | Floyd | Several long moments pass. You're about to send a royal guard to see Floyd | what the delay is when, with a flicker and a horrible sucking sound, Floyd | the magic field disappears. Floyd | Floyd | Moments later the guard reappears. "Ah, it worked, even after so Floyd | long." Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "lame" | |||
| inky says, "hmm, interesting" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Peeress Thiyess Dwojadsa and Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Knight Dwelubi, "I saw it with my own eyes! Floyd | Lady Pishel was with Peer Kloppom near Westfall, and they were having Floyd | an argument!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi replies, "Outrageous!" Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "I overheard someone Floyd | say Baronet Juffannazlo was with Princess Gubi in the guest room at Floyd | the embassy, and they were planning on snuggling." Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Guard Room Floyd | This is the place where guards stand on duty protecting the Temple and Floyd | its occupants. A metal door fills the doorway to the east. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner of the room is a panel with two levers and two knobs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see six temple guards here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "temple guard, turn off field" | ||||
Floyd | The temple guard looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask temple guard about talisman" | ||||
Floyd | The temple guard fits the the crystal ball into a slight depression in Floyd | the floor, then wiggles and rotates strangely. "There, it should be Floyd | removed. Let's go see." Floyd | Floyd | A guard arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, that is not what I would have guessed" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Knight Hedarg Dwelubi, Peeress Thiyess Dwojadsa, and Floyd | Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm here. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Dwelubi says to Knight Fleghannolfimm, "I heard that Lady Floyd | Pishel was in Westfall having a disagreement with Peer Kloppom." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Knight Dwelubi, "I've heard that Baronet Floyd | Juffannazlo was with Princess Gubi in a guest room in the palace, and Floyd | they were discussing struggling." Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Justice Floyd | Glorious. If only you could build something this grand in Newtown; but Floyd | there's little need to mete out the King's justice there. Since it's Floyd | the off-season, the throne, altar, iron maiden, and other implements Floyd | of justice have been removed for maintainence, but the majesty of the Floyd | vaulted ceiling still shines through nearly as well. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a pair of wooden hooks (on which is a copper pole) here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, get pole" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard picks up the copper pole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Infinite Corridor Floyd | Lovely, just lovely. The corridor leading into the temple seems nearly Floyd | infinitely long, owing to a little tricky architecture you invented. Floyd | As the corridor slowly shrinks, sloping upwards, even the Floyd | ornamentation on the walls gets smaller and spaced more closely Floyd | together. But you know the tiny doorway is really only a few steps to Floyd | the east. The entry from the north is normally sized, to give the Floyd | guards rapid access should any malign persons intrude. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Knight Hedarg Dwelubi, Peeress Thiyess Dwojadsa, and Floyd | Knight Gessann Fleghannolfimm here. Floyd | Floyd | Knight Fleghannolfimm says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "I personally saw Lady Floyd | Pishel was near Westfall having a blow-out with Peer Kloppom." Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Forecourt Floyd | This forecourt offers a spectacular view of the Temple of Justice, Floyd | central tower rising above in strength and might. A small barred Floyd | window lets guards look out. Floyd | Floyd | An open gate allows access into the Temple. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a royal guard and a window here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see three royal guards and Baroness Holfoy Woya here. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Well-Traveled Road Floyd | This north-south road winds up the hill to Newtown through burnt-out Floyd | warehouses and poorly-maintained homes. You've never understood why Floyd | Baron Ventillado chose to place his house here, on the east side of Floyd | the road, unless perhaps for the view. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Ventillado's servant, Lord Prazed Pojadubiur, and a royal Floyd | guard here. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Lord Pojadubiur says to Peeress Dwojadsa, "I heard that Lord Jolfad is Floyd | under arrest for carrying on an assignation in the royal treehouse." Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, give pole to servant" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard gives the copper pole to Ventillado's servant. Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Lord Pojadubiur, "Rumor has it that Lady Floyd | Pishel was in Westfall having a big party with Peer Kloppom." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Well-Traveled Road Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | Sedmon displays his prized possessions in this shabby two-story Floyd | chamber. Paintings and torches alternate randomly around the walls at Floyd | various heights. A doorway leads west. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Baron Ventillado and Baronet Klojsa Soatannishoy Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Ventillado's servant arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Several guards arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guard, get gem with pole" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, the temple guard or a royal guard? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, get gem" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard says, "I can't reach it from down here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "servant, get gem" | ||||
Floyd | Ventillado's servant says, "I'm afraid we can't get it without the Floyd | Baron's crank, and it appears he's misplaced it. If we had a pole we Floyd | could probably knock it down." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ventillado, give gem to me" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, Ventillado's servant or Baron Ventillado? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "baron ventillado, give gem to me" | ||||
