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| maga says, "Today's games are the entries in SpeedIF Jacket 4, wherein each author received a set of random blurbs written by the other authors, and wrote a game to fit the review quotes." | ||||
| maga says, "We have eight games, submitted by Roger Carbol, Carolyn VanEseltine, Colin Sandel, C.E.J. Pacian, Marius Muller, David Fletcher, S. John Ross, and myself." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Goodness, that's an impressive roster of speed-if authors." | ||||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| maga asks, "so, where should we start?" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks (of maga), "Will you be presenting the blurbs before each one, or how will that work?" | ||||
| Roger has no preferences. | ||||
| maga says, "the blurbs should be listed within each game, usually before the banner or in ABOUT text" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Sometimes the blurbs are in the games." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ok." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "maga organized this speed IF, btw." | ||||
| maga says, "but speedIFs are speedIFs, so no guarantees" | ||||
| Roger says, "Although I am interested in what S. John Ross has for us" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "I say just go through them in some arbitrary way. Like alphabetical by name or title." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or, heck if Roger wants that one, then that one." | ||||
| maga says, "alphabetical by title seems fair" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load dreamtrap" | ||||
| Floyd says (to maga), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load dreamtrap2" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | What the critics are saying: Floyd | Floyd | "Fewer monkeys would have made this a great game." -- Royce Odle Floyd | Floyd | "The highpoint of the game is definitely driving the tank." -- Floyd | C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | Floyd | "Ross plainly considers this erotic, and, uh, good luck to him, I Floyd | suppose." -- Sam Kabo Ashwell Floyd | Floyd | "A science-fiction geek's wet-dream." -- Tanga Floyd | Floyd | "Good grief. I need a new futon." -- Sarah Morayati Floyd | | Roger says, "Haha" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Wow." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh dear" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "press any key" | ||||
Floyd | (press any key) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | WARNING: ADULTS ONLY! Floyd | Floyd | This work is intended for mature audiences only, as defined by any Floyd | laws which may apply to you. Note also that while legal maturity is Floyd | necessary to enjoy this work, other forms of maturity will only hold Floyd | you back. Floyd | Floyd | If you now have cause to believe that you should not play this game on Floyd | the grounds of statutory law, personal morality, the fate of your Floyd | immortal soul or simple good taste, now is the time to close this Floyd | program and let the rest of us have our tawdry bubble-helmeted fun. Floyd | Otherwise ... Floyd | | ||||
| inky arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | djfletch says, "woo" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "press any key" | ||||
Floyd | (press any key) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You smile an easy, confident smile. "Professor Zzar! I might have Floyd | known!" He stands there on the gleaming deck of the Self-Righteous, Floyd | small and frail in the finely tuned sights of your ray pistol. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, Captain Galactic, it is I." For a cornered villain, destined for Floyd | 20 kilodays' hard labor on the Penal Asteroids of Incarceron, Zzar Floyd | seems awfully smug. What's his game this time? Floyd | Floyd | There is a deep thrumming from the plastic orb in the Professor's Floyd | hand, and a hypnotic, throbbing light. Evil technology! Your ray slips Floyd | to the deck with a clatter. Your legs seem to melt like Arcturan Floyd | worm-butter, and you slump against a bulkhead. Now the universe is Floyd | only the grinning face of your arch-foe, gloating before you! Floyd | Floyd | "You're entering a Level IX Subconscious Psychic Comatose Preservation Floyd | State, Captain Galactic," he sneers. "I don't even need to kill you to Floyd | claim the galaxy as my own. My reign begins now, and you're going to Floyd | spend the rest of your life on display in my Museum of Conquests ... Floyd | sleeping through it!" Floyd | Floyd | Then there is only darkness, and laughter. Peals of terrible, Floyd | victorious laughter. Floyd | | Roger asks, "Has transcripting commenced?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "press any key" | ||||
Floyd | (press any key) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Dream-Trap of Zzar Floyd | A Space Opera for SpeedIF Jacket IV Floyd | Copyright ? 2011 by S. John Ross. All rights reserved. Floyd | Release 0 \ SN-110415 \ I7-6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib 6/12N) Floyd | Type Help if you're confused or About if you're curious. Floyd | Floyd | Science Station Alpha Floyd | Aha! Your months of Grade Seventy Dream Training have paid off ... Floyd | this dream-chamber is none other than Science Station Alpha, on the Floyd | surface of a distant moon of the Visceron System. Here is where you Floyd | and the Professor first crossed rays, and where his studies of Floyd | sleep-states led him to develop the "perfect" preservative level of Floyd | slumber: the Level IX Subconscious Psychic Comatose Preservation Floyd | State. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Zzar believes that this state is inescapable ... and he's Floyd | nearly right ... but here is also where the only known exception was Floyd | proven, and recorded in the highly secret Omega Document! Now, if only Floyd | you can locate it ... Floyd | Floyd | You can see Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, Chunky, and the Omega Floyd | Document here. Floyd | Floyd | > | cyberskunk says, "20 kilodays is 55 years." | |||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "That's what Perry is for." | ||||
| cyberskunk says, "apparently being a galactic super villain is less of a crime than many crack related offenses." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Yes" | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "X ME" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "BOOO" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read document" | ||||
Floyd | Stars of zetox! These dreams do have their conveniences; the fabled Floyd | Omega Document, right out in the open! It's a detailed report ... Floyd | science this, oxytocin that, blood pressure the other thing ... but Floyd | the conclusion is clear enough: nocturnal emissions generated within a Floyd | Level IX Subconscious Psychic Comatose Preservation State interrupt Floyd | the sleep-state and result in full wakefulness. So, your mission is Floyd | plain: amp up the erotic content (E.C.) of this dream, and you'll ride Floyd | to freedom on your on manly issue. So to speak. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Wet dream to the rescue!" | |||
| Roger says, "Haha" | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "X zippy" | ||||
Floyd | Zippy is a monkey. He's playing with his teeth. Floyd | Floyd | > | cyberskunk says, "clearly we need the monkeys." | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "Kiss monkey" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, or Chunky? Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Oh dear" | |||
| DavidW says, "We'll need music, dim lights, sexy underwear..." | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "Kiss zippy" | ||||
Floyd | That's very sweet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Feathered boa?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Ickstein begins chewing something. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "no, that's silly" | |||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "oh. I better leave this to you experts, then." | |||
| cyberskunk says, "eek got to go. have fun. :-)" | ||||
| cyberskunk has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x monkeys" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, or Chunky? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ickstein" | ||||
Floyd | Ickstein is a monkey. He's looking at you wide-eyed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chunky" | ||||
Floyd | Chunky is the kind of monkey you'd normally expect to be seeing, Floyd | hearing, or speaking no evil (thus insuring six more weeks of evil). Floyd | He's yawning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "spank monkey" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, or Chunky? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "spank zippy" | ||||
Floyd | But Zippy hasn't done anything wrong! Floyd | Floyd | (if you're trying to ... engage in some private time? ... you'll just Floyd | need to phrase things a little differently under the circumstances) Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "we have a verb" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh wait, who wrote this?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh ok. not maga" | ||||
| maga says, "S. John Ross. Ghalev." | ||||
| Roger says, "S. John Ross, who is (or used to be) a big deal in the RPG community" | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take zippy" | ||||
Floyd | Zippy arches an eyebrow as you try. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'spank monkey' does seem a promising route to victory, though." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "zippy, kiss george" | ||||
Floyd | Zippy has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "But they need to misbehave first?" | |||
| maga says, "I am shocked -- shocked! that you could imagine me writing something of prurient interest" | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that Ickstein is avoiding your gaze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ickstein" | ||||
Floyd | Ickstein is a monkey. He's scratching himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spank monkey" | ||||
Floyd | Who do you mean, Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, or Chunky? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch ickstein" | ||||
Floyd | I'm not sure what you're referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "spank all" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spank ickstein" | ||||
Floyd | But Ickstein hasn't done anything wrong! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x ickstein" | ||||
Floyd | Ickstein is a monkey, like any monkey. He's giving you a big smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x george" | ||||
Floyd | George is a monkey. He's looking a bit peevish (maybe petulant would Floyd | be the better word). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there another room?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Science Station Alpha Floyd | This is none other than Science Station Alpha, on the surface of a Floyd | distant moon of the Visceron System. You can see other chambers to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, Chunky, and the Omega Floyd | Document here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x document" | ||||
Floyd | It's a detailed report ... science this, oxytocin that, blood pressure Floyd | the other thing ... but the conclusion is clear enough: nocturnal Floyd | emissions generated within a Level IX Subconscious Psychic Comatose Floyd | Preservation State interrupt the sleep-state and result in full Floyd | wakefulness. Floyd | Floyd | Zippy is looking at you quizzically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "Well, here I am" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "dream" | ||||
Floyd | I'm not sure what you meant by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This is the core of the Science Station's efforts to improve the Floyd | technology of the Good and Trustworthy Galactic Empire, the facility's Floyd | main laboratory. The place is packed to bursting with sensors, Floyd | workstations, and delicate instruments, focusing mankind's collective Floyd | knowledge into the breakthroughs of the future. Floyd | Floyd | Carolyn is here, brushing down her skirt absentmindedly. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Nason, Qwerty, Shingles, Papa, and Frank here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we see what there is elsewhere?" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Automaton), "Welcome back!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x carolyn" | ||||
Floyd | Doctor Professor Carolyn Winters, the only scientist in the history of Floyd | the Imperial University to get her Professorial Doctorate in Floyd | Omniopanology before she could legally drink. That was a while ago, Floyd | and you've shared a few victory rounds of Martian Mead with the good Floyd | Doctor Professor since, but you've never had the nerve to pursue your Floyd | interest in her. Your duties as a Captain in the Imperial Naval Forces Floyd | Against Evil occupy your every waking hour ... a personal life is one Floyd | of those things that come with retirement. Floyd | Floyd | You sigh. You sure wouldn't mind retiring with Carolyn, and you've Floyd | always suspected she feels the same. She cocks her hip just-so while Floyd | examining some kind of readout, and you find your eyes drawn to the Floyd | perfect curve of her hip, moving softly beneath her smartly-ironed Floyd | standard-issue scientist skirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||
| Ellison has connected. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to carolyn" | ||||
Floyd | Carolyn gives you a wink and says "Hey there, handsome," but it's Floyd | obvious she's distracted by her scientific work. Floyd | Floyd | Nason starts looking pretty bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x nason" | ||||
Floyd | Nason is some manner of monkey. He's bobbing idly on his haunches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x qwerty" | ||||
Floyd | Qwerty is a monkey. He's rocking in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shingles" | ||||
Floyd | Shingles is a monkey. He's playing with his teeth. Floyd | Floyd | Nason is bobbing idly on his haunches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask carolyn about work" | ||||
Floyd | Carolyn gives you a wink and says "Hey there, handsome," but it's Floyd | obvious she's distracted by her scientific work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "seduce carolyn" | ||||
Floyd | Hm? Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 asks, "So the point of this game is to seduce this carolyn lady?" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take work" | ||||
Floyd | I'm not sure what you're referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "before my connection dropped, I was going to say that Ghalev also makes fonts (not that that is relevant)" | |||
| DavidW says (to AutomatonZX27), "To be determined." | ||||
| maga says, "...not quite" | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take readout" | ||||
Floyd | No need to mess with that. Floyd | Floyd | Qwerty is slapping the floor beside him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "kiss carolyn" | ||||
Floyd | You can't bring yourself to ... but just the thought of it is Floyd | thrilling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x hip" | ||||
Floyd | Apologies. You've stumped me. Could you rephrase that? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "qwerty, kiss carolyn" | ||||
Floyd | Qwerty has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x skirt" | ||||
Floyd | Oh my god she's amazing. Whenever you see her in that skirt, you Floyd | always have this ungentlemanly urge to lift it, just for a second ... Floyd | just to see ... but of course, you never have. Floyd | Floyd | Frank is rocking in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lift skirt" | ||||
Floyd | Gods of Galactron yes, you've always wanted to lift her skirt ... Floyd | always wanted ... Floyd | Floyd | And you should. Now of all times, you should. This is a dream. You can Floyd | do this. Floyd | Floyd | Not yet. You're not quite ... you need some more stimulation. That'll Floyd | get you in the right mindset to finally do this. Floyd | Floyd | Oh my god she looks good in that skirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "wouldn't lifting the skirt *provide* stimulation?" | |||
| DavidW says, "There's other rooms, btw." | ||||
| Roger says, "Maybe we should wander the setting a bit more, yeah" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Science Station Alpha Floyd | This is none other than Science Station Alpha, on the surface of a Floyd | distant moon of the Visceron System. You can see other chambers to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, and Chunky here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Computer Chamber Floyd | The X9-7000 supercomputer fills this room almost entirely, bank after Floyd | bank of glittering golden lights and flutering dial indicators. The Floyd | computer's vast monitor is currently dark. The supercomputer is Floyd | operated by means of a large red button, set smartly into the console. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Chuck, Victor, Jamba, Troy, and Stinky here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x supercomputer" | ||||
Floyd | The X9-7000 supercomputer fills this room almost entirely, bank after Floyd | bank of glittering golden lights and flutering dial indicators. The Floyd | computer's vast monitor is currently dark. The supercomputer is Floyd | operated by means of a large red button, set smartly into the console. Floyd | Floyd | Victor starts looking pretty bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the large red button. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "damn dirty monkeys everywhere" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Can I press it? :)" | ||||
| Roger says, "Fewer monkeys would improve the game" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 exclaims, "Do press!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we should. Probably an 'on' button." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | The computer plays the sounds of ... my god, is that people Floyd | fornicating? I guess this computer is trying to help, but it seems Floyd | like a terribly brute-force way to go about it. Man, that girl can hit Floyd | the high notes, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "darlink, we are an IF protagonist. of course" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "my goodness" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||||
Floyd | How's that again? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dials" | ||||
Floyd | The X9-7000 supercomputer fills this room almost entirely, bank after Floyd | bank of glittering golden lights and flutering dial indicators. The Floyd | computer's vast monitor is currently dark. The supercomputer is Floyd | operated by means of a large red button, set smartly into the console. Floyd | Floyd | Victor is scratching himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "I like the fact that the protagonist can identify the sound of people fornicating." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn dials" | ||||
Floyd | This produces no useful result. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh, on intfiction, he says his game is finishable in ten minutes if people linger to play around with stuff" | |||
| DavidW says, "I suspect this is all the (super)computer can do." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | The computer plays the sounds of ... my god, is that people Floyd | fornicating? I guess this computer is trying to help, but it seems Floyd | like a terribly brute-force way to go about it. Man, that girl can hit Floyd | the high notes, though. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that Jamba is slapping the floor beside him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Science Station Alpha Floyd | This is none other than Science Station Alpha, on the surface of a Floyd | distant moon of the Visceron System. You can see other chambers to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, and Chunky here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tank Bay Floyd | Your footfalls clank on the cold metal floor of this chamber, built to Floyd | house and launch the station's experimental military vehicles. The Floyd | west corridor leads back to the station proper, and the giant (sealed) Floyd | bay door leads out to the deadly surface of this remote moon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Duke, Toby, Rick, Eamon, Grimble, and a Stealth Megatank Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Eamon is chewing something. Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 asks, "What a supercomputer, huh?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x megatank" | ||||
Floyd | You can barely see it, it's so darned stealthy. You feel aroused just Floyd | basking in the dark presence of such sleek, focused, military power. Floyd | You can't help but notice the hatchway, and wonder what it would be Floyd | like inside such a majestic beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eamon" | ||||
Floyd | Eamon is a monkey. He's looking at you quizzically. Floyd | Floyd | Rick begins looking at you wide-eyed. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "oh dear" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hatchway" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "demagoguery" to complete this story. Floyd | Not that you did, but you managed to confuse me, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "All these monkeys are beginning to creep me out" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open hatchway" | ||||
Floyd | I'm not sure what you're referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter tank" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cockpit Floyd | The interior of the Stealth Megatank is amazing. Even the lights on Floyd | the controls seem to be glowering with awesome military purpose. Floyd | You're settled into the command chair, since the other stations are Floyd | all occupied by monkeys. The only exit from here is out. Floyd | Floyd | You notice a well-thumbed copy of Spicy Space-Sirens Magazine folded Floyd | over one of the controls. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Lala, Bobo, Vance, Ulster, and Duggy here. Floyd | Floyd | Duggy is yawning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read magazine" | ||||
Floyd | Given the current nature of your mission, you feel a little ashamed Floyd | for your normal treatment of soldiers under your command who enjoy Floyd | this kind of ... artistic material. But now is not the time for your Floyd | notions of perfect purity, nor is it the time to cry over spilled Floyd | managerial milk. Steeling your resolve, you page eagerly through Floyd | holophoto after holophoto of sultry spacefaring pulchritude, and feel Floyd | a little dizzy at the sight of all those fantasy images ... the curve Floyd | of leg and bosom, the shape of the lower back, the way a girl can Floyd | smile so wickedly for the camera ... you feel your breathing begin to Floyd | race, and ... you enjoy it. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "back to caroline? ;)" | |||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "That is all you do, obviously." | ||||
| maga says, "bow-chikka wow-wooow" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "This is a stealth tank?" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, ""Enjoy" it." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Can we drive it to Carolyn?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take magazine" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x controls" | ||||
Floyd | You've caught my vocabulary with its pants down, so to speak. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "drive west" | ||||
Floyd | (I don't know the word "absquatulate") ... (or that thing you just Floyd | typed) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I haven't been mapping at all. Too tired." | |||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "I like the changed library responses" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You prepare to climb out of the tank, but you're interrupted by a loud Floyd | CLANG as Vance slams the hatch shut, and the other monkeys begin Floyd | firing up the engine! Floyd | Floyd | You don't know if monkeys really laugh, but Duggy sure seems to be Floyd | chuckling as he cranks up some tunes on the tank's stereo. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the tank, the great door opens in a fanfare of rotating yellow Floyd | safety lights, and you find yourself hurtling at top speed across the Floyd | surface of an alien moon. The monkeys, now seemingly unaware of what Floyd | they've done, are simply hopping around you and screeching, and you Floyd | must rely on your instincts and training to bring the vehicle under Floyd | control, and bring it back home. Floyd | Floyd | You figure giving it a little spin around the high ridges won't hurt, Floyd | just to feel the way she handles. Oh yeah. Floyd | Floyd | Feeling exhausted, thrilled, and strangely satisfied, you eventually Floyd | return to base, lock the systems down, and head back into the Tank Bay Floyd | - after giving those monkeys a stern looking-at. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tank Bay Floyd | Your footfalls clank on the cold metal floor of this chamber, built to Floyd | house and launch the station's experimental military vehicles. The Floyd | west corridor leads back to the station proper, and the giant (sealed) Floyd | bay door leads out to the deadly surface of this remote moon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Duke, Toby, Rick, Eamon, Grimble, and a Stealth Megatank Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Toby is blinking, shaking his head, and then blinking again. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "ha ha" | |||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "bad monkey!" | ||||
| NOTE: Guests can't speak on channels - all guest conversation was edited to be on the channel for ease of reading the transcript. | ||||
| Guest2 says, "Oh dear." | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "spank duke" | ||||
Floyd | But Duke hasn't done anything wrong! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Go in the tank and spank?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Science Station Alpha Floyd | This is none other than Science Station Alpha, on the surface of a Floyd | distant moon of the Visceron System. You can see other chambers to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, and Chunky here. Floyd | Floyd | George is looking pretty bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "IN the tank" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Tank Bay Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I'd like to see that" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter tank" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cockpit Floyd | The interior of the Stealth Megatank is amazing. Even the lights on Floyd | the controls seem to be glowering with awesome military purpose. Floyd | You're settled into the command chair, since the other stations are Floyd | all occupied by monkeys. The only exit from here is out. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Lala, Bobo, Vance, Ulster, and Duggy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "spank lala" | ||||
Floyd | But Lala hasn't done anything wrong! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spank vance" | ||||
Floyd | But Vance hasn't done anything wrong! Floyd | Floyd | Vance is giving you a big smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmph" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x demagoguery" | ||||
Floyd | I don't quite follow what you mean. Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "Vance is smiling because you wanted to spank him." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "demagoguery" | ||||
Floyd | I do apologize ... You've bumped your head on the low ceiling of my Floyd | comprehension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "spank duggy" | ||||
Floyd | But Duggy hasn't done anything wrong! Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "okay, red herring, I think" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess I misread or something." | ||||
| DavidW says, "How did driving the tank work? I missed that." | ||||
| maga says, "let's try working our magic again" | ||||
| maga says, "cutscene" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tank Bay Floyd | Your footfalls clank on the cold metal floor of this chamber, built to Floyd | house and launch the station's experimental military vehicles. The Floyd | west corridor leads back to the station proper, and the giant (sealed) Floyd | bay door leads out to the deadly surface of this remote moon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Duke, Toby, Rick, Eamon, Grimble, and a Stealth Megatank Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | Eamon is chewing something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Science Station Alpha Floyd | This is none other than Science Station Alpha, on the surface of a Floyd | distant moon of the Visceron System. You can see other chambers to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, and Chunky here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory Floyd | This is the core of the Science Station's efforts to improve the Floyd | technology of the Good and Trustworthy Galactic Empire, the facility's Floyd | main laboratory. The place is packed to bursting with sensors, Floyd | workstations, and delicate instruments, focusing mankind's collective Floyd | knowledge into the breakthroughs of the future. Floyd | Floyd | Carolyn is here, brushing down her skirt absentmindedly. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Nason, Qwerty, Shingles, Papa, and Frank here. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that Papa is looking pretty bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "kiss carolyn" | ||||
Floyd | You can't bring yourself to ... but just the thought of it is Floyd | thrilling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "lift skirt" | ||||
Floyd | Gods of Galactron yes, you've always wanted to lift her skirt ... Floyd | always wanted ... Floyd | Floyd | And you should. Now of all times, you should. This is a dream. You can Floyd | do this. Floyd | Floyd | Not yet. You're not quite ... you need some more stimulation. That'll Floyd | get you in the right mindset to finally do this. Floyd | Floyd | Oh my god she looks good in that skirt. Floyd | Floyd | Papa is avoiding your gaze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lift skirt" | ||||
Floyd | Gods of Galactron yes, you've always wanted to lift her skirt ... Floyd | always wanted ... Floyd | Floyd | And you should. Now of all times, you should. This is a dream. You can Floyd | do this. Floyd | Floyd | Not yet. You're not quite ... you need some more stimulation. That'll Floyd | get you in the right mindset to finally do this. Floyd | Floyd | Oh my god she looks good in that skirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read magazine" | ||||
