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Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You've decided to spend the weekend in the family country cabin. Well, Floyd | you say family, but it actually belongs to one particular member of Floyd | your family: your second cousin Rebecca. You haven't seen her for a Floyd | while. Nobody has. She's been missing for over a year now, disappeared Floyd | without a trace. Floyd | Floyd | The Crystal Palace Floyd | A fantasy within a mystery within a quiet holiday. by Peter Orme Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111125 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cupboard (closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Ladies and gentlemen, behold David Claré; age 38, slightly unshaven. Floyd | Not fat, a litte soft around the waists perhaps. All things consider, Floyd | you're a regular Joe. A regular David, actually. Floyd | Floyd | > | Firion asks, "So this was a Speed-IF?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "All of them today will be, Firion." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the cupboard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | You open the cupboard, revealing a top hat, a bowtie, a leather arm Floyd | guard and a wooden bow. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "There's half the list right there :P" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get all from cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | top hat: Taken. Floyd | bowtie: Taken. Floyd | leather arm guard: Taken. Floyd | wooden bow: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Dashing." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the leather arm guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Ah yes, Speed IF." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bow" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the wooden bow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "take a bow" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the trap door) Floyd | (first unlocking the trap door) Floyd | You can't reach the trap door from down here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the front door) Floyd | Floyd | front lawn Floyd | You are in front of the house. The garden continues east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "Sorry, is this too fast?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I'm fine, but we usually give a heads-up if we're leaving a room." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x garden" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "What ggg said." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "wear guard" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the leather arm guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "One of these things is going to be implemented. I just know it!" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "shoot bow" | ||||
Floyd | Leave the fighting business to those who know how to do it. An archer, Floyd | perhaps. Do you know any? Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "Do we go east?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | garden Floyd | This is a rather nice garden actually. The front of the house is west Floyd | of here. Floyd | Floyd | Propped up against one of the apple treese there's a short wooden Floyd | ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "I don't think there's anything else to do here, so yeah" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb treese" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "are there meese in the treese" | |||
| Tale says, "It's a treese, not a tree ...timing" | ||||
| TheXenographer asks, "Should we go back to the house with the ladder? Get in that trapdoor?" | ||||
| Tale says, "yes" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. And also wanted to look in the kitchen." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front lawn Floyd | You are in front of the house. The garden continues east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stand on ladder" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the ladder so you can reach the trap door. Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Up?" | |||
| Tale asks, "Kitchen first?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is old, not antique and quaint, just old. A low doorway Floyd | leads west to the front hall, another leads north to the bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | On the window sill is an earthenware jug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take jug" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x jug" | ||||
Floyd | It is brown and cool to the touch. It has a round wooden lid attached Floyd | with a hinge. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Finally." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open jug" | ||||
Floyd | You open the earthenware jug, revealing an iron key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "North?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | bedroom Floyd | This is the only bedroom. Obviously it contains a bed, but also some Floyd | bookshelves and an antique writing desk. The only exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed and an antique writing desk here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | It's a huge, heavy wooden desk. It has one drawer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | It's a huge, heavy wooden desk. It has one drawer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | You open the drawer, revealing a bismuth crystal and a journal page. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read page" | ||||
Floyd | The journal entry is for Oct. 25th, it doesn't say which year. It says: Floyd | "I have assembled the metopticon, following the instructions I read in Floyd | the Grimoire, and as per the instructions I am looking through the Floyd | metopticon at the crystal city. I feel the tugging, and once or twice I Floyd | almost imagined myself going, but I cannot seem to leave this mortal Floyd | shell. In the accursed cryptic writings of N.G. it says, "you must be Floyd | the bard, the warrior, the mage, not all but only one at a time". But Floyd | how?!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | It is a crystal, the size of your fist. The peculiar crystal formations Floyd | form little cubes and lines that almost look architectural. You know, Floyd | it looks a bit like a city. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | bismuth crystal: Taken. Floyd | journal page: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bookshelves" | ||||
Floyd | Lines of bookshelves, stacked with old strange books. Floyd | (Here's how to get a book from the bookshelf if you know the name: type Floyd | "fetch Bible") Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Oho, intruiging plot" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fetch bible" | ||||
Floyd | The Holy Bible, yes, it's there. You look for bible in the bookshelf Floyd | but you can't find it. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fetch N.G." | ||||
Floyd | You look for n.g. in the bookshelf but you can't find it. Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "fetch grimoire" | ||||
Floyd | After searching almost all the books, you find it! The Grimoire! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read grimoire" | ||||
Floyd | This dusty old leatherbound tome bears an inscription on the back that Floyd | says "Grimoire. Von Katz. The book has a ribbon bound into its spine, Floyd | to be used as a bookmark. As you open the book, it opens at the page Floyd | where the bookmark is. That page seems to contain a schematic woodcut Floyd | drawing of a device. Above the drawing is a heading that reads Floyd | "metopticon". The rest of the text is in latin, so you can't really Floyd | read it, but you could probably manage to assemble the device from that Floyd | drawing, if only you had the parts: a sort of tube, two triangular Floyd | blocks and a sphere. Floyd | You have learned how to assemble the metopticon. Whatever it is. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh." | |||
| Tale says, "Quick, let's explore upstairs." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is old, not antique and quaint, just old. A low doorway Floyd | leads west to the front hall, another leads north to the bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a ladder and a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the trap door) Floyd | (first unlocking the trap door) Floyd | (with the iron key) Floyd | Floyd | attic Floyd | You can see a chest (closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||||
Floyd | You open the chest, revealing a small crystal ball, a pink prism, a Floyd | blue prism and a tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Convenient." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | chest: Taken. Floyd | small crystal ball: Taken. Floyd | pink prism: Taken. Floyd | blue prism: Taken. Floyd | tube: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "assemble thingamabob" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the small crystal ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "assemble metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tube" | ||||
Floyd | It is kind of shaped like a tube, but inside there are all sorts of Floyd | compartments and at least one mirror. you have a definite feeling it Floyd | needs to be assembled with other pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pink" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the pink prism. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put pink on tube" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the tube would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put prism in tube" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the blue prism or the pink prism? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "blue" | ||||
Floyd | Remembering what you read in the grimoire you manage to fit the blue Floyd | prism properly. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put pink prism in tube" | ||||
Floyd | Remembering what you read in the grimoire you manage to fit the pink Floyd | prism properly. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put pall in tube" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put ball in tube" | ||||
Floyd | You gently push the ball into the wide end of the tube. It fits! Floyd | You have assembled the entire metopticon! Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like some sort of viewing device. You could try to look at Floyd | something through it. Floyd | Floyd | In the metopticon are a small crystal ball, a pink prism and a blue Floyd | prism. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Wooi" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read pafe" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read page" | ||||
Floyd | The journal entry is for Oct. 25th, it doesn't say which year. It says: Floyd | "I have assembled the metopticon, following the instructions I read in Floyd | the Grimoire, and as per the instructions I am looking through the Floyd | metopticon at the crystal city. I feel the tugging, and once or twice I Floyd | almost imagined myself going, but I cannot seem to leave this mortal Floyd | shell. In the accursed cryptic writings of N.G. it says, "you must be Floyd | the bard, the warrior, the mage, not all but only one at a time". But Floyd | how?!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wooi?" | |||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Ladies and gentlemen, behold David Claré; age 38, slightly unshaven. Floyd | Not fat, a litte soft around the waists perhaps. All things consider, Floyd | you're a regular Joe. A regular David, actually. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a metopticon Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a pink prism Floyd | a blue prism Floyd | a chest (open but empty) Floyd | a grimoire Floyd | a bible Floyd | a journal page Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | an iron key Floyd | an earthenware jug (open but empty) Floyd | a wooden bow Floyd | a leather arm guard (being worn) Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove guard" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the leather arm guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "drop guard" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove hat and tie" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove hat" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "drop bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "drop hat" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a metopticon Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a pink prism Floyd | a blue prism Floyd | a chest (open but empty) Floyd | a grimoire Floyd | a bible Floyd | a journal page Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | an iron key Floyd | an earthenware jug (open but empty) Floyd | a wooden bow Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "So, bow = warrior, top hat = wizard, and bowtie = bard?" | |||
| Ellison says, "I think we need to wear one item at a time" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, ""One at a time"?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Timing" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie) Floyd | You put on the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "I think it's the arm guard that = warrior? You don't wear the bow" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the leather arm guard) Floyd | You put on the leather arm guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | you are a warrior! Floyd | Floyd | terrace Floyd | You are on a large terrace, paved with stones and ending with an ornate Floyd | balustrade. From here you have a splendid view. To one side you see the Floyd | city, so filled with towers and peaked roofs that it might look like a Floyd | Disney fantasy, unless you know, without a doubt, that this is the real Floyd | thing, this is a real magical city where anything can happen. To the Floyd | other side you look out over the wild, endless plains and forest Floyd | stretching all the way to the distant mountains. Floyd | A winding path leads down from here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a magic circle (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Yay!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x circle" | ||||
Floyd | The magic circle is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Look at you - an archer, with perhaps a drop of elven blood pumping Floyd | through those slender limbs. But you are also David Claré, a software Floyd | engineer from Kent. Very strange. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Down the path?" | |||
| Tale says, "Yup" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | city gate Floyd | The city gate is a huge opening in the city walls. (Too large... what Floyd | on Earth could possible warrant a gate that size? The answer comes to Floyd | you as you think it: nothing. Nothing on Earth.) Inside the gates you Floyd | see the city in all its glory, high peaked houses and smaller wooden Floyd | houses with gambrel roofs. Outside - south of here - is the wild. A Floyd | steep path leads up to the terrace. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this is pretty elaborate for a speedIF" | |||
