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| Firion asks, "No Jacqueline today?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "She's in Seattle." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Apparently there are no computers in Seattle." | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "load devours" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You're in. Floyd | Floyd | The plan now is simple: go to your lab, plant the bomb, and run. The Floyd | prototype will be destroyed. The military will have no way to continue Floyd | the experiment. No-one will die. Floyd | Floyd | The guard is out securing the grounds. The building is empty. You have Floyd | six minutes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | All Things Devours Floyd | Written for IFComp 2004, by half sick of shadows. Floyd | A second, more difficult, version will be released after the Floyd | competition closes. Floyd | First-time players should type 'about'. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 040930 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says (to DavidW), "We owe you one." | |||
| eu clears the save counter. | DavidW says, "You'll forgive me if I don't play; I really need to go get lunch." | |||
| lunasspecto says (to Firion), "I was at the last meeting, and I'll be at the next. I'd be a more regular member if I actually lived in Boston or something." | ||||
| lunasspecto exclaims, "Ooh, game's working!" | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | A large black desk equipped with four CCTV screens showing live feeds Floyd | from around the complex. There are also four buttons, labeled Floyd | 'basement', 'first', 'second' and 'alarm'. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "I hope this is like Metal Gear Solid and gets really weird." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | a timed explosive device Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Hopefully also easier than Spider & Web, which it resembles." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x id" | ||||
Floyd | Natalie Williams. Floyd | Deutsch Lab. Floyd | Doctoral Student, MIT Floyd | Floyd | On the right is a familiar photo of you, back when you wore your hair Floyd | long. A black magnetic stripe runs the width of the reverse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Dark hair frames a warm face. Despite the anxiety written now in your Floyd | tense brow, the confidence of youth and vibrancy of intellect are Floyd | clear. There is a depth in your clear green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "My understanding is that this is one where play is short, but you have to learn by messing things up a few times." | |||
| Rotonoto says, "Female PC. Nice." | ||||
| Gunther asks, "Metal Gear!?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "press basement" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x screens" | ||||
Floyd | These screens flash images from the corridors and grounds of the Floyd | complex. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x explosive" | ||||
Floyd | A length of steel pipe filled with powder and fused with a digital Floyd | timer. Not your most elegant piece of work, but it will hopefully do Floyd | the job. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "um, It belatedly occurs to me that this particular game might be difficult or impossible to play via Floyd because you constantly need to know the exact time when everything happens." | |||
| Rotonoto asks, "Do we think the alarm button turns the alarm off or turns it on?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain asks, "Does this game have a command to see the time?" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto asks, "Oh, we need a status line, in other words?" | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "see time" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | All Things Devours is a short piece of interactive fiction, leaning Floyd | strongly towards the text-adventure end of the spectrum. It explores Floyd | an all-too-familiar science fiction paradigm in what I hope is a Floyd | rather refreshing and satisfying manner. However, due to the intrinsic Floyd | nature of its subject matter, it is not as fair as one might hope for Floyd | a modern piece of interactive fiction. In particular, any move you Floyd | make may put things into an unwinnable state. You are therefore Floyd | encouraged to save frequently, and also to realise that you will Floyd | probably have to start over several times to find the most Floyd | satisfactory ending. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "look watch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Hold, on let me try locally." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x timer" | ||||
Floyd | A length of steel pipe filled with powder and fused with a digital Floyd | timer. Not your most elegant piece of work, but it will hopefully do Floyd | the job. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "time" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "I'm not seeing a suitable command. FWIW, play begins at 4:17 and advances 5 s/turn. Hmm." | |||
| eu says, "Also, I fail at typing today." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Well, somebody play it in Frotz or whatever & keep track of the time." | ||||
| lunasspecto has trouble finding any typographical errors. | ||||
| eu says, "Okay. I will mirror locally." | ||||
| eu asks, "Since we haven't gone anywhere, can we restart so that I can sync?" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Feel free." | ||||
| eu says (to lunasspecto), "``To'' rather than ``too'' and ``hold, on'' rather than ``hold on.''" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You're in. Floyd | Floyd | The plan now is simple: go to your lab, plant the bomb, and run. The Floyd | prototype will be destroyed. The military will have no way to continue Floyd | the experiment. No-one will die. Floyd | Floyd | The guard is out securing the grounds. The building is empty. You have Floyd | six minutes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | All Things Devours Floyd | Written for IFComp 2004, by half sick of shadows. Floyd | A second, more difficult, version will be released after the Floyd | competition closes. Floyd | First-time players should type 'about'. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 040930 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Okay, synced." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "72 turns." | ||||
| eu says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Right. Not much." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | A plate glass sliding door, through which you can see a dim corridor. Floyd | On the right hand side is a slot for an ID card. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I think we should just go for it early on and figure out what works and what doesn't." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Unless others object." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Chances are we're going to die anyway =)" | |||
| Rotonoto says, "I might need to go suddenly, so I'll mostly watch & make a map." | ||||
| * Gunther has left the channel. | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | A large black desk equipped with four CCTV screens showing live feeds Floyd | from around the complex. There are also four buttons, labeled Floyd | 'basement', 'first', 'second' and 'alarm'. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says (to genericgeekgirl), "I agree that we should just go for it." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Does that mean I can press the alarm button? :P" | ||||
| eu says, "Heh, sure." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press alarm" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Now we know." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press basement" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Who knows, maybe the alarm will be useful." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put id in slot" | ||||
Floyd | The slot emits a small beep and your card is rejected. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "bah" | |||
| vimes arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "x card" | ||||
Floyd | Natalie Williams. Floyd | Deutsch Lab. Floyd | Doctoral Student, MIT Floyd | Floyd | On the right is a familiar photo of you, back when you wore your hair Floyd | long. A black magnetic stripe runs the width of the reverse. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh. Are we blowing up our *own* lab?" | |||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "turn card over" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the ID card. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "if you can't blow up your own lab, whose lab _can_ you blow up?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Fair enough." | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to genericgeekgirl), "Yes." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x screens" | ||||
Floyd | These screens flash images from the corridors and grounds of the Floyd | complex. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "That.. is not helpful." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x screen 1" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the CCTV images. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto asks, "Time to go find door controls. Basement, anyone?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "yeah, go for it" | |||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe the button opens the door?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pres basement" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press basement" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "slide id through slot" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an open automatic door. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hmm" | |||
| eu says, "We might try going north, to see if they open for us anyway." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first inserting your ID card) Floyd | You swipe your card through the slot, and hold your breath. Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Perfect. Just as you'd hoped. The bastards hadn't even thought to Floyd | disable your card. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end a fourth door leads to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "yay" | |||
| djfletch says, "so maybe another button would have let us through the first door" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "We seem to be basement-cleared." | ||||
| eu says (to djfletch), "Right." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x windows" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see anything of interest through the glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x eastern doors" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||||
Floyd | There are three doors on the eastern wall of the corridor, the first Floyd | two (to the south-east and east) lead to the Bostrom and Wallace labs. Floyd | The third (to the north-east) leads to a small equipment room. At the Floyd | north end is the door to the Deutsch lab. To the south, the plate Floyd | glass automatic door to the landing stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Frozen exactly Floyd | as they were when badges were flashed, when we looked on in disbelief Floyd | as they took control of the lab. Yours however, is clean. The books Floyd | and papers are in neat stacks. They have been working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. The door has been taken off and is nowhere Floyd | to be seen. They have been working on it too. You wince at the sight. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a battery, a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass Floyd | key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | battery: Taken. Floyd | flashlight: Taken. Floyd | worn brass key: Taken. Floyd | door to the Deutsch lab: The door to the Deutsch lab is locked in Floyd | place. Floyd | your bench: your bench is too heavy for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put battery in flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You put the battery into the flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cylinder" | ||||