Floyd | Given the current nature of your mission, you feel a little ashamed Floyd | for your normal treatment of soldiers under your command who enjoy Floyd | this kind of ... artistic material. But now is not the time for your Floyd | notions of perfect purity, nor is it the time to cry over spilled Floyd | managerial milk. Steeling your resolve, you page eagerly through Floyd | holophoto after holophoto of sultry spacefaring pulchritude, and feel Floyd | a little dizzy at the sight of all those fantasy images ... the curve Floyd | of leg and bosom, the shape of the lower back, the way a girl can Floyd | smile so wickedly for the camera ... you feel your breathing begin to Floyd | race, and ... you enjoy it. Floyd | Floyd | Shingles begins bobbing idly on his haunches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lift skirt" | ||||
Floyd | Chastity ... is a virtue ... Floyd | Floyd | You've always taught that. Always believed it. Always shouted it, if Floyd | need be, into the faces of children and parents at your autograph Floyd | signings. Floyd | Floyd | But inside, you've always felt differently, and buried those feelings Floyd | deep within your endless quest for peace and justice in the galaxy. Floyd | And (your analyst insists) sublimated it into a dangerously acute case Floyd | of Ovaltine addiction. Floyd | Floyd | But now, discarding chastity is the mission. This dream needs to get Floyd | wet, and by the Nine Quasars, you can't think of anything wetter than Floyd | the contents of Carolyn's skirt. Floyd | Floyd | Oh my god, did you just think that? You hope you didn't say it. Floyd | Floyd | Carolyn turns and gives you a smile made of sunshine, sweetness, and Floyd | the Scientific Method. "Hey, handsome, how goes the war against evil? Floyd | Kill any Zarg for us lately?" Floyd | Floyd | Deer in the headlights. That's what this feels like. For the deer. And Floyd | possibly the headlights. The galaxy freezes for a few minutes. Floyd | Floyd | Or a picosecond? Heck yes. You fall back on your academy training, Floyd | flash her a comparably warm smile in return, and salute. "Sure have, Floyd | Carol. Nineteen last week. Strangled half of them with my bare hands, Floyd | and made one of them eat his own skull." Floyd | Floyd | Carolyn winks. "That's my boy," and returns to her work, leaning over Floyd | the work table and wiggling her hips to a jaunty tune inside her head. Floyd | Floyd | What is it you were doing again? You've forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | Oh right. You find yourself aiming a 900-watt stare at the curve of Floyd | her beskirted backside. Dear sweet fucking galaxies, you want to lift Floyd | that skirt. Floyd | Floyd | Nason is playing with his teeth. Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "show magazine to carolyn" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give magazine to carolyn" | ||||
Floyd | Carolyn gives you a wink and says "Hey there, handsome," but it's Floyd | obvious she's distracted by her scientific work. Floyd | Floyd | Qwerty is slapping the floor beside him. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "boo" | |||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "Aww, I thought it would work" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "lift skirt" | ||||
Floyd | You reach out your hand, casually, as if it were going to be heading Floyd | in this direction anyway, for official purposes. Floyd | Floyd | You pause to wonder: can you move your own hand offhandedly? Does that Floyd | even work? Floyd | Floyd | Fortunately, the quality of Carolyn's ass returns you almost forcibly Floyd | to the skirt at hand. Oh, yes, at hand, very much at hand ... and you Floyd | just do it. You lift it. Floyd | Floyd | Carolyn doesn't turn around. Instead, she giggles for a second, then Floyd | almost purrs as she says "Oh, Captain, I'd begun to worry you'd never Floyd | ..." Floyd | Floyd | But even her words, her beautiful voice, fades from your mind as you Floyd | take in the view. Floyd | Floyd | Blue panties. Soft, gentle blue. Almost translucent fabric. And right Floyd | on the right cheek, the Imperial Seal, indicating the panties are Floyd | government-issue. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x panties" | ||||
Floyd | (press any key) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ... That ... that was it! That was IT. Floyd | Floyd | You feel yourself cresting, hurling over the edge of internal Floyd | stimulation. It's ... it's nice. Floyd | Floyd | The rest happens so fast, it's almost a blur. Fortunately, your Floyd | academy training has prepared you for situations exactly like this Floyd | (exactly like this; it took you three tries on the final exam, you Floyd | were so embarrassed). Floyd | Floyd | You're no longer in the dream state. You're in Professor Zzar's Floyd | twisted "Museum," on display. Stark naked! Floyd | Floyd | And there's the Professor himself, looking confused, furious, and Floyd | annoyed all at once. He's wiping something from his eyeglasses and Floyd | grimacing. Floyd | Floyd | But before you even fully assimilate your surroundings, your training Floyd | kicks in, and you feel the rush of your reflexes thrusting into Floyd | action: one foot to Zzar's solar plexus, one fist to the his jaw (hm Floyd | ... sticky), one fist to his throat, sending him gasping backward. Floyd | You're such a perfectly-tuned fighting machine, you've beaten your Floyd | arch-foe to a whining pulp before you even yawn your first yawn, snap Floyd | your fingers for a towel, and await the adulation of the morning Floyd | museum crowd (looks like they get complimentary mimosas, that's kind Floyd | of cool ... and monkeys ... free monkeys with every ...) Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Floyd | Floyd | And then the world dissolves again, and it's like surfacing from a Floyd | dry, mucky cocoon into a warm, blankety one. Floyd | Floyd | It's your bed, at home. Your dog is asleep near the window, Floyd | half-curled around your cardboard Captain Galactic standee. He knows Floyd | enough never to hurt it. Floyd | Floyd | Scattered around the bed are your Captain Galactic comics, paperbacks, Floyd | and your duplicate twelve-inch Nubile Star-Empress action figure (your Floyd | first one is still in its original packaging, mint condition). Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the vacuum cleaner running in the hall, and smell Floyd | breakfast. That combination means its Saturday, and if you behave at Floyd | the breakfast table, Mom will let you watch Captain Galactic Floyd | Adventures without bothering you, and then you can go meet your Floyd | friends down at the bar. Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes rest on the cover of Captain Galactic and the Slave Wenches Floyd | of Jara, in which the brave Captain is too pure and chaste to kiss Floyd | even a single one of the grateful rescued slaves. You wonder, and not Floyd | for the first time, if that's the virtue the Captain seems to think it Floyd | is. Floyd | Floyd | Gah. You messed up the sheets again. Time to hide them in the hamper Floyd | before anyone notices. Your story, as always, is that you're really Floyd | trying to be more responsible and clean with the bedclothes. It's only Floyd | fair; Dad doesn't charge you any rent, and you graduated high school Floyd | seven years ago. Floyd | Floyd | You're thirsty. But that's what orange juice is for. And breakfast Floyd | smells good. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 100 out of a possible 100, in 63 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | maga says, "our casual disregard for the AIF Foreplay Sequence wins hearts and minds" | |||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "Because you're trained to notice stuff like that." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "oh" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "wow" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "The imperial seal thing." | ||||
| Roger says, "Apparently, we didn't need to go deeper" | ||||
| Roger says, "Let us move on, perhaps." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I need a tea." | ||||
| maga asks, "are we quite recovered?" | ||||
| maga asks, "or is a refractory period required?" | ||||
| Roger says, "Other than my need for a new futon, yes" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 asks, "How many games are there left anyway?" | ||||
| maga says, "Seven." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl crunches on a candy cigarette | DavidW says, "Awwwk! Seven." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Man, my attempts at keeping the ClubFloyd website fairly clean are... yeah." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "damnit." | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "Oh, so I wasn't horribly late, then." | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "Unless you started with like, twenty or something." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Automaton), "Nah, you were maybe five minutes late." | ||||
| maga says, "okay, let's keep moving" | ||||
| Guest2 says, "Hi all. I forgot my login." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of maga), "Can we have two minutes for David to get tea?" | ||||
| inky asks, "you forgot your password, or your username?" | Guest2 says, "Not sure of the etiquette but I figure since that was an ending it's less harmful to say hi." | |||
| DavidW says, "I poured tea" | ||||
| Guest2 says, "Password." | ||||
| inky asks, "ok, what is your username?" | DavidW says, "(It's rooibos, though. No caffeine.)" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Yay for having wizards around." | ||||
| Guest2 says, "Ghalev" | ||||
| inky says, "oh hi!" | Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's let Ghalev log back in, then start." | |||
| Guest2 says, "hihi" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Except he missed his own game." | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "I'm going to go get a sandwich while Ghalev logs in" | ||||
| Guest2 says, "I walked into the middle of the monkey spanking. Boy is my face red." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I... just made that connection. Darn." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Guest2), "heehee" | ||||
| Roger says, "If I had a nickel for every time that happened, eh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ghalev), "We're going to wait for you to log in then start the next game." | Guest1 goes home. | |||
| maga says, "at least it's not... okay, never mind" | Guest2 says, "No foolin'. Sorry I missed the earlier bits. I'm just glad nobody pocketed the tank, because you can totally do so. Sigh." | |||
| Roger says, "Haha" | ||||
| Roger exclaims, "Dream logic!" | AutomatonZX27 says, "Back" | |||
| AutomatonZX27 asks, "So it's like the car in 9:05?" | ||||
| * Jacqueline has added Ghalev to the channel. | ||||
| Guest2 says, "I actually have almost no time; we're at a con right now and Mark Sheppard is about to speak and we wanna go see him ... but I wanted to drop in and say hi and thanks for the event and all. Was fun." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ghalev), "Oh, okay." | ||||
| maga exclaims, "thanks for doing a game!" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Ghalev), "Thanks for stopping by to say hello!" | ||||
| Roger says, "Thanks for your entry! It was, yeah." | Guest2 exclaims, "Sorry, would want to stay and play games with everyone. Just scheduling. And Mark Sheppard!" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load gorilla" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "We enjoyed it in several ways." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load gorilla" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Leaner Gilts, "Strangle" Lei, Gain Tellers Floyd | and Slat Leering Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110416 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | -- Created using Adventure Book for Inform 7 by Edward Griffiths Floyd | Based on Adventure Book by Jon Ingold Floyd | Command Summary: Floyd | LOOK / L Repeat the last page Floyd | INVENTORY / I Show player inventory Floyd | SAVE / S Save the game Floyd | RESTORE / R Restore the game Floyd | QUIT / Q Quit the game Floyd | RESTART / X Restart the game Floyd | HELP / H This text Floyd | Floyd | Select options by their number. To use an object, type its name as Floyd | it appears in the inventory list. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Continue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | There is darkness, and pain at the back of your head. Basic urges flow Floyd | through your lizard brain, air, food, rest, smoochies, video games. Floyd | After who knows how long you open your eyes. You're in some kind of Floyd | interrogation room, small, cramped. The stone carvings on the Floyd | moss-covered walls make this look like a lazily designed secret room Floyd | from a videogame. With you in the room is a gorilla in a suit, who Floyd | looks a bit like Ron Perlman. Only this gorilla has rocket launchers Floyd | for arms. You close your eyes. "Oh no" you think to yourself, "not Floyd | again." Floyd | Floyd | And then you remember. The secret mission, from the new boss, who does Floyd | look something like Michael Gambon: "Somewhere in the Brazilian Floyd | jungle, there is a new mastermind at work. We know very little, only Floyd | that he killed our best agent, Bonathan Jlask. And that he's hidden in Floyd | some secret temple. Well, we've heard you know how to find such Floyd | places. And how to get into them." You told him you're retired. "No" Floyd | he said, firmly. "People like you never are." You were about to Floyd | respond, but his secretary, the spitting image of Kirsten Dunst, Floyd | already handed you the tickets. Floyd | Flash forward. The gorilla is looking at you. "What were you doing Floyd | here?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What do you mean? I am a botanist. I was looking for a special Floyd | plant." Floyd | 2) "I am a secret agent for the world government!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Bonathan Jlask, eh?" | |||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "Pick 2" | ||||
| maga says, "since this a CYOA, it'd probably be best to do show-of-hands" | ||||
| maga says, "I vote for 1" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, this is Tale's game." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Hmm, I lean slightly towards 1." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Um, okay, 1." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I was going to say, this must be Tale" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'd choose 1." | ||||
| Ellison says, "unless I got really drunk earlier this week" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "1" | ||||
| maga says, "hence the Gorey-esque author anagrams" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, Automaton" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "I still think 2 is the logical choice here." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "I left the next biggest town a few days ago. My only companion was my Floyd | guide, who did look a bit like Alfred Molina. Anyhoo, soon we arrived Floyd | here and after some searching we found the plant. But then my guide Floyd | fell into a hole. Some guide, I tell I attached my rope to a nearby Floyd | statue. Only the statue had to be weighed down with sand from the Floyd | nearby beach first, which I put in the linen bags which carried the Floyd | clothes. Then I climbed down the hole. Down there, I felt like being Floyd | eaten by a grue so I switched on my lamp. Only it didn't have any Floyd | batteries. And my box full of batteries was guarded by a snake. I Floyd | found a toy mouse to distract it, so I got my batteries. They were the Floyd | wrong size. But with them, I could switch on the venilator for Floyd | Professor Bunglay, who in turn gave me his electric shaver, which did Floyd | hold the right batteries. So I went back down there again, but when I Floyd | finally could see, I didn't see my guide, I saw a sleeping tiger!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to wait a bit." Floyd | 3) "I probably should tell you about the plant!" Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "But I shall succumb to peer pressure" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Quite the alibi." | ||||
| Roger says, "Haha, this narrative" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "Heh" | ||||
| maga says, "gosh, it's lucky that wasn't all implemented" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Haha." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking 2, here." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. 1" | ||||
| schep arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh.. I'm curious where 1 goes, I think. But anything is fine." | |||
| maga says, "1" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "I say 2" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "A tie!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Others?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh no." | ||||
| djfletch says, "1" | ||||
| Roger says, "1" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Phew." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | The gorilla tries to wave his rocket launchers dismissively. He fails. Floyd | He then says, "Who are you trying to fool? You wouldn't approach a Floyd | dangerous animal if you were, indeed, a renowned botanist. You know Floyd | what I think you are? You are AFGNCAAP, the famous IF agent. I have a Floyd | hard time making out anything specific about you, and that's just odd Floyd | for a fictional world that has something as weird as a me, a gorilla Floyd | with rocket launchers for hands! So tell me, am I right?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Yes, I am a secret agent. My mission is to kill you." Floyd | 2) "No. See, this is CYOA. It doesn't even have a parser or an Floyd | inventory!" Floyd | 3) "Yeah, a gorilla with rocket launcher hands. That *is* odd. Please Floyd | tell me your story." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait, it wasn't a tie-- nevermind." | |||
| maga says, "3" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "2" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "3" | ||||
| DavidW says, "3" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "2 or 3." | ||||
| djfletch says, "3" | ||||
| schep says, "3" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Looks like I should say 3" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | "Many a year ago, I was a happy AI in a rocket launcher, the newest Floyd | and deadliest in weapons technology. Straight on our way to skynet, we Floyd | were. But then some crazy scientist attached a gorilla to me. And now Floyd | see I how look. Completely stupid! That's why I want to take over the Floyd | world. Anyway, let me reiterate my question." Floyd | Floyd | The gorilla tries to wave his rocket launchers dismissively. He fails. Floyd | He then says, "Who are you trying to fool? You wouldn't approach a Floyd | dangerous animal if you were, indeed, a renowned botanist. You know Floyd | what I think you are? You are AFGNCAAP, the famous IF agent. I have a Floyd | hard time making out anything specific about you, and that's just odd Floyd | for a fictional world that has something as weird as a me, a gorilla Floyd | with rocket launchers for hands! So tell me, am I right?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Yes, I am a secret agent. My mission is to kill you." Floyd | 2) "No. See, this is CYOA. It doesn't even have a parser or an Floyd | inventory!" Floyd | 3) "Yeah, a gorilla with rocket launcher hands. That *is* odd. Please Floyd | tell me your story." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Ha." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "2" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "2." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "2" | ||||
| maga says, "2" | ||||
| DavidW says, "2" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | The gorilla, moving his rocket launcher not unlike someone handling Floyd | chopsticks for the first time, puts three items down before you. A Floyd | brass lantern, an elven sword and a platinum bar. Sweat breaks out on Floyd | your brow. Oh no. He's on to you. "Now tell me, Mr. or Mrs. Floyd | AFGNCAAP...what would be your first action if I do this...?" Floyd | And, pressing a button on his one launcher with his other launcher, Floyd | your cuffs click open. Free. But it's no use. Floyd | Floyd | 1) >GET ALL Floyd | 2) >GET ALL Floyd | 3) >GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "2" | |||
| DavidW says, "3" | ||||
| maga says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "Hmm..." | ||||
| schep says, "1" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl wavers.. either 2 or 3 | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "He's wrong! it would be >TAKE ALL" | ||||
| DavidW says, "4" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "What DavidW said." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Whatever you people want." | ||||
| schep says (to author), "way to split the vote" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Quicker than you can say cutscene, you're tied up again. The gorilla Floyd | looks at you. "You know, I always envied you. Getting all the Floyd | treasures, defending all those thiefs. Solving all those fiendish Floyd | puzzles. But now look. What has the world come to? All these angsty Floyd | protagonists with their guilt-ridden backstories, all these branching Floyd | narratives. You live in a world that no longer needs you. The puzzle Floyd | is dead. But don't worry, soon are you!" Floyd | With that, he lifts his rocket launcher! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Try to get back to that one childhood memory you always shut out, Floyd | and mentally reconcile with your mother. Floyd | 2) Choose any incidental memory that just happens to pop up. Floyd | 3) "Please, we can talk about this!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to schep), "heehee" | |||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "hah" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "I vote 1" | ||||
| maga says, "2" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "2" | ||||
| DavidW says, "1" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "1" | ||||
| djfletch says, "1" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "2" | ||||
| schep says, "2" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "1" | ||||
| gjnave arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jizaboz says, "1" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Surely we can do 1 and still have time for another choice." | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "that's what i'm thinking" | ||||
| Pacian arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| gjnave says (to genericgeekgirl), "whoops... i thought i was" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you finally reconcile with all she has said and done. After all Floyd | those items in her old house triggered those memories, you feel like Floyd | you finally understood her. You have grown yourself, in the Floyd | intervening years. You now longer wear the innocent face of a child or Floyd | the self-righteous, stern look of a teenager. You're grown. Maybe you Floyd | have grown to forgive. Who kno..Sorry to interrupt, but you're being Floyd | blown apart by a rocket launcher. Floyd | ***You have died.*** Floyd | Floyd | X) Restart Floyd | R) Restore Floyd | Q) Quit Floyd | Floyd | 1) Look at what others had to say about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "aw" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "1." | ||||
| DavidW says, "1" | ||||
| djfletch says, "so much for democracy" | ||||
| schep says, "S" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Blurbs used: Floyd | "Dude, even if you somehow get a movie deal out of this, it's rude to Floyd | be picking out the actors already." Floyd | -- Sam Kabo Ashwell Floyd | "Unreliable narrator. Unreliable parser. For the love of little Floyd | green eyeballs, why isn't anything in this game reliable?!?" Floyd | -- Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | "The game's eponymous animal proved to be NONE of the adjectives the Floyd | title proclaimed him to be, thank goodness." Floyd | -- Colin Sandel Floyd | "Smells like team spirit." Floyd | --Tanga Floyd | "The spiritual successor to Galatea, if Galatea had been about a Floyd | gorilla with rocket launchers for arms." Floyd | -- C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | "Seemingly engineered to punch you right in the green slimy guts of Floyd | your lizard brain." Floyd | --Sarah Morayati Floyd | "The minutely detailed simulation of the plant life was remarkable, if Floyd | somewhat overwhelming." Floyd | -- David Fletcher Floyd | "The chariot race was one of the most thrilling, timed puzzles that Floyd | I've ever enjoyed." Floyd | -- Royce Odle Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to EveryoneWhoJustWalkedIn), "All dialogue on the channel, please! #clubfloyd Hello then once you've established the channel, ;Hello again." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Simple system, fun game." | |||
| Ellison says, "so far, I think this is the best electronic CYOA I've ever played" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "I'll say, those are some first-class blurbs right there" | ||||
| Roger says, "Now I wonder about the plant" | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to Roger), "Haha me too." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "ooh, there's a chariot race?" | ||||
| schep says, "R." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "X" | ||||
| schep says, "or X, I guess I mean" | ||||
| Ellison says, "that 'I should probably tell you about that plant' option cracks me up" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Leaner Gilts, "Strangle" Lei, Gain Tellers Floyd | and Slat Leering Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110416 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | -- Created using Adventure Book for Inform 7 by Edward Griffiths Floyd | Based on Adventure Book by Jon Ingold Floyd | Command Summary: Floyd | LOOK / L Repeat the last page Floyd | INVENTORY / I Show player inventory Floyd | SAVE / S Save the game Floyd | RESTORE / R Restore the game Floyd | QUIT / Q Quit the game Floyd | RESTART / X Restart the game Floyd | HELP / H This text Floyd | Floyd | Select options by their number. To use an object, type its name as Floyd | it appears in the inventory list. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Continue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | There is darkness, and pain at the back of your head. Basic urges flow Floyd | through your lizard brain, air, food, rest, smoochies, video games. Floyd | After who knows how long you open your eyes. You're in some kind of Floyd | interrogation room, small, cramped. The stone carvings on the Floyd | moss-covered walls make this look like a lazily designed secret room Floyd | from a videogame. With you in the room is a gorilla in a suit, who Floyd | looks a bit like Ron Perlman. Only this gorilla has rocket launchers Floyd | for arms. You close your eyes. "Oh no" you think to yourself, "not Floyd | again." Floyd | Floyd | And then you remember. The secret mission, from the new boss, who does Floyd | look something like Michael Gambon: "Somewhere in the Brazilian Floyd | jungle, there is a new mastermind at work. We know very little, only Floyd | that he killed our best agent, Bonathan Jlask. And that he's hidden in Floyd | some secret temple. Well, we've heard you know how to find such Floyd | places. And how to get into them." You told him you're retired. "No" Floyd | he said, firmly. "People like you never are." You were about to Floyd | respond, but his secretary, the spitting image of Kirsten Dunst, Floyd | already handed you the tickets. Floyd | Flash forward. The gorilla is looking at you. "What were you doing Floyd | here?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What do you mean? I am a botanist. I was looking for a special Floyd | plant." Floyd | 2) "I am a secret agent for the world government!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "1 again?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says, "1" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "1" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Want to find out about the plant =)" | ||||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "I left the next biggest town a few days ago. My only companion was my Floyd | guide, who did look a bit like Alfred Molina. Anyhoo, soon we arrived Floyd | here and after some searching we found the plant. But then my guide Floyd | fell into a hole. Some guide, I tell I attached my rope to a nearby Floyd | statue. Only the statue had to be weighed down with sand from the Floyd | nearby beach first, which I put in the linen bags which carried the Floyd | clothes. Then I climbed down the hole. Down there, I felt like being Floyd | eaten by a grue so I switched on my lamp. Only it didn't have any Floyd | batteries. And my box full of batteries was guarded by a snake. I Floyd | found a toy mouse to distract it, so I got my batteries. They were the Floyd | wrong size. But with them, I could switch on the venilator for Floyd | Professor Bunglay, who in turn gave me his electric shaver, which did Floyd | hold the right batteries. So I went back down there again, but when I Floyd | finally could see, I didn't see my guide, I saw a sleeping tiger!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to wait a bit." Floyd | 3) "I probably should tell you about the plant!" Floyd | Floyd | > | maga asks, "3?" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "3 now?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "3" | ||||
| DavidW says, "3" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | Coca (Erythroxylum coca) is a plant in the family Erythroxylaceae, Floyd | native to western South America. The plant plays a significant role in Floyd | traditional Andean culture. Coca is best known throughout the world Floyd | because of its alkaloids, which include cocaine, a powerful stimulant. Floyd | The plant resembles a blackthorn bush, and grows to a height of 2-3 m Floyd | (7-10 ft). The branches are straight, and the leaves, which have a Floyd | green tint, are thin, opaque, oval, and taper at the extremities. A Floyd | marked characteristic of the leaf is an areolated portion bounded by Floyd | two longitudinal curved lines, one line on each side of the midrib, Floyd | and more conspicuous on the under face of the leaf. Floyd | The flowers are small, and disposed in little clusters on short Floyd | stalks; the corolla is composed of five yellowish-white petals, the Floyd | anthers are heart-shaped, and the pistil consists of three carpels Floyd | united to form a three-chambered ovary. The flowers mature into red Floyd | berries. Floyd | The leaves are sometimes eaten by the larvae of the moth Eloria Floyd | noyesi. Floyd | Floyd | Species and classification Floyd | Floyd | There are twelve main species and varieties. Two subspecies, Floyd | Erythroxylum coca var. coca and Erythroxylum coca var. ipadu, are Floyd | almost indistinguishable phenotypically; a related high Floyd | cocaine-bearing species has two subspecies, Erythroxylum Floyd | novogranatense var. novogranatense and Erythroxylum novogranatense Floyd | var. truxillense that are phenotypically similar, but morphologically Floyd | distinguishable. Under the older Cronquist system of classifying Floyd | flowering plants, this was placed in an order Linales; more modern Floyd | systems place it in the order Malpighiales. Floyd | Cultivation Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coca tree in Colombia Floyd | Floyd | Coca is traditionally cultivated in the lower altitudes of the eastern Floyd | slopes of the Andes (the Yungas), or the highlands depending on the Floyd | species grown. Since ancient times, its leaves have been an important Floyd | trade commodity between the lowlands where it is grown and the higher Floyd | altitudes where it is widely consumed by the Andean peoples of Peru, Floyd | Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1) -go on- Floyd | 2) -continue telling the story- Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "def. 3" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "awesome" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "and suddenly, everything in this game makes sense." | ||||