Floyd | Baron Ventillado says, "I'm afraid I'm a bit light-headed today, Your Floyd | Highness. Perhaps my servant can help you." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Baronet Soatannishoy, "A friend told me that Floyd | Lady Pishel was in Westfall having a big party with Peer Kloppom!" Floyd | Floyd | Baronet Soatannishoy replies, "Who would have thought it!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ventillado's servant, give gem to me" | ||||
Floyd | Ventillado's servant says, "I'm afraid we can't get it without the Floyd | Baron's crank, and it appears he's misplaced it. If we had a pole we Floyd | could probably knock it down." Floyd | Floyd | Peeress Dwojadsa says to Baronet Soatannishoy, "A friend told me that Floyd | Lord Jolfad is under arrest for attempting an assassination from the Floyd | royal treehouse!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, give pole to servant" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard gives the copper pole to Ventillado's servant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ventillado's servant, give gem to me" | ||||
Floyd | Ventillado's servant nods to you, then turns to face the platform. He Floyd | jumps and thrusts the pole, just missing the Dragon Gem. He waits a Floyd | moment, then tries again. As he thrusts the pole at the gem, his hand Floyd | twists the dial, and moments later he is back on the ground, the claw Floyd | at the end of the pole clutching the Dragon Gem. He holds the claw out Floyd | towards you and releases the Gem into your hands. Floyd | Floyd | You clutch it tightly to your chest. Another of Blackhelm's attempts Floyd | on your life successfully foiled. Floyd | Floyd | "Baron Ventillado, this is a wonderful present you have given me. Many Floyd | thanks." Floyd | Floyd | The Baron's brow contracts, but he stops just short of a frown. "You Floyd | are welcome, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | Ignoring the prattling of your entourage, you step back out to the Floyd | darkening sky. Floyd | Floyd | "Not this time!" you cry out. So much for that crone's dire prophecy. Floyd | No doubt Blackhelm will try again--such a bother, just because you Floyd | refrained from giving Blackhelm's lover a helping hand that one time. Floyd | That one time when he was hanging desperately on the edge of a cliff. Floyd | What else could you have done? If you had helped him, he would have Floyd | claimed the crown you'd found together. He would be the king. He'd Floyd | have the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | And that would be most unsatisfactory. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have finished this story. But one more remains. Floyd | Floyd | In this story you will play as a dragon. Floyd | | inky says, "more backstory" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "%showpartial" | ||||
| Floyd > Do you want this character to be [m]ale or [f]emale? | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want this character to be [m]ale or [f]emale? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dragon: Floyd | Floyd | Baron Sedmon Ventillado. Sedmon Dragonslayer, then. We laughed, for we Floyd | seemed alive, still. Floyd | Floyd | We had been twenty years younger, then we would have been the name on Floyd | the man-things' lips. We would have been the visage on their Floyd | paintings. And we would still have the Kthyress Crystal with which we Floyd | would bring covetousness into man-things' hearts. But we were too Floyd | young for detection of certain trickery; we were too old for Floyd | resistance to certain magics. We had failed. Floyd | Floyd | We had felt no regrets twenty years before. We had ceased our toils at Floyd | heroism when we saw the end of Thorn's Companions; but we had lived Floyd | still, we had begun a new life. We paid the price for our youthful Floyd | indiscretion; we were made small by Sethidrac's assignment. We, Floyd | guardian. We, to guard one-ninth of the Legacy. Floyd | Floyd | Then we heard rumor on the winds. We heard of a transfer of the Floyd | Crystal from Sedmon to Blackhelm. Blackhelm. A guileful creature Floyd | amongst creatures of guile. We had our suspicions about the theft. And Floyd | we knew of the powers of the Crystal. We wondered at Blackhelm's Floyd | knowledge. We wondered at the anger in Blackhelm towards those who Floyd | were amongst Thorn's companions. Floyd | Floyd | We had been too long letting Sedmon hold the Crystal. We risked emnity Floyd | from Sethidrac and Passidrac for too long. We could not yield the Floyd | possession of the Crystal to Blackhelm. We had to make it ours. Floyd | Floyd | Open Tunnel Floyd | We were surrounded by the man-things' structures, structures of dead Floyd | trees and rock and distortions of iron. Beneath us we felt the Floyd | arrangements of stone into a path for man-things' mobile receptacles. Floyd | We could smell hints of the Crystal along the path to the east. Floyd | Floyd | We could see a receptacle here. Floyd | Floyd | [Type 'ABOUT' for important commands we could use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "lay egg" | ||||
Floyd | We were unfamiliar with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | As we were a dragon, we possessed abilities unavailable to man-things. Floyd | We could breathe on things; we could destroy things with our powerful Floyd | body; we could discern many things from scents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x receptacle" | ||||
Floyd | We sensed the emptiness of the immobile receptacle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | We smelled the faint trace of Kythress from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "interesting" | |||
| inky says, "I don't exactly get the backstory ehre" | ||||
| schep says, "who cares we're a dragon" | ||||
| inky says, "so this implies that thorn's company said or claimed or thought they killed us, but didn't" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "roar" | ||||
Floyd | We were unfamiliar with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x receptacle" | ||||
Floyd | We sensed the emptiness of the immobile receptacle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "breathe on me" | ||||
Floyd | We would not accomplish anything if we burned yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "destroy it" | ||||