Floyd | You had built the prototype to get a strong negative result, to show Floyd | that the standard model of Quantum Mechanics led to demonstrably false Floyd | claims involving reverse causation. You were mistaken. One by one, Floyd | your experiments showed your preliminary calculations to have been Floyd | correct. When the military removed you from your project, only one Floyd | aspect remained untested -- an aspect you had been loath to test Floyd | before you could predict the results -- inconsistent observation. Floyd | Floyd | What would happen if anomalies were observed by those in the original Floyd | time-line? Your prior experiments had heavily shielded the prototype Floyd | from outside interaction to avoid the very possibility. And as the Floyd | calculations came out time and again, that is the only reason you are Floyd | alive today. When an observer in the original time-line has an Floyd | anomolous observation, the wave function of the temporally relocated Floyd | object collapses and the relocation retrospectively fails, preserving Floyd | chronological consistency. There is just one side effect: total Floyd | transformation of the object's mass into a burst of photons -- pure Floyd | energy. Floyd | Floyd | You tried to tell them over and again. They assumed you were merely Floyd | jealous of the takeover. Now, the night before their scheduled 'first Floyd | main experiment', you have come to put an end to it all. To destroy Floyd | your prototype and avoid tomorrow's nightmare. Floyd | Floyd | The prototype itself a six foot tall, four foot wide cylinder, clad Floyd | with brushed steel. The frame and door were fitted with quantum Floyd | shielding to prevent decoherence of the wave function, but now the Floyd | door has been removed and any use of the machine is potentially Floyd | disastrous. Floyd | Floyd | On close inspection, it appears that an attempt is in progress to move Floyd | the control panel so that it can be operated from the inside. As it Floyd | is, the protoype is currently not functioning, but you think you could Floyd | probably complete the modification within a minute or two. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "eu, tell me if I need to slow down" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Also, meh. Wall of text." | ||||
| eu says, "You can keep going. I will catch up." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "What's cladding? :)" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I also support the Copenhagen interpretation." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "This will probably involve changing the past at some point. Yummy." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I do not support the magical time-traveling particles idea, though." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x control panel" | ||||
Floyd | You cannot see the control panel clearly from here, and would need to Floyd | enter the protoype. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | A few texts on Quantum Mechanics and String Theory that have served Floyd | you very well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read books" | ||||
Floyd | A few texts on Quantum Mechanics and String Theory that have served Floyd | you very well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||||
Floyd | A collection of photocopied journal papers that you had been reading a Floyd | few weeks ago. Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly notice that your research notes are not here. You were Floyd | sure they would be -- and would thus be destroyed in the blast. This Floyd | is bad. Very bad. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Just what I was about to suggest. Open & enter it." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter prototype" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you can Floyd | see the half-installed control panel. Through the open hatch you can Floyd | see some of the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | A brushed steel control panel with a blue LED timer, set to 0 seconds, Floyd | and a shiny silver button. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Secondary mission: locate & destroy my notes." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Let's see what something small does? Like 15 seconds?" | ||||
| eu says (to Rotonoto), "Indeed." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close hatch" | ||||
Floyd | You cannot do that from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set timer to 15" | ||||
Floyd | (the timed explosive device to that) Floyd | Time until detonation: 15 seconds. Floyd | (you probably don't want to be carrying the device when that Floyd | occurs...) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "wrong timer" | |||
| eu says, "Also, it turns out that we're playing the original comp entry, which has objects in different locations than v2. But I'm resynced." | ||||
| lunasspecto laughs. | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I have a theory that our minds manipulate the potential states of electrons like programmers manipulating bits in binary, but I have not the slightest clue how to test that." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set blue led timer to 15 seconds" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to set the flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set control panel to 15 seconds" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to set the control panel to Floyd | that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x timer" | ||||
Floyd | (the timed explosive device) Floyd | A length of steel pipe filled with powder and fused with a digital Floyd | timer. Not your most elegant piece of work, but it will hopefully do Floyd | the job. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blue timer" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Damn bugs." | |||
| eu asks, "Just ``panel,'' maybe?" | ||||
| eu says, "Oh, you tried that." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 15 seconds" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to set the control panel to Floyd | that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "set panel to 15" | ||||
Floyd | You won't be able to set the control panel until you complete the Floyd | modifications. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel" | ||||
Floyd | You won't be able to set the control panel until you complete the Floyd | modifications. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ah" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "fix panel" | ||||
Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "it didn't like the 'seconds'" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "complete modifications" | ||||
Floyd | After a few moments, you realise that completing the modification will Floyd | require a ribbon cable to connect the components. You know the type of Floyd | cable well, but don't have any in the lab right now. Still, the Floyd | equipment room in the corridor should have one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "See if you can just MODIFY PROTOTYPE" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fix panel" | ||||
Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fix prototype" | ||||
Floyd | After a few moments, you realise that completing the modification will Floyd | require a ribbon cable to connect the components. You know the type of Floyd | cable well, but don't have any in the lab right now. Still, the Floyd | equipment room in the corridor should have one. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "sorry, wasn't paying attention" | |||
| Rotonoto exclaims, "Ribbon cable quest!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||||
Floyd | There are three doors on the eastern wall of the corridor, the first Floyd | two (to the south-east and east) lead to the Bostrom and Wallace labs. Floyd | The third (to the north-east) leads to a small equipment room. At the Floyd | north end is the open door to the Deutsch lab. To the south, the plate Floyd | glass automatic door to the landing stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the equipment room) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the equipment room) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | It is almost completely dark. Some faint light spills in from the west Floyd | through the open door, allowing you to just discern the outlines of a Floyd | series of shelves. By the door is a light switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | ||||
Floyd | The fluorescent lights flicker hopefully, strobing rapidly across the Floyd | scattered equipment. Then darkness. Nothing but a few fleeting Floyd | after-images of the cluttered room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | The switch clicks, but no light is forthcoming. It looks as if you Floyd | will need two batteries. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "battery quest!" | |||
| Rotonoto says, "lol" | ||||
| djfletch asks, "can we get into the other labs here?" | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a worn brass key Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a battery Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | a timed explosive device Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | open onto an equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Try the brass key on 'em." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to the Bostrom Lab is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | (the automatic door) Floyd | (pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open se door" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to open the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open bostrom" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "unlock bostrom" | ||||
Floyd | You do not have the key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "unlock wallace" | ||||
Floyd | You do not have the key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to the Wallace Lab is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock bostrom with steel key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock bostrom with brass key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Phooey." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "(I thought maybe it was an oversight.)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock wallace with steel" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock wallace with brass" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | |||
| eu asks, "Did we x the keys?" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I like that the game recognizes the keys in our inventory. Having to write the name of every key can be very annoying." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x brass key" | ||||
Floyd | A well worn brass key. It opens the various equipment rooms in the Floyd | complex. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x steel key" | ||||
Floyd | A bright steel key. It unlocks the door to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Heh." | |||
| djfletch says, "oh" | ||||
| djfletch asks, "back upstairs then?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess I just assumed we were swiping into those rooms, not using the keys we had." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an open automatic door. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Landing Floyd | A small landing, hanging in the still darkness above the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall lies a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the automatic door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "desk" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "FYI, you have one minute left." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | A large black desk equipped with four CCTV screens showing live feeds Floyd | from around the complex. There are also four buttons, labeled Floyd | 'basement', 'first', 'second' and 'alarm'. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "thanks" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press second" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Landing Floyd | A small landing, hanging in the still darkness above the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall lies an open automatic door. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the automatic door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl frumples | |||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "put card in slot" | ||||