| maga says, "found art, hunh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "This looks like a lifted Wikipedia page." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yeah." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "1." | ||||
| schep says, "I wonder if that violates copyright" | ||||
| DavidW says, "2" | ||||
| DavidW says (to schep), "Not sure." | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "It isn't a wikipedia page though" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "At least not the one on "coca"" | ||||
| maga says, "2" | ||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, 2" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | "I left the next biggest town a few days ago. My only companion was my Floyd | guide, who did look a bit like Alfred Molina. Anyhoo, soon we arrived Floyd | here and after some searching we found the plant. But then my guide Floyd | fell into a hole. Some guide, I tell I attached my rope to a nearby Floyd | statue. Only the statue had to be weighed down with sand from the Floyd | nearby beach first, which I put in the linen bags which carried the Floyd | clothes. Then I climbed down the hole. Down there, I felt like being Floyd | eaten by a grue so I switched on my lamp. Only it didn't have any Floyd | batteries. And my box full of batteries was guarded by a snake. I Floyd | found a toy mouse to distract it, so I got my batteries. They were the Floyd | wrong size. But with them, I could switch on the venilator for Floyd | Professor Bunglay, who in turn gave me his electric shaver, which did Floyd | hold the right batteries. So I went back down there again, but when I Floyd | finally could see, I didn't see my guide, I saw a sleeping tiger!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to wait a bit." Floyd | 3) "I probably should tell you about the plant!" Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "2" | |||
| maga says, "all right then, 2" | ||||
| DavidW says, "2" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "2." | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 asks, "What did we choose last time?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to AutomatonZX27), "1." | ||||
| maga says, "we chose 1 last time" | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "2 then" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We did 3 last time, and 1 the time before that." | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh, he was telling the reader about the plant, not the gorilla" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "True." | ||||
| schep says, "(uh, yes it is [LINK])" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | "So?" says the Gorilla, irritated." Floyd | Floyd | 1) I then decided to wait some more." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to sneak nearer up on it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "So?" says the Gorilla, irritated. "Then what?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) I then decided to wait some more." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "So?" says the Gorilla, irritated. "Then what?" Did you lie around all Floyd | day?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) I then decided to wait some more." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Roger says, "Hahaha\" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "So?" says the Gorilla, irritated. "Then what?" Did you lie around all Floyd | day? What happened?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) I then decided to wait some more." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Yes." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "So?" says the Gorilla, irritated. "Then what?" Did you lie around all Floyd | day? What happened? What? Eh?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to wait some more." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The gorilla tries to wave his rocket launchers dismissively. He fails. Floyd | He then says, "Who are you trying to fool? You wouldn't approach a Floyd | dangerous animal if you were, indeed, a renowned botanist. You know Floyd | what I think you are? You are AFGNCAAP, the famous IF agent. I have a Floyd | hard time making out anything specific about you, and that's just odd Floyd | for a fictional world that has something as weird as a me, a gorilla Floyd | with rocket launchers for hands! So tell me, am I right?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Yes, I am a secret agent. My mission is to kill you." Floyd | 2) "No. See, this is CYOA. It doesn't even have a parser or an Floyd | inventory!" Floyd | 3) "Yeah, a gorilla with rocket launcher hands. That *is* odd. Please Floyd | tell me your story." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "tricky!" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims, "It switched!" | |||
| AutomatonZX27 says, "Hm..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hey yeah!" | ||||
| Roger says, "That Tale is so sneaky" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | "So?" says the Gorilla, irritated. "Then what?" Did you lie around all Floyd | day? What happened? What? Eh? Speak up!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I then decided to wait some more." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat drat" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "So?" says the Gorilla, irritated. "Then what?" Did you lie around all Floyd | day? What happened? Nothing? Are you still there?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I then decided to wait some more." Floyd | 2) "I then decided to sneak up to it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | "With a back-to-basics roar the gorilla storms up to you. He growls, Floyd | inches from your face. Finally he then hits you on the nose with a Floyd | rocket launcher. Which is far less funny than it sounds. "STOP Floyd | STALLING, HUMAN!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I then decided to sneak nearer to it." Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "hahaha" | |||
| maga says, "hooray" | ||||
| DavidW says, "; heh" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Aw." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | The gorilla tries to wave his rocket launchers dismissively. He fails. Floyd | He then says, "Who are you trying to fool? You wouldn't approach a Floyd | dangerous animal if you were, indeed, a renowned botanist. You know Floyd | what I think you are? You are AFGNCAAP, the famous IF agent. I have a Floyd | hard time making out anything specific about you, and that's just odd Floyd | for a fictional world that has something as weird as a me, a gorilla Floyd | with rocket launchers for hands! So tell me, am I right?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Yes, I am a secret agent. My mission is to kill you." Floyd | 2) "No. See, this is CYOA. It doesn't even have a parser or an Floyd | inventory!" Floyd | 3) "Yeah, a gorilla with rocket launcher hands. That *is* odd. Please Floyd | tell me your story." Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "1 (we did 2 and 3 earlier)" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Some papers you picked up three adventures ago. They are held Floyd | together by a paperclip. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We didn't do all of 2." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "true" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read papers" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "bah" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "papers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use that here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x paperclip" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "CYOA people" | |||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "you never know!" | ||||
| schep says, "(intro: type the name of an inventory object to USE it)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "paperclip" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "use paperclip" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Huh. So 1 or >papers ?" | |||
| schep says, "papers did nothing" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Oh, I missed that." | ||||
| maga says, "onward, I suppose" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | The gorilla sighs. "So, that's it? I don't even need to torture you! Floyd | Well, goodbye." He aims one of his rocket launchers at you. For a Floyd | second you ponder ducking. Floyd | ***You have died*** Floyd | Floyd | X) Restart Floyd | R) Restore Floyd | Q) Quit Floyd | Floyd | 1) Look at what others had to say about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "So we need to figure out when to use the papers." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "play out 2?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | The gorilla, moving his rocket launcher not unlike someone handling Floyd | chopsticks for the first time, puts three items down before you. A Floyd | brass lantern, an elven sword and a platinum bar. Sweat breaks out on Floyd | your brow. Oh no. He's on to you. "Now tell me, Mr. or Mrs. Floyd | AFGNCAAP...what would be your first action if I do this...?" Floyd | And, pressing a button on his one launcher with his other launcher, Floyd | your cuffs click open. Free. But it's no use. Floyd | Floyd | 1) >GET ALL Floyd | 2) >GET ALL Floyd | 3) >GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "Tale isn't here, or we could ask him if it's even winnable" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to genericgeekgirl), "Go for it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Quicker than you can say cutscene, you're tied up again. The gorilla Floyd | looks at you. "You know, I always envied you. Getting all the Floyd | treasures, defending all those thiefs. Solving all those fiendish Floyd | puzzles. But now look. What has the world come to? All these angsty Floyd | protagonists with their guilt-ridden backstories, all these branching Floyd | narratives. You live in a world that no longer needs you. The puzzle Floyd | is dead. But don't worry, soon are you!" Floyd | With that, he lifts his rocket launcher! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Try to get back to that one childhood memory you always shut out, Floyd | and mentally reconcile with your mother. Floyd | 2) Choose any incidental memory that just happens to pop up. Floyd | 3) "Please, we can talk about this!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Well, he spent a lot of time coming up with a winning message, no?" | |||
| Ellison says, "should have tried papers there, just because" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "sorry" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "papers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use that here. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "2" | |||
| Ellison says, "heh, thanks." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Can we try 4?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||
Floyd | The gorilla, moving his rocket launcher not unlike someone handling Floyd | chopsticks for the first time, puts three items down before you. A Floyd | brass lantern, an elven sword and a platinum bar. Sweat breaks out on Floyd | your brow. Oh no. He's on to you. "Now tell me, Mr. or Mrs. Floyd | AFGNCAAP...what would be your first action if I do this...?" Floyd | And, pressing a button on his one launcher with his other launcher, Floyd | your cuffs click open. Free. But it's no use. Floyd | Floyd | 1) >GET ALL Floyd | 2) >GET ALL Floyd | 3) >GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| canadianpuzzler arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Um?" | |||
| maga says, "I suppose that works as LOOK" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||
Floyd | The gorilla, moving his rocket launcher not unlike someone handling Floyd | chopsticks for the first time, puts three items down before you. A Floyd | brass lantern, an elven sword and a platinum bar. Sweat breaks out on Floyd | your brow. Oh no. He's on to you. "Now tell me, Mr. or Mrs. Floyd | AFGNCAAP...what would be your first action if I do this...?" Floyd | And, pressing a button on his one launcher with his other launcher, Floyd | your cuffs click open. Free. But it's no use. Floyd | Floyd | 1) >GET ALL Floyd | 2) >GET ALL Floyd | 3) >GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "all" | ||||
Floyd | (Some papers you picked up three adventures ago. They are held Floyd | together by a paperclip.) Floyd | You can't use that here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clip" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "papers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use that here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Some papers you picked up three adventures ago. They are held Floyd | together by a paperclip. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get gorilla" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "me" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "gorilla" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | AutomatonZX27 says, "I'll be back in a bit, need to take care of something" | |||
| maga asks, "let's get the stuff and try to use that?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Quicker than you can say cutscene, you're tied up again. The gorilla Floyd | looks at you. "You know, I always envied you. Getting all the Floyd | treasures, defending all those thiefs. Solving all those fiendish Floyd | puzzles. But now look. What has the world come to? All these angsty Floyd | protagonists with their guilt-ridden backstories, all these branching Floyd | narratives. You live in a world that no longer needs you. The puzzle Floyd | is dead. But don't worry, soon are you!" Floyd | With that, he lifts his rocket launcher! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Try to get back to that one childhood memory you always shut out, Floyd | and mentally reconcile with your mother. Floyd | 2) Choose any incidental memory that just happens to pop up. Floyd | 3) "Please, we can talk about this!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get lantern" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "sword" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Some papers you picked up three adventures ago. They are held Floyd | together by a paperclip. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "nope" | |||
| maga says, "okay, we're tied up again and we don't get the stuff" | ||||
| DavidW says, "3" | ||||
| maga says, "2" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "2" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "2." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Hey, you found a schematic for a rocket launcher in that one game on Floyd | that space station with the pirates. It said if someone said Floyd | "Niereleelrieleilieleelieleilieleiii", the rocket launcher would Floyd | deactivate. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Niereleelrieleliieleelieleilieleiii Floyd | 2) Niereleelreileilieleelieleilieleiii Floyd | 3) Niereleelreileilieleeleileilieleiii Floyd | 4) Niereleelrieleilieleelieleilieleiii Floyd | 5) Niereleelreileilieleleeileilieleiii Floyd | 6) Niereleelreileilleleeleileilieleiii Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha hah" | |||
| EmacsUser shakes his head. | ||||
| Ellison says, "hee" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| djfletch says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "4." | ||||
| maga says, "yeah, 4" | ||||
| DavidW says, "4" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "4" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Like a stubborn idea hammered into a pupil's head by a determined Floyd | teacher, the rocket launcher clicks. "Uh?" says the gorilla. "Must Floyd | reactive it. Sorry for the hassle. This'll just take a second." Floyd | Floyd | 1) Do nothing, as it looks like you can do nothing. Just wait for Floyd | death. Nothing to do. No, no. Just see another death message. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "papers" | ||||
Floyd | While the gorilla is distracted, you bend the paperclip into a Floyd | lockpick and you are free. As he sees this, the brute follows clich? Floyd | instead of logic and runs away! You are right behind him , through Floyd | endless, winding catacombs, always nearly but never quite losing him, Floyd | as he rounds a corner or climbs some vines. Finally, there is blinding Floyd | daylight! You blink into it, as you see your enemy jump into one of Floyd | two waiting, ostrich-pulled chariots. You jump into the second one and Floyd | whip the ostriches into moving! (Probably breaking some Protection of Floyd | Animals Act.) Speaking of harmed animals, there is a ridiculously cute Floyd | baby sloth in the middle of the road! Floyd | Floyd | 1) You drive over it, gaining more speed. Floyd | 2) You swerve around. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "yay" | |||
| DavidW says, "Chariot race!" | ||||
| schep says, "f 2" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Man, what?" | ||||
| schep says, "I mean ;2" | ||||
| maga says, "not the baby sloth! 2" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Baby sloth" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "2" | ||||
| DavidW says, "2" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Woosh! The baby sloth looks at you with big, thankful eyes. This will Floyd | have no gameplay consequences whatsoever. I am making an important Floyd | point about morality in games here! Floyd | Floyd | The exciting chase (music not included) leads you up a stony mountain Floyd | path. It grows smaller and smaller, but you gain on the gorilla. He Floyd | sees you behind him and pulls his reins to the right, to crash, er, Floyd | right into you! You have to make a quick decision!1! No time to lose Floyd | !11!1 Floyd | Floyd | 1) You decide to slow your ostriches a bit. Floyd | 2) You decide to whip your ostriches into full speed. Floyd | 3) You decide to swerve into him yourself! Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says (to Jacq), "unreliable" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hahahahaha" | ||||
| maga says, "ahahaha" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Man, too bad Tale isn't here." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yes" | ||||
| schep says, "z" | ||||
| DavidW says, "3" | ||||
| maga says, "3" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "worked in every other racing sequence in IF" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Sure, 3." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | You decide to ram the gorilla! This works better than expected. Both Floyd | chariots get wedged into each other, and soon you both swerve off the Floyd | road and tumble down the mountain in a twisted mass of ostrich, Floyd | chariot, gorilla and player character. You are swallowed by the green Floyd | of the jungle. You are food for the insects, etc. This is not the Floyd | optimal ending, in case you're wondering. Floyd | Floyd | X) Restart Floyd | R) Restore Floyd | Q) Quit Floyd | Floyd | 1) Look at what others had to say about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Haha." | |||
| maga says, "but not this one, apparently" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I liked 1." | ||||
| maga says, "all right, 1" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "1." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | You slow down, and predictably, the gorilla swerves his chariot - Floyd | right into thin air! Ostriches and chariot dance the same old, short Floyd | and painful dance with gravity, but the gorilla clinges to the edge of Floyd | the rock. He can't really get a grip with his rocket launcher, though, Floyd | and he slides downwards ever so slowly. "LISTEN!" he screams, Floyd | scrambling. "This is bigger than you and me. Bigger than everything! I Floyd | can give you names, addresses, phone numbers, twitter names, flickr Floyd | links." Floyd | "Who is it, primate? Who is behind this sketchily defined "this?" " Floyd | "It's the Player-PC divsion, they're onto us, the implementors are Floyd | onto us, but it's too late it's Floyd | ***Source file ended in the middle of quoted text: main source text. Floyd | This probably means that a quotation mark is missing somewhere. If you Floyd | are using Inform with syntax colouring, look for where the quoted-text Floyd | colour starts. (Sometimes this problem turns up because a piece of Floyd | quoted text contains a text substitution in square brackets which in Floyd | turn contains another piece of quoted text - this is not allowed, and Floyd | causes me to lose track.)*** Floyd | Floyd | You have won! Floyd | Floyd | X) Restart Floyd | R) Restore Floyd | Q) Quit Floyd | Floyd | 1) Look at what others had to say about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "w00t" | |||
| inky says, "wow" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay!" | ||||
| maga says, "IT WAS GRAHAM ALL ALONG" | ||||
| Roger says, "Kid's got some skills" | ||||
| DavidW says, "heeyah" | ||||
| djfletch says, "hurrah" | ||||
| maga says, "excellent" | ||||
| maga says, "let's see what's next up..." | ||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "Great one, Tale." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | Ellison says, "nice game" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load lachryma" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A catastrophic event threatens the continued existence of the twin Floyd | nations. You are Aris, an important citizen of the long linear Upper Floyd | Forest of Lachryma. If you cannot save your civilization, no one can. Floyd | Floyd | The Forests of Lachryma Floyd | An entry for Speed-IF Jacket 4 by Roger Carbol Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110415 / Inform 7 build 6F95 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | (For more information, try ABOUT.) Floyd | Floyd | Chamber of Reflection Floyd | A small, circular room, carved out of the depths of the Mother Tree. Floyd | What little light there is trickles in from a long hallway to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | You are roused from your meditations. You know that you must not Floyd | fail. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "You're just saying that because of your cameo." | |||
| Ellison says, "my non-cameo, you mean. my character was never rescued!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, true." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | This game was written for Speed-IF Jacket 4, completed 15 April 2011. Floyd | I wrote it in about three hours. The inspiring blurbs may be a bit Floyd | spoilery if you've not played the game through to at least one ending. Floyd | If you'd like to see them anyway, try SPOILERS. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga asks, "want to hold off?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's hold off." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Aris, an important citizen of the long linear Upper Forest of Floyd | Lachryma. If you cannot save your civilization, no one can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "north" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Chamber of Reflection Floyd | A small, circular room, carved out of the depths of the Mother Tree. Floyd | What little light there is trickles in from a long hallway to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Plaza Floyd | From this vantage point, you can see most of the north face of your Floyd | Mother Tree. Far above you is Citadel Bleph, founded by your own Floyd | great ancestors generations ago. Far below, all details of the Floyd | surface are lost to haze. You can vaguely discern the great Milk Sea, Floyd | and the Rainbow Spot within it. Floyd | Floyd | A stairway winds its way upwards to an observatory. It also continues Floyd | winding downwards until it eventually reaches a research station. The Floyd | rest of the city, and beyond its walls other cities around other Floyd | Mother Trees, could be visited by other paths. But your path lies Floyd | elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm, yeah." | |||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | Ancient and immense beyond measure, the Mother Tree is the foundation Floyd | of your entire civilization. It provides scale and oil, it provides Floyd | shelter, it provides a reason for living. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "> cut down tree" | |||
| DavidW says, "noooo" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x sea" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims (at ggg), "!!!" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Station Floyd | This building is among the lowest on the Mother Tree, although it Floyd | remains safely above the surface. The research pod is here, waiting Floyd | to take you down to the surface, where you are expected to retrieve Floyd | the asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x pod" | ||||
Floyd | It is a small vessel, designed for one person at most. It is raised Floyd | and lowered by a cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter pod" | ||||
Floyd | Research Pod Floyd | The research pod is incredibly cramped. There's just enough room for Floyd | two levers: one labeled DOWN and the other UP. There's also a small Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "eat lever" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the down lever or the up lever? Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I was impressed with how moral you guys were in the last game. I probably would have run over that sloth." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| schep says, "but it was sooo cuute!11" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "pull down" | ||||
Floyd | (the down lever) Floyd | You give the lever labeled DOWN a push, and you quickly find yourself Floyd | plummeting downwards. This continues for several minutes, until Floyd | there's a mighty screeching sound, and you find yourself at a Floyd | standstill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tiny opaque window; barely large enough to steal a glimpse Floyd | through. A large plaque immediately below the window has this Floyd | message: "WARNING: Do not open window in transit." The window is Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ell), "ha" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | You open the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Are we stuck in mid-down?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You would plummet to your death. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look through window" | ||||
Floyd | Ignoring the admonition of the warning sign, you gaze out through the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | Far below, you can clearly see the Milk Sea, stretching out to an Floyd | impossibly-distant horizon. In its center, the colourful Rainbow Sea, Floyd | perfectly round. And in the center of that sea, you perceive yet Floyd | another concentric round sea, this one of inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | By the Mother Tree -- you comprehend the whole in one terrible Floyd | instant. This is no sea, no ocean. You gaze down upon the Floyd | garguantuan eye of some unimagineably immense creature, some god. All Floyd | you have known, or ever will know, is nothing but the tiniest speck in Floyd | comparison. Yet you cannot shake the feeling that even as you look Floyd | down in awe, this behemoth is gazing back. Floyd | Floyd | Your mind is shattered; perhaps another can complete your mission, or Floyd | perhaps your civilization is doomed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have lost everything *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 15 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Yikes." | |||
| maga says, "eep" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Research Pod Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Before entering the pod, try going up." | |||
| Ellison says, "at least we got the full score" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "push up" | ||||
Floyd | (the up lever) Floyd | You give the lever labeled UP a mighty shove, and, following a Floyd | shudder, the pod resumes its ascent. After several more minutes, the Floyd | pod comes to a halt at the station. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | (the up lever) Floyd | You give the lever labeled UP a pull, but nothing seems to happen. Floyd | Perhaps you're as far up as you can go. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "That's the speedif way" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, ""perhaps" Hm." | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Out and up?" | ||||
| maga asks, "spoilers?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through window" | ||||
Floyd | You see the research station. Floyd | Floyd | > | Alex says (to maga), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that spoilers are to the southeast." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Research Station Floyd | This building is among the lowest on the Mother Tree, although it Floyd | remains safely above the surface. The research pod is here, waiting Floyd | to take you down to the surface, where you are expected to retrieve Floyd | the asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Plaza Floyd | From this vantage point, you can see most of the north face of your Floyd | Mother Tree. Far above you is Citadel Bleph, founded by your own Floyd | great ancestors generations ago. Far below, all details of the Floyd | surface are lost to haze. You can vaguely discern the great Milk Sea, Floyd | and the Rainbow Spot within it. Floyd | Floyd | A stairway winds its way upwards to an observatory. It also continues Floyd | winding downwards until it eventually reaches a research station. The Floyd | rest of the city, and beyond its walls other cities around other Floyd | Mother Trees, could be visited by other paths. But your path lies Floyd | elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Signals Observatory Floyd | This building is dominated by enormous telescopes and other optical Floyd | instruments, all pointed across The Great Gap. No signal from the Floyd | Lower Forest has been received for generations, yet the scientists Floyd | live in hope. Indeed, it is to them you owe your mission, for it was Floyd | they who spotted the asteroid plummeting downwards. The asteroid you Floyd | are now sworn to retrieve. Floyd | Floyd | A large telescope appears to be merely pointed towards the floor. Floyd | That can't be right. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's odd." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x telescope" | ||||
Floyd | Upon closer examination, you determine that it's actually an enormous Floyd | microscope. It is pointed at a small bowl of oatmeal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x oatmeal" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be a normal bowl of oatmeal. As you observe it, though, Floyd | numerous dark spots appear on its surface; they appear to be arranging Floyd | themselves into letters and words. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | As you watch, you see the following message appear: "PLEASE DO NOT EAT Floyd | US" Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "hee hee" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l in microscope" | ||||