Floyd | We smashed the receptacle to pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Open Tunnel Floyd | We were surrounded by the man-things' structures, structures of dead Floyd | trees and rock and distortions of iron. Beneath us we felt the Floyd | arrangements of stone into a path for man-things' mobile receptacles. Floyd | We could smell hints of the Crystal along the path to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plain Floyd | We stood in a more open space. On all sides of us we observed Floyd | structures, with a particularly large white one to the east. In the Floyd | center we perceived fresh plants in a location inappropriate to their Floyd | origins, with insufficient bare earth. We could follow man-paths Floyd | south, west, and north, or towards the eastern structure. Floyd | Floyd | We could see two man-things here. Floyd | Floyd | We heard shrieks from a man-thing, "Wuthe-elistha-migodisa-drakin. Floyd | Dran-dran-dran." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat man-thing" | ||||
Floyd | We first attempted to take the man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | We imagined displeasure from the man-thing at that prospect. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "darn" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "breathe on man-thing" | ||||
Floyd | We let loose a torrent of flame, and when we stopped, we could no Floyd | longer see the man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | We heard screams from a man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Too courteous for a dragon." | |||
| Ellison says, "I think we maybe were part of Thorn's Companions and rode around in a van solving mysteries" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Limax says, "It's a dragon who reads Emily Post" | ||||
| nothings says, "pretty much!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | We stood upon a sloping hillside; we were only partially surrounded by Floyd | man-thing structures. Further north was the entrance of the man-path Floyd | to the city; south more structures. We scented the Crystal to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | We could see a man-thing here. Floyd | Floyd | We saw the man-thing's eyes upon us. We saw a lack of further Floyd | movement. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | We observed a change in the man-thing's position. We could not enter Floyd | with him in the way. Floyd | Floyd | We heard sounds come forth from the man-thing. We were surprised that Floyd | we heard the true speech, not the man-thing chatter. We heard some Floyd | distortion, yes, but still. We heard its speech. "Hail, Draco. Thou Floyd | wouldst want thy crystal returned to thee, I suppose." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nod" | ||||
Floyd | We were unfamiliar with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | We weren't intending that as a question. Floyd | Floyd | We heard the man-thing's voice, "My master will willingly give the Floyd | crystal unto thee, if thou wouldst do us a small service." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | We allowed time to pass us by. Floyd | Floyd | We heard the man-thing's utterance, "If thou canst deliver to me the Floyd | copper pole which lies in yon hideous white structure to the south, I Floyd | will stand aside and allow thee to reclaim thy crystal." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "breathe on man-thing" | ||||
Floyd | We watched the appearance of a part in the flames around the Floyd | man-thing. We saw no damage to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plain Floyd | We stood in a more open space. On all sides of us we observed Floyd | structures, with a particularly large white one to the east. In the Floyd | center we perceived fresh plants in a location inappropriate to their Floyd | origins, with insufficient bare earth. We could follow man-paths Floyd | south, west, and north, or towards the eastern structure. Floyd | Floyd | We could see a man-thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ah, the magic." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blasted Plain Floyd | We stood on a plain of rock, grey below us and around us, white to the Floyd | east. We could leave west. We perceived a tiny hole to one side. Floyd | Floyd | We could also see a barrier of metal segments before an eastward Floyd | tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, it's pretty good magic" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x barrier" | ||||
Floyd | We could sense the truth of iron inside what we saw as too-regular Floyd | slivers in orderly, artificial groups. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "destroy it" | ||||
Floyd | We smashed our body against the gate and we felt its internal Floyd | distress. We smashed against it again, and we smashed through it as Floyd | well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Narrowing Cave Floyd | We stood within a man-thing cave which rapidly narrowed to the east Floyd | into an entrance the size of a small man-thing. We observed passages Floyd | to the north and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | We could not fit through the narrow entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aw dang" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Junction Floyd | We stood in a small chamber full of the leavings and scents of Floyd | man-things. We saw a metal barrier to the east and a wide-open passage Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | We could see six man-things here. Floyd | Floyd | We heard cries from a man-thing, "Godistroo-izadran-wadwedoo." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | We could not with the metal barrier in the way. Floyd | Floyd | We saw the departure of a terrified man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "destroy barrier" | ||||
Floyd | We could not destroy the thick door. Floyd | Floyd | We heard shrieks from a man-thing, "Witzawanithus-wedindoo-nuthn." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "Gojira!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | We saw iron, and much of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "breathe on door" | ||||
Floyd | We breathed, but we were not generating sufficient heat. Floyd | Floyd | We heard screams from a man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smash door" | ||||
Floyd | We could not destroy the thick door. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Ellison), "Haha." | ||||
| inky says, "seems like we need to pump it up" | ||||