Floyd | The slot emits a small beep and your card is rejected. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "Do we have something heavy to set on the button?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a worn brass key Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a battery Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | a timed explosive device Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put flashlight on second button" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the 'second' button would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I bet we have to press it and then go back in time to when the door is open" | |||
| eu says, "Hmm." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press first" | ||||
Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto exclaims, "Adios, muchachos. Hope you blow up the evil prototype!" | |||
| Rotonoto goes home. | genericgeekgirl asks, "see what's north and then restart soon?" | |||
| eu says, "We have one turn, I think." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the foyer. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "It stopped at 4:23, no?" | |||
| eu says, "Maybe I got the wrong time. Cause it's 4:23." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "six minutes from.. when did it start? 4:17? Then yes.. Hm." | ||||
| djfletch says, "maybe the guards have to catch us before we lose" | ||||
| eu says, "Oh, maybe." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||||
Floyd | There are three doors on the eastern wall of the corridor, the first Floyd | two (to the south-east and east) lead to the Saunders and Pooley labs. Floyd | The third (to the north-east) leads to a small equipment room. To the Floyd | south, the plate glass automatic door to the foyer stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | A quick noise from behind, then a strong grip on your wrist. The guard Floyd | is back -- time has slipped away from you. Floyd | Floyd | Deaf to your protests, the guard handcuffs you and forces you into a Floyd | dark sedan. You speed through the chill Boston night, head held in Floyd | your hands, almost oblivious to the blur of the suburbs rushing past. Floyd | Floyd | Half an hour later, the car pulls up outside a non-descript building Floyd | and you are dragged inside then thrown into a small cell to await Floyd | questioning. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Wednesday 13th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 9:27 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "nope, there we go" | |||
| Firion says, "FISSION MAILED" | ||||
| eu says, "Now to use our fancy time travelling powers and restart the game." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "explore the first floor a bit this time? I don't think we picked up anything useful downstairs that we need elsewhere, except *possibly* the flashlight and one battery" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You're in. Floyd | Floyd | The plan now is simple: go to your lab, plant the bomb, and run. The Floyd | prototype will be destroyed. The military will have no way to continue Floyd | the experiment. No-one will die. Floyd | Floyd | The guard is out securing the grounds. The building is empty. You have Floyd | six minutes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | All Things Devours Floyd | Written for IFComp 2004, by half sick of shadows. Floyd | A second, more difficult, version will be released after the Floyd | competition closes. Floyd | First-time players should type 'about'. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 040930 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Sounds like a plan." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press first" | ||||
Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the foyer. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||||
Floyd | There are three doors on the eastern wall of the corridor, the first Floyd | two (to the south-east and east) lead to the Saunders and Pooley labs. Floyd | The third (to the north-east) leads to a small equipment room. To the Floyd | south, the plate glass automatic door to the foyer stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the equipment room) Floyd | Try as you might, none of your keys will unlock the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | a timed explosive device Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Irrational paranoia about particle accelerators: Completely consistent with using electronics to express yourideas." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh fine. Where did we get the brass key?" | ||||
| eu says, "The Deutsch Laboratory." | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "Downstairs." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "let me just test these lab doors first, just in case" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "absentminded scientists and all that :P" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to the Saunders Lab is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open saunders" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open pooley" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is an open automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first inserting your ID card) Floyd | You swipe your card through the slot, and hold your breath. Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Perfect. Just as you'd hoped. The bastards hadn't even thought to Floyd | disable your card. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end a fourth door leads to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Frozen exactly Floyd | as they were when badges were flashed, when we looked on in disbelief Floyd | as they took control of the lab. Yours however, is clean. The books Floyd | and papers are in neat stacks. They have been working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. The door has been taken off and is nowhere Floyd | to be seen. They have been working on it too. You wince at the sight. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a battery, a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass Floyd | key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | battery: Taken. Floyd | flashlight: Taken. Floyd | worn brass key: Taken. Floyd | door to the Deutsch lab: The door to the Deutsch lab is locked in Floyd | place. Floyd | your bench: your bench is too heavy for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the Deutsch lab (north) the three doors lining Floyd | the corridor (south-east, east and north-east) and the automatic door Floyd | back to the landing (south). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ugh, sorry" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an open automatic door. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the button marked 'first') Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the foyer. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock equipment room" | ||||
Floyd | The worn brass key turns smoothly in the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the equipment room) Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Equipment Room Floyd | It is almost completely dark. Some faint light spills in from the west Floyd | through the open door, allowing you to just discern the outlines of a Floyd | series of shelves. By the door is a light switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "flip switch" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | ||||
Floyd | The lights come on after a brief flicker. Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Equipment Room Floyd | By the flickering fluorescent lights, you see the crowded shelves of Floyd | the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the west, the door to the corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a length of ribbon cable here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "yay" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||||
Floyd | A 10cm length of ribbon cable. It will do nicely. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "One quest down." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "f out" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | open onto an equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "heading back downstairs" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is an open automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first inserting your ID card) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fix prototype" | ||||
Floyd | (first entering the prototype) Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you can Floyd | see the half-installed control panel. Through the open hatch you can Floyd | see some of the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | You begin work completing the modifications... Floyd | After a minute or so, you are done. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "All right. Into the cylinder and see what happens?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter cylinder" | ||||
Floyd | The only exit is out to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Save is at 4:21:15." | |||
| lunasspecto says, "We're already in the prototype." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 15" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | You press the button and someone appears beside you in the cramped Floyd | prototype. Soft hair and anxious eyes. It is you. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:21 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "something a lot larger?" | |||
| eu says, "What was it, we can't be observable or it explodes? I've kind of been speed reading." | ||||
| djfletch says, "it sounded like that - nobody is allowed to observe any inconsistency" | ||||
| eu asks, "And based on the 4:21 am line, we went back just 15 seconds?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "maybe it's only bad if someone sees two of us" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain exclaims, "I wonder if the force of the explosion is relative to the mass of the object? Maybe we can put in a few elephants in there and blow up the Earth!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I was just curious to try it. So I went with 15." | ||||
| eu says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Please no. I like my planet." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "And nobody objected :P" | ||||
| djfletch says, "so... what if we go back to before we came into the lab, maybe that would be ok" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Until you blew up Boston." | ||||
| djfletch says, "then hide from ourself" | ||||
| eu says, "Might as well try." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "set panel to 300" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. We do need to get in upstairs, presumably while our other self presses the button. Like if we were already on the stairwell when she pressed it, and ducked inside." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "4:16:30." | |||
| eu says, "Six turns until we arrive." | ||||
| djfletch says, "ack, I wonder if we have to dodge security cameras" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "hide in the equipment room, so we don't pass ourself?" | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "That's what I was thinking." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a battery, a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass Floyd | key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | lunasspecto exclaims, "Second battery!" | |||
| Firion asks, "Question, how do you get a popped off key back on a keyboard?" | djfletch says, "cunning" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ha, awesome." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a battery Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | a worn brass key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | a timed explosive device Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Yes, very nice." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Firion,), "it should just snap back on. (I presume not a laptop keyboard?)" | ||||
| djfletch says, "we have a leave the key because our first self used it" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "good point" | ||||
| eu says, "Oh, and the same for one of the batteries when the time comes, I suppose." | ||||
| eu says, "This sounds tricky." | ||||
