  
 
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Below is a transcript of The Indigo New Language Speed IFs, which were written by various authors. You can learn more about these games, including how to download them, by visiting the ifWiki.WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing these games, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played these games, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.ANOTHER WARNING! A lot (most!) of the transcripts contained on this site are, shall we say, family-friendly. Portions of this transcript are decidedly not family-friendly. Just so we're clear. There were ten entries in The Indigo New Language Speed IF, presented here in alphabetical order by name (not in the order in which we played the games). Click on a title to jump to that portion of the transcript: The Blue Death by Eric Forgeot as "Otto Grimwald" The Cavity of Time by Sam Kabo Ashwell Haunted House by rockersuke In Memory by Jacqueline A. Lott IN-D-I-GO SOUL by Jonathan Blask as "Roody Yogurt" Indigo by Emily Short The Matter of the Monster by Andrew Plotkin The Singular Adventure of the Indigo Violet by David Fletcher Painting the Rainbow by Royce Odle The Price by Chris Conley |
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| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Welcome to ClubFloyd. Everyone now needs to be on the #ClubFloyd channel. You can join it, if you haven't already, by typing @JOINC CLUBFLOYD" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Then, to establish yourself the first time on that channel, type #CLUBFLOYD HELLO" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And after that, once you've designated the channel that way, you can just type ;HELLO AGAIN" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "During games, we'll play the game here in the room, but all discussion will happen on #Clubfloyd." | * rockersuke has joined the channel. | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We will use a driver for today's games, and that driver will be me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Which means that you can suggest commands on the #clubfloyd channel, but I will enter them." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Any questions?" | ||||
| Jacqueline counts to ten, or whatever it is you're supposed to do. | Binder says, "No questions here, only half-formed Voltron jokes." | |||
| Trumgottist exclaims, "I approve very much of the driver concept!" | ||||
| Royce says, "so, yeah...what ChrisC said in #speed-if" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Not everyone is here. That is too bad. Anyway, let me tell you how this Indigo New Language Speed IF went -- we got TEN games. Yay." | ||||
| Royce claps | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "yay!" | ||||
| Trumgottist exclaims, "Yay!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "The question Chris asked (on a channel that won't appear in the transcript) is how will I choose the order?" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "I approve of the driver concept as well. Less whiplash from people trying to do completely opposite things in successive turns. :-)" | ||||
| rockersuke exclaims, "Yay! (and hello all!" | ||||
| Otto says, "HELLO" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I am up for suggestions, but I have an arbitrary list order here." | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "also yay 10-speeds." | ||||
| maga asks, "what was the final list of platforms?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We received an Alan 3 game, an ADRIFT game, a z-code game, two TADS 3 games, a Curveship game, and four variations of CYOAs." | ||||
| Otto says, "Four variations of CYOA! That's impressive :)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "All the CYOAs were browser-based, so I'll run those from here and painfully copy and paste for you. That is why the 'tester' account is logged in. I'll use that account to paste text in the room for the games Floyd can't run." | ||||
| Binder says, "the mechnical turk of cyoa" | ||||
| Tale arrives, full of fun and funk. | canadianpuzzler asks, "And the curveship one?" | |||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Well, four games in three different CYOA formats." | |||
| Ellison asks, "dang, what have I missed??" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to CP), "Vimes got Curveship to run on Floyd. He is awesome like that." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I decided to walk to my local coffee place but it took longer than anyone could have imagined!" | ||||
| Tale says, "He is, like, totally awesome, dude." | ||||
| Royce says (to Ellison), "nothing...just the usual, what order, how many games, what authoring systems, and how jacq's gonna paste the browser-based games" | ||||
| maga says, "also we gave away cars" | ||||
| Royce says, "oh and also that Jacqueline is gonna be the driver for these games" | ||||
| Ellison says, "here I thought Tale was actually saying something nice about someone until I realized it was just another one of his heartless jokes" | ||||
| Ellison says, "nice" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, shall we get started? I think I'd like to try splitting up the CYOAs with the other games in between. So let's start with one of those, hm?" | ||||
| Binder says, "sounds good" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "sounds good" | ||||
| Royce says, "sounds good here as well" | ||||
Floyd | The Price | ||||
| Tale makes himself you nothing me nothing out of the dust. | ||||
| Tale has disconnected. | ||||
Floyd | You are a merchant. You have plied your wares from the desert to the Floyd | sea; from the grasslands to the mountains, and have made a comfortable Floyd | living for yourself. Floyd | Floyd | You've just set off in a caravan returning with many trade goods from Floyd | the East, after a very profitable excursion. Floyd | Floyd | Before we get started, what is your name? | canadianpuzzler says, "I concur." | |||
| Lionheart arrives, full of fun and funk. | Ellison says, "yes, sounds good" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... what shall we call ourselves?" | ||||
| Royce says, "name suggestion: Legion" | ||||
| maga says, "Floydward" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Not a bad suggestion. Any objections?" | ||||
| Binder says, "no objection" | ||||
Floyd | What would you say has contributed most to your success? Floyd | Floyd | I take great care in my business dealings. No one gets one over on me. Floyd | | Ellison says, "whoa, this is crazy" | |||
Floyd | The loyalty of my personal guards. They are carefully selected and Floyd | well-paid for their services. Floyd | Floyd | My skill with a sword. I protect my own goods. Floyd | Floyd | Words. I have a way of easily swaying others. Floyd | Floyd | Single-minded dedication. Once I have set my mind to accomplish Floyd | something, I cannot rest until I succeed. | Jacqueline says, "Okay, those are the choices." | |||
| maga says, "SWORDED" | ||||
| Royce says, "clicks on his choice" | ||||
| Royce says, "guards" | ||||
| Otto says, "sounds like some Ultima tests..." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "words" | ||||
| Binder says, "skill with a sword seems pretty straightforward" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "worded [no S]" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Ahhh--dissention and diversity of thought!" | ||||
| Otto says, "WORDS? Don't forget we're on ifmud... ;)" | ||||
| djfletch says, "it seems unlikely we will have single-minded dedication" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, some people said words." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I suggest choosing the first paragraph where we get to be all things" | ||||
Floyd | And you have another aptitude, as well. Floyd | Floyd | 1) A particular shrewdness in the buying and selling of wares. Floyd | Floyd | 2) A larger-than-average contingent of guards. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Significant martial training. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Any task that I begin, I am dedicated to see it through to Floyd | completion. | Binder says (to Ellison), "Heh." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll try numbering them like that." | ||||
| Binder says, "#3 is my vote" | ||||
| maga says, "#3" | ||||
| * ChrisC has joined the channel. | ||||
| Royce says, "1" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, 3 it is." | ||||
| Otto says, "#3 for me too" | ||||
Floyd | But you have a failing... Floyd | 1) ...I admit some naivete in arranging business deals with others. Floyd | 2) ...I tend to overlook the training and upkeep of my personal guard. Floyd | 3) ...I always get distracted, and can never seem to finish things. | Ellison asks, "whose game is this?" | |||
| ChrisC says, "mine" | ||||
| Royce says, "2" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is Chris' game, yeah." | ||||
| maga says, "#2" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "apologies for making a kind of fiddly detail-full thing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "2 it is" | ||||
Floyd | Nobody's perfect. Floyd | ... Floyd | You made arrangements to form a caravan heading back to the familiar Floyd | lands of the west. Before you set off, you took stock of your Floyd | travelling companions: Floyd | Floyd | Ephraim is familiar; you've traveled with him before. He has made Floyd | this journey to the East in the past, making him unique among your Floyd | group. His skin may be wrinkled and weatherbeaten, but his eyes are Floyd | as sharp as ever. He never misses a deal, or a danger. Floyd | Floyd | Alexander, son of Asa, is an unfamiliar face, but you've heard of Floyd | him in the few weeks you've spent in this place. Tales of his exploits Floyd | and outburts in local gambling dens and seedier locales quickly made Floyd | him notorious among your small group of outsider mechants, not to Floyd | mention the natives. He looks very young, and seems to wear a Floyd | perpetual scowl. Floyd | Floyd | Yishai is another matter. Yes, he adorns himself with clothes of many Floyd | different colors; you might even call it ostentatious. But he hides Floyd | his face behind another cloth, and rarely speaks. You spent weeks in Floyd | the city, but until he joined your caravan that morning, you never Floyd | even knew he was in the area. Floyd | ... | Ellison says, "this is like Fallout. I hope we choose the bloody giblet perk." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "I heard indigo and immediately thought of biblical era trading merchant" | ||||
| maga says, "wow, this *really* feels like the Choice of Games voice" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Yeah, I played all of their games to get in the vibe of writing one of these things, they have a great corpus" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Also, you have... CHOICES!" | ||||
Floyd | Besides arranging the purchase of your trade goods, how did you spend Floyd | the remainder of your money during your time in the East? Floyd | Floyd | 1) Employing the services of a few extra guards, and obtaining Floyd | higher-quality arms for them. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Entertainment. I may never have a chance to return here; why not Floyd | enjoy my time while I can? Floyd | Floyd | 3) Purchasing additional supplies, and replacing my beasts of burden Floyd | with fresh stock. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Actually, I saved it. It's important to keep a certain amount of Floyd | wealth in reserve, to always be prepared for future opportunities. Floyd | Floyd | 5) "Remainder?" No, I came here to engage in profitable enterprise, Floyd | and all my funds were devoted to that end. | genericgeekgirl says, "2" | |||
| Binder says, "3" | maga says, "2" | |||
| Binder says, "ilac" | Binder says, "3" | |||
| Royce says, "3" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Tiebreaker?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "3" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, 3." | ||||
Floyd | After a great deal of haggling, you arrange the following prices: Floyd | Floyd | Spices and incense for 45 per parcel. Floyd | Floyd | Cakes of dye and rolls of cloth for 74 each. Floyd | Floyd | Blocks of valuable metals, jewelry, and other worked goods for 183 Floyd | each. Floyd | Floyd | Precious gems for 308 per stone. Floyd | ... Floyd | At this point, you had 1500 funds available to purchase goods. Floyd | What exactly did you buy? | Binder says, "oh man math" | |||
| djfletch says, "get cakes! oh wait, of dye, never mind" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Otto says, "I take the women slaves" | ||||
| Royce says, "spices" | ||||
| Otto says, "oops, not there... I take metal then" | ||||
| Trumgottist says, "The cake is a dye." | ||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Haha - um, it's not Choice Of Whatever The Heck You Want Scipt. Just Choice Script." | ||||
| Binder asks, "3 gems, 2 blocks & then whatever with the remainder?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "actually I do vote for the dye because it is clearly indigo and thus important" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "Hm, good point." | ||||
| Binder says (to djfletch), "oh right." | ||||
| djfletch says, "but yeah get more than one thing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, so the choices are as follows:" | ||||
| Otto says, "ok for the cloth" | ||||
Floyd | 1) Spices and incense. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Cloth and dyes. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Metals and jewelry. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Precious gems. | Royce is kind of having flashbacks to Oregon Trail | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... 2?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "2 I guess, because it makes sense. But my immediate reaction is "ooh, shinies"" | ||||
| Otto says, "#2" | ||||
| Binder says, "2" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So we have the dyed cloth?" | ||||
| Trumgottist says, "2" | ||||
| maga says, "we should get some gems. easy to hide" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "yeah this ended up as something like Oregon Trail meets Arabian Nights by way of Drugwars" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Okay, 2. We are biased by the speed-IF parameters!" | ||||
| maga says, "and then fill up on dye and spices" | ||||
Floyd | Exotic dyes and cloths will sell quite well back home. The indigo Floyd | especially will be very valuable. Floyd | Floyd | And how many of these dyes did you purchase? Floyd | ... Floyd | 1) All that I could. Floyd | Floyd | 2) I spent the majority of my funds. Floyd | Floyd | 3) I spent a portion of my funds. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Only one. Floyd | Floyd | 5) Nevermind. | Royce says, "3" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "NOW there's math." | ||||
| Otto says, "#2" | ||||
| Trumgottist says, "3 or 2" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I kinda like 3" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "3" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's looking like 3, yeah." | ||||
| Otto says, "ok for #2 then" | ||||
| Otto says, "for #3 then, sorry" | ||||
Floyd | You spent 370 buying 5 of the dyes. Floyd | Was that your last purchase? Y or N | Royce says, "N" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Royce), "Yes, let us also buy us some slave women." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh wait." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay... So let's buy more stuff." | ||||
| Royce says, "spices" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "shinies!" | ||||
Floyd | Spices and incense for 45 per parcel. Floyd | Floyd | Cakes of dye and rolls of cloth for 74 each. Floyd | Floyd | Blocks of valuable metals, jewelry, and other worked goods for 183 Floyd | each. Floyd | Floyd | Precious gems for 308 per stone. Floyd | ... Floyd | At this point, you had 1130 funds available to purchase goods. Floyd | What exactly did you buy? | Binder says, "4" | |||
| maga exclaims, "gems! to conceal in body cavities!" | ||||
Floyd | 1) Spices and incense. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Cloth and dyes. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Metals and jewelry. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Precious gems. | Royce says, "1" | |||
| Otto says, "#4" | ||||
| Trumgottist says, "4" | ||||
| maga says, "4" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "4" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "Ew. I'm returning all the jewelry you gave me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, 4." | ||||
Floyd | Gems are a riskier proposition. Their value can fluctuate greatly Floyd | with the fashion of the day, but this can make them much more Floyd | lucrative. However, they're also quite resilient and easy to protect. Floyd | Floyd | And how many of these gems did you purchase? Floyd | Floyd | 1) All that I could. Floyd | Floyd | 2) I spent the majority of my funds. Floyd | Floyd | 3) I spent a portion of my funds. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Only one. Floyd | Floyd | 5) Nevermind. | Binder says, "3" | |||
| maga says, "2" | ||||
| Royce says, "3" | ||||
| djfletch says, "3" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh wait, I lie. 3 is grayed out and no longer an option!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, anything but 3." | ||||
| Trumgottist says, "2" | ||||
| maga says, "in this kind of game the best money is usually made by trading the highest-priced goods" | ||||
| Royce changes his mind and says "2" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Yeah, it does that when you can't afford many so a portion of funds would only buy you 1 anyway" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Chris), "Yeah, makes sense." | ||||
| Otto says, "#2" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "2 it is" | ||||
Floyd | You spent 616 buying 2 of the gems. Floyd | Was that your last purchase? Floyd | Y or N | Jacqueline asks, "... Y?" | |||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that y is a why, which is the difference between a duck." | ||||
| Binder says, "N" | ||||
| Trumgottist asks, "How about some spices and then move on?" | ||||
| Binder asks, "we've still got money to spend, yes?" | ||||
| Royce says, "some spices, please" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, sounds like you guys got money burning a hole in your pocketses." | ||||
Floyd | Spices and incense for 45 per parcel. Floyd | Floyd | Cakes of dye and rolls of cloth for 74 each. Floyd | Floyd | Blocks of valuable metals, jewelry, and other worked goods for 183 each. Floyd | Floyd | Precious gems for 308 per stone. Floyd | Floyd | At this point, you had 514 funds available to purchase goods. Floyd | What exactly did you buy? | Binder says, "i'm hoping to score points from heroic shopping." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Spices and incense, then?" | ||||
| Binder says, "yup." | ||||
Floyd | There is always demand for spices and incense. You can never seem to Floyd | find enough of it. Floyd | Floyd | And how many of these spices did you purchase? Floyd | Floyd | 1) All that I could. Floyd | Floyd | 2) I spent the majority of my funds. Floyd | Floyd | 3) I spent a portion of my funds. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Only one. Floyd | Floyd | 5) Nevermind. | Royce says, "without spices, our food back home would be rather bland" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Royce), "This is true." | ||||
| Trumgottist asks, "2?" | ||||
| Otto asks, "with the plenty elite guards we own, don't we have the option to steal the goods instead of simply buying them?" | ||||
| Binder says, "2" | ||||
| maga says, "1" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Otto), "You like to think outside the CYOA box, don't you?" | ||||
| Otto says, "#2" | ||||
| Binder says (to Otto), "we chose words then swords so our guards may not be leet" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of maga), "oho - all that you can?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Looks like most people are saying 2." | ||||
| ChrisC says, "otto: ha, I had hoped to add some vignettes in the Eastern town before you left but wanted to build the skeleton of the whole game first" | ||||
Floyd | You spent 315 buying 7 of the spices. Floyd | Was that your last purchase? | Binder says, "Y" | |||
| Otto says, ".jacqueline yes it's true... I should keep my mind on the game (as some IF systems tell us)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Otto), "heehee" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Otto), "Perhaps we could trade favours for goods ;)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "> kiss shop clerk" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| Otto says, "probably no luck from my side..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So... any more heroic shopping, or shall we move on? Maybe we need money for bribes later or something." | ||||
| Otto says, "I agree" | ||||
| Royce says, "move on, I think we're done shopping" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "onwards" | ||||
Floyd | And so the caravan set off. Floyd | ... Floyd | You have come to a major crossroads. The southern route winds around Floyd | mountains and along uninhabited sea cliffs, heading nearly backwards Floyd | at several points. The other routes are more direct, especially the Floyd | western one, but the western route cuts through a much more dangerous Floyd | region, while passing through the multiple kingdoms to the north means Floyd | paying many more tolls. Floyd | ... Floyd | 1) Take northerly toll road. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Take southerly route along the mountains. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Take western route through the flatlands. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Ask for advice from another merchant. | Royce says, "4" | |||
| Binder says, "3, we have words and swords" | ||||
| djfletch asks, "which way is the airport?" | ||||
| Trumgottist says, "IIRC we don't have many guards, but we're skilled at combat" | ||||
| Otto says, "#4" | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok 4 sounds interesting" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, ""You, tolls or death?"" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, 4, it sounds like." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "When in doubt, ask someone else :) 4" | ||||
| djfletch says, "except I bet the other merchants will lie to us" | ||||
| Royce says, "but we have words" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, ""Go north. I promise nobody will rob you."" | ||||
Floyd | Who will you ask? Ephraim, Alexander, or Yishai? | Binder says (to djfletch), "it's not as if they stand to profit from our death. oh. wait. no." | |||
| Royce says, "Yishai" | ||||
| Binder says, "Sure, Yishai. The colorful one." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We don't exactly know who to trust, so sure - why not Yishai" | ||||
Floyd | "Hmm." He's impossible to read, with his face behind that covering of Floyd | his. "I really can't say." Floyd | ... Floyd | 1) Take northerly toll road. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Take southerly route along the mountains. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Take western route through the flatlands. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Ask for advice from another merchant. | Royce says, "well, I think *one* of us knows whom to trust" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for NOTHING, Yishai" | ||||
| Binder says, "4, then Ephraim? He's made this journey before" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||
| Royce says, "sounds good" | ||||
Floyd | "I recommend the path along the mountains. I took that the last time Floyd | I came through here. Going that way may be slow, but it's safe and Floyd | there are few tolls." Floyd | Floyd | 1) Take northerly toll road. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Take southerly route along the mountains. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Take western route through the flatlands. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Ask for advice from another merchant. | genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we also see what Alexander thinks?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "If he's telling the truth that sounds pretty good. But sure, let's ask Alex." | ||||
| maga asks, "but will we get to the Willamette before winter?" | ||||
Floyd | He looks at you with eyes narrowed as you approach, but says, Floyd | "I'd take the west route. It's the most direct and fastest way Floyd | through." | maga says, "clearly a bandit spy" | |||
Floyd | 1) Take northerly toll road. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Take southerly route along the mountains. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Take western route through the flatlands. | Binder says, "CLEARLY" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Or so we are meant to believe!" | ||||
| maga says, "we will be led into an ambush, possibly in a rocky defile" | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "that sounds fun!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, 2?" | ||||
| Binder says, "sure." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah" | ||||
| Otto says, "#2, so we may get both toll and ambush" | ||||
| Binder says, "sounds safe" | ||||
Floyd | It's slow going, but your caravan begins winding its way along the Floyd | base of the mountains. | Royce asks (of Otto), "and slave girls?" | |||
Floyd | ... Floyd | Some days later, while traveling during the day, some raised voices Floyd | catch your attention. You make your way out to the center of the group Floyd | to find Alexander arguing with old man Ephraim, something about money. Floyd | Guards from each wagon look on nervously. Floyd | ... | Binder says, "uh oh" | |||
Floyd | 1) Side with Alexander. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Side with Ephraim. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Do nothing. Floyd | Floyd | 4) Ask "What happened?" | Otto says, "@Royce: we may become the slaves..." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "kill them both" | ||||
| Binder says, "4" | ||||
| Royce says, "4" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "4" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, 4." | ||||
Floyd | Yoshai speaks beside you -- you hadn't even noticed he was there. Floyd | "These two were playing a game of chance. Ephraim was about to win, Floyd | and that's when Alexander accused him of cheating." Floyd | ... | Royce hopes ggg wasn't talkin' about me and Otto | |||
Floyd | 1) Side with Alexander. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Side with Ephraim. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Do nothing. | Binder says, "oh NOW Yoshai has an opinion." | |||
| Limax arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Limax says, "Indigo" | |||
| maga says, "oh gosh management crisis" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We've thus far made our bed with Ephraim, fwiw." | ||||
| maga says, "rowr" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I say we keep, um, sleeping with him." | ||||
| Binder says, "yeah, 2" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "To extend my metaphor." | ||||
| Binder asks, "don't change horses mid-caravan?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Righ" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Er, right" | ||||
| Otto says, "#2 : Alexander looks biased" | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Binder), "actually you can do that" | ||||
| Royce says, "sounds good to me" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, 2." | ||||
Floyd | He looks at you, exasperated. "I don't understand him!" he says, Floyd | throwing up his hands. "I won fairly!" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know the details; I wasn't watching your game. But we have a Floyd | long way to go before our journey is over. I would like to reach home Floyd | before the height of summer. Alexander, will you put this issue aside Floyd | in the name of peace between travellers?" Floyd | Floyd | His eyes burn with anger, but he says nothing and walks away. Ephraim Floyd | thanks you for your help. | maga says, "we have good swordage so we can fight off the inevitable mutiny" | |||
Floyd | ... Floyd | The wagons move on. Floyd | ... Floyd | You're awoken from a sound sleep early one midwinter morning by shouts Floyd | from your guards. Floyd | Floyd | "Flash flood!" Floyd | ... Floyd | You rush outside your wagon to find utter chaos. Whole parcels are Floyd | floating away in the quick-flowing waters, already halfway at the Floyd | bottom of your cart. You've hardly seen any rain so far in your Floyd | journey, but it seems that's not been the case upriver. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Send for help. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Seal the wagons, climb onto them, and wait for the water to Floyd | subside. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Move the caravan to higher ground. | Royce says, "3" | |||
| maga says, "caulking the wagons never works. 3" | ||||
| Binder says, "2" | ||||
| djfletch says, "3" | ||||
| Trumgottist says, "3" | ||||
| Otto says, "#3 maybe" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That is quite a few 3s." | ||||
Floyd | "It's hopeless, boss." You look at your guards; they're a ragged pair, Floyd | and they seem completely resigned that this attempt will fail. Floyd | ... | maga asks (of Binder), "were you never traumatised by watching a cow and a little cowboy hat float up to the top of the flood-swollen Blue River?" | |||
Floyd | 1) Maybe they're right. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Warn them to do this or I'll get my sword. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Convince them. | ||||
| Otto #3 we have words | Jacqueline says (to maga), "He got over the trauma through the healing powers of dysentary." | |||
| Binder says (to maga), "I was not, my Oregon Trail was pre-color" | ||||
| Binder says, "3" | ||||
| maga says, "mine too" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "3" | ||||
| Royce says, "3" | ||||
Floyd | "Men, you're our only hope. We might die here, on this day, if we Floyd | don't climb to safety. These animals and supplies offer our only Floyd | chance of surviving the trip back to civilization." Floyd | Floyd | Something in your impromptu speech seems to have lit a spark. Floyd | Floyd | You're frankly undermanned for stuch an untertaking. You still order Floyd | your men to help push and move the carts when they get stuck, but you Floyd | can't shake the feeling that it's hopeless. You hardly seem to be Floyd | moving at all. Floyd | Floyd | In fact, you don't even seem to be climbing higher faster than the Floyd | water is. Floyd | Floyd | Alexander is clearly upset at the lack of progress. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Send for help. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Seal the wagons, climb onto them, and wait for the water to Floyd | subside. | Royce says, "2" | |||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | genericgeekgirl says, "2" | |||
| maga says, "okay, we're in the middle of the stupid mountains, and helicopter SAR hasn't been invented yet" | ||||
| maga says, "2" | ||||
| djfletch says, "2" | ||||
Floyd | You decide to seal up the carts as well as possible, and hope for the Floyd | best. You make do with what you have. Floyd | ... | Royce says, "the southern rought is largely uninhabit4ed" | |||
Floyd | It's a terrible scene for the next few hours, and more than once you Floyd | worry that the seal might not hold. But it does, and at last the water Floyd | calms and subsides. Your animals are dead or gone, and some of the Floyd | more delicate goods and supplies are lost or ruined. Yishai seems the Floyd | most upset at his loss. But you're all alive. | Royce says, "route, don't know where the gh came from" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And then I got a huuuuuge error." | ||||
| ChrisC says, "eep" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, I think that might be the end. Chris? Is that the end?" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "that is not, what was the error" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "aieee" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ideas?" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "It was going so well!" | ||||
| ChrisC asks, "What did the error say?" | ||||
| Binder says, "aside from the loss of goods and morale" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It was a huge pop up window. Tons of code stuff." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It is now gone." | ||||
| djfletch says, "computer flooded error, please dry CPU" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, here." | ||||
Floyd | {message:"line 127: Non-existent variable \'emphraim\'",fileName:"
Floyd | file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New%20Language%20Speed
Floyd | %20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/The%20Price/scene.js",lineNumber:538,
Floyd | stack:"Error(\"line 127: Non-existent variable \'emphraim\'\")@:0
Floyd | getVar(\"emphraim\")@file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New
Floyd | %20Language%20Speed%20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/The%20Price/scene.js:
Floyd | 538
Floyd | evaluateValueToken([object Object],[object Array])@
Floyd | file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New
Floyd | %20Language%20Speed%20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/The%20Price/
Floyd | scene.js:1893
Floyd | evaluateExpr([object Array])@
Floyd | file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New
Floyd | %20Language%20Speed%20IFs/Web-
Floyd | based%20Choices/The%20Price/scene.js:1829
Floyd | set(\"emphraim %-10\")@file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New
Floyd | %20Language%20Speed%20IFs/Web-
Floyd | based%20Choices/The%20Price/scene.js:1225
Floyd | runCommand(\"\\t\\t\\t*set emphraim %-10\")@file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/
Floyd | Desktop/Indigo%20New%20Language%20Speed%20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/
Floyd | The%20Price/scene.js:294
Floyd | printLoop()@file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New%20Language
Floyd | %20Speed%20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/The%20Price/scene.js:91
Floyd | execute()@file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New%20Language
Floyd | %20Speed%20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/The%20Price/scene.js:261
Floyd | ()@file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New%20Language
Floyd | %20Speed%20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/The%20Price/scene.js:205
Floyd | safeCall([object Object],(function () {doneLoading();
Floyd | self.execute();}))@file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New
Floyd | %20Language%20Speed%20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/The%20Price/util.js:35
Floyd | ([object Event])@file:///C:/Users/Ashwell/Desktop/Indigo%20New
Floyd | %20Language%20Speed%20IFs/Web-based%20Choices/The%20Price/scene.js:
Floyd | 203
Floyd | ",name:"Error"}
| ||||
| maga says, "aie" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Aie is right." | ||||
| ChrisC says, "hah yeah I wrote Emphraim instead of ephraim for a variable vame :(" | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh noooooo" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh man - that's all it took?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "that's kind of Undumb" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Welcome to the beautiful world of speed IF!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Computers can be soooo fussy." | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Looks like it, that's what the first error line says" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um. We would probably just hit that again and we should therefore move on but you will send me an updated file for the zip that gets uploaded to the Archive?" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Yes, I can do that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sweet. Thanks. Sorry that happened, though. Bummer." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, the CYOA pasting wasn't going too badly on my end. Will that work for folks if we try that for the other CYOAs?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "sure" | ||||
| Royce says, "sure" | ||||
| Otto says, "I think so" | ||||
| Ellison says, "sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "In fact, let's play the European folks' games next because it is late in their world." | ||||
| Ellison says, "who needs interpreters anyway? I say we have Jacqueline cut and paste everything here on out" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Otto is here... Pedro, is Pedro also here?" | ||||
| Limax says, "Woo" | ||||
| maga says, "why must you hate America so" | ||||
| rockersuke exclaims, "pedro is here!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "hahaha oh dear hahaha what a great idea - NO" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at rockersuke), "So you are!" | ||||
| rockersuke exclaims, "yup!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, Pedro or Otto, who is tired? The tired person should go first." | ||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that tired is 3." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Alex), "We're done with that game." | ||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Okay, We are also done with that game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Um." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I have no idea what I just taught him, but that's probably okay." | ||||
| Otto says, "I'm not tired at the moment" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, do either one of you (Pedro or Otto) care -- okay, we'll do Pedro's then." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of rockersuke), "That's Haunted House, the zblorb, right?" | ||||
| rockersuke exclaims, "yes!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%quit" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd isn't playing any game right now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load hauntedhouse" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Memories, that fuzzy affair. You're never certain enough how true they Floyd | are to reality. I can?t clearly remember, just an example, what rumours Floyd | said about the McDaniel Mansion. There was something about a stranger Floyd | who came to visit on a cold Autum day many years ago, just before the Floyd | house got abandoned for decades. And then there was the wild Floyd | speculation about monsters in the basement... But the thing I really Floyd | remember from that summer holidays is our improbable and quite not Floyd | balanced friendship trio. Floyd | There was Doc. Brown, thin, handsome, annoyingly arrogant every now and Floyd | then, always the charismatic. Then there was Rose, shy, with the soft, Floyd | delicate look under her golden hair. The three of us united by the bare Floyd | fact that we were the only people of our age in that too quiet, too Floyd | boring, village, wasting the best of our late teens during the early Floyd | eighties. Floyd | "Now, Mike, I entitle you as Carrier of the Torch" solemny joked Rose Floyd | when giving me the thing that dry, hot late summer evening when, just Floyd | out of having nothing else to do, we decided to play kids and go to Floyd | explore the ruined McDaniel site, as isolated from the rest of the Floyd | village as the village was from the rest of the world... Floyd | Floyd | Haunted House Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by rockersuke Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 110507 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Outside of the house Floyd | So there we stood, at the entrance of the old mansion, just the three Floyd | of us and a former elegant door which was as rusty as firmly closed. Floyd | Floyd | I could see Rose and Doc there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce says, "haunted house? I'm easily scared" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess we don't really need a driver for the Floyd games, do we?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, I'm happy to drive." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Enh, I'll keep driving. People give me commands." | ||||
| Binder says, "I'm happy not to drive" | ||||
| Binder says, "though I like to x" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x rose" | ||||
Floyd | I stared at Rose. Floyd | She stared at me. Floyd | After a few awkard seconds she shrugged and said with a soft, shy tone Floyd | "So...?" Floyd | Floyd | Rose and Doc looked to each other and then at me, as if expecting my Floyd | decission to move on... just I hadn?t a clue what to do next! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x doc" | ||||
Floyd | I looked at Doc. Floyd | He looked back at me. Floyd | After a few awkard seconds he abruptely asked with an impatient voice Floyd | "What...?" Floyd | Floyd | Rose tried in vain to open the door one more time. "So frustrating..." Floyd | she said, "There must be a way..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Trumgottist says, "Nice touch." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x self" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | On a closer look, there was a crumpled piece of paper showing under the Floyd | door. I wondered how much time it had been there and why no one had Floyd | taken it before... Floyd | Floyd | Doc asked "Where did that piece of paper come from?" Floyd | Floyd | Doc bumped strongly into the door... didn?t work. "Oh boy!" He Floyd | exclaimed, "They did make it to stand against intruders!" Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "bah" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I won't drive unless we see a need this game. Have at it, people." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying: Floyd | a torch Floyd | Floyd | Rose looked puzzled at the paper... Floyd | Floyd | Rose tried in vain to open the door one more time. "So frustrating..." Floyd | she said, "There must be a way..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||||
Floyd | Doc said "Cm'on Mike, don't be afraid to take it... I bet it won't bite Floyd | you!" Floyd | Floyd | Doc asked "Where did that piece of paper come from?" Floyd | Floyd | Rose and Doc looked to each other and then at me, as if expecting my Floyd | decission to move on... just I hadn?t a clue what to do next! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||||
Floyd | There was some handwritten text in the old paper. "Magic word, say: Floyd | PL..." no... "PLE"... wait, "PLO"... Floyd | Damn, I couldn't understand that. Paper was so crumbled and the Floyd | handwritting was so old-fashioned and weird... Floyd | Suddenly Doc took the paper off from my hands with a mocking remark Floyd | "You! silly mikie, didn't they teach you to read properly? Lemme see Floyd | "Magic word: say PL..." Floyd | I wouldn't allow that. I was used to his disdainful jokes in front of Floyd | Rose, but enough was enough. I removed the paper from him with an Floyd | abrupt gest, and then... Floyd | ... then, showing a side of herself neither Doc nor me had ever seen Floyd | before, Rose took it away from me with an exhasperated look "Cm'on Floyd | kids! Will you at least try to fake some mature behaviour in the Floyd | presence of a lady! Let's see, Magic word: say... PLUGH" Floyd | ...and then... PLOF! Floyd | ...she just dissapeared in a cloud of smoke. Before we could react, her Floyd | scream could be heard from somewhere inside the house. Doc just kicked Floyd | the door, which opened with a suspicious ease now, and hurried into the Floyd | mansion, so worried to show he was in charge that he forgot I was Floyd | carrying the torch. I followed, but could only be aware, to my regret, Floyd | that the door violently had slammed itself just as we entered, and Floyd | then... no Doc, no Rose, just me and the dark... Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | Floyd | It was pitch dark, and I couldn't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "whoa" | |||
| Ellison says, "Doc and Rose first made me think this was Doctor Who fanfic, but now that I see it's Doc. Brown, it's obviously Back to the Future fanfic" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Whoa indeed." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying: Floyd | a torch Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x torch" | ||||
Floyd | It was pitch dark, and I couldn't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||
Floyd | I switched the torch on. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | Under the dim torch light, the house seemed to scream its whole Floyd | desolation all of a sudden. Everywhere I turned it was just an Floyd | unrecognisable, deformed, amount of dust and spider webs with some Floyd | unidentifiable pieces of furniture beneath. I guessed I was in the Floyd | foyer, and there seemed to be some kind of ways south, east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "oh there we go" | |||
| canadianpuzzler says, "that immediately makes my list of the top 3 uses of that word in IF, by the way. :-)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh - yes. It's a great use of plugh" | ||||
| Ellison says, "belatedly, I like the interactive feel of those 'x person' responses." | ||||
| rockersuke exclaims, "chracters are acalled mike, doc and rose... a joke to Dr Who 2005 first year!" | ||||
| Binder asks, "east?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "sure" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I began to move on... but I started to see all kind of blurry images. Floyd | Iridiscent snaps of Doc and Rose going frantically from one place to Floyd | another. Fuzzy, nervous, fragmented shots of an unordered story I was Floyd | witnessing as in a sci-fi movie hologram. I tried to call them, but Floyd | they wouldn?t listen. I moved to reach them, but their images just Floyd | would go through things, through walls, through me... As soon as they Floyd | appeared they would vanish. Perhaps those were images of events that Floyd | took place there, but not then, or they might had been happening then, Floyd | but not there... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sure." | |||
| Binder asks, "oooookay?" | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x images" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is kinda spooky, yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | I was in the foyer. Floyd | I could go south, east and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "just checking" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Pick a direction, so far as I'm concerned." | ||||
| Royce asks, "west?" | ||||
| Limax says, "Widdershins" | ||||
| Binder says, "sure, west" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end of hall Floyd | I was in a hall. It was huge, and it seemed I was in its east end. I Floyd | coud go north, east, to the foyer, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "north?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should someone... map?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I am not into the mapping so much, but it seems it might be useful." | ||||
| Ellison asks (of rocker), "do you recommend saving a lot?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "I can map" | ||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | rockersuke exclaims, "saving a lot is not needed!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |||
| rockersuke says, "I mean, saving is not needed as you are not going to die (easily)" | ||||
| Ellison says, "right, thanks" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "Let us know when you are caught up on the map. In fact, why don't you move us around until you think we've got the house explored (unless we encounter something we need to deal with, of course)." | ||||
| Ellison says, "ok, folks, let's work hard to get killed! go!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Haha" | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok, let's try north" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Green bedroom Floyd | Green walls, green bed, everything green, as if someone had put a green Floyd | ribbon before my eyes.That was the green bedroom. Floyd | I could go south, to the east end of the hall, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "not the green bedroom! noooo!" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It was green. Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce says, "perfect match for pea soup if it gets spit up" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | I found nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "This is an excellent room description." | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||||