| inky says, "I assume the pawn shop is related" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Narrowing Cave Floyd | We stood within a man-thing cave which rapidly narrowed to the east Floyd | into an entrance the size of a small man-thing. We observed passages Floyd | to the north and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "acid?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blasted Plain Floyd | We stood on a plain of rock, grey below us and around us, white to the Floyd | east. We could leave west. We perceived a tiny hole to one side. Floyd | Floyd | We could also see fragments of metal around an eastward tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Order the hot chili." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plain Floyd | We stood in a more open space. On all sides of us we observed Floyd | structures, with a particularly large white one to the east. In the Floyd | center we perceived fresh plants in a location inappropriate to their Floyd | origins, with insufficient bare earth. We could follow man-paths Floyd | south, west, and north, or towards the eastern structure. Floyd | Floyd | We could see a man-thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Open Tunnel Floyd | We were surrounded by man-thing structures in all directions save the Floyd | north; we were blocked from further travel south by an adjustable Floyd | barrier in the middle of the southern structure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | We saw nothing special about the barrier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "destroy barrier" | ||||
Floyd | We smashed the barrier to pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Twisty Cave Floyd | We breathed gently through our nostrils so that we could shed light Floyd | upon our surroundings. We stood in a dim man-thing cave; we saw Floyd | man-thing protrusions and surfaces on which rested the artifacts of Floyd | the man-things. We smelled something very strong from the east, and we Floyd | could also exit northwards. Floyd | Floyd | On the protrustions we could see a transparent sphere, a plant sheet, Floyd | and a weave of hair. Floyd | Floyd | On the surfaces we could see some metal sticks and an animal stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh" | |||
| inky says, "I guess that is how the dragon illuminates the room" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sheet" | ||||
Floyd | We looked at a flat sheet which smelled of dead plant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | We saw through it and we saw ourselves in it. We knew it as Floyd | man-crystal. We saw no worth in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat sphere" | ||||
Floyd | We first attempted to take the transparent sphere. Floyd | Floyd | We would not have enjoyed eating a transparent sphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "e?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x weave" | ||||
Floyd | We looked on a weave of animal hair; we knew such creations of Floyd | man-things from our travels with them. We knew comfort and decorations Floyd | as common reasons for their existence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat plant sheet" | ||||
Floyd | We first attempted to take the plant sheet. Floyd | Floyd | We were carrying as much as we could carry already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | We were carrying a transparent sphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop sphere" | ||||
Floyd | We dropped the transparent sphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh. Tablecloth?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat plant sheet" | ||||
Floyd | We first attempted to take the plant sheet. Floyd | Floyd | We would not have enjoyed eating a plant sheet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell plant sheet" | ||||
Floyd | We smelled nothing beyond the excessive odor of man-thing towns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop it" | ||||
Floyd | We dropped the plant sheet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open plant sheet" | ||||
Floyd | We lacked the dexterity for such actions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tablecloth" | ||||
Floyd | We looked on a weave of animal hair; we knew such creations of Floyd | man-things from our travels with them. We knew comfort and decorations Floyd | as common reasons for their existence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back of Cave Floyd | We were at the back of the man-thing cave which we could exit to the Floyd | west; we hardly saw the things in heaps and piles we were casting Floyd | light on with our soft breaths, so assaulted were we by the smell from Floyd | a metal receptacle in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x receptacle" | ||||
Floyd | We could smell the source of the strong smell we had smelled outside Floyd | the cave; we perceived the smell from the clear liquid in the Floyd | receptacle. We could also see through the liquid, where we saw a gold Floyd | figure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x liquid" | ||||
Floyd | We smelled a very strong yet not unpleasant odor from the clear Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x figure" | ||||
Floyd | We saw a tiny figurine, a man-thing form, its arms in front, hands Floyd | together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take figure" | ||||
Floyd | We had no interest in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink liquid" | ||||
Floyd | We lowered our snout to the barrel and sucked deeply from the barrel. Floyd | We felt a warm, fine sensation as we swallowed the liquid. Floyd | Floyd | We experienced a heavy sensation inside. We disagreed with the liquid. Floyd | We resisted its affronts, but we could not digest it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take liquid" | ||||
Floyd | (the stomachful of liquid) Floyd | We were already in possession of that. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ah, cool" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | We were carrying a stomachful of liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Twisty Cave Floyd | We breathed gently through our nostrils so that we could shed light Floyd | upon our surroundings. We stood in a dim man-thing cave; we saw Floyd | man-thing protrusions and surfaces on which rested the artifacts of Floyd | the man-things. We smelled something very strong from the east, and we Floyd | could also exit northwards. Floyd | Floyd | On the protrustions we could see a weave of hair. Floyd | Floyd | On the surfaces we could see some metal sticks and an animal stick. Floyd | Floyd | We could see a plant sheet and a transparent sphere here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "awesome" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Open Tunnel Floyd | We were surrounded by man-thing structures in all directions save the Floyd | north; we saw a gaping hole in the structure to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plain Floyd | We stood in a more open space. On all sides of us we observed Floyd | structures, with a particularly large white one to the east. In the Floyd | center we perceived fresh plants in a location inappropriate to their Floyd | origins, with insufficient bare earth. We could follow man-paths Floyd | south, west, and north, or towards the eastern structure. Floyd | Floyd | We could see two man-things here. Floyd | Floyd | We heard cries from a man-thing, Floyd | "Izedmens-fawt-drakinslar-izedmens-fawt." Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "disgusting, but awesome" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Did we guzzle gasoline or something?" | ||||