Floyd | You peer into the microscope, but it's all a blur. You try twiddling Floyd | various knobs, but nothing seems to help. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "eat oatmeal" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowl of oatmeal) Floyd | You shovel the oatmeal into your mouth. It tastes... a bit strange. Floyd | Nevertheless, you finish it. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser exclaims (at maga), "!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "gah" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "nom nom nom" | ||||
| maga says, "FINE" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Signals Observatory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This outmeal tastes... delic-- wait, I mean SENTIENT" | |||
| DavidW says, "We're probably in the bowl too, y'know." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Signals Observatory Floyd | This building is dominated by enormous telescopes and other optical Floyd | instruments, all pointed across The Great Gap. No signal from the Floyd | Lower Forest has been received for generations, yet the scientists Floyd | live in hope. Indeed, it is to them you owe your mission, for it was Floyd | they who spotted the asteroid plummeting downwards. The asteroid you Floyd | are now sworn to retrieve. Floyd | Floyd | A large telescope appears to be merely pointed towards the floor. Floyd | That can't be right. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bowl of oatmeal here. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "And after Ellison was telling us how noble our decisions are." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "oatmeal, hello" | ||||
Floyd | You can't talk to the bowl of oatmeal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "take bowl" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look through microscope" | ||||
Floyd | You peer into the microscope, but it's all a blur. You try twiddling Floyd | various knobs, but nothing seems to help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take microscope" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "maybe we can throw the oatmeal out of the window" | |||
| maga says, "give the eye an infection" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point microscope at sky" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn microscope" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "maybe we can try the DOWN lever again after it stops?" | |||
| maga says, "sure" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Main Plaza Floyd | From this vantage point, you can see most of the north face of your Floyd | Mother Tree. Far above you is Citadel Bleph, founded by your own Floyd | great ancestors generations ago. Far below, all details of the Floyd | surface are lost to haze. You can vaguely discern the great Milk Sea, Floyd | and the Rainbow Spot within it. Floyd | Floyd | A stairway winds its way upwards to an observatory. It also continues Floyd | winding downwards until it eventually reaches a research station. The Floyd | rest of the city, and beyond its walls other cities around other Floyd | Mother Trees, could be visited by other paths. But your path lies Floyd | elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Research Station Floyd | This building is among the lowest on the Mother Tree, although it Floyd | remains safely above the surface. The research pod is here, waiting Floyd | to take you down to the surface, where you are expected to retrieve Floyd | the asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter pod" | ||||
Floyd | Research Pod Floyd | The research pod is incredibly cramped. There's just enough room for Floyd | two levers: one labeled DOWN and the other UP. There's also a small Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "pull down" | ||||
Floyd | (the down lever) Floyd | You give the lever labeled DOWN a push, and you quickly find yourself Floyd | plummeting downwards. This continues for several minutes, until Floyd | there's a mighty screeching sound, and you find yourself at a Floyd | standstill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | (the down lever) Floyd | You give the lever labeled DOWN a mighty shove, and, following a Floyd | shudder, the pod resumes its descent. After several more minutes, the Floyd | pod comes to a halt at the surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Site Floyd | The research pod has set down at the base of the Mother Tree, on the Floyd | shore of the Milk Sea. Far, far to the south, you see dark shape Floyd | which must be the asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a grappling hook here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x hook" | ||||
Floyd | This hook must have detached from the research pod automatically. It Floyd | is connected to a thin strong cable which extends back to the pod. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "take hook" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "tie hook to me" | ||||
Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "swing on hook" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing sensible to swing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Impact Site Floyd | You eventually reach the site of the asteroid. It appears to be a Floyd | large irregular mass of stone, much larger than you. Far to the Floyd | north, you see the Mother Tree stretching upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "just carry it south" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "put hook on asteroid" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the asteroid would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x asteroid" | ||||
Floyd | This thing is far too large for you to carry back to the research pod. Floyd | You examine its surface, and find several places where you could Floyd | attach the grappling hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attach hook to asteroid" | ||||
Floyd | You firmly attach the grappling hook to the asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Impact Site Floyd | You eventually reach the site of the asteroid. It appears to be a Floyd | large irregular mass of stone, much larger than you. Far to the Floyd | north, you see the Mother Tree stretching upwards. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a grappling hook here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb asteroid" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "stand on asteroid" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | Ancient and immense beyond measure, the Mother Tree is the foundation Floyd | of your entire civilization. It provides scale and oil, it provides Floyd | shelter, it provides a reason for living. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "doesn't seem to be much else we can do here" | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "u?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Site Floyd | The research pod has set down at the base of the Mother Tree, on the Floyd | shore of the Milk Sea. Far, far to the south, you see dark shape Floyd | which must be the asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x sea" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter pod" | ||||
Floyd | Research Pod Floyd | The research pod is incredibly cramped. There's just enough room for Floyd | two levers: one labeled DOWN and the other UP. There's also a small Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "pull up" | ||||
Floyd | (the up lever) Floyd | You give the lever labeled UP a pull, and you quickly find yourself Floyd | rushing upwards. This continues for several minutes, until there's a Floyd | mighty screeching sound, and you find yourself at a standstill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | (the up lever) Floyd | You give the lever labeled UP a mighty shove, and, following a Floyd | shudder, the pod resumes its ascent. After several more minutes, the Floyd | pod comes to a halt at the station. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You hear cheering outside. As you exit the pod, you see a number of Floyd | excited scientists, as well as your family, and the king himself. Floyd | "You have saved us all, Aris, of the noble clan of Bleph," he says. Floyd | "A statue shall be erected in your honour, so that everyone knows of Floyd | your bravery forevermore." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are a hero *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 51 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Research Pod Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "spoilers" | ||||
Floyd | The blurbs I tried to incorporate are: Floyd | Floyd | * "Eyelashes have seldom been rendered in such loving detail." -- Floyd | Sarah Morayati Floyd | * "Never in any form of media has a bowl of oatmeal been portrayed as Floyd | a more sympathetic character." -- Colin Sandel Floyd | * "A world steeped in arcane tree-mysticism." - Tanga Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz hops on his skateboard and rolls out. | maga says, "I suspect that's it" | |||
| Roger says, "Yep, that's about it." | ||||
| djfletch exclaims, "the mother tree was an eyelash!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Probably." | ||||
| DavidW says, "to maga" | ||||
| Roger says, "The oatmeal gives a different message in each room, but it's not really interesting enough to replay just for that." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says (to Roger), "Wow, that was a creative take on those blurbs." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Where were the eyelashes?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x oatmeal" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be a normal bowl of oatmeal. As you observe it, though, Floyd | numerous dark spots appear on its surface; they appear to be arranging Floyd | themselves into letters and words. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | As you watch, you see the following message appear: "BE CAREFUL" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Nice." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Roger says, "Also, one may recall that the lachrymal glands produce tears, and that the PC is named Aris Bleph; blepharis is the latin/medical term for eyelashes." | |||
| schep says, "ow ow there's an asteroid in my eye" | ||||
| Roger exclaims, "Anyway, yeah, short and sweet. Thanks for playing!" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So the other sea was another eye?" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Roger), "Thanks!" | ||||
| Roger says, "The rainbow sea is the iris (which is greek for rainbow)" | ||||
| Pacian says, "And I'm still on the peanut gallery." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load oceantower" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The zeppelin lurches suddenly and I tumble forward, spilling my books Floyd | on the deck. Peyton laughs sympathetically and holds out his hand. Floyd | Floyd | "I know you're out of your element, Nicky," he says, as he helps me to Floyd | my feet, "but try to go five minutes without falling over." Floyd | Floyd | I feel myself blushing as I release his fingers. "I'm not used to air Floyd | travel. I'll be better on the... ground." Floyd | Floyd | His sensual lips broaden into a smile. "Not ground, perhaps, but Floyd | sturdier purchase for sure." Floyd | Floyd | I can see it ahead. Rising from the ocean. Just like Peyton, it's Floyd | striking and tall and impossible. Floyd | Floyd | Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower Floyd | A weird romance by C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110416 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | [If this is your first visit to the tower, type ABOUT and press Floyd | return.] Floyd | Floyd | Zeppelin Floyd | The great windows of the gondola offer a commanding view of the ruddy Floyd | sun as it sets into the darkening sea. The only landmark in sight is Floyd | the great Gothic tower the airship is tethered to: an incredible stack Floyd | of columns, arches and buttresses stretching far down into the roiling Floyd | waves. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow gangway leads down to the top of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | The captain watches over the bridge - at least, what parts of it he Floyd | can see over his great, bushy beard. "The air is calm, sirs," he says. Floyd | "We should be able to hold here 'til sunrise." Floyd | Floyd | Peyton gazes out at the view, arms folded. "Thank you, captain. Trust Floyd | that our mission is an important one, and your vessel shall soon Floyd | return to the fight against the squidmen." Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "It is shaping up to be a great day for this." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | (Hi! This is an interactive fiction for SpeedIF Jacket 4, a game jam Floyd | of sorts where participants submit blurbs that might appear in the Floyd | review of an IF game, and then receive a random selection of blurbs Floyd | submitted by others. And then make a game that fits them. To see what Floyd | blurbs this game is based on and who came up with them, type BLURBS. Floyd | Floyd | To succeed at this game you'll need to EXAMINE or X the objects around Floyd | you, go UP and DOWN, answer YES and NO and also listen for cues for Floyd | possible actions from other characters - for example, if someone asks Floyd | you to take a seat, try SIT. Floyd | Floyd | This game was written over a week during too little spare time.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Haha, squidmen" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "blurbs" | ||||
Floyd | "I suppose it's uplifting. It's got a zeppelin, after all." -- Floyd | Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | "Okay, we get it: anthropologists are cooler." -- Sam Kabo Ashwell Floyd | "I never thought I would enjoy a game where you could only carry one Floyd | object as much as I did this one." -- Colin Sandel Floyd | "Moody and dark." -- Tanga Floyd | "Literally blood-drenched." -- Roger Carbol Floyd | "I'm not sure whether the anachronisms are deliberate or if it's just Floyd | that the author is astonishingly ignorant." -- David Fletcher Floyd | "If you love ancient history and passionate romance, this game is NOT Floyd | for you!" -- Royce Odle Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Haha." | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I clutch a number of reference books to my chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | Just a few handy reference books: Morphology and Syntax in Modern Floyd | Languages; Common Human Phonemes; Semiotics Across the Tree of Life; Floyd | The Symbology of Squidmen, Cuttles and Other Aquatics; Ouroborous: Floyd | Retro-Causality and Language. You know, the usual suspects. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Oh, hello. So... I'm Nicholas St John: pan-human, inhuman and aquatic Floyd | linguist. Slight of build, low on confidence and, well, generally too Floyd | modest for my own good. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x peyton" | ||||
Floyd | Dr Peyton Cross III: the notorious anthropologist, pursuer of the Floyd | arcane, ambassador to the Ebu Gogo, biographer of Spring Heeled Jack, Floyd | rumoured to be the bastard son of the Count of St. Germain. A tall, Floyd | slender, upright and elegant gentleman. His long hair - white as ice, Floyd | at odds with his ageless features - always covers his left eye. Floyd | Floyd | He's wearing a tailored suit, white gloves, a scabbard and pink Floyd | trainers. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "the 'one inventory object' is 'a number of books'. well, okay." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm a little confused on our situation, but it's probably the lack of sleep." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x trainers" | ||||
Floyd | I've never seen such shoes before. I can only presume that Peyton has Floyd | been travelling in Africa. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says (to DW), "I don't think it's just you" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x scabbard" | ||||
Floyd | In the scabbard is a sabre. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x scabbard" | ||||
Floyd | In the scabbard is a sabre. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A man with a peekaboo haircut? Am in lurve." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sabre" | ||||
Floyd | On closer inspection, this is definitely a sabre. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "snrk" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||||
Floyd | On closer inspection, this is definitely a tailored suit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x tower" | ||||
Floyd | One struggles to imagine how something like this was even built. Does Floyd | it rest on the deep bed of the sea? Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "sa-BRAY" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Zeppelin Floyd | The great windows of the gondola offer a commanding view of the ruddy Floyd | sun as it sets into the darkening sea. The only landmark in sight is Floyd | the great Gothic tower the airship is tethered to: an incredible stack Floyd | of columns, arches and buttresses stretching far down into the roiling Floyd | waves. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow gangway leads down to the top of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | The captain watches over the bridge - at least, what parts of it he Floyd | can see over his great, bushy beard. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton gazes out at the view, arms folded. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think we're supposed to go down?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Peyton takes my hand and places it in the crook of his arm. "It Floyd | wouldn't do to stumble on the gangway, Nicky," he says cheerfully. Floyd | Floyd | I risk a glance over the side, at the turbulent waves beating against Floyd | the distant base of the tower, and hang on to him tightly. Floyd | Floyd | Ocean Tower Floyd | Grey and turbulent, the clouds above and ocean below stretch off Floyd | towards the blood-red setting sun. We are atop a simple circle of Floyd | mildewed stone, seemingly suspended in mid-air without guardrail or Floyd | balustrade. A low dome stands at the circle's centre. Floyd | Floyd | The HMS Pegasus has been tethered to several of the metal loops that Floyd | protrude from the stone. Floyd | Floyd | A number of airmen stand guard around the dome, rifles resting on Floyd | their shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton disengages from my arm and peers around the dome. "Fascinating. Floyd | There must be some way to get inside." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave waves his arms, rolls a poor lore check, and then disappears - 'oh cra..' | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dome" | ||||
Floyd | A weathered stone dome, stained with mould and guano. Bold characters Floyd | are engraved around the dome's base. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't recognise this language," Peyton says. "You're the linguist, Floyd | Nicky. Can you read the engraving?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read engraving" | ||||
Floyd | I walk once around the dome, taking in the strange script engraved Floyd | around its base. Floyd | Floyd | "Not aquatic," Peyton says. Floyd | Floyd | "Not aquatic," I agree. "Related to Latin, perhaps. A dialect of Floyd | Harpese or Sirench. I think it says..." Floyd | Floyd | SHE AWAITS YOUR ADORATION Floyd | Floyd | "How marvelous," Peyton says. "How singularly unhelpful." Floyd | Floyd | "Hello," he adds, a moment later. "I think I've found the way in. A Floyd | small metal door with a fiendish puzzle lock." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | Rusted by exposure to the sea air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||
Floyd | There are a large number of small moving parts. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, quite fiendish indeed," Peyton says. "And very intricate." Floyd | Floyd | He draws back a foot and then kicks the door hard. The puzzle lock Floyd | comes apart with a twang. "Too intricate to be fit for purpose, Floyd | really. Let's head down when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ha" | |||
| schep says, "ugh. he's one of *those* adventurers" | ||||
| DavidW says, "but but" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x airmen" | ||||
Floyd | Burly and uncouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Isn't that a violation of the Narrative Code or something?" | |||
| Roger says, "We can only help he'll get killed in a suitably gory fashion" | ||||
| Pacian says, "Peyton violates a lot of codes." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "adore dome" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "*She* will be inside the dome, not the dome itself." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "d?" | ||||
| Roger says, "What ho, the game is afoot, let us off" | ||||
| maga says, "Z:GI did something similar with the troll PC, I think" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Threeway, here we come." | ||||
| maga says, "but it's always an awesome gag" | ||||
| schep says, "(Brogmoid)" | ||||
| DavidW says (to maga), "yes." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Atrium Floyd | Light lances into the darkness through arched windows, casting Floyd | terrible shadows from inhuman statues. The floor of this age-ruined Floyd | atrium lies far below and there is no obvious route down. Floyd | Floyd | A rusted lever protrudes from the floor at the edge of the drop. Floyd | Floyd | A handful of airmen accompany us into the tower, rifles at the ready, Floyd | glancing around nervously. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton stands suitably statuesque, given the surroundings. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I'm picturing this guy just like Zapp Branigan. Which makes us kif" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x lever" | ||||
Floyd | A large and sturdy mechanism, but the sea air has clearly been gnawing Floyd | at the iron. It shouldn't be that hard to pull, although I suppose it Floyd | might snap. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton steps to the edge of the drop. As on the roof, there are no Floyd | barriers or guardrails. "I can see light down there," he says. "I'm Floyd | afraid we may have to conquer your fear of heights directly, Nicky." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "At least try to pull the thing" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | I grip the lever with both hands and pull. It hardly moves. I lean Floyd | back, pulling with all my weight. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton sees what I'm doing and exclaims, "Nicky, no!" Floyd | Floyd | But it's too late. The lever suddenly gives, and clunks into a new Floyd | position. A low thumping resounds from somewhere distant, followed by Floyd | a rumbling that grows in volume. Floyd | Floyd | "For all we know, you may have killed us all," Peyton says, touching Floyd | my elbow affectionately. "I don't hold it against you, of course. I Floyd | just want you to know the facts." Floyd | Floyd | The rumbling gives way to a quieter, higher pitched sound. The Floyd | rattling of chains, I think. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian exclaims, "No, don't do it!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "uh-oh" | ||||
| maga asks, "can we push Peyton over the edge, please?" | ||||
| schep says, "meh, he's all assumptions and empty talk" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Captain, I'm frightened." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Hold me." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Unseen chains rattle in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | "Possibly a false alarm," Peyton says. "Although I wouldn't relax just Floyd | yet." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "relax" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | If such a thing is here, I barely deign to notice it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The rattling grows louder, and a baroque cage rises up from below, Floyd | swinging to a halt at the edge of the drop. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh," Peyton says. "I suppose we can ride this down." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Down?" | |||
| schep says, "(is Nicky male or female?)" | ||||
| Roger says, "Nicholas" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Male." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x self" | ||||
Floyd | I'm Nicholas St John: pan-human, inhuman and aquatic linguist. Slight Floyd | of build, low on confidence and, well, generally too modest for my own Floyd | good. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But we're not quite human." | |||
| Pacian says, "Yes we are." | ||||
| Pacian says, "*Human." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh wait. The pan- in- is what type of linguist we are. I misread that." | ||||
| maga says, "I think we just know nonhuman languages" | ||||
| Roger says, "Those are modifiers for linguinist, yes." | ||||
| schep says, "those adjectives could describe what languages we study, yeah" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | "You fellows stay here," Peyton tells the airmen. Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry sir," the lead airman says, "but there's no telling what's down Floyd | there. We'll provide an armed escort." Floyd | Floyd | Peyton smiles with impossible charm, and places himself between the Floyd | airman and the rest of us. "I'm sure you've seen terrible things," he Floyd | says. "Your friends torn limb from limb by squidmen, perhaps, and Floyd | coastal villages laid waste by their galvanic land ironclads. Or maybe Floyd | you've seen the fungal terrors of the comet-spawn, or the molten Floyd | warriors of Vesuvius. But I ask you to imagine-" he sweeps back his Floyd | hair "-what I have seen with this eye." Floyd | Floyd | For perhaps a second, the airman stares at Peyton uncomprehending. And Floyd | then his eyes widen, his jaw hangs slack, and his legs begin to Floyd | tremble. "Y-y-yes sir," he stammers, sweat standing out on his brow, Floyd | "we'll stay here, whatever you say, sir!" Floyd | Floyd | Peyton adjusts his hair and smiles gracefully. "Good man." He extends Floyd | a hand towards the cage. "Shall we, Nicky?" Floyd | Floyd | Baroque Cage Floyd | Gripping Peyton's hand tightly, I step gingerly into the cage. There's Floyd | not much room in here, and we're forced close together. My heart Floyd | races. Fear of heights, of course. The trip on the Pegasus did nothing Floyd | to cure me. Floyd | Floyd | The lead airman - still wide-eyed and sweating - nods and throws the Floyd | lever. We begin to descend. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton slips my arm into his. "You're not frightened, are you?" Floyd | Floyd | (I could say yes or no.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Called it!" | |||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||
| Ellison has connected. | Roger says, "Ho yay" | |||
| DavidW asks, "May I say 'yes'?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "go for it" | ||||
| maga says, "go for it" | ||||
| schep says, "yes sound good" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Only of heights, the dark and squidmen." Floyd | Floyd | Peyton grins. "You shouldn't be afraid of those things, Nicky. There's Floyd | far worse out there." Floyd | Floyd | "I can always trust you to put me at ease, Peyton." Floyd | Floyd | He glances down at my hand in the crook of his arm. "You know, I put Floyd | myself at ease by thinking of moments spent with you in carefree days. Floyd | Punting on the Cam; summer picnics; when you taught me to waltz - and Floyd | the rest." Floyd | Floyd | His hair was raven black back then, not so many years ago. Floyd | Floyd | "But the only defence we have against horror is to learn about it, Floyd | don't you agree, Nicky?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Of course. It's difficult for the ignorant to do good, and easy for Floyd | them to blunder into doing harm." Floyd | Floyd | Peyton pats my hand. "You've always been a man after my own heart - Floyd | supporting me when others told me that no good could come of my work. Floyd | I don't know where I'd be without you." Floyd | Floyd | I shrug, turning my face to hide my blushing cheeks. Floyd | Floyd | We ride in silence for a while. Bright arches rise into view and the Floyd | cage slows to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | Atrium Floor Floyd | The setting sun glares through the wide, arched windows that look down Floyd | on this circular floor, illuminating the complex engravings on the Floyd | walls. A steep staircase spirals around the circumference, descending Floyd | into shadow. Floyd | Floyd | The baroque cage we rode down sits here, at the end of lengthy chains Floyd | that dangle from pitch darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton waves a hand at the engravings. "Good thing I brought a Floyd | linguist, don't you think?" Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "yay punting" | |||
| Pacian says, "Peyton is a dab hand with a wet pole." | ||||
| maga says, "clearly he is a good sort after all" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x engravings" | ||||
Floyd | "They're simple pictographs, Peyton. You can probably interpret them Floyd | as well as I can." Floyd | Floyd | "I'm interested in your perspective." Floyd | Floyd | I look from one stylised image to the next. "It's some sort of Floyd | history. There was a beautiful woman, she fell in love with a man who Floyd | lived under a hill or mountain, she stole his heart, the mountain Floyd | spewed fire, but she was long gone. A rather jaded love story, I'd Floyd | say." Floyd | Floyd | "Perhaps. But valuing one person over all others... there can be Floyd | something selfish about love, don't you agree?" Floyd | Floyd | (I could say yes or no.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Hah" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I mentally combined the two lines and misread and saw "she stole his jacket"" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I want to say yes again" | ||||
| maga says, "works for me" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "When you put it like that, I suppose so. Looking at all the bad Floyd | things going on in the world, choosing one person over everyone else Floyd | seems rather unfair. I suppose." Floyd | Floyd | Peyton considers my response in thoughtful silence. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "who says you only have to choose one? ;)" | |||
| Roger says, "We just did" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Atrium Floor Floyd | The setting sun glares through the wide, arched windows that look down Floyd | on this circular floor, illuminating the complex engravings on the Floyd | walls. A steep staircase spirals around the circumference, descending Floyd | into shadow. Floyd | Floyd | The baroque cage we rode down sits here, at the end of lengthy chains Floyd | that dangle from pitch darkness. Floyd | Floyd | I hang on Peyton's arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang, I hope Peyton doesn't sacrifice us to save the world" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x engravings" | ||||
