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| Jacqueline says, "We did just successfully launch Plundered Hearts, if people want that. but we're up for other suggestions." | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "That has my vote" | ||||
| schep arrives, full of fun and funk. | Royce has been going through IFDB to look for inspiration, but all the ones that have caught his attention have already been played | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Infocom games are generally pretty interestingand challenging, based on my limited experience with text adventures, so one of those would be OK." | ||||
| maga arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline asks, "Well, maga and I have played it. But I'd love to watch it being played. Is it just two of you?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess I could announce this one in the holler, see who shows up." | ||||
| Jizaboz asks, "should I have any of the box materials? maps or anything?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think that's necessary." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I have already played PH, too, but I have no objections" | ||||
| Jacqueline hollers, "We're thinking of playing Plundered Hearts for ClubFloyd today, but would like more takers - if you're interested, please come to the Toyshop!" | Royce says, "any game is fine with me" | |||
| Jizaboz says, "If I'm the only one who hasn't played it, I would like to select another game" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "I never played Leaqther Goddesses of Phobos, which that game last time made me think of it, was it similar to Leisure Suit Larry?" | ||||
| Gunther arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline asks, "Who hasn't played PH?" | |||
| Jizaboz says, "I've played a lot of leather. Great game.. but weird puzzles and I think very long." | ||||
| schep says, "I" | ||||
| Gunther says, "but JACQ only GIRLS play plundered hearts" | ||||
| Gunther has left. | Royce says, "I have not" | |||
| schep says, "ha ha ha" | Jacqueline says, "So that's at least four." | |||
| Jizaboz says, "cool" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "schep, Royce, inured, and Jiz, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's enough." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we?" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "Aye" | ||||
| Jacqueline hollers, "Okay, we're starting..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load plundered" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | >SHOOT THE PIRATE Floyd | Trembling, you fire the heavy arquebus. You hear its loud report over Floyd | the roaring wind, yet the dark figure still approaches. The gun falls Floyd | from your nerveless hands. Floyd | "You won't kill me," he says, stepping over the weapon. "Not when I Floyd | am the only protection you have from Jean Lafond." Floyd | Chestnut hair, tousled by the wind, frames the tanned oval of his Floyd | face. Lips curving, his eyes rake over your inadequately dressed body, Floyd | the damp chemise clinging to your legs and heaving bosom, your gleaming Floyd | hair. You are intensely aware of the strength of his hard seaworn body, Floyd | of the deep sea blue of his eyes. And then his mouth is on yours, lips Floyd | parted, demanding, and you arch into his kiss... Floyd | He presses you against him, head bent. "But who, my dear," he Floyd | whispers into your hair, "will protect you from me?" Floyd | Floyd | [Press RETURN or ENTER to begin.] Floyd | | Royce asks (of Jacq), "did you have to holler that right in my ear?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Royce), "SORRY" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | PLUNDERED HEARTS Floyd | Infocom interactive fiction Floyd | Copyright (c) 1987 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. Floyd | PLUNDERED HEARTS is a trademark of Infocom, Inc. Floyd | Release 26 / Serial number 870730 Floyd | Floyd | LATE ONE SPRING NIGHT IN THE WEST INDIES... Floyd | Floyd | A crash overhead! Pirates are boarding the Lafond Deux! The first Floyd | mate hurries you into Captain Davis's cabin. Floyd | "Good, you brought the girl," Davis smirks. "She'll keep the pirates Floyd | busy. She was only a tool of Lafond's, anyway. Let me just find that Floyd | cof--" A man on deck screams in agony and Davis starts. "Let's go." The Floyd | captain thrusts you on the bed and walks out, locking the door. Floyd | His laugh echoes. "Best get comfortable, girl. You're likely to be Floyd | there for the rest of your life." Floyd | Floyd | Cabin, on the bed Floyd | You are in an officer's cabin, lit by the firelight glowing through Floyd | a porthole. A door is to starboard. Except for the built-in bed, the Floyd | room seems to have been emptied thoroughly, if hurriedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | * Gunther has joined the channel. | |||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are wearing a cotton frock, very pretty, if a tad outmoded for Floyd | today's fashions. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I hope this is not a trashy romance novel adventure game." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the bed. Floyd | "Aaieeee!" echoes a scream, followed by several grunts and thumps. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inured), "It is a swashbuckling romance, yes." | |||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, ">HEAVE CHEST is not an important command" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Cabin Floyd | You are in an officer's cabin, lit by the firelight glowing through Floyd | a porthole. A door is to starboard. Except for the built-in bed, the Floyd | room seems to have been emptied thoroughly, if hurriedly. Floyd | "Cap'n Jamison! We've got 'em!" cries a rough voice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "heave chest" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "heave."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, ">RIP BODICE" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It appears to be locked. Floyd | Suddenly, the ship lurches to one side, throwing you off balance. A Floyd | coffer slides from under the bed and bumps against your foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x porthole" | ||||
Floyd | Through the porthole you see the bow of the pirate ship bucking in the Floyd | high seas, lit by the fires burning on deck. It is called the "Helena Floyd | Louise." Odd, that was your mother's name. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "HEAVE COFFER, on the other hand" | |||
| Jizaboz says, ".. open porthole" | ||||
| gjnave waves his arms, rolls a poor lore check, and then disappears - 'oh cra..' | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "open porthole" | ||||
Floyd | This isn't the opening kind of porthole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Not the opening kind. heh" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "inv" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "inv."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It seems that your Floyd | reticule contains smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing your Floyd | kid slippers, a linen chemise and a cotton frock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It seems that your Floyd | reticule contains smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing your Floyd | kid slippers, a linen chemise and a cotton frock. Floyd | Crash! You whirl around to see the door shatter, kicked by a hulking Floyd | man, his twisted visage blackened with soot and blood. "Me name's Andy Floyd | Crulley, and ladies learn to love me," sniggers the pirate. Floyd | "The Falcon! The Falcon conquers!" yells someone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are wearing a cotton frock, very pretty, if a tad outmoded for Floyd | today's fashions. Floyd | "Avast me, but ain't ye a beauty," sniggers the pirate. His breath Floyd | is heavy with rum. Floyd | You recognize a voice from far away, "Don't take that! Look in the Floyd | cabin at the stern -- you'll find some fun there!" It sounds like Floyd | Davis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | You can't read a banknote! Floyd | "They calls me Andy, but I'm really randy," sniggers the pirate, Floyd | advancing toward you. Floyd | Crulley drags you, despite your resistance, towards him. Then Floyd | suddenly he grunts, stiffens and slumps into your arms. Stunned, Floyd | Crulley collapses at your feet, his eyes rolling. Floyd | A tall form blocks the shattered door, one fist still raised from Floyd | striking your attacker. You catch a glimpse of the hard masculinity of Floyd | his broad shoulders, the implied power in the scar that etches the Floyd | stranger's jaw, and feel tremors course through your veins. Then you Floyd | realize how ragged are his shirt, patched breeches and high boots. Floyd | Intuitively, you understand -- he is the dreaded Falcon, scourge of the Floyd | sea! Alas, your fate is sealed. Resigned, you meet his sea-blue eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, I love reading this. Even watching will be fun today." | |||
| Jizaboz hops on his skateboard and rolls out. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "plead for mercy" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "plead."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "falcon, ravage me" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "ravage."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x eyes" | ||||
Floyd | They look just like your eyes. Floyd | To your surprise, the stranger bows. "Well met, my lady." His accent Floyd | is cultured, his smile vibrant. "I am Captain Nicholas Jamison, known Floyd | in these waters as 'The Falcon'. Your father has sent me." He chuckles Floyd | at your glare of distrust. "Yes, you are like your sire. You needn't Floyd | believe me untried -- I carry this." He hands you a missive. Floyd | With a creak and a crash, somewhere a mast falls to the deck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "take missive" | ||||
Floyd | You already have the missive. Floyd | The pirate captain glances around the empty room, then notices the Floyd | coffer. "Davis's safety box -- my men were hoping I'd find it." He Floyd | takes it and nudges the unconscious man on the floor, "I wonder how Floyd | Crulley knew you were here? Just his bad luck? He'll be flogged when he Floyd | wakes." Floyd | The pirate bows. "My lady, may I offer my protection and my ship Floyd | until your father is free?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "read missive" | ||||
Floyd | The missive is in dear Papa's handwriting: Floyd | Floyd | "Dearest child, Floyd | You are in gravest danger! Lafond is a viper with the smile of a Floyd | saint, my most particular enemy. I have only now learned the depth of Floyd | his deception. Should Lafond get you in his power... It is unspeakable! Floyd | I have sided with Nicholas Jamison, a sea captain and a gentleman, Floyd | whose circumstances have driven him to extreme measures, even branding Floyd | him a pirate. Nevertheless, I trust him and so may you. Floyd | You will be safe -- but there is another for whom I fear! My horse Floyd | is waiting and I ride to her rescue. Jamison will deliver this to you. Floyd | Should anything happen to me, you must rely on him. I remain, with Floyd | love, your father." Floyd | Floyd | "We haven't time to waste. Will you come willingly or not?" says Floyd | Captain Jamison. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "aye" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "aye."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "FAIL" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | You nod tentatively. Floyd | He chuckles. "Brave lady, to trust a stranger -- and a pirate. Who Floyd | knows, perhaps I forged your father's signature? Keep by my side as we Floyd | go to my ship -- few sailors respect a lady's dignity." He helps you Floyd | through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Deck Floyd | The deck is an avalanche of noise and blood. Lit by roaring fires, Floyd | silhouetted forms crash swords, dancing around the screaming wounded. Floyd | Out of the smoke staggers Davis, tugging a bloodied knife from the Floyd | back of a pirate. Davis's eyes gleam white from a face blackened and Floyd | bloody, his lips dark red as if he has been drinking blood. He turns to Floyd | face you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to gunther), "haha" | schep says, "scream" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to clubfloyd), "scream" | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | Although your voice is quite piercing, no one notices you. Floyd | Davis leaps across the deck to your side, "Free me or she dies!" he Floyd | yells, jabbing a knife up to your throat. In one smooth motion, Captain Floyd | Jamison draws his rapier, pulls you free and stabs. Davis slumps into a Floyd | bloody heap. Floyd | Swooning, you fall into the Falcon's arms. You are dimly aware of Floyd | being carried to the other ship, down a short flight of stairs, and Floyd | laid gently on a soft bed. When you gather strength to look around, the Floyd | Falcon has left you in peace. Floyd | You remain confined to this room, a large cupboard blocking the Floyd | door. Meals are brought by a peg-legged old man and eaten in silence. Floyd | Of your handsome rescuer you see nothing. Slowly the days pass. Floyd | Floyd | [Press RETURN or ENTER to continue.] Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take knife" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | TWO DAYS LATER... Floyd | Floyd | You blear awake from a bored nap, focusing on something shiny. You Floyd | discern it to be a new ring, on a strong hand in the act of tying a Floyd | ribbon onto a rapier. Floyd | The man with the rapier and the ring turns, "Sorry, I tried not to Floyd | wake you." You sit up as if the bed had caught fire, for this is the Floyd | Falcon, changed from his rags to a finery all red velvet and white lace Floyd | -- and in your presence! Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters, on the bed Floyd | You are in the captain's quarters of the Helena Louise, where you Floyd | have been trapped these past days since your "rescue" from the Lafond Floyd | Deux. The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed (upon which you lie). A curtain masks the Floyd | forward exit and gilded woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window Floyd | looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters, on the bed Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed (upon which you lie). A curtain masks the Floyd | forward exit and gilded woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window Floyd | looking aft. Floyd | Captain Jamison is adjusting his clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "emasculate air" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "emasculate."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "open curtain" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the curtain from the bed. Floyd | "We have anchored off St. Sinistra," says Captain Jamison, "and I Floyd | must look like a guest at Lafond's dance tonight. I will find and free Floyd | your father, and then finally wreak my revenge on Lafond." He half Floyd | draws his rapier from its scabbard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "I give up" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to stand up first. Floyd | "I am sorry you have been confined down here, but I don't trust my Floyd | lonely crew with such beauty. Crulley isn't the only man aboard with Floyd | few principles." He smiles at you, eyes lingering, and takes your hand. Floyd | You feel your color rising. "If anything goes wrong, turn to Cookie. He Floyd | is quite deaf, but capable. He'll see you through." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to gunther), "heh" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "stand up" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the bed. Floyd | His look darkens. "You should know why I hate Lafond: Some years Floyd | ago, as my brother and his bride sailed to a new life in Virginia, Floyd | pirates struck. Their ship was boarded, looted and burned, the women Floyd | taken, never to be seen again. A sailor, the one survivor, watched as a Floyd | man of Lafond's description shot my brother in the back as he tried to Floyd | save the women. Lafond has now bought respectability, but he shall Floyd | never buy peace." Jamison straightens resolutely, bows, and departs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "xyzzy."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "JESUS CHRIST" | |||
| Gunther says, "This game sucks" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "tell man to fuck himself" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any man here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "It's not OAD, no." | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and gilded Floyd | woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther asks, "seriously, no xyzzy? In an Infocom game?" | |||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | You have no need for that, milady. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l table" | ||||
Floyd | You have no need for that, milady. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Tall panes of glass are inset into the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x sill" | ||||
Floyd | Tall panes of glass are inset into the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l in window" | ||||
Floyd | The moon beckons across the lagoon to St. Sinistra. Moored to the stern Floyd | is a skiff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "jump out window" | ||||
Floyd | Suicide is not the answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l woodwork" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "woodwork."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "I'm going to go track down the author and tell her" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Did you have any particular direction in mind? Floyd | You hear the large cupboard scrape, and turn to see Captain Jamison. Floyd | "Hello! I came down to give you this -- my allotment from the coffer." Floyd | He nods at the box in his arms. Floyd | Jamison starts to pin a jewelled brooch on your clothes, but, "Devil Floyd | take it, the clasp is broken. I'll have it repaired." He folds the Floyd | pretty thing into your hand. "And I meant to reassure you that if the Floyd | men suddenly abandon ship, they are off to help me. Rodney will stay Floyd | behind with you." He drops the coffer on the floor, smiling in Floyd | farewell, and walks swiftly away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "then she'll have a story for Get Lamp II" | |||
| Gunther says, "(I kid, I kid)" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open coffer" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the coffer reveals an invitation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | coffer: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a coffer, a jewelled brooch, a missive and your reticule Floyd | (hanging from your wrist). It seems that the coffer contains an Floyd | invitation. It seems that your reticule contains smelling salts and a Floyd | banknote. You are wearing your kid slippers, a linen chemise and a Floyd | cotton frock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x coffer" | ||||
Floyd | It is a small heavy chest, with a smashed lock. It is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x invitation" | ||||
Floyd | The invitation is addressed to "Davis": Floyd | Floyd | In Honor of Jean Lafond, Floyd | recently proclaimed Floyd | Governor of St. Sinistra Floyd | A Dance at his Mansion Floyd | Ananas Road, St. Sinistra Floyd | Formal Dress and Invitation Required. Floyd | Floyd | A ball! You haven't been to a ball in months! Floyd | Men clomp about overhead and a rope ladder unfurls itself past the Floyd | window. Jamison climbs down it, entering the skiff that awaits him Floyd | below. He rows to the island as the men above your head disperse, Floyd | calling farewells to their captain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "read invitation" | ||||
Floyd | The invitation is addressed to "Davis": Floyd | Floyd | In Honor of Jean Lafond, Floyd | recently proclaimed Floyd | Governor of St. Sinistra Floyd | A Dance at his Mansion Floyd | Ananas Road, St. Sinistra Floyd | Formal Dress and Invitation Required. Floyd | Floyd | You can't read an invitation! Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | These windows don't open. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x rope" | ||||
Floyd | Completely common looking rope ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "huh, a bug" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "climb rope" | ||||
Floyd | It's on the other side of the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and gilded Floyd | woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "open curtain" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the cloth aside momentarily. Behind it, a large cupboard Floyd | mostly blocks the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | You can see only the back of the large cupboard. You might be able to Floyd | squeeze past it. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "climb through window" | ||||
Floyd | The available ledge on this side of the window is hardly deep enough to Floyd | sit on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | The door is on the other side of the large cupboard. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "grab ladder" | ||||
Floyd | It's on the other side of the window. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "NO REALLY" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "really."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "throw chest at window" | ||||
Floyd | You hurl the coffer through the window, sending it and a shower of Floyd | glass into the sea. The ledge now looks deep enough to sit upon. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "squeeze past cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "past."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "grab rope" | ||||
Floyd | You lean over the ledge, but the ladder is too far out to reach. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "sit ledge" | ||||
Floyd | [That sentence isn't one I recognize.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "sit on ledge" | ||||
Floyd | You climb onto the ledge. The ladder drifts within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You put everything in your reticule and reach out for the ladder and Floyd | over-balance, tumbling from your perch. Your hand closes on a slimy Floyd | hemp rung as you fly out over the waves, clinging tenuously, feet free, Floyd | to the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | You are clinging to a slimy ladder, tied to a rail of the poop deck Floyd | above you. Not far from your feet, waves kiss the stern of the ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | In these clothes? You jest. Floyd | All air is driven out of you as the ladder slams into the stern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Idd arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | In these clothes? You jest. Floyd | Rebounding, the ladder twists you around to face the Helena Louise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | In these clothes? You jest. Floyd | The ladder swings back towards the Helena Louise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb rail" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "rail."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "remove dress" | ||||
Floyd | You can't manage the fastenings while whipping to and fro on a ladder. Floyd | All air is driven out of you as the ladder slams into the stern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You pull yourself over the ledge, tumbling head over heels into Floyd | Jamison's quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "remove dress" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the cotton frock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Did you have any particular direction in mind? Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "3DS Mario having a gyroscopic camera is interesting: On the one hand, it could be revolutionary; on the other hand, a slight reflexive twitch could put the camera in a wall if it is implemented badly." | |||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | That was just a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "sit on ledge" | ||||
Floyd | You climb onto the ledge. The ladder drifts within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to be holding the ladder first. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows by. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "grab ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You put everything in your reticule and reach out for the ladder and Floyd | over-balance, tumbling from your perch. Your hand closes on a slimy Floyd | hemp rung as you fly out over the waves, clinging tenuously, feet free, Floyd | to the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Rebounding, the ladder twists you around to face the Helena Louise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You climb up the ladder. Floyd | Your battered hands can take no more. Your grip loosens and the sea Floyd | comes up to break your fall. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 58 turns, you have achieved a score of 1 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Damsel in Distress. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "what" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang" | |||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | Ellison says, "Gunther is a horrible damsel" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "We hadn't saved yet... right? ...RIGHT?" | ||||
| Gunther says (to Ellison), "Let me just say how wrong you are" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "Not so pretty, either" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | schep says, "right" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%undo" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | >SHOOT THE PIRATE Floyd | Trembling, you fire the heavy arquebus. You hear its loud report over Floyd | the roaring wind, yet the dark figure still approaches. The gun falls Floyd | from your nerveless hands. Floyd | "You won't kill me," he says, stepping over the weapon. "Not when I Floyd | am the only protection you have from Jean Lafond." Floyd | Chestnut hair, tousled by the wind, frames the tanned oval of his Floyd | face. Lips curving, his eyes rake over your inadequately dressed body, Floyd | the damp chemise clinging to your legs and heaving bosom, your gleaming Floyd | hair. You are intensely aware of the strength of his hard seaworn body, Floyd | of the deep sea blue of his eyes. And then his mouth is on yours, lips Floyd | parted, demanding, and you arch into his kiss... Floyd | He presses you against him, head bent. "But who, my dear," he Floyd | whispers into your hair, "will protect you from me?" Floyd | Floyd | [Press RETURN or ENTER to begin.] Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Well, now you know to save." | |||
| Jizaboz says, "haha" | ||||
| Gunther says, "the game should reset the counter when we get off the ladder" | ||||
| schep presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | PLUNDERED HEARTS Floyd | Infocom interactive fiction Floyd | Copyright (c) 1987 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. Floyd | PLUNDERED HEARTS is a trademark of Infocom, Inc. Floyd | Release 26 / Serial number 870730 Floyd | Floyd | LATE ONE SPRING NIGHT IN THE WEST INDIES... Floyd | Floyd | A crash overhead! Pirates are boarding the Lafond Deux! The first Floyd | mate hurries you into Captain Davis's cabin. Floyd | "Good, you brought the girl," Davis smirks. "She'll keep the pirates Floyd | busy. She was only a tool of Lafond's, anyway. Let me just find that Floyd | cof--" A man on deck screams in agony and Davis starts. "Let's go." The Floyd | captain thrusts you on the bed and walks out, locking the door. Floyd | His laugh echoes. "Best get comfortable, girl. You're likely to be Floyd | there for the rest of your life." Floyd | Floyd | Cabin, on the bed Floyd | You are in an officer's cabin, lit by the firelight glowing through Floyd | a porthole. A door is to starboard. Except for the built-in bed, the Floyd | room seems to have been emptied thoroughly, if hurriedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gunther says, "what a crummy bugfest!" | |||
| Ellison says, "PLUNDERED RESTARTS is more like it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Royce presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | [Prithee, pardon?] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "hahha" | |||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "press space" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "space."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the bed. Floyd | "The Falcon! The Falcon conquers!" yells someone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | One cannot dance the minuet alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "if you guys want, I can e-mail Amy Briggs and take back all of the nice things I said to her" | |||
| Ellison says, "(ok, I won't)" | ||||
| Gunther says, "no, by all means" | ||||
| Ellison says, "even with the bugs, it's still easier than Spellbreaker or Trinity" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It appears to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Suddenly, the ship lurches to one side, throwing you off balance. A Floyd | coffer slides from under the bed and bumps against your foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open coffer" | ||||
Floyd | It's quite locked. Floyd | You recognize a voice from far away, "Don't take that! Look in the Floyd | cabin at the stern -- you'll find some fun there!" It sounds like Floyd | Davis. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "I wonder if we could play a Legend game like Timequest, Eric the Unready, or Spellcasting in this manner? maybe someone could post the room descriptions here while playing it with our commands, or do some sort of Livestream?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take coffer" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | With a creak and a crash, somewhere a mast falls to the deck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a coffer and your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It seems Floyd | that your reticule contains smelling salts and a banknote. You are Floyd | wearing your kid slippers, a linen chemise and a cotton frock. Floyd | "Cap'n Jamison! We've got 'em!" cries a rough voice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x chemise" | ||||
Floyd | It's covered by other clothes. Floyd | Crash! You whirl around to see the door shatter, kicked by a hulking Floyd | man, his twisted visage blackened with soot and blood. "Me name's Andy Floyd | Crulley, and ladies learn to love me," sniggers the pirate, advancing Floyd | toward you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "kick andy" | ||||
Floyd | Your slippered toes could not hurt Crulley. Floyd | "Avast me, but ain't ye a beauty," sniggers the pirate. His breath Floyd | is heavy with rum. Floyd | "Aaieeee!" echoes a scream, followed by several grunts and thumps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "kiss andy" | ||||
Floyd | "Wi' a wannion! I likes me ladies forward!" Floyd | "They calls me Andy, but I'm really randy," sniggers the pirate, Floyd | advancing toward you. Floyd | Crulley drags you, despite your resistance, towards him. Then Floyd | suddenly he grunts, stiffens and slumps into your arms. Stunned, Floyd | Crulley collapses at your feet, his eyes rolling. Floyd | A tall form blocks the shattered door, one fist still raised from Floyd | striking your attacker. You catch a glimpse of the hard masculinity of Floyd | his broad shoulders, the implied power in the scar that etches the Floyd | stranger's jaw, and feel tremors course through your veins. Then you Floyd | realize how ragged are his shirt, patched breeches and high boots. Floyd | Intuitively, you understand -- he is the dreaded Falcon, scourge of the Floyd | sea! Alas, your fate is sealed. Resigned, you meet his sea-blue eyes. Floyd | With a creak and a crash, somewhere a mast falls to the deck. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| Jizaboz says, "Awesome" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x falcon" | ||||