| inky says, "acid" | ||||
| inky asks, "what is this man-thing saying?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "'It's a f**king dragon! F**k." | ||||
| schep says, "something about Sedmen dragonslayer" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blasted Plain Floyd | We stood on a plain of rock, grey below us and around us, white to the Floyd | east. We could leave west. We perceived a tiny hole to one side. Floyd | Floyd | We could also see fragments of metal around an eastward tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Narrowing Cave Floyd | We stood within a man-thing cave which rapidly narrowed to the east Floyd | into an entrance the size of a small man-thing. We observed passages Floyd | to the north and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Junction Floyd | We stood in a small chamber full of the leavings and scents of Floyd | man-things. We saw a metal barrier to the east and a wide-open passage Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | We could see five man-things here. Floyd | Floyd | We heard shrieks from a man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "breathe on barrier" | ||||
Floyd | We expelled the liquid onto the metal barrier and watched its rapid Floyd | dissolution to nothing. Floyd | Floyd | We saw the departure of a terrified man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | We saw the departure of a terrified man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | We stood in a spatious cavern, but we took no joy from it. We were Floyd | surrounded by the results of distortion and torture of rock and earth Floyd | and stone; we felt only horror. We desired departure above all else, Floyd | and so we kept our eyes upon the west exit. Floyd | Floyd | Against the back of the cavern we saw a ring of light. Floyd | Floyd | In the ring of light we could see a pair of wooden rods (on which was Floyd | a copper pole). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||||
Floyd | We saw the center of the ring of light around the rods within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||||
Floyd | The ring of light was in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "destroy light" | ||||
Floyd | We could accomplish nothing this way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rods" | ||||
Floyd | We saw the attachment of the hooks to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "breathe on light" | ||||
Floyd | We breathed on the hooks. We watched our breath's lack of penetration Floyd | through the circle of magic. We watched the flames around the ring. We Floyd | stopped our breath. We watched the gradual diminution of the fire. Floyd | Floyd | We determined that we could not expect blockage of heat by such magic Floyd | as we saw the collision of the copper pole with the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||||
Floyd | We took the copper pole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Junction Floyd | We stood in a small chamber full of the leavings and scents of Floyd | man-things. We saw an open entrance to the east and a wide-open Floyd | passage south. Floyd | Floyd | We could see three man-things here. Floyd | Floyd | We saw the departure of a terrified man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Narrowing Cave Floyd | We stood within a man-thing cave which rapidly narrowed to the east Floyd | into an entrance the size of a small man-thing. We observed passages Floyd | to the north and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blasted Plain Floyd | We stood on a plain of rock, grey below us and around us, white to the Floyd | east. We could leave west. We perceived a tiny hole to one side. Floyd | Floyd | We could also see fragments of metal around an eastward tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Plain Floyd | We stood in a more open space. On all sides of us we observed Floyd | structures, with a particularly large white one to the east. In the Floyd | center we perceived fresh plants in a location inappropriate to their Floyd | origins, with insufficient bare earth. We could follow man-paths Floyd | south, west, and north, or towards the eastern structure. Floyd | Floyd | We could see two man-things here. Floyd | Floyd | We saw the departure of a terrified man-thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hillside Floyd | We stood upon a sloping hillside; we were only partially surrounded by Floyd | man-thing structures. Further north was the entrance of the man-path Floyd | to the city; south more structures. We scented the Crystal to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | We could see a man-thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give pole to man-thing" | ||||
Floyd | We saw the man-thing's stretch for the copper pole. We observed the Floyd | pole in its clutches. We saw locomotion by the man-thing from in front Floyd | of the entrance to the structure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | We traversed a maze of twisty little passages; we used the scent of Floyd | Kthyress as a guide. Floyd | Cave Floyd | We stood in a tall cave. We saw markings upon the walls, and man-thing Floyd | torches. The cave led out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | We observed a structure of wood; we saw near the ceiling as the limit Floyd | of its reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the wooden structure we could see the Kthyress Crystal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | With what mere words could we describe the Kthyress Crystal? We had no Floyd | particular fondness for the deception, its geas of greed. But we had Floyd | the obligation; we were the guardian of it, the bait for the trap. The Floyd | trap that we had failed to spring this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "a trap, then" | ||||