Floyd | The engravings tell the story of a woman who steals the heart of a man Floyd | who lives in a volcano. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Throne Room Floyd | This wide space is dark and filthy, fading daylight oozing in through Floyd | slitted windows. A massive stone heart occupies the vaulted ceiling, Floyd | looming over the raised throne below. Floyd | Floyd | Collapsed upon the throne is the stiff, leathery corpse of a woman Floyd | clad in faded rags and a tall, dust-caked head-dress. Unkempt, Floyd | dessicated feathers dangle from her bony arms. Floyd | Floyd | Before the throne is a low table or altar, upon which lies a cobwebbed Floyd | ceremonial dagger. Floyd | Floyd | Small objects crunch and snap beneath my feet and I realise with a Floyd | gasp that the floor is littered with yellowed, crumbling bones. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton keeps a wary eye on the bethroned corpse. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says (to Ell), "yeah, it should totally be the other way around" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x corpse" | ||||
Floyd | I approach the mummified corpse warily, reluctant to stray far from Floyd | Peyton's side. Floyd | Floyd | Before I realise what he's doing, Peyton has wrapped an arm around my Floyd | waist and taken my chin in his hand. Floyd | Floyd | I try to turn my face from his. "W-what are you-" Floyd | Floyd | He silences me with his lips. With one last anxious glance at the taut Floyd | skull-face of the mummy, I am lost in the kiss. My heart races. My Floyd | heart pounds. My heart- Floyd | Floyd | Not my heart. I open my eyes and break free of Peyton. The room has Floyd | changed. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga asks, "the world sacrifices us to save Peyton?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| schep says, "worship corpse" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Throne Room Floyd | This wide space glows with a warm and impossible light. A slowly Floyd | beating heart of molten stone occupies the vaulted ceiling, looming Floyd | over the raised throne below. Floyd | Floyd | A regal woman reclines on the throne, her voluptuous figure draped in Floyd | fine silk, a towering gold headdress affixed to her voluminous hair. Floyd | Lustrous feathers sweep back from her bare arms. Floyd | Floyd | Liquid iron belches up through cracks in the floor, assuming the Floyd | vaguely human forms of molten warriors. Floyd | Floyd | Before the throne is a low table or altar, upon which lies a gleaming Floyd | ceremonial dagger. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton faces the throne. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "crazy" | |||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x woman" | ||||
Floyd | Inhumanly beautiful. Something about her is very off. Not just the Floyd | feathers - the proportions, the way she carries herself, her fiery Floyd | eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Supplicants," the woman says. Her words seem to squirm in my ear, in Floyd | no language I should be able to understand. "It has been a very long Floyd | time." Floyd | Floyd | "I know who you are," Peyton says. "You stole one of the Blood God's Floyd | seventeen hearts, and much more besides." Floyd | Floyd | "And I know who you are," the woman purrs. "A troublesome ant that Floyd | does not know its place." Floyd | Floyd | She turns her fire-bright eyes on me. "And I know who you are. The Floyd | question is, do you?" Floyd | Floyd | (I could say yes or no.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Don't hate a playa, baby; hate the game." | |||
| schep says, "get dagger before someone else does" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, ""No. Why don't you tell me?"" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I vote for ``no.'' Also, the dagger." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do we know who we are?" | ||||
| schep says, "no" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Someone's gonna get cut with a dagger." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "Maybe I don't. Does anyone really know who they are? Can a mind Floyd | comprehend itself?" Floyd | Floyd | "Trust me," the woman purrs. "Your role here is clear to me. I will Floyd | entertain your supplication." Floyd | Floyd | Peyton steps forward. "I know what's happening," he says. "The Floyd | squidmen, the comet-spawn, Mount Vesuvius and the time-traveller army Floyd | of the Africas. The Lunar Triplets and their seductive death cult. The Floyd | Invisible Ripper and his bloody trail of assassinated heads of state. Floyd | All these things right now? All of a sudden?" Floyd | Floyd | He takes a deep breath. "We're on the brink of something terrible, Floyd | some great cataclysm. And, yes, I know what it is. But I don't know Floyd | how to stop it." Floyd | Floyd | "Stopping it is quite beyond your feeble means," the woman says. "But Floyd | I can tell you what would be required anyway. You know the price of my Floyd | favour, of course. Does your companion?" Floyd | Floyd | (I could say yes or no.) Floyd | Floyd | > | maga asks, "is TAKE even one of the allowed verbs?" | |||
| Pacian says, "For once, yes." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "take dagger" | ||||
Floyd | I take one look at the molten warriors and decide not to make any Floyd | threatening moves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "take umbrage" | ||||
Floyd | If such a thing is here, I barely deign to notice it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | EmacsUser says, "I vote for ``no'' again." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "sure" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "Argh, storm knocked the power out for a while." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Jizaboz), "Welcome back." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Love, not Blood" | ||||
| maga says, "okay" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "Really, Peyton is in charge here." Floyd | Floyd | Her lips curve into a predatory smile. "He certainly is." Floyd | Floyd | I notice that Peyton is avoiding my gaze. "The price," he says, Floyd | letting his hand fall to the hilt of his sabre, "is the heart of the Floyd | one I love most." Floyd | Floyd | I feel faint. "Peyton! You can't mean-" Floyd | Floyd | "To save the world," he says. "This is to save the world. Are you Floyd | prepared to die for that? So that countless others can live?" Floyd | Floyd | (I could say yes or no.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says (to emacs), "Thanks" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "oh hell, no" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "(or maybe, whichever)" | ||||
| maga says, "well, on the one hand, the fate of millions; on the other, punting" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to maga), "On the Cam, no less." | |||
| schep says, "maybe for a hero. but this guy is no hero." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So we kiss her to make him hate us?" | ||||
| Roger says, "Come on, Peyton; we all know the one you love most is yourself." | ||||
| schep says (to Roger), "excellent point" | ||||
| Pacian says, "Lols." | ||||
| maga says, "I don't trust either of 'em, to be honest" | ||||
| maga asks, "so, no?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't want to die. Perhaps its selfish, but I don't want to die." Floyd | Floyd | Peyton draws his sabre. "It is selfish. I'm selfish. I love you, and I Floyd | don't want to kill you. Even to save the world." Floyd | Floyd | The woman on the throne sighs. "Unfortunately, the heart needs blood." Floyd | Floyd | The molten warriors close in around us, white hot spears raised. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "The squidmen have a saying about love: blurrrrb burb blub BURBPLE BURBPLE blurb blub" | |||
| schep asks, "try dagger again?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "take dagger" | ||||
Floyd | (First dropping the reference books.) Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton drives his sabre into the heart of one of the molten warriors. Floyd | Unexpectedly, it sprays out great gouts of blood before batting Peyton Floyd | away. The wound in the molten metal reseals. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Roger), "I'm glad you brought that up. I was going to, but couldn't remember the exact wording or spelling." | |||
| maga says, "who to stab, who to stab" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe we can do that too?" | ||||
| Ellison says, ">LOVE WOMAN. STAB HER" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "> stab woman?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "stab warrior" | ||||
| Roger says, "Now I wish we have even one monkey" | ||||
| maga says, "okay, let's try the woman, then Peyton when that fails" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "stab woman" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "Stabbing is just attacking for peons." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attack woman" | ||||
Floyd | Attack the Usurper Bride with my dainty hands? Hardly. Floyd | Floyd | As one of the molten warriors turns towards me, Peyton darts in front Floyd | of it. "Run, Nicky!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attack woman with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | I try to enter the fray, but Peyton pushes me back. "Nicky, run!" Floyd | Floyd | But there must be something I can do! Floyd | Floyd | Peyton drives his sabre into the heart of one of the molten warriors. Floyd | Unexpectedly, it sprays out great gouts of blood before batting Peyton Floyd | away. The wound in the molten metal reseals. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "run!" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "attack peyton" | ||||
Floyd | Attack Peyton with my dainty hands? Hardly. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton parries a molten spear with a shower of sparks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "stab, not attack" | |||
| schep says, "unknown verb" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attack peyton with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | I try to enter the fray, but Peyton pushes me back. "Nicky, run!" Floyd | Floyd | But there must be something I can do! Floyd | Floyd | As one of the molten warriors turns towards me, Peyton darts in front Floyd | of it. "Run, Nicky!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "attack peyton with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | I try to enter the fray, but Peyton pushes me back. "Nicky, run!" Floyd | Floyd | But there must be something I can do! Floyd | Floyd | Peyton drives his sabre into the heart of one of the molten warriors. Floyd | Unexpectedly, it sprays out great gouts of blood before batting Peyton Floyd | away. The wound in the molten metal reseals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Throne Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "okay, a warrior then" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x dagger" | ||||
Floyd | On closer inspection, this is definitely a ceremonial dagger. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton drives his sabre into the heart of one of the molten warriors. Floyd | Unexpectedly, it sprays out great gouts of blood before batting Peyton Floyd | away. The wound in the molten metal reseals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "throw dagger at woman" | ||||
Floyd | I have too weak a throwing arm. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton parries a molten spear with a shower of sparks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Turns out we have good reason to be modest" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attack me with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | I try to enter the fray, but Peyton pushes me back. "Nicky, run!" Floyd | Floyd | But there must be something I can do! Floyd | Floyd | As one of the molten warriors turns towards me, Peyton darts in front Floyd | of it. "Run, Nicky!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "There is also > attack me." | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "attack heart" | ||||
Floyd | It's too far away. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton drives his sabre into the heart of one of the molten warriors. Floyd | Unexpectedly, it sprays out great gouts of blood before batting Peyton Floyd | away. The wound in the molten metal reseals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x heart" | ||||
Floyd | Well, the pictographs did say that the woman stole someone's heart. Floyd | Massive and sinister, it throbs with thickly flowing magma. Pulsating Floyd | blood vessels loop down to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton parries a molten spear with a shower of sparks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The vessels? cut the vessels?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "attack warrior with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | If such a thing is here, I barely deign to notice it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "attack vessels" | ||||
Floyd | Attack the blood vessels with my dainty hands? Hardly. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton drives his sabre into the heart of one of the molten warriors. Floyd | Unexpectedly, it sprays out great gouts of blood before batting Peyton Floyd | away. The wound in the molten metal reseals. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Literally drench in blood, this game." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attack vessels with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | I slash at the blood vessels with the dagger. To my surprise, the Floyd | blade passes easily through the molten stone and blood - red, human Floyd | blood - begins to spray at high pressure from the wound, bowling me Floyd | backwards. Floyd | Floyd | The molten warriors seem to become cooler and more viscous, retreating Floyd | from the swings of Peyton's now red hot blade. Floyd | Floyd | The Usurper Bride of the Vesuvian Blood God curls her lip in contempt. Floyd | "A low blow, and fruitless. You have made a new enemy from one who Floyd | might have been your most powerful ally." Floyd | Floyd | Peyton meets my eye. I'm not sure things will ever be the same between Floyd | us again. "No, I almost lost my most valuable ally," he says. "And I Floyd | have already made enemies more powerful than you." Floyd | Floyd | With a final glare, the woman fades into the growing shadows. The Floyd | throne room descends into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | (Press space.) | ||||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | When we emerge from the tower, soaked in blood, the airmen greet us Floyd | with wide eyes. "Did you find what you were looking for?" Floyd | Floyd | "No," Peyton says. "Perhaps elsewhere. Let's go." Floyd | | Roger says, "Woo" | |||
Floyd | I slip my arm in his, and we board the zeppelin. Floyd | Floyd | In our stateroom we strip off our blood-dyed clothes and soak away the Floyd | smell of smoke and ash. I let my fingers play through his long white Floyd | hair, running up his cheek to the lashes of his left eye. Floyd | Floyd | I don't know where we go from here. Peyton and I. But it's important Floyd | that we're both still alive. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe he'll save the world. Floyd | Floyd | But, right now, I don't really care. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game I scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 52 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Aww. I totally would have ditched him an ran." | |||
| maga says, "we can try that" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Throne Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "run" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | Peyton parries a molten spear with a shower of sparks. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep exclaims, "more eyelashes!" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | With a brief glance back, I run from the throne room. Floyd | Floyd | The last I ever see of Peyton is surrounded by molten warriors, Floyd | beating them back in vain with his sabre, while the Usurper Bride of Floyd | the Vesuvian Blood God watches with a prurient smile. Floyd | Floyd | For the rest of my life, I wonder if there was something I could have Floyd | done. Floyd | Floyd | And now, as the darkening skies herald the arrival of horror on a Floyd | cosmic scale, and people cast about for someone who might have the Floyd | first idea how to protect us, I know that our only hope, my only love, Floyd | was lost. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game I scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 53 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Heh, ok." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "But rendered in less loving detail." | ||||
| schep says, "yay" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yay." | ||||
| Pacian says, "I wrote the end game like after midnight yesterday." | ||||
| Roger asks, "Shall we try self-sacrifice?" | ||||
| maga asks, "do we have a save near that point?" | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Throne Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Roger says (to floyd), "attack me with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | I try to enter the fray, but Peyton pushes me back. "Nicky, run!" Floyd | Floyd | But there must be something I can do! Floyd | Floyd | As one of the molten warriors turns towards me, Peyton darts in front Floyd | of it. "Run, Nicky!" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "cf2, yes." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Just make it quick." Floyd | Floyd | He draws his sabre. "Of course." Floyd | Floyd | He presses the tip of the blade to my chest and draws me into his Floyd | arms. "Close your eyes." Floyd | Floyd | He kisses me. I taste tears. And then blood. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I am dead *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game I scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 40 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, sorry." | |||
| maga says, "okay, being sacrificed isn't all it's cracked up to be" | ||||
| Pacian says, "Depending on what frame of mind you Peyton in, he may not do it. Or he may only do it if you refuse." | ||||
| Pacian says, "That's the only small bit of branching in there." | ||||
| Roger says, "Tricky" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Nifty" | ||||
| Roger says, "Good comp for giant body parts" | ||||
| Roger says, "IYKWIM" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | maga says, "man, we've been doing pretty well" | |||
| maga says (to Pacian), "nice work" | ||||
| maga asks, "move right along, or do folks want a break?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "A short break would be nice." | ||||
| maga says, "okay, let's reconvene in 5" | ||||
| Pacian asks, "So which game was Ellison's?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I don't have a game. that was a miscommunication." | ||||
| Ellison says, "the CYOA one had a character named after me." | ||||
| inky says, "sorry, I was full of lies" | ||||
| Pacian asks, "Oh, so whose did I miss other than S John Ross'?" | DavidW says, "Tale's" | |||
| Pacian says, "Ah, just the two then." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Ellison had a non-cameo IN Tale's game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hence the confusion." | ||||
| Jizaboz hops on his skateboard and rolls out. | EmacsUser asks (of maga), "Which one's up next?" | |||
| maga says, "mine" | ||||
| maga says, "all right, let's get back to it" | ||||
| maga says, "and apologies in advance" | ||||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | maga says (to Pacian), "about half of Marius Muller's" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load moondarkling" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Moondarkling: Elfboon Floyd | A Rural Urban-Fantasy by Sam Kabo Ashwell Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110415 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Waterfront Floyd | In terms of mere geography, Ruritania is landlocked. Liminally it's a Floyd | lot more complicated. On slow days, this is the bank of the Svonat, a Floyd | minor river that for maybe sixty kilometres traces the Slovakian Floyd | border, only distinguished by rather sparse settlement for such a Floyd | fertile valley.Today it's the verge of a mangrove swamp, water the Floyd | colour of strong tea lapping gently against a barnacle-encrusted Floyd | jetty, and far off through the trees the suggestion of blazing light Floyd | on a foreign sea. (You haven't seen this one before.) A crab darts Floyd | across a salt-crusted log; the air is warm, with a strong taste of Floyd | salt, anchovies and rotting mud. Floyd | Floyd | The Margin Cafe looks no more weatherbeaten than usual, and the Floyd | prospect of cooler air is enticing. Floyd | Floyd | A mudlark is perusing low-hanging branches for lootable fruits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Made for SpeedIF Jacket 4, in which games were based upon blurbs Floyd | supplied by other participants. I had all of these in mind while Floyd | writing this; some worked out more than others. Floyd | Floyd | Due to an abject failure to provide any core interaction, no moral is Floyd | or should be implied. Floyd | Floyd | "It's urban fantasy without the "urban"." -- Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | "This was the best game that I never want to play again." -- Colin Floyd | Sandel Floyd | "More of an extended joke than a game. Not a particularly funny joke Floyd | either." -- Tanga Floyd | "The game's triumph was not just making me care about the love Floyd | interest, but also making me understand why I had to let them go." -- Floyd | C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | "I've read more comprehensible prose out of a James Joyce book dunked Floyd | in hydrochloric acid." -- Sarah Morayati Floyd | "One item in particular has a really impressive number of different Floyd | uses." -- David Fletcher Floyd | "The subtle use of antiquarian language made me laugh in this Floyd | futuristic restaurant adventure." -- Royce Odle Floyd | "You'll never look at barnacles the same way." -- Jennifer Earl Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x swamp" | ||||
Floyd | The water is the clear brownish hue of strong tea, and sparkles in Floyd | little wavelets around the sprawling mangrove roots. It's only about Floyd | waist-deep, though the mud beneath it is probably many times that. The Floyd | sharp scent leaves no doubt that it's a salt-water day. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x log" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mudlark" | ||||
Floyd | Mudlarking is the mildly illegal[1] practice of loitering on water Floyd | margins[2] in the hope of happening upon valuable salvage or harvest. Floyd | By your estimation, gold-sands, pearl beds and sturgeon populations Floyd | manifest a lot less often than crocodiles, spring tides or bilharzia; Floyd | every now and then some idiot prospector convinces themselves that Floyd | they have developed a System, but more usually it's the domain of the Floyd | more enterprising variety of indigent. Floyd | Floyd | This particular mudlark is youngish, scrawny and not conspicuously Floyd | insane. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "slower please" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 1" | ||||
Floyd | And in Ruritania, tedious, complicated and socially bootless to Floyd | prosecute. As far as you're concerned, the law exists as an Floyd | alternative way of nailing the ones who branch out into smuggling or Floyd | elfin traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "sorry, I'll slow down" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 2" | ||||
Floyd | It's called something else in dry margins, of which Ruritania Floyd | thankfully has none. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the Nook of Shadows. Floyd | semi-automatic Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x semi" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x semi-automatic" | ||||
Floyd | A semi-automatic handgun of non-insane calibre[3], loaded and in Floyd | working order. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "is the implication here that there's some kind of dimensional thingy going on where other bodies of water hook up to the edge of the country here?" | |||
| inky asks, "or is it just the river level rises and falls?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 3" | ||||
Floyd | It's only in the last couple of years that anyone started making Floyd | automatic rounds jacketed in cold iron; formerly you had to lug around Floyd | a gigantic revolver that made holes of undiplomatic proportions in Floyd | everything and kicked like an onager with a hornet on its balls, and Floyd | the Glock. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "My take was the first of the two." | |||
| DavidW says, "I haven't absorbed what's happening yet at all. I'm probably too tired to read." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "what's the nook?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x nook" | ||||
Floyd | It's a sort of eldritch scrapbook of stuff that you've ripped off from Floyd | people who ripped it off from a bewildering assortment of charlatans, Floyd | Inquisitors, cat ladies, fantasists, perverts, Floyd | aelfkultur-appropriators, cabalists, storytellers, alchemists, space Floyd | cadets and paranoids. Stratified bullshit, deep and compacted and Floyd | fertile, mounted up into a tell. Potent stuff. Floyd | Floyd | Its first incarnation was an age-yellowed Penguin that was bloated Floyd | with inserts and shedding pages before you were twenty, and you Floyd | recently upgraded to a more portable version. The problem is that it's Floyd | a Lithuanian knockoff with an OS designed in Tanzania. It features a Floyd | Weirding Manager intended to suggest the most dramatically appropriate Floyd | spells, but either dramatic conventions are very strange in Tanzania Floyd | or the manager has attained a limited but cantankerous sentience, and Floyd | rare is the occasion on which it supplies a spell of transparent Floyd | utility. It can, at any rate, be used to access the police databases Floyd | and look people up, even in places where liminality banjaxes Floyd | conventional connections. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "On rereading, I am inclined to a different interpretation." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "It's a play on 'Book of Shadows' - maybe a Nook Reader reference? An ebook?" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess so" | ||||
| Pacian asks, "Penguin as in publisher... or tuxedoed ice slider?" | ||||
| Roger says, "This is a bit dense, but not necessarily in a bad way" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I need to be more awake to comprehend prose like this." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "To be fair, one of the quotes did tell him to write incomprehensibly." | ||||
| inky says, "I think the former" | ||||
| inky says, "since jacqueline seems to be correct it's an ebook spellbook" | ||||
| maga says, "which was quite easy to do by the simple expedient of not editing" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So this is like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but more Necronomicon-like?" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah I think so" | ||||
| inky says, "ok let's check out this cafe" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter cafe" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Margin Cafe Floyd | The margins are not a stable place to live, but there are plenty of Floyd | people passing through and they're all in need of something. This Floyd | place supplies it: food, potable water, first aid, doss space, amateur Floyd | legal counsel, trauma debriefing. Physically it's a low-ceilinged, Floyd | broad, poorly-lit room, somewhere between bar, mess-hall and Floyd | doss-house, with what would be a comfortable, homey scent if you liked Floyd | fish soup, damp clothes and ill-washed foreigners[4]. Floyd | Floyd | Druse loiters decoratively behind the bar. Floyd | Floyd | A particularly sorry-looking outclade[5], huddled over a bowl of Floyd | Complimentary Soup, is the only customer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x note 4" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 4" | ||||
Floyd | And actually, having come here almost every day for three years, you Floyd | are disturbed to find that you kind of do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 5" | ||||
Floyd | The Liminal Patrol does not make judgments act on behalf of the Floyd | Outsider Office[6], and it is very important to use a term that Floyd | remains agnostic on whether its referrent is an asylum-seeker, refugee Floyd | of war, economic migrant, vagrant, smuggler, baby-snatcher or Floyd | insurgent. It's best to just think of them as a shambling mound of Floyd | paperwork. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "note 6" | ||||
Floyd | Who's in charge of the margin is kind of complicated. The Frontiers Floyd | Division is nominally in charge of securing the borders, but here they Floyd | just make flyovers and kick the crap out of anything that looks like a Floyd | monster or an invasion. The Outsider Office processes such immigrants Floyd | as make it into a queue at a provincial capital (or, just as often, a Floyd | holding cell). The Liminal Patrol deals with everything that falls in Floyd | between, which is to say the difficult stuff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "note 99" | ||||
Floyd | There is no footnote with that number. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "talk to outclade" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "outclade, hello" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x Druse" | ||||
Floyd | Dweller in the perpetual legal shadow of the boundary and Floyd | proprietor[7] of the Margin Cafe, Druse is dark-eyed, slender-limbed Floyd | and fine-featured and has perfect hair that falls across his face in Floyd | silver strands and okay let's not be fucking coy about it, he's a Floyd | half-elf. Which is good for him as far as getting laid goes, but ugly Floyd | as all hell for legal status. You strongly suspect that you're Floyd | carrying his child, which is kind of troublesome territory because Floyd | apart from the whole wrong-side-of-the-tracks deal elves have this Floyd | cultural Thing about human babies, a little bulb goes on behind their Floyd | eyes and the last time one of those bulbs went on (or someone thought Floyd | they did) there were riots and half the Kobolykunst ghetto got burned Floyd | down. You dealt with more of the aftermath than you care to remember, Floyd | and you had to call in favours from the Pale Colony, and unforseen Floyd | complications arose and now the fangy pillocks think you owe them[8]. Floyd | Floyd | However, all of this is going to be put off by angsty procrastination, Floyd | implausible miscommunications and emotional immaturity until Volume La Floyd | Troisieme of the Moondarkling Cycle, so at the moment he's just a Floyd | distraction. Let's just pretend he's not here for now, all right? Like Floyd | this. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Pacian says, "Holy wow." | ||||
| inky says, "this is like paranormal urban romance as written by china mieville" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So does that mean the NPC vanished from the narrative?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Margin Cafe Floyd | The margins are not a stable place to live, but there are plenty of Floyd | people passing through and they're all in need of something. This Floyd | place supplies it: food, potable water, first aid, doss space, amateur Floyd | legal counsel, trauma debriefing. Physically it's a low-ceilinged, Floyd | broad, poorly-lit room, somewhere between bar, mess-hall and Floyd | doss-house, with what would be a comfortable, homey scent if you liked Floyd | fish soup, damp clothes and ill-washed foreigners. Floyd | Floyd | A particularly sorry-looking outclade, huddled over a bowl of Floyd | Complimentary Soup, is the only customer. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "...apparently so" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "hahah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 7" | ||||