Floyd | Jamison carries an aura of power unusual in men so slim and tall, the Floyd | strength of a willow in his hard seaworn body, straight shouldered and Floyd | resilient. Chestnut hair, tousled by the wind, frames the tanned oval Floyd | of his face. A jagged scar etches one cheek, harsh against the warmth Floyd | of his limpid blue eyes. Floyd | To your surprise, the stranger bows. "Well met, my lady." His accent Floyd | is cultured, his smile vibrant. "I am Captain Nicholas Jamison, known Floyd | in these waters as 'The Falcon'. Your father has sent me." He chuckles Floyd | at your glare of distrust. "Yes, you are like your sire. You needn't Floyd | believe me untried -- I carry this." He hands you a missive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x eyes" | ||||
Floyd | They look just like your eyes. Floyd | The pirate captain glances around the empty room, then notices the Floyd | coffer in your arms. "Davis's safety box -- my men were hoping I'd find Floyd | it." He takes it and nudges the unconscious man on the floor, "I wonder Floyd | how Crulley knew you were here? Just his bad luck? He'll be flogged Floyd | when he wakes." Floyd | The pirate bows. "My lady, may I offer my protection and my ship Floyd | until your father is free?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | You nod tentatively. Floyd | He chuckles. "Brave lady, to trust a stranger -- and a pirate. Who Floyd | knows, perhaps I forged your father's signature? Keep by my side as we Floyd | go to my ship -- few sailors respect a lady's dignity." He helps you Floyd | through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Deck Floyd | The deck is an avalanche of noise and blood. Lit by roaring fires, Floyd | silhouetted forms crash swords, dancing around the screaming wounded. Floyd | Out of the smoke staggers Davis, tugging a bloodied knife from the Floyd | back of a pirate. Davis's eyes gleam white from a face blackened and Floyd | bloody, his lips dark red as if he has been drinking blood. He turns to Floyd | face you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | Although your voice is quite piercing, no one notices you. Floyd | Davis leaps across the deck to your side, "Free me or she dies!" he Floyd | yells, jabbing a knife up to your throat. In one smooth motion, Captain Floyd | Jamison draws his rapier, pulls you free and stabs. Davis slumps into a Floyd | bloody heap. Floyd | Swooning, you fall into the Falcon's arms. You are dimly aware of Floyd | being carried to the other ship, down a short flight of stairs, and Floyd | laid gently on a soft bed. When you gather strength to look around, the Floyd | Falcon has left you in peace. Floyd | You remain confined to this room, a large cupboard blocking the Floyd | door. Meals are brought by a peg-legged old man and eaten in silence. Floyd | Of your handsome rescuer you see nothing. Slowly the days pass. Floyd | Floyd | [Press RETURN or ENTER to continue.] Floyd | | ||||
| schep presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | TWO DAYS LATER... Floyd | Floyd | You blear awake from a bored nap, focusing on something shiny. You Floyd | discern it to be a new ring, on a strong hand in the act of tying a Floyd | ribbon onto a rapier. Floyd | The man with the rapier and the ring turns, "Sorry, I tried not to Floyd | wake you." You sit up as if the bed had caught fire, for this is the Floyd | Falcon, changed from his rags to a finery all red velvet and white lace Floyd | -- and in your presence! Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters, on the bed Floyd | You are in the captain's quarters of the Helena Louise, where you Floyd | have been trapped these past days since your "rescue" from the Lafond Floyd | Deux. The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed (upon which you lie). A curtain masks the Floyd | forward exit and gilded woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window Floyd | looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Aye." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "throw coffer at porthole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any coffer here! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "could we have hit anyone with the coffer in the first scene? seems a shame to have a coffer and not hit someone with it" | |||
| schep says, "hm, good idea" | ||||
| Idd goes home. | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jizaboz says, "I nominate Ellison as the captain of the SS Plundered Hearts." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "kiss falcon" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach Captain Jamison from the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Pity" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the bed. Floyd | "We have anchored off St. Sinistra," says Captain Jamison, "and I Floyd | must look like a guest at Lafond's dance tonight. I will find and free Floyd | your father, and then finally wreak my revenge on Lafond." He half Floyd | draws his rapier from its scabbard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x rapier" | ||||
Floyd | Jamison's rapier is a dangerous looking sword with a narrow pointed Floyd | blade. It is decorated with a big floppy ribbon. Floyd | "I am sorry you have been confined down here, but I don't trust my Floyd | lonely crew with such beauty. Crulley isn't the only man aboard with Floyd | few principles." He smiles at you, eyes lingering, and takes your hand. Floyd | You feel your color rising. "If anything goes wrong, turn to Cookie. He Floyd | is quite deaf, but capable. He'll see you through." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, ">AVERT EYES" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and gilded Floyd | woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window looking aft. Floyd | Captain Jamison is adjusting his clothes. Floyd | His look darkens. "You should know why I hate Lafond: Some years Floyd | ago, as my brother and his bride sailed to a new life in Virginia, Floyd | pirates struck. Their ship was boarded, looted and burned, the women Floyd | taken, never to be seen again. A sailor, the one survivor, watched as a Floyd | man of Lafond's description shot my brother in the back as he tried to Floyd | save the women. Lafond has now bought respectability, but he shall Floyd | never buy peace." Jamison straightens resolutely, bows, and departs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and gilded Floyd | woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm starting to have puzzle flashbacks. I shall be most intrigued to see how you brave men do." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "go cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | Did you have any particular direction in mind? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open curtain" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the cloth aside momentarily. Behind it, a large cupboard Floyd | mostly blocks the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter doorway" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "doorway."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "search cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | You can see only the back of the large cupboard. You might be able to Floyd | squeeze past it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "enter cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any way to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "squeeze me" | ||||
Floyd | What an odd thing to attempt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You are now on the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to stand up first. Floyd | You hear the large cupboard scrape, and turn to see Captain Jamison. Floyd | "Hello! I came down to give you this -- my allotment from the coffer." Floyd | He nods at the box in his arms. Floyd | Jamison starts to pin a jewelled brooch on your clothes, but, "Devil Floyd | take it, the clasp is broken. I'll have it repaired." He folds the Floyd | pretty thing into your hand. "And I meant to reassure you that if the Floyd | men suddenly abandon ship, they are off to help me. Rodney will stay Floyd | behind with you." He drops the coffer on the floor, smiling in Floyd | farewell, and walks swiftly away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | coffer: You'll have to stand up first. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Is this the same coffer with the invitation? That would be a lame gift." | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "stand up" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "yup" | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | coffer: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "open coffe" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "coffe."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "open coffer" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the coffer reveals an invitation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see what you're referring to. Floyd | Men clomp about overhead and a rope ladder unfurls itself past the Floyd | window. Jamison climbs down it, entering the skiff that awaits him Floyd | below. He rows to the island as the men above your head disperse, Floyd | calling farewells to their captain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "squeeze cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | It's not worth it. Believe me. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and gilded Floyd | woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take invitation" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | The invitation is addressed to "Davis": Floyd | Floyd | In Honor of Jean Lafond, Floyd | recently proclaimed Floyd | Governor of St. Sinistra Floyd | A Dance at his Mansion Floyd | Ananas Road, St. Sinistra Floyd | Formal Dress and Invitation Required. Floyd | Floyd | A ball! You haven't been to a ball in months! Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "invitation, check. dress, transportation, TBD." | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l under bed" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing under the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "sing."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "remove dress" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the cotton frock. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x chemise" | ||||
Floyd | The linen chemise, kneelength and sleeveless, clings damply to your Floyd | legs and torso. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says (to Floyd), "x frock" | ||||
Floyd | It is your favorite old frock, looking rather bedraggled without its Floyd | hoops, which you hadn't time to put on during the pirate attack. The Floyd | worn fabric of the skirt often catches on things, tearing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "repair frock" | ||||
Floyd | But the cotton frock isn't broken! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and gilded Floyd | woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and gilded Floyd | woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and gilded Floyd | woodwork decorates the sill of the tall window looking aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "the ladder is gone..." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Completely common looking rope ladder. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have an invitation, a coffer, a jewelled brooch, a missive, your Floyd | reticule (hanging from your wrist) and a cotton frock. It seems that Floyd | your reticule contains smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing Floyd | your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Oh, ok.." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "did we miss the Capn leaving?" | |||
| Jizaboz says, "Uhh.. hu, I don't get it" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x reticule" | ||||
Floyd | You and Mama made the little drawstring bag a few months before she Floyd | passed on. It's amazing how much it can hold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x brooch" | ||||
Floyd | All diamonds winking fire, tears of sapphire and crushed rubies in an Floyd | oval setting, it is a pity that the clasp of the jewelled brooch has Floyd | broken. The gold pin at the back swings about uselessly. Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "irta Captain Loving" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Rumor says that Grand Theft Auto V might be coming to the Cafe. A system with the imaginative variety of the Wii and some cool ultra-violent open world games would be fun, and infuriate the censors." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of inured), "Are you on the right chanel?" | ||||
| Gunther says, "no" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "throw coffer at porthole" | ||||
Floyd | You hurl the coffer through the window, sending it and a shower of Floyd | glass into the sea. The ledge now looks deep enough to sit upon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz exclaims, "Thank you!" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I am watching the game, and also talking about other games." | ||||
| Gunther says, "talk about other games belongs on #videogames, though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, well, please discuss the other games on the right channel." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter ledge" | ||||
Floyd | You climb onto the ledge. The ladder drifts within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "..floyd" | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Sorry." | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters, on the ledge Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and air Floyd | breezes in over the ledge aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You put everything in your reticule and reach out for the ladder and Floyd | over-balance, tumbling from your perch. Your hand closes on a slimy Floyd | hemp rung as you fly out over the waves, clinging tenuously, feet free, Floyd | to the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | You are clinging to a slimy ladder, tied to a rail of the poop deck Floyd | above you. Not far from your feet, waves kiss the stern of the ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "NP" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You climb up the ladder. Floyd | All air is driven out of you as the ladder slams into the stern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You climb up the ladder, passing the halfway point. Floyd | Rebounding, the ladder twists you around to face the Helena Louise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You climb up the ladder. Floyd | The ladder swings back towards the Helena Louise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l helenda" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "helenda."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l helena" | ||||
Floyd | You may use prepositions to indicate precisely what you want to do: Floyd | LOOK AT the object, LOOK INSIDE it, LOOK UNDER it, etc. In this case Floyd | I'll take you to mean LOOK AT the object. Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | You are clinging to a slimy ladder, tied to a rail of the poop deck Floyd | above you. Not far from your feet, waves kiss the stern of the ship. Floyd | All air is driven out of you as the ladder slams into the stern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l at helena" | ||||
Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | You are clinging to a slimy ladder, tied to a rail of the poop deck Floyd | above you. Not far from your feet, waves kiss the stern of the ship. Floyd | Rebounding, the ladder twists you around to face the Helena Louise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You heave yourself over the stern rail and sink breathless to the deck Floyd | of the Helena Louise. Floyd | Floyd | Poop Floyd | From this platform deck you can see the whole of the two-masted Floyd | ship, shadowy forms moving about here and there. A railing protects you Floyd | from stepping off the deck in any direction but to the fore. A rope Floyd | ladder is tied to the railing at the stern of the ship. Floyd | The ship is floating midway between the island and a line of reefs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Jizaboz), "the player only has a certain number of turns to get up the rope" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to ellison), "Sorry & thanks" | schep asks, "so stripping really was the answer?" | |||
| Gunther says, "sure, we just ran out of turns" | ||||
| Gunther says, "I mean, not that I knew, but "not in these clothes" was a pretty strong hint" | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to clubfloyd), "which was my fault.." | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I think the rom name might be appropriate for this game." | |||
| canadianpuzzler arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | inuredbyheavyrain says, "room" | |||
| schep says, "I guess it's more justification than most swashbuckling movies" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "heh" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | If you wish to climb down the ladder, say so. Floyd | Your eyes are drawn to a flicker of light off the sea. Squinting, Floyd | you see a man swimming to shore, moonlight flashing off his hook. A Floyd | wisp of breeze brings an odor of onions and rum, and the occasional Floyd | gargling chuckle, "...mischief, har...reefs." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l man" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any man here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | From this platform deck you can see the whole of the two-masted Floyd | ship, shadowy forms moving about here and there. A railing protects you Floyd | from stepping off the deck in any direction but to the fore. A rope Floyd | ladder is tied to the railing at the stern of the ship. Floyd | The ship is floating midway between the island and a line of reefs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x reefs" | ||||
Floyd | A line of reefs separates the lagoon from the sea beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | No torches are lit, or needed on this moonlit night, except in the Floyd | deep shadows cast by the huge navigation wheel. Men move about to the Floyd | fore, talking quietly. Under the stairs aft to the poop is a barred Floyd | door. Floyd | The ship is floating midway between the island and a line of reefs. Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | A sailor notices the "swish" of your petticoats. "A woman," he Floyd | gasps, "free, aboard this ship!" Floyd | It's been rather a long time since any of the crew have dealt with Floyd | the fairer sex, and they are a bit rough, despite Rodney Quick's Floyd | exhortations. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 71 turns, you have achieved a score of 2 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Damsel in Distress. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "..." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | Jizaboz says, "We just got rape raped" | |||
| schep says, "to death, yes" | ||||
| Gunther has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x rail" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "rail."] Floyd | Floyd | > | * Gunther has left the channel. | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | From this platform deck you can see the whole of the two-masted Floyd | ship, shadowy forms moving about here and there. A railing protects you Floyd | from stepping off the deck in any direction but to the fore. A rope Floyd | ladder is tied to the railing at the stern of the ship. Floyd | The ship is floating midway between the island and a line of reefs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x island" | ||||
Floyd | St. Sinistra is blessed with lush tropical beauty, jungle besieging the Floyd | mansion atop the southern cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x mansion" | ||||
Floyd | You can't make out much of the house from this angle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Grand_Inquisitor exclaims, "Save often! Floss regularly! Floss meaningfully! Floss athletically! And above all, never forget who is the boss of you. ME! I am the boss of you! I am the boss of you!" | |||
| Allen asks, "what are you playing?" | ||||
| Allen arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "Plundered Hearts" | |||
| Allen says, "oh! I should have been here earlier!" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tear dress" | ||||
Floyd | You rip a large rag out of the cotton frock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "it's my FAVORITE" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x rag" | ||||
Floyd | It is a fairly hefty scrap of fabric. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh. anyhow, csb." | |||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear rag" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear a rag! Floyd | The reefs seem a little larger than you thought before. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "A dull romance thing, not up to the standards of other Infocom games." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x frock" | ||||
Floyd | It is your favorite old frock, looking rather bedraggled without its Floyd | hoops. There is a tear out of the skirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "disguise me as boy" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "disguise."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "I don't want to get into this during the game, but remind me to ask you later why you never have anything positive to say about what we play, and why despite this you keep showing up to play with us." | |||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a rag and your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It seems Floyd | that your reticule contains a cotton frock, a missive, a jewelled Floyd | brooch, an invitation, smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing Floyd | your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "remove chemise" | ||||
Floyd | But that wouldn't be decent! Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "(had to try it at some point)" | |||
| Emily says, "alternatively, it's the most narratively advanced game Infocom ever wrote, and was a good decade ahead of its time design-wise" | ||||
| Emily says, "if you like that sort of thing" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "I think it's neat so far, just clueless on what to do" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x slippers" | ||||
Floyd | They are dainty yet practical kidskin shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I did like some of the games we played, like The Best Man, Rapunzel, the one about a guy in a coma, and the one where you get caught in the rain." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I really enjoyed this one as well. It doesn't feel like the other Infocom games. It feels like it was written a couple of decades later than it actually was." | ||||
| schep asks (of inured), "do you like pina coladas?" | ||||
| Allen says (to Emily), "and it makes me grin like an idiot, when (spoiler) aoccurs, and then the vicious (spoiler) and at the end when they (spoiler) happily ever after" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to schep), "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Allen), "haha" | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x brooch" | ||||
Floyd | All diamonds winking fire, tears of sapphire and crushed rubies in an Floyd | oval setting, it is a pity that the clasp of the jewelled brooch has Floyd | broken. The gold pin at the back swings about uselessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "This game makes me want crab legs." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take gold pin" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any gold pin here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take pin" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x pin" | ||||
Floyd | All diamonds winking fire, tears of sapphire and crushed rubies in an Floyd | oval setting, it is a pity that the clasp of the jewelled brooch has Floyd | broken. The gold pin at the back swings about uselessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "break pin" | ||||
Floyd | Trying to destroy the jewelled brooch doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "sew shirt" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "sew."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "Too bad we can't stab someone in the neck with it.." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to schep), "Damn you I have the pina colada song in my head now/" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "Wasted away again in pina colodaville..." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tear frock" | ||||
Floyd | You already have a rag. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No, not that one." | |||
| Jizaboz says, "The Club Dread version is all I know." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "give pin to pirate" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any pirate here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x sailors" | ||||
Floyd | Completely common looking man. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "completely common and murderous" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x reef" | ||||
Floyd | A line of reefs separates the lagoon from the sea beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x helm" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "helm."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "it's a kind of hat" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "it's."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a jewelled brooch, a rag and your reticule (hanging from your Floyd | wrist). It seems that your reticule contains a cotton frock, a missive, Floyd | an invitation, smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing your kid Floyd | slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | From this platform deck you can see the whole of the two-masted Floyd | ship, shadowy forms moving about here and there. A railing protects you Floyd | from stepping off the deck in any direction but to the fore. A rope Floyd | ladder is tied to the railing at the stern of the ship. Floyd | The reefs seem a little larger than you thought before. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "man, the plot on rails has rather suddenly stopped pushing" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "put smelling salts on rag" | ||||
| schep says, "I guess we're supposed to do something clever now" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "My thoughts exactly, schep" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put salts on rag" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good surface on the rag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x salts" | ||||
Floyd | You always carry your smelling salts, for emergencies. There is a small Floyd | tag on one side of them. Floyd | The reefs are definitely getting larger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "put samelling salts on rag" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "samelling."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "oops smelling" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good surface on the rag. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | [LINK] | |||
| Jizaboz says, "Oh god no haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There. Now I am not the only one in pain." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I was hoping for Chloroform and reciprocal rape, but no." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Fortunately I turned it up and sang along loudly until maga finally put on some Apocalyptica loud enough to drown me out and I think I'm okay now." | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | From this platform deck you can see the whole of the two-masted Floyd | ship, shadowy forms moving about here and there. A railing protects you Floyd | from stepping off the deck in any direction but to the fore. A rope Floyd | ladder is tied to the railing at the stern of the ship. Floyd | The reefs are definitely getting larger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "untie ladder" | ||||
Floyd | The rope is tied in too complex a knot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cut ladder with pin" | ||||
Floyd | And how do you propose to do that? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "well you poke it a long time, and.." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I love Jimmy Buffett" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "I hate him" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "How are we going to get out here without getting raped? I don't see the materials for disguise" | ||||
| schep says, "maybe the ship will crash on the reefs" | ||||
| lno arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says, "Quit talking about Jimmy Buffet or I'll have A Pirate Looks at Forty stuck in my head next." | |||
| Jizaboz says, "Besides, that's a Swiss Family Robinson solution" | ||||
| * lno has joined the channel. | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), " give banknote to sailors" | ||||
Floyd | You can't give a banknote to a man! Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Bribing does not work,drugging does not work; what options are left?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear frock" | ||||
Floyd | You don the cotton frock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jizaboz says, "crashing onto the reefs would make sense if we were with stupid pirates." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "[LINK]" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "we need captain edison to move us along heh" | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "#ellison" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | Wasn't that fun? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | That was just a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "not that I remember what to do, I've already played this game so it's unfair for me to drive" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Dennis Leary stole everything." | ||||
| Jizaboz says, "I'm afraid to go out again" | ||||
| ParserGirl goes home. | schep says, "might as well see if not prancing out in underwear makes any difference" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | No torches are lit, or needed on this moonlit night, except in the Floyd | deep shadows cast by the huge navigation wheel. Men move about to the Floyd | fore, talking quietly. Under the stairs aft to the poop is a barred Floyd | door. Floyd | The reefs are definitely getting larger. Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | A sailor notices the "swish" of your petticoats. "A woman," he Floyd | gasps, "free, aboard this ship!" Floyd | It's been rather a long time since any of the crew have dealt with Floyd | the fairer sex, and they are a bit rough, despite Rodney Quick's Floyd | exhortations. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 100 turns, you have achieved a score of 2 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Damsel in Distress. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | schep says, "nope" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | In these clothes? You jest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "stern" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "stern."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "starboard" | ||||
Floyd | You can't swim, and decide not to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | You can't swim, and decide not to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz hops on his skateboard and rolls out. | Miseri says, "Oh, Plundered Hearts. People have seen the feelies, right? I think it was the banknote that's not described in game other than with some sort of 'see feelies' message ... unless that's been fixed for this version." | |||
| Ellison says, "oh, I get it now" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a jewelled brooch, a rag and your reticule (hanging from your Floyd | wrist). It seems that your reticule contains a missive, an invitation, Floyd | smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing a cotton frock, your kid Floyd | slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x banknote" | ||||
Floyd | This is the banknote that came in your game package. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I have an insane idea." | |||
| Miseri says, "there was a puzzle that was clued only via the feelies, as I recall." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "remove frock" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the cotton frock. Floyd | Bswish! Waves smash against the reefs nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "this is also one of the games that absolutely pushes the limits of the z3 format." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "remove chemise" | ||||