| Firion says (to generic), "It's my c key and yeah it's a laptop" | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah, maybe we had to not take the flashlight and battery the first time" | ||||
| Firion says, "I refuse to send it to Dell unless they do extra fast service" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I don't know. It might be ok. Leave the key, take the battery. We'll have to restart on this run anyway, I'm sure, and I'm curious." | ||||
| Firion asks (of genericgeekgirl), "So do I try to snap it back in or take it to a local place?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||||
Floyd | (the worn brass key) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get battery" | ||||
Floyd | (the battery) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the equipment room) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the equipment room) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | It is almost completely dark. Some faint light spills in from the west Floyd | through the open door, allowing you to just discern the outlines of a Floyd | series of shelves. By the door is a light switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says (to Firion), "A lot of laptop keyboards you can just snap the key back on; it's worth a shot." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks (of Firion), "You can try, I guess. I broke a couple keys on a really old laptop, and I know those weren't easily fixable, but maybe newer ones are different?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | two batteries Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | a worn brass key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | a timed explosive device Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put batteries in flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | battery: Done. Floyd | battery: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "close flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | inuredbyheavyrain says, "Speaking of "fast" service, I ordered Zelda 3D from Amazon and the estimated delivery time was the 27th, but it has yet come. It gave me a refund, though." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | By the thin blue-white beam of your flashlight, you see the crowded Floyd | shelves of the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the west, the door to the corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a crowbar here. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Whoa, I missed the crowbar." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We couldn't see it earlier in the dark :)" | ||||
| eu says, "Ah, hem, right." | ||||
| lunasspecto says (to inured), "I refuse to buy a 3DS just so I can finally play Ocarina. I'll borrow an N64 instead." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "It would not have been so bad if this was a random guy selling it, but it came from the warehouse." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get crowbar" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Our former self has been here for eight turns now." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I see a lot of backwards-compatible and upcoming games that look interesting, I have never owned a portable system before, I know a lot of people who enjoy it, and I can probably sell it back for a good price if I am disappointed." | ||||
| djfletch says, "we went upstairs and then came down again for the brass key, that will be a few more turns I suppose" | ||||
| Firion goes home. | djfletch says, "we could just wait here and see what happens" | |||
| eu says, "Hm, we lost Firion." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. Once the coast is clear, I wonder if we can smash our way into the other labs with the crowbar." | ||||
| lunasspecto asks, "Through the windows?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah" | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok, let's wait a few turns, unless anyone has anything else to try" | ||||
| eu says, "Go for it." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self enters the basement corridor and sees the Floyd | door to the equipment room standing open. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:21 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "oops" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the door to the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self enters the basement corridor and sees the Floyd | door to the Deutsch lab standing open. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:21 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | djfletch says, "dammit, the lab door too" | |||
| eu says, "So the precisely 4:21 is a bit off." | ||||
| eu says, "But anyway" | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "I'm really curious about how all this time travel was implemented in Inform 6..." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | open onto an equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, the magic of Floyd." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "close deutsch" | ||||
Floyd | (the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | You close the door to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | By the thin blue-white beam of your flashlight, you see the crowded Floyd | shelves of the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the west, the door to the corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the door to the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your past self attempts to unlock the door to the Deutsch lab Floyd | but finds it already unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:21 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | djfletch says, "aaargh" | |||
| lunasspecto exclaims, "AAARRGGHH!" | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "GMTA." | ||||
| eu asks, "Okay, what's our plan?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "we can try again from the save - should be enough time to lock the door if we don't spend time getting the crowbar etc" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Why can't she just assume that the goons who took over the lab left it open? If this one thing sets off absolute death, why is it (presumably) ok to walk off with the battery? (or are we supposed to put it back, as well?)" | ||||
| eu says, "I think that we are supposed to put it back; we can't make the past incosistent with our memory." | ||||
| eu says, "Er, inconsistent." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. So we do need to grab the crowbar first, then." | ||||
| djfletch says, "maybe we have to go further back in time so we have a chance to do lots of stuff before our first self gets here" | ||||
| eu says, "That's also an option." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||||
| eu says, "As long as we don't go back so far that we get caught." | ||||
| djfletch says, "true" | ||||
| djfletch says, "let's try 300 again just to see if we lose from taking the battery or whatever" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "'K." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "set panel to 300" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a battery, a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass Floyd | key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get battery" | ||||
Floyd | (the battery) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "close deutsch" | ||||
Floyd | (the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | You close the door to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "lock deutsch" | ||||
Floyd | (the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | The bright steel key turns smoothly in the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the equipment room) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the equipment room) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | It is almost completely dark. Some faint light spills in from the west Floyd | through the open door, allowing you to just discern the outlines of a Floyd | series of shelves. By the door is a light switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the door to the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "lock door" | ||||
Floyd | The worn brass key turns smoothly in the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put batteries in flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | battery: Done. Floyd | battery: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | By the thin blue-white beam of your flashlight, you see the crowded Floyd | shelves of the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the west, the door to the corridor stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a crowbar here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You can hear nothing but a soft electric hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "4:17:40." | |||
| eu says, "Er, :45." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Entering the Deutsch laboratory your past self looks quickly about. Floyd | Unlike the last time, her gaze passes straight over the place where Floyd | the battery had lain. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:21 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ok." | |||
| eu says, "Good to know." | ||||
| lunasspecto asks, "So we have to use the battery, then replace it and hide in the dark closet?" | ||||
| lunasspecto asks, "And then plant the bomb?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I think we haven't planted it because we're looking for the missing papers, no?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We want them to be destroyed." | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "Oh, yeah. That." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "So either in one of the other labs (through a broken window) or upstairs (we need to coordinate button-pushing)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "possibly a combination of the two (lab on second floor)" | ||||
| djfletch asks, "if we went through the time machine more than once could we generate more batteries?" | ||||
| eu says, "But then it would be fixed when we went to fix it." | ||||
| eu says, "Oh, unless we waited for ourself to fix it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder if it's broken when we come out of it. Maybe see what happens if we try to use it again." | ||||
| lunasspecto says 'Woah!' in his best Keanu Reaves voice. | ||||
| djfletch says, "that's worth trying" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "set panel to 300" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | A brushed steel control panel with a blue LED timer, set to 0 seconds, Floyd | and a shiny silver button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 300" | ||||
Floyd | You won't be able to set the control panel until you complete the Floyd | modifications. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, there we go." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "(just conserving those two turns)" | |||
| lunasspecto says, "So, whatever is in the prototype is moved about in time, but not the prototype itself..." | ||||
| djfletch says, "I wonder if we can un-complete the modifications, but maybe that's not worth worrying about at this stage" | ||||
| djfletch asks, "shall we try and find out how far back we can go?" | ||||
| eu says, "Yes, let's." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "sure" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "push restore" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | lunasspecto says, "If we go back far enough, perhaps other folks will be in the lab." | |||
| eu says, "Right. That's my worry." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "at some point, we should maybe restart and play around with getting to the second floor" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "And, uh, smash some windows =)" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wait until 4:22" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to wait. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "just checking" | |||
| lunasspecto exclaims, "But no smashing of windows until we've allowed ourselves to arrive again!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wait until 4:22:00" | djfletch says, "if we go back a long way we might have to type z a lot" | |||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to wait. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "it works in my interpreter" | |||