Floyd | I found nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's very... green." | |||
| DavidW says, "Look for the indigo bedroom." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "next room?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we should go to the basement and find a washing machine that has a toothy pink orifice inside it." | ||||
| Ellison asks, "did it mention that we ate split pea soup earlier?" | ||||
| Royce says, "Kermit lied...it *is* easy being green" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Royce), "snrk" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end of hall Floyd | I was in the east end of a hall.I coud go north, to the green bedroom, Floyd | east, to the foyer, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | West end of hall Floyd | That was the other end of the huge hall. Exits were north, south,to a Floyd | door, and east, to the east end of the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to djf), "Wherever you want to go. But yeah, I think DW has a point." | |||
| Royce says (to ellison), "no, I was referencing The Exorcist" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blue bedroom Floyd | Blue walls, blue bed, blue everything, as if someone had tinted the Floyd | world in blue. I was in a blue bedroom. Floyd | I could go south, to the west end of the hall, and east. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Linda Blair, eat your heart out." | |||
| Ellison says, "aw, that would have been a nice detail" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... how blue is this bedroom. INDIGO BLUE?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It was blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x blue" | ||||
Floyd | It was blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I wish more games started off with the PC having eaten split pea soup" | |||
| maga says, "you are very sick all over the priest" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "What did you have for breakfast, pea green soup?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Secret passage Floyd | I entered a claustrophobic narrow corridor which seemed to have acted Floyd | as some kind of secret connection long ago. Suddenly, I saw Doc's image Floyd | coming to me from the opposite end. He stopped in the middle and took a Floyd | rope that, I noticed then, was lying forgotten on the floor. He Floyd | cheerfully shouted "Ha! just what I needed!" and the vision just ended Floyd | there... Floyd | The corridor leaded east, to the green bedroom, and west, to the blue Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to maga), "hahahahahahahaha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh maga, how I love you and your ability to reference my favorite works of IF." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Secret passage Floyd | I was in a secret passage. Floyd | The corridor leaded east, to the green bedroom, and west, to the blue Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ooooh I was so busy laughing that I missed the sekrit passage." | |||
| Binder says, "I guess it was not-now rope" | ||||
| djfletch says, "it wasn't all that secret" | ||||
| Royce says, "or a now, but not-this-here rope" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blue bedroom Floyd | I was in a blue bedroom. Floyd | I could go south, to the west end of the hall, and east, into the Floyd | secret passage. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | West end of hall Floyd | I was in the west end of a hall. Exits were north, to the blue bedroom, Floyd | south,to a door, and east, to the east end of the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we are getting visions like in the 7th Guest. maybe soon we'll find soup cans... of split pea soup." | |||
| DavidW says, "I like how the room exits say where they go, if we've been there before." | ||||
| rockersuke says, "theorically it was a not-this-time-rope taken by doc, so it's not there now, or that was the idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Who knew there were so many soup jokes and references?" | ||||
| Ellison says (to DW), "yeah, that is nice" | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok, back to the foyer I think" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end of hall Floyd | I was in the east end of a hall.I coud go north, to the green bedroom, Floyd | east, to the foyer, and west, to the west end of the hall. Floyd | . Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks (of rockersuke), "was the exits thing a pre-existing extension?" | |||
| zarf arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | I was in the foyer. Floyd | I could go south, east and west, to the east end of hall, from here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living room Floyd | I could figure out that was the living room. Right after entering there Floyd | I had one of those strange visions again. That one was such a nonsense Floyd | it could easily had been ripped off from a cartoon. It was Doc running Floyd | while beeing chased by a levitating knife. Even in an eerie environment Floyd | like that I could laugh at it, but then, I was so scared... Floyd | There seemed to be exits east and west, to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "ah, we can go this way now" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to zarf), "Howdy. We have not yet played your game. Doing a couple of the European entries now due to the time zone thing." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | (from Ellison) zarf leaves the channel. | |||
| zarf says, "sure" | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | No, no, I didn?t do that... did I? Well, I can imagine I did anyway... Floyd | So I sung. Felt silly. Didn?t help at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dining room Floyd | That had to be the dining room. I was surprised by a quick vision of Floyd | Rose, like a flash, writting something with her finger on the dust that Floyd | layed over a big old wodden table. Floyd | Exits leaded south and west, to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | Written in the layer of dust I could read the word "UPSTAIRS"... Was Floyd | Rose trying to send me a message? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "read it?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ILAC" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, not ILAC." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Just... timing" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "UPSTAIRS... what could it mean??" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "I'm not sure. Let's see what's in the basement." | ||||
| Ellison says, "oooh, clever" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or possibly let's see what is upstairs." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, yeah. I vote for upstairs." | ||||
| Royce asks, "have we found the stairs yet?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "or possibly let's do some dusting" | ||||
| djfletch says, "no, haven't seen any stairs" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "clean table" | ||||
Floyd | I achieved nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Nah. Makes my allergies act up." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||||
Floyd | I found nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The layout of the place clearly resembled a kitchen. As soon as I Floyd | entered Rose's mirage was walking to the middle of the room. There lied Floyd | a bucket of water. In an instant, just like in a nightmare where you Floyd | feel something horrible is about to happen for no reason, I knew she Floyd | was going to drink from it. In an instant I knew, as if I had seen the Floyd | whole scene before, it was deadly poisonous. I yelled at her: Floyd | Floyd | "No! Don't do that!" Floyd | Floyd | ...and she stoped her arm, as if she had heard me. She looked Floyd | everywhere, as if searching the source of the warning. Soon the whole Floyd | image dissapeared as before. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | I was in the kitchen. Floyd | There were exits north, to the dining room, south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| rockersuke gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| rockersuke arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x kitchen sink" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yay, we saved Rose. we won!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, yeah. Good job with the super duper creepiness, Pedro." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "> drink water ;)" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x bucket" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | I was in the kitchen. Floyd | There were exits north, to the dining room, south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "too many recipes call for half a bucket of super poisonous water these days" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Den Floyd | Somehow I knew I was in the den, and then I retraced my steps when I Floyd | saw Doc's image gangway through it... chased by a suit of armour. That Floyd | was so crazy I thought I felt better when the vision just dissapeared. Floyd | I could go north, to the foyer, and east, to the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce asks, "especially split-pea soup recipies?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "Pick a way we haven't gone." | ||||
| Binder says, "this house is certainly well furnished with terrifying visions." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | I was in the kitchen. Floyd | There were exits north, to the dining room, south, and west, to the Floyd | den. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Breakfast room Floyd | I thought I got it then... Rooms were actually undistinguishable from Floyd | each other in that overwhelming dust and web mess, but somehow I Floyd | clearly knew where I was, just like if... I really had that crazy Floyd | feeling, the house itself was showing me around its well guarded Floyd | secrets. I was in a breakfast room at that moment. Exits were north, to Floyd | the kitchen and east. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Servant's quarters Floyd | I was in the servant's quarters. There was a closed cabinet in one Floyd | wall. I could go west, to the breakfast room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "open cabinet" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | I opened the cabinet... I saw a key inside... and then I almost had a Floyd | heart attack! Floyd | I suddenly saw a shiny female hand just erupting from my own chest. It Floyd | was Rose's image going through my flesh as if I wasn't there at all. Floyd | She grabbed the key. I could see her curious gesture while examining Floyd | it. She went away with it, her ghostly vision vanishing as fast as she Floyd | appeared. Even when I was shocked to death, I couldn?t help some warm Floyd | feeling. Somehow she had just been inside me... so close... Floyd | Floyd | > | rockersuke says, "aha, back in clubfloyd" | |||
| Ellison says, "interesting" | ||||
| djfletch says, "eep" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | The cabinet was empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, the warmth is her reaching through our chest, not us peeing our pants, right?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Because it could go either way." | ||||
| DavidW says, "So is the key really there or was that... a mirage key. okay." | ||||
| Royce says, "hehe" | ||||
| Ellison says, "sounds like we felt a little rosy there" | ||||
| vimes says, "keep telling yourself that" | ||||
| maga asks, "do we have to choose?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "damn key stealing ghosts" | ||||
| djfletch says, "maybe she opened the locked door for us though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "You're right. Let's assume it's both." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "Oh yeah." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Servant's quarters Floyd | I was in the servant's quarters. There was an open cabinet in one Floyd | wall. I could go west, to the breakfast room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to djfletch), "good thinking" | |||
| Ellison says, "if so, that would be an interesting game play mechanic" | ||||
| djfletch says, "anyway I don't think there are any exits left" | ||||
| zarf says, "i cant @recap" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Breakfast room Floyd | I was in the breakfast room. Exits were north, to the kitchen and east, Floyd | to the servant's quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "ack" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | I could see the bucket of water again on the kitchen's floor. Behind, Floyd | Rose's dissolved image was coming from the opposite side. She looked so Floyd | different this time... decades older. Her golden hair turned into a Floyd | silver untidy mane. She kneeled before the bucket and aimed her arm to Floyd | pick it. I screamed again: Floyd | Floyd | "No, Rose! Don't drink from it!" Floyd | Floyd | ...and, for a few seconds, she looked directly to where I was, her eyes Floyd | loaded with such vast, infinite sadness, as if she had been roaming the Floyd | house for an eternity trying in vain to find an escape... all hope Floyd | lost. She stared at me so firmly I hadn?t a chance to notice she had Floyd | grabbed the bucket and moved it to her mouth. She drunk the liquid Floyd | inside it without hesitation. In a moment, her body softly fell without Floyd | a sound, without a sign of pain. When I reacted, she was lying as a Floyd | broken doll. When I reached her, she was no longer there... Floyd | Floyd | Was that our true destiny? Had I foreseen the way it all would Floyd | definitivey end for us... for her? Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | I was in the kitchen. Floyd | There were exits north, to the dining room, south, to the breakfast Floyd | room, and west, to the den. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I could see a crumbled piece of paper there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to z), "@recap toyshop (?)" | |||
| zarf says, "igmore that :)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, okay." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "hmm, was that there before?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get paper" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | Now I could easily understand the hand written note "Magic word: say Floyd | PLUGH" Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "yeah, ipd muing mudding is a fiail. later" | |||
| zarf moves. | Ellison says, "this, kids, is why we don't trespass" | |||
| Royce asks, "so, should we say the magic word?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Royce), "Shit, I hadn't thought of that." | ||||
| DavidW says, "(fwiw, we haven't said 'plugh' yet ourselves)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "did we find a way upstairs?" | |||
| Limax says, "Yeah... mudding with an ipad is pretty difficult" | ||||
| Limax says, "Or even with an ipod... I have mud clients on both" | ||||
| djfletch says, "we could check the locked door first" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's say it, now that I've saved." | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "say plugh" | ||||
Floyd | (to myself) Floyd | There was no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "say plugh" | ||||
Floyd | (to myself) Floyd | There was no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "say xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | (to myself) Floyd | There was no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "say "plugh"" | ||||
Floyd | (to myself) Floyd | There was no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, that was anticlimactic." | |||
| Limax says, "Say wiggy wiggy" | ||||
| djfletch says, "maybe it is significant that we can read it better" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying: Floyd | a crumbled piece of paper Floyd | a torch (providing light) Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "maybe later" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "to the locked door?" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "is it a torch torch or a flashlight torch?" | ||||
| Limax says, "Wow... Like telling a story... 'was...'" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "flashlight" | ||||
| djfletch says, "I suppose it might tell us that this is where Rose arrived at" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dining room Floyd | I was in the dining room. Floyd | Exits leaded south, to the kitchen, and west, to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living room Floyd | I was in the living room. Floyd | I could go east, to the dining room and west, to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | I was in the foyer. Floyd | I could go south, to the den, east, to the living room, and west, to Floyd | the east end of hall, from here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | rockersuke says, "I wanted that saying the PLUGH word had an effect, but hadnt the the time to implement it, so no, it's not needed (surely in a polished post-comp version!)" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end of hall Floyd | I was in the east end of a hall.I coud go north, to the green bedroom, Floyd | east, to the foyer, and west, to the west end of the hall. Floyd | . Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Upstairs, locked door, all that." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | West end of hall Floyd | I was in the west end of a hall. Exits were north, to the blue bedroom, Floyd | south,to a door, and east, to the east end of the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "are there any rooms we think something will happen if we turn off our light?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "try it? (we just saved)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure, why not." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn off light" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn off flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying: Floyd | a crumbled piece of paper Floyd | a torch (providing light) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's a torch." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off torch" | ||||
Floyd | I switched the torch off. Floyd | Floyd | It suddenly became pitch dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Darkness Floyd | Floyd | It was pitch dark, and I couldn't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "can I try moving in the dark?" | |||
| Ellison says, "sure" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | I had an urge to search for my friends, but was also so scared that my Floyd | legs wouldn?t move if I couldn?t see where I was heading to. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "There's your answer." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice touch." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||
Floyd | I switched the torch on. Floyd | Floyd | West end of hall Floyd | I was in the west end of a hall. Exits were north, to the blue bedroom, Floyd | south,to a door, and east, to the east end of the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | I felt that warm feeling again. A light flowing out from myself as I Floyd | saw Rose's ghostly hand unlocking the door with the key she took from Floyd | the cabinet. Somehow I knew then that our fate was not sealed to stay Floyd | in the house forever. It didn't matter how much we were apart in space Floyd | or time, we were working it out all together. We would find a way... Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "if we could just find a police box..." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door) Floyd | Master bedroom Floyd | The master bedroom... I could see a bed. Exits were north, to the hall, Floyd | and east. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | I wasn't sure what could have happened to it, light was so dim and Floyd | there was that continous dust and cobweb mess... but it looked like it Floyd | had been burnt a long time ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | I found nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||||
Floyd | I found nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "but what colour is it?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter bed" | ||||
Floyd | That was not something I could enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to djf), "That is what I was wondering, yeah." | |||
| Ellison says, "burnt sienna" | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "get on bed" | ||||
Floyd | That was not something I could enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "ha" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | OH MY GOD, IT BURNS!!! Floyd | Floyd | I got paralysed when I heard Rose desperate cry. Then I saw her Floyd | brilliant image coming from the east, her clothes in flames! She ran Floyd | blindly into the bed and then I saw the bed engulfed in a giant ball of Floyd | consuming fire. Soon there was nothng but the darkness and the burnt Floyd | rests of the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "oh my" | |||
| Ellison says, "somebody find her a bucket of water!" | ||||
| Royce says, "but I thought we got out together" | ||||
| Limax exclaims, "She's in heat!" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Master bedroom Floyd | I was in the master bedroom. Exits were north, to the hall, and east. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Deformed shelves suggested that was once a library. Leaned against a Floyd | wall a wodden ladder reached into a gap in the ceiling which once Floyd | belonged to a working trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "upstairs!" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | I carefully began to step into the ladder when Doc's vision entered the Floyd | library. He dropped the rope I saw before right under the hole. It Floyd | magically raised itself to the ceiling while he cheerfully exclaimed Floyd | "TA-DAA, beat that, silly Mikie!" and quickly began to make a skillfull Floyd | rope climbing exhibition. Floyd | I knew he wasn't actually there, but couldn't help answering "Now, Mr. Floyd | know-it-all, what's so wrong with using a ladder to go upstairs?" Floyd | He was talking to himself, but the timing was so surprisingly precise Floyd | that I could swear he was adressing me while both of us were reaching Floyd | upside "Yeah, yeah... I wonder who the hell was the moron who screwed Floyd | the ladder..." Floyd | ... Floyd | ...Oops! I realized then that the wodden ladder was so rotten that it Floyd | was on the verge of collapsing under my weight. I desperately jumped Floyd | towards the ceiling hole, miraculously reaching upstairs in the last Floyd | moment before the ladder turned into a pile of shreds on the lower Floyd | floor... That was close...! Floyd | Floyd | Dimly lit room Floyd | I was in a dimly lit room upstairs. Some light entered from the Floyd | corridor to the west, but it wasn't still enough to move without the Floyd | torch. Floyd | Exits leaded east, to a door, west, to a corridor, and down. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ha. I wondered whether the ladder would break." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That was exciting." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I hate that he calls us Mikie." | ||||
| Limax says, "Yes, but Rose has gone down in flames" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, at least we're upstairs." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | I saw nothing special about the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I entered a corridor... and then hell broke loose. It all seemed a Floyd | scene from a medieval fantasy film. I saw... that was it... an army of Floyd | ghosts. They were just an undescriptible legion of formless shadows I Floyd | could just refer as ghosts. At the other end of the corridor Doc stood Floyd | defiantly carrying a shining sword "Now, minions of hell, you're going Floyd | to taste my ghost slayer blade" and with a barbarian-like howl he Floyd | charged against them all... smashing them apart while he kept running. Floyd | "Wait..." I thought. Perhaps he got too carried away, as he didnt stop Floyd | in the corridor and entered the room in an unstoppable rush which lead Floyd | him directly to the trapdoor hole... Floyd | "Yiaaaahhh...!! CRASH!! Floyd | "Ouch... That must have hurt!!" I thought, and looked into the hole to Floyd | see Doc's shiny vision lying on the floor below... in time to see Floyd | Rose's fuzzy image running towards him... Floyd | "It's okay, it's okay" he said "It's been just some scrapes... You're Floyd | not to worr..." But she wouldn't let him finish. Giving away a side of Floyd | herself I would never wanted to see, she embraced him tenderly until Floyd | they both merged in a long, passionate kiss. Floyd | Floyd | And I knew then, beeing the unsuspected witness of their privacy, that Floyd | as certain as there was a real world outside of the house, any wish, Floyd | any hope I had concerning Rose would never, ever, fit in it. Floyd | Floyd | Their images vanished again as I realized they were stuck downstairs, Floyd | and if there were an exit to the house it was on my side, so it was up Floyd | to me to find it and eventually come back to their rescue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "Doctors are notoriously dismissive of Mikes" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha - 'They were just an undescriptible legion of formless shadows I could just refer as ghosts.' Helpful parser is helpful." | ||||
| Binder says, "they call them mikiechondriacs" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Man, minions of Hell it's the Slayer Blade." | ||||
| Jacqueline is very sick all over the floor. | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Dimly lit room Floyd | I was in a dimly lit room. Floyd | Exits leaded east, to a door, west, to a corridor, and down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | corridor Floyd | I was in a corridor. Light entered from a near balcony. Floyd | I could see a bedroom to the north, a dimly lit room to the east, and a Floyd | balcony to the west Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce asks (of Jacq), "you alright?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn off torch" | ||||
Floyd | I switched the torch off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | corridor Floyd | I was in a corridor. Light entered from a near balcony. Floyd | I could see a bedroom to the north, a dimly lit room to the east, and a Floyd | balcony to the west Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "just checking" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Fine. Though I'm a little upset about this turn of events with Rose." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||
Floyd | I switched the torch on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs bedroom Floyd | I was in a bedroom. Floyd | I could go south, to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | I could see a bed and a drawer (closed) there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | I opened the drawer, revealing a pile of correspondence and a handful Floyd | of press clippings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | bed: Taken. Floyd | drawer: Taken. Floyd | pile of correspondence: Taken. Floyd | handful of press clippings: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "read correspondence" | ||||
Floyd | Lots of invoices and receipts dated up to the mid fifties addressed to Floyd | some Shirley McDaniel. Latest envelope seems to be a handwritten Floyd | letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||||
Floyd | A handwriten letter dated November 1956. It talks about not beeing Floyd | afraid from scandals, about finding a way to live together, about pure Floyd | love agony... the way just old styled love letters could do. I felt I Floyd | got it then. Somehow I knew what was all about with that stranger who Floyd | came to visit a cold Autum day many years ago, just before the house Floyd | got abandoned... Somehow I just knew what was going on with all that Floyd | madness... As in response, I could hear the door of the trapdoor room Floyd | creaking open... as if the house was inviting me to a rendezvous with Floyd | its final inner secret. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "whoa, we took the bed" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "hahahha, oops" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "lie on bed" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying: Floyd | a handful of press clippings Floyd | a pile of correspondence Floyd | a drawer (open) Floyd | a handwritten letter Floyd | a bed Floyd | a crumbled piece of paper Floyd | a torch (providing light) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "read clippings" | ||||
Floyd | Society news from the mid fifities regarding Shirley McDaniel, heiress Floyd | of the McDaniel fortune. Floyd | Floyd | > | rockersuke says, "oh my, the bed XD" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "burn bed with torch" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to burn the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "put bed in drawer" | ||||
Floyd | I put the bed into the drawer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, that happens in speed-if all the time. Once, I took a door." | |||
| Ellison says, "luckily, even if Rose doesn't love us, at least we have the house" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | corridor Floyd | I was in a corridor. Light entered from a near balcony. Floyd | I could see a bedroom to the north, a dimly lit room to the east, and a Floyd | balcony to the west Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Inured), "It's not that kind of torch... torch in the British sense (i.e. flashlight)." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "I don't think this house is going to fetch much on the market after the housing bubble." | ||||
| djfletch says, "let's check the balcony before the final inner secret" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I was in a balcony Couldn't say wether it was day or night, as the Floyd | cloudy sky colour was just... unnatural. I gazed down to see Rose's Floyd | corpse impaled at the iron gate in the house entrance. In a horror Floyd | reflect, I moved back to the corridor. Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Sorry, It was my first time, and I could see that people were getting a bit frustrated and time was running short that that day." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't want to see. But I had to be sure. I stepped into the balcony Floyd | once again and... there were two corpses of Rose impaled at the iron Floyd | gate. Two different dead bodys in different dead postures. I went back Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yuck" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder how many we can get" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Then I saw 3 impaled Roses and one Doc hunging from a nearby tree. I Floyd | blinked... and suddenly all surrounding trees were full of hunged Docs. Floyd | Gruesome. I entered the house again. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ok, I'm good" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "wowza" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "neat. why not keep going?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "if others don't mind" | ||||
| Binder says, "I'm okay with it." | ||||
| Royce notes to himself to *not* visit Pedro around halloween | ||||
| DavidW asks, "The balcony of incremental impalements?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I was just loosing my mind, as I went into the balcony again and again Floyd | untill a mountain of dead Roses and Docs filled the hrizon. Suddenly Floyd | the horror was gone, as I had the strong feeling that somehow the Floyd | house, or whoever was inside, was just doing its best to suggest me Floyd | that jumping from the balcony was not a safe way of leaving. Well, Floyd | black humour was also to be considered. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Royce), "haha" | |||
| Limax says, "TYPO" | ||||
| Ellison says, "let's save and jump" | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "well why didn't the house just SAY so!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, this is definitely a creepy game." | ||||
| Ellison says, "we worked hard for this chance" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "jum" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | No, no, I didn?t do that... did I? Well, I can imagine I did anyway... Floyd | So I jumped. Felt silly. Didn?t help at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "jump off balcony" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "jump off balcony" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "A sub-literate Doctor Who fan?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I don't think we can jump. We're not really at the balcony, are we?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | corridor Floyd | I was in a corridor. Light entered from a near balcony. Floyd | I could see a bedroom to the north, a dimly lit room to the east, and a Floyd | balcony to the west Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I was just loosing my mind, as I went into the balcony again and again Floyd | untill a mountain of dead Roses and Docs filled the hrizon. Suddenly Floyd | the horror was gone, as I had the strong feeling that somehow the Floyd | house, or whoever was inside, was just doing its best to suggest me Floyd | that jumping from the balcony was not a safe way of leaving. Well, Floyd | black humour was also to be considered. Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I was just loosing my mind, as I went into the balcony again and again Floyd | untill a mountain of dead Roses and Docs filled the hrizon. Suddenly Floyd | the horror was gone, as I had the strong feeling that somehow the Floyd | house, or whoever was inside, was just doing its best to suggest me Floyd | that jumping from the balcony was not a safe way of leaving. Well, Floyd | black humour was also to be considered. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "well, ok" | |||
| Ellison says, "ok, that's that" | ||||
| rockersuke says, "yup, that's it about the balcony" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Sorry." | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok, secret final thingy" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dimly lit room Floyd | I was in a dimly lit room. Floyd | Exits leaded east, to a door, west, to a corridor, and down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Attic Floyd | Darkness returned, but somehow I could clearly see a window which I Floyd | guessed showed the landscape of another world. I was afraid to look Floyd | into it, thinking that just gazing there would get me lost forever. A Floyd | pale blue presence was floating all over the room. So overwhelming Floyd | itself I think I lost my consciousness for a while. When I came back I Floyd | was greeted by a female voice... Floyd | Floyd | "Hello there... you're an unwellcome guest, and my name is Indy". Floyd | Floyd | I was so shaken and exhausted after all the previous sequence of Floyd | surrealist nightmares that I just wasn't aware, or couldn't care less, Floyd | if I sounded too casual given the circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | "Indy for Indiana? Indy for independent? Indy as in... Floyd | Floyd | "...Indigo" Floyd | Floyd | And I was still surrounded by the dark, but was just like her voice Floyd | made the whole room change its colour. Floyd | Floyd | I could see a window and Indigo there. Floyd | Floyd | > | rockersuke exclaims, "i have to put some good answer to jump here!" | |||
| Limax exclaims, "I found Indigo!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x indigo" | ||||
Floyd | I looked at her, and just like she could read my mind she answered to Floyd | what I was thinking... Floyd | "No, I don't know what happened to Shirley McDaniel. I just came here Floyd | after she and her lover flew away. As far as I know, their love story Floyd | could have ended tragically, or perhaps they are now a happy couple Floyd | spending the best of their old age at a hippie farm in Ibiza island. Floyd | Dunno. You know, we just search for empty houses. Floyd | "We?" I was surprised... Floyd | "No, no, it's just me here" I thought she was smiling "I meant my Floyd | people tend to settle in abandoned places "cause they are the best to Floyd | give time a chance, to forget, maybe forgive, whichever happened, Floyd | whatever they did to us... Floyd | And I didn't see it, but I could sense her finger pointing close to my Floyd | nose while she firmly stated Floyd | "And-don't-even-think-of-asking-me-what-it-was. Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce says, "yay" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | No, I dared not... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was so mesmerized under Indigo's presence that I could only exmine Floyd | her intensely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x indigo" | ||||
Floyd | She was a formless blue shadow, but I felt I could reimaginate her the Floyd | way I wanted. I thought I could think of her as an atractive woman. At Floyd | that point, I realized that what I saw between Rose and Doc had stroke Floyd | me harder than what I would like to recognize. I felt miserable. She Floyd | noticed. Floyd | "Your friends have suffered no harm at all. We use to play tricks with Floyd | unwanted visitor's imagination to make sure they don't even consider Floyd | coming back. Other than that, everything was real... Floyd | ... Floyd | "Ow, sorry..." She added on realizing I didn't want to hear that last Floyd | one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks, "Can we talk to her?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask her what it was" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "give correspondence to indigo" | ||||
Floyd | I was so mesmerized under Indigo's presence that I could only exmine Floyd | her intensely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x indigo" | ||||
Floyd | I tried to discern a form in her formless shadowy blue image. I Floyd | advanced towards her, and then, even as she was just like a cloud, I Floyd | could hear her nervous step back on the floor. I had the craziest of Floyd | all ideas. I extended my arm, and I could sense the anxiety, the Floyd | loneliness... and then the cold, the death... Floyd | Floyd | ...and for the very first time in my life, I was slapped by a ghost. Floyd | Floyd | Not only slapped as beeing hit in your cheek, but also as beeing Floyd | grabbed in the air, literally kicked in the ass, and thrown away by a Floyd | closed window. Floyd | First I panicked, about the other world sighting and that stuff. I Floyd | closed my eyes, but soon I couldn't help opening them again and I saw I Floyd | was landing into the entrance of the house, where Rose and Doc were Floyd | just dumbstruck watching my freefall from the first floor. Floyd | ...CRASH! Floyd | "..Ouch! That must have hurt!" Rose's comforting voice received me Floyd | before Doc's strident comment ruined it all "Oh! you silly Mikie, I Floyd | thought you would throw yourself through a window just if someone Floyd | suggested you to do, now I know you would do it even if no one told you Floyd | so! Floyd | Floyd | And that was all about the house mystery; there was no mystery at all, Floyd | at least not the way I thought about mysteries since then. The mansion Floyd | was abandoned when rich heiress powerful dumb airhead Shirley McDaniel Floyd | fell in love with a married man. There were no monsters in the Floyd | basement, but I met a ghost in the attic. She happened to be just a Floyd | random squatter called Indigo, and was there for the same reason ghosts Floyd | like to roam quiet isolated places. They are empty, giving them time to Floyd | heal whatever wounds tie them to the wrong side of the after-life... Floyd | alone... Floyd | Rose and Doc helped me to stand, each to one side of me, while my leg Floyd | hurted like hell, just a bad sprain. I enjoyed that brief moment in the Floyd | centre of our improbable friendship trio, whose balance, I knew then, Floyd | was as close to an irreversible end as summer itself... The following Floyd | days we had trouble discerning real events from ghost pranks. Now I'm Floyd | not sure which part of it all is a real memory and which my own Floyd | recreation. I like it that way. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** END *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "was there anything we could do with the window?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ghosts can sprain ankles. Who knew?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to rockersuke), "Awesome story." | ||||
| Ellison says, "we should have called the IndiGhostbusters" | ||||
| Limax says, "I thouht we got bitch slapped" | ||||
| Royce says, "that was fun" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think once we saw Indigo, we were locked into doing nothing but examining her." | ||||
| Ellison says (to rockersuke), "good work. lots of nice things going on." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Ellison), "I tried to examine the window and it wouldn't let me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to rockersuke), "This was a great story, yeah. I wish more people wrote really creepy scary games like this. So many of the scary games are sort of humorously bad." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to rockersuke), "This was your first time with Inform? Really solid for three weeks of work." | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Jacq), "I sent you an updated zip file of my game." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Chris), "I replied... didin't I?" | ||||
| Binder says (to rockersuke), "very nice atmosphere" | ||||
| rockersuke says, "thanks all of you for playing and for your comments (included whispers, i don't know how to answer them yet!)" | ||||
| ChrisC..Jacq Oh yes, sorry I didn't check first | ChrisC says (to Jacq), "Yes, sorry." | |||
| Binder asks, "is the plan to run all the speed-ifs today or call the #CF session after some N hours?" | ||||
| rockersuke says, "Yup my firsst I7 thing, had done things with I6 before in spanish" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to rockersuke), "You're welcome. I hope you come back for other ClubFloyds! It was fun to have you here. Also, one time we did ClubFloyd in French, and had fun. We'd like to try a Spanish game some time. Perhaps you could help us pick a good game for people who are not very strong Spanish-speakers. We should talk." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Why don't we take a five minute break now. I'll grab some tea and get Otto's game set up." | ||||
| Limax says, "I'm drinking coffee already" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Maybe you could play a spanish game and translate it for us?" | ||||
| rockersuke says, "off to have some drink too! back in a minute" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain goes home. | ||||
| Trumgottist sings some more Ellington during the break. | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain arrives, ready to play with the toys. | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Are we going to play any other games today?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Yes. We have several more. Just taking a breat." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, break." | ||||
| Ellison asks, "which system is Otto's game written in?" | ||||
| Otto says, "Sorry I was away during the beginning of Haunted House, I'd have loved to play" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Yes, there's 8 to go." | ||||
| Limax says, "Wow... long session today" | ||||
| Otto says, "@Ellison it's just html" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "All of these games today are Speed IF games that were written in just three weeks, all in an IF language the coder had never tried before." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Yeah, it's Otto's own CYOA thing." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Otto), "gotcha, cool" | ||||
| Otto says, "@Ellison generated from some txt2tags wiki code" | ||||
| Limax says, "There was someone on here recently that was part of a CYOA language group...and had a website" | ||||
| Ellison nods | ||||
| Limax says, "Man, my memory's bad" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Actually, we don't do foreign langauge very often. We've only done French once, but it was very cool and if, when we do another language, it's not a language you can speak, then you just skip that week. (or try translating it yourself on the fly with Google Language Tools or something.)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "I think that was the ChoiceScript guy." | ||||
| Otto says, "probably Jacqueline (or I) will show you to html output at the end" | ||||
| Limax says, "YEs... that sounds right" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think they were looking at getting ChoiceScript (what Chris' game was in) to run on Floyd, but they didn't figure it out yet." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we'll start in a moment." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Another sixty seconds or so." | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Yeah, he keeps a pretty good blog about interactive narrative design and choicescript product releases, I referenced it constantly" | ||||
| Otto says, "now I see curveship, I kinda regret I didn't try it, but it'll be for later" | ||||
| Limax says, "Okay... I know inky was looking into that... I actually was around for some of that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "For those of you who want to see Otto's cool cover image, it's online at [LINK]" | ||||
| Binder says, "returns from his mission to the crawlspace" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But like the last game, I'll just cut and paste stuff here." | ||||
| Binder meant : there | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "You went to the crawlspace? Right after playing Pedro's game? Brave." | ||||
| maga says, "these crazy Europeans and their actually-finishing-illustrations-for-speedIF" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "haha" | ||||
| Limax says, "Heh" | ||||
| Binder says (to Jacqueline), "yeah, I was seriously jittery about it, too" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of maga), "Bitter much?" | ||||
| Limax asks, "And a design document as well?" | ||||
| Binder says, "that haunted house game was nicely spooky" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "I do not blame you." | ||||
| Royce says, "My game is woafully under-implemented compared to what we've played so far" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline & maga), "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'll get started." | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | I'm falling down. Not very far from the "ground", fortunately for me. Floyd | Some thick, heavy ropes are softening my falling. I've probably missed Floyd | my step, because I'm absent-minded most of the time now. Floyd | | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I just started playing Persona 3 and I am going to play Sly Cooper 3, as I purchased a cheap Playstation 2 a while back, and Persona 3 is interesting. I loved Persona 4, and I am enjoying Persona 3, but having my characters get tired after every few battles, and go home when I want to save is annoying." | |||
Floyd | Choice: Stand up. | Jacqueline asks, "It's just the one choice. What do we want to do?" | |||