Floyd | But that wouldn't be decent! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We got through this game without the feelies, Mis." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "remove slippers" | ||||
Floyd | But your kid slippers are so comfortable! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| lno has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Allen says, "there's no extra space available" | |||
| gjnave arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "Hrm... though maybe we looked the banknote up online or something." | |||
| Miseri says (to Jacqueline), "Ah, good." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain I thought maybe if I took off the woman's clothes and wore the rag, I might be able to pretend to be a man, but no. | Allen says, "I don't think the feelies are in any way necessary." | |||
| gjnave asks, "what game are we playing?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, we got through it, and I don't have any tangible feelies, just the game." | ||||
| schep says, "I hope we didn't miss something important in the cabin" | ||||
| Ellison says, "the feelies are at [LINK]" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to gjn), "Plundered Hearts" | ||||
| gjnave says, "ahh.. going classic" | ||||
| Ellison says, "looking at the banknote is necessary, but we don't need it yet" | ||||
| gjnave says, "ill check and see if the feelies are neccesary.. just a sec" | ||||
| gjnave says, "seems there is one thing that is necessary.. but not sure what it is" | ||||
| Allen says, "oh, I see what you mean about the banknote. I never noticed that before." | ||||
| Allen says, "it's completely possible to play and win the game without that hint" | ||||
| Ellison says, "weird" | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | From this platform deck you can see the whole of the two-masted Floyd | ship, shadowy forms moving about here and there. A railing protects you Floyd | from stepping off the deck in any direction but to the fore. A rope Floyd | ladder is tied to the railing at the stern of the ship. Floyd | Bswish! Waves smash against the reefs nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave asks, "what is the point we are stuck at?" | |||
| schep says, "the poop deck" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Two points out of 25." | ||||
| gjnave gives a 2 points out of 25 highfive | ||||
| gjnave asks, "whats up the rope?" | ||||
| schep says, "we climbed up the rope from the captain's quarters, where we were barred in by a cupboard blocking the door" | ||||
| gjnave asks, "and now we cant get off the poop deck?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought you could -- oh, nevermind. Can't speak." | ||||
| Royce says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||||
| Royce has disconnected. | schep says, "the only obvious exits are back down the rope, and fore to the main deck, where there are many sailors who would rape and kill any woman they find aboard" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | From this platform deck you can see the whole of the two-masted Floyd | ship, shadowy forms moving about here and there. A railing protects you Floyd | from stepping off the deck in any direction but to the fore. A rope Floyd | ladder is tied to the railing at the stern of the ship. Floyd | Bswish! Waves smash against the reefs nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x mast" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any mast here! Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave asks, "so the game doesnt let you go to the main deck?" | |||
| gjnave says, "floyd jump off deck" | ||||
| schep says, "it is an insta-death" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I think we need to get a disguise" | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a cotton frock, a jewelled brooch, a rag and your reticule Floyd | (hanging from your wrist). It seems that your reticule contains a Floyd | missive, an invitation, smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing Floyd | your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "This isn't from the same locale as the cupboard, right? That was the earlier scene?" | |||
| Ellison says, "right" | ||||
| schep says, "the cupboard is back down in the cabin, though we can only get at its backside" | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "examine missive" | ||||
Floyd | The missive is in dear Papa's handwriting: Floyd | Floyd | "Dearest child, Floyd | You are in gravest danger! Lafond is a viper with the smile of a Floyd | saint, my most particular enemy. I have only now learned the depth of Floyd | his deception. Should Lafond get you in his power... It is unspeakable! Floyd | I have sided with Nicholas Jamison, a sea captain and a gentleman, Floyd | whose circumstances have driven him to extreme measures, even branding Floyd | him a pirate. Nevertheless, I trust him and so may you. Floyd | You will be safe -- but there is another for whom I fear! My horse Floyd | is waiting and I ride to her rescue. Jamison will deliver this to you. Floyd | Should anything happen to me, you must rely on him. I remain, with Floyd | love, your father." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave asks, "is going to the main deck an insta-death?" | |||
| schep says, "it was the last two times" | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "examine poop" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "poop."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "hang from rail" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "rail."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "hang from railing" | ||||
Floyd | [That sentence isn't one I recognize.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "examine railing" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing extraordinary about the railing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | If you wish to climb down the ladder, say so. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "swing ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You're not holding the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave says, "maybe something with the railing? It does mention it in the description of the poop" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "sniff smelling salts" | ||||
Floyd | You jerk the smelling salts away from your nose after one brief Floyd | ammoniac whiff. Your burning nostrils make you feel more alert. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "stand on railing" | ||||
Floyd | Don't bother. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | The rope is tied in too complex a knot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain I was hoping for a stimulant effect that would allow us to run from the pirates. | gjnave says, "to where? ;)" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave says, "we're probably missing an item" | |||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb down to opposite the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You dash up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Poop Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "yell for help" | ||||
Floyd | [You used the word "help" in a way that I don't understand.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb down to opposite the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | You are misted in the spray of waves hitting the reefs. The island Floyd | is far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "enter ledge" | ||||
Floyd | You pull yourself over the ledge, tumbling head over heels into Floyd | Jamison's quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | The room has a masculine air, with ebony panelling, a large messy Floyd | table, and a rumpled bed. A curtain masks the forward exit and air Floyd | breezes in over the ledge aft. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "whoa, where'd that table come from?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | You have no need for that, milady. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "oh yeah that 'table'" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "search table" | ||||
Floyd | You have no need for that, milady. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x mess" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any mess here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "sleep bed" | ||||
Floyd | [That sentence isn't one I recognize.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | The large cupboard is not flush against the doorsill. You squeeze Floyd | through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | You are on the landing of a steep stairway heading up and down. A Floyd | large cupboard against the aft wall blocks the doorway to the captain's Floyd | quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep kicks the parser | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That... was what I was thinking of, yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "That's the first time you've squeezed past it?" | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Ellison asks, "is that what schep was trying to SQUEEZE PAST earlier?" | |||
| schep says, "yes" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | The door at the top of the stairs won't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave asks, "so did we just get somewhere we hadnt before?" | |||
| schep says, "'You could probably squeeze past it.' >SQUEEZE PAST CUPBOARD 'I don't know the word "past".' >GO CUPBOARD 'I don't understand.', etc" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x trap door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any trap door here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Aft Hold Floyd | This is a gloomy, damp area at the bottom of the Helena Louise. To Floyd | the fore there seems to be a little more light, or you can climb up Floyd | some steep stairs. Floyd | Suddenly you appreciate what it is to be a ball in an exploding Floyd | cannon. The intense heat, the push of fire, and the sense of release Floyd | when spit from the cannon's mouth -- these you feel when the lighted Floyd | fuse finally burns up to the largest keg of gunpowder in the hold. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 129 turns, you have achieved a score of 2 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Damsel in Distress. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | olethros says, "which games i sthis" | |||
| schep says, "wha" | ||||
| gjnave says, "Plundered Hearts" | ||||
| schep says, "tell me that was just extremely unfortunate timing" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Suddenly you appreciate what it is to be a ball in an exploding Floyd | cannon. The intense heat, the push of fire, and the sense of release Floyd | when spit from the cannon's mouth -- these you feel when the lighted Floyd | fuse finally burns up to the largest keg of gunpowder in the hold. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 129 turns, you have achieved a score of 2 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Damsel in Distress. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I think there's a timer, and you are at its end." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But I might be wrong." | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh yeah. I think Jacqueline is right." | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "list."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Grand_Inquisitor exclaims, "Save often! Floss regularly! Floss meaningfully! Floss athletically! And above all, never forget who is the boss of you. ME! I am the boss of you! I am the boss of you!" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee - aye-aye" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb down to opposite the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Your eyes are drawn to a flicker of light off the sea. Squinting, Floyd | you see a man swimming to shore, moonlight flashing off his hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You pull yourself over the ledge, tumbling head over heels into Floyd | Jamison's quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | The large cupboard is not flush against the doorsill. You squeeze Floyd | through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | You are on the landing of a steep stairway heading up and down. A Floyd | large cupboard against the aft wall blocks the doorway to the captain's Floyd | quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. It is a dark messy bed, set entirely within and filling the Floyd | large cupboard. A cabin boy must sleep here when Jamison isn't using Floyd | it. Kicked into a far corner is a pile of clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "yay, cabin boy clothes" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take clothes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the pile of clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "that explains our uncanny resemblance to Chris Elliot!" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Is this game seriously going to make us guess the direction of that corner?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I'd imagine we have to enter the cupboard" | ||||
| schep says, "I knew boy-disguise was the correct meme" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | Sleeping Cupboard Floyd | The bed is softer than it looks, plumped up with fresh straw. A Floyd | soft, if somewhat cramped, bunk for the tall bulk of Jamison. The Floyd | cupboard opens to the fore. Floyd | Kicked into a far corner is a pile of clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "examine clothes" | ||||
Floyd | To get a better look, you pick up the pile of clothes. It separates Floyd | into a pair of breeches and a shirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave says, "naise! now you can look like a dude" | |||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "wear clothes" | ||||
Floyd | [Which clothes dost thou mean, the breeches, the shirt, the cotton Floyd | frock, or the linen chemise?] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "yay dost thou" | |||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "breeches" | ||||
Floyd | You tuck the linen chemise into the pants. You look a little fat, but Floyd | now you can move freely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "wear shirt" | ||||
Floyd | It fits loosely, masking your figure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "smell teeth" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "teeth."] Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave says, "that was a throw back to zork" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "hello sailor" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing happens here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "xyzzy."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "undo."] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "let's check out the hold, where it's extremely unlikely someone has lit a fuse to the gunpowder storage" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | Aft Hold Floyd | This is a gloomy, damp area at the bottom of the Helena Louise. To Floyd | the fore there seems to be a little more light, or you can climb up Floyd | some steep stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Hold Floyd | Steep stairs lead up in the dimness to a canvas hatch above. Rats' Floyd | scratchings counterpoint the lullaby of bilge water sloshing in the Floyd | bulkheads, punctuated by footsteps slapping the deck overhead. You may Floyd | move fore or aft. Floyd | Behind a high fence, decorated by a sign, are stacked the food and Floyd | ammunition supplies; casks of rum, water, flour and salt meat Floyd | interspersed with kegs of gunpowder and shot. A closed gate is the only Floyd | way in. Floyd | You gradually notice a familiar, worrying smell, sniff, and identify Floyd | it as smoke. A tiny glow of fire creeps across a stretch of floor -- Floyd | inside the cage full of ammunition. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to schep), "haha" | |||
| schep exclaims, "shocking!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not at all a trope, yeah." | ||||
| gjnave says, "floyd extinguish fire" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | It's quite locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "unlock gate with pin" | ||||
Floyd | This is no time to get hysterical. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "extinguish fire" | ||||
Floyd | You aren't anywhere near the fuse! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take bilge" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "bilge."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It seems that your Floyd | reticule contains a cotton frock, a missive, a jewelled brooch, an Floyd | invitation, smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing a shirt, Floyd | breeches, your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "cut fuse with pi" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "pi."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "oops pin" | ||||
Floyd | You aren't anywhere near the fuse! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "You've... saved... right?" | |||
| schep says, "haven't done a whole lot since cf2" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Fair enough" | ||||
| schep says, "I think we need to move on and search for a key or bucket or sailor or something" | ||||
| schep says, "hearing no objections," | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Crew's Quarters Floyd | The crew sleeps, in shifts, in this cramped space under the Floyd | forecastle. A breeze blows in on a moonbeam through a grate in the Floyd | ceiling. A low doorsill is abaft. Floyd | This area must also serve as sickroom. Strewn about the floor are Floyd | various powders and spills of malodorous potions. In one corner, a Floyd | large blood stain indicates an amputation; in another is the smear of a Floyd | leech, dropped off a bloodletting. Floyd | A small bottle has been dropped nearby. Floyd | A chipped piece of mirror sits propped on a shoulder-high timber. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | leather bottle: Taken. Floyd | bit of mirror: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is the one puzzle from this game that gives me some serious PTSD flashbacks." | |||
| schep asks, "flashbacks to playing this game, or to something from real life?" | ||||
| Jacqueline scoots forward on her seat, leans over, props her elbow on her knee and her chin on her hand, and watches 'em go. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to schep), "No, just to this game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We had a dickens of a time with this puzzle." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Hold Floyd | A tiny glow of fire creeps across a stretch of floor -- inside the Floyd | cage full of ammunition. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Fortuntely I've really only been around an old cannon that was fired once, and that was really cool." | |||
| (from Emily) Jacqueline says, "Good luck!" (cackle) | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fill bottle" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get anything into the leather bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | ||||
Floyd | This is a squeezable bottle. You don't need to open or close it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Emily), "Yes" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "squeeze bottle" | ||||
Floyd | A bubble of laudanum forms on the tip of the leather bottle then slurps Floyd | back in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "the leather bottle is the greatest invention ever!" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain exclaims, "Oh boy, we have Heroin!" | ||||
| Allen | [LINK] | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "eat laudanum" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze three colorless drops into your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "uh oh, this won't end well" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Very disappointing" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Your face convulses in a prodigious yawn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | You stare into space for a long, thoughtless moment. It seems very Floyd | hard to think, you think, but you aren't sure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Your eyes are extraordinarily dry. You blink to moisten them, and Floyd | snort awake a minute later, drool dripping down your chin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Sleep overtakes you and you slump into unconsiousness. Floyd | You awake too late to save the ship -- or rather, you never wake at Floyd | all. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 100 turns, you have achieved a score of 4 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Damsel in Distress. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha ha" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I liked that death." | ||||
| schep asks, "hm, cf1 or cf2?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "My exploding canon is here, fwiw: [LINK]" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "One of my favorite photos I've taken." | ||||
| gjnave says, "smelling salts" | ||||
| schep says, "if you say it's canonical" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | Ellison says, "heh" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "smell salts" | ||||
Floyd | You jerk the smelling salts away from your nose after one brief Floyd | ammoniac whiff. Your burning nostrils make you feel more alert. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Crew's Quarters Floyd | Sleep overtakes you and you slump into unconsiousness. Floyd | You awake too late to save the ship -- or rather, you never wake at Floyd | all. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 100 turns, you have achieved a score of 4 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Damsel in Distress. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x reef" | ||||
Floyd | A line of reefs separates the lagoon from the sea beyond. Floyd | Your eyes are drawn to a flicker of light off the sea. Squinting, Floyd | you see a man swimming to shore, moonlight flashing off his hook. A Floyd | wisp of breeze brings an odor of onions and rum, and the occasional Floyd | gargling chuckle, "...mischief, har...reefs." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave waves his arms, rolls a poor lore check, and then disappears - 'oh cra..' | schep says, "clearly we will later find the villain in an onion shop" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb down to opposite the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You pull yourself over the ledge, tumbling head over heels into Floyd | Jamison's quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | The large cupboard is not flush against the doorsill. You squeeze Floyd | through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | You are on the landing of a steep stairway heading up and down. A Floyd | large cupboard against the aft wall blocks the doorway to the captain's Floyd | quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. It is a dark messy bed, set entirely within and filling the Floyd | large cupboard. A cabin boy must sleep here when Jamison isn't using Floyd | it. Kicked into a far corner is a pile of clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | Sleeping Cupboard Floyd | The bed is softer than it looks, plumped up with fresh straw. A Floyd | soft, if somewhat cramped, bunk for the tall bulk of Jamison. The Floyd | cupboard opens to the fore. Floyd | Kicked into a far corner is a pile of clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | pile of clothes: You pick up the pile of clothes. It separates into a Floyd | pair of breeches and a shirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear breeches and shirt" | ||||
Floyd | [You can't use multiple direct objects with "wear".] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear breeches" | ||||
Floyd | You tuck the linen chemise into the pants. You look a little fat, but Floyd | now you can move freely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear shirt" | ||||
Floyd | It fits loosely, masking your figure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave says, "naise save" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Aft Hold Floyd | This is a gloomy, damp area at the bottom of the Helena Louise. To Floyd | the fore there seems to be a little more light, or you can climb up Floyd | some steep stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Hold Floyd | Steep stairs lead up in the dimness to a canvas hatch above. Rats' Floyd | scratchings counterpoint the lullaby of bilge water sloshing in the Floyd | bulkheads, punctuated by footsteps slapping the deck overhead. You may Floyd | move fore or aft. Floyd | Behind a high fence, decorated by a sign, are stacked the food and Floyd | ammunition supplies; casks of rum, water, flour and salt meat Floyd | interspersed with kegs of gunpowder and shot. A closed gate is the only Floyd | way in. Floyd | You gradually notice a familiar, worrying smell, sniff, and identify Floyd | it as smoke. A tiny glow of fire creeps across a stretch of floor -- Floyd | inside the cage full of ammunition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "panic" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "panic."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Crew's Quarters Floyd | The crew sleeps, in shifts, in this cramped space under the Floyd | forecastle. A breeze blows in on a moonbeam through a grate in the Floyd | ceiling. A low doorsill is abaft. Floyd | This area must also serve as sickroom. Strewn about the floor are Floyd | various powders and spills of malodorous potions. In one corner, a Floyd | large blood stain indicates an amputation; in another is the smear of a Floyd | leech, dropped off a bloodletting. Floyd | A small bottle has been dropped nearby. Floyd | A chipped piece of mirror sits propped on a shoulder-high timber. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "A doorsill is abaft?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | leather bottle: Taken. Floyd | bit of mirror: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take moonbeam" | ||||
Floyd | That seems a useless idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Hold Floyd | A tiny glow of fire creeps across a stretch of floor -- inside the Floyd | cage full of ammunition. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "This room is filled with proof that everything before the 1950s was horrible." | |||
| Allen says, "it's abaft but not a baft" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | The canvas hatch is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open hatch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any way to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Aft Hold Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||||
Floyd | You climb onto the ledge. The ladder drifts within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You put everything in your reticule and hop out, catching the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You dash up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Poop Floyd | The reefs are definitely getting larger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | No torches are lit, or needed on this moonlit night, except in the Floyd | deep shadows cast by the huge navigation wheel. Men move about to the Floyd | fore, talking quietly. Under the stairs aft to the poop is a barred Floyd | door. Floyd | The reefs are definitely getting larger. Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tell sailor about fuse" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't look like the pirate is interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tell pirate rum go boom" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "boom."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | It is closed and barred. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Someone yells from ahead, "Cap'n 'll have your hide if you go down Floyd | there!" You haven't the strength to lift the bar anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "also also, it probably just leads back to the cabinet" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x casks" | ||||
Floyd | Lying on their sides, the casks are stacked in a rather shaky pyramid: Floyd | perhaps that's why someone has tied the rope about them. A cask on one Floyd | corner has lost its lid. "Hey, boy! Get away from those. It ain't Floyd | safe!" yells a sailor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l in cask" | ||||
Floyd | You can see a slab of pork. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any knots to untie, just line. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | Pulling the line has no desirable effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "doesn't that depend on my desires?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | It is a deceptively quiet evening on the ship, the pirates singing Floyd | low shanties as they repair cannon, twist ropes and sharpen daggers. Floyd | The mainmast casts an inky shadow over the canvas screening the hatch. Floyd | A tangled mass of rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope Floyd | ladders woven together. Floyd | The reefs are definitely getting larger. Floyd | Two large barrels stand near the stair to the foredeck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take dagger" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any dagger here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x barrels" | ||||
Floyd | The two open barrels contain rum and water, you can tell by the smell Floyd | of each. They are identical but for the dark stains around the mouth of Floyd | the rum barrel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take water" | ||||
Floyd | Don't bother. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "other folks still here?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | Higher than all but the poop deck, this end of the ship commands a Floyd | good view of the island; the "crow's nest," swinging above in the Floyd | heights of the foremast, would command a better. A tangled mass of Floyd | rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope ladders woven Floyd | together. Floyd | Imbedded in the deck is a grated air hole to the crew's quarters Floyd | below. You can go aft, or forward through a break in the ubiquitous Floyd | railing. Floyd | Odors of old grease and char waft from a little shack perched behind Floyd | the mast. Floyd | The reefs are definitely getting larger. Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I am here." | |||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x winch" | ||||
Floyd | Made of an old barrel turning on a pole, the mooring winch is used to Floyd | coil in the anchor chain. A pair of metal teeth bite the links to Floyd | prevent it from dragging out; a lever is connected to the teeth. Floyd | Something is written on the lever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "read lever" | ||||
Floyd | On the lever is written "Open Up, Close Down." You notice the lever is Floyd | pointed down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to specify which way you want to move it. Floyd | Bswish! Waves smash against the reefs nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull lever up" | ||||
Floyd | The metal teeth open as you raise up the lever. The anchor, released, Floyd | splashes down into the sea, dragging its clanking chain. After a Floyd | moment, you feel the ship pull slightly against the current. You lower Floyd | the lever to prevent any more chain from spooling out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm still watching." | |||
| schep says, "since obviously noone else cares about those reefs" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x shack" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tiny charred wooden shack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l in shack" | ||||
Floyd | You can't look inside Galley! Floyd | With a heave and creak of timbers, the Helena Louise drifts a little Floyd | way back towards the island. The tide has turned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter shack" | ||||