| eu says, "That command wasn't in the original comp entry, it looks like." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I see either "time passes" or "if you could do that, you wouldn't have built the prototype" (for a time in the past)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ah. Ok." | ||||
| djfletch says, "let's try 15 minutes, so 900 seconds, and see what happens" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 900" | ||||
Floyd | The prototype's control panel only accepts between 1 and 400 seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Aha." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain exclaims, "I have an idea to prevent us from seeing our past self!" | ||||
| eu says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Oh" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says (to Floyd), "tear out eyes" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "?" | |||
| djfletch says, "hah" | ||||
| eu says, "Oh." | ||||
| eu shakes his head. | ||||
| eu says, "Ach, AFK one minute. I'll catch up." | ||||
| djfletch says, "we can try 400 and maybe have some time to mess with the crowbar just now" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "set panel to 400" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a battery, a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass Floyd | key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get battery" | ||||
Floyd | (the battery) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the equipment room) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the equipment room) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | It is almost completely dark. Some faint light spills in from the west Floyd | through the open door, allowing you to just discern the outlines of a Floyd | series of shelves. By the door is a light switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put batteries in flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | battery: Done. Floyd | battery: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Back; catching up." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | By the thin blue-white beam of your flashlight, you see the crowded Floyd | shelves of the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the west, the door to the corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a crowbar here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get crowbar" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Caught up." | |||
| djfletch says, "hmm, so we'll have 20 more moves than we had last time" | ||||
| djfletch says, "locking the doors would give us a couple more but then we die on the battery thing anyway" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | open onto an equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open bostrom with crowbar" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the door, but it barely leaves a Floyd | mark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "break window with crowbar" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to worry about the small glass window. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf" | |||
| lunasspecto asks (of djfletch), "Can't we put the battery back if we want to?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "that's true" | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "And we can hide in the closet even without a flashlight, I'm guessing." | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok, let's see what that does" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get battery" | ||||
Floyd | As you remove the battery, the light fails. Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "hmm, is it on the floor or on the bench?" | |||
| eu says, "Floor, I think." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "drop battery" | ||||
Floyd | (the battery) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | open onto an equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "close deutsch" | ||||
Floyd | (the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | You close the door to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "lock deutsch" | ||||
Floyd | (the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | The bright steel key turns smoothly in the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | It is almost completely dark. Some faint light spills in from the west Floyd | through the open door, allowing you to just discern the outlines of a Floyd | series of shelves. By the door is a light switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the door to the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "lock door" | ||||
Floyd | The worn brass key turns smoothly in the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "that was 20" | |||
| eu says, "4:18:10." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "do you remember what time it was the last time when we lost?" | ||||
| eu says, "Let me look." | ||||
| eu says, "4:18:20." | ||||
| djfletch says, "thanks" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You can hear nothing but a soft electric hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You can hear nothing but a soft electric hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You can hear nothing but a soft electric hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You can hear nothing but a soft electric hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I don't know if we should be trying to sneak out at this point" | |||
| djfletch says, "our first self is only collecting the key just now" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "What's all this, then?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "All Things Devours" | ||||
| Johnny asks, "Default difficulty?" | ||||
| eu asks, "There's variable difficulty?" | ||||
| lunasspecto asks, "In the comp version?" | ||||
| eu says, "But yeah, whatever difficulty you get if you don't know that you can change the difficulty." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think ultimately we need to time it so we have enough time to get up to the second floor landing before our other self presses that button." | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Johnny says, "There's a challenge mode foad mad persons. [LINK]" | |||
| Johnny says, "*for mad persons" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh" | ||||
| djfletch says, "that's probably right about the button" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "possibly with the crowbar" | ||||
| djfletch says, "so, we needed to have ourself hit the second floor button as probably the first thing we do at the start of the game" | ||||
| djfletch says, "or maybe when we go past for the ribbon cable" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "maybe that second one, yeah" | ||||
| eu asks, "New first pass then?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "sure" | ||||
| eu says, "Okay. I'm pressing restart." | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "RESTART" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You're in. Floyd | Floyd | The plan now is simple: go to your lab, plant the bomb, and run. The Floyd | prototype will be destroyed. The military will have no way to continue Floyd | the experiment. No-one will die. Floyd | Floyd | The guard is out securing the grounds. The building is empty. You have Floyd | six minutes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | All Things Devours Floyd | Written for IFComp 2004, by half sick of shadows. Floyd | A second, more difficult, version will be released after the Floyd | competition closes. Floyd | First-time players should type 'about'. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 040930 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "yeah, I think so. The only other thing I can think of is to use the crowbar on the second floor door, but doing it with the buttons seems a lot more likely." | |||
| eu asks, "Who's driving?" | ||||
| Lionheart arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | eu asks (of genericgeekgirl), "How long until you have to go?" | |||
| djfletch says, "drive yourself if you like, or I can" | ||||
| eu says, "I'd better not drive, since I'm keeping a local copy synced. Go for it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think I'm good for a bit. There's a bbq at 5 that I thought we'd need to leave around now for, but sounds like my husband thought we'd show up later." | ||||
| eu says, "Okay." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "should we hit the second floor button now _and_ later just in case it helps?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "So, down first to get the key and flashlight and first battery. Back up. Hit the button, and go get the cable. And back downstairs, right?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press second button" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first inserting your ID card) Floyd | You swipe your card through the slot, and hold your breath. Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Perfect. Just as you'd hoped. The bastards hadn't even thought to Floyd | disable your card. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end a fourth door leads to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Frozen exactly Floyd | as they were when badges were flashed, when we looked on in disbelief Floyd | as they took control of the lab. Yours however, is clean. The books Floyd | and papers are in neat stacks. They have been working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. The door has been taken off and is nowhere Floyd | to be seen. They have been working on it too. You wince at the sight. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a battery, a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass Floyd | key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | battery: Taken. Floyd | flashlight: Taken. Floyd | worn brass key: Taken. Floyd | door to the Deutsch lab: The door to the Deutsch lab is locked in Floyd | place. Floyd | your bench: your bench is too heavy for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an open automatic door. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press second button" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press first button" | ||||
Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the foyer. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the equipment room) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the equipment room) Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Equipment Room Floyd | It is almost completely dark. Some faint light spills in from the west Floyd | through the open door, allowing you to just discern the outlines of a Floyd | series of shelves. By the door is a light switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | ||||
Floyd | The lights come on after a brief flicker. Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Equipment Room Floyd | By the flickering fluorescent lights, you see the crowded shelves of Floyd | the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the west, the door to the corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a length of ribbon cable here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | First Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | open onto an equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is an open automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first inserting your ID card) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fix prototype" | ||||
Floyd | (first entering the prototype) Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you can Floyd | see the half-installed control panel. Through the open hatch you can Floyd | see some of the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | You begin work completing the modifications... Floyd | After a minute or so, you are done. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "400?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "or less?" | ||||
| eu says, "400 I suppose." | ||||
| djfletch exclaims, "turn it to the max!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save" | genericgeekgirl says, "oops" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "can someone save?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ah! Thanks." | |||