Floyd | I've felt depressed so many years that I can't stand it any longer. Floyd | Besides, my current residence and occupation is endangering my sanity Floyd | and health more and more... Floyd | Floyd | The blue ocean, spreading endlessly toward the north, the east, the Floyd | south and the west, is reflecting the sun like a glittering chainmail. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey Francimi bastard! Come here!", they shout. Floyd | Floyd | Surrounded by those Scottani and Iricimi strangers, I don't feel at Floyd | ease in this place. Their green and dark-orange helmets make me Floyd | nervous. I don't really need to obey, they're just basic sailors like Floyd | me. But could I bear the insults? Floyd | Floyd | * Rebel: 3 Floyd | Floyd | * Wait: 13 Floyd | Floyd | * Jump into the sea Floyd | Floyd | * or look around on the ship, fleeing cowardly to the 5 | Royce says, "I say we rebel" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "rebel! (and probably die)" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, what do we want to do?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "What are those numbers signifying?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The numbers are page numbers, I think." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, ""pages", I think" | ||||
| Ellison says, "the age of the internet" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "like a CYOA book" | ||||
| Ellison says, "er, page" | ||||
| Limax says, "I think we should xyzzy" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There's a PDF version of this up at Otto's site as well." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "And why didn't Jump into the sea get a number?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "PDFs in both English and French, actually." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Jump into the sea is just a hotlink, not a number." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Rerbelling sounds fun, so page 3" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But we can choose it." | ||||
| Otto says, "French is not finished yet" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Oh, good to know." | ||||
| Binder says, "sure, rebel" | ||||
| Royce says (to Otto), "hmm...I thought the French finished their language eons ago" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, rebel?" | ||||
| Limax says, "Why not? It's the first choice" | ||||
| Binder says, "so, 3" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I already rebelled, Binder." | ||||
Floyd | They are a bunch of six mariners. They're just having fun after all. Floyd | Floyd | * But I can give them a fair correction: 23 Floyd | Floyd | * Or I can crawl back to the safety of the upper deck: 5 | Otto says, "the "jump" has no number because with this system it's possible to hide them too, but it's not adviced" | |||
| Ellison says, "ok, think I've spent enough time in this coffee shop. will unfortunately miss a bit." | ||||
| maga says (to Otto), "I'm sure the Academie Francaise will get version 1.0 out some time in the next few years" | ||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | inuredbyheavyrain says, "No guts, no glory. Page 23" | |||
| Binder says (to Jacqueline), "oh, I thought 3 was rebel. N/M." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "What's the title and author of this one? Was it mentioned at all?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "23" | ||||
| Binder says, "23" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, correct them." | ||||
Floyd | Some trained, numerous sailors are certainly stronger than a poor Floyd | wanderer who has always lived on the ground, between the local library Floyd | and the university. Floyd | Floyd | * They throw me off-board to the 17 | Limax asks, "IT's 23?" | |||
| Otto says, "@jacqueline : it just gave you the option to think twice before doing this" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's Otto's game." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Title.. not sure. But it's Otto's game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And I showed the cover page, which is for THE BLUE DEATH" | ||||
Floyd | I dive into the dark water. Soon I feel so alone that I stop Floyd | breathing. Floyd | Floyd | * Drown deeper to the 14 Floyd | Floyd | Death can be sweet, when it's so blue! | Lionheart says, "The Blue 86" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I... I think we died." | ||||
| Limax exclaims, "Blue Death? That's not indigo!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But it was a pretty blue death." | ||||
| Binder asks, "is that an end?" | ||||
| Binder asks, "or are we still drowning?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "If you're not sure you're dead: 101." | ||||
| djfletch says, "I've got the Blue Death death blues" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So again, the cover page for those who missed it:" | ||||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||||
| Limax says, "Looks like page 14" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "101" | ||||
| Otto says, "yes. Also for those who wonder, there was a second redirection because on CYOA the 14 is traditionnally for death" | ||||
Floyd | I'm falling down. Not very far from the ?ground?, fortunately for me. Floyd | Some thick, heavy ropes are softening my falling. I've probably missed Floyd | my step, because I'm absent-minded most of the time now. Floyd | ... Floyd | I've felt depressed so many years that I can't stand it any longer. Floyd | Besides, my current residence and occupation is endangering my sanity Floyd | and health more and more... Floyd | Floyd | The blue ocean, spreading endlessly toward the north, the east, the Floyd | south and the west, is reflecting the sun like a glittering chainmail. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey Francimi bastard! Come here!", they shout. Floyd | Floyd | Surrounded by those Scottani and Iricimi strangers, I don't feel at Floyd | ease in this place. Their green and dark-orange helmets make me Floyd | nervous. I don't really need to obey, they're just basic sailors like Floyd | me. But could I bear the insults? Floyd | ... | Lionheart says (to Limax), "Well it's not the Indigo Death." | |||
| Limax exclaims, "Hey! I can play the game on here!" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | * Rebel: 3 Floyd | Floyd | * Wait: 13 Floyd | Floyd | * Jump into the sea Floyd | Floyd | * or look around on the ship, fleeing cowardly to the 5 | Jacqueline says (to Limax), "Yes, you can, but I can't keep a transcript of that, which is why we're doing it this way. :)" | |||
| Binder says, "13" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we rebelled last time." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait this time?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Limax), "The Indigo Death is more empathic and creative than other deaths." | ||||
| maga says, "13" | ||||
Floyd | The captain, arriving a moment later, feels sorry for his men's rude Floyd | behavior. Bowing deeply, he requests my opinion on the route to take. Floyd | Am I dreaming? Is he insane? Or maybe it's just a sick pity. Floyd | Floyd | Should we head: Floyd | Floyd | * North, to our original the destination, the New Continent: 11 Floyd | Floyd | * South, to reach a little island he's just discovered with his Floyd | telescope: 30 Floyd | Floyd | * West, to explore more the vast blue Ocean: 43 Floyd | Floyd | * East, back to our land of departure: 24 | Binder says, "30" | |||
| Royce says, "30" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Disappointing: Choose Your Own Adventures need some real scenes, rather than getting booted back to the beginning." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "30" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure. Why not 30." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Real death scenes." | ||||
| maga says, "11" | ||||
Floyd | We head toward a strange island, a lone trail of yellow, backgrounded Floyd | by green cliffs high above the beach. Once I arrive on the sand, I Floyd | find a closed bottle on the ground. There is an old parchment inside. Floyd | Floyd | * Examine the bottle and its content: 26 Floyd | Floyd | * Explore the island: 15 Floyd | Floyd | * Go back to the boat: 11 | Binder says, "detours are fun" | |||
| Binder says, "26" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "26" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "26" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "This CYOA does have quite spare prose." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, yeah, that's kind of obvious. 26 it is." | ||||
| maga says, "15" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | "Dear traveler, Floyd | thank you for being in my game. I hope you don't feel too restricted Floyd | there, and your freedom of thoughts is not challenged. This short Floyd | story may really begin when you'll arrived back into civilisation. Floyd | Don't expect to discover much in those deserted islands. And if by Floyd | chance you meet Jacqueline, say Hello to her." Floyd | Floyd | * With some peace of mind and forgetting the luring greenness of the Floyd | mountain, I row back to the boat: 11 | genericgeekgirl says, "aw" | |||
| Binder says, "woo, shout out" | ||||
| Royce says (to Jacqueline), "Hello" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "HEY HEY CAMEO!" | ||||
| Jacqueline dances for joy. | ||||
| Binder says (to Jacqueline), "Hello" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Hello!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "says hello to jacqueline and hands her a marmot" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "and I fail at mudding" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, to P 11" | ||||
Floyd | Impassive to the human's emotions, the ship is reaching the morning Floyd | mists of the other continent. Setting my foot on the pier for the Floyd | first time after three weeks of spiritual torture, I feel deezy and Floyd | completely at loss. There is a big poster on the grey wall, and an Floyd | exit to the rest of the town. Floyd | Floyd | * Read the poster: 27 Floyd | Floyd | * Exit: 25 | Otto says, "**dizzy** sorry" | |||
| Binder says, "oh man, spiritual torture. that's some bad seasickness" | ||||
| DavidW says, "27" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "This game is just a lame one-path thing, right?" | ||||
| Binder says, "yeah, 27 seems obvious" | ||||
| Royce says, "27" | ||||
Floyd | The most notable thing in this place is a poster printed on an indigo Floyd | background. Some big, pink letters are saying: Floyd | Floyd | "JOIN THE ARMY OF LOVE(TM)! Floyd | Floyd | The Indigo Love Syndicate(tm) needs you. Thank you for your Floyd | attention." Floyd | Floyd | There is no clear way to contact them. Probably they became so Floyd | powerful recently that it's easy to find them. We'll see! Floyd | Floyd | * Tear the poster apart: 8 Floyd | Floyd | * Pray in front of this colorful and appeasing poster: 36 Floyd | Floyd | * Exit immediately: 25 | Limax exclaims (at Jacqueline), "Hi!" | |||
| Lionheart says, "blue ocean, yellow trail, cliffs of green. Starting to feel like this adventure was colored in by a set of eight magic markers." | ||||
| Binder says, "ooh, army of love" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yay, we found the indigo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The army of love, eh? Rowr." | ||||
| DavidW says, "inured prefers to be killed in various sundry ways, or his day isn't complete." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "36" | ||||
| maga says, "36" | ||||
| Binder says, "36" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we have a moment of prayer?" | ||||
Floyd | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do Floyd | eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad Floyd | minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut Floyd | aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in Floyd | reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla Floyd | pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in Floyd | culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Floyd | Floyd | I pray in collusion with all the followers of the Indigo Love Floyd | Syndicate. Floyd | I fell that my soul is somehow tainted now. Floyd | Floyd | * I continue nevertheless into the town: 22 | Lionheart says, "Oh pink, we have a non-primary and secondary color." | |||
| Binder AHAHAHAHA | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| Limax says, "Hee hee" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "hahah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, continuing to town..." | ||||
Floyd | This city is bigger than the standard we can expect on the Old Floyd | Continent. Huge, pompous, airships are crossing the airs, but also a Floyd | few aeroplanes, more than in Euralinia. Floyd | Floyd | The houses there are wealthier, with influences from the far eastern Floyd | cities of Asinalia, denoting a strong taste for delicate yet powerful Floyd | ornaments. I don't really like this at all. Floyd | Floyd | What can I do now? Floyd | Floyd | * Meet the local authorities, to announce myself and be registered: 44 Floyd | Floyd | * Learn more about the customs and traditions: 33 | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I prefer a game that allows me to explore, rather than railroading me back to the first scene when I go the wrong way." | |||
| maga says, "ah, we're a Typesetter Catholic" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "33" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of inured), "But we died. How do you keep exploring once you're dead?" | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "airships!" | ||||
| Binder says, "sure, 33" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, customs and traditions." | ||||
| maga says, "33" | ||||
Floyd | After a few researchs in the libraries and museum, I discover this Floyd | society was founded one thousand years ago, after its physical Floyd | separation from the Old Continent. It grew at a normal pace, without Floyd | any noticeable events. More worrying is the fact that 10 years ago, a Floyd | new sect, called the Indigo Love Syndicate, spread quickly across the Floyd | continent, both among the populace and the elite. Discrete at the Floyd | beginning, the sect is now one of the major political power in place. Floyd | Floyd | * I can join the opposition, to discover if they are better than what Floyd | they pretend to fight: 9 Floyd | Floyd | * I can forget about all those conspiracy stuffs, and lead a normal Floyd | life, searching for a normal job: 52 | maga says, "9" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That's a toughie." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "9" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "9" | ||||
| Binder says, "9" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But everyone else thinks it's easy and that the answer is 9. Got it." | ||||
Floyd | The opposition is full of nice persons, however, I can't garantee the Floyd | leaders are politically clean. Some people claims they're even Floyd | infiltrated by the Indigo Love Syndicate. Floyd | Floyd | Am I lucky today? When I get a die out of my pocket, I can be Floyd | considered lucky when I cast a 5 or 6. Floyd | Floyd | Cast a die (in the case I don't have one in my pocket at the moment) Floyd | Floyd | * If I'm lucky: 32 Floyd | Floyd | * If I'm not lucky: 49 | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Boring lives are for reality; games are fantasies." | |||
| Binder says, "leading a normal life is worse than heroic shopping in terms of point accrual" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha Indigo Love Syndicate" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Awesome." | ||||
| Binder says, "49" | ||||
| Otto says, "now there should be a javascript die" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, the computer will cast a die if we want." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Which is so much less ominous than the Indigo Deth" | ||||
| Otto says, "I hope it won't crash the game hehe" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I rolled the die and we got a 6." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "w00t!" | ||||
Floyd | Someone sold me, while doing an important mission: I was supposed to Floyd | meet an Indigo Love Syndicate leader, and capture him, but it was Floyd | probably a trap, and I was captured instead. Floyd | Floyd | * Go to jail: 48 | Jacqueline says, "Okay, maybe not so lucky." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "that is not lucky" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | After a few years as a prisoner, I am more reasonnable, and seek Floyd | redemption when I'm free again. Probably the best for me is to travel Floyd | back home, and begin a new life there. Will I be librarian, or Floyd | adventurer there? I still can't decide. Floyd | Floyd | THE END | Jacqueline says, "I hope we are a hot librarian." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Where's our indigo lovin'?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We didn't get any Indio Lovin' from the Syndicate." | ||||
| Binder says, "wha" | ||||
| Royce says, "that was pretty quick" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, shall we go again, since it's pretty short, or try a different game?" | ||||
| Binder says, "that ending left me confused and angry at society, I can practically taste the recidivism." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Putting the 'sin' into the Syndicate." | ||||
| Limax says, "Gimme some of that indigo lovin'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "haha" | ||||
| Otto says, "I probably should have made more choices..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "yay" | ||||
| Binder says, "I'm okay with moving on unless there was something awesome we missed in there, Otto." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Normally I despise your puns, but that one was a yay." | ||||
| Otto says, "@Binder yes you're right" | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
Floyd | I'm falling down. Not very far from the "ground", fortunately for me. Floyd | Some thick, heavy ropes are softening my falling. I've probably missed Floyd | my step, because I'm absent-minded most of the time now. Floyd | ... Floyd | I've felt depressed so many years that I can't stand it any longer. Floyd | Besides, my current residence and occupation is endangering my sanity Floyd | and health more and more... Floyd | Floyd | The blue ocean, spreading endlessly toward the north, the east, the Floyd | south and the west, is reflecting the sun like a glittering chainmail. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey Francimi bastard! Come here!", they shout. Floyd | Floyd | Surrounded by those Scottani and Iricimi strangers, I don't feel at Floyd | ease in this place. Their green and dark-orange helmets make me Floyd | nervous. I don't really need to obey, they're just basic sailors like Floyd | me. But could I bear the insults? Floyd | Floyd | * Rebel: 3 Floyd | Floyd | * Wait: 13 Floyd | Floyd | * Jump into the sea Floyd | Floyd | * or look around on the ship, fleeing cowardly to the 5 | Binder asks, "5, this time?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh. I missed the 'let us move on comment.'" | ||||
| Otto says, "the "good" ending shouldn't be that far from the last node" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Dark orange, I guess I'll take that as a non-magic-marker color too." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Otto), "Can I just use the BACK button?" | ||||
| Otto says, "but you can also choose another game to play" | ||||
| Lionheart asks, "But would we get some augergine in here or something?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Otto), "I can't use the back button, no." | ||||
| Otto says, "@jacqueline no, it's to prevent from cheating" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Bah." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, maybe we'll just move on?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maga just left, so let's not do his game, and zarf is not here." | ||||
| Royce is good either way | ||||
| Binder says, "ok by me" | ||||
| Otto says, "I think so, there is the URL above so curious people could just play on their own" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm up for a break from cutting & pasting the CYOA stuff, so." | ||||
| Jacqueline checks her list. | ||||
| Otto says, "there is also a map of the choices there: [LINK]" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is Ellison home from the coffee shop yet?" | ||||
| Royce says, "I'm not sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we should try Royce's game?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or mind." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Mine, even." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or djf." | ||||
| Royce says, "roll the die" | ||||
| Limax asks, "How many different endings are there?" | ||||
| Royce says, "my game has just one ending" | ||||
| Binder asks, "no preference from me. how about Royce's just because of presence and interaction?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Royce), "Let's do yours. TADS 3, right?" | ||||
| Royce says, "correct" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load rainbow" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "OK children, put your science books away. It is time for art. And Floyd | because you all have been so good this week, you can work on any art Floyd | project you want, just like I promised.", said Ms. Henderson Floyd | Floyd | You put the dreaded science book back in your desk and get ready for Floyd | art, your favorite subject. Even better, you can do whatever you want Floyd | today. You have decided that you're going to paint the bestest, most Floyd | wonderful rainbow any kid has ever painted. It will be much better than Floyd | anything that stupid Tommy Sinclair has ever done! Floyd | Floyd | Most of the kids work at their desks, drawing with crayons, or pencils. Floyd | That means your favoritest easel is available. You just need to gather Floyd | your supplies from the Art Chest and then you can get to work. Floyd | Floyd | Ms. Henderson's Third-grade Classroom Floyd | Floyd | The large classroom is open and airy. On one wall is the chalkboard Floyd | with the remnants of today's math lesson (fractions...yuck!). Just to Floyd | the side of the chalkboard is Ms. Henderson's desk. Much of the space Floyd | is taken up with the desks that face the front. In the back are the Floyd | closet and the art area. Floyd | Floyd | The tommy's box contains an indigo paint. Floyd | Floyd | Tommy is at his easel. Floyd | Floyd | Ms. Henderson is at her desk, grading papers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, what a voice shift from the other games." | |||
| Lionheart asks, "Is there a rainbow theme going on here?" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x tommy" | ||||
Floyd | Stupid Tommy Sinclair, the boy who thinks he's a better painter than Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to LH), "The theme of the speed IF was 'indigo'" | |||
| ChrisC says, "It's an "indigo" theme" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x self" | ||||
Floyd | The word "self" 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 out Floyd | an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your next Floyd | command.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce says, "We had to use the word Indigo" | |||
| Limax says, "Wow" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "eat paint" | ||||
Floyd | The indigo paint does not appear to be edible. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">taste the rainbow" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Susie , with dark hair done up in pig-tails, tied with pretty Floyd | pink bows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paint" | ||||
Floyd | As you reach for the indigo paint, Tommy growls, "Don't touch my Floyd | paints, these are boy's paints, and you can't touch them because you're Floyd | just a girl." Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Oh, I see." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "bite tommy" | ||||
Floyd | The word "bite" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "kick tommy" | ||||
Floyd | You cannot attack that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the supply chest reveals a brush and a paint box. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "OMG HATE" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Tommy is going down." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paint and brush" | ||||
Floyd | indigo paint: As you reach for the indigo paint, Tommy growls, "Don't Floyd | touch my paints, these are boy's paints, and you can't touch them Floyd | because you're just a girl." Floyd | Floyd | brush: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paint box" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the paint box reveals a toy car, a green paint, an orange Floyd | paint, a violet paint, a yellow paint, a red paint, and a blue paint. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "paint tommy" | ||||
Floyd | You can't do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stab tommy with brush" | ||||
Floyd | The word "stab" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "bah" | |||
| Binder laughs | ||||
| Limax says, "Man... I misunderstood when I saw 'open chest'... I was thinking Alien moment" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "pull tommy's hair" | ||||
Floyd | The word "hair" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Limax), "haha" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "heteronormativity off" | ||||
Floyd | The word "heteronormativity" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW asks, "I forget, can girls play with toy cars?" | |||
| Royce says, "you know, you could just ask tommy" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "If only" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||||
Floyd | Matchbox toy car. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims (at Royce), "??!!" | |||
| ChrisC says, "The word "stab" is clearly necessary in this story." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "bribe tommy with car" | ||||
Floyd | The word "bribe" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce says, "susie's not a violent person" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tommy for indigo" | Limax says, "Too bad" | |||
Floyd | Tommy does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "trade car for indigo" | ||||
Floyd | The word "trade" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show car to tommy" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the toy car from the paint box) Floyd | Tommy looks down his nose and says "That probably has cooties on it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "She'd look great with a skillet" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask tommy about indigo" | ||||
Floyd | "May I borrow the indigo paint from your paint box, please?", you ask Floyd | sweetly. Floyd | Floyd | Tommy eyes you warily and says, "No. It's in my box, and you can't Floyd | have it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce says, "try ask about" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "give car to tommy" | ||||
Floyd | He ignores you and continues on his art project Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play with car" | ||||
Floyd | The word "play" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Royce), "There. I asked. Now can we stab him?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "tell tommy about awesome car" | ||||
Floyd | Tommy does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "paint rainbow" | ||||
Floyd | You need to wear your smock so you don't get your pretty dress messed Floyd | up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "my, Tommy is such an articulate young man. I like him!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear smock" | ||||
Floyd | You see no smock here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Ms. Henderson's Third-grade Classroom Floyd | Floyd | The large classroom is open and airy. On one wall is the chalkboard Floyd | with the remnants of today's math lesson (fractions...yuck!). Just to Floyd | the side of the chalkboard is Ms. Henderson's desk. Much of the space Floyd | is taken up with the desks that face the front. In the back are the Floyd | closet and the art area. Floyd | Floyd | The tommy's box contains an indigo paint. Floyd | Floyd | Tommy is at his easel. Floyd | Floyd | Ms. Henderson is at her desk, grading papers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "haha - you would. Also, you tested this, right?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Oh Ms Henderson!" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "This loooks like some lame emotionally-stunted bullshit like Winter Wonderland." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "I did" | ||||
| Limax asks, "The tommy? Is he a gun?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask henderson about tommy" | ||||
Floyd | The teacher does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe there's a smock in the closet" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Please stop." | ||||
| Royce says, "she's not implemented much" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "whine" | ||||
Floyd | The word "whine" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And a smack for Tommy." | |||
| Limax says, "Ha ha" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Ms. Henderson's Third-grade Classroom Floyd | Floyd | The large classroom is open and airy. On one wall is the chalkboard Floyd | with the remnants of today's math lesson (fractions...yuck!). Just to Floyd | the side of the chalkboard is Ms. Henderson's desk. Much of the space Floyd | is taken up with the desks that face the front. In the back are the Floyd | closet and the art area. Floyd | Floyd | The tommy's box contains an indigo paint. Floyd | Floyd | Tommy is at his easel. Floyd | Floyd | Ms. Henderson is at her desk, grading papers. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And a snack for later!" | |||
| Royce says, "the closet's to the west" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce says, "I'm sorry, east" | |||
| Binder says (to Royce), "A likely story." | ||||
| Ellison says, "really, in the beta, the closet was to the east" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Closet Floyd | This is the closet where coats are kept during the winter months. also Floyd | contains the painting smocks so you don't mess up your school clothes. Floyd | Floyd | You see a smock here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Ha ha" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "wear smock" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the smock) Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the smock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x smock" | ||||
Floyd | A paint-specked smock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks (of Royce), "You had betatesters for speed-if?" | |||
| Binder asks, "back to paint?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | Magic does not work in the real world. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "search smock" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual in the smock. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh noes, what has Tommy done to our stuff?" | |||
| Royce says, "just to make sure it wasn't total crap" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Ms. Henderson's Third-grade Classroom Floyd | Floyd | The large classroom is open and airy. On one wall is the chalkboard Floyd | with the remnants of today's math lesson (fractions...yuck!). Just to Floyd | the side of the chalkboard is Ms. Henderson's desk. Much of the space Floyd | is taken up with the desks that face the front. In the back are the Floyd | closet and the art area. Floyd | Floyd | The tommy's box contains an indigo paint. Floyd | Floyd | Tommy is at his easel. Floyd | Floyd | Ms. Henderson is at her desk, grading papers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "paint" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to paint? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "rainbow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't paint without your paints sitting in the easel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "art sure has a lot of rules" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Sorry, I forgot we had the authors here." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "How do you solve a problem like the tommy?" | ||||
Floyd | The word "How" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Oops" | |||
| Binder says (to Lionheart), "HA" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put all from box into easel" | ||||
Floyd | green paint: You can't put anything in the big wooden easel. Floyd | Floyd | orange paint: You can't put anything in the big wooden easel. Floyd | Floyd | violet paint: You can't put anything in the big wooden easel. Floyd | Floyd | yellow paint: You can't put anything in the big wooden easel. Floyd | Floyd | red paint: You can't put anything in the big wooden easel. Floyd | Floyd | blue paint: You can't put anything in the big wooden easel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inured), "Even when the authors aren't here, they usually end up reading the transcripts." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a brush, a paint box (which contains a green paint, an Floyd | orange paint, a violet paint, a yellow paint, a red paint, and a blue Floyd | paint), and a toy car. You're wearing a smock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put all from box onto easel" | ||||
Floyd | green paint: Floyd | (first taking the green paint from the paint box) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | orange paint: Floyd | (first taking the orange paint from the paint box) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | violet paint: Floyd | (first taking the violet paint from the paint box) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | yellow paint: Floyd | (first taking the yellow paint from the paint box) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | red paint: Floyd | (first taking the red paint from the paint box) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | blue paint: Floyd | (first taking the blue paint from the paint box) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | Royce says, "just put the box in the easel" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh realy?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inured), "Put yourself in the author's shoes before you go off at the mouth." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "That's counterintuitive" | ||||
| Royce says, "but easy to code" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, moving on." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "put box on easel" | ||||
Floyd | You put the paint box on the big wooden easel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "now what does >paint rainbow do?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "paint rainbow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't paint a rainbow without indigo paint. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Thought so." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Survey Says: ENH" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Can too~" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "did we examine the teacher?" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "plaint tree" | ||||
Floyd | The word "plaint" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "paint tree" | ||||
Floyd | The word "tree" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Or however you spell the buzzer sound." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x henderson" | ||||
Floyd | Ms. Henderson, the best 3rd grade teacher in all of Eli's Sons Floyd | Elementary school. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says (to Jacqueline), "GLAT" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "paint henderson" | ||||
Floyd | You can't do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "er.. BLAT" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. Maybe we can get Tommy in trouble." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take smock, f wear smock, f take indigo paint, f paint box" | ||||
Floyd | You see no f wear smock here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "She's... she's the only third grade teacher. Isn't she." | |||
| Binder says, "the way I spell that buzzer sound is pretty spammy" | ||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| Limax says, "Hee hee" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "you can paint a gay rainbow without indigo" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take smock" | ||||
Floyd | You are already carrying the smock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "wear smock" | ||||
Floyd | You're already wearing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take indigo paint" | ||||
Floyd | As you reach for the indigo paint, Tommy growls, "Don't touch my Floyd | paints, these are boy's paints, and you can't touch them because you're Floyd | just a girl." Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "I don't think the rainbows on Castro have any indigo" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "We're in third grade. I'm pretty sure we're going for the scientifically accurate full spectrum rainbow here." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a brush and a toy car, and you're wearing a smock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks, "But then it woudln't be much of a game, would it?" | |||
| Binder says, "> disguise self as boy" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "cut my hair" | ||||
Floyd | The word "hair" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "paint caricature of tommy" | ||||
Floyd | The word "caricature" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "give car to tommy" | ||||
Floyd | Tommy eyes you warily and says, "I'm not interested in that Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "If we throw the car at Ms Henderson... would she think that Tommy did it?" | |||
| Limax exclaims, "Thow it at him!" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "paint car" | ||||
Floyd | You can't do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "throw car at tommy" | ||||
Floyd | The toy car hits Tommy without any obvious effect, and falls to the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "transition gender" | ||||
Floyd | The word "transition" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get car" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ChrisC says (to Jacqueline), "Indigo isn't even a real color, Newton just made it up to fit his numerology >:(" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "emasculate tommy" | ||||
Floyd | The word "emasculate" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "throw car at teacher" | ||||
Floyd | The toy car hits the teacher without any obvious effect, and falls to Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Dip pigtails in inkwell" | |||
| DavidW says, "drat" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Binder says, "this is the worst car ever. we can't hurt ANYBODY" | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "ask tommy about paint" | ||||
Floyd | "I really need to use it, I won't use hardly any at all", you say. Floyd | Floyd | "No, I need to to paint the Purple Menace, Captain Fastjack's arch Floyd | enemy.", Tommy says as he steps between you and the paints on his Floyd | easel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Put car in indigo paint" | |||
| Lionheart says, "Ms Henderson has been teaching third grade so long she's catatonic" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "push car" | ||||
Floyd | Pushing the toy car has no effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| rockersuke goes home. | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "show purple paint to tommy" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the violet paint) Floyd | Tommy looks down his nose and says "That probably has cooties on it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "f get car" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get car" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Ms. Henderson's Third-grade Classroom Floyd | Floyd | The large classroom is open and airy. On one wall is the chalkboard Floyd | with the remnants of today's math lesson (fractions...yuck!). Just to Floyd | the side of the chalkboard is Ms. Henderson's desk. Much of the space Floyd | is taken up with the desks that face the front. In the back are the Floyd | closet and the art area. Floyd | Floyd | On the big wooden easel are a green paint, an orange paint, a yellow Floyd | paint, a red paint, a blue paint, and a paint box. The tommy's box Floyd | contains an indigo paint. Floyd | Floyd | Tommy is at his easel. Floyd | Floyd | Ms. Henderson is at her desk, grading papers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask tommy about fastjack" | ||||
Floyd | Tommy does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd suggest mixing our own indigo, but I doubt it would let us." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||||
Floyd | The word "papers" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x chalkboard" | ||||
Floyd | The chalkboard dominates the front wall of the classroom. On it you Floyd | can see the remnants of today's math lesson (fractions) and today's art Floyd | project: Do any kind of art you want today. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| rockersuke arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Limax says, "DUmp paint on tommy" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask teacher about indigo" | ||||
Floyd | The teacher does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "mix blue and violet" | ||||
Floyd | The word "mix" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, whoever wrote this must have been a pretty horrible little boy once. The voice has such a genuine quality to it." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "give tommy a cootie shot" | ||||
Floyd | The word "cootie" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch tommy" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing out of the ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take eraser" | ||||
Floyd | The word "eraser" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take chalk" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat. didn't give him cooties" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "spit on tommy" | ||||
Floyd | The word "spit" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kiss tommy" | ||||
Floyd | EWW!!... Tommy runs away crying, looking for a cooties shot. Thus Floyd | begins his many years of therapy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paint" | ||||
Floyd | Which paint do you mean, the yellow paint, the red paint, the blue Floyd | paint, the indigo paint, the orange paint, or the green paint? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Did we kiss him? Surely we tried to kiss --" | |||
| DavidW says, "I KNEW IT" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take indigo paint" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY" | |||
| Binder says, "wow" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "awesome" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to gener), "Well done" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Rock on." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Indigo Love Wins!" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Indigo Love Wins again!" | ||||
| Ellison asks (of Jacqueline), "remember what I said about AIF?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "paint rainbow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't paint a rainbow without indigo paint. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put indigo on easel" | ||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "I love indgio love" | |||
| DavidW says, "now try" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Repressed homosexuality loses." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "I do not recally." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, recall" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "paint rainbow" | ||||
Floyd | You finally start painting the bestest rainbow in the world. The curve Floyd | is just right, the clouds in the sky are the puffiest you've ever Floyd | painted, the yellow sun is smiling, and the rainbow is done. Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU HAVE PAINTED THE BESTEST RAINBOW *** Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Woo" | |||
| Binder says, "yaaaay" | ||||
| Otto says, "really funny game :)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "huzzah" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Waaaai" | ||||
| Royce says, "there were a couple more responses from tommy when asking about indigo paint`" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Share?" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Tommy seemed rather devoid of responses" | ||||
| Royce says, "I'd be ever so grateful because you see, I can't paint the prettiest and bestest rainbow without the color violet. It goes between the green and blue...I think, you say." | ||||
| Ellison says, "really, the words 'bestest' and 'favoritest' rubbed me wrong and I just took it out on the game's invasion of personal space" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "See, I love the word bestest. But I was a little girl once, so." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "You need to get in touch with your inner girl." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Ellison), "I liked the third-grade narrative voice" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "Yeah, me too." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "It helped me get into the mindset" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... maga's CYOA?" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Okie dokie" | ||||
| Ellison says, "it'd didn't evoke third grade at all for me. my third grade teacher was a hunchback!" | ||||
| maga says, "Warning: this is a Stiffy Makane game. There will be copious naughty bits. If you are not a friend to naughty bits, you might want to skip out for a few minutes." | ||||
| Royce says, "my third-grade teacher was related to Annie Oakley" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of maga), "Oh, should we wait and do yours last?" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Maybe we should put another game in between then" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, why am I not surprised?" | ||||
| DavidW asks (of maga), "You really wrote a Stiffy speed?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I hear Annie Oakley responded when you shoot things at her" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's hold off." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let me check my list." | ||||
| maga exclaims (at DW), "it was the only idea I had!" | ||||
| Otto says, "we could wait until all the children are going to bed" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's try one from someone that I don't think will be here at all." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Royce says, "TADS 3 is a bit different than Hugo (that I normally use) so I spent most of my time reading the copious documentation" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load indigo" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your Floyd | upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the Floyd | most basic necessities, and no more. Floyd | Floyd | Your years in the tower have changed you. You are more or less a grown Floyd | woman now, with hair nearly to the floor. Your skills have developed Floyd | as far as solitude and tedium can take them. You are ready to leave. Floyd | Floyd | Take your time. Floyd | Floyd | (New players may wish to type ABOUT.) Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A fire burns in the fireplace and a few basic kitchen things are still Floyd | lying around. The plank staircase spirals up to the room above, while Floyd | a much older, darker, stone staircase descends to the storeroom below. Floyd | Floyd | You see a withered apple and a cauldron here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I wonder if this "Stiffy Makane" is a fan of Al Lowe or Steve Meretsky? They were great designers." | |||
| Lionheart says, "A Rapunzel game? That seems a better followup" | ||||
| Limax says, "What is this one written in? And who wrote it" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x apple" | ||||
Floyd | The skin has drawn in close and wrinkled; the flesh has turned to meal. Floyd | A month of age clings to it, making it ugly and useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | This game was created for Speed-IF Indigo, which challenged authors to
Floyd | create a piece somehow loosely related to the idea of indigo while
Floyd | using a programming language they haven't published in before.