Floyd | Galley Floyd | This tiny kitchen smells of old stew and yeast. A low door to Floyd | starboard shows the way out. Floyd | A dagger is driven into the wooden floorboards. Floyd | An entirely bald man sits here, carving into his peg leg. Floyd | The man looks you over sharply, then winks an eye. "Hullo, boy -- Floyd | Sam, I'll call you. Nervous about Cap'n? He'll come to no harm. And if Floyd | there is trouble, he only has to signal from that seaward winder of the Floyd | house -- ye can see it from the crow's nest -- and we'll be there in a Floyd | jiffy. Me and my peg are to stay aboard and guard y--, the Cap'n's Floyd | young lady." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tell cook about fuse" | ||||
Floyd | "Lose sommat? I be always losing things. Think there be thieves Floyd | aboard." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tell cook about fire" | ||||
Floyd | "Fire for the cold? I think it be too warm..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tell cook about hold" | ||||
Floyd | "Fire for the cold? I think it be too warm..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take dagger" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "kiss cook" | ||||
Floyd | "Nah, me pretty, ye belong to Cap'n." Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "says who?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | You drop all you are carrying and creep out over the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Bowsprit Floyd | Hanging on the bowsprit, your arms and legs wrapped tightly around Floyd | the narrow spar, you can't see much beside an upside-down view of the Floyd | figurehead of the Helena Louise, and the anchor chain descending into Floyd | the swelling and breaking waves over (under?) your head. Floyd | A stub of rope, roughly cut, swings rudely over the waves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't quite reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | You can see a dagger and a mooring winch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | dagger: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cut rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any rope here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | It is a deceptively quiet evening on the ship, the pirates singing Floyd | low shanties as they repair cannon, twist ropes and sharpen daggers. Floyd | The mainmast casts an inky shadow over the canvas screening the hatch. Floyd | A tangled mass of rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope Floyd | ladders woven together. Floyd | Two large barrels stand near the stair to the foredeck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x barrels" | ||||
Floyd | The two open barrels contain rum and water, you can tell by the smell Floyd | of each. They are identical but for the dark stains around the mouth of Floyd | the rum barrel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cut rope" | ||||
Floyd | [with the dagger] Floyd | The line snaps, and the pyramid collapses into dozens of tumbling Floyd | casks. A large one rolls into you, stumbling you through the railing Floyd | into the sea. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 126 turns, you have achieved a score of 5 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Missish Minx. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Take the dagger and use it to cut the fuse" | |||
| schep exclaims, "we can't reach the fuse!" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb rigging" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any rigging here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb rigging" | ||||
Floyd | You bite down on the dagger, freeing your hands to climb. When you Floyd | stop, you take it back again. The wind, a mere breeze on the deck, Floyd | blows more fiercely. Floyd | Floyd | In the Rigging Floyd | The deck swings far below as you cling to the rigging in the wind. A Floyd | tangled mass of rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope Floyd | ladders woven together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Above you there only appears to be more of the same, except higher, and Floyd | you can not vouch for the effects on your stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x crow's nest" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "crow's."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I remember everything about this puzzle... how it made us go 'grr' and how we struggled and how it made me feel... yeah, I pretty much remember everything except how we ended up solving it." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That part of the memory is really vague." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You half-climb, half-fall, down to the deck. Floyd | Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x cannon" | ||||
Floyd | Huge, old and blackened, these cannon have seen many battles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "search cannon" | ||||
Floyd | You can't search a cannon! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says, "!" | olethros says, "!" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cut ladder" | ||||
Floyd | The dagger isn't sharp enough to cut through the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "wow, that's some ladder rope" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a dagger and your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It seems Floyd | that your reticule contains a leather bottle, a bit of mirror, a cotton Floyd | frock, a missive, a jewelled brooch, an invitation, smelling salts and Floyd | a banknote. You are wearing a shirt, breeches, your kid slippers and a Floyd | linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take pork" | ||||
Floyd | The slab of pork is beyond your reach at the bottom of the cask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter cask" | ||||
Floyd | You crawl into the cask, feeling a slab of something stuck on the Floyd | bottom. From this close, you can see the line is getting frayed where Floyd | it rubs against the cask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take pork" | ||||
Floyd | You peel it off the cask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "cut line with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | You hesitate, thinking of the fates of those left aboard this ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the cask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | Higher than all but the poop deck, this end of the ship commands a Floyd | good view of the island; the "crow's nest," swinging above in the Floyd | heights of the foremast, would command a better. A tangled mass of Floyd | rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope ladders woven Floyd | together. Floyd | Imbedded in the deck is a grated air hole to the crew's quarters Floyd | below. You can go aft, or forward through a break in the ubiquitous Floyd | railing. Floyd | Odors of old grease and char waft from a little shack perched behind Floyd | the mast. Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||||
Floyd | The water is sparkling clear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put dress in water" | ||||
Floyd | Keeping hold on the cotton frock, you soak it with water. It becomes so Floyd | heavy, however, that you drop it, with a loud squelch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take frock" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | No torches are lit, or needed on this moonlit night, except in the Floyd | deep shadows cast by the huge navigation wheel. Men move about to the Floyd | fore, talking quietly. Under the stairs aft to the poop is a barred Floyd | door. Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x wheel" | ||||
Floyd | Completely common looking navigation wheel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||||
Floyd | From the grumbling emitted as you near the navigation wheel, you gather Floyd | that the sailors close by would not appreciate your action. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb down to opposite the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You pull yourself over the ledge, tumbling head over heels into Floyd | Jamison's quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Aft Hold Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Hold Floyd | A tiny glow of fire creeps across a stretch of floor -- inside the Floyd | cage full of ammunition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "throw frock at fuse" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the cotton frock up, its soaked skirt slapping your head. Too Floyd | heavy and bulky to make it over the gate, it squelches to the floor Floyd | nearby. A cold tear of water dribbles down the back of your neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "aww" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Hold Floyd | Steep stairs lead up in the dimness to a canvas hatch above. Rats' Floyd | scratchings counterpoint the lullaby of bilge water sloshing in the Floyd | bulkheads, punctuated by footsteps slapping the deck overhead. You may Floyd | move fore or aft. Floyd | Behind a high fence, decorated by a sign, are stacked the food and Floyd | ammunition supplies; casks of rum, water, flour and salt meat Floyd | interspersed with kegs of gunpowder and shot. A closed gate is the only Floyd | way in. Floyd | A tiny glow of fire creeps across a stretch of floor -- inside the Floyd | cage full of ammunition. Floyd | You can see a cotton frock here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||||
Floyd | The sign proclaims "Thieves be keel-hauled" in uncertain lettering. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ooh - good try" | |||
| Allen says, "that means they will KEEL you" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||||
Floyd | Steep stairs lead up in the dimness to a canvas hatch. Floyd | The tail of your shirt suddenly catches on something, tearing the Floyd | fabric. A large scrap flutters to your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "where's the other side of that hatch?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x rag" | ||||
Floyd | It is a fairly hefty scrap of fabric. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open hatch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any way to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "soak rag" | ||||
Floyd | And how do you propose to do that? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get frock" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get rag" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Aft Hold Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Did you have any particular direction in mind? Floyd | The end of a rope ladder blows past the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||||
Floyd | You climb onto the ledge. The ladder drifts within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You put everything in your reticule and hop out, catching the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You dash up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Poop Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | Suddenly you appreciate what it is to be a ball in an exploding Floyd | cannon. The intense heat, the push of fire, and the sense of release Floyd | when spit from the cannon's mouth -- these you feel when the lighted Floyd | fuse finally burns up to the largest keg of gunpowder in the hold. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 178 turns, you have achieved a score of 5 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Missish Minx. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Deaded again." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It seems that your Floyd | reticule contains a cotton frock, a missive, a jewelled brooch, an Floyd | invitation, smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing a shirt, Floyd | breeches, your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tear frock" | ||||
Floyd | You rip a large rag out of the cotton frock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | The door at the top of the stairs won't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||||
Floyd | You climb onto the ledge. The ladder drifts within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You put everything in your reticule and hop out, catching the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You dash up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Poop Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | No torches are lit, or needed on this moonlit night, except in the Floyd | deep shadows cast by the huge navigation wheel. Men move about to the Floyd | fore, talking quietly. Under the stairs aft to the poop is a barred Floyd | door. Floyd | The reefs seem a little larger than you thought before. Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "For some reason, every time I see that you have your reticule bit, I read it as 'You have your retina (hanging from your wrist). I know, I know: ew." | |||
| schep says, "a detached retina is no laughing matter" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Verily." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | It is a deceptively quiet evening on the ship, the pirates singing Floyd | low shanties as they repair cannon, twist ropes and sharpen daggers. Floyd | The mainmast casts an inky shadow over the canvas screening the hatch. Floyd | A tangled mass of rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope Floyd | ladders woven together. Floyd | The reefs seem a little larger than you thought before. Floyd | Two large barrels stand near the stair to the foredeck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put rag in water" | ||||
Floyd | Keeping hold on the rag, you soak it with water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | Higher than all but the poop deck, this end of the ship commands a Floyd | good view of the island; the "crow's nest," swinging above in the Floyd | heights of the foremast, would command a better. A tangled mass of Floyd | rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope ladders woven Floyd | together. Floyd | Imbedded in the deck is a grated air hole to the crew's quarters Floyd | below. You can go aft, or forward through a break in the ubiquitous Floyd | railing. Floyd | Odors of old grease and char waft from a little shack perched behind Floyd | the mast. Floyd | The reefs seem a little larger than you thought before. Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter shack" | ||||
Floyd | Galley Floyd | This tiny kitchen smells of old stew and yeast. A low door to Floyd | starboard shows the way out. Floyd | A dagger is driven into the wooden floorboards. Floyd | An entirely bald man sits here, carving into his peg leg. Floyd | The man looks you over sharply, then winks an eye. "Hullo, boy -- Floyd | Sam, I'll call you. Nervous about Cap'n? He'll come to no harm. And if Floyd | there is trouble, he only has to signal from that seaward winder of the Floyd | house -- ye can see it from the crow's nest -- and we'll be there in a Floyd | jiffy. Me and my peg are to stay aboard and guard y--, the Cap'n's Floyd | young lady." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get dagger" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | The reefs are definitely getting larger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Poop Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You climb down to opposite the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You pull yourself over the ledge, tumbling head over heels into Floyd | Jamison's quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Aft Hold Floyd | This is a gloomy, damp area at the bottom of the Helena Louise. To Floyd | the fore there seems to be a little more light, or you can climb up Floyd | some steep stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Hold Floyd | Steep stairs lead up in the dimness to a canvas hatch above. Rats' Floyd | scratchings counterpoint the lullaby of bilge water sloshing in the Floyd | bulkheads, punctuated by footsteps slapping the deck overhead. You may Floyd | move fore or aft. Floyd | Behind a high fence, decorated by a sign, are stacked the food and Floyd | ammunition supplies; casks of rum, water, flour and salt meat Floyd | interspersed with kegs of gunpowder and shot. A closed gate is the only Floyd | way in. Floyd | You gradually notice a familiar, worrying smell, sniff, and identify Floyd | it as smoke. A tiny glow of fire creeps across a stretch of floor -- Floyd | inside the cage full of ammunition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "throw rag at fuse" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the rag over the gate. Luckily, it lands directly on the Floyd | burning end of the fuse. With a sputter and a sigh, the flame dies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In 102 turns, you have achieved a score of 4 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Damsel in Distress. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "woo, time to blow this ship! uh, metaphorically" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Crew's Quarters Floyd | The crew sleeps, in shifts, in this cramped space under the Floyd | forecastle. A breeze blows in on a moonbeam through a grate in the Floyd | ceiling. A low doorsill is abaft. Floyd | This area must also serve as sickroom. Strewn about the floor are Floyd | various powders and spills of malodorous potions. In one corner, a Floyd | large blood stain indicates an amputation; in another is the smear of a Floyd | leech, dropped off a bloodletting. Floyd | A small bottle has been dropped nearby. Floyd | A chipped piece of mirror sits propped on a shoulder-high timber. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | leather bottle: Taken. Floyd | bit of mirror: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||||
Floyd | It's a small leather bottle, with a tiny label on one side. It appears Floyd | to be almost empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "read bottle" | ||||
Floyd | The label reads, "Laudanum drops. Squeeze into a glass of wine to sleep Floyd | free of pain and mental anguish." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Hold Floyd | The crash of surf is increasing in volume. You'd best find out Floyd | what's going on! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Aft Hold Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Landing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze through the opening between cupboard and wall. Floyd | Floyd | Captain's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||||
Floyd | You climb onto the ledge. The ladder drifts within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You put everything in your reticule and hop out, catching the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | On the Ladder Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You dash up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Poop Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x reef" | ||||
Floyd | A line of reefs separates the lagoon from the sea beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||||
Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull lever up" | ||||
Floyd | The metal teeth open as you raise up the lever. The anchor, released, Floyd | splashes down into the sea, dragging its clanking chain. After a Floyd | moment, you feel the ship pull slightly against the current. You lower Floyd | the lever to prevent any more chain from spooling out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb rigging" | ||||
Floyd | The wind, a mere breeze on the deck, blows more fiercely. Floyd | Floyd | In the Rigging Floyd | The deck swings far below as you cling to the rigging in the wind. A Floyd | tangled mass of rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope Floyd | ladders woven together. Farther up the rigging is a small platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You clamber up the rigging. Floyd | Floyd | Crow's Nest Floyd | You perch on a platform high above the deck, giving a view of the Floyd | endless sea and the southernmost cliffs of the island, where a house Floyd | pokes out of the vegetation. It gives off a general glow, but no lights Floyd | can be seen in any of the second story windows. A tiny beach nestles Floyd | into the base of the cliff. Floyd | With a heave and creak of timbers, the Helena Louise drifts a little Floyd | way back towards the island. The tide has turned. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Ah, the old days: When people thought Heroin was a good sleep aid." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x mansion" | ||||
Floyd | You can't make out much of the house from this angle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | In the Rigging Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You half-climb, half-fall, down to the deck. Floyd | Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | You can see a mooring winch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "turn winch" | ||||
Floyd | The teeth are closed, so you can't move the chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull lever d" | ||||
Floyd | It already is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull lever up" | ||||
Floyd | Raising the lever would release more chain and you might ground the Floyd | Helena Louise. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "so I anchored us about as far from the island as possible, huh?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Belatedly, dunno." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Belatedly because you asked that three minutes ago and I keep waiting for someone who knows to speak up." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Main Deck Floyd | It is a deceptively quiet evening on the ship, the pirates singing Floyd | low shanties as they repair cannon, twist ropes and sharpen daggers. Floyd | The mainmast casts an inky shadow over the canvas screening the hatch. Floyd | A tangled mass of rigging hangs down from the mast, like many rope Floyd | ladders woven together. Floyd | Two large barrels stand near the stair to the foredeck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drink rum" | ||||
Floyd | You take a sip and spit it out, coughing. This is much stronger than Floyd | ratafia! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Royce says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||||
| Royce has disconnected. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||||
Floyd | Quarterdeck Floyd | Abaft the wheel sits a large pyramid of casks, held in place by a Floyd | heavy rope. Floyd | Cannon line the deck, aimed at open sea and the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter cask" | ||||
Floyd | You crawl into the cask, feeling a slab of something stuck on the Floyd | bottom. From this close, you can see the line is getting frayed where Floyd | it rubs against the cask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get pork" | ||||
Floyd | You peel it off the cask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cut line with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | The line snaps, and the pyramid collapses into dozens of tumbling Floyd | casks. Your cask is thrust into the sea, the dagger flying from your Floyd | hand. Floyd | Sputtering mouthfuls of salt water, you first look around several Floyd | minutes later. Floyd | Floyd | Lagoon, in the cask Floyd | You are crouched in a cask on the lagoon of St. Sinistra. The crash Floyd | of surf hitting the reefs is quite loud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cut line with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | The line snaps, and the pyramid collapses into dozens of tumbling Floyd | casks. Your cask is thrust into the sea, the dagger flying from your Floyd | hand. Floyd | Sputtering mouthfuls of salt water, you first look around several Floyd | minutes later. Floyd | Floyd | Lagoon, in the cask Floyd | You are crouched in a cask on the lagoon of St. Sinistra. The crash Floyd | of surf hitting the reefs is quite loud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "inland" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "inland."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a slab of pork and your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It Floyd | seems that your reticule contains a leather bottle, a bit of mirror, a Floyd | cotton frock, a missive, a jewelled brooch, an invitation, smelling Floyd | salts and a banknote. You are wearing a shirt, breeches, your kid Floyd | slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | The current pulls you in towards the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "hello sailor" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing happens here. Floyd | The current pulls you in towards the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | The current pulls you in towards the island. Floyd | Lagoon, in the cask Floyd | You are crouched in a cask on the lagoon of St. Sinistra. The jungle Floyd | looms gray-green in the light of the full moon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x jungle" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "jungle."] Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "'You need to sleep? Mix Heroin into a stimulant. Take some speed to wake you up in the morning." I wish I was exaggerating old-stylemedical advice." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Although the lagoon is warm and clear, it is much too deep. Floyd | The current pulls you in towards the island. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | The current pulls you in towards the island. With a scrape, the cask Floyd | lodges in the sand. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows, in the cask Floyd | You are crouched in the cask in the warm, lapping waves of the Floyd | shallows. A white sand beach is west of you. Floyd | A skiff nods in the waves, its oars jerking around in the current. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Free of your weight, the cask bobs and spins in the current, pulled out Floyd | into the lagoon. You splash after it, but it is gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "noo my fine vessel" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Beach Floyd | This is a tiny beach, at the base of vine-covered cliffs. To the Floyd | east, the Helena Louise floats serenely on the lagoon. Floyd | Immediately north of you, a rocky staircase is hewn into the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x vine" | ||||
Floyd | Completely common looking vine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb vine" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the vine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Lawn Floyd | Jungle looms around this clipped lawn, a path meandering westward Floyd | into the dense undergrowth. To the east is a folly entangled in Floyd | blooming jasmine. The way to the beach is obscure, but visible to the Floyd | southeast. Behind the folly a thorny hedge blocks the cliff view of the Floyd | sea. Floyd | Music and voices float from the veranda to the north. Floyd | Two men stand whispering in the shadows. You catch an occasional Floyd | word, "Davis dead... girl... Falcon on Sinistra." The men separate, the Floyd | well-dressed one going into the ballroom as the other slinks into the Floyd | bushes. You see his face. Crulley! Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "who was Crulley?" | |||
| maga says, "rapey mcraperson" | ||||
| schep asks, "oh, Andy "Randy"?" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "is that also the hook-handed fellow we saw rowing away in the moonlight?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Veranda Floyd | Steps lead south from this white marble veranda to a clipped lawn. Floyd | To the north, beyond a closed glass door, a line of people blocks your Floyd | view of the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any way to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | Silence answers back. Floyd | Floyd | > | gjnave asks, "been away.. hows the adventure going?" | |||
| schep says, "saved the ship, floated to the island" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The steps lead south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Forest Floyd | Buried in the subtropical undergrowth, you lose all sense of being Floyd | on someone's private estate; jungle seems to extend for miles on all Floyd | sides of you. A footworn path curves from east to north here, and the Floyd | vegetation lessens to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Trade Entrance Floyd | You are on a well-trampled lawn at the side of the house, one low Floyd | doorway leading in to the east. Gravelled paths lead north and south Floyd | into the undergrowth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A firepit in the floor smokes badly, fogging up the depths of this Floyd | large kitchen, somehow not escaping through either the south or west Floyd | doors. Floyd | A blond woman huddles alone by the fire, as if cold. Floyd | The woman smiles uncertainly, then rushes over. "Are you come from Floyd | the village, boy? Dost know Lord Dimsford?" She sighs at your surprise. Floyd | "So he sent you -- I am his Lucy. It's been so long since I've seen Floyd | him. Lafond caught me eavesdropping and now I can't leave the grounds." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen asks (of floyd), "woman, who is dimsford?" | ||||
Floyd | She fails to notice you've spoken. Floyd | "I haven't found Lafond's papers, I'm watched too closely. Tell Floyd | Dimsford that I -- I'm scared, and I want him to come get me. Give this Floyd | to him -- he'll recognize it." Lucy slides a garter down her leg and Floyd | holds it out to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wear garter" | ||||
Floyd | [taking the garter first] Floyd | One doesn't wear a garter over breeches! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wink at woman" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "wink."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "kiss woman" | ||||
Floyd | "Smooch!" Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "ha ha" | |||
| schep says, "explore more mansion, or onward to village? I'm thinking village" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "ask lucy about lafond" | ||||
Floyd | "He's a regular lout who don't like my cooking." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "ask woman about dimsford" | ||||
Floyd | She fails to notice you've spoken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "lucy, kiss me" | ||||
Floyd | "I hardly know you!" she gasps. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "nice" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha - "Smooch!" is great." | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "give banknote to lucy" | ||||
Floyd | Lucy slaps you hard across the face. "I'm not that sort of girl!" Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "bwahaha" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "kill lucy" | ||||
Floyd | Relax. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "relax" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "relax."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "lucy, fuck me" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "fuck."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "it's what happens when you take laudanum" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "it's."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | "Don't forget -- tell Dimsford," Lucy calls after you. Floyd | Floyd | Trade Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The gravel path is just wide enough for a cart to pass. It bends around Floyd | the west wing of the house, leading you to... Floyd | Floyd | Main Entrance Floyd | The front door stands open to the south, light splayed out onto a Floyd | drive stretching north into the jungle. A path leads around the western Floyd | wing of the house; jutting out from the east wing is a tall hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x hedge" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual about the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "search hedge" | ||||
Floyd | You can't search a hedge! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "hedge search" | ||||
Floyd | You can't search a hedge! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Front Drive Floyd | A rutted drive runs north-south here, from a high spiked gate Floyd | through the jungle to Lafond's mansion. You hide in the bushes nearby. Floyd | Dragoons, conversing quietly, patrol the other side of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x dragoons" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing noteworthy about the patrol. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Dragoons guard the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "oh oh oh! I know what to do here!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Allen), "shhh" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any rock here! Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "we've got to smack the dragoons with our sword. They'll follow us to the glacier, see their reflection, breathe fire and down themselves" | |||