Floyd | By its nature, few of the Cafe's clientele have or even understand Floyd | money; Druse is mostly paid in low-end elfboons. He hopes, or says Floyd | that he hopes, to eventually accumulate enough boons to be able to go Floyd | home, once the war's over; but boons don't stack in a neat numerical Floyd | fashion, and you have only the vaguest idea as to whether this is a Floyd | credible ambition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 8" | ||||
Floyd | See Moondarkling Volume La Zeroiene: Witchlighten. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I bought a moondarkling cycle but the pedals only worked at night" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Do we have a goal yet?" | ||||
| inky says, "I don't *think* so" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "You are really revealing far too much about what sort of books we have in the house." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Or an inkling wtf is going on?" | ||||
| maga says (to Jacq), "the problem is that I have never actually read them" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "Nah, that's probably a good thing." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask outclade about me" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask outclade about duse" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask outclade about druse" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x soup" | ||||
Floyd | Outclades can straggle in in any number and at all hours, including Floyd | the numerous ones in which Druse doesn't want to cook; but they Floyd | they're often cold and hungry. And freight orders don't make it out Floyd | here very reliably. The solution is the Complimentary Soup, an Floyd | oversized, eternally simmering crockpot containing a sort of Floyd | high-class pigswill. It receives most of the fruits of Druse's Floyd | sporadic hunter-gathering; on bad days the major ingredient is Floyd | barnacles, and although its flavour evolves over the years it always Floyd | retains a basic fishy character. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask outclade about outclade" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "In retrospect, I'm finding it pretty funny that the author's big worry last night was how to get a moral lesson into the story" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat soup" | ||||
Floyd | You already ate. You try to make a point of it, if you plan to show up Floyd | at a non-cooking hour. It's not that the Soup is invariably bad, but Floyd | it's rarely very good and often outright awful, and there is no way to Floyd | tell until you've swallowed the first spoonful. Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the Complimentary Soup) Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Major ingredient barnacles. That sounds like a plot point." | |||
| maga says, "no, it was about how not to say something utterly awful with the moral stuff that was unavoidable given the story" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmm... mild bugs in the soup." | ||||
| Roger says, "Oh that's fine" | ||||
| Roger asks, "Hrm did we harass that mudlarker much?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x outclade" | ||||
Floyd | Piercingly beautiful, even for an elf. Age indefinite; she doesn't Floyd | move with the assured arrogance of a mature adult, but then she's Floyd | probably had a deflating few days. Somewhat damp, muddy and scratched. Floyd | Floyd | Various details -- left forearm scarified in triple spirals, a Floyd | particular style of weaving spidersilk ribbons into braided hair, a Floyd | really expensive bra -- identify her as a member of the Ae Cau Shar Floyd | clade. You only know this because they test you on the entire freakin" Floyd | Aelfosemiotica every couple of years; the Ae Cau Shar are not, to the Floyd | best of your limited knowledge, very closely affected by the conflict. Floyd | Kicker is, they only speak their own obscure language, and Floyd | occasionally Middling Forkmouth, which works as something like a Floyd | regional trade-jargon for elves but is fearsomely unlearnable for Floyd | humans[9]. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think explore, maybe?" | |||
| inky says, "well, as long as the moral of the story is all foreigners are sneaky bastards trying to steal our children, it's ok by me" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did we examine ourself?" | ||||
| inky says, "I'm not sure" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Your Ruritanian passport calls you Zbyana Ostrava Kalinin-Zorndorf, Floyd | and your parents call you something similar with different phonetics. Floyd | The elves are notoriously sloppy about both paperwork and Floyd | nomenclature, but a plurality of them would acknowledge you as Floyd | Comtessa Radishes, Starlight Through Frozen Waterfalls, Lord High Floyd | Weatherstone of the Hollow Hill, and Dawn-cobwebs Musketeer[10]. Floyd | Floyd | Your outfit was constructed around a camel trenchcoat, an extremely Floyd | French scarf, and the World's Stupidest Boots.[11] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess not" | |||
| inky asks, "wait, we're an elf?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "note 9" | ||||
Floyd | Which is suspiciously convenient for anybody who might have a motive Floyd | to avoid the challenges of interrogation, hem-hem.[12] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "or we just have an elf title?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 12" | ||||
Floyd | C.E.J. Pacian, Gun Mute, talking to.[13] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 13" | ||||
Floyd | Adam Thornton, Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, opening screen. Floyd | Believe it or not, I was abusing footnotes before I even fired Stiffy Floyd | up, but the encouragement is appreciated. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think it's an name for us that elves use." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| djfletch says, "we need the linguist PC from the last game" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 10" | ||||
Floyd | And several others that you're not allowed to disclose, one or two Floyd | that you are literally incapable of disclosing, and a whole host that Floyd | are best left unshared in polite company. Turning down elf-boon names Floyd | is Not Done, but it would be a lot easier if they weren't such a bunch Floyd | of pervs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian asks, "Wha-?" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "note 11" | ||||
Floyd | By inclination you think about clothes perhaps four times a year, but Floyd | elves have an intense cultural prejudice against anyone not Floyd | ridiculously overdressed. Most patrollers default to something gothy Floyd | and heroin-chic on the grounds that it can be sustained with little Floyd | sleep and less laundry, but it's become such a staple of the patroller Floyd | stereotype that you resisted. Fortunately, even the Ruritanian Liminal Floyd | Patrol maintains a stylist on staff. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "I think we're an elf, which is why having that guy's baby would be bad." | |||
| DavidW says, "I thought we're human." | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, I think we're human, we've just gotten awarded these titles for meritorious service or something" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This feeling like a nod to Diana Wynne Jones." | ||||
| zarf says, "good line for me to come in on" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Haven't read her." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | Well, shit. Now you have to work out what to do with her. There's no Floyd | chance that she has a clade sponsor, because she doesn't have a clade. Floyd | Which also means that she'd be outside even what passes for a social Floyd | safety-net in the refugee camps. And if the Ae Cau Shar aren't Floyd | actually in the war, asylum is going to be a whole lot harder to come Floyd | by even if she gets to the head of the queue, which she won't. So your Floyd | choices, essentially, are to arrest her and consign her to a muddy Floyd | limbo for the rest of her natural life, or turn a blind eye, let her Floyd | wander off into the countryside and get arrested by rural police Floyd | instead, or stoned by a Landnat gang, or abducted. Or deport her, to Floyd | whatever was scary enough to make all this seem worthwhile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, "g-d this game doesn't shut up" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Keep complaining - all it does is make maga giggle." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Drinking from the firehose." | ||||
| schep says, "maybe if we z enough times it will finish for us" | ||||
| Pacian says, "I'll take your word on our lack of elvishness. These footnotes are impenetrable to scroll back through." | ||||
| DavidW says (to schep), "That is a possibility." | ||||
| Roger says, "This is the most insightful examination of immigration policy since Machete" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn on nook" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "time spent on spent on footnotes > time spent on making the game work > time editing prose" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Wow." | ||||
| inky clears the save counter. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "arrest outclade" | ||||
Floyd | It's one hell of a rough deal, but she's probably headed in this Floyd | direction anyway, and you can at least make the process more gentle Floyd | than the provincial police are likely to. And it's not the Landnats. Floyd | Floyd | It takes a while to convey the idea to her, but after some emphatic Floyd | gestures at the door and tugging at the wrist she gets it, arches an Floyd | impeccable eyebrow, and looks even more tired than before. You Floyd | shepherd her to the nearest branch of the Outsider Office, stick Floyd | around to make sure they don't fuck up the paperwork or mess her Floyd | around, and leave her your card. Not that she understands phones. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back at headquarters, you crunch out a report. Krebs nods Floyd | noncomittally over it, and it gets filed, and you go home. You stare | ||||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | fixedly at the doormat for about ten minutes, and then you go about Floyd | your life, not quite trying to forget, not quite trying to remember. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Hmm." | |||
| Pacian says, "How could you..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sounds not entirely ideal." | ||||
| DavidW asks (of inky), "I guess there's the other non-arrest options too?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Uh. Guessing that's not the ideal ending?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There are lots of options, if that dense paragraph is to be believed." | ||||
| inky says (to DavidW), "sure, if you want to let this outclade get away with something!" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "turn a blind eye" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "deport her" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "deport outclade" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aw man" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ignore her" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "kiss her" | ||||
Floyd | She's cute and everything, but that side of yourself goes mysteriously Floyd | unmentioned until Volume La Soixieme: Shadowed Wings, and a good Floyd | two-fifths of the fans still refuse to regard that as canon. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| zarf arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "haha." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "east" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I notice you forgot to mention that the other three-fifths had already written fanfic about it" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot outclad" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot outclad" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot outclade" | ||||
Floyd | > | maga says, "you cannot actually deport and oh boy that didn't get done either" | |||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||
| DavidW says, "And the mome rath outglabe" | ||||
| maga says, "to be fair, it is possible to get other endings but it is probably rather unfairly difficult" | ||||
| inky asks, "but there are some implemented?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the Nook of Shadows. Floyd | semi-automatic Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Waterfront Floyd | Today it's the verge of a mangrove swamp, water the colour of strong Floyd | tea lapping gently against a barnacle-encrusted jetty, and far off Floyd | through the trees the suggestion of blazing light on a foreign sea. Floyd | Something rubbery rolls below the water's surface, then is gone; the Floyd | air is warm, with a strong taste of salt, lemon zest and rotting mud. Floyd | Floyd | The Margin Cafe looks no more weatherbeaten than usual, and the Floyd | prospect of cooler air is enticing. Or you could just get out of here. Floyd | Floyd | The mudlark is engaged in hunting what may very well be fleas, though Floyd | around here you never know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian asks, "Have we done anything with the nook yet?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get out of here" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to get outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Nope." | |||
| maga says, "oh boy what the hell" | ||||
| inky says, "oh well" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Margin Cafe Floyd | The margins are not a stable place to live, but there are plenty of Floyd | people passing through and they're all in need of something. This Floyd | place supplies it: food, potable water, first aid, doss space, amateur Floyd | legal counsel, trauma debriefing. Physically it's a low-ceilinged, Floyd | broad, poorly-lit room, somewhere between bar, mess-hall and Floyd | doss-house, with what would be a comfortable, homey scent if you liked Floyd | fish soup, damp clothes and ill-washed foreigners. Floyd | Floyd | A particularly sorry-looking outclade, huddled over a bowl of Floyd | Complimentary Soup, is the only customer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up outclade in nook" | ||||
Floyd | Unsurprisingly, she doesn't show up in any records. At all. Anywhere. Floyd | Which makes sense: if she had crossed over before, she'd probably have Floyd | done a better job of it this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "We could also arrest the mudlark?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up me in nook" | ||||
Floyd | Whenever you try to egosearch yourself, the Nook of Shadows just plays Floyd | back the vision you had in the final act of Moondarkling: Dancing Floyd | Whispers that revealed you to be the sole descendant of the half-elfin Floyd | heroine Joan of Arc and, therefore, destined to protect both humanity Floyd | and elfkind through a vaguely-defined and ever-expanding array of Floyd | powers and prophecies. There's a pointlessly ambiguous coda about the Floyd | identity of your true love (also destined). It looks a lot less Floyd | impressive in 2D. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "haha" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "arrest me" | ||||
Floyd | > | maga says, "(a crucial command is apparently *entirely* broken, so we may as well give up if you're done poking at things)" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up mudlark in nook" | ||||
Floyd | Using magic to obtain information about legal residents or legitimate Floyd | visitors without a warrant or documented consent is horribly illegal Floyd | throughout the EU, except under conditions of direct threat[14]. Even Floyd | if you're just using the magic to remotely access Google. You could Floyd | get in an awful lot of trouble doing this... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oh, sad." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 14" | ||||
Floyd | You can scry for someone's psych records if they're waving a gun at Floyd | you. You can't remotely view someone's home if you think they're Floyd | building a bomb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw, man." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Still, esprit de speed, and all that." | ||||
| inky says, "I'm hoping to see this resurrected as an rpg setting" | ||||
| schep says, "that hot elf is totally building a bomb in her bathroom" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks (of maga), "Spoilers?" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Or not?" | ||||
| Roger says, "Yeah I like the setting" | ||||
| maga says, "after you've examined the outclade, you should be able to just leave" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up barnacle" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up barnacle in nook" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem pertinent. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "my guess is that I used 'from' instead of 'in' or something" | |||
| maga says, "aaaanyway" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | inky says, "ok, if we're all out of footnotes, I guess we can call it good" | |||
| maga says, "there is a bunch of other stuff but there's no point if it's going to be painful" | ||||
| schep says, "note 17 - You are never really out of footnotes." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | djfletch says, "footnote 397 is a synonym for "restart"" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load smoochiepoodle" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | HNNNgnnngnzznzzz Floyd | HNNNgnnngnzznzzz Floyd | HNNNgnnngn-* "Huh... hello?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, you're awake! I've been calling and calling, I thought you'd Floyd | never pick up!" Floyd | Floyd | "Wha... wha is... wha... smoochiepoodle, is that you? Why're you... Floyd | on phone?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, don't be such a silly, lovepuffin! Is your head better? You Floyd | didn't drink anywhere near enough water. I told you to drink more Floyd | water, it's just the best, and it doesn't make you jitter the way that Floyd | awful coffee you drink does." Floyd | Floyd | "Head is... no. Head is awful. Very awful." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, poor puffin. Well, after you passed out, I thought it would be Floyd | SO much easier to just pop over to your flat and get your credit card Floyd | for the trip -" Floyd | Floyd | "MY flat? You're at MY flat? You can't be at MY flat. It's not... Floyd | not good. Dangerous. Very dangerous bad. Shouldn... be there. Floyd | Might get hurt." Floyd | Floyd | "Pish tosh, your housekeeping can't be that bad. Well ANYway, I was Floyd | calling to find out where you kept your spare key, but it's no problem Floyd | at all! I just found it right under the doormat! You shouldn't keep Floyd | it there, puffin pookie, all sorts of unsavory sorts can get in if you Floyd | do, everyone knows about that. It's true, the Globe said so. ANYway Floyd | - ugh, this door sticks -" Floyd | Floyd | "No no no! Don' go in there! I'll come, wait for -" Floyd | Floyd | "Too late, puffy feathers, if I can just get - bah, stupid door. Oh, Floyd | that worked! Peachy puffin, did you know that your door opens much Floyd | better if you just kick it good before you pull?" Floyd | Floyd | "YES. Now, smoochiepoodle -" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, don't worry your little scientific head about a thing. Just tell Floyd | me where your credit card is, and I'll be out again in two flips of a Floyd | tail... not YOUR tail, of course, that takes far longer to flip! Floyd | Tee!" Floyd | Floyd | "Uhhhhh...." Floyd | Floyd | Smoochiepoodle and the Bastion of Science Floyd | A Disaster in the Making (AKA SpeedJacket IF 4 Entry) by Carolyn Floyd | VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110414 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a bit confused... my head. Smoochiepoodle, what do you see right Floyd | now?" Floyd | Floyd | "Just think about the fun we'll have in Jamaica, kissy beak. It's Floyd | awful cluttery in here... no, don't fuss so, it's true. How do you Floyd | get around anywhere? I'd clean this up so fast for you, you shouldn't Floyd | have to live like this. I see your desk and your fridge and a table Floyd | and a robot looking thing over by the door, I guess that's your Floyd | bathroom door, why's it shining that light on those frozen peas? And Floyd | these are... uh... oh, fish! It's really nice you have fish, though Floyd | you should scrub out their tank. Ugh, green stuff. Floyd | Floyd | "I thought your card would just be lying out on the desk, that's what Floyd | most people do when they forgot a credit card, but I don't see it at Floyd | all. What should I do? Floyd | Floyd | "Also, do you really think that fish tank matches the decor?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wuh" | |||
| schep says, "wow" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Violet on acid" | ||||
| maga says, "inverse Violet" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Ha." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Yes, I do think the fish tank matches the wallpaper, thank you ever Floyd | so much." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't take it hard, pretty bird - everyone's got their little flaws. Floyd | Yours might be... a little bigger... but I still love you awfully Floyd | lots. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, your robot looking thing just stopped shining that blue light on Floyd | the peas. That's probably good. They might defrost in all that Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | "What should I do now, honey beak?" Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "search desk" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Was a desk mentioned, smoochiepoodle?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. She says it's not on the desk." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That robot sounds Not Good." | ||||
| schep says, "yes yes kissybeak" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | "Smoochiepoodle, what do you see right now?" Floyd | Floyd | "Your head must hurt so bad, fuzzy puffin, I feel so sorry for you! Floyd | It's awful cluttery in here... I see your desk and your fridge and a Floyd | table and a robot looking thing over by the door, I guess that's your Floyd | bathroom door, why's it shining that light on those frozen peas? And Floyd | these are... uh... oh, fish! It's really nice you have fish, though Floyd | you should scrub out their tank. Ugh, green stuff. Floyd | Floyd | "That robot looking thing is blinking a light at me! That's so cute! Floyd | Floyd | "What should I do now, pretty bird?" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Oops, the light is back." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "> get out before the robot kills you" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Shouldn't the peas go in the fridge?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x robot" | ||||
Floyd | "Smoochiepoodle, would you please try examining the robot?" Floyd | Floyd | "Your robot looking thing is blinking at me. It's cuter than I Floyd | realized. Hi, robot!" Floyd | Floyd | "*Voice Not Authorized*" Floyd | Floyd | "Well FINE, be that way. Hmph. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, it's making a humming noise! Can you hear that? I'll hold up Floyd | the phone - " Floyd | Floyd | "*Targeting Mode Activated - Identify Yourself Intruder*" Floyd | Floyd | "What should I do now, fuzzy wings?" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "ggg was right." | |||
| inky says, "I dunno, I am ok with this person getting killed by our robot" | ||||
| maga asks, "so we're *trying* to get killed, yes?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "identify yourself'?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "robot, shoot" | ||||
Floyd | "Please try answering the robot that "shoot"." Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, your robot thing has light-ups on its fingers! Oh, snuggle beak, Floyd | that's so cute! Now it's pointing at me - I think it wants to shake Floyd | ha -" Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Roger says, "Heh" | |||
| Emily says, "that's tragic!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "My" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | HNNNgnnngnzznzzz Floyd | HNNNgnnngnzznzzz Floyd | HNNNgnnngn-* "Huh... hello?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, you're awake! I've been calling and calling, I thought you'd Floyd | never pick up!" Floyd | Floyd | "Wha... wha is... wha... smoochiepoodle, is that you? Why're you... Floyd | on phone?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, don't be such a silly, lovepuffin! Is your head better? You Floyd | didn't drink anywhere near enough water. I told you to drink more Floyd | water, it's just the best, and it doesn't make you jitter the way that Floyd | awful coffee you drink does." Floyd | Floyd | "Head is... no. Head is awful. Very awful." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, poor puffin. Well, after you passed out, I thought it would be Floyd | SO much easier to just pop over to your flat and get your credit card Floyd | for the trip -" Floyd | Floyd | "MY flat? You're at MY flat? You can't be at MY flat. It's not... Floyd | not good. Dangerous. Very dangerous bad. Shouldn... be there. Floyd | Might get hurt." Floyd | Floyd | "Pish tosh, your housekeeping can't be that bad. Well ANYway, I was Floyd | calling to find out where you kept your spare key, but it's no problem Floyd | at all! I just found it right under the doormat! You shouldn't keep Floyd | it there, puffin pookie, all sorts of unsavory sorts can get in if you Floyd | do, everyone knows about that. It's true, the Globe said so. ANYway Floyd | - ugh, this door sticks -" Floyd | Floyd | "No no no! Don' go in there! I'll come, wait for -" Floyd | Floyd | "Too late, puffy feathers, if I can just get - bah, stupid door. Oh, Floyd | that worked! Peachy puffin, did you know that your door opens much Floyd | better if you just kick it good before you pull?" Floyd | Floyd | "YES. Now, smoochiepoodle -" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, don't worry your little scientific head about a thing. Just tell Floyd | me where your credit card is, and I'll be out again in two flips of a Floyd | tail... not YOUR tail, of course, that takes far longer to flip! Floyd | Tee!" Floyd | Floyd | "Uhhhhh...." Floyd | Floyd | Smoochiepoodle and the Bastion of Science Floyd | A Disaster in the Making (AKA SpeedJacket IF 4 Entry) by Carolyn Floyd | VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110414 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a bit confused... my head. Smoochiepoodle, what do you see right Floyd | now?" Floyd | Floyd | "Your head must hurt so bad, fuzzy wings, I feel so sorry for you! Floyd | It's awful cluttery in here... no, don't fuss so, it's true. How do Floyd | you get around anywhere? I'd clean this up so fast for you, you Floyd | shouldn't have to live like this. I see your desk and your fridge and Floyd | a table and a robot looking thing over by the door, I guess that's Floyd | your bathroom door, why's it shining that light on those frozen peas? Floyd | And these are... uh... oh, fish! It's really nice you have fish, Floyd | though you should scrub out their tank. Ugh, green stuff. Floyd | Floyd | "I thought your card would just be lying out on the desk, that's what Floyd | most people do when they forgot a credit card, but I don't see it at Floyd | all. What should I do? Floyd | Floyd | "Also, do you really think that desk matches the decor?" Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Oh no!" | |||
| Roger says, "Now that's how you do a story with a moral, maga." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "No, I guess the desk doesn't match the wallpaper, but that wasn't Floyd | really my first thought when I got it, smoochiepoodle." Floyd | Floyd | "It wasn't? Whatever were you thinking?" Floyd | Floyd | "Wouldn't it be nice to have a desk?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh poodgy feathers, that's just like you. It comes from working too Floyd | hard, I'm sure. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, your robot looking thing just stopped shining that blue light on Floyd | the peas. That's probably good. They might defrost in all that Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | "What should I do now, poodgy puffin?" Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I like that she picks a different thing to criticize us about each time." | |||
| Emily says, "there's also a weird sort of Fail-Safe vibe going on" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm wondering if the colours of things are important." | ||||
| schep says, "x desk. or the peas need some attention" | ||||
| Pacian says, "I want to check out my peas." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x peas" | ||||
Floyd | "Try examining the frozen peas." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh! You didn't even say please! My heart is all hurt, pretty bird!" Floyd | Floyd | "Would you PLEASE try examining the frozen peas?" Floyd | Floyd | "Bad enough you're eating them frozen, but why didn't you get Floyd | on-brand? "Epsilon Eridani Specimen" might sound imported to you, but Floyd | I tell you it's just Illinois trash food, and they probably use Floyd | chemicals. Floyd | Floyd | "That robot looking thing is blinking a light at me! That's so cute! Floyd | Floyd | "What should I do now, kissy puffin?" Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Can we turn the robot off?" | |||
| Emily says, "I like that Illinois is the root of all evil" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we authenticate as ourself via the phone?" | ||||
| K-Y says, "I concur" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suspect we're gonna die several times in this game." | ||||
| Emily says (to DavidW), "not us, just our poodgywidgin" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, ""It's just me, kissy puffin."" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Those aren't peas." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suggest 'identify yourself'" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "also, maybe > give phone to robot ?" | ||||
| maga says, "sounds good" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "identify yourself" | ||||
Floyd | "Poor poodgy puffin, I don't understand what you want me to do at all. Floyd | Your head must be hurting awfully." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "give phone to robot" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh fine! Be a mean kissy beak, talk to the robot thingie instead of Floyd | me. See if I care." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, it's making a humming noise! Can you hear that? I'll hold up Floyd | the phone - " Floyd | Floyd | "*Targeting Mode Activated - Identify Yourself Intruder*" Floyd | Floyd | "*Awaiting Instructions - Authorized Voice Only*" Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "at one point she said she was holding the phone near the robot. (yes, sorry, I must assume smoochie is female)" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Now what>" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "Er, ?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "turn robot off" | ||||