| Tale says, "Yeah" | ||||
| Tale asks, "Into the city?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Indeed." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "Find something we can shoot at." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter city" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "it was the first piece of IF the author ever wrote, apparently" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe we're in and need to go out?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "out" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter gates" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "enter gates" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "enter gate" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x city" | ||||
Floyd | Absolutely lovely, you'd love to stay and look at those amazing Floyd | buildings... but for now, adventure awaits you south of the city. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Aha" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | swamp Floyd | A stinking, putrid, dark swamp, where mists roll between the dark Floyd | trees. Back north is the city. The path turns west, deeper in among the Floyd | trees, into a clearing where you can see some sort of wooden house. Floyd | Floyd | Lurking in the shadows, somebody - something! - is watching you. Floyd | Lacking a proper classification scheme for these things, you decide to Floyd | call it a troll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x troll" | ||||
Floyd | Heavens! What fiendish trickery of nature is this? (Hang on, when did Floyd | you start thinking like that?). It really is an ugly monster, bipedal, Floyd | most of the time, and hairy, with a foul head adorned with fangs, Floyd | tusks, and horns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to troll" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "troll, hello" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "shoot bow at troll" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to shoot the archer's bow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "shoot bow" | ||||
Floyd | Shooting that would not accomplish much. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot troll" | ||||
Floyd | OK, you shoot the troll. Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "So violent." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search troll" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take troll" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the troll would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get troll" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the troll would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oops" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "west?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | swamp Floyd | A stinking, putrid, dark swamp, where mists roll between the dark Floyd | trees. Back north is the city. The path turns west, deeper in among the Floyd | trees, into a clearing where you can see some sort of wooden house. Floyd | Floyd | The troll (or whatever it was) is dead, on its back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x troll" | ||||
Floyd | Heavens! What fiendish trickery of nature is this? (Hang on, when did Floyd | you start thinking like that?). It really is an ugly monster, bipedal, Floyd | most of the time, and hairy, with a foul head adorned with fangs, Floyd | tusks, and horns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | hut Floyd | This house looks ready to fall down. The wood is not painted, the roof Floyd | is laid with moss and the windows are just open holes. A plank door Floyd | will take you inside. The swamp is back east and a mountain is south of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x roof" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | hut interior Floyd | Inside the hut it's just a mess. That troll creature must have moved in Floyd | here, probably after dining on the original inhabitants. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a crate (on which is a leather pouch (closed)) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pouch" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the leather pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open pouch" | ||||
Floyd | You open the leather pouch, revealing a scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||||
Floyd | It's a scroll, made of parchment perhaps? You're new certain about Floyd | that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read scroll" | ||||
Floyd | It's a scroll, made of parchment perhaps? You're new certain about Floyd | that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read scroll" | ||||
Floyd | It's a scroll, made of parchment perhaps? You're new certain about Floyd | that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pouch" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crate" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push crate" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stand on crate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Out and south?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | hut interior Floyd | Inside the hut it's just a mess. That troll creature must have moved in Floyd | here, probably after dining on the original inhabitants. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a crate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search mess" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look in crate" | ||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get on crate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "push crate s" | ||||
Floyd | The crate cannot be pushed from place to place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open crate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "Exploring the south?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | hut Floyd | This house looks ready to fall down. The wood is not painted, the roof Floyd | is laid with moss and the windows are just open holes. A plank door Floyd | will take you inside. The swamp is back east and a mountain is south of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | mountainside Floyd | The air is fresh here on the mountain, nicer than down in that swamp Floyd | (the hut is north of here). The cave is up from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | cave Floyd | A huge cave, large enough to house a very large snakey dragon. Deeper Floyd | inside the cave you see something shiny and glittering. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a dragon here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dragon" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the dragon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to dragon" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "shoot it?" | |||
| Firion says, "Interesting game, I'll have to try it sometime." | ||||
| Firion goes home. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot dragon" | ||||
Floyd | Your arrows will only hurt the dragon enough to get mad, and mad Floyd | dragons are not what you want. You need a blessing on that bow of Floyd | yours. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Or not." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "bless bow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use scroll on bo" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "use scroll on bow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm sort of assuming we'll have to combine stuff from the three paths" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I guess we have to become the mage, and then come back?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "guess we need to come back as a wizard, yeah" | ||||
| Mao arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | mountainside Floyd | The air is fresh here on the mountain, nicer than down in that swamp Floyd | (the hut is north of here). The cave is up from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | hut Floyd | This house looks ready to fall down. The wood is not painted, the roof Floyd | is laid with moss and the windows are just open holes. A plank door Floyd | will take you inside. The swamp is back east and a mountain is south of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | swamp Floyd | A stinking, putrid, dark swamp, where mists roll between the dark Floyd | trees. Back north is the city. The path turns west, deeper in among the Floyd | trees, into a clearing where you can see some sort of wooden house. Floyd | Floyd | The troll (or whatever it was) is dead, on its back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "turn troll" | ||||
Floyd | That would be less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "move troll" | ||||
Floyd | That would be less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao says, "Shoot, I overslept for clubfloyd" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Mao), "We're doing the SpeedIF games, on the first out of five (?). No worries." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We just started, really. Got a few speed-ifs to play today." | ||||
| Ellison asks, "oops, do we want to go back and see if we can pick up any of the shiny stuff?" | ||||
| Mao says, "Oh good, haha" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "If you want, but I suspect we'll just get eaten." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | hut Floyd | This house looks ready to fall down. The wood is not painted, the roof Floyd | is laid with moss and the windows are just open holes. A plank door Floyd | will take you inside. The swamp is back east and a mountain is south of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | mountainside Floyd | The air is fresh here on the mountain, nicer than down in that swamp Floyd | (the hut is north of here). The cave is up from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | cave Floyd | A huge cave, large enough to house a very large snakey dragon. Deeper Floyd | inside the cave you see something shiny and glittering. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a dragon here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x shiny" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x glittering" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You walk in a large circle around the dead body of the dragonsnake. Floyd | Floyd | You walk into the inner cave. There are all sorts of shiny objects Floyd | (some of which are gold and silver, others just shiny stones) all over Floyd | the floor. In a pile, still recovering from the shock of being released Floyd | from the dragonsnake's magic hold, is a woman. At first you think of Floyd | maidens and princesses, but then you realize you know her. Rebecca? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 8 out of a possible 10, in 131 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "..." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Let's pretend that didn't happen." | ||||
| Mao says, "Hehe." | ||||
| Ellison says, "weird" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "the only way to fight perfectly... is not to fight" | |||
| Tale asks, "Did we bypass the dragon?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "hehe" | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "We did. Because it's already dead. I assume that's not the correct solution, though ;)" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "attack dragon" | ||||
Floyd | Your arrows will only hurt the dragon enough to get mad, and mad Floyd | dragons are not what you want. You need a blessing on that bow of Floyd | yours. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a leather pouch (open but empty) Floyd | a scroll Floyd | an archer's bow Floyd | an archer's armguard (being worn) Floyd | a battle outfit (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "remove guard" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the archer's armguard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "wear guard" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the archer's armguard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "So, the proposed solution was to go back and change into wizard mode" | |||
| Ellison says, "I imagine we go back and enter the magic circle" | ||||
| Tale says, "That should give us unlimited wishes" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Heading back." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | mountainside Floyd | The air is fresh here on the mountain, nicer than down in that swamp Floyd | (the hut is north of here). The cave is up from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Tale), "hooray" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | hut Floyd | This house looks ready to fall down. The wood is not painted, the roof Floyd | is laid with moss and the windows are just open holes. A plank door Floyd | will take you inside. The swamp is back east and a mountain is south of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | swamp Floyd | A stinking, putrid, dark swamp, where mists roll between the dark Floyd | trees. Back north is the city. The path turns west, deeper in among the Floyd | trees, into a clearing where you can see some sort of wooden house. Floyd | Floyd | The troll (or whatever it was) is dead, on its back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | city gate Floyd | The city gate is a huge opening in the city walls. Inside the gates Floyd | you see the city in all its glory, high peaked houses and smaller Floyd | wooden houses with gambrel roofs. Outside - south of here - is the Floyd | wild. A steep path leads up to the terrace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | terrace Floyd | You are on a large terrace, paved with stones and ending with an ornate Floyd | balustrade. From here you have a splendid view. To one side you see the Floyd | city, so filled with towers and peaked roofs that it might look like a Floyd | Disney fantasy, unless you know, without a doubt, that this is the real Floyd | thing, this is a real magical city where anything can happen. To the Floyd | other side you look out over the wild, endless plains and forest Floyd | stretching all the way to the distant mountains. Floyd | A winding path leads down from here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a magic circle (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter circle" | ||||
Floyd | attic Floyd | You can see a bowtie and a top hat here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a leather arm guard (being worn) Floyd | a grimoire Floyd | a bible Floyd | a journal page Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a metopticon Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a pink prism Floyd | a blue prism Floyd | a chest (open but empty) Floyd | an iron key Floyd | an earthenware jug (open but empty) Floyd | a wooden bow Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says, "crb" | genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop bow, guard" | ||||
Floyd | wooden bow: Dropped. Floyd | leather arm guard: (first taking the leather arm guard off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the top hat) Floyd | You put on the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale is fired from breathing. | ||||