| Limax asks, "How about a flamthrower?" | ||||
| olethros says, "plausible" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I thought for a moment that said dragons, but this game not that interesting." | ||||
| olethros says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "sorry, this is not adult IF day" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a garter, a slab of pork and your reticule (hanging from your Floyd | wrist). It seems that your reticule contains a leather bottle, a bit of Floyd | mirror, a cotton frock, a missive, a jewelled brooch, an invitation, Floyd | smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing a shirt, breeches, your Floyd | kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "dude, seriously, like it, don't like it, stay, leave, it's all fine -- but some people are enjoying the game, and griping about it not being to your taste is souring it a little" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "show invitation to dragoon" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't look like the patrol is interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | * Limax has left the channel. | |||
| olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "squeeze bottle on pork" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze three colorless drops onto the slab of pork. A patch of Floyd | salt dissolves as the laudanum absorbs into the meat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "throw pork at patrol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the patrol. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "I can't see how you fail to enjoy a game where you get to type" | |||
| olethros | > SQUEEZE BOTTLE ON PORK | ||||
| olethros | > THROW PORK AT PATROL | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "give pork to dragoon" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the patrol. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "but maybe that's just my love of pork" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "throw pork at dragoon" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the patrol. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| lno arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take off cabin boy clothes" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "boy."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take off clothes" | ||||
Floyd | [in front of the patrol] Floyd | That's not done in polite society. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain Damn, I was hoping they would be interested in a woman serving them meat. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The underbrush is much too thick to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Main Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take off clothes" | ||||
Floyd | You strip down to your chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear dress" | ||||
Floyd | You don the cotton frock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Front Drive Floyd | Dragoons, conversing quietly, patrol the other side of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Dragoons guard the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen asks, "I don't do floyd often... is it considered spammy to put the game in verbose mode?" | |||
| Allen says, "I like to be reminded of surroundings with every move. It shouldn't be too spammy for an infocom z3 game" | ||||
| inky says, "I think people usually have it in verbose" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Maximum verbosity. Floyd | Floyd | Front Drive Floyd | A rutted drive runs north-south here, from a high spiked gate Floyd | through the jungle to Lafond's mansion. You hide in the bushes nearby. Floyd | Dragoons, conversing quietly, patrol the other side of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "also, one thing great I learned playing infocom games" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||||
Floyd | This is no time to get hysterical. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "when you type 'verbose', it gives yo a room description, without passing a turn" | |||
| Allen says, "so if there's a tight timer going, you can type verbose without worry" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh - good to know" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Main Entrance Floyd | The front door stands open to the south, light splayed out onto a Floyd | drive stretching north into the jungle. A path leads around the western Floyd | wing of the house; jutting out from the east wing is a tall hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter hedge" | ||||
Floyd | Don't be absurd. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The gravel path is just wide enough for a cart to pass. It bends around Floyd | the west wing of the house, leading you to... Floyd | Floyd | Trade Entrance Floyd | You are on a well-trampled lawn at the side of the house, one low Floyd | doorway leading in to the east. Gravelled paths lead north and south Floyd | into the undergrowth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Forest Floyd | Buried in the subtropical undergrowth, you lose all sense of being Floyd | on someone's private estate; jungle seems to extend for miles on all Floyd | sides of you. A footworn path curves from east to north here, and the Floyd | vegetation lessens to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You are in a small clearing under the western side of the house. Floyd | Heavy vines creep up the wall past a second floor window, open to the Floyd | night air. Southwest is an opening in the bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb vines" | ||||
Floyd | In these clothes? You jest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "climb vines" | ||||
Floyd | In these clothes? You jest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "remove dress" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the cotton frock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb vines" | ||||
Floyd | You take a firm grasp on a particularly thick tendril, jerk once to Floyd | secure it, and scamper up the wall like some huge tropical spider. It Floyd | is easy to climb through the window. Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | Lit only with moonlight through the open window, tonight this room Floyd | is serving as a ladies' dressing room. An exit lies to the north. Floyd | Draped across the bed is a lovely cream colored watered silk gown. Floyd | It looks about your size. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "x dress" | ||||
Floyd | [Which dress dost thou mean, the beautiful ball gown or the cotton Floyd | frock?] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "gown" | ||||
Floyd | Of cream silk, heavily embroidered on the stiffened skirt and Floyd | stomacher, the beautiful ball gown is a work of art. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen asks, "stomacher?" | |||
| Allen says, "oh, didn't know that word" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wear garter" | ||||
Floyd | You slide the garter up around your thigh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wear dress" | ||||
Floyd | [Which dress dost thou mean, the beautiful ball gown or the cotton Floyd | frock?] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "gown" | ||||
Floyd | [taking the beautiful ball gown first] Floyd | The beautiful ball gown fits perfectly, the creamy silk bringing a glow Floyd | to your cheeks. You comb your hair with your fingers and bite your lips Floyd | to make them red. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear brooch" | ||||
Floyd | The jewelled brooch won't stay clasped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wear pork" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear a slab of pork! Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "I guess hats of meat weren't popular for a few more decades" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | Lit only with moonlight through the open window, tonight this room Floyd | is serving as a ladies' dressing room. An exit lies to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading east to a stair landing. Floyd | Rooms lie north and south of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Parlour Floyd | This room is exotically furnished with a Turkey divan and chairs. Floyd | The exit is south. Floyd | A pair of duelling pistols is mounted high on one wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see what you're referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get pistols" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach them. Ladies don't carry pistols, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "stand on divan" | ||||
Floyd | You have no need for that, milady. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "other infocom trick, for early games: "get all" will list all objects as well as static objects (untakable) in the room" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading east to a stair landing. Floyd | Rooms lie north and south of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "it's sometimes useful for finding things not mentioned" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Stair Landing Floyd | The east-west hallway opens here to curve into a grand staircase Floyd | sweeping down to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "take guns" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "guns."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "the later games modified the parser so it doesn't do that" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "We should have taken the guns. We never know when a duel might happen." | ||||
| schep says, "We should have taken the guns. They're clearly not that firmly attached to the wall." | ||||
| Allen says, "ladies prefer to live by their wits, improvising weapons as needed when nearby coffers present themselves" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Stair Landing Floyd | The east-west hallway opens here to curve into a grand staircase Floyd | sweeping down to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look at invitation" | ||||
Floyd | The invitation is addressed to "Davis": Floyd | Floyd | In Honor of Jean Lafond, Floyd | recently proclaimed Floyd | Governor of St. Sinistra Floyd | A Dance at his Mansion Floyd | Ananas Road, St. Sinistra Floyd | Formal Dress and Invitation Required. Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing extraordinary about the invitation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the ornate door first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It's quite locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Gallery Floyd | You are on a wide balcony overlooking the ballroom. A hallway lies Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Down on the dance floor you see myriad colors as the guests weave Floyd | the intricate steps of their dances. Floyd | A chandelier is held above the dance floor by a rope and pulley Floyd | system, so that the servants can lower it to light and snuff its Floyd | candles. Several feet of rope hang down from the pulley, the excess Floyd | tied around the railing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | Untied. The chandelier swings slightly, dribs of hot wax spilling to Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "undo."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Allen says, "grr" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Gallery Floyd | You are on a wide balcony overlooking the ballroom. A hallway lies Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Down on the dance floor you see myriad colors as the guests weave Floyd | the intricate steps of their dances. Floyd | A chandelier is held above the dance floor by a rope and pulley Floyd | system, so that the servants can lower it to light and snuff its Floyd | candles. Several feet of rope hang down from the pulley, the end Floyd | resting on the railing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "I thought it might crash to the floor" | |||
| Allen says, "and kill everyone" | ||||
| schep asks, "that's the signal for the pirates to come help, right?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "cut ropew with dagger" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "ropew."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "oops rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any dagger here! Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "we lost the dagger during the pile of barrels incident" | |||
| Allen says (to inured), "we lost the dagger after cutting the casks. It went flying from our hands" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "lower chandelier" | ||||
Floyd | Playing in this way with the chandelier accomplishes nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | The chandelier swings, but is too heavy for you to pull up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "swing rope" | ||||
Floyd | You're not holding the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "climb rope" | ||||
Floyd | You have lost your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "enter dancefloor" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "dancefloor."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | The chandelier swings, but is too heavy for you to pull up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "Christine!" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "christine!."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "enter dance floor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any dance floor here! Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I would prefer a Carrie-style ending." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "Coraline wasn't a favorite" | |||
| Allen says, "I like it ok" | ||||
| Allen says, "Neverwhere was a super duper favorite!" | ||||
| schep asks, "how strange. an upstairs hall with no convenient stairs down?" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Stair Landing Floyd | The east-west hallway opens here to curve into a grand staircase Floyd | sweeping down to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I loved both Coraline and Neverwhere." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | The butler stands near the entrance to the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The butler prevents you. "Miss... your invitation?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "butler, hello" | ||||
Floyd | He bows. Floyd | "Your invitation, Miss?" says the butler bowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "show invitation to butler" | ||||
Floyd | The butler takes the invitation. "Enjoy the dance, Miss Davis." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "show garter to butler" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't look like the butler is interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "oh, he's oriented that way" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The sea of spectators parts to admit you, murmuring approval. Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | Lafond's party is well attended: you can hardly move for the crush. Floyd | However, the room is oddly silent, no talk interrupting the musical Floyd | efforts of the musicians to the west. Despite the heat, no one ventures Floyd | south to the veranda, nor through the opening east. The foyer is north Floyd | of you. Floyd | Captain Jamison moves up to you, saying, "May I have this dance?" He Floyd | doesn't await an answer, sweeping you out onto the dance floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | You pace out the steps. Floyd | "What the devil are you doing here! Lafond is a dangerous man to Floyd | play with!" Jamison smiles suddenly. "Why should I complain? You are Floyd | quite safe, since no one expects you here. And you are looking lovely." Floyd | The steps of the dance separate you a moment, as you twirl around Floyd | and curtsey to another dancer. You glide back into the captain's arms. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "This would not be a Mary Sue romance if the girl got anyone but the captain." | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "swoon" | ||||
Floyd | You've never been missish enough to faint on demand. Floyd | "I haven't found your father. We've long suspected a passage under Floyd | the library, but I cannot find an entrance," says Jamison. Floyd | Your hands linked tightly with his and held high over your heads, a Floyd | line of dancers files between you and Jamison. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "romance novel." | |||
| Allen says, "this is one of the parts that make me grin!" | ||||
| Ellison says, "hee" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "ask jamison about lafond" | ||||
Floyd | "I abhor the fiend." He clenches a fist. Floyd | "If there is any trouble, and I am unable to help -- a signal from Floyd | an upstairs seaward window will bring my men. They can be here in Floyd | moments," the Captain says. Floyd | Together you whirl around the ballroom, his arm snug around your Floyd | waist, leading you gracefully, masterfully. Floyd | Nicholas's grip tenses as he nods to a bewigged man staring at you. Floyd | You turn, and the man moves on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "shorty george" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "shorty."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "x jamison" | ||||
Floyd | Jamison is finely dressed, in red velvet coat and full breeches, with a Floyd | long gold embroidered vest and waterfalls of white lace at his neck, Floyd | wrists and boottops. His rapier is bedecked with a fringed gold ribbon. Floyd | He wears no wig, his unpowdered hair tied neatly at the back of his Floyd | neck. Floyd | "I wish you would call me 'Nicholas' -- I feel I know you much Floyd | better than our brief acquaintance would allow." He presses your hand. Floyd | The music ends with a flourish and you pirouette once more before Floyd | curtseying to Jamison. As you move to the side of the dance floor, Nick Floyd | adds, "We should separate -- I'm sure I am being watched. You would be Floyd | safer aboard the Helena Louise. If you slip out the veranda doors, no Floyd | one will notice you leaving." He touches your hand and dissolves into Floyd | the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In 230 turns, you have achieved a score of 9 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Missish Minx. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look at lafond" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see Lafond here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | Lafond's party is well attended: you can hardly move for the crush. Floyd | However, the room is oddly silent, no talk interrupting the musical Floyd | efforts of the musicians to the west. Despite the heat, no one ventures Floyd | south to the veranda, nor through the opening east. The foyer is north Floyd | of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Supper Room Floyd | One long table set across the north entrance indicates that supper Floyd | was served here earlier. West of you is the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "search table" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l under table" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual under the long table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You scuttle underneath the long table. Floyd | Floyd | East Hallway Floyd | The carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into Floyd | the east wing. A long table blocks the way south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait decorates the north side, and black drapes mask the east wall. Floyd | Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, and a massive wooden globe squats Floyd | in a corner. Music wafts distantly from the ballroom across the hall to Floyd | the south. Floyd | An expensive hat is hanging on a knob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | [taking the hat first] Floyd | As you lift the hat from its knob on the wall, a low vibration tingles Floyd | up your legs from the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | You're already wearing the hat! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x knob" | ||||
Floyd | You can see nothing on the knob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing extraordinary about the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "touch knob" | ||||
Floyd | Caressing the knob has no desirable effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "turn globe" | ||||
Floyd | The globe is solidly fastened to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Dictionary.com says missish means prudish and rigid: The opposite of a good main video game character." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x bookshelves" | ||||
Floyd | Most of the books appear unread, their pages uncut, the spines not yet Floyd | creased. All except one, "Treatise of Power" by Sir Michael Villiers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take treatise of power" | ||||
Floyd | You half tip the book out of the shelf when it snaps surprisingly back Floyd | into place. There is a mysterious scraping sound from inside the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "dude, people asked you to stop trying to spoil other people's fun" | |||
| lno has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | inky says, "if you want to leave or not play, that is ok" | |||
| inky says, "or if you want to stay and not complain, that is also ok" | ||||
| inky says, "but hanging around complaining is not ok" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "listen to wall" | ||||
Floyd | It sounds just like a wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "turn knob" | ||||
Floyd | Fiddling with the knob doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "push knob" | ||||
Floyd | Fiddling with the knob accomplishes nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual about the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x trap door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any trap door here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open curtain" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the cloth aside momentarily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "put hat on knob" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to remove the hat first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "remove hat. put hat on knob" | ||||
Floyd | Doffed. Floyd | Floyd | You prop the hat back on the knob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take hat" | ||||
Floyd | As you lift the hat from its knob on the wall, a low vibration tingles Floyd | up your legs from the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "doffed, heh. I learned that word from Infocom games" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "rub knob" | ||||
Floyd | Caressing the knob doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "rub hat on knob" | ||||
Floyd | Caressing the knob has no desirable effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l behind curtain" | ||||
Floyd | In the dark behind the drapes is a window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait decorates the north side, and black drapes mask the east wall. Floyd | Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, and a massive wooden globe squats Floyd | in a corner. Music wafts distantly from the ballroom across the hall to Floyd | the south. Floyd | A knob juts out of the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l in window" | ||||
Floyd | You can see only darkness beyond the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look at portrait" | ||||
Floyd | The portrait seems familiar, and you realize it is exactly the picture Floyd | on the front of the banknote Lafond sent you, same clothes, same Floyd | surroundings, same pose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "search desk" | ||||
Floyd | You have no need for that, milady. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look at desk" | ||||
Floyd | You have no need for that, milady. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "man, what is it about four-legged furniture. Other than beds, of course." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "My childhood I-learned-it-from-Infocom word was 'phosphorescent'" | ||||
| Allen asks (of Jacqueline), "from Zork II?" | ||||
| Allen asks, "the moss?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "One of the Zorks, yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, the moss." | ||||
| Allen says, "Zork II, yeah, in the tunnel 6 rooms south from the beginning" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha - you are suitably geeky" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a hat, a cotton frock, your reticule (hanging from your Floyd | wrist), a leather bottle, a slab of pork, a shirt and breeches. It Floyd | seems that your reticule contains a bit of mirror, a missive, a Floyd | jewelled brooch, smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing a Floyd | beautiful ball gown, a garter, your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put frock on knob" | ||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "x globe" | ||||
Floyd | The massive wooden globe, painted in greens and blues and white, Floyd | describes the world as presently known. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "rub frokc" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "frokc."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "oops frock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any frock here! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I learned 'egress,' of course. another IF game taught me 'defenestration.'" | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "x frock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any frock here! Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "BUG!!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah - defenestration's a good one" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "put all on knob" | ||||
Floyd | hat: You prop the hat back on the knob. Floyd | beautiful ball gown: You'll have to remove the beautiful ball gown Floyd | first. Floyd | garter: You'll have to remove the garter first. Floyd | your reticule: A lady is never without her reticule. Floyd | leather bottle: There's no room on the knob for the leather bottle. Floyd | slab of pork: There's no room on the knob for the slab of pork. Floyd | shirt: There's no room on the knob for the shirt. Floyd | breeches: There's no room on the knob for the breeches. Floyd | your kid slippers: You'll have to remove your kid slippers first. Floyd | linen chemise: You'll have to remove the linen chemise first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take frock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any frock here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take all from knob" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see what you're referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Allen), "we have come across a surprising number of bugs today. Gunther found a head-shakingly bad daemon/timer one earlier." | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "remove gown. put gown on knob" | ||||
Floyd | You remove the beautiful ball gown, exposing your linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | There's no room on the knob for the beautiful ball gown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x knob" | ||||
Floyd | The hat is on the knob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "get hat. put gown on knob. get gown" | ||||
Floyd | As you lift the hat from its knob on the wall, a low vibration tingles Floyd | up your legs from the floor. Floyd | Floyd | There's no room on the knob for the beautiful ball gown. Floyd | Floyd | You already have the beautiful ball gown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "touch globe" | ||||
Floyd | You press the globe at random. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "touch cuba" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "cuba."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen asks, "Cuba?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "touch sinistra" | ||||
Floyd | You press the painted island, and it sinks into the wooden sea. You Floyd | hear a whirr and a click and the portrait pops open. A draft of Floyd | sea-scented air flows in from behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says, "we're on the sinisterly named... yeah" | ||||
| Allen says, "I hope we don't need the frock" | Ellison says, "that is also the thing that is helped out by looking at the banknote" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says (to Ellison), "somehow I figured it out without that" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | The butler stands near the entrance to the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Floyd | No expense has been spared to make this long dim hallway anything Floyd | but a servant's corridor. The foyer is east, a kitchen north of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A firepit in the floor smokes badly, fogging up the depths of this Floyd | large kitchen, somehow not escaping through either the south or west Floyd | doors. Floyd | Lucy huddles alone by the fire, as if cold. Floyd | "Milady," exclaims the woman. "Lafond's guests are wisest not to Floyd | stray. Maybe you should stay at the ball." You find yourself ushered Floyd | into a hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | No expense has been spared to make this long dim hallway anything Floyd | but a servant's corridor. The foyer is east, a kitchen north of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Allen), "I guess it makes sense, now that I think about it" | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "show garter to lucy" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see Lucy here! Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "oh, pushed out" | |||
| maga says, "I learned 'plinth', 'uniform'..." | ||||
| schep says, "I'm so pleased at my secret passage system that I shall put a clue for it on my bank notes." | ||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, it is odd" | ||||
| Allen says (to schep), "it said the portrait is exactly the same" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | The butler stands near the entrance to the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | "No, ma'am, that way's private." The butler stops you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The sea of spectators parts to admit you, murmuring approval. Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | Lafond's party is well attended: you can hardly move for the crush. Floyd | However, the room is oddly silent, no talk interrupting the musical Floyd | efforts of the musicians to the west. Despite the heat, no one ventures Floyd | south to the veranda, nor through the opening east. The foyer is north Floyd | of you. Floyd | A fashionably bewigged man stalks up to you and bows deeply. "Will Floyd | you dance?" he asks, with a light French accent. "Not that you have Floyd | much choice. If you turn me down, your father dies." Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "so he probably smugly had his hand on the globe when the portrait was painted, and then for some reason used the portrait as a model for the banknotes" | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "slap lafond" | ||||
Floyd | Lafond grabs your hair and pulls your head sharply back, clinching your Floyd | arms to your sides. The ballroom is a whirling blur through your tears Floyd | as he leads you around the floor. "Ma petite, a ball is not the right Floyd | place to kill me. What would my guests think?!" Floyd | The man's smile hardens. "You have your father's eyes. I am Lafond Floyd | -- I have recently become intimate with that gentleman." He slightly Floyd | stresses the word "intimate." Floyd | "Now, tell me 'yes.' And remember, I am a man of my word." Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "'invoices', 'bootleg'..." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "No," you say, chin trembling. Floyd | "A mistake, ma petite." Lafond gestures to a shadowy figure, who Floyd | disappears into the east wing. "Say adieu to your dear Papa." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "never" | ||||
Floyd | "No," you say, chin trembling. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "oops" | |||
| Allen asks, "can you undo twice?" | ||||