Floyd |
Floyd | I only had a couple of afternoons to give this project, and there's
Floyd | lots I would like to have done better. As with all speed-IF, this is
Floyd | an unfinished design with minimal implementation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Still, it was a fun time, and I owe a lot to Eric Eve's manuals and
Floyd | tour guide for making it possible to implement even as much as I was
Floyd | able to here, given that I was coming to the language as an almost
Floyd | complete novice.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is possible to make the game unfinishable, but typically only by
Floyd | destroying an object. It should be immediately obvious when an object
Floyd | is destroyed. Hints are available, though like everything else, they
Floyd | may be flawed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Finally: if in doubt about removing one object from another, try TAKE.
Floyd | Other variations ('get foo from bar', 'remove foo from bar', etc.) are
Floyd | not necessarily as well accounted-for as they should be.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "This is a TADS game from someone who's not necessarily trying to remain anonymous but who isn't exactly promoting their work." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x cauldron" | ||||
Floyd | A heavy iron cauldron, with a lid. It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You have fifteen years, two months, twelve days, five hours, and one Floyd | minute. You can spare none of this. Floyd | Floyd | Besides this, your most notable endowment is your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "i.e. Emily Short." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x hair" | ||||
Floyd | Your hair grows down to your feet. Its natural color is blonde, nearly Floyd | white, but you have dyed it a deep rippling blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x apple" | ||||
Floyd | The skin has drawn in close and wrinkled; the flesh has turned to meal. Floyd | A month of age clings to it, making it ugly and useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart blinks | |||
| Lionheart says, "Rapunzel's going punk" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "Yeah, it's awesome." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I have seen some great games programmed in TADs, but the program is kind of buggy." | ||||
| ChrisC asks (of inured), "Aren't Meretzky and Lowe still designers?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "open cauldron" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the cauldron reveals an unfinished potion. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x potion" | ||||
Floyd | A potion with weeks of age on it. It is not done yet, however. Floyd | Another month should finish it: its purpose is to fortify the hair, Floyd | make it strong and glossy and unbreakable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suspect there's a recipe to find." | |||
| Lionheart says, "That sounds fun" | ||||
| Ellison says, "interesting setup" | ||||
| Limax says, "Ah" | ||||
| Limax asks, "T2 or T3?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "eat potion" | ||||
Floyd | The thought of tasting it in its current form makes you gag. It's Floyd | astonishing how much age can convert the texture and scent of such a Floyd | brew. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "wait one month" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inured), "Keep in mind that these were all written quickly, and by authors who had never tried to use their particularly IF language before. It was an exercise in getting people to try new things, so these aren't going to be polished. That wasn't the point." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "put one minute in cauldron" | ||||
Floyd | The word "minute" 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 out Floyd | an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your next Floyd | command.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Yay - good try" | |||
| Limax says, "Ah... T3" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we should explore. Up or down." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "up" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You clatter up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Blue Tower Floyd | This compact turret has been your home for the last ten years, and the Floyd | walls are covered and re-covered in the images you've painted there. Floyd | Floyd | There is a window in the curving south wall, and stone stairs spiral Floyd | down into the body of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | Under the low bed are a small wooden box and a chamber pot. Floyd | Floyd | The rotten-egg smell diminishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x images" | ||||
Floyd | The pictures show a sky in transition from day to night: on one side, Floyd | puffy clouds and birds are visible, while the sky opposite is dark and Floyd | starry. Floyd | Floyd | It's all taken a very large amount of blue dye. What lies there now is Floyd | a decade of work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "paint rainbow" | ||||
Floyd | The word "rainbow" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | The word "sing" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | A rough box, somewhat the worse for wear. It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x pot" | ||||
Floyd | It's a cheap clay pot with the most humble of purposes. You empty it Floyd | yourself, except when saving the contents to make dye. The ground Floyd | outside under the window is well fertilized. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the small wooden box reveals a stub of candle, a comb, some Floyd | shears, and a stained paintbrush. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "eww, sewage dye" | |||
| Lionheart says, "Nice implementation about the smell diminishing." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look out window" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to open the window) Floyd | The single pane opens and shuts, to be sure, but that does you little Floyd | good at the moment. If you're leaving, you'll need to get the whole Floyd | thing open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "Historically, urine was used as a mordant to fix dyes into cloth, iirc." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "throw pot at window" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the chamber pot) Floyd | The chamber pot hits the window without any obvious effect, and falls Floyd | to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "unfortunately, I only logged on while I stopped at a hotdog slash gyro place. I'm done eating already, though, so now I'll walk back home. will be back (for good) in a bit." | |||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | maga says (to Ellison), "keep your hotdog slash to yourself" | |||
| olethros says, "I now imagine a gyro made out of hotdog scraps" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Lets hope this game doesn't take such a scatological turn" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "brush hair" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take comb" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "brush hair" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "hmpf" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "comb hair" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to LH), "It's an Emily game. I rather doubt it will go there." | |||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "use comb" | ||||
Floyd | The word "use" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "comb hair" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's explore further." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "brush hair" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "wear comb" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't something you can wear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x birds" | ||||
Floyd | You've chosen to show spring birds on the wing, flying north, though Floyd | they travel among crisp autumnal skies. That way you hint at seasons Floyd | as well as day/night, in your little composition. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Lick that comb" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use pot" | ||||
Floyd | The word "use" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x clouds" | ||||
Floyd | The sky as seen from your window is rarely so idyllic, but those Floyd | occasional fall days are worth commemorating. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Use isn't really ... used much." | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||||
Floyd | You've chosen to depict the constellation Orion. It represents to you Floyd | the strength of the hunter, combined with the quality of eternity. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "yeah, I failed to get projectile shitting into Glass, even though it would have been TOTALLY APPROPRIATE" | |||
| Lionheart says (to jacq), "An Emily game? No wonder it's so detailed for a speedif" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "x orion" | ||||
Floyd | You've chosen to depict the constellation Orion. It represents to you Floyd | the strength of the hunter, combined with the quality of eternity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Blue Tower Floyd | This compact turret has been your home for the last ten years, and the Floyd | walls are covered and re-covered in the images you've painted there. Floyd | Floyd | There is a window in the curving south wall, and stone stairs spiral Floyd | down into the body of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | You see a chamber pot here. Under the low bed is a small wooden box Floyd | (which contains a stub of candle, some shears, and a stained Floyd | paintbrush). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x shears" | ||||
Floyd | Cold iron shears, still sharp enough to do their business. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto asks, "maybe we could try to explore down?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "take shears" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "d?" | |||
| Alex says (to genericgeekgirl), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that D IS D." | ||||
| maga says, "looks like some elves need a haircut" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Is there more upstairs?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x paintbrush" | ||||
Floyd | A makeshift construct of hair (your own) and string and stick. These Floyd | never last long. This is your most recent brush, the bristles stained Floyd | deep blue and never washed clean. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Or is this the top of the tower?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | The remains of a cheap candle. You rarely use such indulgences. It Floyd | has burned down almost to nothing, however: an hour's use is enough to Floyd | exhaust one of these things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead south; and down, back to the Floyd | kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | The word "fly" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "South?" | |||
| Otto asks, "should we go south?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah" | ||||
| Royce says, "south sounds good" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "forgot that was there" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to open the window) Floyd | The single pane opens and shuts, to be sure, but that does you little Floyd | good at the moment. If you're leaving, you'll need to get the whole Floyd | thing open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart asks, "Where else?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "oh" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | low bed: The low bed is too heavy. Floyd | Floyd | small wooden box: Taken. Floyd | chamber pot: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "down, I guess" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | A bare straw mattress on a simple frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing on the low bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "This makes me wonder what happened in the original uncensored version of Rapenzel: Did the knight kill and eat the evil queen, and is that why Rapunzel is allowed to roam free under the tower?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "l under bed" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unusual under the low bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, don't forget the chamber pot." | |||
| Limax says, "Need to go... time to pick up flowers and eggs" | ||||
| Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the sturdy steps with a clatter. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A fire burns in the fireplace and a few basic kitchen things are still Floyd | lying around. The plank staircase spirals up to the room above, while Floyd | a much older, darker, stone staircase descends to the storeroom below. Floyd | Floyd | You see a withered apple and a cauldron (which contains an unfinished Floyd | potion) here. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat apple" | ||||
Floyd | This thing is far past its prime. A month ago it would have been good Floyd | eating. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder what potion Limax is making." | |||
| Otto asks, "down again?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the familiar stairs, keeping one hand on the wall for Floyd | balance. A millennium of wear has made them treacherous. Floyd | Floyd | In the dark Floyd | It's pitch black. Floyd | Floyd | The rotten-egg smell diminishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | It's too dark; you can't see where you're going. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think this is what we need the candle for." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "light candle" | ||||
Floyd | You see no candle here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a comb, some shears, a small wooden box, and a chamber Floyd | pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get candle from box" | ||||
Floyd | You see no candle here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says, "up again" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | It's too dark to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "And... how do we light it? Do we have a way to light it?" | |||
| Otto asks, "?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "empty box" | ||||
Floyd | The word "empty" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "let's go back to where we can see first" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | It's always a more strenuous journey going up. These stairs are Floyd | pitched for the calves of a giantess. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A fire burns in the fireplace and a few basic kitchen things are still Floyd | lying around. The plank staircase spirals up to the room above, while Floyd | a much older, darker, stone staircase descends to the storeroom below. Floyd | Floyd | You see a withered apple and a cauldron (which contains an unfinished Floyd | potion) here. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "I didn't see anything obvious, but maybe the cauldron fire?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a comb, some shears, a small wooden box (which Floyd | contains a stub of candle and a stained paintbrush), and a chamber pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get all from box" | ||||
Floyd | stub of candle: Taken. Floyd | stained paintbrush: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ChrisC says, "maybe the shears can be used like flint and steel? if you had some flint" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "light candle" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to light it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fire" | ||||
Floyd | So little remains of the wick that it could not be lit. If you were to Floyd | take back the hour it has already burned, however, it might be Floyd | serviceable again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get hour" | ||||
Floyd | It takes several attempts, but in the end you manage to take the hour Floyd | between your fingernails and tease it away from the candle with no Floyd | tearing or disruption. Floyd | Floyd | What remains behind is a whole candle, unburnt. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You have fifteen years, two months, twelve days, five hours, and one Floyd | minute. You can spare none of this. Floyd | Floyd | Besides this, your most notable endowment is your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'get hour'?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "light candle with fire" | ||||
Floyd | You light the candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "d?" | |||
| Alex says (to genericgeekgirl), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that D IS D." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl smacks Alex | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the millennium-old stairs again. Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | The clammy uncomfortable space under the stairs is not pleasant enough Floyd | to live in, but it does keep roots and stores cool. Floyd | Floyd | Under the stone stairs are some indigo cuttings. Floyd | Floyd | The rotten-egg smell diminishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "I had tried something like that before with the cauldren" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cuttings" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cuttings" | ||||
Floyd | It grows by your tower, and you've convinced a few of your suppliers to Floyd | bring you quantities of the stuff. Floyd | Floyd | To make dye of this stuff requires another supply you have in plenty: Floyd | stale piss. No need to make another batch today, but you have used up Floyd | many days with the occupation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "We're going there after all" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So we are." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Practical, at least." | ||||
| Lionheart asks, "Can we restore the apple and potion like we did the candle?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Possibly." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "worth a try" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, worth a try." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Store Room Floyd | The clammy uncomfortable space under the stairs is not pleasant enough Floyd | to live in, but it does keep roots and stores cool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x apple" | ||||
Floyd | You see no apple here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ChrisC says (to lionheart), "it seems like we can reverse time, but not fast forward, I think" | |||
| DavidW asks, "So we use minutes, hours, months of our life to make things?" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads up, back to the Floyd | kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Right" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | This time around you have to stop at the midway point and pant a Floyd | little. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A fire burns in the fireplace and a few basic kitchen things are still Floyd | lying around. The plank staircase spirals up to the room above, while Floyd | a much older, darker, stone staircase descends to the storeroom below. Floyd | Floyd | You see a withered apple and a cauldron (which contains an unfinished Floyd | potion) here. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take apple" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get month" | ||||
Floyd | You pluck the month away from the withered apple and gather it into a Floyd | skein in your fingers. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You have fifteen years, two months, twelve days, five hours, and one Floyd | minute. You can spare none of this. Floyd | Floyd | Besides this, your most notable endowment is your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x potion" | ||||
Floyd | A potion with weeks of age on it. It is not done yet, however. Floyd | Another month should finish it: its purpose is to fortify the hair, Floyd | make it strong and glossy and unbreakable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get weeks" | ||||
Floyd | The word "weeks" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give month" | ||||
Floyd | Whom do you want to give it to? Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Technology sucked before the last few decades. Did you know that the process for copying documents when my father was young required dipping things in Hydrochloric Acid?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "put month in cauldron" | ||||
Floyd | You cannot attach anything to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "potion" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a comb, some shears, a small wooden box, a chamber Floyd | pot, a stained paintbrush, a candle (providing light), a hour, some Floyd | indigo cuttings, a fresh apple, and a month. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strong smell of rotten eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "drop month" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put month in potion" | ||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | You get a whiff of fresh lavender. Floyd | Floyd | The rotten-egg smell diminishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | You get a whiff of fresh lavender. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |||
| Lionheart says, "Smells purply" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x potion" | ||||
Floyd | A pale blue potion with an odor of lavender and rosewater. It is thick Floyd | and lustrous and has a sheen of its own. It is the witch's own Floyd | discovery, and is used to fortify hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "drink it" | ||||
Floyd | You drink the potion. It slides down slowly, but its effect is quick Floyd | afterward. Your hair gleams, strong as spun silk. Floyd | Floyd | The lavender scent diminishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "pull hair" | ||||
Floyd | The hair cannot be moved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "cut hair" | ||||
Floyd | (with the shears) Floyd | Your hair will make an excellent rope when it's had time to grow out Floyd | about ten years more, but right now it wouldn't get you close enough to Floyd | the ground to prevent a nasty fall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "drop year" | ||||
Floyd | The word "year" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, I knew the hair wasn't long enough." | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "drop decade" | ||||
Floyd | You see no decade here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put ten years in hair" | ||||
Floyd | The word "years" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Aha, we need some years" | |||
| DavidW says, "decade" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "maybe we should have put 10 years in the cauldron." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get decade" | ||||
Floyd | You see no decade here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A fire burns in the fireplace and a few basic kitchen things are still Floyd | lying around. The plank staircase spirals up to the room above, while Floyd | a much older, darker, stone staircase descends to the storeroom below. Floyd | Floyd | You see a cauldron here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x cauldron" | ||||
Floyd | A heavy iron cauldron, with a lid. It's open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x cauldron" | ||||
Floyd | A heavy iron cauldron, with a lid. It's open. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Up until now, I kept reading that as "pink staircase"" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x kitchen things" | ||||
Floyd | The word "kitchen" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Maybe we need to get year ten times." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "heh" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get decade from staircase" | ||||
Floyd | The word "staircase" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You have fifteen years, two months, twelve days, five hours, and one Floyd | minute. You can spare none of this. Floyd | Floyd | Besides this, your most notable endowment is your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get years from me" | ||||
Floyd | The word "years" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "how long have we been here? Maybe the painting has some time in it?" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Maybe 15 years if the knight has a fetish for old, decrepit women." | ||||
| DavidW says, "You can't use 'years' in plural form." | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get decade from me" | ||||
Floyd | You see no decade here. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "we're going to end up spending basically all of this, aren't we" | |||
| Otto asks, "from the painting maybe?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to maga), "That seems evident, yes." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "We could have the most luxuriant tresses in all of kindergartenm" | ||||
| maga says, "we'll have five minutes left to skip through the flowers and then, *pfft*" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You clatter up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Blue Tower Floyd | This compact turret has been your home for the last ten years, and the Floyd | walls are covered and re-covered in the images you've painted there. Floyd | Floyd | There is a window in the curving south wall, and stone stairs spiral Floyd | down into the body of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I like the painting idea" | |||
| Lionheart says, "x mural" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get decade from painting" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have that; it's part of the wall images. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to lh), "heehee" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah, there we go. 10 years." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get decade from wall" | ||||
Floyd | Which wall do you mean, the west wall, the east wall, the north wall, Floyd | or the south wall? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "south wall" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have that; it's part of the wall images. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get decade from turret" | ||||
Floyd | The word "turret" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Panes of clear glass set between iron bars. Only one pane can be Floyd | opened, and it will be a long time before rust and the aging of glass Floyd | make the rest of the thing fragile enough to break. It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get decade from tower" | ||||
Floyd | The word "tower" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x images" | ||||
Floyd | The pictures show a sky in transition from day to night: on one side, Floyd | puffy clouds and birds are visible, while the sky opposite is dark and Floyd | starry. Floyd | Floyd | It's all taken a very large amount of blue dye. What lies there now is Floyd | a decade of work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get decade" | ||||
Floyd | You stroke your fingers lightly over the wall, seeking purchase. Floyd | Pinch. Pull. Floyd | Floyd | The decade pulls away, the mural rapidly cycling backward, showing Floyd | again the layers in which it was painted: the sky overlies a forest, Floyd | the forest is painted over a garden, the garden you drew when you first Floyd | moved here in childish strokes of charcoal on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Then it's all gone. The wall is whitewashed and pristine, and the Floyd | decade hangs in your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I wonder if this is taken from her current age, or her remaining lifespan? It would be an interesting twist to learn that our actions meant sould would be dead within a month." | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get decade from panes" | ||||
Floyd | The decade isn't in that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Well done." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put decade on hair" | ||||
Floyd | You lower the decade - carefully, carefully! - into your hair, touching Floyd | nothing else. Your scalp crawls as though infested and there is a Floyd | terrible feeling of urgent liveliness up there. (Does soil feel like Floyd | this when the seeds work their way up in the spring?) But your hair Floyd | grows and grows and grows, pooling around your feet in astounding Floyd | lengths. | inuredbyheavyrain says, "She would" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You have fifteen years, two months, twelve days, five hours, and one Floyd | minute. You can spare none of this. Floyd | Floyd | Besides this, your most notable endowment is your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You have fifteen years, two months, twelve days, five hours, and one Floyd | minute. You can spare none of this. Floyd | Floyd | Besides this, your most notable endowment is your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat apple" | ||||
Floyd | You eat the fresh apple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "eat apple". Floyd | Floyd | Blue Tower Floyd | This compact turret has been your home for the last ten years. The Floyd | walls are perfectly white. Floyd | Floyd | There is a window in the curving south wall, and stone stairs spiral Floyd | down into the body of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder exclaims, "off with our hair!" | |||
| Lionheart says, "I am loving this game" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "We need to age the window to fully open it" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Yes, some of the best IF seems to involve unusual word-related physics" | ||||
| Binder says, "or given the temporal nature, perhaps we should just Braid our hir." | ||||
| Binder says, "+a" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Binder), "Ha" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "hah" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "braid hair" | ||||
Floyd | You braid your hair deftly. It takes twice as long as it used to, and Floyd | the new-grown hair is a bit unwieldy, but you've dealt with worse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to LH), "Yes, Emily said it fit in her Bronze/Alabaste/Glass series... very cool." | |||
| Binder says, "well that didn't suck" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Panes of clear glass set between iron bars. Only one pane can be Floyd | opened, and it will be a long time before rust and the aging of glass Floyd | make the rest of the thing fragile enough to break. It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get century from panes" | ||||
Floyd | The word "century" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "it definitely has the 'dammit Emily you have far too many awesome game-mechanic concepts' quality" | |||
| DavidW says (to Lionheart), "cool. I wouidn't've thought of braiding the hair. Obvious, though, now that you've done it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||||
Floyd | The word "glass" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder if it lets you cut it without braiding. "Oops. Now you have a mess, and no hair."" | |||
| Otto says, "reminds me of the game "Braid" btw" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Well, it strongly hinted making a rope of it when I tried cutting it earlier, so" | ||||
| Binder asks, "can we get a lot of age from something downstairs and age the window open?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. I thought it was just because it wasn't long enough." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think time has to be added to the window from somewhere else." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a comb, some shears, a small wooden box, a chamber Floyd | pot, a stained paintbrush, a candle (providing light), a hour, some Floyd | indigo cuttings, and a fresh apple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hour on window" | ||||
Floyd | You wrap the hour lightly onto the window, where it makes no visible Floyd | difference. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ack" | |||
| DavidW says, "undo that" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "i" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "put hour on window". Floyd | Floyd | Blue Tower | Jacqueline says, "undo" | |||
Floyd | This compact turret has been your home for the last ten years. The Floyd | walls are perfectly white. Floyd | Floyd | There is a window in the curving south wall, and stone stairs spiral Floyd | down into the body of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get year" | ||||
Floyd | The word "year" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take ten years from turret" | ||||
Floyd | The word "years" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get decade from turret" | ||||
Floyd | The word "turret" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get decade" | ||||
Floyd | You see no decade here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x north wall" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unusual about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | A bare straw mattress on a simple frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get decade from bed" | ||||
Floyd | You see no decade here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | A rough box, somewhat the worse for wear. It's open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get millenium" | ||||
Floyd | The word "millenium" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get year" | ||||
Floyd | The word "year" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x chamberpot" | ||||
Floyd | It's a cheap clay pot with the most humble of purposes. You empty it Floyd | yourself, except when saving the contents to make dye. The ground Floyd | outside under the window is well fertilized. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says (to Otto), "ha ha, nice try" | |||
| smartgenes says, "hullo all.." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cuttings" | ||||
Floyd | It grows by your tower, and you've convinced a few of your suppliers to Floyd | bring you quantities of the stuff. Floyd | Floyd | To make dye of this stuff requires another supply you have in plenty: Floyd | stale piss. No need to make another batch today, but you have used up Floyd | many days with the occupation. | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get eon" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The word "eon" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "open pot" | ||||
Floyd | That is not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get days" | ||||
Floyd | The word "days" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get day" | ||||
Floyd | The word "day" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get sesquicentennial" | ||||
Floyd | The word "sesquicentennial" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a comb, some shears, a small wooden box, a chamber Floyd | pot, a stained paintbrush, a candle (providing light), a hour, some Floyd | indigo cuttings, and a fresh apple. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I suppose some time can be taken from the cuttings?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x apple" | ||||
Floyd | It is plump and ruddy-skinned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take month from apple" | ||||
Floyd | You see no month here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "At most one season on the apple, though" | |||
| smartgenes says, "i'm very confused about all this getting" | ||||
| ChrisC asks, "since examining the apple before said it may have been edible before, should we eat it now?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "tried that already" | ||||
| rockersuke gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| rockersuke arrives, ready to play with the toys. | genericgeekgirl says, "and then undid it" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to SG), "You kind of came in late. It's difficult to explain." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We can take time from old things and add them to young things." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "take decade from me" | ||||
Floyd | You see no decade here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But yeah, DW just gave you the short version." | |||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "go down" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the sturdy steps with a clatter. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A fire burns in the fireplace and a few basic kitchen things are still Floyd | lying around. The plank staircase spirals up to the room above, while Floyd | a much older, darker, stone staircase descends to the storeroom below. Floyd | Floyd | You see a cauldron here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get decade" | ||||
Floyd | You see no decade here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ChrisC says, "hmm maybe it's in the basement" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x things" | ||||
Floyd | The word "things" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Up until now, I don't think specifying where the time came from has ever been necessary. Either it's in the room, or it isn't, no?" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x stone staircase" | ||||
Floyd | The word "staircase" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Rapunzel Atropos" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take days from cuttings" | ||||
Floyd | The word "days" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "is this a Spring Thing 1?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, the games today are all from the Indigo New Language Speed IF, so they all have a loose theme of 'indigo' and they're all written by authors who are using their particular IF language for the first time." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take week from cuttings" | ||||
Floyd | The word "week" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the millennium-old stairs again. Floyd | Floyd | Store Room Floyd | The clammy uncomfortable space under the stairs is not pleasant enough Floyd | to live in, but it does keep roots and stores cool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get century" | ||||
Floyd | The word "century" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x stairs" | ||||
Floyd | A millennium of wear has left them uneven, but you've been up and down Floyd | them so many times that even their treacherous bits are like old Floyd | friends. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get decade" | ||||
Floyd | You see no decade here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "get millenium" | ||||
Floyd | The word "millenium" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get millennium" | ||||
Floyd | You haul away. It is like dragging a tablecloth from a banquet table - Floyd | if the tablecloth were made of chain mail, and the banquet table seated Floyd | fifty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take year from stairs" | ||||
Floyd | The word "year" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "got it" | |||
| Binder says, "oh, missed an n" | ||||
| DavidW says, "nicely done" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There are several left, SG. We're on game five of ten." | ||||
| Binder says (to ggg), "well done" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x stairs" | ||||
Floyd | They look eerily new, the steps sharply edged. You're less likely to Floyd | fall down them, but if you do, you'll bruise more. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "now milleniate the window?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "back up?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "So put the mille -- yeah" | ||||
| Binder says, "yeah" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | This time around you have to stop at the midway point and pant a Floyd | little. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A fire burns in the fireplace and a few basic kitchen things are still Floyd | lying around. The plank staircase spirals up to the room above, while Floyd | a much older, darker, stone staircase descends to the storeroom below. Floyd | Floyd | You see a cauldron here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You clatter up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Blue Tower Floyd | This compact turret has been your home for the last ten years. The Floyd | walls are perfectly white. Floyd | Floyd | There is a window in the curving south wall, and stone stairs spiral Floyd | down into the body of the tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop millenium on window" | ||||
Floyd | The word "millenium" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop millennium on window" | ||||
Floyd | The years pour through your fingers. The iron rusts and withers, the Floyd | glass flows and thickens at the bottom. When you are done, all that Floyd | remains is a rusty frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "give me a milennium" | ||||
Floyd | The word "milennium" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a comb, some shears, a small wooden box, a chamber Floyd | pot, a stained paintbrush, a candle (providing light), a hour, some Floyd | indigo cuttings, and a fresh apple. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||
| DavidW asks, "cut hair. tie hair to window?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "tie hair to bed" | ||||
Floyd | The word "tie" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "seems plausible" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut hair" | ||||
Floyd | (with the shears) Floyd | You cut the whole lot through right at the base of your neck. Floyd | Floyd | The effect is dizzying. Your head feels light, like a bauble on a Floyd | string. The braid hangs from your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "give me a millennium" | ||||
Floyd | Talking to yourself won't accomplish anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "tie braid" | ||||
Floyd | The word "tie" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "south" | ||||
Floyd | At the Foot of the Tower Floyd | It's a perilous climb, but worthwhile. Floyd | Floyd | Once, long ago, you went the opposite way by ladder; then the good Floyd | townsfolk took the ladder away and left you behind. And they kept your Floyd | secret for you well, saying nothing to the lord seeking you. Floyd | Floyd | (He had desired to take his wife to bed a virgin every night.) Floyd | Floyd | Folded on a nearby rock, neat as an old garment returned by the Floyd | washerwoman, are the seventy years you put aside when you entered this Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have escaped *** Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "woot!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "heh, we were overthinking it" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh my" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Escaped as in died of old age?" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "well done guys & girls" | ||||
| Royce says, "interesting" | ||||
| Otto says, "that game was brilliant" | ||||
| DavidW says, "A virgin every night. geezus." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Tough act to follow. (So let's not do mine next!)" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I liked it a lot: Clever puzzles, nice descriptions, a sense of charm, and a vague ending." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That was indeed awesome. As ever. Thank you, Emily who is not here." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Playing the Stiffy game after this would feel icky" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The ending wasn't vague AT ALL." | ||||
| ChrisC asks, "What languages are left?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, still remaining: maga's naughty CYOA that we're leaving until the kids are asleep, Ellison's ALAN game, David Fletcher's Curveship game, my ADRIFT game and Zarf's Undum game." | ||||
| Binder asks, "what's wrong with feeling icky?" | ||||
| Royce votes for Ellison's game | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "icky doesn't want to be felt?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We got a real diversity of entries for this. I'm so glad." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Kids know about all that shit. WHo cares about them?" | ||||
| Binder says, "votes for Ellison's game" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, that's multiple votes for Roody." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Thanks for playing! Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Lionheart says, "Getting awesome, you mean" | |||
| Trumgottist exclaims, "This kid is going to sleep now. Good night, everybody!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%load RY_indigo" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "G'night, Trumgottist!" | |||
| Trumgottist goes home. | smartgenes says, "i go arm myself with a drink and a chocolate bar first" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You notice nothing unusual about yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | Lionheart says, "Whoa" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "oh, no" | ||||
| Royce says, "much shorter than I expected" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | No further undo available. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "next!" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure (RETURN confirms)? | ||||
| Ellison presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | Don't be so materialistic. Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | Jacqueline says, "haha - great response to 'i'" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | No further undo available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "escape forest" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'escape'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And... wow. Cruelty abounds." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'full'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have scored 0 points out of 0. Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "wow tough eh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Now I see why you were saying this was a restart restart restart game." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "open umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'umbrella'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "hang me" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'hang'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "go under trees" | Otto says, "funny :)" | |||
Floyd | I don't understand. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "OH I GET WHAT TO DO" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'tree'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Do you?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'tree'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink rain" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'rain'. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The walkthrough was given." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "run away" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'run'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing helpful comes to your mind. Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | DavidW asks, "May I?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Well, yes, but surely we're not going there yet?" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | DavidW says, "I mean: We SAW the walkthrough." | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "cheer up" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'cheer'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | Don't be so materialistic. Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | DavidW says, "It's right there!" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "See?" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "die" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'die'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "kill myself" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "kill me" | ||||
Floyd | There's no need to be that desperate. Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | smartgenes says, "um no peeking at walkthroughs" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, yes. Emily mentioned hints overtly, too, but we didn't go there." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I didn't peek!" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Remember, we had this discussion last week." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing helpful comes to your mind. Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | smartgenes says, "i like the bit about the materialism.. most inventive inventory response ever" | |||