| eu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 400" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, the guard gives the inside corridors a last look before Floyd | heading out. A small sound from the Deutsch lab. He turns. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Uh" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "too far back, I guess" | ||||
| djfletch says, "you were too efficient" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl handwaves "390?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "unless someone wants to calculate it better" | ||||
| eu says, "Hmm, okay. Let me look." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "do we know when the guards leave? maybe 4:15?" | ||||
| eu says, "I would bet so." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "yeah, presumably" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "what time is it now?" | ||||
| eu says, "It was 4:20:20 when we pressed the button." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "oh, 4:20ish" | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "The guard's time is in the source code if anyone cares to cheat." | ||||
| eu says, "I think we're fine." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 390" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "380 should put us at 4:15, so maybe 375?" | |||
| eu says, "Oh. Or that." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "this didn't automatically fail.. let's see" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "It sounded like we just missed it "one last look"" | ||||
| eu nods. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Grab battery, go to equipment closet, turn on flashlight, get crowbar, lock equipment closet, go return battery, lock lab door and upstairs" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take battery" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a battery, a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass Floyd | key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take battery" | ||||
Floyd | (the battery) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter equipment closet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the door to the equipment room) Floyd | (first unlocking the door to the equipment room) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | It is almost completely dark. Some faint light spills in from the west Floyd | through the open door, allowing you to just discern the outlines of a Floyd | series of shelves. By the door is a light switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | The switch clicks, but no light is forthcoming. Not surprising Floyd | considering flashlights usually need batteries. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put batteries in flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | battery: Done. Floyd | battery: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Equipment Room Floyd | By the thin blue-white beam of your flashlight, you see the crowded Floyd | shelves of the equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | To the west, the door to the corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a crowbar here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take crowbar" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | open onto an equipment room. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lock equipment" | ||||
Floyd | (the door to the equipment room) Floyd | (first closing the door to the equipment room) Floyd | The worn brass key turns smoothly in the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a flashlight (which is empty) and a worn brass key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop battery" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take battery" | ||||
Floyd | As you remove the battery, the light fails. Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop battery" | ||||
Floyd | (the battery) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lock deutsch" | ||||
Floyd | (the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | (first closing the door to the Deutsch lab) Floyd | The bright steel key turns smoothly in the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an open automatic door. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "are we ok to go right up at this point?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Also, was that everything?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "looked ok to me. Let's save here too." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Landing Floyd | A small landing, hanging in the still darkness above the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall lies a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "C'mon. Press the darn button." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Landing Floyd | A small landing, hanging in the still darkness above the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall lies a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "15 more seconds until we arrive." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Landing Floyd | A small landing, hanging in the still darkness above the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall lies a closed automatic door. Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three plain gray doors line the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end of the corridor is a closed glass door leading out to Floyd | the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "yay" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "whew" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the balcony door) Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | A wide balcony, looking out over the sleeping city. Below you, a lawn Floyd | slopes gently away into the gloom, a few silhouetted trees marking the Floyd | edge of the modest grounds. Above, the clear sky is a deep black, Floyd | dusted with glinting stars. Floyd | Floyd | To the south-east is a large, tinted glass window. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the upstairs corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "Save?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "let me undo that last bit first" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Second Floor Corridor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "in case that wasn't correct" | |||
| eu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the balcony door) Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | A wide balcony, looking out over the sleeping city. Below you, a lawn Floyd | slopes gently away into the gloom, a few silhouetted trees marking the Floyd | edge of the modest grounds. Above, the clear sky is a deep black, Floyd | dusted with glinting stars. Floyd | Floyd | To the south-east is a large, tinted glass window. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the upstairs corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | > | lunasspecto asks, "Shall we break that tinted window?" | |||
| lunasspecto says, "I'm in a window-breaking mood." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | lunasspecto exclaims, "Oh!" | |||
| eu asks (of lunasspecto), "?" | ||||
| lunasspecto says (to eu), "I'd forgotten the alarm." | ||||
| eu says, "Ah." | ||||
| eu says, "Three minutes, by the way, until our first self is out of the picture." | ||||
| eu says, "2:40 after that to work with." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "First self being the one walking around elsewhere, or the active one?" | ||||
| eu says, "The one elsewhere. Sorry." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Can we break the window while she's being, uh, zapped? So she doesn't hear it." | ||||
| eu says, "Uh, maybe." | ||||
| djfletch says, "I wonder if the alarm button can turn off the alarm too" | ||||
| djfletch says, "so if you exactly synchronize breaking the window with hitting that button" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "When we hit the alarm button earlier, it triggered the alarm. But didn't cause death." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "The alarm itself *might* not be an issue? Just that she shouldn't be hearing an alarm when we didn't." | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "Wow, yeah." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Although. Hm. Let's see about breaking the window when she's in the machine, but if she presses it when we break it that *would* work, too, right?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Because she'd be hearing it anyway." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "In any case, there are two or three more doors up here to explore =)" | ||||
| djfletch says, "that sounds good - the button wouldn't have to turn it off in that case" | ||||
| eu says (to genericgeekgirl), "I think that's the right idea. But yeah, exploration." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We saved recently, so I'm just going to not worry about the time limit for a bit, if that's ok." | ||||
| eu nods. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | A wide balcony, looking out over the sleeping city. Below you, a lawn Floyd | slopes gently away into the gloom, a few silhouetted trees marking the Floyd | edge of the modest grounds. Above, the clear sky is a deep black, Floyd | dusted with glinting stars. Floyd | Floyd | To the south-east is a large, tinted glass window. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the upstairs corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three plain gray doors line the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end of the corridor is an open glass door leading out to Floyd | the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||||
Floyd | There are three doors on the eastern wall of the corridor, the first Floyd | two (to the south-east and east) lead to Dr Brown and Professor Floyd | Butterield's offices. The third (to the north-east) leads to the Floyd | conference room. At the north end is the open glass door to the Floyd | balcony. To the south, the plate glass automatic door to the landing Floyd | stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to Dr Brown's office is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open brown" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "of course." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open butterield" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to Professor Butterfield's office is in the Floyd | way. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Missing `f'" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open butterfield" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to the conference room is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to the conference room is in the way. Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three plain gray doors line the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end of the corridor is an open glass door leading out to Floyd | the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Whoops, wf." | |||
| eu says, "Be careful people." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "are we trapped now, if we didn't press the second floor button again?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Landing Floyd | A small landing, hanging in the still darkness above the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall lies an open automatic door. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Second Floor Corridor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "no" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "It's *usually* considered a fire hazard to lock people *into* spaces :P Especially in a research lab! So I'd hope not." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock conference" | ||||
Floyd | You do not have the key. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "is one of our selves going to have to jump off the balcony at the end anyway?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "So I guess we wait now? And hope that we can get back downstairs without running into ourselves again." | ||||
| djfletch says, "otherwise there will be two of us forever" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder if she dies in the blast :P" | ||||
| djfletch says, "that would work" | ||||
| eu says, "Well, one of us eventually turns into the other of us. We should be okay." | ||||
| eu asks, "Do we know where the papers are?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "On the bright side, we went far enough back (since we got in on the first button press) that we shouldn't have to dodge *two* of ourselves." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Probably behind that window, somehow?" | ||||