| Tale has disconnected. | genericgeekgirl says, "Curious to see what happens with the scroll." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look through metopticon at crystal" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "is it possible we have missed a room?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | leather arm guard: Taken. Floyd | wooden bow: Taken. Floyd | bowtie: Taken. Floyd | small crystal ball: Better leave the small crystal ball where it is. Floyd | pink prism: Better leave the pink prism where it is. blue prism: Better Floyd | leave the blue prism where it is. Floyd | > | inky asks, "well, you don't have the equipment for the bard either, do you?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The Crystal Palace is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Ellison says, "it doesn't seem like it" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | attic Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "I wonder if it wasn't finished?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "They wouldn't have turned it in, would they" | |||
| Tale says, "Maybe it's GTV with the scroll" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a ladder and a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is old, not antique and quaint, just old. A low doorway Floyd | leads west to the front hall, another leads north to the bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | bedroom Floyd | This is the only bedroom. Obviously it contains a bed, but also some Floyd | bookshelves and an antique writing desk. The only exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed and an antique writing desk here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | It's a huge, heavy wooden desk. It has one drawer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push desk" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x drawer" | ||||
Floyd | It is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push bed" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take drawer" | ||||
Floyd | That seems to be a part of the antique writing desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "untie tie" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao asks, "What was in it?" | |||
| Tale asks, "Is warrior the only thing that worked?" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "read bible" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks (of Mao), "The note and .. the crystal, I think?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is old, not antique and quaint, just old. A low doorway Floyd | leads west to the front hall, another leads north to the bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao says, "Okay" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a ladder and a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "So far. We've tried the bowtie and hat separately and together, and neither works." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front lawn Floyd | You are in front of the house. The garden continues east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | garden Floyd | This is a rather nice garden actually. The front of the house is west Floyd | of here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front lawn Floyd | You are in front of the house. The garden continues east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a ladder and a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "did you already go through the trap door?" | |||
| Ellison says, "yeah, it goes to the attic" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. There was a chest containing the materials for the objectthingie and nothing else obvious." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look through metopticon at crystal" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | Ellison says, "(I thought maybe one of them involved wearing none of those articles)" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bowtie Floyd | a wooden bow Floyd | a leather arm guard Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | a grimoire Floyd | a bible Floyd | a journal page Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a metopticon Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a pink prism Floyd | a blue prism Floyd | a chest (open but empty) Floyd | an iron key Floyd | an earthenware jug (open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear all" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "remove hat" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look through metopticon at crystal" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "have we done anything with the bible yet? Can it bless things?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We couldn't actually find one, I think." | ||||
| djfletch says, "It's in our inventory, I just noticed it." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bowtie Floyd | a wooden bow Floyd | a leather arm guard Floyd | a top hat Floyd | a grimoire Floyd | a bible Floyd | a journal page Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a metopticon Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a pink prism Floyd | a blue prism Floyd | a chest (open but empty) Floyd | an iron key Floyd | an earthenware jug (open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "bless bow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao says, "Indeed" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read bible" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x bible" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Johnny disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "wave bible" | ||||
Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "It said "you look for bible in the bookshelf, but you can't find it." Weird." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open bible" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in bible" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear bible" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Curious to try something. Can we go back in as the warrior for a moment?" | |||
| Mao says, "Okay, so it's a wooden block shaped like a bible apparently." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Wondering if we dropped the scroll in the circle, we can have it on this side, and maybe that's a necessary condition? Or maybe I'm overthinking it." | ||||
| inky says, "sure, let's see" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Since presumably the mage needs it in order to bless the bow." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear guard" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the leather arm guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bowtie Floyd | a wooden bow Floyd | a leather arm guard (being worn) Floyd | a top hat Floyd | a grimoire Floyd | a bible Floyd | a journal page Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a metopticon Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a pink prism Floyd | a blue prism Floyd | a chest (open but empty) Floyd | an iron key Floyd | an earthenware jug (open but empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | you are a warrior! Floyd | Floyd | terrace Floyd | You are on a large terrace, paved with stones and ending with an ornate Floyd | balustrade. From here you have a splendid view. To one side you see the Floyd | city, so filled with towers and peaked roofs that it might look like a Floyd | Disney fantasy, unless you know, without a doubt, that this is the real Floyd | thing, this is a real magical city where anything can happen. To the Floyd | other side you look out over the wild, endless plains and forest Floyd | stretching all the way to the distant mountains. Floyd | A winding path leads down from here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a scroll, a leather pouch (empty) and a magic circle Floyd | (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop scroll on circle" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the magic circle would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Meh." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I got nothing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "win" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cast spell" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "bless bow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hrm." | |||
| Mao says, "..Floydinv" | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Ellison says, "HMM" | ||||
| djfletch says, "We could try dropping everything except the hat or bowtie before trying to use them, just in case some other item stops it working for some reason." | ||||
| djfletch says, "although I'm not optimistic." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a scroll Floyd | an archer's bow Floyd | an archer's armguard (being worn) Floyd | a battle outfit (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter circle" | ||||
Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a ladder and a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Sure." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | grimoire: Dropped. Floyd | bible: Dropped. Floyd | journal page: Dropped. Floyd | bismuth crystal: Dropped. Floyd | metopticon: Dropped. Floyd | chest: Dropped. Floyd | iron key: Dropped. Floyd | earthenware jug: Dropped. Floyd | wooden bow: Dropped. Floyd | bowtie: Dropped. Floyd | top hat: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take crystal" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the top hat) Floyd | You put on the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie) Floyd | You put on the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "You know, maybe it was the bow.." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie) Floyd | You put on the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop hat" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the top hat off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Nope." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | You're already wearing that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look through metopticon at crystal" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, but we obviously need the bow. So that can't work." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "In order to bless it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bow" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a wooden bow Floyd | a metopticon Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a pink prism Floyd | a blue prism Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a leather arm guard (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the leather arm guard off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Annoying." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie) Floyd | You put on the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the top hat) Floyd | You put on the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bowtie) Floyd | You put on the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop hat" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the top hat off) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "*kicks something*" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "read page" | ||||
Floyd | The journal entry is for Oct. 25th, it doesn't say which year. It says: Floyd | "I have assembled the metopticon, following the instructions I read in Floyd | the Grimoire, and as per the instructions I am looking through the Floyd | metopticon at the crystal city. I feel the tugging, and once or twice I Floyd | almost imagined myself going, but I cannot seem to leave this mortal Floyd | shell. In the accursed cryptic writings of N.G. it says, "you must be Floyd | the bard, the warrior, the mage, not all but only one at a time". But Floyd | how?!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a top hat, a leather arm guard, an earthenware jug, an iron Floyd | key, a chest (empty), a journal page, a bible, a grimoire, a ladder and Floyd | a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x jug" | ||||
Floyd | It is brown and cool to the touch. It has a round wooden lid attached Floyd | with a hinge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "play jug" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tap jug" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit jug" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look behind cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "that'd be awesome if you became a jugband musician bard" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Can I go back into the bedroom for a moment?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "If we had a stringed instrument of some kind we could play it with the bow." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "play bow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "pluck bow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "Bowties are cool" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "spin bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Back to the bookshelf?" | |||
| djfletch says, "ok" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is old, not antique and quaint, just old. A low doorway Floyd | leads west to the front hall, another leads north to the bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | bedroom Floyd | This is the only bedroom. Obviously it contains a bed, but also some Floyd | bookshelves and an antique writing desk. The only exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed and an antique writing desk here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fetch cryptic writings" | ||||
Floyd | You look for cryptic writings in the bookshelf but you can't find it. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fetch cryptic writings of N.G." | ||||
Floyd | You look for cryptic writings of n.g. in the bookshelf but you can't Floyd | find it. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search bookshelf" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "fetch godot" | ||||
Floyd | You look for godot in the bookshelf but you can't find it. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look behidn bookshelf" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look behind bookshelf" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "fetch necronomicon" | ||||
Floyd | You look for necronomicon in the bookshelf but you can't find it. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "All right." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "fetch index" | ||||
Floyd | You look for index in the bookshelf but you can't find it. Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look up blessing in bible" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fetch journal" | ||||
Floyd | You look for journal in the bookshelf but you can't find it. Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "fetch a meaningful existence" | ||||
Floyd | You look for a meaningful existence in the bookshelf but you can't find Floyd | it. Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart arrives, full of fun and funk. | Tale asks, "Where is DW when you need him?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "push booskhelf" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "push ellison" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "er" | |||