| DavidW says, "It's so obvious." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "go back" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'back'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I get it" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'leave'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | This is a text adventure, also called interactive fiction, which means Floyd | that what goes on in the story depends on what you type at the prompt. Floyd | Commands you can type are for example GO NORTH (or NORTH or just N), Floyd | WEST, SOUTHEAST, UP, IN etc for moving around, but you can try many Floyd | other things too, like TAKE LAMP, DROP EVERYTHING, EAT APPLE, EXAMINE Floyd | BIRD or FOLLOW OLD MAN, to name just a few. LOOK (L) describes your Floyd | surroundings, and INVENTORY (I) lists what you are carrying. You can Floyd | SAVE your game and RESTORE it later on. Floyd | Floyd | Type CREDITS to see information about the author and the copyright Floyd | issues. Floyd | Floyd | To stop playing and end the program, type QUIT. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "share woods" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'share'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "the opening tells us what to do" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||||
Floyd | The author retains the copyright to this game. Floyd | Floyd | This game was written using the ALAN Adventure Language. ALAN is an Floyd | interactive fiction authoring system by Thomas Nilsson. Floyd | E-mail address: thomas.nilsson@progindus.se Floyd | Floyd | Further information about the ALAN system can be obtained from the Floyd | World Wide Web Internet site Floyd | [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your melancholy from the drizzle combines with your feelings about the Floyd | desolate landscape and have transformed into more than you can handle Floyd | like some kind of crippling-depression-based Voltron. You never make it Floyd | back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have lost. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "mfly" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | DavidW asks (of Binder), "Do you see the walkthrough?" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Possibly. It would be like Ellison to give us a moral dilemma and that when we consult the walkthrough there's a special unintuitive command like >STROKE FLAMINGOES" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every so often, you come back to this place. These days, you feel Floyd | particularly susceptible to information overload, and this is the only Floyd | place you know of that's properly vacuous of societal noise. Here, you Floyd | let your mind wander, returning to old ideas and even older questions. Floyd | Floyd | What color is the human spirit? Could it be an... Floyd | Floyd | IN-D-I-GO SOUL Floyd | By Roody Yogurt Floyd | Floyd | Written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF! If you get stuck, consult Floyd | the walkthrough! Floyd | Floyd | Http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Indigo_New_Language_Speed-IF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | The barren trees do little to protect you from the elements during this Floyd | time of year. That just means you are less likely to share these woods Floyd | with others, and that fits your current state of mind just fine. Floyd | Floyd | It has started to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | No further undo available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'fly'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "die" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "think about old ideas" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'die'. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't know the word 'old'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "weep softly" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word 'weep'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to DavidW), "I think I do but my attention is hyphenated" | |||
| DavidW says (to Binder), "exactly." | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You take a moment to trap several woodland creatures and cover yourself Floyd | with their carcasses, patchwork-Tauntaun style. Comfortable inside Floyd | their warmth, you wait several long minutes in thoughtful silence until Floyd | the drizzle finally abates. Hooray. Floyd | Floyd | You jump up and fling off your beastly blanket, ready to explore this Floyd | wondrously damp new world. The first thing you do is to climb up a Floyd | nearby mountain to take a good look around. Floyd | Floyd | Beautiful Vista Floyd | Wow, what a view! I guess it took a bit longer to climb that mountain Floyd | than you had thought, as you are now overlooking a beautiful, lush Floyd | valley. How green is your valley? Pretty damn. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart asks, "What?" | |||
| DavidW says, "d" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Having had your fill of beauty for the day, you jump off the nearest Floyd | ledge. Some time later, it occurs to you that may have not been the Floyd | brightest idea. Floyd | Floyd | Falling Like A Rock Floyd | You are falling through the air. Far (but increasingly less far) below Floyd | you is a curious thing you'd wager is the ground. It is fast Floyd | approaching, but at least you're sure to make a good impression. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "i" | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You take stock of your inventory and are reminded once again of your Floyd | great stores of ingenuity and tenacity, making you feel much better Floyd | about the situation at hand. Lest we forget, though, you also have a Floyd | jetpack. Floyd | Floyd | Anyhoo, you deploy the jetpack's thrusters and float yourself over to Floyd | a... Floyd | Floyd | Triple Rainbow Floyd | You are flying up in the sky next to a triple rainbow. You'd Floyd | acknowledge the impossibility of the situation if you didn't find it Floyd | just so profoundly moving. All of its colors dance before you, but you Floyd | find the shimmering spectral indigo particularly enticing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "in.d.i. ..." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "eat rainbow" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any Rainbow here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline gapes, open-mouthed, at the screen. | |||
| Binder laughs | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Voltrons and Tauntauns and jetpacks, oh my" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, this is great." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "this is a tad ransom" | ||||
| Binder says, "I didn't even look for something like that until DavidW said something." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "randm" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ellison is playing a Deep Game." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "go soul" | ||||
Floyd | You enter the indigo light. Almost immediately, you gain total serenity Floyd | and vast amounts of wisdom, completely understanding mankind's Floyd | struggles and our place in the grand scheme of things. You find Floyd | yourself so enlightened that you never go back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | You have won the game! Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to RESTART, RESTORE, QUIT or UNDO? | Binder says, "TOTAL serenity." | |||
| DavidW says, "hooray" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "huh" | ||||
| Binder says, "So I've got that going for me." | ||||
| Royce says, "wow" | ||||
| Ellison says, "the version I sent Jacqueline is the latest version. I changed it to 'consult the included walkthrough'" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Awesome" | ||||
| maga says, "roody got soul" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That was a bit of a whirlwind." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I would only suggest looking at the other losing endings since I had fun writing them" | ||||
| Royce says, "nicely played, sir Roody" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Yeah, I'm not able to upload ALAN games, yet. Sorry." | ||||
| djfletch says, "devious" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "All right, so the message is that nature is horrible and we need the advancements provided by science philosophy to rise beyond our horrible nature. I like that idea." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "bizarrely enough, i was also about to try "eat rainbow"" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I came up with it when I realized I didn't want to write a fully implemented game. it still was trickier than I hoped it would be." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "That was an experience." | ||||
| Ellison says, "also, I laughed at loud when people treated DavidW so incredulously" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That old dilemma of I-don't-want-to-write-a-fully-implemented-game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We've all been there." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, still remaining: maga's naughty CYOA that we're leaving until the kids are asleep, David Fletcher's Curveship game, my ADRIFT game and Zarf's Undum game." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Fletch?" | ||||
| Lionheart asks, "Floyd can do ADRIFT games?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "Yep" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It does them via Scare." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Also, you could interpret the final sentence as subtle Nihlism: Death is better than living in the chaos created by nature and civilization." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The Curveship game might or might not run. It's a bit of a crap shoot." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Unless it uses the battle system." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "The triple-dipple rainbow didn't represent nature to me" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "It does not, no." | ||||
| maga says, "let's shoot some crap" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "In fact, DW, I disabled scoring, but somehow Floyd mentions it (unfortunately)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%quit" | ||||
| Floyd says, "game ended by request of Jacqueline." | Lionheart says, "ragequit" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of djf), "You here?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we just load it first with no spin, I'm guessing?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "yup, hello" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Lets curveship I guess, and find out," | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "(Finally catches up after some AFK periods)" | ||||
| djfletch says, "yes, I wouldn't try adding a spin" | ||||
| djfletch says, "would probably be horrible" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, do we need to explain Curveship before we begin?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "And if so, djf, would you please do the honors?" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "scott adams never explained his games" | ||||
| DavidW says, "A brief explanation would be useful, yes." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "An incompletely executable game is probably a good follow up to an incompletely implemented one" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "And I had the same inkling DavidW did, about as fast, when reading the transcript." | ||||
| djfletch says, "hmm, I'll try" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to CP), "Ellison used a clever and cruel twist, as he usually does when in the Toyshop, yes." | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "Also, Emily's game was awesome. I hope she polishes it off to her standards and formally releases it some day." | ||||
| Ellison says, "mua ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "I mean, I can try, but you wrote this thing, so." | ||||
| djfletch says, "so, Curveship is a system in Python by Nick Montfort" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I'm satisfied with the impression that that last game doesn't make a lick of sense." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "You make it sound so simple." | ||||
| Jacqueline laughs. | ||||
| djfletch says, "(see curveship.com) and the big thing it does is narrative variation" | ||||
| maga says (to Jacq), "Nick's version is 'Curveship is a system in Python by Nick Montfort. Gin?'" | ||||
| Lionheart asks (of Alex), "Curveship?" | DavidW asks, "We gets gin?" | |||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| djfletch says, "meaning you have the events of the narrative modelled explicitly, and they can be narrated in different ways" | ||||
| Lionheart asks (of Alex), "Curveship?" | ||||
| Alex asks (of Lionheart), "Um, seven?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of maga), "No. Nick's first pitch to me was more like, 'Curveship is a systen in Python. It's only 4:30 AM. Another brandy while I explain the particulars?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "e.g. by different people, at different times, etc" | ||||
| Ellison says, "hmmm, I probably first heard about it in Vegas in a pinball museum" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Curveship -- gin? -- is a system -- you want some gin? -- in Python -- 'course you do -- by Nick Monfort. Gin?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "Brand-spankin'-new system." | ||||
| djfletch says, "hah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "yay" | ||||
| maga asks (of Alex), "Curveship is, like, totally a Python IF system by, like, Nick Montfort, employing narrative variation?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Alex), "Curveship is an IF system that does narrative variation written in Python by Nick Montfort" | ||||
| Alex asks (of maga), "Um, seven?" | ||||
| Alex says (to Lionheart), "Okay, Curveship is that long thing you just said." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, that's probably as clear as it ever gets with Curveship. Shall we?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "anyway I think my game is somewhere between taking advantage of the stuff Curveship does and abusing it horribly" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "Perfect thing to teach Alex." | ||||
| maga says, "sadly it didn't work" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of djf), "Ready for me to load it?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "go for it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hopefully, that is. Sometimes Alex does fine, and sometimes it shuts down immediately, and we're not sure why." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Alex), "Curveship is downloadable from curveship.com" | ||||
| Alex says (to Lionheart), "Okay, Curveship is also downloadable from curveship.com." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%quit" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd isn't playing any game right now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%load Curveship:indigo" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | Jacqueline says, "Gimme a sec" | |||
| DavidW asks, "%load?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Don't you just mean load?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, these don't show in the list. Neither did Ellison's game - ALAN was only added last week." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a work-around." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%load curveship:indigo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Logged to: logs/62.log Floyd | Session started 2011-05-07 17:25:44 Floyd | Floyd | __________ Floyd | / Curveship Floyd | version 0.5.0.0 Floyd | fiction: fiction/indigo Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | THE SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF THE INDIGO VIOLET Floyd | From the reminiscences of John H. Watson Floyd | adapted by David Fletcher Floyd | Floyd | "I do not think, Watson," said my friend, "that you have ever placed Floyd | before the Floyd | public the facts of the case we investigated in the year 18--, in which Floyd | the Floyd | indigo violet was so deeply concerned." Floyd | Floyd | "Indeed not," I replied. Floyd | Floyd | "The case was a simple one, of course, but --" Floyd | Floyd | "Simple, Holmes!" I expostulated. "Really I do not see how it could be Floyd | called Floyd | simple." Floyd | Floyd | "Exceptionally so in one respect, Watson: that only the killer was Floyd | discovered Floyd | to have been lying. The other witnesses recounted the facts with a Floyd | pleasing Floyd | exactitude and honesty." Floyd | Floyd | I recalled that Holmes, after a brief examination of the scene, had Floyd | asked the Floyd | persons concerned only about each other and about those few rooms and Floyd | items Floyd | that were involved, and yet by the application of his remarkable Floyd | deductive Floyd | faculty had soon been able to accuse the guilty person. Floyd | | DavidW says, "oh. sneaky." | |||
Floyd | Holmes saw the morning room. Floyd | Floyd | == Morning room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the morning room. The only exit was east. Floyd | Holmes saw me, Captain Horsebrass, Trivet, Lady Mullion, and Miss Floyd | Flounce. Floyd | | Ellison says, "my game works without the fancy % stuff, but no matter" | |||
| djfletch says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "WOOHOO it LOADED" | ||||
| djfletch says, "by the way, you might not want to accuse anyone too soon, because it can end the game" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Oh? That's not what vimes told me. But whatever. I don't know that I trust that vimes character." | ||||
| djfletch says, "if you guess right. Or give you extra information if you guess wrong." | ||||
| Ellison says, "nice intro" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "ask trivet about flounce" | ||||
Floyd | >ask trivet about flounce Floyd | Floyd | Trivet said: Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Miss Flounce came into the drawing room. Floyd | I asked if anyone required a drink. Floyd | | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x mullion" | ||||
Floyd | >x mullion Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at Lady Mullion. Floyd | Holmes observed that Lady Mullion was a respectable woman of middle Floyd | age. Floyd | | Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "yeah, he might have not known since it was set up by inky" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, the names in this are fantastic." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "smoke crack" | ||||
Floyd | >smoke crack Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "smoke crack" means. Try typing some other command Floyd | to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | >x me Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "x me" means. Try typing some other command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | Lionheart says, "Huh, so this is what curveship plays likle" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about horsebrass" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about horsebrass Floyd | Floyd | Lady Mullion said: Floyd | Captain Horsebrass picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass showed everyone the indigo violet, explaining Floyd | that its Floyd | fumes could kill a man in seconds. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass came into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass put down the indigo violet. Floyd | I said that I was nervous looking at the indigo violet, and would Floyd | put it Floyd | back in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass went into the library. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "If we ever LARP this, I wanna be Miss Flounce." | |||
| Ellison says, "this remminds me of the thing Iain wrote about the difference between Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie characters" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x flounce" | ||||
Floyd | >x flounce Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at Miss Flounce. Floyd | Holmes saw instantly from her mode of dress that Miss Flounce was Floyd | governess Floyd | to the Spigot family. Floyd | | ChrisC says, "Ah, so Curveship has a historybook of all actions performed and people can reference them" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Disappointing that we cannot indulge in Holmes'" | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "what is LARP?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah, x me doesn't work, but I think x holmes or x watson if you want" | ||||
| Alex says (to smartgenes), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that LARP is Live-Action Role-Playing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "See? Alex does know some useful things after all." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Holmes's favorite vice." | ||||
| DavidW says, "LARPing is weird." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "ask flounce about horsebrass" | ||||
| Lionheart exclaims (at jacqueline), "Miss Flounce started to play the LARP, then got into an argument with another player and announced she was quitting LARPing for good!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Don't be so judgmental, my dear Watson." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "flounce about horsebrass" | ||||
Floyd | >flounce about horsebrass Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "flounce about horsebrass" means. Try typing some Floyd | other Floyd | command to Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask flounce about horsebrass" | ||||
Floyd | >ask flounce about horsebrass Floyd | Floyd | Miss Flounce said: Floyd | Captain Horsebrass picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass showed everyone the indigo violet, explaining Floyd | that its Floyd | fumes could kill a man in seconds. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass came into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass put down the indigo violet. Floyd | I said that I would look for a book in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass went into the library. Floyd | | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I would look so bad in a Sailor Moon outfit." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "ask governess about flower" | ||||
Floyd | >ask governess about flower Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "ask governess about flower" means. Try typing Floyd | some other Floyd | command to Holmes.) Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask governess about indigo violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask governess about indigo violet Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "ask governess about indigo violet" means. Try Floyd | typing some Floyd | other command to Holmes.) Floyd | | Ellison says, "I like how the random NPC things include useful information" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, so not only does it do interesting things with narrative, as David said, but it also keeps track of epistomology." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "As you can see." | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "ask flounce about indigo violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask flounce about indigo violet Floyd | Floyd | Miss Flounce said: Floyd | Captain Horsebrass picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass came into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass put down the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion went into the library. Floyd | I said that I would look for a book in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "It's pretty interesting. Different, but interesting. Anyone need a top up on their brandy?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Ellison), "Where can I read what Iain wrote about the difference between s" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Where can I read the thing Iain wrote about the difference between Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie characters" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I don't remember exactly. I imagine it was on his livejournal account." | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "trivet whodunnit" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask flounce about book" | ||||
Floyd | >ask flounce about book Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask trivet whodunnit" | ||||
Floyd | >ask trivet whodunnit Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "ask trivet whodunnit" means. Try typing some Floyd | other Floyd | command to Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about crime" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about crime Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | inuredbyheavyrain says, "10 Little Niggers was a great story." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about library" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about library Floyd | Floyd | Lady Mullion said: Floyd | I examined the library. Floyd | I was in the library. The study, where the murder was committed, was Floyd | north. Floyd | The hall was to the west, and the drawing room to the east. Floyd | I saw the indigo violet, Miss Flounce, and Captain Horsebrass. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | I said that I was nervous looking at the indigo violet, and would Floyd | put it Floyd | back in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I examined the library. Floyd | I was in the library. The study, where the murder was committed, was Floyd | north. Floyd | The hall was to the west, and the drawing room to the east. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | | djfletch says, "it will help to explore and get the geography at some point" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | >n Floyd | Floyd | Holmes decided not to head north because Holmes saw no way to do Floyd | that. Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | >w Floyd | Floyd | Holmes decided not to head west because Holmes saw no way to do Floyd | that. Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | >look Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at the morning room. Floyd | Floyd | == Morning room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the morning room. The only exit was east. Floyd | Holmes saw me, Captain Horsebrass, Trivet, Lady Mullion, and Miss Floyd | Flounce. Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | >i Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at himself. Floyd | | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about flounce" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about flounce Floyd | Floyd | Lady Mullion said: Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Miss Flounce came into the drawing room. Floyd | I said that I was nervous looking at the indigo violet, and would Floyd | put it Floyd | back in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Miss Flounce said that Miss Flounce would look for a book in the Floyd | library. Floyd | Miss Flounce went into the library. Floyd | Miss Flounce came into the drawing room. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I don't think we can leave this room." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about violet Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Man, I read olethros' disconnect about how the Bacon Wizard transforms pork into pink-and-white gold and thought it was part of our game. That was a touch jarring." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask flounce about mullion" | ||||
Floyd | Lady Mullion said: Floyd | Captain Horsebrass picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass came into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass put down the indigo violet. Floyd | I said that I was nervous looking at the indigo violet, and would Floyd | put it Floyd | back in the library. Floyd | I picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I put down the indigo violet. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Floyd | >ask flounce about mullion Floyd | Floyd | Miss Flounce said: Floyd | Lady Mullion went into the drawing room. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Lady Mullion said that Lady Mullion was nervous looking at the Floyd | indigo Floyd | violet, and would put it back in the library. Floyd | Lady Mullion picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion went into the library. Floyd | Lady Mullion came into the drawing room. Floyd | I said that I would look for a book in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | | Ellison says, "maybe we can ask Holmes to carry us somewhere" | |||
| djfletch says, "you can go east" | ||||
| djfletch says, "I hope" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | >e Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed east. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the hall. Floyd | Floyd | == Hall == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the hall. The morning room was west and the library Floyd | east. Floyd | Holmes saw me. Floyd | | Ellison says, "interesting" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about indigo violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about indigo violet Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "ask mullion about indigo violet" means. Try Floyd | typing some Floyd | other command to Holmes.) Floyd | | DavidW says, "oh, ok" | |||
| Lionheart says, "I can't help but notice that Lady Mullion didn't say Lady Mullion put down the indigo violet" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So we can visit the rooms in question, then?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "It said Mullion was nervous looking at the violet, but how do we ask her for information" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "east into the library?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | >e Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed east. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the library. Floyd | Floyd | == Library == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the library. The study, where the murder was Floyd | committed, was Floyd | north. The hall was to the west, and the drawing room to the east. Floyd | Holmes saw the salver and me. Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "look at books" | ||||
Floyd | >look at books Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "look at books" means. Try typing some other Floyd | command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | >x book Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "x book" means. Try typing some other command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||||
Floyd | >get book Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "get book" means. Try typing some other command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | Ellison says, "I imagine we just ask everybody about the indigo violet and accuse the person who seems like he or she is lying" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x salver" | ||||
Floyd | >x salver Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at the salver. Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||||
Floyd | >take book Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "take book" means. Try typing some other command Floyd | to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask salver about indigo violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask salver about indigo violet Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | >smell Floyd | Floyd | Holmes smelled the library. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl asks, "what is a salver?" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get spanner" | ||||
Floyd | >get spanner Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "get spanner" means. Try typing some other command Floyd | to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | Binder says, "platter" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "look at salver" | ||||
Floyd | >look at salver Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at the salver. Floyd | | ChrisC says, "I don't think get is implemented" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ah" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "find billiard room" | ||||
Floyd | >find billiard room Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "find billiard room" means. Try typing some other Floyd | command Floyd | to Holmes.) Floyd | | Lionheart says (to Alex), "A salver is a serving tray for food or drinks" | |||
| Alex says (to Lionheart), "Okay, A salver is a serving tray for food or drinks." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Ellison), "Can we use J'ACCUSE!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "There's just something so satisfying about J'ACCUSE!" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | >n Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed north. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the study. Floyd | Floyd | == Study == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the study. Floyd | Holmes saw the body of Sir Horace Spigot, the indigo violet, and me. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "IIAS, Miss Flounce is guilty." | |||
| Lionheart exclaims, "Yes, I get that same feeling from OBJECTION!" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||||
Floyd | >x body Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at the body of Sir Horace Spigot. Floyd | The hideous purplish tinge of the corpse's skin clearly indicated a Floyd | death Floyd | caused by an indigo violet. Floyd | | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Dictionary.com says a salver is a serving tray." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "search horace" | ||||
Floyd | >search horace Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "search horace" means. Try typing some other Floyd | command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "slaver on the salver" | ||||
Floyd | >slaver on the salver Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "slaver on the salver" means. Try typing some Floyd | other Floyd | command to Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "search corpse" | ||||
Floyd | >search corpse Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "search corpse" means. Try typing some other Floyd | command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask holmes about corpse" | ||||
Floyd | >ask holmes about corpse Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x violet" | ||||
Floyd | >x violet Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at the indigo violet. Floyd | The crushed remains of the indigo violet had been left here by the Floyd | murderer, Floyd | after that flower's deadly fumes had done their work. Floyd | | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "say elementary watson" | ||||
Floyd | >say elementary watson Floyd | Floyd | Holmes said elementary watson. Floyd | | djfletch says, "pretty much nothing is going to work except examine and ask, I'm afraid" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "smell flower" | ||||
Floyd | >smell flower Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "smell flower" means. Try typing some other Floyd | command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "> ask corpse about murderer # you never know" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to sg), "heehee" | ||||
| djfletch says, "and accuse, once you are bored" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "say j'accuse watson" | ||||
Floyd | >say j'accuse watson Floyd | Floyd | Holmes said j 'accuse watson. Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask flower about murder" | ||||
Floyd | >ask flower about murder Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "ask flower about murder" means. Try typing some Floyd | other Floyd | command to Holmes.) Floyd | | Jacqueline asks (of djf), "Aw. Not j'assuse?" | |||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Next release, perhaps." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "duffy, analyze violet" | ||||
Floyd | >duffy, analyze violet Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "duffy, analyze violet" means. Try typing some Floyd | other Floyd | command to Holmes.) Floyd | | djfletch says, "you can make the next speedif the multilingual speedif" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "As in everyone writes using Google Language Tools? Yikes." | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x watson" | ||||
Floyd | >x watson Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at me. Floyd | | Lionheart asks, "I miss Sgt. Duffy. How about you, Watson?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask watson about violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask watson about violet Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "ask watson about violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask watson about violet Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask watson about poisono" | ||||
Floyd | >ask watson about poisono Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Watson is a doctor: He should know about fatal plants." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "eat violet" | ||||
Floyd | >eat violet Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was unable to eat the indigo violet because the indigo violet Floyd | was not Floyd | suitable for that. Floyd | | djfletch says, "true" | |||
| djfletch says, "but he doesn't count as a suspect so he doesn't have the code for answering questions" | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "we are watson, right?" | ||||
| ChrisC says (to smartgenes), "yes" | ||||
| djfletch says, "that's a tricky question with curveship" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Yes, watson should see something about the violet, anyway" | ||||
| djfletch says, "Watson is narrator, Holmes is focalizer, and Holmes is being commanded" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Holmes is a crack-addicted former boxer, so I wonder if we get to beat up the murderer after we find him?" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat violet" | ||||
Floyd | >eat violet Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was unable to eat the indigo violet because the indigo violet Floyd | was not Floyd | suitable for that. Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smell violet" | ||||
Floyd | >smell violet Floyd | Floyd | Holmes smelled the indigo violet. Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "take violet" | ||||
Floyd | >take violet Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was unable to pick the indigo violet up. Floyd | | Ellison says (to djfletch), "interesting setup. nice design." | |||
| Lionheart says, "Not a satisfying response. Something about preserving the crime scene would be good there." | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah, I meant to have a proper response to taking things but I didn't get that done." | ||||
| djfletch says, "basically you don't need to" | ||||
| djfletch exclaims (at Ellison), "thanks!" | ||||
| maga says (to inuredbyh), "it wasn't crack, it only appeared a couple of times, and Holmes weaned him off it pretty fast once Holmes became a beloved institution" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of djf), "Have I mentioned lately how very pleased I am that you decided to try Curveship?" | ||||
| maga says, "er, Doyle weaned him off it" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I thought opium was the monkey on Holmes' back, not crack" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "Crack didn't exist yet, I don't think, but that's just me being pedantic." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And possibly wrong, as I've done zero research." | ||||
| maga says, "what happens in your own fanon is your affair" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "'fanon'? Fanfic canon?" | ||||
| maga says, "yes" | ||||
| DavidW says, "good grief" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Jacq), "I don't know that cocaine did not exist back then, though the slang "crack" wouldn't have" | ||||
| Binder says, "fanon. fanoff. fanon, fanoff." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | >l Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at the study. Floyd | Floyd | == Study == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the study. Floyd | Holmes saw the body of Sir Horace Spigot, the indigo violet, and me. Floyd | | Binder asks, "ok, what else should we go look at?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "So are you saying that Holmes and Watson..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss me" | ||||
Floyd | >kiss me Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "kiss me" means. Try typing some other command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Damn." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Jacq), "I'm under the impression that heroin was known at the time, though" | ||||
| maga says (to Jacq), "I'm sorry, dear." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah, heroin was, I think." | ||||
| djfletch says, "it's cocaine in the books. A seven per cent solution, IIRC." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Ah, then crackhead is not an inapt noun." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I was thinking about Holmes in the opium den." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | >s Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed south. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the library. Floyd | Floyd | == Library == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the library. The study, where the murder was Floyd | committed, was Floyd | north. The hall was to the west, and the drawing room to the east. Floyd | Holmes saw the salver and me. Floyd | | maga says, "crack is a form that didn't exist until the 1980s, though" | |||
| Otto says, "time for me to go to bed I think. Goodbye, I had really fun playing those games with you :)" | Binder asks, "have we seen the hall?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "That's what I was thinking" | ||||
| Otto disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Not sure." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | >w Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed west. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the hall. Floyd | Floyd | == Hall == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the hall. The morning room was west and the library Floyd | east. Floyd | Holmes saw me. Floyd | | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | >w Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed west. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the morning room. Floyd | Floyd | == Morning room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the morning room. The only exit was east. Floyd | Holmes saw Captain Horsebrass, Trivet, Lady Mullion, Miss Flounce, Floyd | and me. Floyd | | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask horsebrass about salver" | ||||
Floyd | >ask horsebrass about salver Floyd | | Lionheart asks (of maga), "So, if its not smokable, it's not crack?" | |||
Floyd | Captain Horsebrass said: Floyd | I showed everyone the indigo violet, explaining that its fumes could Floyd | kill a Floyd | man in seconds. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the study. Floyd | Sir Horace had been killed with the indigo violet ! Floyd | | Binder says, "ah, it's the drawing room we hadn't, I think." | |||
| smartgenes says, "i'm exhausted, i'd better sleep" | ||||
| Binder says, "back to the east" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to sg), "Night" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to lh), "Right" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to maga), "I'm afraid I'm too straightedge to be up on these things." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "I have unfortunately had to deal with crackheads at work, so ... yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "It is not a loss I would mourn." | ||||
| Binder asks, "any objection to going back east and seeing the drawing room?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | >e Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed east. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the hall. Floyd | Floyd | == Hall == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the hall. The morning room was west and the library Floyd | east. Floyd | Holmes saw me. Floyd | | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | >e Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed east. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the library. Floyd | Floyd | == Library == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the library. The study, where the murder was Floyd | committed, was Floyd | north. The hall was to the west, and the drawing room to the east. Floyd | Holmes saw the salver and me. Floyd | | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | >e Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed east. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the drawing room. Floyd | Floyd | == Drawing room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the drawing room. The library was west. Floyd | Holmes saw me. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I wish Holmes would share his thoughts when he's examining all this stuff." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x drawing room" | ||||
Floyd | >x drawing room Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at the drawing room. Floyd | Floyd | == Drawing room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the drawing room. The library was west. Floyd | Holmes saw me. Floyd | | maga says, "but it's much more fun for Doyle to give you a big expostulation-dump at the end" | |||
| maga says, "proves how Holmes is Dreadfully Clever" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Wikipedia says he used cocaine and a little morphine, but was opposed to opium dens. Herion was used in a 2002 movie, not the stories. I guess I remembered the stories worng." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "A friend mocked me once for pronouncing hashish like one might might say the -ish in pinkish." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "wrong" | ||||
| Binder says, "well, sorry, that turned out to not be interesting." | ||||
| Binder asks, "back to standing around and asking NPCs about each other?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x w" | ||||
Floyd | >x w Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "x w" means. Try typing some other command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x west" | ||||
Floyd | >x west Floyd | Floyd | (It's not clear what "x west" means. Try typing some other command to Floyd | Holmes.) Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "I guess we're supposed to ask everyone about the flower, right?" | |||
| Ellison says, "I have to get going. hopefully, I'll be back before everything is over. later all." | ||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | >w Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed west. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the library. Floyd | Floyd | == Library == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the library. The study, where the murder was Floyd | committed, was Floyd | north. The hall was to the west, and the drawing room to the east. Floyd | Holmes saw the salver and me. Floyd | | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | >w Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed west. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the hall. Floyd | Floyd | == Hall == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the hall. The morning room was west and the library Floyd | east. Floyd | Holmes saw me. Floyd | | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Crack is the basic form of the neutral substance cocaine, and can be smoked whereas cocaine disintegrates at high temperatures. I did not have to check that on Wikipedia." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | >w Floyd | Floyd | Holmes headed west. Floyd | I followed Holmes. Floyd | Holmes examined the morning room. Floyd | Floyd | == Morning room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the morning room. The only exit was east. Floyd | Holmes saw Captain Horsebrass, Trivet, Lady Mullion, Miss Flounce, Floyd | and me. Floyd | | DavidW says, "It was said that the killer lies and everyone else is completely truthful, which should help." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x horsebrass" | ||||
Floyd | >x horsebrass Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at Captain Horsebrass. Floyd | Holmes deduced from his manner and bearing that Captain Horsebrass Floyd | was a Floyd | captain of the Indigo Hussars, recently returned from the Trobriand Floyd | Islands. Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about violet Floyd | Floyd | Lady Mullion said: Floyd | Captain Horsebrass picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass came into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass put down the indigo violet. Floyd | I said that I was nervous looking at the indigo violet, and would Floyd | put it Floyd | back in the library. Floyd | I picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I put down the indigo violet. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | | Lionheart says (to David), "Oh, I missed that." | |||
| Lionheart says, "No suspects covering up other things as red herrings then" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about horace" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about horace Floyd | Floyd | Lady Mullion said: Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | I said that I was nervous looking at the indigo violet, and would Floyd | put it Floyd | back in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to djf), "I'll be interested, once we're done, learning how you pre-load all these NPCs with knowledge of what did and did not happen." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And how you got the one to lie." | ||||