| DavidW says, "deactivate" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "robot, deactivate" | ||||
Floyd | "*Authorized Voice Accepted - Hello Doctor - I Am Sorry, But I Do Not Floyd | Understand Your Command*" Floyd | Floyd | "Ugh, give me that, you big hunk of metal! Are you there, fuzzy Floyd | wings? Did you like talking to your robot thing? Floyd | "Oh, your robot thing has light-ups on its fingers! Oh, poodgy Floyd | feathers, that's so cute! Now it's pointing at me - I think it wants Floyd | to shake ha -" Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The use of UNDO is forbidden in this game. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | maga says (to schep), "or flaming" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "robot, hello" | ||||
Floyd | "*Authorized Voice Accepted - Hello Doctor - I Am Sorry, But I Do Not Floyd | Understand Your Command*" Floyd | Floyd | "Ugh, give me that, you big hunk of metal! Are you there, pretty Floyd | bird? Did you like talking to your robot thing? Floyd | "Oh, your robot thing has light-ups on its fingers! Oh, pretty bird, Floyd | that's so cute! Now it's pointing at me - I think it wants to shake Floyd | ha -" Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser asks, "Thoughts?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "robot, off" | ||||
Floyd | "*Authorized Voice Accepted - Hello Doctor - I Am Sorry, But I Do Not Floyd | Understand Your Command*" Floyd | Floyd | "Ugh, give me that, you big hunk of metal! Are you there, poodgy Floyd | feathers? Did you like talking to your robot thing? Floyd | "Oh, your robot thing has light-ups on its fingers! Oh, poodgy Floyd | feathers, that's so cute! Now it's pointing at me - I think it wants Floyd | to shake ha -" Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, ">Robot, neutralize intruder." | |||
| DavidW says, "Don't do the 'robot ,' part." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "robot, hello" | ||||
Floyd | "*Authorized Voice Accepted - Hello Doctor - I Am Sorry, But I Do Not Floyd | Understand Your Command*" Floyd | Floyd | "Ugh, give me that, you big hunk of metal! Are you there, poodgy Floyd | feathers? Did you like talking to your robot thing? Floyd | "Oh, your robot thing has light-ups on its fingers! Oh, fluffy beak, Floyd | that's so cute! Now it's pointing at me - I think it wants to shake Floyd | ha -" Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The use of UNDO is forbidden in this game. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "hello" | ||||
Floyd | "Poor fluffy beak, I don't understand what you want me to do at all. Floyd | Your head must be hurting awfully." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn off" | ||||
Floyd | (the piranhas) Floyd | "*Authorized Voice Accepted - Hello Doctor - I Am Sorry, But I Do Not Floyd | Understand Your Command*" Floyd | Floyd | "Ugh, give me that, you big hunk of metal! Are you there, poodgy Floyd | feathers? Did you like talking to your robot thing? Floyd | "Oh, your robot thing has light-ups on its fingers! Oh, poodgy Floyd | feathers, that's so cute! Now it's pointing at me - I think it wants Floyd | to shake ha -" Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "turn off" | ||||
Floyd | (the piranhas) Floyd | "*Authorized Voice Accepted - Hello Doctor - I Am Sorry, But I Do Not Floyd | Understand Your Command*" Floyd | Floyd | "Ugh, give me that, you big hunk of metal! Are you there, kissy beak? Floyd | Did you like talking to your robot thing? Floyd | "Oh, your robot thing has light-ups on its fingers! Oh, snuggle Floyd | puffin, that's so cute! Now it's pointing at me - I think it wants to Floyd | shake ha -" Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Turn off pirahhas?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "robot, z" | ||||
Floyd | The robot has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | maga says, "piranhas are apparently really turned off by a smouldering corpse" | |||
| DavidW asks, "How about turning off the ROBOT?" | ||||
| inky says, "didn't we try that? maybe not" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The use of UNDO is forbidden in this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "robot, turn off robot" | ||||
Floyd | The robot has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | ***BZZZZZAPPPPPPPPPP*** Floyd | Floyd | "*Intruder Neutralized*" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "turn off robot" | ||||
Floyd | "*Authorized Voice Accepted - Hello Doctor - Obedience And Compliance Floyd | - Powering Down Now*" Floyd | Floyd | "Ugh, give me that, you big hunk of metal! Are you there, kissy Floyd | puffin? Did you like talking to your robot thing? I hope so, because | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "robot, shoot robot" | ||||
Floyd | it doesn't look very talkative now. Did you say something it didn't Floyd | like? Floyd | Floyd | "What should I do now, fuzzy wings?" Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Try answering the robot that "shoot robot"." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh! You didn't even say please! My heart is all hurt, honey Floyd | puffin!" Floyd | Floyd | "Would you PLEASE try answering the robot that "shoot robot"?" Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | "Funny - the peas bag is sort of... shredding, I guess. I think Floyd | there's something moving inside it. Floyd | Floyd | "What should I do now, snuggle beak?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops" | |||
| inky says, "well, I guess it all worked out" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Still, yay!" | ||||
| inky says, "also, I guess DavidW was right that we shouldn't have been giving commands prefixed with robot" | ||||
| Roger says, "Maybe feed this thing to the fish. and yeah, good work with the robot." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, the peas are gonna leak fire ants or something." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "put peas in tank" | ||||
Floyd | "I need you to listen to me very carefully and do just what I say." Floyd | Floyd | "But honey beak, don't I always?" Floyd | Floyd | "Smoochiepoodle, this is absolutely important. Put the frozen peas Floyd | into the fish tank, right away." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh fine. Sploosh sploosh, there they g - oh my god." Floyd | Floyd | "What? What? Floyd | Floyd | "Smoochiepoodle? Talk to me, curvy nose, please?" Floyd | Floyd | "It... it was... what WAS that? The fish were all over them, all the Floyd | teeth and the black stuff and the... it almost looked like a FACE, Floyd | fuzzy wings, it was just so awful...." Floyd | Floyd | Please come back. My head is killing me and I need you to please not Floyd | look around the apartment any more. I need you to come cuddle me." Floyd | Floyd | "I... I can do that. I'll just close the door right now.... Okay, I'm Floyd | coming back now. Your place is all locked up and safe." Floyd | Floyd | "Smoochiepoodle, I am so, so sorry you had to see that. But it should Floyd | have taught you a valuable lesson." Floyd | Floyd | "Lesson? What lesson?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, did you see the label on the fish tank?" Floyd | Floyd | "The one that said "Chance?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, that's the one. And that's the lesson I need you to take away, Floyd | because all I just said is... give peas to Chance. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello? Hello? ...Are you still there? Hello?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** With credit card safely in hand, you and your smoochiepoodle Floyd | went to Jamaica. Eventually. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | inky says, "uhh" | |||
| schep says, "bwah-ha-ha-ha" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "*snrk*" | ||||
| Roger asks, "Did this game give us the blurbs?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "wooo" | ||||
| Roger says, "I guess I want to see her get eaten by peas" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh dear. My eyes." | ||||
| inky says, "I was just wondering if the blurbs said it had a bad pun at the end" | ||||
| maga asks, "apparently not?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Wait. Where did we find the credit card?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The use of UNDO is forbidden in this game. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Suffering from a really bad hangover.... Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "also put peas in fridge?" | |||
| Roger says (to ggg), "She just gave up, I think." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we got it ourselves later." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | This is my entry for Speed-IF Jacket 4, organized by Sam Ashwell. The Floyd | format for Speed-IF Jacket: authors submit a number of short phrases Floyd | or sentences (like review excerpts from a book jacket), and then the Floyd | blurbs are used as prompts to inspire a game. Floyd | Floyd | The prompts I received made me blink and laugh. Plainly, a lot of Floyd | creativity went into this! Despite my best intentions, I couldn't fit Floyd | a bunch of these in, so here's my sorted list of quotes. Floyd | Floyd | Included: Floyd | Floyd | "Much time is wasted in irrelevant flirting between parser and PC. Floyd | >GET ROOM, guys." -- Sam Kabo Ashwell Floyd | "Not, surprisingly, an unreliable narrator game." -- Colin Sandel Floyd | "The writer is a strange, strange, strange individual." -- Tanga Floyd | "I'll never look at frozen peas the same way again." -- C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | "It's painfully obvious that the entire game was written solely to set Floyd | up one rather weak pun." -- David Fletcher Floyd | Floyd | Kinda included: Floyd | Floyd | "At first I thought this was just another boring empty-apartment game. Floyd | Then came the piranhas." -- Sarah Morayati (implementation: piranhas Floyd | yes, boring empty-apartment game only kinda) Floyd | "Brilliant! This is the first four-move game I've actually enjoyed." Floyd | -- Royce Odle (implementation: although the game ends most frequently Floyd | at four moves, it can still be stretched to five or six with care) Floyd | "With a naked eye or microscope you will be able to identify 180 Floyd | hardwoods, softwoods amd tropical woods." -- Roger Carbol Floyd | (implementation: only 60, all hardwoods, no microscope) Floyd | Floyd | Not included: Floyd | Floyd | "The wryly savage condemnation of the 17th-century Neapolitan court is Floyd | a knee-slapper, despite being couched so shyly in metaphor." -- S. Floyd | John Ross Floyd | "Writing a keyword-based game using no verbs, not even in the Floyd | descriptions, must've been nothing short of impossible." -- Marius Floyd | M?ller Floyd | Floyd | I strongly recommend checking the walkthrough (command: WALKTHROUGH) Floyd | because the intended form of this game is lacking about two weeks of Floyd | implementation on the execution, and very little is adequately clued Floyd | (plus there's a whole lot unimplemented). With that said, feel free Floyd | to poke around first. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | This is my entry for Speed-IF Jacket 4, organized by Sam Ashwell. The Floyd | format for Speed-IF Jacket: authors submit a number of short phrases Floyd | or sentences (like review excerpts from a book jacket), and then the Floyd | blurbs are used as prompts to inspire a game. Floyd | Floyd | The prompts I received made me blink and laugh. Plainly, a lot of Floyd | creativity went into this! Despite my best intentions, I couldn't fit Floyd | a bunch of these in, so here's my sorted list of quotes. Floyd | Floyd | Included: Floyd | Floyd | "Much time is wasted in irrelevant flirting between parser and PC. Floyd | >GET ROOM, guys." -- Sam Kabo Ashwell Floyd | "Not, surprisingly, an unreliable narrator game." -- Colin Sandel Floyd | "The writer is a strange, strange, strange individual." -- Tanga Floyd | "I'll never look at frozen peas the same way again." -- C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | "It's painfully obvious that the entire game was written solely to set Floyd | up one rather weak pun." -- David Fletcher Floyd | Floyd | Kinda included: Floyd | Floyd | "At first I thought this was just another boring empty-apartment game. Floyd | Then came the piranhas." -- Sarah Morayati (implementation: piranhas Floyd | yes, boring empty-apartment game only kinda) Floyd | "Brilliant! This is the first four-move game I've actually enjoyed." Floyd | -- Royce Odle (implementation: although the game ends most frequently Floyd | at four moves, it can still be stretched to five or six with care) Floyd | "With a naked eye or microscope you will be able to identify 180 Floyd | hardwoods, softwoods amd tropical woods." -- Roger Carbol Floyd | (implementation: only 60, all hardwoods, no microscope) Floyd | Floyd | Not included: Floyd | Floyd | "The wryly savage condemnation of the 17th-century Neapolitan court is Floyd | a knee-slapper, despite being couched so shyly in metaphor." -- S. Floyd | John Ross Floyd | "Writing a keyword-based game using no verbs, not even in the Floyd | descriptions, must've been nothing short of impossible." -- Marius Floyd | M?ller Floyd | Floyd | I strongly recommend checking the walkthrough (command: WALKTHROUGH) Floyd | because the intended form of this game is lacking about two weeks of Floyd | implementation on the execution, and very little is adequately clued Floyd | (plus there's a whole lot unimplemented). With that said, feel free Floyd | to poke around first. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch thinks his blurb is responsible for that pun | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, I guess it was even supposed to be bad" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "walkthrough" | ||||
Floyd | The four-step walkthrough to avoiding your smoochiepoodle's horrific Floyd | demise: Floyd | Floyd | 1. Give phone to robot. Floyd | 2. Turn off robot. Floyd | 3. Get frozen peas. Floyd | 4. Put frozen peas in fish tank. Floyd | Floyd | F'reals. Try it. (But if you've taken any moves already, then you're Floyd | already SOL and you should restart.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | "Please try waiting." Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | There's something inside that bag of peas - I can see it a bit now, Floyd | it's black and wriggly -" Floyd | Floyd | "Smoochiepoodle, listen to me very carefully. I want you to - " Floyd | Floyd | "The bag is shredding all the way, I can see something crawling out. Floyd | It looks a bit like - its FACE! THAT FACE! Its - Floyd | AGGGHHHHHHHHHgggglrgle...." Floyd | Floyd | "No! Smoochiepoodle! Talk to me! TALK TO ME! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It seems you and your smoochiepoodle won't be going to Jamaica Floyd | after all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | maga asks, "ooookay. onward?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
| Floyd says (to schep), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | Jacqueline says, "It's weird. Carolyn's not here, but the friendly voice of her about makes me feel like she is." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| maga says, "all righty then" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load spectrum" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | All is light. All should be light. Floyd | Floyd | But it's not, and there is weight on your feet. Something isn't right. Floyd | Floyd | You were in the middle of something just now. What was it? Floyd | Floyd | Spectrum Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Colin Sandel Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110415 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | The Center Floyd | You are standing in the center of a colorwheel, its hues sliding away Floyd | from your perception on all sides. Several dark gray statues in Floyd | varying states of disrepair stand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a diary entry, a map, a broken killer statue, a broken Floyd | mother statue, a broken target statue and a broken savior statue here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||||
Floyd | It's part of a diary entry written on a scrap of journal paper. It Floyd | reads, "By the time I knew what I had to do, nothing remained in my Floyd | heart but the admiration I had reserved for myself. I knew my family Floyd | would be stricken with terror, and I should have felt loathing for the Floyd | action I was about to take, but this is the price of vigilance and Floyd | everything else was stricken from my heart." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "go fuchsia" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| AutomatonZX27 disappears in a flash of glaring white light. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||||
Floyd | Anticipation Optimism Joy Love Trust Floyd | Aggressiveness Vigilance Ecstacy Admiration Floyd | Submission Floyd | Anger Rage CENTER Terror Fear Floyd | Contempt Loathing Grief Amazement Awe Floyd | Disgust Remorse Sadness Disapproval Floyd | Surprise Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hmm." | |||
| inky says, "what the butt" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x killer statue" | ||||
Floyd | The killer stands resolute with weapon in hand, but his face betrays Floyd | the most unpleasant of feelings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mother statue" | ||||
Floyd | She covers her face with her hands, unable to contain her emotion. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What's happening?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "We're on some wheel of emotion." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x target statue" | ||||
Floyd | To see this noble victim die would bring pause to anyone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x savior statue" | ||||
Floyd | Open arms, ready to love anyone who does precisely as he asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | diary entry: Taken. Floyd | map: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where did 'go fuschia' come from?" | |||
| schep asks, "we're standing on a huge color wheel, right?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I missed it, I guess." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "What emotion do you suppose fuschia would be? :)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Admiration Floyd | You can see a crime here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "touch target" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crime" | ||||
Floyd | too vile to touch, too horrible to forgive, too sad to keep closer Floyd | than the furthest corner of the mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops sorry" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x crime" | ||||
Floyd | too vile to touch, too horrible to forgive, too sad to keep closer Floyd | than the furthest corner of the mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||||
Floyd | It's part of a diary entry written on a scrap of journal paper. It Floyd | reads, "By the time I knew what I had to do, nothing remained in my Floyd | heart but the admiration I had reserved for myself. I knew my family Floyd | would be stricken with terror, and I should have felt loathing for the Floyd | action I was about to take, but this is the price of vigilance and Floyd | everything else was stricken from my heart." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. A color wheel location is like my Undernexus." | |||
| EmacsUser asks, "Wait, wasn't ne the direction to admiration?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "IRTA A color wheel location is like my Underwear" | ||||
| schep says, "oh hey, the diary traces a path" | ||||
| DavidW says, "uh, several of the words in the diary are names on the map." | ||||
| maga asks, "aaah. walkthrough?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "heart = center, I'd say." | ||||
| EmacsUser nods. | ||||
| djfletch asks, "so we should go to terror next?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "So, south to terror?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, that's why I went ne" | ||||
| DavidW says, "so admiration first" | ||||
| inky says, "I can't tell what the point of the game is, though" | ||||
| schep says, "inky is too smart for us" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder how the statues come into play." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Can the statues be taken?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "I don't think so." | ||||
| Pacian asks, "Maybe pushed?" | ||||
| schep says, "get all didn't take them." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I did a takeall, but didn't try them individually. Can they be pushed?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "So, I'd guess we'll find what's used to fix the statues." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "take crime" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "I'm betting we need to move items around to areas matching the diary entry." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah. I was thinking mother (family) in terror" | ||||
| inky says, "ah, that makes sense" | ||||
| EmacsUser asks, "So, sw?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Center Floyd | You are standing in the center of a colorwheel, its hues sliding away Floyd | from your perception on all sides. Several dark gray statues in Floyd | varying states of disrepair stand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a broken killer statue, a broken mother statue, a broken Floyd | target statue and a broken savior statue here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take mother statue" | ||||
Floyd | The broken mother statue is far too heavy to lift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push mother statue" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "push killer ne" | ||||
Floyd | The broken killer statue cannot be pushed from place to place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put crime on killer statue" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the broken killer statue would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Pacian says, "Let's explore a bit and see what else there is in other areas." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||||
Floyd | Anticipation Optimism Joy Love Trust Floyd | Aggressiveness Vigilance Ecstacy Admiration Floyd | Submission Floyd | Anger Rage CENTER Terror Fear Floyd | Contempt Loathing Grief Amazement Awe Floyd | Disgust Remorse Sadness Disapproval Floyd | Surprise Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Loathing Floyd | You can see a victim here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x victim" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x victim" | ||||
Floyd | you should not have done this, a good man as you know him to be should Floyd | not die this way Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | you should not have done this, a good man as you know him to be should Floyd | not die this way Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get victim" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "is there really an object in every room?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Disgust Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Remorse Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sadness Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Disapproval Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Disapproval Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "diary entry" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, not even a description" | |||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "x diary entry" | ||||
Floyd | It's part of a diary entry written on a scrap of journal paper. It Floyd | reads, "By the time I knew what I had to do, nothing remained in my Floyd | heart but the disapproval I had reserved for myself. I knew my family Floyd | would be stricken with terror, and I should have felt disapproval for Floyd | the action I was about to take, but this is the price of vigilance and Floyd | everything else was stricken from my heart." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Just the indicated rooms it seems." | |||
| schep says, "the victim's description sounds like remorse" | ||||
| Pacian says, "Just wondered if it changed..." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Yeah, I wondered that too." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It has" | ||||
| DavidW says, "'disapproval'" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, because we're in the disapproval room" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "That would ... yeah." | ||||
| inky says, "I guess, right, because it's "myself"" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a victim Floyd | a crime Floyd | a map Floyd | a diary entry Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "I wonder if this is like (hmm, hunting for link)." | |||
| Pacian says, "Well let's drop the victim somewhere and see what the diary entry says." | ||||
| DavidW says, "visit terror and vigilance." | ||||
| schep has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | EmacsUser says, "This is what I was thinking of: [LINK]" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "north twice to terror?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "But anyway." | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Amazement Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Terror Floyd | You can see a family here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x family" | ||||
Floyd | Five stages over and over, knowledge without comprehension, an Floyd | undending and terrible cycle Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take family" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "heading over to vigilance if nobody objects?" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Sure." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ecstacy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vigilance Floyd | You can see a purpose here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x purpose" | ||||
Floyd | you must not question, you must only do exactly as you are told to do. Floyd | no other choice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take purpose" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a purpose Floyd | a family Floyd | a victim Floyd | a crime Floyd | a map Floyd | a diary entry Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||||
Floyd | It's part of a diary entry written on a scrap of journal paper. It Floyd | reads, "By the time I knew what I had to do, nothing remained in my Floyd | heart but the vigilance I had reserved for myself. I knew my family Floyd | would be stricken with vigilance, and I should have felt vigilance for Floyd | the action I was about to take, but this is the price of vigilance and Floyd | everything else was stricken from my heart." Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "heh" | |||
| inky says, "hunh" | ||||
| Pacian says, "I wonder if what's in the centre changes as well." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think, if these are put in the right places, then the statues will heal. Examine the statues to determine their homes." | ||||
| inky says, "that makes sense" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "so, killer=crime, mother=family, savior=purpose, target=victim" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Seems right." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Vigilance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Center Floyd | You are standing in the center of a colorwheel, its hues sliding away Floyd | from your perception on all sides. Several dark gray statues in Floyd | varying states of disrepair stand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a broken killer statue, a broken mother statue, a broken Floyd | target statue and a broken savior statue here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Amazement Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Center Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||||
Floyd | It's part of a diary entry written on a scrap of journal paper. It Floyd | reads, "By the time I knew what I had to do, nothing remained in my Floyd | heart but the the center I had reserved for myself. I knew my family Floyd | would be stricken with the center, and I should have felt the center Floyd | for the action I was about to take, but this is the price of the Floyd | center and everything else was stricken from my heart." Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser says, "Sorry." | |||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | Roger says, "Vigilance is the price of vigilance" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x killer" | ||||
Floyd | The killer stands resolute with weapon in hand, but his face betrays Floyd | the most unpleasant of feelings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x killer's face" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "I dunno, what is that?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||||
Floyd | Anticipation Optimism Joy Love Trust Floyd | Aggressiveness Vigilance Ecstacy Admiration Floyd | Submission Floyd | Anger Rage CENTER Terror Fear Floyd | Contempt Loathing Grief Amazement Awe Floyd | Disgust Remorse Sadness Disapproval Floyd | Surprise Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "is disgust the most unpleasant? or loathing?" | |||
| Pacian asks, "Or rage?" | ||||
| Roger says, "Maybe there's easier ones to work on first" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Disgust is put further out on the wheel." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mother" | ||||
Floyd | She covers her face with her hands, unable to contain her emotion. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "ok, I assume that is grief?" | |||
| inky asks, "or remorse?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x family" | ||||
Floyd | Five stages over and over, knowledge without comprehension, an Floyd | undending and terrible cycle Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| zarf walks off through the wall; vivid gold light flares briefly around him. | genericgeekgirl says, "grief" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x savior" | ||||
Floyd | Open arms, ready to love anyone who does precisely as he asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not seeing an obvious answer" | |||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "x target" | ||||
Floyd | To see this noble victim die would bring pause to anyone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Submission for savior, perhaps." | |||
| Pacian says, "Grief." | ||||
| Pacian says, "For victim, I mean." | ||||
| inky says, "I guess" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think the "five stages" referred to grief, though" | ||||
| Pacian says, "Oh. Yeah." | ||||
| inky says, "oh hmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grief Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||||
Floyd | It's part of a diary entry written on a scrap of journal paper. It Floyd | reads, "By the time I knew what I had to do, nothing remained in my Floyd | heart but the grief I had reserved for myself. I knew my family would Floyd | be stricken with grief, and I should have felt grief for the action I Floyd | was about to take, but this is the price of grief and everything else Floyd | was stricken from my heart." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop family" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Center Floyd | You are standing in the center of a colorwheel, its hues sliding away Floyd | from your perception on all sides. Several dark gray statues in Floyd | varying states of disrepair stand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a broken killer statue, an unbroken mother statue, a Floyd | broken target statue and a broken savior statue here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "huzzah" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yay" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mother" | ||||