| Tale asks, "Maybe we can break the ladder and make a wizard staff?" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | bedroom Floyd | This is the only bedroom. Obviously it contains a bed, but also some Floyd | bookshelves and an antique writing desk. The only exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed and an antique writing desk here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bed" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take sheets" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | small crystal ball: Better leave the small crystal ball where it is. Floyd | pink prism: Better leave the pink prism where it is. blue prism: Better Floyd | leave the blue prism where it is. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Tale), "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Except, perhaps you're serious." | ||||
| Tale says, "Pulling at straws." | ||||
| Tale says, "Picking at straws? GraspinG!" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is old, not antique and quaint, just old. A low doorway Floyd | leads west to the front hall, another leads north to the bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a top hat, a leather arm guard, an earthenware jug, an iron Floyd | key, a chest (empty), a journal page, a bible, a grimoire, a ladder and Floyd | a cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "bread ladder" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "break ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look in hat" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put bible on bow" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bible) Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the wooden bow would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "rub bible on bow" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to rub the bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "rub bible" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot bible" | ||||
Floyd | Leave the fighting business to those who know how to do it. An archer, Floyd | perhaps. Do you know any? Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "It'll pick up a blessing on the way through ;)" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read blessing" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "We can't take things across, right?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Other than the bow, it didn't seem that way. But. Hm. Maybe the bible is part of the "mage" costume?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we tried things like that, though." | ||||
| Tale says, "Yeah, I'm pretty stumped" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bible Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a wooden bow Floyd | a metopticon Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a pink prism Floyd | a blue prism Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | front hall Floyd | The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going Floyd | through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east Floyd | which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a top hat, a leather arm guard, an earthenware jug, an iron Floyd | key, a chest (empty), a journal page, a grimoire, a ladder and a Floyd | cupboard (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the top hat) Floyd | You put on the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x clothing" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "personally, I feel like we have given a good try. this is a cute little game, but I wouldn't want to spend so much time on this one that we don't get to other, finishable games... and after all, we *did* win this one already" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take grimoire" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at crystal through metopticon" | ||||
Floyd | (the bismuth crystal through the metopticon) Floyd | You feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not Floyd | right. Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | |||
| Tale says, "What he said" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear bible" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "burn bible" | ||||
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "Yeah, I've kind of lost interest in this one myself." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "burn grimoire" | ||||
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look through metopticon at bible" | ||||
Floyd | You see a mildly distorted version of the bible Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl snrks. | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look through metopticon at grimoire" | ||||
Floyd | You see a mildly distorted version of the grimoire Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look through metopticon at me" | ||||
Floyd | You see a mildly distorted version of yourself Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Next game?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 7 out of a possible 10, in 249 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao agrees with Ellison | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | vimes says, "Next game is tocatchadragonfly" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load tocatchadragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | "It was supposed to be a simple test run, right? Yeah, right. So Floyd | the Chief decides, 'Hey, I'll test it,' right? And he takes Floyd | passengers. Five passengers. Investors! And himself! HIMSELF! Floyd | There's laws about that! And what happens? Well, what do you expect? Floyd | An hour away, his engines go crit, and he's shootin' towards this hunk Floyd | o' rock you an' me call home. Terra Firma. So Firma it'll Terra him Floyd | up, right? I tell you what! He's going to end up as a smudge of the Floyd | man he used to be unless you can get that new-fangled safety net Floyd | workin'!" Transmission ends. And that is how you, in your best rented Floyd | tuxedo, ended up under the high-power, experimental, Floyd | not-completely-legal safety net, trying to fix it before your boss's Floyd | boss makes a pool of himself. Floyd | Floyd | Junk room Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a crystal ball and an optical prism here. Scattered across the Floyd | bottom shelves, among the junk, are a magnifying glass, a water pistol, Floyd | a bismuth crystal, a jar, a leather arm guard, and an optical prism. Floyd | The jar contains silica beads. Just visible from the top shelf are a Floyd | lump of labradorite and a bow and arrow charm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao says, "I setup autosay to direct to Floyd, lol, so it'll be easier for me to participate now" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "You know you can just type 'f <command>', right?" | ||||
| Tale asks, "I have to go soonish, but I will be back later. Could you move my game further down the line?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Is vimes still here? I don't know what all the games are called." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||
| vimes says, "I am." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I was in another window, sorry." | ||||
| vimes says, "The other games are: theextraordinaryeventsofthe, dflieslike, yoursistheearth" | ||||
| Tale says, "Mine is "The extraordinary yadda yadda"" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You look the same as usual. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Cool" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | crystal ball: Taken. Floyd | optical prism: Taken. Floyd | magnifying glass: Taken. Floyd | water pistol: Taken. Floyd | bismuth crystal: Taken. Floyd | jar: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | leather arm guard: You tug on the leather arm guard. It seems to be a Floyd | bit stuck; you give a bit of a yank, and it comes free. With a creak, Floyd | a ladder comes crashing onto the floor! It must have been stuck behind Floyd | all that junk. Floyd | Floyd | optical prism: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | lump of labradorite: The lump of labradorite is too far away. Floyd | Floyd | bow and arrow charm: The bow and arrow charm is too far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||
Floyd | The large globe appears to be made of glass, and is quite solid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | This is a model of a holdout gun, faithfully reproduced in bright green Floyd | plastic, and filled with historically-accurate water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x prism" | ||||
Floyd | A small optical prism, for refracting light. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did we inventory what we might have had before we took at stuff?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Nope." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a crystal ball, two optical prisms, a magnifying Floyd | glass, a water pistol, a bismuth crystal, a jar, and a leather arm Floyd | guard. You're wearing some black slacks, some slick shoes, a bowtie, a Floyd | top hat, and a tux. The jar contains silica beads. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "We had the clothing." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x prisms" | ||||
Floyd | The word "prisms" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | (If this was an accidental misspelling, you can correct it by typing Floyd | OOPS followed by the corrected word now. Any time the story points out Floyd | an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your next Floyd | command.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x beads" | ||||
Floyd | Silica beads are used to absorb moisture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look at prisms through glass" | ||||
Floyd | The word "prisms" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x prism" | ||||
Floyd | A small optical prism, for refracting light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||||
Floyd | A beat up old ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | It's a lump of shiny, iridescent labradorite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x charm" | ||||
Floyd | It's a small charm from a charm bracelet or necklace - a tiny bow and Floyd | arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't climb the ladder until it's set up on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully set up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take charm" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | (If you'd prefer not to be notified about score changes in the future, Floyd | type NOTIFY OFF.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In 17 moves, you have scored 2 of a possible 12 points. Floyd | Floyd | (To see a detailed accounting of your score, type FULL SCORE.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | This game was created for the Thanksgiving 2011 SpeedIF. Also, it is Floyd | the third game I have successfully completed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | The word "xyzzy" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing suitable here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "And we're going to make a safety net?" | |||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||||
Floyd | In 18 moves, you have scored 2 of a possible 12 points. Your score Floyd | consists of: Floyd | 2 points for reaching high Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "but how?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Junk room (standing on the ladder) Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Exactly. Out of soft, cushy prisms and a crystal." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Viewing room?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take that while you're occupying it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | (off of the ladder) Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "suree" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Magic~" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Try as you might, you can't find a good angle to get the ladder through Floyd | the door. It looks like you'll have to abandon it before you can Floyd | leave. Though it raises the question: how did the ladder get in, in Floyd | the first place? For all you know, it was built inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | The word "sing" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully set up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Viewing room Floyd | The viewing room looks out into the net itself - a wide, empty expanse, Floyd | hypothetically to be filled with some kind of energy. Inside, you see Floyd | A bright, diffuse light shines on the wall, through a wire stand. . Floyd | The window itself is made of layered glass - beyond bulletproof, it Floyd | stops most forms of radiation, as well. A door in the glass wall leads Floyd | into the net chamber; the doorway behind you leads into the junk room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x net" | ||||
Floyd | The word "net" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aha" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Junk room Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Viewing room Floyd | The viewing room looks out into the net itself - a wide, empty expanse, Floyd | hypothetically to be filled with some kind of energy. Inside, you see Floyd | A bright, diffuse light shines on the wall, through a wire stand. . Floyd | The window itself is made of layered glass - beyond bulletproof, it Floyd | stops most forms of radiation, as well. A door in the glass wall leads Floyd | into the net chamber; the doorway behind you leads into the junk room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Sorry!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x stand" | ||||
Floyd | The wire stand is about chest-height, with a small loop to hold... Floyd | something. The light shines directly through the gap over the loop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put magnifying glass in loop" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything in the wire stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put prism in loop" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything in the wire stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x loop" | ||||
Floyd | The wire stand is about chest-height, with a small loop to hold... Floyd | something. The light shines directly through the gap over the loop. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Because my first thought is to start a fire :P" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "attach glass to loop" | ||||
Floyd | You cannot attach that to anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "When you said 'in' were you wanting to go through the door into the net?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put glass on loop" | ||||
Floyd | You cannot reach the wire stand through the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||||