| Ellison says, "hmm indeed" | ||||
| nothings says, "nah, i think that's talking about it being a trap in the backstory" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wood" | ||||
Floyd | A construction of once-sturdy trees, an artificial arrangement; we saw Floyd | its uppermost surface near the stalactities amongst the top of the Floyd | cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "breathe on structure" | ||||
Floyd | We let loose a torrent of flame, and when we stopped, we could no Floyd | longer see the wooden structure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floyd | We stood in a tall cave. We saw markings upon the walls, and man-thing Floyd | torches. The cave led out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | We could see the Kthyress Crystal here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | With what mere words could we describe the Kthyress Crystal? We had no Floyd | particular fondness for the deception, its geas of greed. But we had Floyd | the obligation; we were the guardian of it, the bait for the trap. The Floyd | trap that we had failed to spring this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get crystal" | ||||
Floyd | We pulled the Kthyress Crystal from within the smoke and rubble. We Floyd | had discharged the first of our duties. Floyd | Floyd | We emerged onto the hillside and we discovered the departure of the Floyd | oddly powerful man-thing with the wrong odor. We were suddenly in Floyd | recollection of the scent we had sensed with the man-thing, but not Floyd | from it: Blackhelm. We realized that creature's association with Floyd | Blackhelm. Floyd | Floyd | Yet we knew Blackhelm was just another man-thing. We would not concern Floyd | ourselves with Blackhelm's plots so long as we were not involved in Floyd | them again. Floyd | Floyd | As we set forth on the journey to the mountain, we pondered what we Floyd | would say to Sethidrac about our trip. We knew the claims of the Floyd | others our age, but we disbelieved Sethidrac was cognizant of the Floyd | smell of prevarication. Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "%showpartial" | ||||
| Floyd > [press any key] | ||||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [press any key] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Now do you understand, my love? Do you not recognize your old friend Floyd | the bard there, before the fire? Floyd | Floyd | No, rest. Elando still lives, for now. The Kriit drained only a Floyd | fraction of his life force. I would never rob you of your vengeance. Floyd | You can finish him at your leisure. Floyd | Floyd | No? Then I will do it myself later. Floyd | Floyd | What is... ah. Hello there. Excuse me for a moment, dear heart. Floyd | Floyd | You have served your purpose, imp. I release you from the binding. Floyd | Maalni Tuit Stammora. Now begone to wreak what havoc you will, else Floyd | than my home! Floyd | Floyd | My love? You are still weak; you had best remain abed. Where are you Floyd | going? Floyd | Floyd | Do you not understand? I've saved you! I brought you back! Fifteen Floyd | years to do so. Why do you not answer? Floyd | Floyd | Come back! Floyd | Floyd | *** You have completed 'Heroes' *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 5 out of a possible 5, in 905 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Great timing. Almost time for dinner :)" | |||
| EmacsUser puzzles over the ending. | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "The frame story PC was brought back from the dead?" | ||||
| inky says, "the end notes on that webpage for this game are pretty helpful for figuring out what is going on" | ||||
| Ellison says, "so Blackwhatever uses the pole to bring back her dead lover who the bard killed for the crown (and throne)" | ||||
| schep says, "yeah, you really need to either play a second time watching for the bigger plot or go find some spoilers" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I don't understand anything else, though" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Ellison), "That was what I kind-of guessed. I didn't know where the imp came in." | ||||
| nothings says, "there are also clues you only find if you examine the right things or ask the right questions" | ||||
| nothings says, "the imp was Sedmon's guard" | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh, I figured the imp was us, the person controlling all of these PCs' actions" | ||||
| nothings says, "the dragon suggests the guard wasn't actually human, and was in Blackhelm's employ" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ah yes" | ||||
| nothings says, "but yeah, I didn't really get everything down in a way that causes it to really come together for people" | ||||
| schep says, "do you know what else the pole can do? I think the enchanter had that part" | ||||
| inky says, "we knew there was weird stuff going on with the guard from the beginning since the guard knew the adventurer but the adventurer didn't know the guard" | ||||
| inky says, "the thief's bit at the end said the baron had tried to hire the thief to retrieve a "kriit" which could perform a "ritual of the dead" or something" | ||||
| nothings says, "right" | ||||
| nothings says, "'The Way of the Dead'" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "so some of the extra stuff would explain why the dead lover is dissing Blackhelm like that?" | ||||
| schep says, "not that I recall" | ||||
| nothings says, "yeah, I don't think so" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh, and the demon that took the pole via the portals is the imp." | ||||
| inky says, "well, the dead lover (Thorn, I assume? maybe not) was possibly freaked out by their SO doing some creepy necromantic magic" | ||||
| nothings says, "right" | ||||
| schep asks, "but really, when does bringing your lover back from beyond the veil work out happily ever after?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh, yeah, Thorn. I did not make that leap." | ||||
| nothings says, "IIRC, I actually meant to imply that maybe it was actually a one-sided love" | ||||
| nothings says, "but I'm not sure if that ever made it in" | ||||
| Ellison says, "she wanted love; he just wanted to be companions." | ||||
| nothings says, "heehee" | ||||
| inky says, "now I will read the spoilers" | ||||
| inky says, "(which you recall are at [LINK])" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I guess I will too." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to nothings), "Very cool, by the way, the five times through with different perspectives." | ||||