| djfletch says, "very very hackily" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm also curious what happens if we just accuse someone for the hell of it." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "I am suspicious of this Lady MullionShe is scared of this deadly flower, yet she picks it up and carries it around with her?" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x trivet" | ||||
Floyd | >x trivet Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at Trivet. Floyd | Holmes observed the peculiar indentations in the hands made by Floyd | carrying Floyd | salvers, and deduced that Trivet was the butler. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to inured), "A good point." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask trivet about flower" | ||||
Floyd | >ask trivet about flower Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask trivet about salver" | ||||
Floyd | >ask trivet about salver Floyd | Floyd | Trivet said: Floyd | I picked up the salver. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I put down the salver. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | I asked if anyone required a drink. Floyd | | djfletch says (to Jacqueline), "if you are right you win. If you are wrong you get the true things that the person did." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "accuse mullion" | ||||
Floyd | >accuse mullion Floyd | Floyd | You went into the drawing room. Floyd | You said that you were nervous looking at the indigo violet, and Floyd | would put Floyd | it back in the library. Floyd | You picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | You went into the library. Floyd | You put down the indigo violet. Floyd | You went into the drawing room. Floyd | I fear I am mistaken -- you cannot have been guilty. I must Floyd | apologise. Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | >undo Floyd | Floyd | --- Floyd | The command "accuse mullion" has been undone. Floyd | --- Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| ChrisC asks, "So I guess now we accuse everyone?" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "We know someone put down the violet in the library, but Mullion did conspicuously omit that event in her account" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Chris), "I'm sort of fine with that at this point, though that's kind of probably not the idea approach." | ||||
| Binder says, "I'd like more asking." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask trivet about mullion" | ||||
Floyd | >ask trivet about mullion Floyd | Floyd | Trivet said: Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | I asked if anyone required a drink. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I'm more a Death off the Cuff sort of detective when it comes to IF." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask butler about violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask butler about violet Floyd | Floyd | Trivet said: Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | I asked if anyone required a drink. Floyd | | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | >l Floyd | Floyd | Holmes looked at the morning room. Floyd | Floyd | == Morning room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the morning room. The only exit was east. Floyd | Holmes saw Captain Horsebrass, Trivet, Lady Mullion, Miss Flounce, Floyd | and me. Floyd | | Lionheart says, "Death off the Cuff was a lot of fun" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Binder), "I'm happy to have you figure it ou!" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "er, out!" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask flounce about violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask flounce about violet Floyd | Floyd | Miss Flounce said: Floyd | Captain Horsebrass picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass came into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass put down the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion went into the library. Floyd | I said that I would look for a book in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | | ||||
| ChrisC asks, "watson about holmes" | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask watson about holmes" | ||||
Floyd | >ask watson about holmes Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | Binder says, "hm." | |||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask mullion about flounce" | ||||
Floyd | >ask mullion about flounce Floyd | Floyd | Lady Mullion said: Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Miss Flounce came into the drawing room. Floyd | I said that I was nervous looking at the indigo violet, and would Floyd | put it Floyd | back in the library. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Miss Flounce said that Miss Flounce would look for a book in the Floyd | library. Floyd | Miss Flounce went into the library. Floyd | Miss Flounce came into the drawing room. Floyd | | djfletch says, "in theory it is supposed to be solvable with logic, but, there is more meta-puzzle than I wanted" | |||
| Lionheart says, "So Horsebrass moved the violet to show off his knowledge about poisons" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask horsebrass about flounce" | ||||
Floyd | >ask horsebrass about flounce Floyd | Floyd | Captain Horsebrass said: Floyd | I showed everyone the indigo violet, explaining that its fumes could Floyd | kill a Floyd | man in seconds. Floyd | Miss Flounce went into the drawing room. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Miss Flounce said that Miss Flounce would look for a book in the Floyd | library. Floyd | Miss Flounce went into the library. Floyd | Miss Flounce came into the drawing room. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the study. Floyd | Sir Horace had been killed with the indigo violet ! Floyd | | Lionheart says, "And Mullion put it away because it made her twitchy" | |||
| djfletch says, "in that, it's too hard tell what you should expect people to say when you ask them things" | ||||
| Binder says, "I think it was Miss Flounce." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, so who moved the violet?" | ||||
| Binder says, "Mullion moved the violet out into the library." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "From what we've been told, both Horsebrass and Mullion handled it" | ||||
| Binder says, "then I think Flounce picked it up and took it to the murder site" | ||||
| rockersuke gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| rockersuke arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Binder says, "on her 'oh I need to get a book' pretext" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||||
| Binder says, "since she comes back with no book" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Wait, did he just admit that he was in posession of the violet when Horace was murdered?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask butler about flounce" | ||||
Floyd | >ask butler about flounce Floyd | Floyd | Trivet said: Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Miss Flounce came into the drawing room. Floyd | I asked if anyone required a drink. Floyd | | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask horsebrass about horace" | ||||
Floyd | >ask horsebrass about horace Floyd | Floyd | Captain Horsebrass said: Floyd | I showed everyone the indigo violet, explaining that its fumes could Floyd | kill a Floyd | man in seconds. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the study. Floyd | Sir Horace had been killed with the indigo violet ! Floyd | | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask horsebrass about flounce" | ||||
Floyd | >ask horsebrass about flounce Floyd | Floyd | Captain Horsebrass said: Floyd | I showed everyone the indigo violet, explaining that its fumes could Floyd | kill a Floyd | man in seconds. Floyd | Miss Flounce went into the drawing room. Floyd | I went into the drawing room. Floyd | Miss Flounce said that Miss Flounce would look for a book in the Floyd | library. Floyd | Miss Flounce went into the library. Floyd | Miss Flounce came into the drawing room. Floyd | I went into the library. Floyd | I went into the study. Floyd | Sir Horace had been killed with the indigo violet ! Floyd | | Binder asks, "okay if I accuse flounce?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "accuse flounce" | ||||
Floyd | >accuse flounce Floyd | | Lionheart says, "She looks guilty to me too" | |||
Floyd | You went into the drawing room. Floyd | You said that you would look for a book in the library. Floyd | You went into the library. Floyd | You picked up the indigo violet. Floyd | You went into the study. Floyd | You crushed the indigo violet under the nose of Sir Horace, who Floyd | quickly Floyd | died! Floyd | You put down the indigo violet. Floyd | You went into the library. Floyd | You went into the drawing room. Floyd | Holmes had solved the case! Floyd | Floyd | == The End == Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline asks, "So, can we load with spin just to see what the spin does, even though we know the ending?" | |||
| Binder says, "yeah, not about looking guilty. It was that she was in the right place at the right time [one move away from the crime scene WITH the murder weapon]" | ||||
| Binder says, "and no one else could see her" | ||||
| Binder says, "Kind of a Kill Dr. Lucky situation for her" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That and the 'I need a book' thing." | ||||
| Binder says (to Jacqueline), "I'd like to see spin! I saw vimes tinkering with it and I guessed some of what it does." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Miss Flounce would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that meddling detective." | ||||
| djfletch says, "I have no idea how a spin will turn out, but have a go if you like" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%load curveship:indigo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Logged to: logs/64.log Floyd | Session started 2011-05-07 18:06:29 Floyd | Floyd | __________ Floyd | / Curveship Floyd | version 0.5.0.0 Floyd | fiction: fiction/indigo Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | THE SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF THE INDIGO VIOLET Floyd | From the reminiscences of John H. Watson Floyd | adapted by David Fletcher Floyd | Floyd | "I do not think, Watson," said my friend, "that you have ever placed Floyd | before the Floyd | public the facts of the case we investigated in the year 18--, in which Floyd | the Floyd | indigo violet was so deeply concerned." Floyd | Floyd | "Indeed not," I replied. Floyd | Floyd | "The case was a simple one, of course, but --" Floyd | Floyd | "Simple, Holmes!" I expostulated. "Really I do not see how it could be Floyd | called Floyd | simple." Floyd | Floyd | "Exceptionally so in one respect, Watson: that only the killer was Floyd | discovered Floyd | to have been lying. The other witnesses recounted the facts with a Floyd | pleasing Floyd | exactitude and honesty." Floyd | Floyd | I recalled that Holmes, after a brief examination of the scene, had Floyd | asked the Floyd | persons concerned only about each other and about those few rooms and Floyd | items Floyd | that were involved, and yet by the application of his remarkable Floyd | deductive Floyd | faculty had soon been able to accuse the guilty person. Floyd | Floyd | Holmes saw the morning room. Floyd | Floyd | == Morning room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes was in the morning room. The only exit was east. Floyd | Holmes saw me, Captain Horsebrass, Trivet, Lady Mullion, and Miss Floyd | Flounce. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%quit" | ||||
| Floyd says, "game ended by request of Jacqueline." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%load curveship:indigo prophecy" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Logged to: logs/66.log Floyd | Session started 2011-05-07 18:07:11 Floyd | Floyd | __________ Floyd | / Curveship Floyd | version 0.5.0.0 Floyd | fiction: fiction/indigo Floyd | spin: spin/prophecy Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | THE SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF THE INDIGO VIOLET Floyd | From the reminiscences of John H. Watson Floyd | adapted by David Fletcher Floyd | Floyd | "I do not think, Watson," said my friend, "that you have ever placed Floyd | before the Floyd | public the facts of the case we investigated in the year 18--, in which Floyd | the Floyd | indigo violet was so deeply concerned." Floyd | Floyd | "Indeed not," I replied. Floyd | Floyd | "The case was a simple one, of course, but --" Floyd | Floyd | "Simple, Holmes!" I expostulated. "Really I do not see how it could be Floyd | called Floyd | simple." Floyd | Floyd | "Exceptionally so in one respect, Watson: that only the killer was Floyd | discovered Floyd | to have been lying. The other witnesses recounted the facts with a Floyd | pleasing Floyd | exactitude and honesty." Floyd | Floyd | I recalled that Holmes, after a brief examination of the scene, had Floyd | asked the Floyd | persons concerned only about each other and about those few rooms and Floyd | items Floyd | that were involved, and yet by the application of his remarkable Floyd | deductive Floyd | faculty had soon been able to accuse the guilty person. Floyd | Floyd | Holmes will see the morning room. Floyd | Floyd | == Morning room == Floyd | Floyd | Holmes will be in the morning room. The only exit will be east. Floyd | Holmes will see me, Captain Horsebrass, Trivet, Lady Mullion, and Floyd | Miss Floyd | Flounce. Floyd | | Lionheart says, "I'm not totally satisfied because the killer has no revealed motive." | |||
| djfletch says, "I didn't write it with external spins in mind, and it changes the spin internally a lot, so I think it may just override one that you add" | ||||
| maga says, "lulz" | ||||
| djfletch says, "or parts of it" | ||||
| Binder says, "Heh. I kind of love this 'will be'" | ||||
| Lionheart says, ">ask flounce about corpse -- Miss Flounce saw that Sir Horace had it coming." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So 'prophecy' means all verbs in future tense?" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask trivet about salver" | ||||
Floyd | >ask trivet about salver Floyd | Floyd | Trivet will say: Floyd | I will pick up the salver. Floyd | I will go into the library. Floyd | I will put down the salver. Floyd | I will go into the drawing room. Floyd | I will ask if anyone required a drink. Floyd | | ||||
| smartgenes goes home. | ||||
| smartgenes has disconnected. | Binder exclaims, "Evidently!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I guess so, yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Which is kind of funny, considering." | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "this puts the murder in the future, we could still stop it!" | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah, it's no good where I hardcoded the past tense" | ||||
| djfletch says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "heehee" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask flounce about book" | ||||
Floyd | >ask flounce about book Floyd | Floyd | Nothing special happened. Floyd | | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask flounce about violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask flounce about violet Floyd | Floyd | Miss Flounce will say: Floyd | Captain Horsebrass will pick up the indigo violet. Floyd | I will go into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass will come into the drawing room. Floyd | Captain Horsebrass will put down the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion will pick up the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion will go into the library. Floyd | I will say that I would look for a book in the library. Floyd | I will go into the library. Floyd | I will go into the drawing room. Floyd | | inuredbyheavyrain says, "A problem I had with the story was that Horsebrass and Mullion were equally viable suspects. We had to guess the identity of the killer." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ah - 'Nothing special happened' is hard coded?" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "No one talks about the precrimes Sherlock Holmes thwarted" | ||||
| (from Jacqueline) Miss Flounce says, "I will lie through my teetch about needing a book." | ||||
| Binder says (to Jacqueline), "Heh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "TEETH, even." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so, we're good then?" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask horsebrass about violet" | ||||
Floyd | >ask horsebrass about violet Floyd | Floyd | Captain Horsebrass will say: Floyd | I will pick up the indigo violet. Floyd | I will show everyone the indigo violet, explaining that its fumes Floyd | could kill Floyd | a man in seconds. Floyd | I will go into the drawing room. Floyd | I will put down the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion will pick up the indigo violet. Floyd | Lady Mullion will go into the library. Floyd | I will go into the library. Floyd | I will go into the study. Floyd | Sir Horace had been killed with the indigo violet ! Floyd | | djfletch says (to inured), "I did intend to rule out Mullion but it's possible I got it wrong. I _think_ if she had done it both her and Flounce would have been lying." | |||
| Binder says, "now I'm good." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Yeah, I think I've seen enough of this game engine" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%quit" | ||||
| Floyd says, "game ended by request of Jacqueline." | Binder says, "that was a fun one" | |||
| Binder says, "I want to try writing something with Curveship now." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Yeah. Thanks, djf!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "w00t" | ||||
| Binder exclaims (at Jacqueline), "these speed-if tactics have converted me!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's the thing, I really think that we don't know where Curveship will go just yet, and the only way to see is for people to start using it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "mwuhahaha" | ||||
| djfletch says, "great that you managed to play it. Thanks to whoever got Curveship going on Floyd." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So. We have Two CYOAs and the ADRIFT game, I think." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we do zarf's CYOA, then my game, then maga's naughty CYOA?" | ||||
| Binder says, "yes." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "It wasn't very satisfying as a mystery, but it was very interesting as an experimental IF" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyone need a potty or brandy break?" | ||||
| Binder needs a break for both! Not in that order. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Five minutes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's meet back at 20 until the hour." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "(Which is more like 8 minutes)" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Ok, I'll get dinner started" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I hope lots of children see the naughty game, because I get annoyed by assholes who say, " oh, FPSes/Grand Theft Auto games/action games/RPGs/everything are unsafe for children, even though children have been playing them for decades and the crime rate has been dropping for 18 years." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inured), "We were being facetious, fwiw." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oops - I totally misread the time." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I read the seconds on the ifMUD clock, not the minutes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Whoops." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So let's start at 6:20 mudtime." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hopefully people won't actually go away until twenty-until." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Everybody back?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry about that. I totally read the 'time' command wrong." | ||||
| rockersuke says, "emotes here" | ||||
| Royce says, "I'm back" | ||||
Floyd | The Matter of the Monster Floyd | By Andrew Plotkin Floyd | Floyd | You stagger up to itsthe gourd'sthe magpie'sthe squid's lair. Blue Floyd | sand drags at your feet. Floyd | Your hands don't tremble - well, much - as you ready your new weapon. Floyd | the axe you borrowed from the woodshed. your new sword. your new spear Floyd | and sword. Your voice doesn't quaver (hardly at all) as you shout out Floyd | the words you were taught. the words every child knows: "Ready or not, Floyd | here I come!" the words of protection. the words of valor and Floyd | protection. Floyd | Floyd | One, two! Dive and roll! Jump! Attack! Floyd | Floyd | ...That wasn't so hard, was it? You defeated the monster, and it's not even bedtime yet. Floyd | Floyd | * Haul the creature's body back to feed the starving city. Floyd | Floyd | * Plunder the hoard of treasure to restore your family's fortune. Floyd | Floyd | * Rescue the captive chained to the rocks below. | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I am going to get the Path soon, I hope it will be an intersting ambiguous story like that game about being caught in the rain." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh wait. What is it doing?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's ommitting words. Weird." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let me try again." | ||||
| Binder says, "I'm back, but I can't stay, alas." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Were we supposed to see the variants like that?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No. Let me proof-read as I paste. I'll try again..." | ||||
Floyd | You stagger up to its lair. Blue sand drages at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | Your hands don't tremble -- well, much -- as you ready your new Floyd | weapon. Your voice doesn't quaver (hardly at all) as you shout out the Floyd | words you were taught. Floyd | Floyd | One, two! Dive and roll! Jump! Attack! Floyd | Floyd | ...That wasn't so hard, was it? You defeated the monster, and it's not Floyd | even bedtime yet. Floyd | Floyd | * Haul the creature's body back to feed the starving city. Floyd | Floyd | * Plunder the hoard of treasure to restore your family's fortune. Floyd | Floyd | * Rescue the captive chained to the rocks below. | Jacqueline says, "Weird." | |||
| maga says, "captive" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, that's what I actually ahve on my screen." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Rescue the captive" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "#3" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||
Floyd | You scurry down to the tide-line, leaving the squid-monster sprawled Floyd | among the dunes. Really, nothing should ever have that many tentacles. Floyd | You unchain the prisoner, who is duly grateful; but you are more Floyd | excited by the prospect of the anatomical paper you're going to write Floyd | when you both get home. | inuredbyheavyrain exclaims, "steal the treasures!" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | * Your older brother set out before you. Floyd | Floyd | * Your older sister set out before you. | inuredbyheavyrain says, "You guys are no fun. Fuck the hostages." | |||
| DavidW says, "That wasn't an option." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I meant fguratively." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "How very drole. Well done" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "figuratively" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, droll" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. Older brother, if it matters." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, sister or brother?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't quite understand this particular choice." | ||||
| maga says, "sister" | ||||
Floyd | Your older brother set out before you. Floyd | Floyd | * He marched blithely into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | * He traipsed carelessly along the river. | maga says, "it's a touch confusing, but hey, zarf" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "traipsed" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Let's be careless." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, see, thing is - it's changing the text dynamically in sort of a vorpal way. I'm trying my best to relay it, thought." | ||||
| DavidW says, "For inured's sake." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "splash splash splash *steps on fish* splash" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "river" | ||||
| Floyd says (to maga), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | genericgeekgirl says, "oh. along. not in." | |||
| maga says, "er, river" | ||||
| DavidW says, "He could trip over a crocodile." | ||||
Floyd | Your older brother did not know where the squid-beast lived, so he Floyd | traipsed carelessly along the river. Floyd | Floyd | He didn't find the fiend's cephalopoddiere. Instead, he discovered a Floyd | frail old woman on a pebbly curve of riverbank. She was standing with Floyd | her hands on her hips, a frown on her face, and her legs caught knee- Floyd | deep in a pool of peanut butter. Floyd | Floyd | "Well?" she asked snippily. "A little help for a frail old woman?" Floyd | Floyd | Your brother looked puzzled. "How did you--" Floyd | Floyd | "Let bygones by bygones!" snapped the old woman. "The situation is Floyd | under control. Investigations are in process. Personnel have been let Floyd | go and the case," she added pointedly, "has been closed. Be a dear, Floyd | though, would you, and give me a hand?" Floyd | Floyd | * He snickered and continued on his way. Floyd | Floyd | * He started gathering branches to help the woman. | Jacqueline says, "Belated, s/thought/though" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Q: What is a cephalopoddiere?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, snicker or help?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "No clue. A monster." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "A brain storage?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "snicker" | ||||
| maga says, "a cephalopod is a squid" | ||||
| maga says, "so 'squid-house', I assume" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "snicker" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Someone who has a squid in their back pocket is my guess." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, we'll snicker. One moment while I fetch the text..." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I think this woman is woman is evil and might lead us somewhere interesting. Help her." | ||||
Floyd | "I wouldn't want to spoil your fun," he replied. "Besides, chunky Floyd | peanut butter? Revolting." Floyd | Floyd | "Shame on you, young man," said the woman. "Well then, I won't spoil Floyd | your fun either. What was it, a giant octopus? Squid?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes -- wait. How did you know that?" But the old woman refused to say Floyd | another word. Floyd | Floyd | * Sadly, no amount of peanut butter can appease an angry - Floyd | squashmagpiesquid. | Jacqueline says, "er, that last bit is supposed to be an 'angry squid.'" | |||
| ChrisC says, ">SQUASH MAGPIE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "we could have had an angry squash?" | ||||
| vimes says, "ha ha, curse the lack of angry squash" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And... hm... the link I've got (which I assume goes back to the beginning), doesn't work." | ||||
| Jacqueline | The requested URL /zarf/zweb/matter/{TARGET} was not found on this server. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Let's try again, shall we?" | ||||
Floyd | The Matter of the Monster by Andrew Plotkin Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | You stagger up to its lair. Blue sand drags at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | Your hands don't tremble -- well, much -- as you ready your new Floyd | weapon. the axe you borrowed from the woodshed. your new sword. your Floyd | new spear and sword. Your voice doesn't quaver (hardly at all) as you Floyd | shout out the words you were taught. Floyd | One, two! Dive and roll! Jump! Attack! Floyd | Floyd | ...That wasn't so hard, was it? You defeated the monster, and it's not Floyd | even bedtime yet. Floyd | Floyd | * Haul the creature's body back to feed the starving city. Floyd | Floyd | * Plunder the hoard of treasure to restore your family's fortune. Floyd | Floyd | * Rescue the captive chained to the rocks below. | Jacqueline says, "Zarf did say this thing was really, really short." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Plunder?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "sure" | ||||
Floyd | You fling yourself into the giant magpie's nest, and come up laden Floyd | with glittering necklaces, shining ropes of jewels, and the occasional Floyd | highly polished armoire. (It was a really *big* giant magpie.) You'll Floyd | need a yard-sale the size of your entire manor to sell this lot, but Floyd | it was worth it. Floyd | Floyd | That can't be all-- Floyd | Floyd | * Your older brother set out before you. Floyd | Floyd | * Your older sister set out before you. | Jacqueline asks, "Sister?" | |||
| rockersuke asks, "sister now?" | ||||
| maga says, "sure" | ||||
Floyd | Your older sister set out before you. Floyd | Floyd | * She marched blithely into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | * She traipsed carelessly along the river. | ChrisC says, "River, this time." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Into the forest?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, did we do forest last time?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, river is fine. Sound good?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "No, we went to the river" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "oh wait, we did river last time" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "whichever. we definitely did the river last time, though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's too late. Let me process the text." | ||||
Floyd | Your older sister did not know where the giant magpie lived, so she Floyd | also traipsed carelessly along the river. Floyd | Floyd | She didn't find the fiend's nest. Instead, she discovered a frail old Floyd | woman on a pebbly curve of riverbank. She was standing with her hands Floyd | on her hips, a frown on her face, and her legs caught knee-deep in a Floyd | pool of peanut butter. Floyd | Floyd | "Well?" she asked snippily. "A little help for a frail old woman?" Floyd | Floyd | Your sister looked puzzled. "How did you--" Floyd | Floyd | "Let bygones by bygones!" snapped the old woman. "The situation is Floyd | under control. Investigations are in process. Personnel have been let Floyd | go and the case," she added pointedly, "has been closed. Be a dear, Floyd | though, would you, and give me a hand?" Floyd | Floyd | * She snickered and continued on her way. Floyd | Floyd | * She started gathering branches to help the woman. | genericgeekgirl says, "help" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we were jerks last time." | ||||
Floyd | Your sister gathered dead branches to brace across the peanut butter Floyd | pool. In a few minutes, and with a most astonishing sucking sound, the Floyd | woman had pulled herself free. Floyd | Floyd | "There go a couple of good walking shoes I won't see again," she Floyd | muttered, glaring irately at the pool. It burbled back in evident Floyd | satisfaction. "I don't suppose you--" Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, I have a bird-monster to find," your sister said hastily. Floyd | Floyd | "Really? They never bother me. Do you know the words for 'em?" Floyd | Floyd | Your sister did not, and listened attentively as the old woman Floyd | pronounced the words. "Just shout 'em out -- should give the old Floyd | critter a nasty turn. Then get in quick with the sword. You do have a Floyd | sword, don't you?" Floyd | Floyd | * "As it happens, no." | Jacqueline says, "Hm. Another dead link." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think this one may just be better for people to play individually once zarf has had a chance to figure out where these bad links are coming from." | ||||
| ChrisC says, "That's too bad. It does seem like Undum works better in real time, rather than cut and pasted" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think he's hacked the thing a bit, and it's pasting in words I can't see when I copy from my screen, like he's doing word substitutions and such." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "maga's undum shouldn't (hopefully) pose that same problem." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, my game next, I guess." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load inmemory" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Loading game... Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Memory Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That which creates night within us might also leave stars. Floyd | Floyd | ~ Victor Hugo Floyd | | Lionheart says (to inured), "#belated I've wanted someone to talk about The Path with for a while" | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness. A shadowy void. Floyd | Floyd | Are your eyes closed? You test the theory by trying to open them, and Floyd | find that you can't sense your eyelids anymore. You can't sense Floyd | anything physical at all, really. Floyd | Floyd | Just the darkness, the occasional indigo light in your peripheral Floyd | vision. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Images and thoughts come and go. Snatches of memory, fragments of Floyd | hopes, bits of dreams. And always that lingering sense of the indigo Floyd | haze at the edge of your perception. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ignore the score. I shut it off, but for some reason Floyd still sees it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Have fun, folks." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "This is yours, then, Jacqueline?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You may or may not want a driver. It's kind of a stream of consciousness thing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, this one's mine." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x indigo" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, it's there. Just at the edge of your awareness. Perhaps if you Floyd | could bring yourself to focus on it -- or at least ignore it -- having Floyd | it linger there wouldn't bother you quite so much. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "focus on indigo" | ||||
Floyd | You turn your attention to the indigo haze. It's almost like looking Floyd | indirectly at a very dim star in the night sky: rather than coming into Floyd | focus, it actually grows more elusive, and threatens to disappear from Floyd | your sight entirely. Floyd | Floyd | You don't know why, but you don't want it to vanish. Yet the harder Floyd | you concentrate on it, the harder it is to see, so you avert your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | And there it remains, agonizingly close and yet just barely in sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch indigo" | ||||
Floyd | You reach out, if only with your mind, for the indigo light, but you Floyd | can't connect with it directly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ignore indigo" | ||||
Floyd | You long for that faint glimmer of blue that lies on the edge of your Floyd | perception. Why? Because it's there, that's why. Because you know Floyd | that every time you turn your attention to it, time and again, it will Floyd | fade. Floyd | Floyd | But that's just you, isn't it? The way you always are. Always wanting Floyd | what you can't have. It's typical, really. Floyd | Floyd | The wanting, and the punishing yourself for wanting... it's too much. Floyd | And so you let go... not merely in the sense of not actively focusing Floyd | on the haze: you ignore it entirely. Completely and whole heartedly. Floyd | | inuredbyheavyrain says, "scream at indigo" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | ...and it would seem that in your letting it go, the indigo light Floyd | finally responds. It blossoms. It grows to fill your vision, the Floyd | whole of it... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floating in the blue, the indigo, the indigo blue. Finally some sense Floyd | of stability, some serenity. Floyd | Floyd | The frenetic pace of the swirling thoughts has diminished. Indeed - Floyd | now that they've ceased their whirling, now that you can examine them, Floyd | you know them to be memories from the life you've lived. Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit, the child-sized Floyd | desk, your Homecoming outfit, Sam's incredible smile, the set of Floyd | favorite over-sized headphones, a hardcover book and the vista from Floyd | back home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Memory by Jacqueline A. Lott - May 2011 Floyd | Released as part of the Indigo New Language Speed IF Floyd | For more information, type >ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yes, this. This is what you were really wanting, to be wrapped in the Floyd | soothing embrace of the indigo light. To let it flow over you, and Floyd | into you, and through you, and to show you how your struggles and Floyd | desires have brought you to where you are now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Press space" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Or yeah" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "scream at indigo" | ||||
Floyd | Unable to sense your lips or tongue, you find it impossible to form Floyd | words. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "contemplate indigo" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rabbit" | ||||
Floyd | You recognize the rabbit from your earliest childhood memories. As you Floyd | focus on it, the other images around you fade and all that you can see Floyd | is that small, soft bunny. Floyd | Floyd | Holding onto the Bunny Floyd | It seems impossible that you could remember something that happened so Floyd | very long ago, but it feels very, very real... You are an infant, not Floyd | yet able to speak, and you're clutching the tiny rabbit in your small Floyd | arms. You're able to clearly make out the shine of your old friend's Floyd | button eyes and the tight stitching of its seams. Somehow in the Floyd | richness of your dream the rabbit appears simultaneously faded and Floyd | vibrant: well-loved, yet the corduroy is a very rich, earthy brown. No Floyd | doubt your affection for it colors the memory. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | As you hold the small rabbit close to your heart, emotions flood Floyd | through you, and you are overwhelmed with a feeling of... Floyd | Floyd | [ Holding onto the Bunny | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "bunny!!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "squee" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "squeeze bunny" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, the small, soft bunny. You remember those first years when there Floyd | was security derived from... Floyd | Floyd | Holding onto the Bunny Floyd | It seems impossible that you could remember something that happened so Floyd | very long ago, but it feels very, very real... You are an infant, not Floyd | yet able to speak, and you're clutching the tiny rabbit in your small Floyd | arms. You're able to clearly make out the shine of your old friend's Floyd | button eyes and the tight stitching of its seams. Somehow in the Floyd | richness of your dream the rabbit appears simultaneously faded and Floyd | vibrant: well-loved, yet the corduroy is a very rich, earthy brown. No Floyd | doubt your affection for it colors the memory. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | As you hold the small rabbit close to your heart, emotions flood Floyd | through you, and you are overwhelmed with a feeling of... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Good one. I should add that, though I'm not sure that's a 'feeling,' per se." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(squee, that is)" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nostalgia" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Is this a dying hallucination where we get inreasingly disjointed memories? That would be kind of interesting." | |||
| ChrisC says (to Jacqueline), "I'd say it's a synonym for happiness" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Chris), "Well, then say something else like happiness" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "comfort" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "friendship" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "happiness" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, that was it. Happiness and joy seemed to be the general default Floyd | for much of your childhood, and now that you think about it, it set the Floyd | tone for much of your life as well. Not to say that there were never Floyd | difficult times, but you managed to smile through much of the adversity Floyd | and keep an optimistic outlook most of the time. Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, the image fades all too soon, and the pleasant feelings Floyd | dissipate with it... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk, your Homecoming outfit, Floyd | Sam's incredible smile, the set of favorite over-sized headphones, a Floyd | hardcover book and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There are over 2000 associations in here, and yet I knew you guys would find more. Man." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "misery" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x smile" | ||||
Floyd | You think back to the best of days when Sam was seemingly always there Floyd | by your side. As you focus on Sam's smile, the other images around you Floyd | fade and you remember what it was like... Floyd | Floyd | Loving Sam Floyd | The world was kind of a scary place for you back then, fresh out of Floyd | school. Frightened to death of what lay ahead, unable to let go of the Floyd | decisions you'd made that got you there. But throughout it all was Floyd | Sam, and why Sam was always there for you you'll never know. Anyone Floyd | would have been lucky to have so much of Sam's time. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see Sam's incredible smile. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That smile. That smile got to everyone, disarmed them from the word Floyd | Go. But that wasn't your favorite thing. Far from it. What you Floyd | really loved was Sam's... Floyd | Floyd | [ Loving Sam | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So we go through the memory closet items one by one, I guess." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "kiss sam" | ||||
Floyd | I'm not sure Sam's incredible smile would appreciate that. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That smile. That smile got to everyone, disarmed them from the word Floyd | Go. But that wasn't your favorite thing. Far from it. What you Floyd | really loved was Sam's... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eyes" | ||||
Floyd | You always found it difficult to believe that many people thought Sam Floyd | was just so-so, because to you Sam was pretty much perfection. So many Floyd | small details that added up to something so much more... not just the Floyd | smile, no -- everything. Sam's bright eyes, cute little nose, full Floyd | lips that felt so right brushing against your own. Floyd | Floyd | The memory, the warmth, the love fade... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk, your Homecoming outfit, Floyd | the set of favorite over-sized headphones, a hardcover book and the Floyd | vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ChrisC asks (of Jacqueline), "is that like a combinatorial arrangement?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha - man. I'm sure Sam's smile would love a kiss! Weird how it parsed that." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Default kiss response." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd | You remember how that book used to feel in your hands. As you recall Floyd | the sunny afternoons with it under the tree, the rainy evenings with it Floyd | curled up near the fire, the other images around you fade and you are Floyd | carried into... Floyd | Floyd | Imagined Realities Floyd | Escapism's not such a bad thing, right? All good things in moderation, Floyd | they say. Though, hm. Perhaps you did overdo it a bit from time to Floyd | time. You loved to get you lost in a well-crafted world, to find Floyd | yourself wondering about what the characters were up to when you were Floyd | supposed to be focused on real life obligations. Sometimes on the way Floyd | home from work, looking forward to later in the evening when you could Floyd | pick back up where you left off, you'd imagine the questions you wanted Floyd | to ask the characters. Imagined dialogues that played out countless Floyd | ways. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see a hardcover book. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It took a certain kind of book to get you so engrosssed, though. Your Floyd | favorite genre by far was... Floyd | Floyd | [ Imagined Realities | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Chris), "No. I originally thought of going that route, but it turned out to have, like, literally over 16000 possibilities and I only had three weeks." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fantasy" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, fantasy novels make it particularly easy to escape, don't they? Floyd | Hard to say which variety makes it easiest, though... The ones where Floyd | things seem really close to the world you actually live in, except for Floyd | the fact that some people have powers you'd never suspect they have by Floyd | looking at them? Or the books set long ago in the forests of Europe Floyd | where people and elves speak made-up languages and act like modern day Floyd | wanna-be people? On the whole, the subtle ones are better, even if you Floyd | can't sometimes help going for the authors that lay it on thick. Floyd | Floyd | The book closes, and the memory fades... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk, your Homecoming outfit, Floyd | the set of favorite over-sized headphones and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "put book in fire" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | So small... did you ever fit in that seat? Yes, long ago you did. As Floyd | you focus on your desk from elementary school, the other images around Floyd | you fade, and you are transported back to... Floyd | Floyd | School Days Floyd | How old were you when you spent your days seated here, listening to Mrs Floyd | Bright as she tried her best to make you into something? It was that Floyd | awkward, in between time of your life. You weren't really a child, not Floyd | really... but not yet a teen. Floyd | Floyd | Part of you hated being here -- so much more to do outside! -- but a Floyd | part of you loved being in this desk, too. Even if you wouldn't ever Floyd | admit it, because that wouldn't have been cool. But deep down you were Floyd | actually fond of school. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That's funny... you can't quite put your finger on it. What was your Floyd | favorite subject? Floyd | Floyd | [ School Days | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "math" | ||||
Floyd | Ah, yes, that's right. You always had a head for mathematical sorts of Floyd | things, far more so than grammar, spelling, and all that. Solid lines, Floyd | black and white, things you could prove or disprove with certainty. Floyd | Certainty was always a good thing. Floyd | Floyd | The small desk and thoughts of school fade from view... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see your Homecoming outfit, the set of favorite Floyd | over-sized headphones and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Ever try to sit in a too-small desk as an adult? It's awkward or nigh-impossible." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I was wondering if this would go in a "throw away childish things and accept death" direction. I guess I was wrong." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh - yes" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "draw lines" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x outfit" | ||||