Floyd | The steady, white light illuminates a section of the wall. You recall Floyd | something about focussed light being used to drive the safety net. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "yeah" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | The glass door is already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "And it looks like we need to get in there to put it in scope" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "go through door" | ||||
Floyd | Safety net Floyd | The safety net was designed as an inertial dampner of some sort; no one Floyd | really knows how it works. Even the inventor seems a bit in the dark, Floyd | and he's the only one that can make it work! The glass door leads back Floyd | into the viewing room. A bright, diffuse light shines on the wall, Floyd | through a wire stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put glass on loop" | ||||
Floyd | The beam of light, focussed by the magnifying glass, shines through a Floyd | tiny hole. Farther along the wall, a small shelf is illuminated. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "...ggg Good thinking." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ohhhh." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||||
Floyd | The small shelf has enough room to hold one small object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put prism on shelf" | ||||
Floyd | The light from the beam splits into a rainbow of color; blue light Floyd | shines into a tiny crack on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | The crack is vertical, allowing only a tiny sliver of light to shine Floyd | through. There seems to be some sort of optical fiber in the crack to Floyd | transmit the light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fiber" | ||||
Floyd | The word "fiber" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x optical fiber" | ||||
Floyd | The word "fiber" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Okay, I'm going out and may be some time. Laters!" | |||
| Tale is fired from breathing. | ||||
| Tale has disconnected. | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn prism" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the prism. The light that shines through the crack is now Floyd | violet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | The crack is vertical, allowing only a tiny sliver of light to shine Floyd | through. There seems to be some sort of optical fiber in the crack to Floyd | transmit the light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn prism" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the prism. The light that shines through the crack is now red. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "hmm, what's the best colour?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Keep going and see what happens?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn prism" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the prism. The light that shines through the crack is now Floyd | orange. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline shrugs. | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "turn prism" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the prism. The light that shines through the crack is now Floyd | yellow. With a clank, a panel slides open in the wall! Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | A tangle of wires and cables snake across the panel; you recall someone Floyd | mentioning that the only really important wires were the power wires. Floyd | There's a note, stuck to the panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | This panel is use for power, and only power. I traced the wires, and Floyd | half of them lead nowhere, or right back to this panel. If the whole Floyd | thing shorted out, it would probably work better. PS, I quit Oh, Floyd | right! Now you remember writing that. Fun times, fun times... Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x power wires" | ||||
Floyd | The word "power" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Shoot the watergun at it? ;)" | |||
| djfletch says, "go go" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot watergun at panel" | ||||
Floyd | The word "watergun" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a crystal ball, a water pistol, a bismuth crystal, a Floyd | jar, a leather arm guard, an optical prism, a bow and arrow charm, and Floyd | a lump of labradorite. You're wearing some black slacks, some slick Floyd | shoes, a bowtie, a top hat, and a tux. The jar contains silica beads. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at panel" | ||||
Floyd | You squirt the panel. The water shorts out the panel! Electricity Floyd | crackles across junctions, and smoke drifts out of the opening, Floyd | vanishing into the air. After a spectacular lightshow, a distant Floyd | "thump" indicates the generators have started. The lights keep Floyd | flickering, though, from shorting out in the puddle of water at the Floyd | base of the panel. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put beads in puddle" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything in the puddle of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take beads" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach anything through the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour beads on puddle" | ||||
Floyd | That is not something you can pour. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x puddle" | ||||
Floyd | The puddle of water is shorting out the electrical panel, causing the Floyd | lights to flicker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x jar" | ||||
Floyd | It's a simple glass canning jar. It is tightly sealed. It contains Floyd | silica beads. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | You spin the lid off of the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take beads" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put beads on puddle" | ||||
Floyd | The puddle slowly shrinks as the silica soaks it up. When it's all Floyd | gone, you scoop the silica back into the jar. The lights stop Floyd | flickering - maybe that means it's working! Quick, to the viewing Floyd | room! Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Onward!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to get out of? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter viewing room" | ||||
Floyd | The word "viewing" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Viewing room Floyd | The viewing room looks out into the net itself - a wide, empty expanse, Floyd | hypothetically to be filled with some kind of energy. Inside, you see Floyd | The magnifying glass focusses the beam of light through a small hole in Floyd | the wall. Farther along the wall, the beam passes through the prism; Floyd | the resulting rainbow falls across a small hole, where only yellow Floyd | light makes it through. The light glows inside the open panel. . The Floyd | window itself is made of layered glass - beyond bulletproof, it stops Floyd | most forms of radiation, as well. A door in the glass wall leads into Floyd | the net chamber; the doorway behind you leads into the junk room. Floyd | Floyd | You see an energy device (which contains a button) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||
Floyd | This thing seems to be an energy device - that's what it says on the Floyd | label, anyway. It has a small hopper, with a display that reads: 0: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET . It contains a button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close glass door" | ||||
Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||
Floyd | This thing seems to be an energy device - that's what it says on the Floyd | label, anyway. It has a small hopper, with a display that reads: 0: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET . It contains a button. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Hm. Can I push it anyway?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hopper" | ||||
Floyd | The hopper has a wide mouth, ready to accept any manner of things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a crystal ball, a water pistol, a bismuth crystal, a Floyd | jar, a leather arm guard, an optical prism, a bow and arrow charm, a Floyd | lump of labradorite, and a canning jar lid. You're wearing some black Floyd | slacks, some slick shoes, a bowtie, a top hat, and a tux. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put labradorite in hopper" | ||||
Floyd | The display clicks happily, then displays: 1: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put crystal in hopper" | ||||
Floyd | The display clicks happily, then displays: 2: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put ball in hopper" | ||||
Floyd | The display clicks happily, then displays: 3: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put charm in hopper" | ||||
Floyd | The display clicks happily, then displays: 4: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put all in hopper" | ||||
Floyd | black slacks: Wow - usually, it takes more than the single sip of wine Floyd | you had to get you to remove your pants voluntarily. Let's just keep Floyd | those on, shall we? Floyd | Floyd | slick shoes: Shoes like this are make for wearing! Actually, no they Floyd | aren't, but the floor is dirty, and you're wearing your best pair of Floyd | socks. Which is also your only pair of socks, at least until washing Floyd | day. Floyd | Floyd | bowtie: Floyd | (first taking off the bowtie) Floyd | The display clicks happily, then displays: 5: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | top hat: Floyd | (first taking off the top hat) Floyd | With a sinking feeling in your heart, you realize what needs to go into Floyd | the hopper. Sighing, you stare at your high silk hat, knowing that Floyd | whatever this machine does, your hat will never be the same. After an Floyd | emotional moment, you carefully put the hat into the hopper. The Floyd | display clicks happily, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | tux: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | water pistol: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | jar: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | leather arm guard: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the Floyd | button! Floyd | Floyd | optical prism: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | canning jar lid: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the Floyd | button! Floyd | Floyd | button: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Our hat :'(" | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Pushing the button?" | ||||
| Mao says, "haha" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | This... this is it! Everything is ready! You take a deep breath, Floyd | steady your hand, and press the button. Even as your finger stabs Floyd | down, a voice yells, "Wait! Don't push-" - but it's too late. The Floyd | button blinks twice, then goes dark. Above you, the roar of Floyd | overburdened engines grows nearer; with a tremendous crash, the Floyd | Dragonfly lands, unharmed, in the middle of the safety net! It worked! Floyd | You're a hero! Floyd | Floyd | ...Or not. You boss starts shaking you like a rag doll, yelling, "You Floyd | idiot! You moron! Are you TRYING to kill us all?! What kind of crazy Floyd | stunt was that!" You manage to break free, but he's not done yelling Floyd | yet. "I told you to fix the safety net, not the room lights! All you Floyd | had to do was turn on the switch in the junk room! Just one little Floyd | switch!" He stops to mop his forehead, just as HIS boss enteres the Floyd | room, leading his five guests. "Great work today, men! That was a Floyd | brilliant recovery!" Grinning, he begins pumping your hand. "Why, if Floyd | that light on the console hadn't started flashing, I never would have Floyd | found the brakes!" The rest of the evening passes in a blur. You're a Floyd | hero, at least according to your bonus check - and that's really all Floyd | that matters. More than enough to but a new top hat, at any rate. Oh, Floyd | but thinking of which... you really should have called and cancelled Floyd | that date, huh. Floyd | Floyd | *** You win! *** Floyd | Floyd | In 71 moves, you have scored 10 of a possible 12 points. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, see your Floyd | FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "We're missing two points." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't one of the options. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, see your Floyd | FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "full save" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't one of the options. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, see your Floyd | FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||||
Floyd | In 71 moves, you have scored 10 of a possible 12 points. Your score Floyd | consists of: Floyd | 2 points for reaching high Floyd | 2 points for lighting the shelf Floyd | 2 points for opening the panel Floyd | 2 points for reading your own note Floyd | 2 points for lighting the lights Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, see your Floyd | FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Restore to the shorting out and find out why we're not supposed to push it yet?" | |||
| Doug arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | genericgeekgirl says, "Ah. Switch in junk room." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "And we found the dragonfly :)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Safety net Floyd | The safety net was designed as an inertial dampner of some sort; no one Floyd | really knows how it works. Even the inventor seems a bit in the dark, Floyd | and he's the only one that can make it work! The glass door leads back Floyd | into the viewing room. The magnifying glass focusses the beam of light Floyd | through a small hole in the wall. Farther along the wall, the beam Floyd | passes through the prism; the resulting rainbow falls across a small Floyd | hole, where only yellow light makes it through. The light glows inside Floyd | the open panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You rock, Miss Triple Gee." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Poking around a little more to find out what we missed, unless we want to move on?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hopefully it's obvious." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot pistol at panel" | ||||
Floyd | You squirt the panel. The water shorts out the panel! Electricity Floyd | crackles across junctions, and smoke drifts out of the opening, Floyd | vanishing into the air. After a spectacular lightshow, a distant Floyd | "thump" indicates the generators have started. The lights keep Floyd | flickering, though, from shorting out in the puddle of water at the Floyd | base of the panel. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | You spin the lid off of the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put beads on puddle" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the silica beads from the jar) Floyd | The puddle slowly shrinks as the silica soaks it up. When it's all Floyd | gone, you scoop the silica back into the jar. The lights stop Floyd | flickering - maybe that means it's working! Quick, to the viewing Floyd | room! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter viewing room" | ||||