| nothings says, "thanks" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I will do that, too... when I come back. fun playthrough. good job, everyone!" | ||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | EmacsUser says, "Yeah, good job everybody." | |||
| inky says, "oh, I didn't realize the dragon was in the group" | ||||
| nothings says, "it's hard to decode the dragon's language there" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah, after reading it makes sense." | ||||
| Johnny says, "Isn't that just the way with IF" | ||||
| schep has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Limax says, "Hm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Do not rise. You must rest, dearest. Rest, and I will tell you a Floyd | story. Floyd | Floyd | No. Five stories. Floyd | Floyd | Only one is true. But it would not have mattered which. Floyd | Floyd | You will understand soon enough. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "r" | ||||
Floyd | [press a key] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "m" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "r" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to play as an [a]dventurer, an [e]nchanter, a [t]hief, Floyd | [r]oyalty, or a [d]ragon? r | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "m" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want this character to be [m]ale or [f]emale? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Royalty: Floyd | Floyd | Baron Sedmon Ventillado. Sedmon Dragonslayer, now. The peasantry do Floyd | love to forget a title and pretend a hero is one of theirs. Floyd | Floyd | Were you twenty years younger, it would be your name on everyone's Floyd | lips. Your face on the popular paintings. And the Dragon Gem would be Floyd | yours for everyone to covet. Of course, it is your name on the royal Floyd | decrees, your face on the coins, and your pick of the Royal Jewels for Floyd | your costume each day. But you detect an honesty in the grotesque Floyd | admiration for the Baron--one you'll not find in the simpering toadies Floyd | who serve you. But no. Floyd | Floyd | No regrets. Your days of heroism ceased when Thorn's Companions Floyd | disbanded, yet your life--a new life--went on. The things you did Floyd | then--the life you abandoned--all small prices to have paid for the Floyd | luxurious lifestyle you've gained. Floyd | Floyd | But now... the winds bring rumor that Ventillado means to give the Gem Floyd | to Blackhelm. Blackhelm. That villain--the Dragon Gem is said to have Floyd | powers, powers that one such as Blackhelm could bring to bear on those Floyd | of Thorn's Companions who survived. Thankfully, Ventillado is said to Floyd | be a loyal citizen of the crown. And you can afford to be generous in Floyd | recompense. Floyd | Floyd | The best way to be sure the Dragon Gem stays out of Blackhelm's hands? Floyd | Get it in yours. Floyd | Floyd | Heroes Floyd | an interactive vice-tainter Floyd | Copyright 2001, Sean Barrett Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 011130 / Inform v6.21vs Library 6/10stb Floyd | Floyd | Avenue Floyd | This broad avenue leads right into Temple Square, the heart of Floyd | fabulous New Oldtown. Towering over the square to the east you do Floyd | perceive your stark white Temple of Justice, beautiful and Floyd | well-appointed, offering a statement to the neighborhood: this, this Floyd | is what progress is about. Sadly, the buildings around you are Floyd | scarcely up to this new standard; Baron Ventillado's house north of Floyd | the square is much more satisfactory. How you hate having to come Floyd | here. This would all be so much simpler if Blackhelm were found dead Floyd | one morning, but it's never happened yet, despite your best efforts. Floyd | Floyd | [Type 'ABOUT' for important commands you can use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Buildings block the way. Floyd | Floyd | Lady Suff, Baron Broata, Duchess Suffureghurz, Peer Solfelargib, and Floyd | Countess Belannolfiy arrive, along with several guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Temple Square Floyd | The gorgeous Temple of Justice towers to the east over this square, Floyd | which despite your luscious flower garden, is still as much a wreck as Floyd | Oldtown proper to the west. A disreputable tavern lies southwest. Floyd | Roads lead south to shops and north by Ventillado's house to Newtown. Floyd | Floyd | You can see two royal guards here. Floyd | Floyd | Lady Suff, Baron Broata, Duchess Suffureghurz, and Peer Solfelargib Floyd | arrive, along with several guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Well-Traveled Road Floyd | This north-south road winds up the hill to Newtown through burnt-out Floyd | warehouses and poorly-maintained homes. You've never understood why Floyd | Baron Ventillado chose to place his house here, on the east side of Floyd | the road, unless perhaps for the view. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Ventillado's servant here. Floyd | Floyd | Lady Suff, Baron Broata, and Baroness Curzimmurzib arrive, along with Floyd | several guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "arrest servant" | ||||
Floyd | Perhaps you should order someone else to do that. Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Curzimmurzib says to Baron Broata, "Countess Subi was in a Floyd | room at the embassy arguing with Lord Lanned." Floyd | Floyd | Baron Broata says, "Goodness." Floyd | Floyd | Lady Suff says to Baroness Curzimmurzib, "Rumor has it that Knight Floyd | Coatubi is under arrest for plotting an assassination in the royal Floyd | treehouse." Floyd | Floyd | Lord Dricko, Duchess Suffureghurz, and Peer Solfelargib arrive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, arrest servant" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard points her sword at Ventillado's servant, who looks at Floyd | you for a moment, then nods his head. The two leave together. Floyd | Floyd | [** Programming error: Ventillado's servant (object number 242) has Floyd | no property reset to send message **] Floyd | Floyd | Peer Solfelargib says to Lord Dricko, "Lord Pazick was with Countess Floyd | Noyess in the guest room at the embassy, and they were considering Floyd | sharing an opium dream." Floyd | Floyd | Duchess Suffureghurz says to Lady Suff, "I overheard someone say Floyd | Knight Wimmubi was with Prince Jazolf in the Imperial Stables, and Floyd | they were blowing smoke at Lady Lannaz." Floyd | Floyd | Lady Suff says, "Unbelievable." Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Curzimmurzib says to Baron Broata, "I've heard that Knight Floyd | Coatubi is under arrest for conspiring in the royal treehouse!" Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "haha" | |||