| eu says, "Hmm." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I suspect it leads into one of those rooms we can't get into." | ||||
| eu says, "Yeah, makes sense." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "how long until she goes in the machine?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | A wide balcony, looking out over the sleeping city. Below you, a lawn Floyd | slopes gently away into the gloom, a few silhouetted trees marking the Floyd | edge of the modest grounds. Above, the clear sky is a deep black, Floyd | dusted with glinting stars. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the upstairs corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | To the south-east is a large, tinted glass window. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Let's see. It's 4:18:15 right now." | |||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "Locking people into spaces might be necessary if this place works with rare diseases, like Smallpox or the Black Plague or something." | ||||
| eu says, "In two turns we're in the basement." | ||||
| eu says, "..." | ||||
| eu says, "We enter the prototype at 4:19:35." | ||||
| eu says, "So, 16 turns from now." | ||||
| eu says, "(Fixing the prototype took twelve turns.)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. Going to hit z a few times." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Heh. Okay." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I had to :)" | |||
| eu says, "Heh." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I can see why they added "wait until" to the next version." | |||
| eu says, "Don't let your keyboard go like Firion's." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "was that 14?" | |||
| eu says, "Yes." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "One more?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eu exclaims, "Oh!" | |||
| eu says, "I gave the time for entering the prototype. Not pressing the button." | ||||
| eu exclaims, "Sorry!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl:) | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "now?" | |||
| Alex says (to genericgeekgirl), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York." | ||||
| lunasspecto asks, "He speaks over channels, too?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yes, Alex. Thank you. *puts a blanket over the bird's cage*" | ||||
| eu says (to genericgeekgirl), "Say ..Alex ignore me." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Alex), "ignore me" | genericgeekgirl says, "Thanks" | |||
| eu says, "Np." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Hmm. That should have allowed for the working of the machine, no?" | |||
| eu says, "I am a little confused here." | ||||
| eu says, "Okay, I tried locally. It seems that the going back in time took a little bit, so we have to go a few turns over." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "heh" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "I can first break the window at 4:20:25. What time we're at here, I'm not sure any more." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | eu says, "(Sorry!)" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Though we must be close, because it's in the 4:20 minute." | |||
| eu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self cringes from the sound of the siren. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:20 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Balcony | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You swing the crowbar firmly into the window and it shatters with a Floyd | loud crash. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "yay" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "save save" | ||||
| eu says, "Phew. And sorry." | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "well done" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Conference Room Floyd | A rather slick but soulless affair. A large table of dark polished Floyd | wood takes pride of place and is surrounded by a half-dozen chairs. Floyd | Floyd | To the north, lie the shattered remains of a window, opening into the Floyd | starry night. Floyd | Floyd | On the conference table is a collection of notes. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take notes" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Balcony Floyd | A wide balcony, looking out over the sleeping city. Below you, a lawn Floyd | slopes gently away into the gloom, a few silhouetted trees marking the Floyd | edge of the modest grounds. Above, the clear sky is a deep black, Floyd | dusted with glinting stars. Floyd | Floyd | To the south-east, lie the shattered remains of a window, opening into Floyd | a murky conference room. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the upstairs corridor lies open. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Second Floor Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three plain gray doors line the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end of the corridor is an open glass door leading out to Floyd | the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Landing Floyd | A small landing, hanging in the still darkness above the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall lies an open automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | lunasspecto says, "Now to plant the bomb and go, I guess." | |||
| djfletch says, "see if the alarm button will turn it off" | ||||
| eu says, "Maybe we should turn off --- timing." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "gonna try going straight down and hope she's in the equipment room or something" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press alarm button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "nope" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first inserting your ID card) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is an open automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "drop papers or escape with them?" | |||
| eu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||||
Floyd | A collection of photocopied journal papers that you had been reading a Floyd | few weeks ago. Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly notice that your research notes are not here. You were Floyd | sure they would be -- and would thus be destroyed in the blast. This Floyd | is bad. Very bad. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a collection of notes Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a battery Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | a worn brass key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | a timed explosive device Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "notes" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x notes" | ||||
Floyd | Your research notes. The hundred or so pages here comprise everything Floyd | you have written so far. It would not be easy for someone else to turn Floyd | the scribbles herein into another working prototype, but it may just Floyd | be possible. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "just curious" | |||
| djfletch says, "it sounds like we ought to drop them" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop notes" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | lunasspecto says, "Yeah, or shady government agents will steal them." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "set timer to.. ?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "(on the device)" | ||||
| eu says, "Enough time to get out, but not so much as to kill the returning guard." | ||||
| eu says, "So, about..." | ||||
| eu says, "Eek, 30s is the most we have." | ||||
| eu asks, "Can we get out that fast?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "maybe.." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set timer to 30" | ||||
Floyd | Time until detonation: 30 seconds. Floyd | (you probably don't want to be carrying the device when that Floyd | occurs...) Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop device" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "Or maybe the blast isn't big enough to kill the guard, and we can set it high?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set timer to 30" | ||||
Floyd | Time until detonation: 30 seconds. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we'll see." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | As the siren shrieks out around you, you catch a glimpse of movement. Floyd | A sudden jolt, then you are wrestled to the ground. Security has Floyd | arrived. Floyd | Floyd | The bomb detonates. You are knocked to the floor by the force of the Floyd | explosion and your ears ring. Stunned, you lie prone on the floor as Floyd | the siren wails and the reek of smoke stings your nostrils. Floyd | Floyd | Before you recover your senses, security is upon you. Floyd | Floyd | Deaf to your protests, the guard handcuffs you and forces you into a Floyd | dark sedan. You speed through the chill Boston night, head held in Floyd | your hands, almost oblivious to the blur of the suburbs rushing past. Floyd | Floyd | Half an hour later, the car pulls up outside a non-descript building Floyd | and you are dragged inside then thrown into a small cell to await Floyd | questioning. Floyd | Floyd | The months that follow are a nightmare. Solitary confinement, Floyd | sleepless nights, merciless interrogations. Eventually, you are taken Floyd | before a civillian court and tried for treason. A drawn-out trial, a Floyd | guilty verdict, prison. Ambitions falter and then fade. Still, as the Floyd | months and then years pass, they do not bring the disaster you had so Floyd | feared and you cling, anxiously, longingly, to the dream that it was Floyd | you who brought this about, that your sacrifice was not in vain. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Success, but at such a cost *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "can we go back in the machine and just.. leave?" | ||||
| eu says, "Huh, good idea." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter prototype" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you see Floyd | the control panel with a small LED timer set to 390 seconds, and a Floyd | silver button. Through the open hatch you can see some of the Deutsch Floyd | lab. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "how long?" | |||
| eu says, "The bomb goes off soon; no time to change it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | As your past self looks around, her eyes catch on something inside the Floyd | prototype. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:21 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "So we need more undos. Just restore?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ok" | |||
| eu says, "We need to drop the papers and then make our escape." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop notes" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop device" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Oh, and --- yeah." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "30 again?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "oh!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "can we go set the prototype timer now?" | ||||
| eu says, "Yes." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Suggestions?" | ||||
| eu says, "60 or so should work." | ||||
| eu says, "Since we just got here." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 60" | ||||
Floyd | You would have to enter the prototype to do that. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter prototype" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you see Floyd | the control panel with a small LED timer set to 390 seconds, and a Floyd | silver button. Through the open hatch you can see some of the Deutsch Floyd | lab. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "Did we arm the bomb?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Earlier you suggested we didn't have time to set the panel after setting the device?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "So I was trying to do this first, although it takes about three or four turns longer." | ||||