Floyd | She covers her face with her hands, unable to contain her emotion. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "unbroken is good" | |||
| DavidW says, "We're on the right track." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a purpose Floyd | a victim Floyd | a crime Floyd | a map Floyd | a diary entry Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x purpose" | ||||
Floyd | you must not question, you must only do exactly as you are told to do. Floyd | no other choice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne. n. drop victim. s. sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Admiration Floyd | Floyd | Love Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | Admiration Floyd | Floyd | The Center Floyd | You are standing in the center of a colorwheel, its hues sliding away Floyd | from your perception on all sides. Several dark gray statues in Floyd | varying states of disrepair stand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a broken killer statue, an unbroken mother statue, a Floyd | broken target statue and a broken savior statue here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Submission for purpose" | |||
| inky says, "hmm, I guess not" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne. n. get victim. se. drop purpose. sw. w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Admiration Floyd | Floyd | Love Floyd | You can see a victim here. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Submission Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | Terror Floyd | Floyd | The Center Floyd | You are standing in the center of a colorwheel, its hues sliding away Floyd | from your perception on all sides. Several dark gray statues in Floyd | varying states of disrepair stand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a broken killer statue, an unbroken mother statue, a Floyd | broken target statue and an unbroken savior statue here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||||
Floyd | It's part of a diary entry written on a scrap of journal paper. It Floyd | reads, "By the time I knew what I had to do, nothing remained in my Floyd | heart but the the center I had reserved for myself. I knew my family Floyd | would be stricken with grief, and I should have felt the center for Floyd | the action I was about to take, but this is the price of submission Floyd | and everything else was stricken from my heart." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x killer" | ||||
Floyd | The killer stands resolute with weapon in hand, but his face betrays Floyd | the most unpleasant of feelings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crime" | ||||
Floyd | too vile to touch, too horrible to forgive, too sad to keep closer Floyd | than the furthest corner of the mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "if I am understanding this right, then we look at the items to see where to drop them, not the statues?" | |||
| DavidW says, "A bit of both" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw. sw. drop crime. ne. ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Loathing Floyd | Floyd | Disgust Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | Loathing Floyd | Floyd | The Center Floyd | You are standing in the center of a colorwheel, its hues sliding away Floyd | from your perception on all sides. Several dark gray statues in Floyd | varying states of disrepair stand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an unbroken killer statue, an unbroken mother statue, a Floyd | broken target statue and an unbroken savior statue here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a victim Floyd | a map Floyd | a diary entry Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x victim" | ||||
Floyd | you should not have done this, a good man as you know him to be should Floyd | not die this way Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Crime at disgust, good." | |||
| inky asks, "I guess this is remorse?" | ||||
| maga says, "yeah" | ||||
| Pacian asks, "Hasn't the description for the victim changed?" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Sounds right." | ||||
| DavidW says, "try it" | ||||
| Pacian says, "No, confusing it for the target." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw. s. drop victim. n. ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Loathing Floyd | Floyd | Remorse Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | Loathing Floyd | You return to the center and are suddenly there again. You stand Floyd | before him, pistol extended, disgust for your actions in your heart Floyd | but standing resolute as a God-fearing man must be. Your mother sees Floyd | what you are about to do and places her face in her hands, unable to Floyd | watch. Your pistol barks and the face of the prime minister contorts Floyd | in pain, a good man condemned to an early death by your hand. Floyd | Floyd | They are coming for you, they break your body with sharp metal and Floyd | rough hands but you can no longer hear them or feel them, for you are Floyd | in the arms of they who called to you. "It's time," they call. "You Floyd | are forgiven and you are loved. Truly you do our work this day." Floyd | Floyd | You ascend smiling, your mind and body gone but your soul free at long Floyd | last. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 84 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | inky says, "bwuh" | |||
| Roger says, "Interesting sort of experiment" | ||||
| inky asks, "so in the *good* ending we assassinate a dude?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We'd already done it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "blurbs?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "he's the prime minister, probably deserved it" | ||||
| maga says, "man, I didn't plan on this being DepressingComp" | ||||
| DavidW says, "This was sorta making peace with it. Or peas." | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Pacian says, "whoops." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Center Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | This little toy/game was written for the "SpeedIF Jacket 4" Event, and Floyd | is (sadly) my first solo release as an author. Much as the 2004 Will Floyd | Smith movie "I, Robot" was based on the Asimov short story collection Floyd | of the same name, Spectrum was based on the following blurbs: Floyd | Floyd | "A vivid exercise in character-development, undermined by the fact Floyd | that nobody, author and player included, has a clue what's going on." Floyd | -- Sam Kabo Ashwell Floyd | Floyd | "Countries with strong censorship laws would never allow this game to Floyd | exist - and they are poorer for it." -- S. John Ross Floyd | Floyd | "I've never seen a "one-room game" that contained so many discrete Floyd | areas before." -- Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Floyd | "What... The... Fuck?" -- Tanga Floyd | Floyd | "An intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an Floyd | international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating Floyd | esoteria." -- Roger Carbol Floyd | Floyd | "An excellent argument against giving personal computers to Floyd | nine-year-olds." -- Sarah Morayati Floyd | Floyd | The layout of Spectrum's mindscape was inspired by this chart, which I Floyd | found on the ilovecharts tumblr: Floyd | [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | That's it! This was harrowing but fun. Many thanks to my domestic and Floyd | writing partner, Carolyn VanEseltine, for helping me out with the Floyd | chunks of code I didn't know but also for letting me figure the rest Floyd | out myself. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, ""WTF", indeed. =)" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "Reminds me of Jason and the Argonauts: Astral Plane." | |||
| maga says, "okay, last one" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Wow, all in one session." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load stomach" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Praise for "Light Of My Stomach": Floyd | Floyd | "I never imagined that sonnets could sink this low. Thank you for Floyd | opening my eyes, game." Floyd | - Sam Kabo Ashwell Floyd | Floyd | "The juxtaposition of harsh urban and harsher culinary imagery are Floyd | what really made this work soar." Floyd | - S. John Ross Floyd | Floyd | "I've played games that were touching before, but this one outright Floyd | gropes you." Floyd | - Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Floyd | "Is every damn object in this game (including the unnecessary PUTPBAD Floyd | reference) some kind of badly-done psychological metaphor?" Floyd | - Colin Sandel Floyd | Floyd | "Tastes like chicken." Floyd | - Tanga Floyd | Floyd | "The story confused me a little until I realised that the giant atomic Floyd | robot was the real protagonist." Floyd | - C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | Floyd | "Probably the best game written from the perspective of a lightbulb." Floyd | - Marius Muller Floyd | Floyd | "If only John Quincy Adams were alive to give this a piece of his Floyd | mind." Floyd | - Sarah Morayati Floyd | Floyd | "The secret room was almost worth the struggle to open the secret Floyd | door." Floyd | - Royce Odle Floyd | Floyd | "Masterfully blends the intrigue of competitive eating with the Floyd | excitement of two-fisted street justice!" Floyd | - Jennifer Earl Floyd | Floyd | [press a key] Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW says, "geez" | |||
| Pacian says, "Yay atomic robot." | ||||
| djfletch says, "I got overenthusiatic and tried to hit all the quotes somehow or other" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "press any key" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Light Of My Stomach Floyd | by David Fletcher Floyd | for SpeedIF Jacket 4. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are the principal lightbulb in this vast arena. You are currently Floyd | switched off. Floyd | Floyd | You feel the power arrive, though weakly, as it has always been these Floyd | last few years. Nevertheless you have your duty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on" | ||||
Floyd | You turn yourself on. Floyd | Floyd | You find yourself shining especially on one Bob Bobkins -- a man Floyd | preparing for the contest of his life. Floyd | Floyd | [press a key] Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "press any key" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gastrodrome Floyd | The John Quincy Adams Gastrodrome is the nation's leading competitive Floyd | eating venue, and today it is packed. All eyes are on you and your Floyd | opponent as the crowd waits impatiently for the match to begin. Floyd | Floyd | The mayor is here, looking pompous. Floyd | Floyd | Garry Garrison is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Bob Bobkins, competitive eating enthusiast. Floyd | Floyd | The mayor says "Welcome everyone, to the John Quincy Adams Floyd | Gastrodrome, for the final of the 47th Annual Exotic Foodstuffs Eating Floyd | Competition!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "x opponent" | ||||
Floyd | Garry is your chief rival on the competitive eating circuit. You've Floyd | never yet beaten him, but perhaps you can today. Floyd | Floyd | "Sadly, this will be the last event we hold here - with our aging Floyd | power station we can barely manage to light the place any more." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x mayor" | ||||
Floyd | The Mayor of Quincy is officiating today. Floyd | Floyd | "But I see the kitchen staff are ready, so without further ado, let's Floyd | bring out the first dish!" Floyd | Floyd | There are loud cheers from the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "Damn, I was hoping it was the atomic robot." | |||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "x dish" | ||||
Floyd | The word "dish" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | (If this was an accidental misspelling, you can correct it by typing Floyd | OOPS followed by the corrected word now. Any time the story points Floyd | out an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your Floyd | next command.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "consume mass quanties. We are from France." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give you some deep-fried Mongolian ocelot. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some mashed Uzbekistani sloth. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "yay" | |||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "eat ocelot" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly swallow the deep-fried Mongolian ocelot. It tastes like Floyd | chicken. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give you some steamed Paraguayan sausage. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the mashed Uzbekistani sloth. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some grilled Hungarian mango. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat sausage" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly swallow the steamed Paraguayan sausage. It tastes Floyd | somewhat like deep-fried Mongolian ocelot. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give you some baked Siberian lettuce. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the grilled Hungarian mango. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some boiled Venezuelan okapi. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "om nom nom nom nom" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "vomit" | ||||
Floyd | The word "vomit" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "au contraire" | |||
| DavidW says, "eat lettuce" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "eat lettuce" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly swallow the baked Siberian lettuce. It tastes similar to Floyd | steamed Paraguayan sausage. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give you some sauteed Faroese carrot. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the boiled Venezuelan okapi. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some pan-fried Congolese asparagus. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "I want to examine the food, but it'll only give Gary a head start." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "we could undo?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x carrot" | ||||
Floyd | There's no time to stare at the sauteed Faroese carrot! Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the pan-fried Congolese asparagus. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some roasted Saharan platypus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't know how to use the character '/' in a command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "x carrot". Floyd | Floyd | Gastrodrome Floyd | The John Quincy Adams Gastrodrome is the nation's leading competitive Floyd | eating venue, and today it is packed. Floyd | Floyd | The mayor is here, looking pompous. Floyd | Floyd | Garry Garrison is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat carrot" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly swallow the sauteed Faroese carrot. It is reminiscent of Floyd | baked Siberian lettuce. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give you some roasted Saharan platypus. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the pan-fried Congolese asparagus. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some seared Liberian rhinoceros. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "eat platypus" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly swallow the roasted Saharan platypus. It tastes somewhat Floyd | like sauteed Faroese carrot. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give you some steamed Tierra del Fuegan Floyd | porpoise. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the seared Liberian rhinoceros. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some deep-fried Faroese leopard. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "If we eat garry, do we win?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "can we eat his food?" | ||||
| maga says, "it seems as if we're treading water here, yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That might work too." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mayor" | ||||
Floyd | The Mayor of Quincy is officiating today. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the deep-fried Faroese leopard. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some roasted Mongolian vulture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat mayor" | ||||
Floyd | The mayor does not appear to be edible. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the roasted Mongolian vulture. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some mashed Uzbekistani rhinoceros. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "eat leopard" | ||||
Floyd | You see no leopard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "eat rhinoceros" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the mashed Uzbekistani rhinoceros) Floyd | Garry won't let you have that. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the mashed Uzbekistani rhinoceros. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some seared Paraguayan sausage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | This story doesn't use scoring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat garry" | ||||
Floyd | Garry does not appear to be edible. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the seared Paraguayan sausage. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some pan-fried Hungarian platypus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "x officials" | ||||
Floyd | Contest officials scurry busily about. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the pan-fried Hungarian platypus. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some sauteed Siberian ocelot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "vomit" | ||||
Floyd | The word "vomit" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "hrrm" | |||
| inky asks, "what kind of competitive-eating simulation is this??" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying some steamed Tierra del Fuegan porpoise. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the sauteed Siberian ocelot. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some boiled Tierra del Fuegan sloth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Bob Bobkins, competitive eating enthusiast. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the boiled Tierra del Fuegan sloth. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some grilled Congolese asparagus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | This story doesn't use scoring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Gastrodrome Floyd | The John Quincy Adams Gastrodrome is the nation's leading competitive Floyd | eating venue, and today it is packed. Floyd | Floyd | The mayor is here, looking pompous. Floyd | Floyd | Garry Garrison is here. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the grilled Congolese asparagus. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some baked Liberian okapi. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "Thought we might be getting fatter." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "eat all" | ||||
Floyd | steamed Tierra del Fuegan porpoise: You try your best, but you just Floyd | can't eat any more. It looks like you'll never be as good as Garry. Floyd | He's like a machine. Floyd | Floyd | door: The door does not appear to be edible. Floyd | Floyd | baked Liberian okapi: Floyd | (first taking the baked Liberian okapi) Floyd | Garry won't let you have that. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the baked Liberian okapi. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some sauteed Venezuelan carrot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give porpoise to garry" | ||||
Floyd | He's too focused on the competition to pay attention. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the sauteed Venezuelan carrot. You watch in awe. Floyd | Wait, what's that on the side of his neck? Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some steamed Saharan porpoise. Floyd | Floyd | > | EmacsUser | He's like a machine. | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x neck" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like there's some kind of... flashing light... in his neck? Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the steamed Saharan porpoise. The light flashes as Floyd | he swallows. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some deep-fried Mongolian lettuce. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "hit light" | ||||
Floyd | You cannot attack that. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the deep-fried Mongolian lettuce. The light Floyd | flashes as he swallows. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some grilled Siberian vulture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off light" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't something you can turn off. Floyd | Floyd | Your opponent eats the grilled Siberian vulture. The light flashes as Floyd | he swallows. Floyd | Floyd | The contest officials give him some roasted Saharan mango. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||||
Floyd | You walk over to Garry. Floyd | Floyd | "This man has a flashing light in the side of his neck," you point out Floyd | to the officials. "He must be cheating somehow." Floyd | Floyd | Garry stands up. You'd never realised quite how tall he was. He must Floyd | be ten feet tall! Floyd | Floyd | "He's not a man at all!" you scream. "He's some kind of... giant... Floyd | robot!" Floyd | Floyd | "Bob is correct," says Garry, in menacing metallic tones. "The man Floyd | you knew as Garry is really G.A.R.R.Y., or Giant Atomic Robot, Floyd | Revision Y. And if I cannot continue with my competitive eating Floyd | career, my only alternative is to destroy your city!" Floyd | Floyd | He bursts out through the door. You have to stop him! Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "Awesome." | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Ah, progress." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Downtown Floyd | Downtown, outside the John Quincy Adams Gastrodrome. Floyd | Floyd | A shiny metal phone booth sits here. Floyd | Floyd | Garry the giant atomic robot is rampaging here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "garry" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter booth" | ||||
Floyd | There's no point trying to hide in there. Floyd | Floyd | Garry swings a punch at you, but you duck. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "f pick up phone booth" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pick up phone booth and kill garry" | ||||
Floyd | Your physique has been honed by years of competitive eating, and you Floyd | easily pick up the phone booth. Floyd | Floyd | Garry tries to smash you with an atomic kick, but misses. Floyd | Floyd | You land a mighty blow, but your unaided fists have little effect on Floyd | Garry's robot body. Floyd | Floyd | Garry stamps his feet angrily! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "er" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw phone booth at garry" | ||||
Floyd | You launch the phone booth at Garry! It hits him right in the head, Floyd | smashing him to the ground! Floyd | Floyd | For a moment he doesn't move. But then his eyes flash red! You've Floyd | only made him angrier! He grabs you by the throat! Floyd | Floyd | [press a key] Floyd | Floyd | | inky says, "uh-oh" | |||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | But suddenly Garry drops you again. "It's no good, Bob," he says. "I Floyd | could happily crush anyone else to a pulp with my atomic hands, but Floyd | not you. Don't you see that I love you?" Floyd | Floyd | Actually you had not seen this. It is a surprise to you. Floyd | Floyd | Garry bursts into tears and flees to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh my" | ||||
| Pacian says, "Whoa. Deja vu." | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "Haha." | ||||
| Roger says, "Ha" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Alley Floyd | This squalid dead end would be thought picturesque by any connoisseur Floyd | of urban decay. You are surrounded by blank walls. Trash is Floyd | scattered around. Floyd | Floyd | But where did Garry go? He seems to have completely vanished. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x trash" | ||||
Floyd | One piece of paper looks cleaner than the rest, as though it has been Floyd | recently dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "search trash" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing else there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | It is a poem written in suspiciously robotic handwriting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||||
Floyd | Oh Bob, thou eating champion of my heart Floyd | When I first saw thee stuff thy mouth with pies Floyd | I knew that we could never be apart Floyd | And took to verse to praise thee to the skies. Floyd | When I retire into my secret place Floyd | (The magic word for which is bibblebake) Floyd | I often think me of thy manly face, Floyd | And long to see thee cramming it with cake. Floyd | And yet, despite our common love of eating Floyd | I fear our wedding bells will never peal; Floyd | That never can we join in minds' true meeting Floyd | And share a grand-proportioned nuptial meal -- Floyd | For thou art human and most fair of feature Floyd | And I, a hideous huge atomic creature. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "holy crapadoodle" | |||
| EmacsUser says, "Haha." | ||||
| maga says, "awesome" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "oh my" | ||||
| Pacian says, "Bravo." | ||||
| inky asks, "whose quote was that? maga's?" | ||||
| DavidW claps | maga says, "yeah" | |||
| djfletch says, "yup" | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "bibblebake" | ||||
Floyd | A secret door springs open! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Alley Floyd | This squalid dead end would be thought picturesque by any connoisseur Floyd | of urban decay. A secret door lies open to the south. Trash is Floyd | scattered around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Secret Room Floyd | You have found your way into Garry's secret room. Floyd | Floyd | Garry is hiding here, crying softly. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "awwwww" | |||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "kiss garry" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to encourage him. Floyd | Floyd | Garry puts a hand on your shoulder. You remove it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "kiss garry" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to encourage him. Floyd | Floyd | Garry caresses your arm. You retreat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Pacian says, "Yes I do." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hug garry" | ||||
Floyd | The word "hug" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "He was probably turned to steel by an immense magnetic field" | |||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "kill garry" | ||||
Floyd | Maybe he is calm enough to talk to now. Floyd | Floyd | Garry cups your buttock with a huge robotic hand. You step smartly Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Are we to spurn him?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "garry, no" | ||||
Floyd | Garry does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | Garry approaches you again. You hurriedly try to explain. "Look, it Floyd | wouldn't work," you say. "You're a giant atomic robot, and I prefer Floyd | women." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "talk to garry" | ||||
Floyd | Try asking about specific things instead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "ask garry about himself" | ||||
Floyd | "I am an atomic robot, but I have loved you ever since I saw you eat Floyd | competitively," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask garry about love" | ||||
Floyd | Garry does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "ask garry about competitive eating" | ||||
Floyd | "I found I could succeed at competitive eating by directing the food Floyd | into my fusion reactor," says Garry. "I suppose it was cheating, but Floyd | if I can't eat competitively I don't know what to do with my life." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x garry" | ||||
Floyd | He no longer looks very threatening. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "question sexuality" | ||||
Floyd | The word "question" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "heteronormativity off" | ||||
Floyd | The word "heteronormativity" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "hehe" | |||
| DavidW says (to maga), "heh" | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "ask garry about reactor" | ||||
Floyd | "My fusion reactor helped me win eating contests, but what use is it Floyd | now that I have no purpose in life?" Floyd | Floyd | "Wait a moment," you respond. "I think I have an idea..." Floyd | Floyd | [press a key] Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| EmacsUser pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Pacian says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are the principal lightbulb in this vast arena. You are currently Floyd | switched off. Floyd | Floyd | You feel the power arrive, with greater strength than ever before. It Floyd | can only be fusion power! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Pacian exclaims, "Yay fusion!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn the hell on" | ||||
Floyd | The word "hell" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| EmacsUser says (to Floyd), "turn on" | ||||
Floyd | You turn yourself on. Floyd | Floyd | You shine out with an immense brightness, flooding the John Quincy Floyd | Adams Gastrodrome with a glorious light: the light of fusion power. Floyd | Floyd | *** Competitive eating is saved! *** Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" | |||
| DavidW says, "wow" | ||||
| Pacian asks, "Saved from what...? Weak lighting?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "uh-huh" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, I don't remember it being threatened" | ||||
| maga says, "they were going to shut the arena down" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "It was to be cancelled because they couldn't afford the electricity." | ||||
| DavidW | "Sadly, this will be the last event we hold here - with our aging power station we can barely manage to light the place any more." | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "they could have saved money by not buying all those exotic animals" | ||||
| maga says, "man, *another* sad ending" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Did we really play all eight games?" | ||||
| maga says, "we did" | ||||
| Ellison says, "good job, everybody" | ||||
| EmacsUser exclaims, "Yay authors!" | ||||
| EmacsUser says, "And thanks to maga for organizing." | ||||
| Pacian says, "Ditto." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah. Great set." | ||||
| maga says, "yes, thanks to everyone who wrote or played or whatnot. you are all awesome" | ||||
| Roger says, "Yeah; it was a good time all around." | ||||
| djfletch says, "yes thankyou" | ||||
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