Floyd | The word "viewing" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to get out of? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Viewing room Floyd | The viewing room looks out into the net itself - a wide, empty expanse, Floyd | hypothetically to be filled with some kind of energy. Inside, you see Floyd | The magnifying glass focusses the beam of light through a small hole in Floyd | the wall. Farther along the wall, the beam passes through the prism; Floyd | the resulting rainbow falls across a small hole, where only yellow Floyd | light makes it through. The light glows inside the open panel. . The Floyd | window itself is made of layered glass - beyond bulletproof, it stops Floyd | most forms of radiation, as well. A door in the glass wall leads into Floyd | the net chamber; the doorway behind you leads into the junk room. Floyd | Floyd | You see an energy device (which contains a button) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put all in hopper" | ||||
Floyd | black slacks: Wow - usually, it takes more than the single sip of wine Floyd | you had to get you to remove your pants voluntarily. Let's just keep Floyd | those on, shall we? Floyd | Floyd | slick shoes: Shoes like this are make for wearing! Actually, no they Floyd | aren't, but the floor is dirty, and you're wearing your best pair of Floyd | socks. Which is also your only pair of socks, at least until washing Floyd | day. Floyd | Floyd | bowtie: Floyd | (first taking off the bowtie) Floyd | The display clicks happily, then displays: 1: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | top hat: Floyd | (first taking off the top hat) Floyd | With a sinking feeling in your heart, you realize what needs to go into Floyd | the hopper. Sighing, you stare at your high silk hat, knowing that Floyd | whatever this machine does, your hat will never be the same. After an Floyd | emotional moment, you carefully put the hat into the hopper. The Floyd | display clicks happily, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | tux: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | crystal ball: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | water pistol: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | bismuth crystal: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the Floyd | button! Floyd | Floyd | jar: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | leather arm guard: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the Floyd | button! Floyd | Floyd | optical prism: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | bow and arrow charm: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the Floyd | button! Floyd | Floyd | lump of labradorite: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the Floyd | button! Floyd | Floyd | canning jar lid: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the Floyd | button! Floyd | Floyd | button: The hopper doesn't need anything more; push the button! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Safety net Floyd | The safety net was designed as an inertial dampner of some sort; no one Floyd | really knows how it works. Even the inventor seems a bit in the dark, Floyd | and he's the only one that can make it work! The glass door leads back Floyd | into the viewing room. The magnifying glass focusses the beam of light Floyd | through a small hole in the wall. Farther along the wall, the beam Floyd | passes through the prism; the resulting rainbow falls across a small Floyd | hole, where only yellow light makes it through. The light glows inside Floyd | the open panel. Floyd | Floyd | In the viewing room, you see an energy device (which contains a Floyd | button). The hopper contains a bowtie and a top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "out". Floyd | Floyd | Viewing room Floyd | The viewing room looks out into the net itself - a wide, empty expanse, Floyd | hypothetically to be filled with some kind of energy. Inside, you see Floyd | The magnifying glass focusses the beam of light through a small hole in Floyd | the wall. Farther along the wall, the beam passes through the prism; Floyd | the resulting rainbow falls across a small hole, where only yellow Floyd | light makes it through. The light glows inside the open panel. . The Floyd | window itself is made of layered glass - beyond bulletproof, it stops Floyd | most forms of radiation, as well. A door in the glass wall leads into Floyd | the net chamber; the doorway behind you leads into the junk room. Floyd | Floyd | You see an energy device (which contains a button) here. The hopper Floyd | contains a bowtie and a top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter junk room" | ||||
Floyd | You see no junk room here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Junk room Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "No idea." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "flip switch" | ||||
Floyd | You see no switch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads out, back to the Floyd | viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Junk room (standing on the ladder) Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | (off of the ladder) Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Viewing room Floyd | The viewing room looks out into the net itself - a wide, empty expanse, Floyd | hypothetically to be filled with some kind of energy. Inside, you see Floyd | The magnifying glass focusses the beam of light through a small hole in Floyd | the wall. Farther along the wall, the beam passes through the prism; Floyd | the resulting rainbow falls across a small hole, where only yellow Floyd | light makes it through. The light glows inside the open panel. . The Floyd | window itself is made of layered glass - beyond bulletproof, it stops Floyd | most forms of radiation, as well. A door in the glass wall leads into Floyd | the net chamber; the doorway behind you leads into the junk room. Floyd | Floyd | You see an energy device (which contains a button) here. The hopper Floyd | contains a bowtie and a top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||||
Floyd | You see no shelves here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "out". Floyd | Floyd | Junk room Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Sorry" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||||
Floyd | Though the shelves are stuffed with junk, they seem to be free of dust Floyd | and grime. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "search junk" | ||||
Floyd | The junk isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||||
Floyd | You see no switch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "sorry, I haven't been paying much attention so you've probably exhausted things to do" | |||
| Ellison says, "yeah, I don't have any ideas" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Oh, don't apologise." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Viewing room Floyd | The viewing room looks out into the net itself - a wide, empty expanse, Floyd | hypothetically to be filled with some kind of energy. Inside, you see Floyd | The magnifying glass focusses the beam of light through a small hole in Floyd | the wall. Farther along the wall, the beam passes through the prism; Floyd | the resulting rainbow falls across a small hole, where only yellow Floyd | light makes it through. The light glows inside the open panel. . The Floyd | window itself is made of layered glass - beyond bulletproof, it stops Floyd | most forms of radiation, as well. A door in the glass wall leads into Floyd | the net chamber; the doorway behind you leads into the junk room. Floyd | Floyd | You see an energy device (which contains a button) here. The hopper Floyd | contains a bowtie and a top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | In 62 moves, you have scored 10 of a possible 12 points. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a crystal ball, a water pistol, a bismuth crystal, a Floyd | jar, a leather arm guard, an optical prism, a bow and arrow charm, a Floyd | lump of labradorite, a canning jar lid, and a bowtie. You're wearing Floyd | some black slacks, some slick shoes, and a tux. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "That's a lot of unused items." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x slacks" | ||||
Floyd | The last pants you bought cost the same as a fast food meal. These Floyd | pants, however, cost the same as your car. You'd think with pants that Floyd | expensive, they could afford to put in a pocket, eh? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shoes" | ||||
Floyd | These shoes are made of slick, shiny leather. They also have damage Floyd | insurance policy better than your car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tux" | ||||
Floyd | The black tuxedo was fairly expensive to rent, but man it is classy. Floyd | People who wear suits like this are... well, rich, probably. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh, maybe the fullscore involves using only non-tux items so you can still go on your date" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "It only seems to want the hat though. One sec." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take hat" | ||||
Floyd | The display clicks woefully, then displays: 0: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop hat" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put all in hopper" | ||||
Floyd | black slacks: Wow - usually, it takes more than the single sip of wine Floyd | you had to get you to remove your pants voluntarily. Let's just keep Floyd | those on, shall we? Floyd | Floyd | slick shoes: Shoes like this are make for wearing! Actually, no they Floyd | aren't, but the floor is dirty, and you're wearing your best pair of Floyd | socks. Which is also your only pair of socks, at least until washing Floyd | day. Floyd | Floyd | tux: As warm as it is in here, you opted for the front-only shirt. Floyd | It's probably better to keep your tux on. Floyd | Floyd | crystal ball: The display clicks happily, then displays: 1: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | water pistol: The display clicks happily, then displays: 2: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | bismuth crystal: The display clicks happily, then displays: 3: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | jar: The display clicks happily, then displays: 4: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | leather arm guard: The display clicks happily, then displays: 5: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | optical prism: The display clicks happily, then displays: 6: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | bow and arrow charm: The display clicks happily, then displays: 7: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | lump of labradorite: The display clicks happily, then displays: 8: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | canning jar lid: The display clicks happily, then displays: 9: Floyd | REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | bowtie: The display clicks happily, then displays: 10: REQUIREMENTS NOT Floyd | MET Floyd | Floyd | button: Floyd | (first taking the button) Floyd | The display clicks happily, then displays: 11: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | top hat: Floyd | (first taking the top hat) Floyd | With a sinking feeling in your heart, you realize what needs to go into Floyd | the hopper. Sighing, you stare at your high silk hat, knowing that Floyd | whatever this machine does, your hat will never be the same. After an Floyd | emotional moment, you carefully put the hat into the hopper. The Floyd | display clicks happily, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "I think that's the only thing it'll accept?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | crystal ball: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | water pistol: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | bismuth crystal: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | jar: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | leather arm guard: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | You tug on the leather arm guard. It seems to be a bit stuck; you give Floyd | a bit of a yank, and it comes free. With a creak, a ladder comes Floyd | crashing onto the floor! It must have been stuck behind all that junk. Floyd | Floyd | optical prism: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | bow and arrow charm: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | lump of labradorite: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | canning jar lid: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | bowtie: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | button: The display clicks woefully, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | top hat: The display clicks woefully, then displays: 0: REQUIREMENTS Floyd | NOT MET Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hat in hopper" | ||||
Floyd | With a sinking feeling in your heart, you realize what needs to go into Floyd | the hopper. Sighing, you stare at your high silk hat, knowing that Floyd | whatever this machine does, your hat will never be the same. After an Floyd | emotional moment, you carefully put the hat into the hopper. The Floyd | display clicks happily, then displays: READY Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ah, ok" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | This... this is it! Everything is ready! You take a deep breath, Floyd | steady your hand, and press the button. Even as your finger stabs Floyd | down, a voice yells, "Wait! Don't push-" - but it's too late. The Floyd | button blinks twice, then goes dark. Above you, the roar of Floyd | overburdened engines grows nearer; with a tremendous crash, the Floyd | Dragonfly lands, unharmed, in the middle of the safety net! It worked! Floyd | You're a hero! Floyd | Floyd | ...Or not. You boss starts shaking you like a rag doll, yelling, "You Floyd | idiot! You moron! Are you TRYING to kill us all?! What kind of crazy Floyd | stunt was that!" You manage to break free, but he's not done yelling Floyd | yet. "I told you to fix the safety net, not the room lights! All you Floyd | had to do was turn on the switch in the junk room! Just one little Floyd | switch!" He stops to mop his forehead, just as HIS boss enteres the Floyd | room, leading his five guests. "Great work today, men! That was a Floyd | brilliant recovery!" Grinning, he begins pumping your hand. "Why, if Floyd | that light on the console hadn't started flashing, I never would have Floyd | found the brakes!" The rest of the evening passes in a blur. You're a Floyd | hero, at least according to your bonus check - and that's really all Floyd | that matters. More than enough to but a new top hat, at any rate. Oh, Floyd | but thinking of which... you really should have called and cancelled Floyd | that date, huh. Floyd | Floyd | *** You win! *** Floyd | Floyd | In 72 moves, you have scored 10 of a possible 12 points. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, see your Floyd | FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "/u" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't one of the options. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, see your Floyd | FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "I wonder if you restart from the beginning it will let you find the switch in the junk room?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I don't know. We can move on and restore back to the last move later if we want to poke. Hm, worth a try." | ||||