| eu says, "Sorry. That's because we didn't undo far enough to have that time. We can now." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ah. One sec" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a battery Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | a worn brass key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a crowbar Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a battery Floyd | a bright steel key Floyd | a worn brass key Floyd | an ID card Floyd | a timed explosive device Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop device" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set timer to 30" | ||||
Floyd | Time until detonation: 30 seconds. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter prototype" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you see Floyd | the control panel with a small LED timer set to 390 seconds, and a Floyd | silver button. Through the open hatch you can see some of the Deutsch Floyd | lab. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 60" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | As the siren shrieks out around you, you catch a glimpse of movement. Floyd | A sudden jolt, then you are wrestled to the ground. Security has Floyd | arrived. Floyd | Floyd | The bomb detonates. A wall of force rips through the room with savage Floyd | power, killing you immediately. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Success, but at such a cost *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "hm" | |||
| eu asks, "Oh, I was wrong?" | ||||
| eu says, "Oh." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "It's not the bomb here, though. It's time in general." | ||||
| eu says, "Because time travel takes something like 15 seconds." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "so, do we just have to be very quick with moves after breaking the window?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, but I thought we were." | ||||
| djfletch says, "hmm" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I've tried to undo anything extra, and generally be as efficient as possible." | ||||
| eu says, "I don't see anything that could have been faster. Except coordinated alarm button pushing and window breaking." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "what about setting the device _before_ breaking the window?" | ||||
| eu says, "Oh, wait." | ||||
| djfletch says, "saves only one move" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "not dropping the papers (or trying to drop them in the same turn as the device.. would that work?) would save another" | ||||
| djfletch asks, "or, can we set it a lot lot earlier and leave it here?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "so long as our other self doesn't see it" | ||||
| eu says, "Drop all takes just 5 seconds." | ||||
| eu says, "I think we can also save some time between cf6 and cf7." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "can we put things under the bench?" | ||||
| eu says, "Ah, no not between cf6 and cf7." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "maybe. let's restore (just to the most recent save for now) and see. Setting it before breaking the window though might help, if it takes a large enough input." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "let's just try not dropping the papers first and see; maybe she can go burn them later or something" | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah, try that" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop device" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set device to 30" | ||||
Floyd | Time until detonation: 30 seconds. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter prototype" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you see Floyd | the control panel with a small LED timer set to 390 seconds, and a Floyd | silver button. Through the open hatch you can see some of the Deutsch Floyd | lab. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "60?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 60" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "ok. let's see if we can get upstairs." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The only exit is out to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the Deutsch lab (north) the three doors lining Floyd | the corridor (south-east, east and north-east) and the automatic door Floyd | back to the landing (south). Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your former self enters the basement landing and sees the Floyd | automatic door standing open. Floyd | Floyd | Time unravels... Floyd | Floyd | ******* Floyd | Floyd | Tuesday 12th October 2004 Floyd | Floyd | At precisely 4:21 am this morning a catastrophe of unprecedented scale Floyd | occurred. An immense explosion -- that could only have been atomic in Floyd | nature -- tore through the city and suburbs of Boston MA, destroying Floyd | all in its path. Casualties are expected to number in the millions. Floyd | The President has declared a state of emergency across the nation and Floyd | the military is mobilizing for a possible war with the as yet unknown Floyd | enemy. Floyd | Floyd | This thing all things devours: Floyd | birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Floyd | gnaws iron, bites steel; Floyd | grinds hard stones to meal; Floyd | slays king, ruins town; Floyd | and beats high mountain down. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "GAH" | |||
| eu says, "Oh, not quite enough." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "stupid door" | ||||
| eu exclaims, "So close!" | ||||
| eu asks, "So 90 maybe?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop device" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set timer to 30" | ||||
Floyd | Time until detonation: 30 seconds. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter prototype" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you see Floyd | the control panel with a small LED timer set to 390 seconds, and a Floyd | silver button. Through the open hatch you can see some of the Deutsch Floyd | lab. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "No, not 90." | |||
| eu says, "It failed locally; we need a number in between." | ||||
| eu says, "Try 75." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 75" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "do we need to close this door?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "(Do we have time to?)" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain exclaims, "Should this not work, we can try 42 and 69, dude!" | ||||
| eu sighs. | ||||
| eu says (to inuredbyheavyrain), "Not at you." | ||||
| eu says, "But because I can't get 75 to work." | ||||
| eu exclaims, "So close!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl / | ||||
| genericgeekgirl:/ rather | ||||
| eu says, "I guess try what inuredbyheavyrain said and pick a different number." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "brb. go ahead." | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "higher or lower?" | |||
| djfletch asks, "if 60 just needed a door to shut, would 61 work?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "65? (a turn is 5 seconds)" | ||||
| djfletch says, "oh, right" | ||||
| eu says, "I think 80 will work." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop device" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set timer to 30" | ||||
Floyd | Time until detonation: 30 seconds. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter prototype" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you see Floyd | the control panel with a small LED timer set to 390 seconds, and a Floyd | silver button. Through the open hatch you can see some of the Deutsch Floyd | lab. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set panel to 80" | ||||
Floyd | You quickly type the number in to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a timed explosive device here. Floyd | Floyd | As the siren shrieks out around you, you catch a glimpse of movement. Floyd | A sudden jolt, then you are wrestled to the ground. Security has Floyd | arrived. Floyd | Floyd | The bomb detonates. A wall of force rips through the room with savage Floyd | power, killing you immediately. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Success, but at such a cost *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "whoa" | |||
| eu says, "We didn't press the button." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Heh. Sorry." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "I need to run. Have fun!" | ||||
| eu asks (of inuredbyheavyrain), "You haven't driven at all today. Would you care to do the honors?" | ||||
| eu says, "(Sorry that I didn't ask sooner.)" | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "I was kind of distracted while you were playing this. I am probably not the best choice to drive this game." | ||||
| eu says, "Oh, okay." | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the prototype Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and activate the prototype. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing siren rings out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Deutsch Laboratory Floyd | The lab is order and chaos. By the dim blue-green light of a few Floyd | swirling screen savers, you can see the cluttered benches of your Floyd | colleagues, frozen in the mess of academic creativity. Yours however, Floyd | is clean. The books and papers are in neat stacks. They have been Floyd | working here. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, against the north wall is the prototype, a six foot cylinder Floyd | of brushed steel cladding. They have been working on it too. The door Floyd | has been taken off and is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, the door to the lab lies open. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Basement Corridor Floyd | A long north-south corridor, much the same as those on the other Floyd | floors. Three gray doors line the eastern wall. The first two have Floyd | small glass windows, peering into darkened laboratories. The third is Floyd | plain. All three are closed. Floyd | Floyd | At the north end is an open door leading to the Deutsch lab. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a closed automatic door, leading back to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The door slides open with a soft rattle. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Landing Floyd | A cramped space at the bottom of the stairs. A corridor can be seen to Floyd | the north through the automatic door, and the stairs lead back up to Floyd | the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is an open automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | The automatic door softly slides closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | A darkened foyer, presided over by a security desk near the north Floyd | wall. Floating above it in the capacious darkness is a small landing. Floyd | A set of stairs both rises up to meet it and stretches downwards into Floyd | the dark. Floyd | Floyd | In the north wall is a closed automatic door. Floyd | Floyd | To the south is a set of automatic doors leading out into the inky Floyd | night. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first pressing the green exit button) Floyd | The main doors open onto the night. Floyd | Floyd | The siren wails. Floyd | Floyd | You slip out into the night, darting quickly through the Cambridge Floyd | shadows until you reach the quiet corner where you left your car. Floyd | Exhausted, you gently start the cold motor and roll off towards the Floyd | interstate. Floyd | Floyd | Days, months, years run by. You find a new name, a new life. Fresh Floyd | challenges are gladly met and life proceeds with full force in its new Floyd | and welcome direction. Only now and then do you stop on a chill starry Floyd | night and wonder whether you were right, what really would have Floyd | happened. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Success. Final, lasting success. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| eu says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | lunasspecto exclaims, "Success!" | |||
| eu exclaims, "Phew!" | ||||
| djfletch says, "woohoo" | ||||
| DavidW says, "whoa. congrats." | ||||
| djfletch says (to eu), "thanks for doing all the timekeeping" | ||||
| eu says (to djfletch), "Sure. Thanks for all the strategizing." | ||||
| lunasspecto says, "Well, kids, it's been fun." | ||||
| inuredbyheavyrain says, "That was fun. Thanks for the game." | ||||
| eu exclaims, "Thanks everybody for coming today!" | ||||
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