| schep says, "yes" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | You summon a gracious smile, "Why yes, I'd love to." Floyd | He laughs triumphantly and pulls you into the dance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "step on lafond's toes" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "toes."] Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "This guy sounds like a creepy incestuous weirdo." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | "So you know I am not your father's friend," Lafond says, offering a Floyd | hand for the promenade. "Unfortunately, you are in my power, he is in Floyd | my dungeon and I am still King of these waters." A gold ring flashes on Floyd | his hand. It seems vaguely familiar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x ring" | ||||
Floyd | It's an ancient gold band, with a curious design of gargoyles, curled Floyd | tongues extended, on its flat face, with "Sal Sapit Omnia" engraved at Floyd | the bottom. Floyd | Lafond's eyes rake your body. "When I am ready, the butler will Floyd | summon you to sup with me in my room; it may be some time. We will find Floyd | much in common before dawn, I am sure. Then I may free your father." Floyd | Lafond bows as the dance ends, and kisses your hand. He cocks his head, Floyd | curious, "You have far less spirit than your father credited you. He Floyd | swore you would have him freed in no time at all. A pity, I prefer Floyd | doyennes with mettle." He moves to speak with the butler, then drifts Floyd | into the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "uh oh... that ring... Sal Sapit Omnia. I fear this game is just the start of a vast series of conspiracy tales that will end up deep beneath the vatican, in rome" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Supper Room Floyd | One long table set across the north entrance indicates that supper Floyd | was served here earlier. West of you is the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You scuttle underneath the long table. Floyd | Floyd | East Hallway Floyd | The carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into Floyd | the east wing. A long table blocks the way south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait decorates the north side, and black drapes mask the east wall. Floyd | Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, and a massive wooden globe squats Floyd | in a corner. Music wafts distantly from the ballroom across the hall to Floyd | the south. Floyd | An expensive hat is hanging on a knob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take hat" | ||||
Floyd | As you lift the hat from its knob on the wall, a low vibration tingles Floyd | up your legs from the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l in window" | ||||
Floyd | You can see only darkness beyond the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "push island" | ||||
Floyd | You press the painted island, and it sinks into the wooden sea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take treatise" | ||||
Floyd | You half tip the book out of the shelf when it snaps surprisingly back Floyd | into place. There is a mysterious scraping sound from inside the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x island" | ||||
Floyd | A tiny replica of St. Sinistra is painted on the globe in greater Floyd | detail than any other country, showing even the road from Santa Ananas Floyd | to Lafond's mansion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "push island" | ||||
Floyd | You press the painted island, and it sinks into the wooden sea. You Floyd | hear a whirr and a click and the portrait pops open. A draft of Floyd | sea-scented air flows in from behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait, slightly awry from the wall, decorates the north side, and Floyd | black drapes mask the east wall. Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, Floyd | and a massive wooden globe squats in a corner. Music wafts distantly Floyd | from the ballroom across the hall to the south. Floyd | A knob juts out of the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look at portrait" | ||||
Floyd | Cool air seeps out from the portrait. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | For safety's sake, you leave the hat on its knob. Best not to show that Floyd | you've been wandering. Floyd | You move beyond the portrait into the flickering torchlight. Floyd | Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | Cool salt air, blowing past a torch on a spiral staircase below you, Floyd | ruffles your hair and circles south into the library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take torch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the torch. Ladies don't carry them anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen asks, "what do ladies do when there's a voice between torches, and spiders and snakes in the darkness?" | |||
| Allen says, "voice? CHOICE" | ||||
| schep says, "summon a servant boy" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | South Passage Floyd | You are at the far end of a dank passageway heading north. A wooden Floyd | door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Cell Floyd | This tiny cell is airless and shivering cold, entirely empty of Floyd | anything but darkness. A wooden door leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "w.n.w.s" | ||||
Floyd | South Passage Floyd | You are at the far end of a dank passageway heading north. A wooden Floyd | door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Floyd | Anteroom Floyd | Two exits lead from this cavernous room, north and south. The walls Floyd | drip with wet, forming a huge pool on the floor. Floyd | A crocodile lies half in the pool, gazing at you, with baleful eyes, Floyd | jaws wide open. Dagger-sharp teeth glint in the torchlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "give pork to croc" | ||||
Floyd | The crocodile snaps its jaws shut as the slab of pork disappears into Floyd | its maw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "z.z." | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | With an inaudible creak, the crocodile's mouth opens again. Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Without warning, the crocodile relaxes, eyes closed, asleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "enter mouth" | ||||
Floyd | It would be safer to stay distant and throw things at the crocodile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "close mouth" | ||||
Floyd | You can't close a crocodile! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "search croc" | ||||
Floyd | That wouldn't be polite. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "is there nothing that pork can't solv e" | |||
| schep says, "well, pork and opiate" | ||||
| olethros says, "pork is the opiate of the masse" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "kill croc" | ||||
Floyd | Harm a sleeping animal! Mama would have been shocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You edge past the reptile. Floyd | Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | You sense, rather than see, the rusty skeletons of old cages and Floyd | torture devices that line the walls of this cavernous room. One flaming Floyd | torch, high on a wall, casts mad licks of light into the darkness. Floyd | Passages lead north and west. Set deep in the rocky floor is a closed Floyd | trapdoor. Floyd | A pair of manacles hangs from iron chains attached high on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did you guys see that horrible Bacon Starry Night thing this week?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | The door creaks open to reveal a black well, water hushing deep within. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Corner Floyd | This short passage turns from east to north to stop abruptly at an Floyd | iron door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Just, y'know, apropos of nothing." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline goes to find it. | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It's quite locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "unlock door with pin" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to unlock the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | Silence answers back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "pick lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any lock here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | Silence answers back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says, "oh, already tried" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the iron door first. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah! Here we are:" | |||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | You sense, rather than see, the rusty skeletons of old cages and Floyd | torture devices that line the walls of this cavernous room. One flaming Floyd | torch, high on a wall, casts mad licks of light into the darkness. Floyd | Passages lead north and west. Set deep in the rocky floor is an open Floyd | trapdoor. Floyd | A pair of manacles hangs from iron chains attached high on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take manacles" | ||||
Floyd | That is a waste of time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x manacles" | ||||
Floyd | A pair of manacles hangs from iron chains attached high on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any water here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "wear manacles" | ||||
Floyd | You're not holding the pair of manacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wow" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Though, oh, I guess that's the lj feed, not his actual site. The real post is at [LINK]" | ||||
| Ellison says, "that makes me want do a Bacon The Scream" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "open trap door" | ||||
Floyd | It is already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Get on it, dude." | |||
| Ellison says, "(the bacon scream?)" | ||||
| schep asks, "was there an exit northish?" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look in trap" | ||||
Floyd | You smell salt water and mold, but you can see nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "enter trap" | ||||
Floyd | You start to climb down the well, but lose your footing on the slimy Floyd | rock. The fall to the bottom of the well is endless; you've lost Floyd | consciousness by the time the water overtakes you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 289 turns, you have achieved a score of 13 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Plucky Lass. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Dennis Jerz will be so happy." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | Ellison says, "we are plucky now" | |||
Floyd | If you're feeling pillaged, maps and hint booklets are available from Floyd | your dealer, or via mail order with the form that came in your game Floyd | package. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I often am." | |||
| olethros says, "tired." | ||||
| olethros says, "zzz" | ||||
| olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse. | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | You sense, rather than see, the rusty skeletons of old cages and Floyd | torture devices that line the walls of this cavernous room. One flaming Floyd | torch, high on a wall, casts mad licks of light into the darkness. Floyd | Passages lead north and west. Set deep in the rocky floor is an open Floyd | trapdoor. Floyd | A pair of manacles hangs from iron chains attached high on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Anteroom Floyd | Two exits lead from this cavernous room, north and south. The walls Floyd | drip with wet, forming a huge pool on the floor. Floyd | The crocodile lies half in the pool, sleeping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Guard's Bunkroom Floyd | Once a cell, now, with the door missing, made into a guard's Floyd | bunkroom, this room is distinctly uncomfortable. Gasps of air are Floyd | forced through a crack in the seaward wall of the room. The way out is Floyd | west of you. Floyd | A powder horn hangs on a long strap from the wall. Floyd | A canvas cot is shoved against a wall. Sitting on the cot is a large Floyd | key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | Completely common looking large key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | powder horn: Taken. Floyd | large key: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x horn" | ||||
Floyd | Almost triangular, with a little spout on top, the powder horn is Floyd | similar to the one your father used to carry when hunting. It is filled Floyd | with a mixture of gunpowder and shot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look at bed" | ||||
Floyd | It is an uncomfortable canvas cot, old and torn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing under the cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "look in crack" | ||||
Floyd | The Helena Louise floats, silent and serene, some distance out in the Floyd | lagoon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to flyod), "s" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | South Passage Floyd | You are at the far end of a dank passageway heading north. A wooden Floyd | door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "unlock door" | ||||
Floyd | It already is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "wait, I'm confused where we are" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n. n. w. s. s. w" | ||||
Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Floyd | Anteroom Floyd | Two exits lead from this cavernous room, north and south. The walls Floyd | drip with wet, forming a huge pool on the floor. Floyd | The crocodile lies half in the pool, sleeping. Floyd | Floyd | You edge past the reptile. Floyd | Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | You sense, rather than see, the rusty skeletons of old cages and Floyd | torture devices that line the walls of this cavernous room. One flaming Floyd | torch, high on a wall, casts mad licks of light into the darkness. Floyd | Passages lead north and west. Set deep in the rocky floor is an open Floyd | trapdoor. Floyd | A pair of manacles hangs from iron chains attached high on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Corner Floyd | This short passage turns from east to north to stop abruptly at an Floyd | iron door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "unlock door" | ||||
Floyd | [with the large key] Floyd | Unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Cell Floyd | Hewn from dense rock, the cell is a stagnant burrow. Except for the Floyd | tiniest glow of light from the torch two rooms away, it is pitch black. Floyd | As you enter, a tall bony man moves out of the darkness. "Papa," you Floyd | cry, rushing into his arms. Floyd | "Why, hullo, my dear." He hugs you tightly. "Nick certainly took his Floyd | time about fetching you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "ask papa about nick" | ||||
Floyd | "My dear," he says rather impatiently, "There are people waiting for Floyd | our help -- I haven't time to answer your questions just now." Floyd | You briefly explain the current situation to your father. Floyd | "I knew Falcon would do his best to rescue me, once you were safe," Floyd | he responds. "Now to rescue Lucy -- Nicholas will have told you about Floyd | her. You get him while I get Lucy, and the four of us will meet down at Floyd | the beach. Just show me the way out of this maze, and we'll get Floyd | started." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "show garter to papa" | ||||
Floyd | He smiles dreamily at a memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "give garter to papa" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to remove the garter first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Corner Floyd | This short passage turns from east to north to stop abruptly at an Floyd | iron door. Floyd | Papa enters just a few steps behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | You sense, rather than see, the rusty skeletons of old cages and Floyd | torture devices that line the walls of this cavernous room. One flaming Floyd | torch, high on a wall, casts mad licks of light into the darkness. Floyd | Passages lead north and west. Set deep in the rocky floor is an open Floyd | trapdoor. Floyd | A pair of manacles hangs from iron chains attached high on the wall. Floyd | Papa follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Anteroom Floyd | Two exits lead from this cavernous room, north and south. The walls Floyd | drip with wet, forming a huge pool on the floor. Floyd | The crocodile lies half in the pool, sleeping. Floyd | Papa mutters something to himself. You hear an occasional "Zounds!" Floyd | Your father stops, smiling at the crocodile, "Hello, chum, how are Floyd | you?" He bends over the creature, and scratches its bumpy snout, Floyd | muttering, "Never seen you sleep like this before." It stirs to life as Floyd | your father walks over to you by the north entrance. The reptile, Floyd | waking, lunges after him, choking on its chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Papa follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | Cool salt air, blowing past a torch on a spiral staircase below you, Floyd | ruffles your hair and circles south into the library. Floyd | Papa enters just a few steps behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move beyond the portrait into the library. Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait, slightly awry from the wall, decorates the north side, and Floyd | black drapes mask the east wall. Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, Floyd | and a massive wooden globe squats in a corner. Music wafts distantly Floyd | from the ballroom across the hall to the south. Floyd | An expensive hat is hanging on a knob. Floyd | Papa mutters something to himself. You hear an occasional "Zounds!" Floyd | "A window!" your father exclaims. "I shall creep out to the kitchen. Floyd | Get the Falcon." He climbs out the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | East Hallway Floyd | The carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into Floyd | the east wing. A long table blocks the way south. Floyd | There is a commotion from the west. A woman screams and a man yells, Floyd | "Stop, Pirate!" You run to the foyer in time to see two dragoons Floyd | dragging out the battered frame of Captain Jamison. Floyd | An officer quiets the guests, "This is the buccaneer who has been Floyd | pirating our ships. He had the audacity to come here tonight intending Floyd | to assassinate our dear governor. Do not worry, ladies, he was arrogant Floyd | enough to come alone." The officer marches after his men. The dancers Floyd | return to their banal conversations. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | The butler stands near the entrance to the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen asks, "good save point?" | Jacqueline says, "sure" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "oh, save button. I couldn't remember how to do that" | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "kick butler" | ||||
Floyd | "Hey! Cut that out!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You just 'press save' (not to Floyd, just >PRESS SAVE)" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The sea of spectators parts to admit you, murmuring approval. Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | Lafond's party is well attended: you can hardly move for the crush. Floyd | However, the room is oddly silent, no talk interrupting the musical Floyd | efforts of the musicians to the west. Despite the heat, no one ventures Floyd | south to the veranda, nor through the opening east. The foyer is north Floyd | of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | The butler stands near the entrance to the ballroom. Floyd | The butler walks up to you. "M. Lafond requests your presence in his Floyd | room immediately, Miss." He points up the stairs, bows, and leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "spit" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "spit."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Main Entrance Floyd | The front door stands open to the south, light splayed out onto a Floyd | drive stretching north into the jungle. A path leads around the western Floyd | wing of the house; jutting out from the east wing is a tall hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Front Drive Floyd | A rutted drive runs north-south here, from a high spiked gate Floyd | through the jungle to Lafond's mansion. You hide in the bushes nearby. Floyd | Dragoons, conversing quietly, patrol the other side of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Dragoons guard the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep exclaims, "and I'm all out of pork!" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a large key, a powder horn, a cotton frock, your reticule Floyd | (hanging from your wrist), a leather bottle, a shirt and breeches. It Floyd | seems that your reticule contains a bit of mirror, a missive, a Floyd | jewelled brooch, smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing a Floyd | beautiful ball gown, a garter, your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In 331 turns, you have achieved a score of 15 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Daring Demoiselle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open horn" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any way to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "throw key at bush" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "bush."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Main Entrance Floyd | The front door stands open to the south, light splayed out onto a Floyd | drive stretching north into the jungle. A path leads around the western Floyd | wing of the house; jutting out from the east wing is a tall hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | East Hallway Floyd | The carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into Floyd | the east wing. A long table blocks the way south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait, slightly awry from the wall, decorates the north side, and Floyd | black drapes mask the east wall. Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, Floyd | and a massive wooden globe squats in a corner. Music wafts distantly Floyd | from the ballroom across the hall to the south. Floyd | An expensive hat is hanging on a knob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You move beyond the portrait into the flickering torchlight. Floyd | Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | Cool salt air, blowing past a torch on a spiral staircase below you, Floyd | ruffles your hair and circles south into the library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Anteroom Floyd | Two exits lead from this cavernous room, north and south. The walls Floyd | drip with wet, forming a huge pool on the floor. Floyd | The crocodile lies half in the pool, gazing at you, with baleful Floyd | eyes, jaws wide open. Dagger-sharp teeth glint in the torchlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | South Passage Floyd | You are at the far end of a dank passageway heading north. A wooden Floyd | door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Cell Floyd | This tiny cell is airless and shivering cold, entirely empty of Floyd | anything but darkness. A wooden door leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | South Passage Floyd | You are at the far end of a dank passageway heading north. A wooden Floyd | door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Guard's Bunkroom Floyd | Once a cell, now, with the door missing, made into a guard's Floyd | bunkroom, this room is distinctly uncomfortable. Gasps of air are Floyd | forced through a crack in the seaward wall of the room. The way out is Floyd | west of you. Floyd | A canvas cot is shoved against a wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | South Passage Floyd | You are at the far end of a dank passageway heading north. A wooden Floyd | door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | North Passage Floyd | A strong wet breeze blows from a low doorway to the east. A circle Floyd | of light leads west. The passageway continues south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Anteroom Floyd | Two exits lead from this cavernous room, north and south. The walls Floyd | drip with wet, forming a huge pool on the floor. Floyd | The crocodile lies half in the pool, gazing at you, with baleful Floyd | eyes, jaws wide open. Dagger-sharp teeth glint in the torchlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The crocodile roars at you. You retreat to the north entrance and the Floyd | monster stills, waiting, chops open, almost smiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg arrives, full of fun and funk. | schep asks, "did it say the Dragoons took him away from the building?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | Cool salt air, blowing past a torch on a spiral staircase below you, Floyd | ruffles your hair and circles south into the library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move beyond the portrait into the library. Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait, slightly awry from the wall, decorates the north side, and Floyd | black drapes mask the east wall. Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, Floyd | and a massive wooden globe squats in a corner. Music wafts distantly Floyd | from the ballroom across the hall to the south. Floyd | An expensive hat is hanging on a knob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | East Hallway Floyd | The carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into Floyd | the east wing. A long table blocks the way south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Stair Landing Floyd | The east-west hallway opens here to curve into a grand staircase Floyd | sweeping down to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l in door" | ||||
Floyd | It is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Stair Landing Floyd | The east-west hallway opens here to curve into a grand staircase Floyd | sweeping down to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading east to a stair landing. Floyd | Rooms lie north and south of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Parlour Floyd | This room is exotically furnished with a Turkey divan and chairs. Floyd | The exit is south. Floyd | A pair of duelling pistols is mounted high on one wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any chair here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading east to a stair landing. Floyd | Rooms lie north and south of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Stair Landing Floyd | The east-west hallway opens here to curve into a grand staircase Floyd | sweeping down to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | "Welcome, ma petite." Lafond bows you in. Floyd | Floyd | Lafond's Bedroom Floyd | Lafond's bedroom shows all the outpourings of his megalomania. Royal Floyd | hues of purple and gold weigh down the hangings on the bed and the Floyd | eastward window, as if trying to smother the moonbeam shining in. Floyd | Lafond is leering, lip curled. Floyd | A lace-covered table crouches beside a wing-backed chair in one Floyd | corner. Sitting on the table is a green goblet, a blue goblet and a Floyd | flagon. Floyd | "Have some wine." Lafond pours wine into two glasses, giving a blue Floyd | one to you. "Drink this down. We have a long night ahead of us." He Floyd | drains his own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put laudanum in green goblet" | ||||
Floyd | Lafond bounds to your side, grabbing the leather bottle out of your Floyd | hand before you can use it. "What have we here? Trying to poison Floyd | yourself? Or me?" He throws it out the shutters. Floyd | Lafond waits impatiently for you to drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drink wine" | ||||
Floyd | You empty the blue goblet of wine. Floyd | "Good girl," he says, "Let's see more cooperation of this sort." Floyd | Suddenly, the door slams open. It is Jamison, coatless, sword bared, Floyd | his shirt ripped. "Thank God I am not too late. Leave, darling, before Floyd | I skewer this dog to his bedposts," he cries. The scar on his cheek Floyd | gleams coldly. Floyd | With a yell, Crulley and the butler jump out of the darkness behind Floyd | him. Nicholas struggles, but soon lies unconscious on the floor. Floyd | "Take him to the dungeon," Lafond says, setting down his glass. Floyd | "You, butler, stay nearby. I do not wish to be disturbed again. Floyd | "Now that we are rid of that intrusion, cherie, I will change into Floyd | something more comfortable. Pour me more wine." He crosses to the Floyd | wardrobe removing his coat and vest, turned slightly away from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pour wine in green goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You fill the green goblet with wine. Floyd | "In private, call me Jean, or whatever endearment you choose, once I Floyd | have approved it." Lafond is looking into the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put laudanum in green goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze three colorless drops into the green goblet. You sense Floyd | Lafond hesitate, then continue primping. Floyd | The butler enters, laying a silver tray of cold chicken on the Floyd | table. "The kitchen wench has gone, your grace. I took the liberty of Floyd | fetching these myself." He bows and leaves the room. Floyd | "Sprinkle some spices on the fowl, ma petite," Lafond says, donning Floyd | a long brocade robe, his back to you. "They are hot, but delicious." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "spice chicken" | ||||
Floyd | [There was no verb in that sentence!] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put spice on chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You're not holding the spices. Floyd | "Tsk. The cook has gone too far. She shall be 'leaving us' Floyd | tomorrow." Lafond adjusts the lace at his neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take spice" | ||||
Floyd | You take a pinch of spices between your thumb and forefinger. Floyd | Lafond strolls to the table smiling slyly. "But you haven't finished Floyd | pouring the wine." He tops off both glasses. "Which glass was mine? I Floyd | seem to have forgotten." He points at the green goblet and smiles in a Floyd | way that does not grant you confidence. "Is this it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put spice on chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You sprinkle some spices on a wing and nibble at it. The peppery heat Floyd | hits you like a wave, leaving you gasping, eyes watering. Floyd | "Ah yes, of course." Lafond obligingly takes the green goblet, Floyd | shrugging off your lack of cooperation. Floyd | He inhales deeply of the bouquet of his wine, then turns to you. Floyd | "You must think me very naive to fall for such a trick. I saw you pour Floyd | something into one of these glasses -- although I cannot smell it." He Floyd | switches goblets, setting the green goblet into your nerveless grasp Floyd | and taking up the other, smiling evilly. "Now you will drink from the Floyd | cup intended for me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "throw green goblet at lafond" | ||||
Floyd | The delicate glass of the green goblet shatters into pieces. Floyd | Lafond smacks you hard across the face with the back of his hand, Floyd | "Fool." He casts aside all formalities. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have suffered Floyd | a fate worse than death *** Floyd | Floyd | In 377 turns, you have achieved a score of 16 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Daring Demoiselle. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drink wine" | ||||