| djfletch says, "It didn't recognise "switch" though so probably not." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Enh. Try it now." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "It was supposed to be a simple test run, right? Yeah, right. So Floyd | the Chief decides, 'Hey, I'll test it,' right? And he takes Floyd | passengers. Five passengers. Investors! And himself! HIMSELF! Floyd | There's laws about that! And what happens? Well, what do you expect? Floyd | An hour away, his engines go crit, and he's shootin' towards this hunk Floyd | o' rock you an' me call home. Terra Firma. So Firma it'll Terra him Floyd | up, right? I tell you what! He's going to end up as a smudge of the Floyd | man he used to be unless you can get that new-fangled safety net Floyd | workin'!" Transmission ends. And that is how you, in your best rented Floyd | tuxedo, ended up under the high-power, experimental, Floyd | not-completely-legal safety net, trying to fix it before your boss's Floyd | boss makes a pool of himself. Floyd | Floyd | Junk room Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a crystal ball and an optical prism here. Scattered across the Floyd | bottom shelves, among the junk, are a magnifying glass, a water pistol, Floyd | a bismuth crystal, a jar, a leather arm guard, and an optical prism. Floyd | The jar contains silica beads. Just visible from the top shelf are a Floyd | lump of labradorite and a bow and arrow charm. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Haha. I love that taking the arm guard always gives the ladder response." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "press switch" | ||||
Floyd | You see no switch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Even when we took it out of the hopper." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "search junk" | ||||
Floyd | The junk isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| trojo arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "search odds and ends" | ||||
Floyd | The word "odds" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry, this story doesn't have any built-in hints. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | The word "help" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||||
Floyd | Though the shelves are stuffed with junk, they seem to be free of dust Floyd | and grime. Scattered across the bottom shelves, among the junk, are a Floyd | magnifying glass, a water pistol, a bismuth crystal, a jar, a leather Floyd | arm guard, and an optical prism. The jar contains silica beads. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under shelves" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unusual under the bottom shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x top shelves" | ||||
Floyd | You see no top shelves here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb shelves" | ||||
Floyd | Those shelves hardly look safe enough for climbing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump a little, and land back where you started. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | You see no door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x top shelf" | ||||
Floyd | The top shelf is out of reach from the floor. And there is no way Floyd | those shelves would support your weight. Just visible from the top Floyd | shelf are a lump of labradorite and a bow and arrow charm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao says, "demand whereabouts of the switch" | |||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "demand whereabouts of the switch" | ||||
Floyd | The word "demand" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao says, "Oh wells" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Viewing room Floyd | The viewing room looks out into the net itself - a wide, empty expanse, Floyd | hypothetically to be filled with some kind of energy. Inside, you see Floyd | A bright, diffuse light shines on the wall, through a wire stand. . Floyd | The window itself is made of layered glass - beyond bulletproof, it Floyd | stops most forms of radiation, as well. A door in the glass wall leads Floyd | into the net chamber; the doorway behind you leads into the junk room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stand" | ||||
Floyd | The wire stand is about chest-height, with a small loop to hold... Floyd | something. The light shines directly through the gap over the loop. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "hmm, nothing we can stand on to see the top shelf?" | |||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "inv" | ||||
Floyd | The word "inv" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "inventory" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing, and are wearing some black slacks, some slick Floyd | shoes, a bowtie, a top hat, and a tux. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take arm guard" | ||||
Floyd | You see no arm guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I think there's a ladder somewher" | |||
| Ellison says, "e" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "If you take the arm guard, you get a ladder." | ||||
| Ellison says, "oh, weird" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Junk room Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a crystal ball and an optical prism here. Scattered across the Floyd | bottom shelves, among the junk, are a magnifying glass, a water pistol, Floyd | a bismuth crystal, a jar, a leather arm guard, and an optical prism. Floyd | The jar contains silica beads. Just visible from the top shelf are a Floyd | lump of labradorite and a bow and arrow charm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take arm guard" | ||||
Floyd | You tug on the leather arm guard. It seems to be a bit stuck; you give Floyd | a bit of a yank, and it comes free. With a creak, a ladder comes Floyd | crashing onto the floor! It must have been stuck behind all that junk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on top shelf" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the ladder) Floyd | The top shelf is too far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on shelf" | ||||
Floyd | (the bottom shelves) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't climb the ladder until it's set up on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop it" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully set up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb it" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x top shelf" | ||||
Floyd | The top shelf is out of reach from the floor. And there is no way Floyd | those shelves would support your weight. Just visible from the top Floyd | shelf are a lump of labradorite and a bow and arrow charm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search top shelf" | ||||
Floyd | Just visible from the top shelf are a lump of labradorite and a bow and Floyd | arrow charm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x switch" | ||||
Floyd | You see no switch here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dang" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get lump" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bow" | ||||
Floyd | You take the bow and arrow charm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x top shelf" | ||||
Floyd | The top shelf is out of reach from the floor. And there is no way Floyd | those shelves would support your weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok I dunno" | |||
| Ellison says, "I have to think that when it said 'junk room,' they meant 'that panel in the other room'" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb top shelf" | ||||
Floyd | That is not something you can climb. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh hmm" | |||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Junk room (standing on the ladder) Floyd | The junk room is full of all sorts of odds and ends that no one could Floyd | bring themselves to throw away. All sorts of things litter the shelves Floyd | and the floor. The way you came in, an auto-locking door, has Floyd | auto-locked, and won't unlock until morning. The only other exit leads Floyd | out into the viewing room. Floyd | Floyd | You see a crystal ball, an optical prism, and a ladder here. Scattered Floyd | across the bottom shelves, among the junk, are a magnifying glass, a Floyd | water pistol, a bismuth crystal, a jar, and an optical prism. The jar Floyd | contains silica beads. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | You see no door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "search" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to search? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "search floor" | ||||
Floyd | On the floor are a crystal ball, an optical prism, and a ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "search walls" | ||||
Floyd | west wall: You see nothing in the west wall. Floyd | east wall: You see nothing in the east wall. Floyd | north wall: You see nothing in the north wall. Floyd | south wall: You see nothing in the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "search ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||||
Floyd | Though the shelves are stuffed with junk, they seem to be free of dust Floyd | and grime. Scattered across the bottom shelves, among the junk, are a Floyd | magnifying glass, a water pistol, a bismuth crystal, a jar, and an Floyd | optical prism. The jar contains silica beads. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "look under jar" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unusual under the jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry, had to step away. How're we doing? Still on the second game, it appears." | |||
| trojo says (to floyd), "enter ladder" | ||||
Floyd | That is not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You're already standing on the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao says, "I think we're looking for a switch." | |||
| inky says, "possibly time to give up on this one too" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Still looking for it, eh?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I was away for a good chunk of this, so I won't be much use, but I'm up for the next one whenever." | ||||
| Mao says, "May as well move on" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think we should move on. We have a save at cf2 that we can come back to later if we want." | ||||
| djfletch says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Do you really want to quit? (Y is affirmative) > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Thanks for playing! Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load dflieslike" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You're in a right proper mess now. That blasted dragonfly has gone and Floyd | disappeared, and what's more, you're down to your last farthing. Floyd | Floyd | Dragon Flies Like Labradorite Floyd | A Speed IF by Troy Jones III Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111126 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Village Square Floyd | The late-autumn sun struggles to warm the sleepy village of Skry Im. Floyd | For as long as most of its residents remember, the village has been Floyd | little more than a collection of ramshackle cottages and shops at the Floyd | crossroads of the King's Highway and the Way of the Sea. One such Floyd | ramshackle shop can be found to the northeast: Merchant Guy's Specialty Floyd | Minerals and Archery Supplies. Also there's a ramshackle inn to the Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | It's harvest season: most of the villagers are out toiling in the Floyd | nearby farm fields. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee, cute name." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You look a right proper adventurist in your top hat, bowtie, and Floyd | greatcoat (even if the coat is a mite threadbare), but you feel rather Floyd | like one who's sorely missing his dragonfly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x coat" | ||||
Floyd | Your dark grey greatcoat has been with you through many a difficult Floyd | campaign, and it shows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your last farthing Floyd | your top hat (being worn) Floyd | your bowtie (being worn) Floyd | your double-brested greatcoat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x last farthing" | ||||
Floyd | Not the first time you've been down to your last farthing, and likely Floyd | it won't be the last. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "What I love (or rather hate) about speed IFs is a when they have a cute, polished intro and you're like, "This is going to be really cool, oh wait it's a speed if and not much will be implmeneted and ... meh." Except this one is good so far!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Top hat, bowtie and coat. And nothing else." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "my" | ||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "(Just watched High Anxiety last night. With the flasher in the coat and dickie. Very classy.)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "ne?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fields" | ||||
Floyd | Farmsteads cluster round the village, especially to the northwest and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "unfortunately, I have to take a break. later!" | |||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Ellison has disconnected. | Jacqueline says, "Sure" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Merchant Guy's Specialty Minerals and Archery Supplies Floyd | This store has a peculiar array of items for sale, although the shelves Floyd | are largely empty now. Hard times all round, you suppose. Floyd | Curious-looking rocks and crystals can be had at various prices, and Floyd | there are a few pieces of basic archer's equipment for sale as well. A Floyd | sign notes that the archery equipment is on clearance. Floyd | Floyd | The proprietor-- the eponymous Merchant Guy, you presume-- sits behind Floyd | the counter, eyeing you with thinly-veiled suspicion. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter are a polished piece of labradorite, a small crystal Floyd | ball and a bismuth crystal. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a glass prism, a calcite prism, a magnifying glass Floyd | lens and a jar of silica. Floyd | Floyd | Beside the counter is a basket for archery supplies. Inside it you see Floyd | a short arrow, an archer's arm-guard and a bow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask guy about dragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | "My good man, I don't suppose you've seen a lost dragonfly of late? Floyd | I... seem to have mislaid my special dragonfly. She answers to the name Floyd | of Emma." Floyd | Floyd | "Ain't no dragonflies round 'ere," says the proprietor. Floyd | Floyd | He regards you mistrustfully. Floyd | Floyd | > | Mao says, "We must be bonkers." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask guy about bow" | ||||