Floyd | Almost as if it were yesterday, you can see your Homecoming outfit Floyd | lying there across the bed, waiting for you to put it on for the dance. Floyd | As you focus on the ensemble, the other images around you fade, and Floyd | you're transported back to... Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Night Floyd | What will Chris think of this outfit? You're still not sure. Oddly, Floyd | though a part of you is sure that the dance, like this memory, has Floyd | already happened, you can't recall the rest of the evening or what Floyd | Chris thought of your attire. Not that it matters, really -- Chris is Floyd | going with you to the dance tonight because of you, not your style. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see your Homecoming outfit. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Heh, yeah. Style. What would you call this ensemble, anyway? What Floyd | fashion statement are you trying to make? Floyd | Floyd | [ Homecoming Night | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "play soothing music" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inured), "Once you word associate, the memory fades and you're back at the beginning." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sassy" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Good one" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Frilly, maybe?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "dump chris" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sophisticated" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "propose to chris" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "grownup" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Fashion statements. I'm not sure I know the language." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "indignant" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "indigo" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Heh, yeah. Style. What would you call this ensemble, anyway? What Floyd | fashion statement are you trying to make? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "cool" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inured), "It only recognizes word associations, not action verbs." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "trendy" | ||||
Floyd | You like to look good, what can you say? Chris, on the other hand... Floyd | well, let's just say that Chris dresses like Chris. Fortunately, the Floyd | two of you get along so well it somehow doesn't matter how much you Floyd | might clash. Floyd | Floyd | Memories of Chris and of the Homecoming night fade from view... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | Also here are the set of favorite over-sized headphones and the vista Floyd | from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I was hoping for some sort of weird or humorous result from indignant." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x headphones" | ||||
Floyd | God yes, those headphones! How they let you shut out the rest of the Floyd | world, how they filled your head with music. As you focus on them, the Floyd | other images around you fade, and you become increasingly... Floyd | Floyd | Lost in Sound Floyd | Being a grown up is sometime pretty difficult. Decisions to make, Floyd | burdens to carry. Most of the time you like to think you did okay, but Floyd | you have to admit there were nights -- hell, sometimes whole weekends Floyd | where all you could do was put on the headphones, pull the curtains, Floyd | and lie back on the couch listening to your favorite music. Floyd | Floyd | Also here are the set of favorite over-sized headphones. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yes, this headset blocked out everything: not just the noise of the Floyd | world, as it was designed to do. No. When the volume was up high Floyd | enough, it blocked out the worries and concerns, too. The music that Floyd | did it best was... Floyd | Floyd | [ Lost in Sound | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "classical" | ||||
Floyd | Yes... the sound that's best when there are a hundred professional Floyd | artists working together to create a lush, full sound, full of power Floyd | .... or soft and surprisingly gentle melodies. Beauty for the ears. Floyd | Floyd | The music fades from your memory... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | For just a moment, somewhere in the distance, it seems like you can Floyd | hear voices and the beeping of machines... but then it's gone. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "relax" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "disgusted" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "voices" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | Are there sounds? You think perhaps there are, but they're shifting Floyd | and changing and faint and very difficult to discern in any Floyd | understandable way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ignore sounds" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "chase sounds" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "f l" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), ";" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x vista" | ||||
Floyd | Even in the hardest times, coming here helped. Nothing made you feel Floyd | quite so at ease as when you looked out across... Floyd | Floyd | The Vista Back Home Floyd | Looking back on the entirety of your life, you saw a fair amount of the Floyd | world. Not as much as some, certainly, but more than many of your Floyd | acquaintances. As a kid you couldn't wait to get away from home, and Floyd | did your best to see what else was out there. But eventually you came Floyd | to realize that right here at home was where you understood yourself Floyd | best. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your favorite part about the vantage point here, looking out across the Floyd | vista you've known your whole life, is the... Floyd | Floyd | [ The Vista Back Home | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "happy little trees" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, the forest. You've always felt safer in the forest -- grounded, Floyd | somehow embraced and protected by the trees that sway in the storms but Floyd | rarely give. Strenth enough to bend when pressure comes their way, Floyd | resistant enough to generally not give in completely. Looking back, Floyd | you suppose that the same could be said of you. Floyd | Floyd | The landscape fades, taking the memory with it... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | And there are no more images, no more thoughts... Floyd | Floyd | ...but there's that gentle beeping sound again. Floyd | | Jacqueline exclaims, "yay that that worked!" | |||
| Lionheart says, "Ha ha" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | And voices. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sam? It... can't be. But it sure sounds like -- Floyd | Floyd | "All those years we've spent apart, Chris." Chris? Damn. Surely not Floyd | Chris from school... "I loved Alex the whole time, every minute, but Floyd | never picked up the goddamn phone. I wonder what I missed, y'know? Floyd | And now... now it's kind of looking like Alex isn't going to wake up. Floyd | No chance for a reunion... and no chance for me to say I'm sorry." Floyd | Floyd | "Now wait. First off, we don't know that Alex isn't going to wake up. Floyd | Second, you can't blame yourself, Sam. I think deep down you both Floyd | still loved each other for a really long time. I mean, not that I know Floyd | much -- Alex and I drifted apart as well -- but we did go out for a Floyd | beer after the twenty-five year reunion, and Alex mentioned you that Floyd | night. Circumstance is a bitch sometimes, y'know? I don't think the Floyd | two of you had much control over what happened." Floyd | Floyd | Damn, please, why can't I wake up? Why can't I tell them that I'm Floyd | here? And that beeping... I guess it's the heart monitor, so I'm glad Floyd | it's making that sound, but god it's also kind of annoying because I Floyd | want to hear their voices and they're speaking so softly now. Floyd | Floyd | "Alex mentioned me? After all those year?" Floyd | Floyd | I can hear Chris laugh a little bit. Not in a harsh way, just a small, Floyd | under-the-breath laugh. "Yeah. Specifically, I recall Alex Floyd | reminiscing about your face. Getting lost in your eyes and feeling the Floyd | warmth of your smile and -- and it was pretty sappy like that for quite Floyd | a few minutes, as I recall. I think it was all Alex could do that Floyd | night to not tear up, even though you two had been apart a really long Floyd | time." Floyd | Floyd | Now it's Sam's gentle laugh. A little worn, like some of the spark is Floyd | gone, but I guess after all these years we've all lost a little of our Floyd | spark. "I have honestly missed Alex. You hear that, Alex? We Floyd | shouldn't talk over you like you're not here, because you are. I've Floyd | missed you, and I'm sorry, and --" Floyd | Floyd | -- and that's the last thing I heard: Sam's voice. Because the steady Floyd | beep, beep, beep had ceased to beep. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "hit alarm" | maga says, "wildcards: screw you over quite a lot, occasionally come through" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wake up" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "cf1" | Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Can we play that a time or so again? I'm interested in seeing what other things you folks try." | |||
| maga says, "game over, man" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Unfortunately at this point ADRIFT ends the game." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I guess that's the end" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, UNDO a turn, or QUIT? Restart Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Memory Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That which creates night within us might also leave stars. Floyd | Floyd | ~ Victor Hugo Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to lh), "You die, yeah." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are all the names gender ambiguous?" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness. A shadowy void. Floyd | Floyd | Are your eyes closed? You test the theory by trying to open them, and Floyd | find that you can't sense your eyelids anymore. You can't sense Floyd | anything physical at all, really. Floyd | Floyd | Just the darkness, the occasional indigo light in your peripheral Floyd | vision. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Images and thoughts come and go. Snatches of memory, fragments of Floyd | hopes, bits of dreams. And always that lingering sense of the indigo Floyd | haze at the edge of your perception. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Aw. I was hoping you could not die." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yes, intentionally." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Sorry, it's a speed IF." | ||||
| maga says, "yes, and the creepy bit is that my brother's name is Alexander" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Maybe a *** or something indicating an ending would help." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You are in a coma. It never ends well. Though the conversation at the end can change slightly." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Though I'm sure its not a problem in a normal game enging" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "in a normal terp" | ||||
| maga says, "(he has never gone by Alex, but STILL)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "Yeah. The browser usually tells you." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | Are there sounds? You think perhaps there are, but they're shifting Floyd | and changing and faint and very difficult to discern in any Floyd | understandable way. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Interesting game, a good parser. I think it would have been better if the circumstances were not explained, though." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | Are there scents? You think perhaps there are, but they're shifting Floyd | and changing and faint and very difficult to discern in any Floyd | understandable way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "touch" | ||||
Floyd | Everything's shifting, ephemeral. Only the indigo at the edge of the Floyd | darkness persists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Images and thoughts come and go. Snatches of memory, fragments of Floyd | hopes, bits of dreams. And always that lingering sense of the indigo Floyd | haze at the edge of your perception. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "And since I've done the others" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "taste" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "forget" | ||||
Floyd | You don't really remember anything... so on the one hand, there's Floyd | nothing to forget. But on the other hand, having these memories fly by Floyd | you in the darkness, you can't help but wonder if they're from your own Floyd | past. You sense that they are, but it's impossible to focus on them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x dreams" | ||||
Floyd | They come and go, flashes of things both important and Floyd | inconsequential... but it's difficult to concentrate with that niggling Floyd | bit of indigo at the edge of your vision. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| max arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW asks, "I'm guessing there's no wrong answers to the questions. We could've liked science fiction instead of fantasy, or rock instead of classical?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "dream" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "enter dreams" | ||||
Floyd | You're powerless to move, even toward the things that are right before Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| max goes home. | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "remain calm" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to David), "Yes. Except that sometimes coding late at night I got snarky and judgmental on some of the possibilities." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||
Floyd | You concentrate, trying to recall something, but ultimately fail. The Floyd | memories fly past you so quickly in the darkness that you can't get a Floyd | good look at them, and the bits you can discern don't make any sense, Floyd | nor do they trigger anything in your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The key here was to ignore the indigo." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, like, you might not want to like Westerns." | ||||
| DavidW says, "ah" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to David), "Yes, I remember, I just wanted to try some different things" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "There are technically other solutions." | ||||
| rockersuke goes home. | genericgeekgirl says, "Haha "What? No. Just, no."" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get indigo" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the indigo haze! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "drift" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "float" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "concentrate on the aleph and omega" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "space out" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "I probably will not implement 'concentrate on the alpha and omega.' heh" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd | Perhaps that's what you're doing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| rockersuke arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "There are also in-game hints where needed, with a subtle clue leading to a bigger clue." | |||
| Lionheart says, "Nice." | ||||
| DavidW says, "wake" | ||||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "chillax" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||||
Floyd | Oh, if only you could. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd | Perhaps that's what you're doing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "move" | ||||
Floyd | You've no ability to manipulate anything, tangible or intangible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pinch me" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sit up" | ||||
Floyd | You've no ability to sense your body, let alone move in any way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're you. Or, at least, you think you're you. Who's to say? Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart smiles | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smile" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "kill me" | ||||
Floyd | Always struggling, resisting, fighting. Isn't it about time you let Floyd | go? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "let go" | ||||
Floyd | You let go... of everything. The images, the memories, that niggling Floyd | indigo haze at the edge of the darkness. You let it all go. Floyd | Completely and whole heartedly. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | ...and it would seem that in your letting go, the indigo light finally Floyd | responds. It blossoms. It grows to fill your vision, the whole of Floyd | it... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floating in the blue, the indigo, the indigo blue. Finally some sense Floyd | of stability, some serenity. Floyd | Floyd | The frenetic pace of the swirling thoughts has diminished. Indeed - Floyd | now that they've ceased their whirling, now that you can examine them, Floyd | you know them to be memories from the life you've lived. Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit, the child-sized Floyd | desk, your Homecoming outfit, Sam's incredible smile, the set of Floyd | favorite over-sized headphones, a hardcover book and the vista from Floyd | back home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Memory by Jacqueline A. Lott - May 2011 Floyd | Released as part of the Indigo New Language Speed IF Floyd | For more information, type >ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yes, this. This is what you were really wanting, to be wrapped in the Floyd | soothing embrace of the indigo light. To let it flow over you, and Floyd | into you, and through you, and to show you how your struggles and Floyd | desires have brought you to where you are now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "deny existence" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "deny death" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get angry" | ||||
Floyd | You've no ability to manipulate anything, tangible or intangible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | In Memory was written by Jacqueline A Lott for the 2011 Indigo New Floyd | Language Speed IF. This was a "speed IF" where you were given about Floyd | three weeks to write a game in an interactive fiction language you'd Floyd | never used before. I did spend a fair amount of the allotted time Floyd | working on In Memory, though not nearly as much as I could have (my Floyd | real life was also fairly busy those three weeks). It received some Floyd | light testing from Sam Kabo Ashwell (thanks, maga!). Floyd | Floyd | My thanks to Duncan Bowsman for making me think about ADRIFT. Without Floyd | Bowsman, I probably wouldn't have sprung the ADRIFT Generator or been Floyd | curious about how to create games with it. Thanks also to Campbell Floyd | Wild for the system itself, the stellar documentation he's written for Floyd | it, and his really great customer service. I'm glad I chose ADRIFT Floyd | for this speed-IF -- much as I'm a fan of I7, this might not be my last Floyd | foray into ADRIFTland. Floyd | Floyd | As for the game itself, this is actually a game I'd been thinking about Floyd | for some time, but which I thought would be too overambitious. Then I Floyd | went and crammed the whole thing into two weeks of work. Sensible, Floyd | right? It was, unshockingly, too much to do for a SpeedIF. I'm Floyd | pleased enough with it, though, and I am not opposed to doing a second Floyd | release of this, so if you encounter things you think should be added, Floyd | please send a note to my gmail account: jacqueline.a.lott Floyd | Floyd | Oh, and if you're curious about some of the stats about the game, you Floyd | can type >STATS, but I'd wait until you've played through at least one Floyd | full time before you check those out. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks for playing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "bargain" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "stats" | ||||
Floyd | For the curious and terminally geeky, the game lets you associate well Floyd | over two thousand words with the various memories you encounter. The Floyd | actual number is unknown, given that the game (for obvious reasons) Floyd | makes heavy, heavy use of wildcards in text input. Floyd | Floyd | Holding onto the Bunny allows over 170 word associations, grouped into Floyd | 10 categories. Floyd | Floyd | School Days allows over 225 word associations, grouped into 12 Floyd | categories. Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Night allows over 130 word associations, grouped into 8 Floyd | categories. Floyd | Floyd | Loving Sam allows over 400 word associations, grouped into 21 Floyd | categories. Floyd | Floyd | Lost in Sound allows over 150 word associations, grouped into 14 Floyd | categories. Floyd | Floyd | Imagined Realities allows over 50 word associations, grouped into 15 Floyd | categories. Floyd | Floyd | The Vista Back Home allows over 80 word associations, grouped into 13 Floyd | categories. Floyd | Floyd | For the Indigo New Language Speed IF release of In Memory (i.e. the Floyd | first (and possibly only (we'll see))) release, the only category of Floyd | these that can change the end cut scene are the words you associate Floyd | with your old lover, Sam. While there are 21 categories, there are Floyd | fewer endings than that because many of the categores -- particularly Floyd | the, shall we say, more primal categories -- closely overlap. Floyd | Floyd | As for the other memories and all of their categories, this version of Floyd | the game does keep track of which category of word associations you Floyd | chose, but doesn't integrate them into the end game. Such is the way Floyd | of the Speed IF: I ran out of time. Floyd | Floyd | On a final note, a feelie of sorts. If you want to see the horribly Floyd | messy (and terribly spoilery) design document, there's a photo of it at Floyd | [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | You consider offering up a prayer of some sort... but for what? To Floyd | awaken? To actually sleep? To die? To actually live? So many Floyd | possibilities, but things are too confusing here to know just what you Floyd | truly want for certain. Floyd | Floyd | You decide it's better not to ask for something you're not sure you Floyd | want. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "feelie!" | |||
| djfletch says, "wow, that's a lot of words" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "pray to awaken" | ||||
Floyd | You consider offering up a prayer of some sort... but for what? To Floyd | awaken? To actually sleep? To die? To actually live? So many Floyd | possibilities, but things are too confusing here to know just what you Floyd | truly want for certain. Floyd | Floyd | You decide it's better not to ask for something you're not sure you Floyd | want. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's some document." | |||
| vimes says, "i was thinking "pray for rain"" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "pray for rain" | ||||
Floyd | You consider offering up a prayer of some sort... but for what? To Floyd | awaken? To actually sleep? To die? To actually live? So many Floyd | possibilities, but things are too confusing here to know just what you Floyd | truly want for certain. Floyd | Floyd | You decide it's better not to ask for something you're not sure you Floyd | want. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "of course you want rain! there's that platypus right there!" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "damn" | ||||
Floyd | If that makes you feel better. Consider it damned. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "hee hee" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "contemplate mortality" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "chase haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am curious what other (reasonable) word associations you folks try that don't work." | |||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "fondly regard creation" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "turn off light" | ||||
Floyd | You can't turn that. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "obviously, we are not an MS Paint Adventures fan in this game" | |||
| Lionheart says, "Heh" | ||||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "regret" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sigh" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit, the child-sized Floyd | desk, your Homecoming outfit, Sam's incredible smile, the set of Floyd | favorite over-sized headphones, a hardcover book and the vista from Floyd | back home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||
Floyd | The memories are floating around you... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit, the child-sized Floyd | desk, your Homecoming outfit, Sam's incredible smile, the set of Floyd | favorite over-sized headphones, a hardcover book and the vista from Floyd | back home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x rabbit" | ||||
Floyd | You recognize the rabbit from your earliest childhood memories. As you Floyd | focus on it, the other images around you fade and all that you can see Floyd | is that small, soft bunny. Floyd | Floyd | Holding onto the Bunny Floyd | It seems impossible that you could remember something that happened so Floyd | very long ago, but it feels very, very real... You are an infant, not Floyd | yet able to speak, and you're clutching the tiny rabbit in your small Floyd | arms. You're able to clearly make out the shine of your old friend's Floyd | button eyes and the tight stitching of its seams. Somehow in the Floyd | richness of your dream the rabbit appears simultaneously faded and Floyd | vibrant: well-loved, yet the corduroy is a very rich, earthy brown. No Floyd | doubt your affection for it colors the memory. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | As you hold the small rabbit close to your heart, emotions flood Floyd | through you, and you are overwhelmed with a feeling of... Floyd | Floyd | [ Holding onto the Bunny | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "depression" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sadness" | ||||
Floyd | Something inside you breaks just a little bit as you recall that Floyd | melancholy shadow that hung over you, not just in childhood, but for Floyd | much of your life. Sadness, grief, feelings of loneliness... Floyd | legitimate or not, that's how you've felt most of the time. Floyd | Floyd | Thankfully, the image fades, taking some of negative feelings you've Floyd | dredged up along with it. Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk, your Homecoming outfit, Floyd | Sam's incredible smile, the set of favorite over-sized headphones, a Floyd | hardcover book and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | djfletch says, ""Holding onto the Bunny" might be my new favourite room name" | |||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| djfletch says, "although it's hard to beat "Standing in front of your sitting Mom" from a couple of comps back" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "horror" | ||||
Floyd | You remember how that book used to feel in your hands. As you recall Floyd | the sunny afternoons with it under the tree, the rainy evenings with it Floyd | curled up near the fire, the other images around you fade and you are Floyd | carried into... Floyd | Floyd | Imagined Realities Floyd | Escapism's not such a bad thing, right? All good things in moderation, Floyd | they say. Though, hm. Perhaps you did overdo it a bit from time to Floyd | time. You loved to get you lost in a well-crafted world, to find Floyd | yourself wondering about what the characters were up to when you were Floyd | supposed to be focused on real life obligations. Sometimes on the way Floyd | home from work, looking forward to later in the evening when you could Floyd | pick back up where you left off, you'd imagine the questions you wanted Floyd | to ask the characters. Imagined dialogues that played out countless Floyd | ways. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see a hardcover book. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It took a certain kind of book to get you so engrosssed, though. Your Floyd | favorite genre by far was... Floyd | Floyd | [ Imagined Realities | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "horror" | ||||
Floyd | Stabby, stabby... or bitey, bitey. Shit that jumps out when you turn Floyd | the page. Makes the heart pump faster, makes the eyes move over the Floyd | words more quickly, makes you realize that your life isn't really as Floyd | bad as all that. Then again, maybe the fact that you're not paranoid Floyd | is actually a bad sign. Maybe they really are out to get you. Floyd | Floyd | The book closes, and the memory fades... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk, your Homecoming outfit, Floyd | Sam's incredible smile, the set of favorite over-sized headphones and Floyd | the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I meant the feeling,not the genre. Whoops." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I was originally hoping for all the variables it's tracking to coalesce in the end sequence, but I just ran out of time. It *is* keeping track, though. So far you are a melancholy child who grew up to read scary books." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "We can try fear next time around" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "headphones" | ||||
Floyd | God yes, those headphones! How they let you shut out the rest of the Floyd | world, how they filled your head with music. As you focus on them, the Floyd | other images around you fade, and you become increasingly... Floyd | Floyd | Lost in Sound Floyd | Being a grown up is sometime pretty difficult. Decisions to make, Floyd | burdens to carry. Most of the time you like to think you did okay, but Floyd | you have to admit there were nights -- hell, sometimes whole weekends Floyd | where all you could do was put on the headphones, pull the curtains, Floyd | and lie back on the couch listening to your favorite music. Floyd | Floyd | Also here are the set of favorite over-sized headphones. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yes, this headset blocked out everything: not just the noise of the Floyd | world, as it was designed to do. No. When the volume was up high Floyd | enough, it blocked out the worries and concerns, too. The music that Floyd | did it best was... Floyd | Floyd | [ Lost in Sound | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "punk rock" | ||||
Floyd | Good old rock-n-roll. Nothing quite like it. Crank it up, tune the Floyd | rest out. Sometimes, nothing else even mattered. There was generally Floyd | some sort of harsh awakening later, unforunately, but it always felt Floyd | perfect at the time. Floyd | Floyd | The music fades from your memory... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk, your Homecoming outfit, Floyd | Sam's incredible smile and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "outfit" | ||||
Floyd | Almost as if it were yesterday, you can see your Homecoming outfit Floyd | lying there across the bed, waiting for you to put it on for the dance. Floyd | As you focus on the ensemble, the other images around you fade, and Floyd | you're transported back to... Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Night Floyd | What will Chris think of this outfit? You're still not sure. Oddly, Floyd | though a part of you is sure that the dance, like this memory, has Floyd | already happened, you can't recall the rest of the evening or what Floyd | Chris thought of your attire. Not that it matters, really -- Chris is Floyd | going with you to the dance tonight because of you, not your style. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see your Homecoming outfit. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Heh, yeah. Style. What would you call this ensemble, anyway? What Floyd | fashion statement are you trying to make? Floyd | Floyd | [ Homecoming Night | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "goth" | ||||
Floyd | The rainy gray miasma of your soul is best reflected in these fine Floyd | threads and fabrics. If you were cynical you'd think that Chris' Floyd | flamboyant attire (for it will no doubt be just that) will outshine Floyd | your darkness, but you prefer to think of this ensemble as having a Floyd | balancing effect to Chris' extravagance. Floyd | Floyd | Memories of Chris and of the Homecoming night fade from view.... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk, Sam's incredible smile Floyd | and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "desk" | ||||
Floyd | So small... did you ever fit in that seat? Yes, long ago you did. As Floyd | you focus on your desk from elementary school, the other images around Floyd | you fade, and you are transported back to... Floyd | Floyd | School Days Floyd | How old were you when you spent your days seated here, listening to Mrs Floyd | Bright as she tried her best to make you into something? It was that Floyd | awkward, in between time of your life. You weren't really a child, not Floyd | really... but not yet a teen. Floyd | Floyd | Part of you hated being here -- so much more to do outside! -- but a Floyd | part of you loved being in this desk, too. Even if you wouldn't ever Floyd | admit it, because that wouldn't have been cool. But deep down you were Floyd | actually fond of school. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That's funny... you can't quite put your finger on it. What was your Floyd | favorite subject? Floyd | Floyd | [ School Days | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay miasma" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "history" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, that's right. You were always pretty interested in people and how Floyd | the world works in a more practical, human way. Centuries change, Floyd | human nature pretty much stays the same. Useful information to have as Floyd | you moved through life. Floyd | Floyd | The small desk and thoughts of school fade from view... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see Sam's incredible smile and the vista from Floyd | back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Rainy gray miasma is a KoL ref." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I couldn't resist." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I know!" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "vista" | ||||
Floyd | Even in the hardest times, coming here helped. Nothing made you feel Floyd | quite so at ease as when you looked out across... Floyd | Floyd | The Vista Back Home Floyd | Looking back on the entirety of your life, you saw a fair amount of the Floyd | world. Not as much as some, certainly, but more than many of your Floyd | acquaintances. As a kid you couldn't wait to get away from home, and Floyd | did your best to see what else was out there. But eventually you came Floyd | to realize that right here at home was where you understood yourself Floyd | best. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your favorite part about the vantage point here, looking out across the Floyd | vista you've known your whole life, is the... Floyd | Floyd | [ The Vista Back Home | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "darkness" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "clouds" | ||||
Floyd | The sky is variable here -- sometimes clear, to reveal an endless blue Floyd | by day or a blanket of stars by night, sometimes cloudy, sometimes dark Floyd | and riddled with storms. Perhaps it's the situation in which you Floyd | currently find yourself, but you can't help feeling that there's a Floyd | parallel here to life. Floyd | Floyd | The sky fades, taking the memory with it... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see Sam's incredible smile. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | For just a moment, somewhere in the distance, it seems like you can Floyd | hear voices and the beeping of machines... but then it's gone. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smile" | ||||
Floyd | You think back to the best of days when Sam was seemingly always there Floyd | by your side. As you focus on Sam's smile, the other images around you Floyd | fade and you remember what it was like... Floyd | Floyd | Loving Sam Floyd | The world was kind of a scary place for you back then, fresh out of Floyd | school. Frightened to death of what lay ahead, unable to let go of the Floyd | decisions you'd made that got you there. But throughout it all was Floyd | Sam, and why Sam was always there for you you'll never know. Anyone Floyd | would have been lucky to have so much of Sam's time. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see Sam's incredible smile. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That smile. That smile got to everyone, disarmed them from the word Floyd | Go. But that wasn't your favorite thing. Far from it. What you Floyd | really loved was Sam's... Floyd | Floyd | [ Loving Sam | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "muscles" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vimes says, "puns" | ||||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "puns" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "hmor" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "hat" | ||||
Floyd | I've no idea what you mean... everything is so confusing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "humor" | ||||
Floyd | Sam was just a great person all-round, really. Someone you could count Floyd | on, who thought of others and was true to friends. Sam never let you Floyd | down, and had this incredibly solid character that you admired and Floyd | tried your best to emulate (not always successfully...). You had Floyd | enough in common to talk for hours, and enough differences that you Floyd | were always learning new things... Floyd | Floyd | The memory, the warmth, and the love fade... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | And there are no more images, no more thoughts... Floyd | Floyd | ...but there's that gentle beeping sound again. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Huh - I must not have added muscles. Thought that and brawn had been added." | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | And voices. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sam? It... can't be. But it sure sounds like -- Floyd | Floyd | "All those years we've spent apart, Chris." Chris? Damn. Surely not Floyd | Chris from school... "I loved Alex the whole time, every minute, but Floyd | never picked up the goddamn phone. I wonder what I missed, y'know? Floyd | And now... now it's kind of looking like Alex isn't going to wake up. Floyd | No chance for a reunion... and no chance for me to say I'm sorry." Floyd | Floyd | "Now wait. First off, we don't know that Alex isn't going to wake up. Floyd | Second, you can't blame yourself, Sam. I think deep down you both Floyd | still loved each other for a really long time. I mean, not that I know Floyd | much -- Alex and I drifted apart as well -- but we did go out for a Floyd | beer after the twenty-five year reunion, and Alex mentioned you that Floyd | night. Circumstance is a bitch sometimes, y'know? I don't think the Floyd | two of you had much control over what happened." Floyd | Floyd | Damn, please, why can't I wake up? Why can't I tell them that I'm Floyd | here? And that beeping... I guess it's the heart monitor, so I'm glad Floyd | it's making that sound, but god it's also kind of annoying because I Floyd | want to hear their voices and they're speaking so softly now. Floyd | Floyd | "Alex mentioned me? After all those year?" Floyd | Floyd | I can hear Chris laugh a little bit. Not in a harsh way, just a small, Floyd | under-the-breath laugh. "Yeah. Specifically, I recall Alex Floyd | reminiscing about your personality and what a great all-round person Floyd | you always were and how you were always there when Alex needed you." Floyd | Floyd | "Not always, Chris. Not these past few decades --" Floyd | Floyd | "Look, enough with the blame game, okay? That wasn't your fault." Floyd | Floyd | Now it's Sam's gentle laugh. A little worn, like some of the spark is Floyd | gone, but I guess after all these years we've all lost a little of our Floyd | spark. "I have honestly missed Alex. You hear that, Alex? We Floyd | shouldn't talk over you like you're not here, because you are. I've Floyd | missed you, and I'm sorry, and --" Floyd | Floyd | -- and that's the last thing I heard: Sam's voice. Because the steady Floyd | beep, beep, beep had ceased to beep. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "So, as the >AMUSING that doesn't exist..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Last night at some point I realized that you could type in 'sex' for five of the seven memories and get a response." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So of course I went ahead and added sex for the other two as well." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Heh, I suppose we can try that" | ||||
| Lionheart pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, UNDO a turn, or QUIT? Restart Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Memory Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That which creates night within us might also leave stars. Floyd | Floyd | ~ Victor Hugo Floyd | | djfletch says, "we should use undo more to try different things" | |||
| Lionheart pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness. A shadowy void. Floyd | Floyd | Are your eyes closed? You test the theory by trying to open them, and Floyd | find that you can't sense your eyelids anymore. You can't sense Floyd | anything physical at all, really. Floyd | Floyd | Just the darkness, the occasional indigo light in your peripheral Floyd | vision. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Images and thoughts come and go. Snatches of memory, fragments of Floyd | hopes, bits of dreams. And always that lingering sense of the indigo Floyd | haze at the edge of your perception. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "shun haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to djf), "Hm, yeah. The undo (mostly) works." | |||
| ChrisC asks, "So basically this is a pin the keyword on the noun game?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "look away from haze" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see that right now, if it was ever here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "close eyes" | ||||
Floyd | You've no ability to manipulate anything, tangible or intangible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Chris), "Basically, yeah. But reasonable keywords." | |||
| ChrisC says, "That's an interesting way to structure a game." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "look down" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see that right now, if it was ever here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "don't look at haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "What's missing is that you can't say, for instance, that you loved Sam because Sam was dark and depressing. Only things generally considered to be good are accepted in this version." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "don't x haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to LH), "You can 'avert eyes' or 'ignore haze'" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "abjure haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Aww. But "dark and depressing" is one of the reasons I love cyberskunk so much." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "snub haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "turn eyes" | ||||
Floyd | You've no ability to manipulate anything, tangible or intangible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "avert eyes" | ||||
Floyd | You try to look away, but you know it's still there. Teasing, Floyd | lingering. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "disregard haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This will be a great transcript. Huzzah." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "refuse to notice haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "patently refuse to acknowledge the fucking haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "screw the haze" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand what you want me to do with the indigo haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think 'fuck haze' might work, fwiw" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "fuck haze" | ||||
Floyd | Feel better after getting that out of your system? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. As if any of that has meaning here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ooh - it burned you." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Unintentional (sort of) I assure you." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ignore haze" | ||||
Floyd | You long for that faint glimmer of blue that lies on the edge of your Floyd | perception. Why? Because it's there, that's why. Because you know Floyd | that every time you turn your attention to it, time and again, it will Floyd | fade. Floyd | Floyd | But that's just you, isn't it? The way you always are. Always wanting Floyd | what you can't have. It's typical, really. Floyd | Floyd | The wanting, and the punishing yourself for wanting... it's too much. Floyd | And so you let go... not merely in the sense of not actively focusing Floyd | on the haze: you ignore it entirely. Completely and whole heartedly. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "And yes, you could explore these a bit more with 'undo'" | |||
| Lionheart pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | ...and it would seem that in your letting it go, the indigo light Floyd | finally responds. It blossoms. It grows to fill your vision, the Floyd | whole of it... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floating in the blue, the indigo, the indigo blue. Finally some sense Floyd | of stability, some serenity. Floyd | Floyd | The frenetic pace of the swirling thoughts has diminished. Indeed - Floyd | now that they've ceased their whirling, now that you can examine them, Floyd | you know them to be memories from the life you've lived. Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit, the child-sized Floyd | desk, your Homecoming outfit, Sam's incredible smile, the set of Floyd | favorite over-sized headphones, a hardcover book and the vista from Floyd | back home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Memory by Jacqueline A. Lott - May 2011 Floyd | Released as part of the Indigo New Language Speed IF Floyd | For more information, type >ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yes, this. This is what you were really wanting, to be wrapped in the Floyd | soothing embrace of the indigo light. To let it flow over you, and Floyd | into you, and through you, and to show you how your struggles and Floyd | desires have brought you to where you are now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Easier than playing through from the start." | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x rabbit" | ||||
Floyd | You recognize the rabbit from your earliest childhood memories. As you Floyd | focus on it, the other images around you fade and all that you can see Floyd | is that small, soft bunny. Floyd | Floyd | Holding onto the Bunny Floyd | It seems impossible that you could remember something that happened so Floyd | very long ago, but it feels very, very real... You are an infant, not Floyd | yet able to speak, and you're clutching the tiny rabbit in your small Floyd | arms. You're able to clearly make out the shine of your old friend's Floyd | button eyes and the tight stitching of its seams. Somehow in the Floyd | richness of your dream the rabbit appears simultaneously faded and Floyd | vibrant: well-loved, yet the corduroy is a very rich, earthy brown. No Floyd | doubt your affection for it colors the memory. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the tiny stuffed rabbit. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | As you hold the small rabbit close to your heart, emotions flood Floyd | through you, and you are overwhelmed with a feeling of... Floyd | Floyd | [ Holding onto the Bunny | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sex" | ||||
Floyd | Babies, were they able to speak, would perhaps be prone to Floyd | over-sharing, yes. Floyd | Floyd | The rabbit and the memory fade... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk, your Homecoming outfit, Floyd | Sam's incredible smile, the set of favorite over-sized headphones, a Floyd | hardcover book and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Heh" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | So small... did you ever fit in that seat? Yes, long ago you did. As Floyd | you focus on your desk from elementary school, the other images around Floyd | you fade, and you are transported back to... Floyd | Floyd | School Days Floyd | How old were you when you spent your days seated here, listening to Mrs Floyd | Bright as she tried her best to make you into something? It was that Floyd | awkward, in between time of your life. You weren't really a child, not Floyd | really... but not yet a teen. Floyd | Floyd | Part of you hated being here -- so much more to do outside! -- but a Floyd | part of you loved being in this desk, too. Even if you wouldn't ever Floyd | admit it, because that wouldn't have been cool. But deep down you were Floyd | actually fond of school. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the child-sized desk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That's funny... you can't quite put your finger on it. What was your Floyd | favorite subject? Floyd | Floyd | [ School Days | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sex" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, okay, don't delude yourself. So you weren't so much into Floyd | studying. You were a kid. Kids are curious. Kids like to try new Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | The small desk and thoughts of school fade from view... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see your Homecoming outfit, Sam's incredible Floyd | smile, the set of favorite over-sized headphones, a hardcover book and Floyd | the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x outfit" | ||||