Floyd | You empty the blue goblet of wine. Floyd | "Good girl," he says, "Let's see more cooperation of this sort." Floyd | Suddenly, the door slams open. It is Jamison, coatless, sword bared, Floyd | his shirt ripped. "Thank God I am not too late. Leave, darling, before Floyd | I skewer this dog to his bedposts," he cries. The scar on his cheek Floyd | gleams coldly. Floyd | With a yell, Crulley and the butler jump out of the darkness behind Floyd | him. Nicholas struggles, but soon lies unconscious on the floor. Floyd | "Take him to the dungeon," Lafond says, setting down his glass. Floyd | "You, butler, stay nearby. I do not wish to be disturbed again. Floyd | "Now that we are rid of that intrusion, cherie, I will change into Floyd | something more comfortable. Pour me more wine." He crosses to the Floyd | wardrobe removing his coat and vest, turned slightly away from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fill green goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You're not holding the green goblet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "lafond, You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha." | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "only."] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [I don't know the word "nly."] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says (to Allen), "yay" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pour wine in green goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You fill the green goblet with wine. Floyd | "In private, call me Jean, or whatever endearment you choose, once I Floyd | have approved it." Lafond is looking into the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pour wine in blue goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You fill the blue goblet with wine. Floyd | The butler enters, laying a silver tray of cold chicken on the Floyd | table. "The kitchen wench has gone, your grace. I took the liberty of Floyd | fetching these myself." He bows and leaves the room. Floyd | "Sprinkle some spices on the fowl, ma petite," Lafond says, donning Floyd | a long brocade robe, his back to you. "They are hot, but delicious." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put laudanum in blue goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze three colorless drops into the blue goblet. You sense Floyd | Lafond hesitate, then continue primping. Floyd | "Tsk. The cook has gone too far. She shall be 'leaving us' Floyd | tomorrow." Lafond adjusts the lace at his neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take spice" | ||||
Floyd | You take a pinch of spices between your thumb and forefinger. Floyd | Lafond strolls to the table smiling slyly. "Which glass was mine? I Floyd | seem to have forgotten." He points at the green goblet and smiles in a Floyd | way that does not grant you confidence. "Is this it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put spice on chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You sprinkle some spices on a wing and nibble at it. The peppery heat Floyd | hits you like a wave, leaving you gasping, eyes watering. Floyd | "Ah yes, of course." Lafond obligingly takes the blue goblet, Floyd | shrugging off your lack of cooperation. Floyd | He inhales deeply of the bouquet of his wine, then turns to you. Floyd | "You must think me very naive to fall for such a trick. I saw you pour Floyd | something into one of these glasses -- although I cannot smell it." He Floyd | switches goblets, setting the blue goblet into your nerveless grasp and Floyd | taking up the other, smiling evilly. "Now you will drink from the cup Floyd | intended for me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | You nod. Floyd | "Ah yes, of course." Lafond obligingly takes the green goblet. Floyd | He inhales deeply of the bouquet of his wine, then turns to you. Floyd | "You must think me very naive to fall for such a trick. I saw you pour Floyd | something into one of these glasses -- although I cannot smell it." He Floyd | switches goblets, setting the green goblet into your nerveless grasp Floyd | and taking up the other, smiling evilly. "Now you will drink from the Floyd | cup intended for me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drink green goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't drink a green goblet! Floyd | The spices dribble out from between your fingers. Floyd | "Drink. We must not waste all night." Lafond pushes the glass toward Floyd | your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drink" | ||||
Floyd | [What do you want to drink?] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drink wine" | ||||
Floyd | You empty the green goblet of wine. Floyd | The spices dribble out from between your fingers. Floyd | "Good girl," he says. Lafond takes the leather bottle and drops it Floyd | out the window. "You shall not need this. You may suffer no headaches Floyd | in my employ." Floyd | He lifts his glass to drink, but stops. "Your father, for all his Floyd | idiotic meddling in other people's business, is not a fool. I doubt you Floyd | are, either." He calls in the butler, ordering him to empty the blue Floyd | goblet. The man reports no odd taste and returns to his post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "throw spices at lafond" | ||||
Floyd | You're not holding the spices. Floyd | Lafond draws near, whispering indecencies. He caresses your lily Floyd | white neck, his fingers ice-cold despite the tropic heat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "eat chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You sprinkle some spices on a wing and nibble at it. The peppery heat Floyd | hits you like a wave, leaving you gasping, eyes watering. Floyd | Lafond slides his hand up your neck and into your hair, letting it Floyd | fall down your back in thick waves and tresses. He lays everything you Floyd | carry on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have your reticule (hanging from your wrist). It seems that your Floyd | reticule contains a bit of mirror, a missive, a jewelled brooch, Floyd | smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing a beautiful ball gown, a Floyd | garter, your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | One by one Lafond undoes your buttons. He pulls open your bodice. Floyd | Your clothes float to the floor. Floyd | You hear a "thump-phoosh," like someone slumping against a wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "lafond, I'm trying to eat here" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "i'm."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "stab lafond with pin" | ||||
Floyd | To put it bluntly, neither the jewelled brooch nor you are very sharp. Floyd | Lafond runs his fingers down your naked spine, and compliments your Floyd | body. He removes his dressing gown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear chemise" | ||||
Floyd | [taking the linen chemise first] Floyd | Lafond stops you. Floyd | Lafond kisses your shoulder, your neck, your ear. "Close your eyes, Floyd | if you will," he taunts, "and pretend I am your dearest Captain Floyd | Jamison. But I am greater than he will ever be." He kisses you, his Floyd | lips thin and cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Lafond whirls you around. "My pretty, you came here freely, but you may Floyd | not leave freely." Floyd | Lafond leads you over to the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "kick lafond" | ||||
Floyd | Lafond grabs your hair and pulls your head sharply back, clinching your Floyd | arms to your sides. Twisting your wrist, pain stabbing down your arm, Floyd | he forces his mouth on yours, hard, thrusting, cutting your lips. He Floyd | releases you. "Let that be a warning to you, my love." Floyd | Lafond pulls the sheets up to cover you both, pressing his long Floyd | flaccid body against yours. Waves crash against the base of the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have suffered Floyd | a fate worse than death *** Floyd | Floyd | In 384 turns, you have achieved a score of 17 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Daring Demoiselle. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | Papa always says, "Action, not reaction, girl!" Floyd | Lafond pulls the sheets up to cover you both, pressing his long Floyd | flaccid body against yours. Waves crash against the base of the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have suffered Floyd | a fate worse than death *** Floyd | Floyd | In 384 turns, you have achieved a score of 17 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Daring Demoiselle. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says, "hmm" | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "could someone summarize what's been tried so far?" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Lafond's Bedroom Floyd | Lafond's bedroom shows all the outpourings of his megalomania. Royal Floyd | hues of purple and gold weigh down the hangings on the bed and the Floyd | eastward window, as if trying to smother the moonbeam shining in. Floyd | Lafond is leering, lip curled. He has a green goblet. Floyd | A lace-covered table crouches beside a wing-backed chair in one Floyd | corner. Sitting on the table is a flagon. Floyd | Lafond waits impatiently for you to drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says, "poisoned his wine, but he had the butler taste it" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drink wine" | ||||
Floyd | You empty the blue goblet of wine. Floyd | "Good girl," he says, "Let's see more cooperation of this sort." Floyd | Suddenly, the door slams open. It is Jamison, coatless, sword bared, Floyd | his shirt ripped. "Thank God I am not too late. Leave, darling, before Floyd | I skewer this dog to his bedposts," he cries. The scar on his cheek Floyd | gleams coldly. Floyd | With a yell, Crulley and the butler jump out of the darkness behind Floyd | him. Nicholas struggles, but soon lies unconscious on the floor. Floyd | "Take him to the dungeon," Lafond says, setting down his glass. Floyd | "You, butler, stay nearby. I do not wish to be disturbed again. Floyd | "Now that we are rid of that intrusion, cherie, I will change into Floyd | something more comfortable. Pour me more wine." He crosses to the Floyd | wardrobe removing his coat and vest, turned slightly away from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "and what was up with the spices?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pour wine in blue goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You fill the blue goblet with wine. Floyd | "In private, call me Jean, or whatever endearment you choose, once I Floyd | have approved it." Lafond is looking into the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put laudanum in green goblet" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze three colorless drops into the green goblet. You sense Floyd | Lafond hesitate, then continue primping. Floyd | The butler enters, laying a silver tray of cold chicken on the Floyd | table. "The kitchen wench has gone, your grace. I took the liberty of Floyd | fetching these myself." He bows and leaves the room. Floyd | "Sprinkle some spices on the fowl, ma petite," Lafond says, donning Floyd | a long brocade robe, his back to you. "They are hot, but delicious." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put laudanum in flagon" | ||||
Floyd | You squeeze three colorless drops into the flagon. You sense Lafond Floyd | hesitate, then continue primping. Floyd | The butler enters, laying a silver tray of cold chicken on the Floyd | table. "The kitchen wench has gone, your grace. I took the liberty of Floyd | fetching these myself." He bows and leaves the room. Floyd | "Sprinkle some spices on the fowl, ma petite," Lafond says, donning Floyd | a long brocade robe, his back to you. "They are hot, but delicious." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pour wine in green flagon" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any green flagon here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pour wine in green" | ||||
Floyd | You fill the green goblet with wine. Floyd | "Tsk. The cook has gone too far. She shall be 'leaving us' Floyd | tomorrow." Lafond adjusts the lace at his neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take spice" | ||||
Floyd | You take a pinch of spices between your thumb and forefinger. Floyd | Lafond strolls to the table smiling slyly. "Which glass was mine? I Floyd | seem to have forgotten." He points at the green goblet and smiles in a Floyd | way that does not grant you confidence. "Is this it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You shake your head, teeth clenched. Floyd | "Ah yes, of course." Lafond obligingly takes the blue goblet. Floyd | He inhales deeply of the bouquet of his wine, then turns to you. Floyd | "You must think me very naive to fall for such a trick. I saw you pour Floyd | something into one of these glasses -- although I cannot smell it." He Floyd | switches goblets, setting the blue goblet into your nerveless grasp and Floyd | taking up the other, smiling evilly. "Now you will drink from the cup Floyd | intended for me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put spice on chicken" | ||||
Floyd | You sprinkle some spices on a wing and nibble at it. The peppery heat Floyd | hits you like a wave, leaving you gasping, eyes watering. Floyd | The spices dribble out from between your fingers. Floyd | Lafond grows suddenly violent. "I will not have insubordination. You Floyd | shall cooperate, minx." He forces the quantity of wine down your Floyd | throat. Floyd | Lafond takes the leather bottle and drops it out the window. "You Floyd | shall not need this. You may suffer no headaches in my employ." Floyd | He lifts his glass to drink, but stops. "Your father, for all his Floyd | idiotic meddling in other people's business, is not a fool. I doubt you Floyd | are, either." He calls in the butler, ordering him to empty the green Floyd | goblet. The man reports no odd taste and returns to his post. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "get spices" | ||||
Floyd | You take a pinch of spices between your thumb and forefinger. Floyd | Lafond draws near, whispering indecencies. He caresses your lily Floyd | white neck, his fingers ice-cold despite the tropic heat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "throw spices at lafond" | ||||
Floyd | You blow the spices off your fingertips, directly into Lafond's face. Floyd | He sneezes, his eyes watering from the heat of the peppers. Reaching Floyd | blindly for some wine, he instead upsets the table, shattering a glass. Floyd | Lafond stumbles cursing out of the room, in search of relief. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You run out -- into the butler's barrel chest and leering grin. You Floyd | return to the bedroom, the butler following. "The governor said you Floyd | were not to leave this room." Floyd | The butler collapses, head back, snoring loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "nice dramatic timing" | |||
| Ghogg says, "go team" | Jacqueline says, "Leering is such a... yeah." | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "kick butler" | ||||
Floyd | He doesn't respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says, "(also save)" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You creep over the prostrate butler. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | schep says, "gtg. I will read the transcript or resume tomorrow." | |||
| schep has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "Has it basically just been schep and Allen (who's play it already, naughty Allen)" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I think so, although this has me considering firing the game up on my own computer" | ||||
| Allen says, "I assumed schep had played it before" | ||||
| Allen says, "he did things too expertly not to" | ||||
| canadianpuzzler says, "I'm here, though I've been fine with just watching." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Screw it, let's just finish it here... you, me, Allen - anyone who's played." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's not like any of us have actually played recently." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And schep was okay with reading the rest." | ||||
| Allen says, "also, I haven't played it since the 90s, so there's a LOT I don't remember" | ||||
| Allen says, "I did remember the spices" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We're pretty close, if memory serves." | ||||
| Ghogg says, "you are" | ||||
| Allen says, "we have to signal the boat, but I don't remember where we do it from" | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "could you reload back to the butler real quick?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I'm fine with us finishing, yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of ghogg), "Hm. Which save?" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Need me to scroll back to see?" | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Lafond's Bedroom Floyd | Lafond's bedroom shows all the outpourings of his megalomania. Royal Floyd | hues of purple and gold weigh down the hangings on the bed and the Floyd | eastward window, as if trying to smother the moonbeam shining in. Floyd | The butler lies on the floor, prone and snoring loudly. Floyd | A lace-covered table crouches beside a wing-backed chair in one Floyd | corner. Sitting on the table is a silver tray and a flagon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "cf9" | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ghogg), "Go for it." | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "load cf9" | Allen says, "go ahead" | |||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "cf9."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [I don't know the word "cf9."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Lafond's Bedroom Floyd | Lafond's bedroom shows all the outpourings of his megalomania. Royal Floyd | hues of purple and gold weigh down the hangings on the bed and the Floyd | eastward window, as if trying to smother the moonbeam shining in. Floyd | The butler lies on the floor, prone and snoring loudly. Floyd | A lace-covered table crouches beside a wing-backed chair in one Floyd | corner. Sitting on the table is a silver tray and a flagon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg exclaims, "Ah!" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get tray" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "hard game?" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "put tray in moonbeam" | ||||
Floyd | You scrape everything off the silver tray into the bushes below. You Floyd | roll the silver tray around in the beam of moonlight till it glows Floyd | silver-white. After a moment, a flash of light responds from the Helena Floyd | Louise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "there you go" | |||
| Allen says, "no, it's a pretty easy one, by infocom standards" | ||||
| Allen says (to Ghogg), "oh, I thought we did that with the mirror" | ||||
| Allen says, "there was a mirror fragment earlier" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "I think that works too" | ||||
| Ellison says, "there are multiple solutions to several puzzles. one of the neat things about this game." | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You creep over the prostrate butler. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Stair Landing Floyd | The east-west hallway opens here to curve into a grand staircase Floyd | sweeping down to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wow. >put tray in moonbeam. Wow." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Just... wow" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "I was not sure how to phrase that" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Main Entrance Floyd | The front door stands open to the south, light splayed out onto a Floyd | drive stretching north into the jungle. A path leads around the western Floyd | wing of the house; jutting out from the east wing is a tall hedge. Floyd | An eerie battle cry arises on the wind, from all sides of the house. Floyd | It is drowned out a few minutes later by screams of terror from the Floyd | dancers in the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen asks, "darn it, where is the library?" | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | Cookie rushes up to you, looking worried. "Miss, we must find the Floyd | Cap'n. Have ye any idea where to look?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | East Hallway Floyd | The carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into Floyd | the east wing. A long table blocks the way south. Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Cookie grins broadly, "I knew we could depend on you, lass. Lead Floyd | on!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You scuttle underneath the long table. Floyd | Floyd | Supper Room Floyd | One long table set across the north entrance indicates that supper Floyd | was served here earlier. West of you is the ballroom. Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "grr" | |||
| Ghogg says, "wait.." | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You scuttle underneath the long table. Floyd | Floyd | East Hallway Floyd | The carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into Floyd | the east wing. A long table blocks the way south. Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait decorates the north side, and black drapes mask the east wall. Floyd | Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, and a massive wooden globe squats Floyd | in a corner. Floyd | An expensive hat is hanging on a knob. Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The portrait is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "oh I guess that works" | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "button."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "push island" | ||||
Floyd | You press the painted island, and it sinks into the wooden sea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "get hat" | ||||
Floyd | As you lift the hat from its knob on the wall, a low vibration tingles Floyd | up your legs from the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to flosh), "push island" | Ellison asks, "did we already have our faceoff with Lafond?" | |||
| smartgenes arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Allen says (to flosh), "pull book. push island" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "pull book. push island" | ||||
Floyd | Pardon? Floyd | Floyd | You press the painted island, and it sinks into the wooden sea. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "lemme try something..." | |||
| Allen says (to floyd), "put hat on knob. get hat. get treatise. push island" | ||||
Floyd | You prop the hat back on the knob. Floyd | Floyd | As you lift the hat from its knob on the wall, a low vibration tingles Floyd | up your legs from the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You half tip the book out of the shelf when it snaps surprisingly back Floyd | into place. There is a mysterious scraping sound from inside the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You press the painted island, and it sinks into the wooden sea. You Floyd | hear a whirr and a click and the portrait pops open. A draft of Floyd | sea-scented air flows in from behind it. Cookie harrumphs, surprised. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | For safety's sake, you leave the hat on its knob. Best not to show that Floyd | you've been wandering. Floyd | You move beyond the portrait into the flickering torchlight. Floyd | Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | Cool salt air, blowing past a torch on a spiral staircase below you, Floyd | ruffles your hair and circles south into the library. Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "go on, if you want to take over" | |||
| Ghogg says, "actually, you got what I was about to do, but I'll steer for a sec" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Flickering torchlight lights the bottom of a spiral staircase. A Floyd | draft blows from the east; a passage leads south. Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Anteroom Floyd | Two exits lead from this cavernous room, north and south. The walls Floyd | drip with wet, forming a huge pool on the floor. Floyd | The crocodile lies half in the pool, gazing at you, with baleful Floyd | eyes, jaws wide open. Dagger-sharp teeth glint in the torchlight. Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Cookie rushes at the crocodile, crying, "I'll take care of this Floyd | monster, sweetheart. You run by and do what you must do." He dives Floyd | headlong into the pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline watches 'em go. | |||
| Allen says, "I thought we were suppsoed to put the garter belt on the crocodile, when it was passed out" | ||||
| Allen says, "but maybe that's an alternative solution (so its mouth won't open)" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | A whip cracks the air. "Flogs me, will ye, Cap'n? Taste it yourself, Floyd | har." Jamison groans, half conscious. You rush in. Floyd | Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | You sense, rather than see, the rusty skeletons of old cages and Floyd | torture devices that line the walls of this cavernous room. One flaming Floyd | torch, high on a wall, casts mad licks of light into the darkness. Floyd | Passages lead north and west. Set deep in the rocky floor is an open Floyd | trapdoor. Floyd | Nicholas is spread-eagled against the wall, shackled in the pair of Floyd | manacles. Floyd | A rapier lies in the half-dark of a corner. Floyd | Crulley steps leering out of the shadows and cracks the whip near Floyd | you, hopping you towards the open trapdoor. "What, afrighted of a lick Floyd | o' the whip?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Allen), "huh" | |||
| Ghogg says, "I think it is time to swash and buckle" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "Jacq, I think you're up" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "get the rapier and go all piratey" | ||||
| Allen says, "His rapier hilt a-twinkle / under the jeweled sky" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ghogg), "No no - I'm enjoying the ride." | ||||
| Ghogg says, "ah ok" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get rapier" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Crulley snorts, "Be careful, you might hurt yer dearie." Floyd | Crulley cracks the whip near you, hopping you towards the open Floyd | trapdoor. "Would yer like a taste o' water?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "attack crulley" | ||||
Floyd | Crulley seems more amazed than frightened of your attack, guessing Floyd | correctly that you hardly know the tip from the hilt of the rapier. He Floyd | steps sideways in surprise, so he stands at the edge of the trapdoor. Floyd | Crulley cracks the whip near you, hopping you towards the open Floyd | trapdoor. "Ye're a tasty doxy to let slip, but no 'elp fer it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "attack crulley" | ||||
Floyd | You flick the rapier across his chest, barely scratching him. He cries, Floyd | "Avast me! Pricked by a woman!" and trips into the trapdoor. Floyd | You peer down the hole to find Crulley hanging in midair, his hook Floyd | caught in the rocks a few yards down. He curses and starts to climb up Floyd | the sheer slimy walls of the well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Allen says, "I learned 'doxy' from D&D, not infocom. From the prostitute encounter table in the DMG" | |||
| smartgenes says, "it sounds to me like Lady Gaga is not singing Judas but Junipus in this song" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "oops wrong channel" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "pick lock with brooch" | ||||
Floyd | You twist the pin of the jewelled brooch in the locks, quickly freeing Floyd | Nicholas. He falls in a faint at your feet. Floyd | Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the Floyd | well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "close trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | Shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "there's smelling salts or somesuch, aren't there?" | |||
| Allen says, "does that work? I don't remember" | ||||
| Allen says, "oh yeah!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Plundered Hearts, I assume." | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "give salts to jamison" | ||||
Floyd | You wave the smelling salts under Nicholas's nose. He stirs, sneezes Floyd | and looks at you blearily. "How --?" he says, bewildered. "Lafond, did Floyd | he --?" He straightens. "Darling, you are an angel, to have gone Floyd | through all this and then rescue me. Your ravisher will not go Floyd | unpunished." He squares his shoulders. "For my brother, his wife, and Floyd | your honor, I will kill Jean Lafond." Floyd | Nick kisses you briefly, a butterfly touching your lips, then seizes Floyd | his rapier and runs off to the north. Cookie calls a breathless "Hullo, Floyd | Cap'n" to him as he races past. Floyd | Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the Floyd | well, muffled by the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "save time I think" | |||
| Allen says, "I don't remember what happens now" | ||||
| Allen says, "good idea" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "this is the endgame branch part" | |||
| Ghogg exclaims, "so multiple things happen next!" | ||||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| smartgenes has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | You sense, rather than see, the rusty skeletons of old cages and Floyd | torture devices that line the walls of this cavernous room. One flaming Floyd | torch, high on a wall, casts mad licks of light into the darkness. Floyd | Passages lead north and west. Set deep in the rocky floor is a closed Floyd | trapdoor. Floyd | A pair of manacles hangs from iron chains attached high on the wall. Floyd | Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the Floyd | well, muffled by the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "but I think there's rope swinging in our future if we go back how we came somehow?" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Anteroom Floyd | The pool is roily with the writhing bodies of Cookie and the Floyd | crocodile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | "I ain't goin' to fight this beast if you're headin' back upstairs." Floyd | Cookie follows you. Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Stairwell Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Maximum verbosity. Floyd | Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | Cool salt air, blowing past a torch on a spiral staircase below you, Floyd | ruffles your hair and circles south into the library. Floyd | Cookie chews anxiously at a cheroot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You move beyond the portrait into the library. Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this private office is larger than life. A huge Floyd | portrait, slightly awry from the wall, decorates the north side, and Floyd | black drapes mask the east wall. Bookshelves tower over a cherry desk, Floyd | and a massive wooden globe squats in a corner. Floyd | An expensive hat is hanging on a knob. Floyd | Cookie pegs after you. Floyd | Cookie cocks his head. "What is that noise? Is Cap'n duelling Floyd | Lafond? There's no chance he could win as beaten as he is!" Cookie Floyd | races out towards the ballroom. Floyd | Swords engage and disengage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | East Hallway Floyd | The carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into Floyd | the east wing. A long table blocks the way south. Floyd | You hear a duellist leap forward, and swords clash, parrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A grandiose staircase splits and twists up to the next floor here, Floyd | framing the entrance south to the ballroom. Long hallways lead east and Floyd | west; cool night air drifts in through the front door, north of you. Floyd | You hear a piece of furniture being knocked over. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Stair Landing Floyd | The east-west hallway opens here to curve into a grand staircase Floyd | sweeping down to the foyer. Floyd | You hear metal scrape metal. A woman gasps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Upstairs Hall Floyd | You stand in a carpeted hallway, leading west to a stair landing. To Floyd | the north is an ornately carved door. From the south comes the Floyd | impression of light and air. Floyd | "You must ... pay ... for your actions!" Nicholas gasps. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yay, if this is the part I think it is" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Quite belatedly, yes." | ||||
| Allen says (to fylod), "s" | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Gallery Floyd | You are on a wide balcony overlooking the ballroom. A hallway lies Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Down on the dance floor the dancers are pressed in a wide circle Floyd | around Nicholas and Lafond. Cookie stands anxiously in the door to the Floyd | veranda, near your father and Lucy. Floyd | A chandelier is held above the dance floor by a rope and pulley Floyd | system, so that the servants can lower it to light and snuff its Floyd | candles. Several feet of rope hang down from the pulley, the end Floyd | resting on the railing. Floyd | Nicholas and Lafond circle each other intently, the one breathing Floyd | hard, the other casual, sword tips almost touching. Jamison has lost Floyd | copious amounts of blood and is no match for Lafond, cool and Floyd | competent. Floyd | Lafond's voice is cold, lazy, "You will die, you know, Jamison." Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "ok, Jacq should really do this part" | |||