| inky says, "oops" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Well-Traveled Road Floyd | This north-south road winds up the hill to Newtown through burnt-out Floyd | warehouses and poorly-maintained homes. You've never understood why Floyd | Baron Ventillado chose to place his house here, on the east side of Floyd | the road, unless perhaps for the view. Floyd | Floyd | You can see four royal guards, Ventillado's servant, Lord Juffall Floyd | Dricko, Duchess Dweluff Suffureghurz, Peer Fladarg Solfelargib, Lady Floyd | Dwomel Suff, Baron Bromannurdo Broata, and Baroness Selturz Floyd | Curzimmurzib here. Floyd | Floyd | Lord Dricko says to Peer Solfelargib, "I saw it with my own eyes! Floyd | Baroness Suress was arrested for conspiring in the royal treehouse!" Floyd | Floyd | Peer Solfelargib replies, "You don't say!" Floyd | Floyd | Baron Broata says to Baroness Curzimmurzib, "I personally saw Knight Floyd | Klimma saved a shrinking fortune for a dowry." Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Curzimmurzib replies, "Oh my." Floyd | Floyd | Lady Suff says to Lord Dricko, "An acquiantance told me that he saw Floyd | Knight Wimmubi was with Prince Jazolf in the loft in the Imperial Floyd | Stables, and they were acting firey towards Lady Lannaz." Floyd | Floyd | Countess Belannolfiy arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You stride through bright corridors to Ventillado's display room. Floyd | Floyd | Plain Room Floyd | Sedmon displays his prized possessions in this shabby two-story Floyd | chamber. Paintings and torches alternate randomly around the walls at Floyd | various heights. A doorway leads west. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | On the platform is the Dragon Gem. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Baron Ventillado here. Floyd | Floyd | Ventillado's servant follows you in from outside. Floyd | Floyd | Lady Suff, Lord Dricko, Baroness Curzimmurzib, and Peer Solfelargib Floyd | arrive, along with several guards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, arrest ventillado" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, Ventillado's servant or Baron Ventillado? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "royal guard, arrest baron ventillado" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | Countess Belannolfiy arrives. Floyd | Floyd | Baroness Curzimmurzib says to Countess Belannolfiy, "Rumor has it that Floyd | Knight Klimma saved a fortune for a dowry." Floyd | Floyd | Lord Dricko says to Peer Solfelargib, "I personally saw Knight Wimmubi Floyd | was with Prince Jazolf in the loft in the Imperial Stables, and they Floyd | were arguing with Lady Lannaz!" Floyd | Floyd | Duchess Suffureghurz arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "weird" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guard, arrest sedmon" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard points his sword at Baron Ventillado, who nods his Floyd | head. The two leave together. Floyd | Floyd | [** Programming error: Baron Ventillado (object number 245) has no Floyd | property reset to send message **] Floyd | Floyd | Countess Belannolfiy says to Baroness Curzimmurzib, "I've heard that Floyd | Baroness Thedib was at a brook near the palace partying, if you know Floyd | what I mean, with Lord Dwomom." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "(the story notes say this had some response of significance, but I guess not)" | ||||
| nothings says, "you'd think i'd have tested it" | ||||
| nothings says, "yeah" | ||||
| nothings says, "let me check the source" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guard, arrest meressin" | ||||
Floyd | The royal guard looks confused. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm not Floyd | sure how to do that." Floyd | Floyd | Countess Belannolfiy says to Lady Suff, "Did you hear? Knight Klimma Floyd | had a very big dowry." Floyd | Floyd | Lady Suff says, "Outrageous!" Floyd | Floyd | Baron Broata arrives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "suff, arrest sedmon" | ||||
Floyd | Lady Suff orders a royal guard to arrest Baron Ventillado. The royal Floyd | guard points his sword at Baron Ventillado, who nods his head. The two Floyd | leave together. Floyd | Floyd | [** Programming error: Baron Ventillado (object number 245) has no Floyd | property reset to send message **] Floyd | Floyd | Peer Solfelargib says to Baroness Curzimmurzib, "I overheard someone Floyd | say that Baroness Suress was arrested for conspiring in the royal Floyd | greenhouse!" Floyd | Floyd | > | nothings says, "arrest is supposed to be:" | |||
| nothings | if (noun == self) | ||||
| nothings | print "The servant"; else print "Ventillado's servant"; | ||||
| nothings | | ||||
| nothings | " turns to you. ~You don't really want to do | ||||
| nothings | that, Your Majesty, do you?~ His eyes... strange. Why did | ||||
| nothings | you give that order?^^~Nevermind that, ", (the) actor, ",~ | ||||
| nothings | you say.^^", (The) actor, " looks back and forth between | ||||
| nothings | you and the servant, then shrugs."; | ||||
| inky says, "ah, makes sense" | ||||
| nothings says, "and similarly for dismiss" | ||||
| Limax says, "Huh" | ||||
| nothings asks, "seems odd that i never tested it. maybe interpreters have gotten more strict or something?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, that sounds correct" | ||||
| inky says, "I think it is true for nitfol in particular" | ||||
| inky says, "(which is what floyd uses)" | ||||
| nothings says, "since the action fails I never wrote a 'reset()' for them (which is what happens when you kill/dismiss someone), but I never noticed that it was still being called anyway" | ||||
| djfletch has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | inky says, "these design notes are interesting" | |||
| inky says, "to see you sort of stumbling towards the final thing" | ||||
| nothings says, "yep" | ||||
| nothings says, "this is a nice moment where it's important that I had already chosen a title:" | ||||
| nothings | The nobleman with the dragon gem... no, no, the FAMOUS HERO with the dragon gem lives [...] | ||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky | Okay, two weeks to go, I need that puzzle, time to design it. I will | ||||
| inky | go take a shower and design it in the shower. | ||||
| inky | | ||||
| inky | No clue from the shower. | ||||
| inky says, "defective shower!" | ||||
| nothings says, "it usually works!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl wanders off for a bit. | inky says, "ok guess we're done" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
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