Floyd | Almost as if it were yesterday, you can see your Homecoming outfit Floyd | lying there across the bed, waiting for you to put it on for the dance. Floyd | As you focus on the ensemble, the other images around you fade, and Floyd | you're transported back to... Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Night Floyd | What will Chris think of this outfit? You're still not sure. Oddly, Floyd | though a part of you is sure that the dance, like this memory, has Floyd | already happened, you can't recall the rest of the evening or what Floyd | Chris thought of your attire. Not that it matters, really -- Chris is Floyd | going with you to the dance tonight because of you, not your style. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see your Homecoming outfit. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Heh, yeah. Style. What would you call this ensemble, anyway? What Floyd | fashion statement are you trying to make? Floyd | Floyd | [ Homecoming Night | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sex" | ||||
Floyd | So what if you like to show off a little? Why shouldn't you be proud Floyd | of what you have? Okay, so it may be a little over the top for Floyd | Homecoming, but do you think Chris is going to tone it down tonight? Floyd | Not for one second do you think that. Might as well be yourself! Floyd | Floyd | Memories of Chris and of the Homecoming night fade from view.... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see Sam's incredible smile, the set of favorite Floyd | over-sized headphones, a hardcover book and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You're using sex for every answer?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think that's what LH is doing this time, yeah." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Well, she said it has an answer for it for every one" | ||||
| DavidW says, "(Sex is like a skeleton key? I'll have to remember that.)" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x smile" | ||||
Floyd | You think back to the best of days when Sam was seemingly always there Floyd | by your side. As you focus on Sam's smile, the other images around you Floyd | fade and you remember what it was like... Floyd | Floyd | Loving Sam Floyd | The world was kind of a scary place for you back then, fresh out of Floyd | school. Frightened to death of what lay ahead, unable to let go of the Floyd | decisions you'd made that got you there. But throughout it all was Floyd | Sam, and why Sam was always there for you you'll never know. Anyone Floyd | would have been lucky to have so much of Sam's time. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see Sam's incredible smile. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That smile. That smile got to everyone, disarmed them from the word Floyd | Go. But that wasn't your favorite thing. Far from it. What you Floyd | really loved was Sam's... Floyd | Floyd | [ Loving Sam | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "dick" | ||||
Floyd | You feel a sense of warmth just thinking about him, yes. Christ, he Floyd | was incredible. Floyd | Floyd | The memory, the warmth, the lust and the love fade... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | Also here are the set of favorite over-sized headphones, a hardcover Floyd | book and the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "headphones" | ||||
Floyd | God yes, those headphones! How they let you shut out the rest of the Floyd | world, how they filled your head with music. As you focus on them, the Floyd | other images around you fade, and you become increasingly... Floyd | Floyd | Lost in Sound Floyd | Being a grown up is sometime pretty difficult. Decisions to make, Floyd | burdens to carry. Most of the time you like to think you did okay, but Floyd | you have to admit there were nights -- hell, sometimes whole weekends Floyd | where all you could do was put on the headphones, pull the curtains, Floyd | and lie back on the couch listening to your favorite music. Floyd | Floyd | Also here are the set of favorite over-sized headphones. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yes, this headset blocked out everything: not just the noise of the Floyd | world, as it was designed to do. No. When the volume was up high Floyd | enough, it blocked out the worries and concerns, too. The music that Floyd | did it best was... Floyd | Floyd | [ Lost in Sound | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sex" | ||||
Floyd | Sometimes you'd get keyed up, try to chill out by lying on the sofa... Floyd | but you couldn't help it and you'd put this on the headset anyway. Floyd | Sometimes you'd come home exhausted, collapse on the couch thinking Floyd | there was nothing left in you, but you'd listen to the same thing, Floyd | because it was what woke you up. Floyd | Floyd | The result tended to be the same -- you'd try to stay down, but Floyd | ultimately you'd be up and moving. The music was like a drug that Floyd | grabbed you and didn't let go. Floyd | Floyd | The music fades from your memory... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see a hardcover book and the vista from back Floyd | home. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "That was more evocative than I expected" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | You remember how that book used to feel in your hands. As you recall Floyd | the sunny afternoons with it under the tree, the rainy evenings with it Floyd | curled up near the fire, the other images around you fade and you are Floyd | carried into... Floyd | Floyd | Imagined Realities Floyd | Escapism's not such a bad thing, right? All good things in moderation, Floyd | they say. Though, hm. Perhaps you did overdo it a bit from time to Floyd | time. You loved to get you lost in a well-crafted world, to find Floyd | yourself wondering about what the characters were up to when you were Floyd | supposed to be focused on real life obligations. Sometimes on the way Floyd | home from work, looking forward to later in the evening when you could Floyd | pick back up where you left off, you'd imagine the questions you wanted Floyd | to ask the characters. Imagined dialogues that played out countless Floyd | ways. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see a hardcover book. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It took a certain kind of book to get you so engrosssed, though. Your Floyd | favorite genre by far was... Floyd | Floyd | [ Imagined Realities | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Any idea how I make that [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] thing go away on Floyd?" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sex" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, you love love. Nothing wrong with that. And at least you read Floyd | the real stuff that calls it as is it. None of this half-assed stuff Floyd | they call 'romance,' thankyouverymuch. Books that get the blood Floyd | pumping, that make you feel alive even when there's not much making you Floyd | feel that way for real. Floyd | Floyd | The book closes, and the memory fades... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | For just a moment, somewhere in the distance, it seems like you can Floyd | hear voices and the beeping of machines... but then it's gone. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Good ol' bodice rippers" | |||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x vista" | ||||
Floyd | Even in the hardest times, coming here helped. Nothing made you feel Floyd | quite so at ease as when you looked out across... Floyd | Floyd | The Vista Back Home Floyd | Looking back on the entirety of your life, you saw a fair amount of the Floyd | world. Not as much as some, certainly, but more than many of your Floyd | acquaintances. As a kid you couldn't wait to get away from home, and Floyd | did your best to see what else was out there. But eventually you came Floyd | to realize that right here at home was where you understood yourself Floyd | best. Floyd | Floyd | In the light, you can see the vista from back home. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your favorite part about the vantage point here, looking out across the Floyd | vista you've known your whole life, is the... Floyd | Floyd | [ The Vista Back Home | Score: 0 ] Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sex" | ||||
Floyd | Damn, you just have sex on the brain, don't you?? Floyd | Floyd | The image of the landscape fades... Floyd | Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | You are ensconced in the soothing indigo light. Floyd | And there are no more images, no more thoughts... Floyd | Floyd | ...but there's that gentle beeping sound again. Floyd | | Lionheart says, "Hee" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Possibly one of the glk commands that turns itself off?" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ignore beeping" | ||||
Floyd | And voices. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sam? It... can't be. But it sure sounds like -- Floyd | Floyd | "All those years we've spent apart, Chris." Chris? Damn. Surely not Floyd | Chris from school... "I loved Alex the whole time, every minute, but Floyd | never picked up the goddamn phone. I wonder what I missed, y'know? Floyd | And now... now it's kind of looking like Alex isn't going to wake up. Floyd | No chance for a reunion... and no chance for me to say I'm sorry." Floyd | Floyd | "Now wait. First off, we don't know that Alex isn't going to wake up. Floyd | Second, you can't blame yourself, Sam. I think deep down you both Floyd | still loved each other for a really long time. I mean, not that I know Floyd | much -- Alex and I drifted apart as well -- but we did go out for a Floyd | beer after the twenty-five year reunion, and Alex mentioned you that Floyd | night. Circumstance is a bitch sometimes, y'know? I don't think the Floyd | two of you had much control over what happened." Floyd | Floyd | Damn, please, why can't I wake up? Why can't I tell them that I'm Floyd | here? And that beeping... I guess it's the heart monitor, so I'm glad Floyd | it's making that sound, but god it's also kind of annoying because I Floyd | want to hear their voices and they're speaking so softly now. Floyd | Floyd | "Alex mentioned me? After all those year?" Floyd | Floyd | I can hear Chris laugh a little bit. Not in a harsh way, just a small, Floyd | under-the-breath laugh. "Yeah. Specifically, I recall Alex Floyd | reminiscing about your ... man, I can't believe I'm saying this to you, Floyd | but it was classic Alex, so I'll just say it: Alex talked about the sex Floyd | the two of you had. Amazing and incredible and mind-blowing and ... Floyd | and roughly fifty million other superlatives." Floyd | Floyd | "Seriously? All that time together, then all those years apart, and Floyd | all Alex went on about what a good lay I was?" Floyd | Floyd | "Sam, look. I know this is going to sound like I'm covering, but that Floyd | was always Alex, y'know? Always focused on the physical stuff. I Floyd | could tell, though, that underneath it all Alex loved the whole Floyd | package, Sam. The whole you. I think it was all Alex could do that Floyd | night to not tear up, even though you two had been apart a really long Floyd | time." Floyd | Floyd | Now it's Sam's gentle laugh. A little worn, like some of the spark is Floyd | gone, but I guess after all these years we've all lost a little of our Floyd | spark. "I have honestly missed Alex. You hear that, Alex? We Floyd | shouldn't talk over you like you're not here, because you are. I've Floyd | missed you, and I'm sorry, and --" Floyd | Floyd | -- and that's the last thing I heard: Sam's voice. Because the steady Floyd | beep, beep, beep had ceased to beep. Floyd | Floyd | [ Unconsciousness | Score: 0 ] Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Scoring is disabled in the Generator, but that didn't translate to Scare." | |||
| DavidW says, "That's what I mean. That's Scare doing that, not ADRIFT." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, that's good." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "That was a better ending than those answers deserved, heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "If anyone of you are willing to test this some more offline, I'd be really appreciative." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd like to integrate some more responses before I upload it anywhere else." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, or we can play it here, but maybe we should give maga's game a try first." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I see all the sex answers changed the ending. Nice." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Especially since we just did the 'sex' run-through of my game." | ||||
Floyd | Ed Packer Presents Floyd | The Cavity of Time Floyd | with apologies to more or less everyone | DavidW asks, "oho. The 'Cavity' of Time, eh?" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Superfluous Warning Floyd | Do not play this <stike>CYOA</strike> choice-based narrative in the Floyd | usual way, imagining that you are a mop-haired, somewhat androgynous Floyd | tween in the early 80s. Even if doing so is legal in your area. Floyd | Floyd | The incredible erotic adventures you will shortly undergo are, in some Floyd | trivial sense, the result of your choices. You are monumentally Floyd | irresponsible because you choose. Most often, because you choose to Floyd | hit UNDO. (You see that button in the upper left? Regard it as your Floyd | closest companion. Not one of the platonic ones, either.) So at least Floyd | pretend to be deep in thought before you click anything. It may lead Floyd | to your ruin, or... okay, let's be honest, ruin's the main contender Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | In your travels you may hear of the mystical Harem Ending Cave. In Floyd | idle moments, you may fantasise about whether your aimless staggering Floyd | will ever take you there. Sadly, many never find it, because you Floyd | cannot get to the Harem Ending by making choices or following Floyd | instructions! Floyd | Floyd | Sufficiently inspired? Full sail for adventure! Floyd | ... Floyd | ... | Jacqueline asks, "Ready for more?" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Do we get that ending by waiting a lot?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So... we get Harem Ending by ignoring what the game wants?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Dunno" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Want me to continue on, then?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes, plz" | ||||
Floyd | The SS Turgidity Floyd | Floyd | Frankly, your recent voyages have been a stream of utter bullshit. A Floyd | Starfleet management review eliminated the post of Miniskirt Officer Floyd | from all Penetrator-class ships. Phobos was distinctly less rewarding Floyd | than suggested, and you'll be having stern words with your Floyd | Precognitive Officer about the whole business with Titan; breaking Floyd | mimesis may be forgiven, but not when it kills your boner. Floyd | Floyd | To top things off, you dozed off at the helm. The SS Turgidity's Floyd | autopilot turns out to be programmed to seek out the deepest hole in a Floyd | given body, so you are now stuck somewhere near the centre of a Swiss- Floyd | cheese planet. Your attempts to remedy the situation through manual Floyd | control have left your spaceship battered, crumpled and upside-down. Floyd | Floyd | You could disembark and try to escape through the tunnels on foot, Floyd | head down to the engine-room to supervise repairs, or give up hope. Floyd | ... Floyd | (You see that, Montgomery? Straight-up three choices on the first Floyd | page, none of your back-and-forth cocktease shit. That is how a pro Floyd | gets down.) | inuredbyheavyrain says, "give up hope" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Give up hope, everyone?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "supervise repairs" | ||||
Floyd | You resolutely give up hope. Somehow, no authorial device punishes you Floyd | for your lack of sticktoitiveness, and you are left in precisely the Floyd | same total shambles as before. | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I thought that would lead to the ending mentioned at the beginnng." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, supervise repairs..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I suppose the engine room might be worth a looksee." | ||||
Floyd | Engine Room Floyd | Floyd | Lieutenant Bundt, your Alchemy Officer, is frantically trying to Floyd | repair the impulse engines. An incredible variety of mystic whatsits Floyd | are scattered across his workbench, and a despairing expression clouds Floyd | his face. Floyd | Floyd | "We're so dead, Captain. The Pneumatic Cockatrice has broken the Seal Floyd | of Temurah, and I think some phlogiston went up my nose. I've Floyd | collected all the components and recalled all the formulae I can, but Floyd | the abulafia's broken and I can't reliably interpret the logosbooks Floyd | without it. And I think I'm missing a Vital Principle." Floyd | Floyd | You suppress a weary sigh. This would never have happened if you'd Floyd | stuck with a rational, scientific technology like dilithium crystals. Floyd | Floyd | * Make your excuses and quietly abandon ship. Floyd | * "It's probably semen, you know. Usually is." Floyd | * "The abulawhatnow?" | Jacqueline exclaims, "Aie! Phlogiston up my nose!" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Making fun of Zarf, are we now?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "semen" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, Semen on deck." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Semen it is. One moment, please." | ||||
| ChrisC asks (of DavidW), "When are we not?" | ||||
Floyd | "It's probably semen, you know. Usually is." Floyd | Floyd | "Of course I've tried semen! I've tried everything! I think we're in a Floyd | ley-line dead zone, Captain." Floyd | Floyd | "Mmm, but your chowder's probably not of the purest, what with all Floyd | those mercury fumes, and those aether bottles that keep going astray, Floyd | plus you still drink out of a Nalgene, man. My body, on the other Floyd | hand, is a temple." You don't specify which kind. Floyd | Floyd | "I really think, sir... it's probably just the dead zone." But there's Floyd | a sparkle in his eyes. Floyd | Floyd | * Press the issue. Floyd | ... Floyd | "Indeed. Dead zone. Desperate times, desparate measures. You may have Floyd | to awaken the serpent of Kundalini." Floyd | Floyd | Rimjobs are half the reason that anybody goes through alchemical Floyd | school, and Bundt proves to be thoroughly capable, tonguing you Floyd | briskly while leaving one hand free for the reach-around. The Floyd | spectacular effect is a little spoiled when he gets off his knees and Floyd | stuffs his chubby up you (is that the scent of tarragon oil?) but he's Floyd | professional enough to keep tugging, at least. Just before you do your Floyd | duty, he shoves your dick into what is presumably the appropriate Floyd | glassware. The globby chemical soup that results is triumphantly Floyd | conveyed to the primary power crucible. Floyd | Floyd | * Well, that wasn't so difficult. | Jacqueline says, "You have been playing way too much Adam Thornton, maga." | |||
| Lionheart says, "Dpn" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, can we say 'railroad'??" | ||||
Floyd | Three minutes later, the Turgidity is lost with all hands. Luckily, Floyd | you'd stepped outside to take a post-coital whizz. Alone, shipwrecked, Floyd | and unable to shake the feeling that you may be partially responsible, Floyd | you comfort yourself with the thought that the survivor's guilt will Floyd | doubtless be every bit as agonising as the fate that consumed your Floyd | entire crew. Well, that's settled. Off to the caves! Floyd | Floyd | * Continue into... THE CAVITY OF TIME. | Lionheart says, "I suppose 'that wasn't so hard' wouldn't have been apropros" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
Floyd | Plumbing the Deeps Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels twist and bifurcate like the wedding-tackle of a nine- Floyd | dimensional Shgresh brood-king. Your officer training included an Floyd | intensive course on orienteering under stress, so in short order you Floyd | are hopelessly lost. Floyd | Floyd | Okay. Try again. Let's break this up into small, easy tasks. Big Floyd | strategic decision coming up. One of the classics. The tunnel forks Floyd | here. Left or right? Floyd | Floyd | * Left. Floyd | * Right. | DavidW says, "oh, I hated this part." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Heh. What part? The whole 'the cave path branches here' part?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "left" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, the CYOA totally arbitrary decision with wildly divergent consequences." | ||||
Floyd | You wander down the left-hand passage. After walking for a few Floyd | minutes, you notice some figures approaching out of the darkness. Floyd | They're... kind of poorly conceived, rather as if someone drew an Floyd | arbitrary shape and then threw in arms, legs and a face to justify Floyd | calling it a monster, rather than a malformed dumpling. This is an Floyd | excellent sign that you'll never encounter their species again, and Floyd | can dispense with subtle diplomacy; still, they look hostile, and Floyd | they're approaching fast. Floyd | Floyd | You could go with the time-honoured options of fight or flight. Or you Floyd | could employ your modern advantages, and use your tricorder to analyse Floyd | the creatures for sexual compatability. | Lionheart says, "Let's hang a left there" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "You would think a pornographic would make you work slightly before you could get your asshole licked." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "analyse for sexual compatibility :)" | ||||
| Lionheart asks, "Fight, flight, or the third F?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, fight, flight, or analyze?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Tri the corder." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay" | ||||
Floyd | In one practised motion, you unholster your tricorder and wave it at Floyd | the creatures. Ah, the age we live in! Not so long ago, the only known Floyd | method to test for sexual compatability was to stick your penis in. Floyd | Advanced modern thought has replaced the serviceable but risky Penis Floyd | Test with an array of scientific and sociological metrics; thankfully, Floyd | Kirk had someone condense this into a two-button app, and you managed Floyd | to snaffle a spare copy. Floyd | Floyd | Aww, 12%? You promised yourself you'd never go below twenty again Floyd | unless it was a real emergency, but anything below fifteen is Floyd | virtually guaranteed to cause lasting genital injury unless there's a Floyd | manual to consult. Floyd | Floyd | Down towards the bottom of the detailed analysis, though, there's a Floyd | note that they're sentient, speak English and are not normally Floyd | aggressive. Armed with this knowledge, you strike up a conversation. Floyd | They explain that you have entered the Cavity of Time, a poorly- Floyd | organised gateway that allows highly unreliable travel across time and Floyd | space. To demonstrate the point, they drag you off to an Traveller Floyd | bar. The tricorder does considerably better here; most of the patrons Floyd | are human, in fact. But the drinks are a lot stronger than you Floyd | realise, and after an hour or so your short-term memory decides to cut Floyd | you off. The last thing you remember is attempting to seduce the 1966 Floyd | Australian Federation Cup team through the power of solo barbershop. Floyd | Floyd | You're moderately sure that didn't work. Floyd | ... Floyd | An Indigo Vacuole Floyd | Floyd | Oy, but you're dozy. Everything's kind of wobbly and swimming around. Floyd | Aw hell, you don't want to turn into one of those amnesiac heroes, Floyd | they never get any tail. Pull yourself together. Basics first. Are you Floyd | a man or a woman? | genericgeekgirl asks, "woman?" | |||
| Alex says (to genericgeekgirl), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that A woman is the only thing that I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "I mean, if you're sure." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah" | ||||
Floyd | A woman? ...well, okay, whatever you and the other person agree on, I Floyd | suppose. And apparently there is another person; you're sleepily Floyd | entangled. They don't smell like anyone you've fucked lately, though. Floyd | Okay, okay, would you prefer them to be a man or a woman? Floyd | Floyd | * Damn the oppressive gender-binary! I want one of those dickgirls Floyd | with enormous tits. | genericgeekgirl says, "ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, three choices here." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Excellent" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I like the dickgirl option" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "the third, please" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Always go with door #3." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I cannot believe the stuff I am pasting." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And man, Door #3 has a whole new meaning now." | ||||
Floyd | Uh, okay. Keep your eyes shut and your hands in strategic areas and Floyd | let the power of your imagination do the rest. Just so long as we Floyd | don't start on the lactation stuff, all right? Floyd | Floyd | At any rate, zie's beginning to shift about, there's some warm semi- Floyd | conscious hip-grinding and fumbling going on. But other urges call to Floyd | you. Do you want to make love or make it nasty? | Lionheart says, "Finally, a game that lets me pick both, darn it." | |||
| DavidW says, "I choose nasty." | ||||
| canadianpuzzler has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "Man, the 'sex' run-through of my game is so tame by comparison." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Okay" | ||||
Floyd | You start off with a little biting and clawing, and find it Floyd | enthusiastically returned. This isn't exactly your normal speed, but Floyd | sometimes the situation demands it. After that things escalate rather Floyd | swiftly; hands are clamped over mouths, a three-quarter-nelson is Floyd | applied, and the bed sustains major structural damage. Floyd | Floyd | Though bruised, you retain enough presence of mind to sneak out in the Floyd | immediate aftermath. Albeit by a rather unorthodox route. | inuredbyheavyrain says, "M<ight as well go for thanm nasty shit: | |||
Floyd | We are already an ass-licking shemale" Floyd | ... Floyd | The Island Floyd | Floyd | You stroll along the beach, bare-footed in the cool surf. At the head Floyd | of the bay you discover a weather-battered information board: Floyd | Floyd | Due to the irresponsible overpopulation of narrative space, the number Floyd | of remote islands is exceeded several times over by the discrete Floyd | stories that require them. Given the relatively small area of an Floyd | island actually used by the average story (outside establishing shots Floyd | and other broad functions not entailing use conflicts), a partitioning Floyd | system is in effect on both beachfront and interior land. To Floyd | facilitate access by independent visitors, a map is provided detailing Floyd | current narrative assignments. Floyd | Floyd | The map below is rather heavily water-damaged, and none of its text is Floyd | legible; but you can make out that the island is divided into three Floyd | areas: one consisting mostly of high crags, narrow valleys and small, Floyd | hidden harbours; a second covered in forest, and a third dominated by Floyd | meadows and rolling hills. Floyd | Floyd | * Mountains! Floyd | * Forests! Floyd | * Grassland! Floyd | * A vertex between all three! | inuredbyheavyrain says, "vertex" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "vertex" | ||||
Floyd | If that's your game, we all know what your role is, Stiffy, and it's Floyd | not one that's placed along the edges. Shall we try that again? Floyd | Floyd | * Mountains! Floyd | * Forests! Floyd | * Grassland! | DavidW asks, "Is that like a vortex?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "boo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I had the same question." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "forest" | ||||
Floyd | Possibly out of sheer bloody-mindedness, you head into the forest. It Floyd | turns out to be less impenetrable than it looks: it's more a series of Floyd | Arcadian glades, with the occasional bubbling stream or picturesque Floyd | ruined temple. Birds sing, deer frolic. Nymph types in translucent... Floyd | well hello there. Floyd | Floyd | On closer inspection, there seems to be just the one: broad shoulders, Floyd | solid contrapposto hips, Pre-Raphaelite pout. Barefoot. Tresses. She's Floyd | standing by a table in an ivy-choked ruin, pouring wine from an Floyd | amphora. Floyd | Floyd | * Get out of this forest as quickly as possible. Floyd | * Introduce yourself. | ChrisC says, "Vertex is another name for point, like where two lines intersect" | |||
| DavidW says, "I know." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I prefer plains." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, leave or say hi?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "introductions" | ||||
| Lionheart looks up 'contrapposto'. | ||||
| DavidW says, "She might know where the Harem is." | ||||
Floyd | You stroll in her direction with a cheery wave; she glances up at you Floyd | with big dark eyes. "Greetings, sailor. You must have travelled far; Floyd | may I offer some..." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't mind if I do. Very good of you," you say, throwing back a Floyd | cupful of the wine. "My, but that's... is that retsina or mulled or Floyd | something? Very good either way. Congratulations on your cellar." Floyd | Floyd | She sets her cup aside as she slides up against you, running her Floyd | fingers up the inside of your forearm and toying with the brooch that Floyd | holds all that drapery together. You perk up even further. "Mmm. So Floyd | how about it?" Floyd | Floyd | Her eyes shoot over to an ornamental sundial, and then she breathes Floyd | "Give me seven and a half minutes." and sidles off into a scenic Floyd | grotto. Floyd | Floyd | You help yourself to some more wine, twiddle your thumbs a little, Floyd | then go to check your teeth in the reflection of a limpid pool. Your Floyd | teeth are spinach-free, but the tusks come as something of a surprise. Floyd | You appear to be a good-sized wild boar, albeit as good-looking as Floyd | ever. Well, that was almost unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | * Get out of here before she comes back. Floyd | * Charge into the grotto. Floyd | * Hang around. | Lionheart | Contrapposto is an Italian term used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance. | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Introduce: In for a penny, out for hardcore bestiality." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Charge" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Eat roses if we find any." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Charge it is. One moment." | ||||
Floyd | With an intemperate snort you charge into the grotto. After several Floyd | minutes of subterranean charging, Circe is still not in evidence, and Floyd | you have the sinking feeling that you're not going to be able to find Floyd | your way back. And she was probably the only person who could change Floyd | you back. You feel a little downcast as you continue through the Floyd | Cavity. Floyd | ... Floyd | You pass through a maze of dark tunnels, through which blows a cold Floyd | and gusty wind. Eventually you emerge into light once again. Floyd | Floyd | Brightly-coloured murals cover the walls of this room; surverying them Floyd | is a vast hulk of a man, quite naked and a little on the green side. Floyd | On seeing you, he approaches, making cooing noises and holding out a Floyd | chunk of processed fruit-cake. Floyd | Floyd | * Eh, you've had worse. Let's get this over with. Floyd | * Flee back down the passageway. Floyd | * Dash between his legs and into one of the tunnels beyond. | Lionheart says, "Hm, little concerned we might get eaten and not in a good way." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm basically the Floyd here. I have no preferences, I'm just squicked out." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Might as well fuck him. We have no standards, obviously." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking dash between the legs." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "dash" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's two dashes." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "LH?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "maybe if it was something better than fruit cake" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I'm thinking get it over with," | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Crap, now I have to break the tie." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I say dash." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Processed fruit-cake, which of course is the worst kind." | ||||
Floyd | The green fellow turns out to be slow and clumsy, and you dash past Floyd | him before he has time to even attempt a grab. Hot-footing it down the Floyd | tunnels, Floyd | Floyd | Fortunately, your next troglodytic encounter is with a gathering of Floyd | Isis-worshippers engaged in a secret ritual. You bowl over the ankh- Floyd | bearers, stick your snout into the crotch of the High Priestess, Floyd | frolic gaily across the Sealed Circle, knock over the ritual wine, Floyd | chase a blushing sistrum-boy around a pillar, and finally make off Floyd | with a garland of delicious roses. Munching contentedly, you continue Floyd | on your way. The roses become rather less appetising as time passes, Floyd | but and you bump your head on the ceiling a few times, but it's very Floyd | nice to have hands again. Floyd | ... Floyd | You clamber through what seems like miles of indistinguishable Floyd | tunnels, hoping that you're not circling back on yourself. At last you Floyd | come to a place that you certainly haven't seen before: a high-vaulted Floyd | cavern with three exits at its further end. Which do you choose? Floyd | Floyd | * A tunnel of rough yellow masonry. Floyd | * A dimly lit passageway, adorned with trash and pipework. Floyd | * An underdescribed tunnel. | inuredbyheavyrain I was hoping for a light-hearted romp like Leisure Suit Larry or Leather Goddesses of Phobos, not disturbing fetish porn. | |||
| DavidW says, "Yes! I called it on the rose-eating." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Indeed" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "passageway" | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Let's go with the underdescribed area" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah, ok. tunnel" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "The dirty tunnel is tempting" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "But sure, underdescribed." | ||||
| DavidW says, "fine" | ||||
Floyd | You select one of many tunnels and follow it, but the passageway does Floyd | not rise. Instead, it opens onto a chamber in which a beard sits Floyd | enthroned. Within the beard is a wizened old man, who nods politely as Floyd | you enter. Floyd | Floyd | "I suppose you want me to tell you how to get home." Floyd | Floyd | "Not really. I'm really more of a picaresque, you know? It'd be better Floyd | if you could help me understand how these caves work." Floyd | Floyd | The old man leers at you. "I might be able to manage that. But tell Floyd | me, first: why do you want control over time?" Floyd | Floyd | * "The same reason that I signed up for the Turgidity: to explore new Floyd | worlds and bang everyone." Floyd | * "To avoid becoming trapped in unwinnable situations." Floyd | * "I just want to get to the most awesome time ever." Floyd | * "Look, how about I give you a blowjob, we skip over the Floyd | gatekeeper's-riddle bit and you just tell me the right answer?" | Lionheart says, "Heh." | |||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "blowjob!" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Exploration and fucking." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "or the "most awesome time ever"" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk. I agree. 4" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are we doing 4?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Pretty much the same reasons I would." | ||||
| DavidW says, "They're all good choices." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah 4" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Sounds like a consesus to me." | ||||
Floyd | "Look, how about I give you a blowjob, we skip over the gatekeeper's- Floyd | riddle bit and you just tell me the right answer?" Floyd | Floyd | "As you will," says the sage, sticking his helmet out through the Floyd | middle of his beard. "Whoa hey, did anybody ever tell you that you're Floyd | really damn good at that?" Floyd | Floyd | He strings it out for rather longer than necessary, but what the hell, Floyd | he probably doesn't get too many visitors. At length you swallow. Floyd | "Very well, then. Here, (whew!) here's the map," he says, gesturing up Floyd | and behind you. "No, you have to move over here to see it properly; Floyd | let me just move out of your way..." Floyd | Floyd | At which point, you find yourself seated in his throne, while he skips Floyd | away down a tunnel, cackling. Oh dear. Floyd | Floyd | With any luck, someone stupider will happen along eventually. Until Floyd | then: Floyd | Floyd | The End | Jacqueline says, "It's taking a lot of time to edit the 'smart quotes.' I know not everyone can see them. Are they too jarring? It's a lot quicker if I just give you the output without editing." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I see question marks, but it's fine" | ||||
| maga says, "yeah, sorry about that, this wasn't really planned for copy-paste Floydage" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I can handle ?marked copypasta." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "Hrm. I'll edit them anyway, because they're coming up bad in the transcript." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, sorry, I'll just take a moment to edit when there's conversation." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So. Undo, or restart?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I see annoying aqustion marks." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Undo if you can." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "If this is Undum, you won't be able to undo, though, right?" | ||||
| maga says, "(credit to Jon Ingold for the UNDO function, which is pretty hacky but does the job)" | ||||
Floyd | * "The same reason that I signed up for the Turgidity: to explore new Floyd | worlds and bang everyone." Floyd | * "To avoid becoming trapped in unwinnable situations." Floyd | * "I just want to get to the most awesome time ever." Floyd | * "Look, how about I give you a blowjob, we skip over the Floyd | gatekeeper's-riddle bit and you just tell me the right answer?" | Lionheart asks, "Anyone know a good curly quote filter or plugin?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... 1 this time?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I like the first choice. It seems honest." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Exxploration and fucking, the best reasons." | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Yes, 1" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "To explore strange new worlds, to shtup new life and new civilizations..." | ||||
| Limax arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
Floyd | "The same reason that I signed up for the Turgidity: to explore new Floyd | worlds and bang everyone." Floyd | Floyd | The little old beard cocks his head sideways like a demented owl. "All Floyd | say that they seek the best ending," he muses, while you long for a Floyd | rock to lob at him, "yet what does it bring us but finality, and Floyd | oblivion?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, tell me about it. I wanted the full-blown razmatazz with full Floyd | body part implementation and four-part harmony, but the author keeps Floyd | eliding all the sex-scenes like a total priss." Floyd | Floyd | "Then you, Stiffy, have already won. For where you go they cannot Floyd | follow, and that is the true Undiscovered Country." Floyd | Floyd | The End | DavidW says, "Sexxxploration" | |||
| Limax asks, "Sex scene???" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "See, those are the puns I was talking about earlier." | ||||
| Limax says, "Wow... I got here just in time for the ending" | ||||
| Lionheart asks, "Next?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Undo or Restart..." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, undo, then 2?" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Undo and try the other two" | ||||
| ChrisC says (to Limax), "It pretty well encapsulates the whole game." | ||||
Floyd | * "The same reason that I signed up for the Turgidity: to explore new Floyd | worlds and bang everyone." Floyd | * "To avoid becoming trapped in unwinnable situations." Floyd | * "I just want to get to the most awesome time ever." Floyd | * "Look, how about I give you a blowjob, we skip over the Floyd | gatekeeper's-riddle bit and you just tell me the right answer?" | DavidW says, "I get the feeling that all four choices are game-enders." | |||
| Limax says, "Hm" | ||||
Floyd | "To avoid becoming trapped in unwinnable situations." Floyd | Floyd | "Then you have already won," intones the old beard, "for the only Floyd | unwinnable state is when one is unwilling to begin anew." Floyd | Floyd | "Christ, if you're going to be like that, just point me towards the Floyd | next place where I can get a quick lay, OK?" Floyd | Floyd | "QED," says the old man. And he shows you the way. Floyd | Floyd | The End | Jacqueline asks, "Undo and the last option?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes please" | ||||
Floyd | "I just want to get to the most awesome time ever." Floyd | Floyd | "Awesomeness is a subjective value, my friend," muses the old man, Floyd | growing more insufferable by the second. I mean, duh. "But since you Floyd | insist, I will approximate an answer by sending you to the time that Floyd | received the highest mean approval ratings from the core adventure- Floyd | liking demographic." Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, wait..." you cry, but you are cut off as the caves shift Floyd | their form around you, with a deep, irrevocable rumble. Floyd | ... Floyd | ... Floyd | The Land Before Making Time Floyd | Floyd | You emerge from a crack in the side of a high mountain. Thick black Floyd | smoke billows from the peak, and lava is pouring steadily down the Floyd | slope towards you. Another rumble shakes the ground. You decide to get Floyd | far away as quickly as possible. Floyd | As you hurry downslope through a forest of ginkgo and pine, you are Floyd | suddenly confronted with a herd of friendly apatosaurs! DINOSAURS! Floyd | Totally frackin' awesome! Floyd | Floyd | Approximately thirty seconds later, your enthusiasm cools somewhat as Floyd | you realise that a) the way back into the Cavity of Time is now Floyd | permanently sealed, and b) no body part more enticing than a cloaca is Floyd | going to evolve for several million years. Floyd | Floyd | The End | DavidW says, "I'm guessing that's a ref to Aotearoa winning the last comp." | |||
| Lionheart says, "Poor Stiffy." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, it's restart or game over, man." | ||||
| Limax asks, "Wait... do we only have one choice?" | ||||
| Limax asks, "ER... one choice and it's over?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We've done all four." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I guess we can end this session. It was fun, and the Rapunxel and cought in the rain games were interesting." | ||||
| DavidW says, "All four choices with Beardsley ended the game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Fwiw, this one is online." | ||||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||||
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||||
| Royce had fun | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Yeah, it was cool" | ||||
| Royce says, "I'm also expanding on my game (well, attempting at the moment)" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "It was fun. I wouldn't mind trying some other associations in Jacq's game." | ||||
| maga says, "it's somewhat heavily-branching" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Zarf's is also online: [LINK]" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "IF anyone is interested in doing some more testing of my game today so I can update it some tomorrow, I would be super thankful." | ||||
| Limax asks (of Jacqueline), "DO you have a page set up with all the games and links?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thank you so much to all the authors who did all the great games, btw." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "Yeah. A couple of folks are working on updates, and I kind of need a break because I've been going at this full-tilt. So I'll probably post the page a bit later this weekend." | ||||
| maga says, "(also I was worried that I'd included too much straightforward hetero sex for a proper Stiffy game, and then you carefully avoided all of it)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That was a very interesting collection of speed-ifs. Very different than the usual." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "haha" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Which game was made by Jacqueline?" | ||||
| ChrisC says (to inured), "The floating in dreams one." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inured), "The one where you're you're in coma." | ||||
| Limax says (to Jacqueline), "Okay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "Zarf's, for instance, hits a couple of spots where it breaks entirely, so I want a chance to let him know about that before I release a more public zip file." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to maga), "Heh. Not enough nasty dickgirl sex for your kinky audience." | ||||
| Limax says, "Mmhmm" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Does anyone have any bleach handy? I'm going to need to sanitize this transcript before it touches my website." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I think the game would be more interesting if the ending was ambiguous, rather than spelling out thatthe guy is in a coma." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inured), "I'll consider that. Thanks." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Maybe you should just wrap it in a "Are you over 18?" prompt." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "Nah, I have an 'adult warning' now after a few other games we've played." | ||||
| ChrisC says, "Well, I'm off. I'd like the chance to see more transcripts of people playing my game, but I don't think that's possible with Choicescript" | ||||
| DavidW | By the way, what was your dump stat back when you were picking shirt colours? | Rum | Sodomy | The lash | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inured), "In my game I'd almost rather take the time to rework the end to integrate the other variables, particularly wildly divergent ones (where, say, someone says Alex is preppy but then has a dark period of drug addiction), but if Alex actually wakes up, the conversation between Chris and Sam would derail." | ||||
| Limax has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Lionheart says, "Oo, I hadn't thought of going for a drugs angle" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hard to say where I'll take that. I think for this release I may leave it as is, but incorporate those other (reasonable) things that were tried." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "There seems to be a lot of maga's game we haven't seen." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I'm happy to load 'er up again if you want." | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, I'm doing fine playing it from the page directly." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Use both hands and have a nice day." | ||||
| Ellison says, "sorry, I had to be away for family stuff a fair amount of the time, but it looks like there is a lot of good stuff to play on my own" | ||||
| tester goes home. | ||||
| tester has disconnected. | Lionheart says (to Jacq), "I was going to go for the opposite of the goth run next and try for the most saccharine and kitschy choices I could think of, but then you mentioned that AMUSING thing to try" | |||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "ha ha. 'Hip Curves'." | |||
| DavidW | It appears that the punk will have been, like, doing something terrible to the flaneur with, like, a saucepan? | ||||
| Lionheart asks (of DavidW), "What's that in ref to?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Curveship" | ||||
| Lionheart says (to DavidW), "Heh, that does sound amusing." | ||||
| djfletch says, "nice" | ||||
| Limax asks, "There was at least one game today written in curveship, wasn't there?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Limax), "yeah, I did a curveship thing" | ||||
| djfletch says, "I was just looking at maga's game more too but I'll play it properly tomorrow when I'm more awake" | ||||
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