| Ghogg says, "oh yeah" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Allen), "you can shorten it to 'f command' in here, you know" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha - no, no" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Go." | ||||
| Allen says (to Ellison), "oh, I knew there was a shortcut but I couldn't remember it" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | That seems a useless idea. Floyd | Someone calls out, "We've got the Dimsford girl, Governor" -- lying, Floyd | of course, since you're obviously free. But Nick glances towards the Floyd | voice, missteps, and slips in his own blood, falling backwards to the Floyd | floor, his rapier skittering aside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says, "Hmm" | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Was wondering where you were. Hope you are well." | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "swing on rope" | ||||
Floyd | "Aaieeee!" The cry comes uncalled to your lips as you swoop down from Floyd | the balcony, petticoats flying, on the end of the rope. Floyd | Your timing is perfect: you slam into Lafond just as he steps into Floyd | his lunge. His rapier stabs wildly, piercing Nicholas's shoulder, Floyd | missing his heart. You and Lafond roll into a snowball of petticoats Floyd | and brocade, dropping everything between you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nicholas shouts, from far away, "Let me go! Let me deliver Lafond to Floyd | a 'better' world." Floyd | "A gentleman can't kill an unconscious man!" That is Papa's voice. Floyd | "And you're in no shape to continue, Nicholas. Rodney -- help my Floyd | daughter. I'll take Nick." Floyd | Cookie leans over you. "We must get back to the ship, Miss. Dragoons Floyd | surround the house." Nicholas, injured but still arguing, is already on Floyd | the veranda, half-forced, half-supported by your father, shadowed by Floyd | Lucy. Cookie helps you to your feet and rushes after them, expecting Floyd | you to follow. Lafond lies nearby, apparently unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | The dancers stare amazed at Lafond's limp body, some disbelieving, Floyd | some hopeful, all stock still. The pirates have fled to the darkness of Floyd | the lawn. Floyd | Lafond, his wig awry, sprawls across the parquet floor. Floyd | You can see breeches, a shirt, a cotton frock, a powder horn, a Floyd | large key and a silver tray here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says, "There you go" | Allen says (to ghogg), "we untied it earlier" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, I was merely asleep. Awake all night again." | ||||
| Ghogg says, "ah ok" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "get wig" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "wig."] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "is the only thing we need the powder horn?" | |||
| Ellison asks, "not sure if we need even that. isn't there a rock to pick up or something in the last part?" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | breeches: Taken. Floyd | shirt: Taken. Floyd | cotton frock: Taken. Floyd | powder horn: Taken. Floyd | large key: Taken. Floyd | silver tray: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "depends on your ending" | |||
| Emily goes home. | ||||
| Emily has disconnected. | Allen says, "first rule of adventuring, GET ALL" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Veranda Floyd | Steps lead south from this white marble veranda to a clipped lawn. Floyd | To the north the wreckage left by the duel is visible in the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Lawn Floyd | Jungle looms around this clipped lawn, a path meandering westward Floyd | into the dense undergrowth. To the east is a folly entangled in Floyd | blooming jasmine. The way to the beach is obscure, but visible to the Floyd | southeast. Behind the folly a thorny hedge blocks the cliff view of the Floyd | sea. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "this is the showdown, right?" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Beach Floyd | This is a tiny beach, at the base of vine-covered cliffs. To the Floyd | east, the Helena Louise floats serenely on the lagoon. Halfway out to Floyd | the ship is a skiff crowded with men; another skiff sits on the sand. Floyd | Immediately north of you, a rocky staircase is hewn into the cliff. Floyd | Cookie, Lucy and your father are moving towards the skiff. Floyd | Nicholas stands alone at one edge of the beach. He has a rapier. Floyd | You splash into the rising surf and pain needles up your leg. Blood Floyd | swirls out from your shoe in the shallow water, flowing over a small Floyd | pointed stone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "yeah. I don't remember where the gun comes from" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think so, yeah" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "I think you can get it in this scene" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "save one more time" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | A shot rings out over the roar of the surf. Turning, you see that Floyd | Lafond stands at the top of the cliff, a pistol in each hand. "Trying Floyd | to sneak out the back, cowards? You will die like your brother, Falcon. Floyd | Snivelling for mercy." He hands one gun to Crulley, standing nearby, Floyd | and levels the other at Jamison. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jizaboz hops on his skateboard and rolls out. | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "kill crulley" | ||||
Floyd | Your dainty fists could not hurt Crulley. Floyd | As the gun fires, Cookie throws himself before his captain. He cries Floyd | out, blood blossoming on his shoulder, and falls face first into the Floyd | sand. Lucy runs to him. Floyd | Jamison yells up the cliff, brandishing his sword. "Fight like a Floyd | man, Lafond. You have drawn my blood once tonight -- let me draw Floyd | yours." Floyd | Lafond sneers. "On one condition. If I win, your lady comes to me. Floyd | You will have no need of her when you are dead." Floyd | Nicholas stiffens, glances at the dragoons on the cliff above, and Floyd | turns slowly to you. He says nothing, his face hard, but his eyes tell Floyd | you what you want to know. "Answer, my darling. Yes or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "it mentioned the stone we can pick up" | |||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | You have no breath to speak. You nod once, never taking your eyes off Floyd | Nicholas Jamison. Floyd | Nicholas looks determined. "I accept. So long as my people go free Floyd | if I win. Order your dragoons to obey us, then." In answer, Lafond Floyd | jumps off the cliff like a huge brocaded bat to land in front of Floyd | Captain Jamison. "Die then, fool!" Floyd | The pistol, spinning from Lafond's grip, drops to the sand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "get pistol" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Lafond immediately takes the advantage, forcing Nicholas in a Floyd | retreat towards the foaming surf. But Nicholas fights hard, jaw set, Floyd | ignoring his wounds. Lafond finally loses his smile. Floyd | Behind the duellists, far away atop the cliff, you notice Crulley Floyd | madly reloading the pistol. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "put powder in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | You pour a lumpy stream of gunpowder mixture into the barrel of the Floyd | pistol tamping it as best you can. Floyd | Suddenly the force of the duel turns, Nicholas advancing against Floyd | Lafond's retreat. Their blades silently flash in the moonlight. Lafond Floyd | is pressed back into the shadow of the cliff, sweat beading on his Floyd | forehead. Abruptly, Jamison leaps forward, metal scrapes, and his Floyd | rapier licks neatly into Lafond's ribs, like a snake slipping into its Floyd | burrow. The body of the governor of St. Sinistra convulses, as in Floyd | amazement, then sags dead on the sword. Floyd | Nicholas removes a gold ring from the dead man's finger, throwing Floyd | his own cheap copy into the surf. Floyd | Far above him, Crulley moves down the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a powder horn, a pistol, a silver tray, a large key, a cotton Floyd | frock, a shirt, breeches and your reticule (hanging from your wrist). Floyd | It seems that your reticule contains a bit of mirror, a missive, a Floyd | jewelled brooch, smelling salts and a banknote. You are wearing a Floyd | beautiful ball gown, a garter, your kid slippers and a linen chemise. Floyd | Crulley is levelling the pistol, feet apart, braced by the cliff Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen asks, "where do we get a bullet?" | |||
| Ghogg asks, "I dunno, what happens if we try to shoot it?" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "get ring" | ||||
Floyd | Captain Jamison curls his fist around it. "This is the family ring lost Floyd | with my brother." Floyd | Crulley carefully aims the pistol, a triumphal grin benighting his Floyd | face. Nicholas turns and walks smiling towards you, oblivious to his Floyd | danger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "shoot crulley" | ||||
Floyd | Trembling, you fire the heavy pistol. You hear its loud report over Floyd | roaring surf. Crulley staggers, hit, and falls from the cliff. The gun Floyd | falls from your nerveless hands. Floyd | Time stops as you and Nicholas gaze at one another, adoring and Floyd | amazed. Slowly he bows and offers his hand. Floyd | Chestnut hair, tousled by the wind, frames the tanned oval of his Floyd | face. His eyes, twin seas of blue, devour you with a love deep and Floyd | true-hearted, and you are pulled into his embrace, your mouth on his, Floyd | lips parted, thirsting, arching into his kiss... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forecastle Floyd | As dawn breaks over the eastern seas, you stand with Nicholas on his Floyd | ship, looking north. "I have nothing left in England," he says. "There Floyd | I am but a destitute gentleman, wanted for piracy. Here -- this isle Floyd | holds too many memories; your father may have it. Mayhap my brother's Floyd | wife yet lives. I must try to find her, either way." He takes you into Floyd | his arms. "Come with me, my love? To America -- they tell of endless Floyd | fertile fields and strange beasts in that wild land. It won't be easy, Floyd | but we will have each other. Together, shall we carve a kingdom blessed Floyd | with fair children and freedom?" Floyd | You wrap your arms about his waist and lean into him, and smile at Floyd | the rising sun. Floyd | Floyd | In 437 turns, you have achieved a score of 25 out of 25 points. Floyd | Thus you have finished the story of PLUNDERED HEARTS, earning the Floyd | title, "Happily Ever After." Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Allen says, "woo, America! Strange beasts! fertile fields!" | |||
| Ghogg says, "hee hee" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "can we try the other ending I like? (I remember how the other one goes)" | ||||
| Ellison says, "sure" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "restore" | Allen asks, "wow, really?" | |||
| maga says (to Allen), "of course I read that as 'strange breasts'" | ||||
| Ellison says, "can we save Cookie in the other endings? I forget" | ||||
| Allen says, "I didn't know there was an alt ending" | ||||
| DavidW says, "There's four endings, iirc." | ||||
| Allen says, "holy moly!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Really?" | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "er, floyd?" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | Floyd | Thus you have finished the story of PLUNDERED HEARTS, earning the Floyd | title, "Happily Ever After." Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Allen says, "my favorite infocom game, and I know so little about it" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "restore" | DavidW says, "I don't remember what they are, but I think so." | |||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | Floyd | Thus you have finished the story of PLUNDERED HEARTS, earning the Floyd | title, "Happily Ever After." Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Thus you have finished the story of PLUNDERED HEARTS, earning the Floyd | title, "Happily Ever After." | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Thus you have finished the story of PLUNDERED HEARTS, earning the Floyd | title, "Happily Ever After." Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "it was 11?" | |||
| Ghogg says (to Allen), "you go ahead and do it" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | A shot rings out over the roar of the surf. Turning, you see that Floyd | Lafond stands at the top of the cliff, a pistol in each hand. "Trying Floyd | to sneak out the back, cowards? You will die like your brother, Falcon. Floyd | Snivelling for mercy." He hands one gun to Crulley, standing nearby, Floyd | and levels the other at Jamison. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "enter boat" | ||||
Floyd | The skiff is out of reach. Wade into the shallows. Floyd | As the gun fires, Cookie throws himself before his captain. He cries Floyd | out, blood blossoming on his shoulder, and falls face first into the Floyd | sand. Lucy runs to him. Floyd | Jamison yells up the cliff, brandishing his sword. "Fight like a Floyd | man, Lafond. You have drawn my blood once tonight -- let me draw Floyd | yours." Floyd | Lafond sneers. "On one condition. If I win, your lady comes to me. Floyd | You will have no need of her when you are dead." Floyd | Nicholas stiffens, glances at the dragoons on the cliff above, and Floyd | turns slowly to you. He says nothing, his face hard, but his eyes tell Floyd | you what you want to know. "Answer, my darling. Yes or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "uh..." | |||
| Ghogg says, "hmmm" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Note to self: three-hour group play IRL = five-hour group play on CF" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "swim to boat" | ||||
Floyd | [That sentence isn't one I recognize.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "you can get in the boat and go to the ship somehow" | |||
| Allen says (to Floyd), "enter lagoon" | ||||
Floyd | Shallows Floyd | You are holding your skirts high over the warm, lapping waves of the Floyd | shallows. A white sand beach is west of you. Floyd | As the gun fires, Cookie throws himself before his captain. He cries Floyd | out, blood blossoming on his shoulder, and falls face first into the Floyd | sand. Lucy runs to him. Floyd | Jamison yells up the cliff, brandishing his sword. "Fight like a Floyd | man, Lafond. You have drawn my blood once tonight -- let me draw Floyd | yours." Floyd | Lafond sneers. "On one condition. If I win, your lady comes to me. Floyd | You will have no need of her when you are dead." Floyd | Nicholas stiffens, glances at the dragoons on the cliff above, and Floyd | turns slowly to you. He says nothing, his face hard, but his eyes tell Floyd | you what you want to know. "Answer, my darling. Yes or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "enter boat" | ||||
Floyd | You are now in the skiff. Floyd | Lafond calls down to you, "My pretty doxy, do make up your mind. Yes Floyd | or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "row to ship" | ||||
Floyd | You dip the oars and pull them towards you. The skiff plows through the Floyd | lagoon. Floyd | You hear distant shots and screams, and gaze back across the Floyd | restless waves to the massacre on the beach. The sight blurs with your Floyd | tears of shame, tears for the father and the lover you left behind. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The tale you tell Jamison's crew, of rapine and blood, of your Floyd | heroic attempt to save their captain, and of your own escape after his Floyd | death in your arms, is not so far from the truth that you cannot appear Floyd | sincere. Cannily, you take advantage of their temporary grief, select a Floyd | private guard, and teach the rest the discipline of the whip. You have Floyd | started on the ruthless road to revenge. You intend to meet Lafond Floyd | again, and that time, you intend to win. Floyd | Floyd | In 433 turns, you have achieved a score of 25 out of 25 points. Floyd | Thus you have finished the story of PLUNDERED HEARTS, earning the Floyd | title, "Pirate Queen." There are other, perhaps more satisfying, Floyd | conclusions. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| gjnave waves his arms, rolls a poor lore check, and then disappears - 'oh cra..' | Allen says, "wow" | |||
| Allen says, "that's great" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "now THAT'S my happy ending there" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Ellison says, "nice" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Aye-aye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get stone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any stone here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get rock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any rock here! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "dang it" | |||
| Ellison asks, "didn't it mention us stepping on it?" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see what you're referring to. Floyd | Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the Floyd | well, muffled by the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "oh, wrong save" | |||
| Ghogg says, "you need cf11" | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh, my mistake" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ah" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get stone" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | A shot rings out over the roar of the surf. Turning, you see that Floyd | Lafond stands at the top of the cliff, a pistol in each hand. "Trying Floyd | to sneak out the back, cowards? You will die like your brother, Falcon. Floyd | Snivelling for mercy." He hands one gun to Crulley, standing nearby, Floyd | and levels the other at Jamison. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "throw stone at lafond" | ||||
Floyd | You hurl the stone, but it falls far short of Lafond. Floyd | As the gun fires, Cookie throws himself before his captain. He cries Floyd | out, blood blossoming on his shoulder, and falls face first into the Floyd | sand. Lucy runs to him. Floyd | Jamison yells up the cliff, brandishing his sword. "Fight like a Floyd | man, Lafond. You have drawn my blood once tonight -- let me draw Floyd | yours." Floyd | Lafond sneers. "On one condition. If I win, your lady comes to me. Floyd | You will have no need of her when you are dead." Floyd | Nicholas stiffens, glances at the dragoons on the cliff above, and Floyd | turns slowly to you. He says nothing, his face hard, but his eyes tell Floyd | you what you want to know. "Answer, my darling. Yes or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "sling stone at lafond" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to put the stone into the garter. Floyd | As the gun fires, Cookie throws himself before his captain. He cries Floyd | out, blood blossoming on his shoulder, and falls face first into the Floyd | sand. Lucy runs to him. Floyd | Jamison yells up the cliff, brandishing his sword. "Fight like a Floyd | man, Lafond. You have drawn my blood once tonight -- let me draw Floyd | yours." Floyd | Lafond sneers. "On one condition. If I win, your lady comes to me. Floyd | You will have no need of her when you are dead." Floyd | Nicholas stiffens, glances at the dragoons on the cliff above, and Floyd | turns slowly to you. He says nothing, his face hard, but his eyes tell Floyd | you what you want to know. "Answer, my darling. Yes or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh yeah" | |||
| Ghogg says, "blast" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "I guess you don't have enough time" | ||||
| Ellison says, "hmm" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put stone in garter" | ||||
Floyd | You're not holding the stone. Floyd | A shot rings out over the roar of the surf. Turning, you see that Floyd | Lafond stands at the top of the cliff, a pistol in each hand. "Trying Floyd | to sneak out the back, cowards? You will die like your brother, Falcon. Floyd | Snivelling for mercy." He hands one gun to Crulley, standing nearby, Floyd | and levels the other at Jamison. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | [I don't know the word "undo."] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get stone" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | As the gun fires, Cookie throws himself before his captain. He cries Floyd | out, blood blossoming on his shoulder, and falls face first into the Floyd | sand. Lucy runs to him. Floyd | Jamison yells up the cliff, brandishing his sword. "Fight like a Floyd | man, Lafond. You have drawn my blood once tonight -- let me draw Floyd | yours." Floyd | Lafond sneers. "On one condition. If I win, your lady comes to me. Floyd | You will have no need of her when you are dead." Floyd | Nicholas stiffens, glances at the dragoons on the cliff above, and Floyd | turns slowly to you. He says nothing, his face hard, but his eyes tell Floyd | you what you want to know. "Answer, my darling. Yes or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oops" | |||
| Jizaboz arrives, full of fun and funk. | Allen says, "pastebomb incoming" | |||
| Allen | new_line; | ||||
| Allen | print (string) Spacing_str, "He ducks as it whirs past his ear"; | ||||
| Allen | if (noun == Crulley) { | ||||
| Allen | give your_father general_1; | ||||
| Allen | ++score; | ||||
| Allen | print ". Papa, creeping unnoticed up the stairs, leaps and wrests the gun from his grip, toppling all three, father, pirate and gun, off the cliff. Lucy screams as the struggling pair fall to the rocks below.^ You run to Nicholas. You have lost"; | ||||
| Allen | Cast_with_the(your_father); ! not popped | ||||
| Allen | print ", but Nicholas's embrace remains, comforting, shielding, a world of love", (string) Dot_newline_str; | ||||
| Allen | return WinGame(); | ||||
| Allen | } | ||||
| Allen | print " to disappear with a quiet thud into the sand"; | ||||
| Allen | if (noun == your_father) { | ||||
| Allen | print ". He looks a bit surprised, but nods encouragingly"; | ||||
| Allen | } | ||||
| Allen | print (string) Dot_newline_str; | ||||
| Allen | rtrue; | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "um - wow" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "How?" | ||||
| Allen says, "that's the decompiled zcode" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You - yeah" | ||||
| Ellison says, "according to the hints, one of the other endings is using the garter and the last one is firing the pistol into the air" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The garter? ITYM teh awesome" | ||||
| Allen says, "if you want to put in about 10-20 hours work, you can massage it into a compilable inform game" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Allen | [LINK] | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get stone" | ||||
Floyd | You already have the stone. Floyd | Lafond calls down to you, "My pretty doxy, do make up your mind. Yes Floyd | or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put stone in garter" | ||||
Floyd | Not while you're wearing the garter. Floyd | Lafond cries, "No deal then. Take them, men!" The dragoons pour down Floyd | the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 433 turns, you have achieved a score of 23 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Lady Leman. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oops" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | The current pulls you in towards the island. With a scrape, Beach Floyd | lodges in the sand. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | >SHOOT THE PIRATE Floyd | Trembling, you fire the heavy arquebus. You hear its loud report over Floyd | the roaring wind, yet the dark figure still approaches. The gun falls Floyd | from your nerveless hands. Floyd | "You won't kill me," he says, stepping over the weapon. "Not when I Floyd | am the only protection you have from Jean Lafond." Floyd | Chestnut hair, tousled by the wind, frames the tanned oval of his Floyd | face. Lips curving, his eyes rake over your inadequately dressed body, Floyd | the damp chemise clinging to your legs and heaving bosom, your gleaming Floyd | hair. You are intensely aware of the strength of his hard seaworn body, Floyd | of the deep sea blue of his eyes. And then his mouth is on yours, lips Floyd | parted, demanding, and you arch into his kiss... Floyd | He presses you against him, head bent. "But who, my dear," he Floyd | whispers into your hair, "will protect you from me?" Floyd | Floyd | [Press RETURN or ENTER to begin.] Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | PLUNDERED HEARTS Floyd | Infocom interactive fiction Floyd | Copyright (c) 1987 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. Floyd | PLUNDERED HEARTS is a trademark of Infocom, Inc. Floyd | Release 26 / Serial number 870730 Floyd | Floyd | LATE ONE SPRING NIGHT IN THE WEST INDIES... Floyd | Floyd | A crash overhead! Pirates are boarding the Lafond Deux! The first Floyd | mate hurries you into Captain Davis's cabin. Floyd | "Good, you brought the girl," Davis smirks. "She'll keep the pirates Floyd | busy. She was only a tool of Lafond's, anyway. Let me just find that Floyd | cof--" A man on deck screams in agony and Davis starts. "Let's go." The Floyd | captain thrusts you on the bed and walks out, locking the door. Floyd | His laugh echoes. "Best get comfortable, girl. You're likely to be Floyd | there for the rest of your life." Floyd | Floyd | Cabin, on the bed Floyd | You are in an officer's cabin, lit by the firelight glowing through Floyd | a porthole. A door is to starboard. Except for the built-in bed, the Floyd | room seems to have been emptied thoroughly, if hurriedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get stone" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | A shot rings out over the roar of the surf. Turning, you see that Floyd | Lafond stands at the top of the cliff, a pistol in each hand. "Trying Floyd | to sneak out the back, cowards? You will die like your brother, Falcon. Floyd | Snivelling for mercy." He hands one gun to Crulley, standing nearby, Floyd | and levels the other at Jamison. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put stone in garter" | ||||
Floyd | Not while you're wearing the garter. Floyd | As the gun fires, Cookie throws himself before his captain. He cries Floyd | out, blood blossoming on his shoulder, and falls face first into the Floyd | sand. Lucy runs to him. Floyd | Jamison yells up the cliff, brandishing his sword. "Fight like a Floyd | man, Lafond. You have drawn my blood once tonight -- let me draw Floyd | yours." Floyd | Lafond sneers. "On one condition. If I win, your lady comes to me. Floyd | You will have no need of her when you are dead." Floyd | Nicholas stiffens, glances at the dragoons on the cliff above, and Floyd | turns slowly to you. He says nothing, his face hard, but his eyes tell Floyd | you what you want to know. "Answer, my darling. Yes or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Now I have this vision of Ellison walking awkwardly while wearing a garter with a rock lodge in it." | |||
| Ellison says, "dang it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's not the prettiest mental image I've ever had." | ||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "remove garter" | ||||
Floyd | [in front of Crulley] Floyd | That's not done in polite society. Floyd | Lafond calls down to you, "My pretty doxy, do make up your mind. Yes Floyd | or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | A shot rings out over the roar of the surf. Turning, you see that Floyd | Lafond stands at the top of the cliff, a pistol in each hand. "Trying Floyd | to sneak out the back, cowards? You will die like your brother, Falcon. Floyd | Snivelling for mercy." He hands one gun to Crulley, standing nearby, Floyd | and levels the other at Jamison. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | As the gun fires, Cookie throws himself before his captain. He cries Floyd | out, blood blossoming on his shoulder, and falls face first into the Floyd | sand. Lucy runs to him. Floyd | Jamison yells up the cliff, brandishing his sword. "Fight like a Floyd | man, Lafond. You have drawn my blood once tonight -- let me draw Floyd | yours." Floyd | Lafond sneers. "On one condition. If I win, your lady comes to me. Floyd | You will have no need of her when you are dead." Floyd | Nicholas stiffens, glances at the dragoons on the cliff above, and Floyd | turns slowly to you. He says nothing, his face hard, but his eyes tell Floyd | you what you want to know. "Answer, my darling. Yes or no?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "yes?" | |||
| Ellison says, "(doing the 'fire into the air' one now)" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You shake your head firmly, "No." Floyd | Lafond cries, "No deal then. Take them, men!" The dragoons pour down Floyd | the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 432 turns, you have achieved a score of 23 out of 25 points. This Floyd | gives you the rank of Lady Leman. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | You have no breath to speak. You nod once, never taking your eyes off Floyd | Nicholas Jamison. Floyd | Nicholas looks determined. "I accept. So long as my people go free Floyd | if I win. Order your dragoons to obey us, then." In answer, Lafond Floyd | jumps off the cliff like a huge brocaded bat to land in front of Floyd | Captain Jamison. "Die then, fool!" Floyd | The pistol, spinning from Lafond's grip, drops to the sand nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get pistol" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Lafond immediately takes the advantage, forcing Nicholas in a Floyd | retreat towards the foaming surf. But Nicholas fights hard, jaw set, Floyd | ignoring his wounds. Lafond finally loses his smile. Floyd | Behind the duellists, far away atop the cliff, you notice Crulley Floyd | madly reloading the pistol. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "load pistol with powder" | ||||
Floyd | You pour a lumpy stream of gunpowder mixture into the barrel of the Floyd | pistol tamping it as best you can. Floyd | Suddenly the force of the duel turns, Nicholas advancing against Floyd | Lafond's retreat. Their blades silently flash in the moonlight. Lafond Floyd | is pressed back into the shadow of the cliff, sweat beading on his Floyd | forehead. Abruptly, Jamison leaps forward, metal scrapes, and his Floyd | rapier licks neatly into Lafond's ribs, like a snake slipping into its Floyd | burrow. The body of the governor of St. Sinistra convulses, as in Floyd | amazement, then sags dead on the sword. Floyd | Nicholas removes a gold ring from the dead man's finger, throwing Floyd | his own cheap copy into the surf. Floyd | Far above him, Crulley moves down the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "fire pistol in air" | ||||
Floyd | You fire the pistol into the air. Startled by the loud report, Crulley Floyd | jerks his pistol and fires, aiming not at Nicholas, but at you. You Floyd | hear a distant scream, your own, and watch, as through from afar, your Floyd | father wrestle Crulley to the ground. You feel only numbness as loving Floyd | arms take you up, and Nicholas kisses you into death, his tears damp on Floyd | your cheek. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In 435 turns, you have achieved a score of 25 out of 25 points. Floyd | Thus you have finished the story of PLUNDERED HEARTS, earning the Floyd | title, "Love Transcending Death." There are other, perhaps more Floyd | satisfying, conclusions. Floyd | You may start over, restore a saved position, or end this session of Floyd | the game. (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT): Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice title." | |||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ok, I've got to go. fun playing, everyone!" | ||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | Allen | Array Ending_title --> | |||
| Allen | 0 | ||||
| Allen | "Orphan" | ||||
| Allen | "Love Transcending Death" | ||||
| Allen | "Pirate Queen" | ||||
| Allen | "Happily Ever After" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Which character made the creepy statement abput her father? We should shoot him." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks, everyone." | ||||
| Allen says, "that was fun" | ||||
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