Floyd | You have a look in the basket. It doesn't look too promising. "Archery Floyd | equipment on clearance, you say? How much for the bow?" Floyd | Floyd | "One farthing. Firm. And I don't want no 'agglin neither from the likes Floyd | of you," he clarifies. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "That's basically all the required objects right there in the store, eh?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, all but the dragonfly." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask guy about lens" | ||||
Floyd | Studying the contents of the shelves, your eye falls upon a magnifying Floyd | glass lens. You take it and hold it up to the light, examining it Floyd | carefully. "How much for the magnifying glass lens?" you enquire. Floyd | Floyd | The proprietor quotes a figure considerably above one farthing. You Floyd | replace the magnifying glass lens on the shelf. Floyd | Floyd | He glowers at you suspiciously. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "the *missing dragonfly" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guy" | ||||
Floyd | He has a handlebar moustache and a curmudgeonly mien. Floyd | Floyd | He eyes you with hostility. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "We're not planning to shoot the dragonfly named Emma, are we?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask guy about labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | You take a closer look at the polished piece of labradorite, picking it Floyd | up off the counter and turning it this way and that as you examine it. Floyd | "How much for this?" you enquire. Floyd | Floyd | The proprietor quotes a figure. Needless to say, it's more than one Floyd | farthing. You replace the polished piece of labradorite on the counter. Floyd | Floyd | He regards you balefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask guy about glass prism" | ||||
Floyd | Studying the contents of the shelves, your eye falls upon a glass Floyd | prism. You take it and hold it up to the light, examining it carefully. Floyd | "How much for the glass prism?" you enquire. Floyd | Floyd | The proprietor quotes a figure considerably above one farthing. You Floyd | replace the glass prism on the shelf. Floyd | Floyd | He watches you angrily. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Explore a little and see if we need to buy the bow?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "> punch guy" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smile at man" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "Yeah, might as well explore some more." | |||
| Mao says, "Yea" | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | You sing a few bars of Yarel's Lament. Emma doesn't seem to fancy your Floyd | singing voice, but she's not here to complain, is she? Floyd | Floyd | He eyes you hatefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | To tell the truth, an incantation or two would come in right handy Floyd | about now. Alas, it is your sister, not you, who is schooled in the Floyd | Uncanny Arts. Floyd | Floyd | He scowls at you mistrustfully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Village Square Floyd | You're in Skry Im, a collection of ramshackle cottages and shops at the Floyd | crossroads of the King's Highway and the Way of the Sea. One such Floyd | ramshackle shop can be found to the northeast: Merchant Guy's Specialty Floyd | Minerals and Archery Supplies. Also there's a ramshackle inn to the Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. | genericgeekgirl asks, "sw, and then see what else is implemented?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | The cleverly-named Skry Inn is closed at present. What little business Floyd | it does, it typically does after sundown. Presumably the proprietors Floyd | clean up the place or sleep during daylight hours-- although based on Floyd | what you saw of the establishment last night, likely they do more of Floyd | the latter than the former. You're pretty sure your dragonfly isn't to Floyd | be found in there anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Well, all right." | |||
| DavidW says, "(which game?)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Just farmland that way and not really any roads or points of interest Floyd | to speak of. It seems an unlikely direction for your dragonfly to have Floyd | gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Southeast is some nondescript farmland and beyond that the Fae Forest. Floyd | Surely Emma would not have gone that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Emma always did dislike the cold-- so much the more so since becoming a Floyd | dragonfly. You find it unlikely she would have headed towards the Floyd | frigid North Countries. The Midlands are quite cold enough in the fall, Floyd | she has said many times. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You consider the possibility that your dragonfly set off along the Way Floyd | of the Sea to points south. She has mentioned wanting to see the swamps Floyd | and jungles of the Darklands before, but it isn't like her to just run Floyd | off in the middle of the night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Back east toward the mountains is the way you came from. It is possible Floyd | she backtracked, but you can't think why. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Of all the directions Emma could have gone, west to the sea seems the Floyd | most likely, relatively speaking. But there's little reason for her to Floyd | simply leave you behind-- it's not as if a dragonfly can hire a ship. Floyd | And in any case, you aren't about to go gallivanting off that way Floyd | without a firm lead. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ok." | |||
| DavidW says, "(which game?)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Cute responses, though." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to DavidW), "Dragon Flies Like Labradorite" | ||||
| DavidW says, "(blinks) Never heard of it." | ||||
| djfletch says, "It's a speed IF" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I guess we buy the bow?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Buy the bow, shoot the man, steal everything." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, these are the speed IFs that just got released this morning." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "When did you guys start?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | It's seen better days, but nonetheless it keeps your head warm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Normal time. Noon." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove hat" | ||||
Floyd | You see little need to get undressed now, cold as it is. And that's to Floyd | say nothing of polite society's rules of decorum. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "hmm just thinking about the title - time flies like an arrow, dragon flies like a labradorite." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, wait, no. Half past noon." | ||||
| djfletch says, "so the arrow is probably useful" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Because vimes wanted to finish his and upload stuff." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Merchant Guy's Specialty Minerals and Archery Supplies Floyd | This store has a peculiar array of items for sale, although the shelves Floyd | are largely empty now. Hard times all round, you suppose. Floyd | Curious-looking rocks and crystals can be had at various prices, and Floyd | there are a few pieces of basic archer's equipment for sale as well. A Floyd | sign notes that the archery equipment is on clearance. Floyd | Floyd | The proprietor-- the eponymous Merchant Guy, you presume-- sits behind Floyd | the counter, eyeing you with undisguised suspicion. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter are a polished piece of labradorite, a small crystal Floyd | ball and a bismuth crystal. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves are a glass prism, a calcite prism, a magnifying glass Floyd | lens and a jar of silica. Floyd | Floyd | Beside the counter is a basket for archery supplies. Inside it you see Floyd | a short arrow, an archer's arm-guard and a bow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about archery supplies" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I can't wake up that early on a Sunday." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask man about archery supplies" | ||||
Floyd | He says, "See 'ere now-- I don't care to say nothin' 'bout that. So's Floyd | either BUY somethin' or get out me shop if ye please. I amn't in the Floyd | mood for entertainin' drifters." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x arrow" | ||||
Floyd | The toy arrow reminds you of that old riddle: Floyd | Floyd | time flies like an arrow Floyd | fruit flies like a banana Floyd | dragon flies like... what? Floyd | Floyd | The answer: labradorite! You're given to understand that the punchline Floyd | makes more sense if one speaks Old Low Dwarvish. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "ha" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | For the archer who dislikes the snap of the bowstring scraping the skin Floyd | off his forearm. It's little more than a thin cloth rag and some Floyd | drawstrings, however. For the archer on a budget. Floyd | Floyd | He watches you balefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bow" | ||||
Floyd | A child-sized bow-- a toy, in fact. Were you to actually use it in an Floyd | engagement, your only chance would be that your foe die of laughter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask guy about arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You have a look in the basket. It doesn't look too promising. "Archery Floyd | equipment on clearance, you say? How much for the short arrow?" Floyd | Floyd | "One farthing. Firm. And I don't want no 'agglin neither from the likes Floyd | of you," he clarifies. Floyd | Floyd | He glares at you hatefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "haggle" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we have a labradorite to trade with?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "offer half a farthing for bow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | It shimmers blue and green in the light, like a dragonfly. Floyd | Floyd | He watches you balefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "He sells labradorite, but it's pricy." | |||
| djfletch says, "we only have our clothes, I think." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "How much again? Just 'considerably more than a farthing'?" | ||||
| Mao says, "It's something in the range of greater than our last farthing" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your last farthing Floyd | your top hat (being worn) Floyd | your bowtie (being worn) Floyd | your double-brested greatcoat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | He glowers at you angrily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sell bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "steal labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | Merchant Guy watches you like a hawk. A very suspicious hawk. It's Floyd | quite unlikely you'd be able to get away with pilfering the polished Floyd | piece of labradorite-- at least not while he can see you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "steel labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | You take a closer look at the polished piece of labradorite, picking it Floyd | up off the counter and turning it this way and that as you examine it. Floyd | "How much for this?" you enquire. Floyd | Floyd | The proprietor quotes a figure. Needless to say, it's more than one Floyd | farthing. You replace the polished piece of labradorite on the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Just, y'know, checkin'" | |||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "offer bowtie to man" | ||||
Floyd | You see little enough sense in doing anything like that to your bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | He eyes you suspiciously. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, ""not while he can see you"" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||||
| djfletch says, "buy the arrow and poke his eyes out" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shoot him in the eyes?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right. Timing." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I don't know if that's helpful. I was hoping it might be." | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "sell bowtie to man" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Buy the arrow and steal the labradorite while he's busy with the arrow?" | |||
| TheXenographer says, "It does seem to suggest that we can distract him." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "buy arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You cast a critical eye on the items in the clearance basket, examining Floyd | each from several angles, tsk-tsking and tut-tutting with slightly Floyd | exaggerated disapproval. "You have only the one arrow?" you ask after a Floyd | few moments. Floyd | Floyd | "Toy bow don't need but one," the proprietor responds. "One farthing Floyd | for each piece in the basket. Or two for the lot," he adds. Floyd | Floyd | "A farthing for one arrow?" you ask incredulously. You pick the arrow Floyd | from the basket and hold it up to your eye, looking carefully down the Floyd | length of it. "And the arrow is out of true anyway. Not worth much of Floyd | anything, is it?" Floyd | Floyd | The proprietor takes the arrow out of your hand and puts it back in the Floyd | basket. "Don't make much difference to a kid, y'ask me. Two farthings Floyd | for the lot," he repeats. Floyd | Floyd | "One. For the lot." You meet the proprietor's hostile gaze with Floyd | equanimity. For one tense moment, it's a stand-off. Then, wordlessly Floyd | and reluctantly, he holds out his hand. You pay him your one farthing, Floyd | taking care not to move too quickly, and casually pick up the whole Floyd | basket. Floyd | Floyd | "And I shall save you the trouble of throwing out this worthless basket Floyd | as well." For a moment, the merchant looks as though he's about to Floyd | object, but he just glares at you murderously instead. "Pleasure doing Floyd | business, my good man," you say cheerfully. Floyd | Floyd | He scowls at you balefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. Yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Whoa" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "No time to do anything else." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Merchant Guy's Specialty Minerals and Archery Supplies Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, but we get everything." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "So maybe we can shoot him ;)" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x basket" | ||||
Floyd | A worn-out basket made of dried rushes. It looks to be on the verge Floyd | falling apart, but it is usefully opaque nonetheless. Floyd | Floyd | In the basket are a short arrow, an archer's arm-guard and a bow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'usefully opaque'. hint hint" | |||
| TheXenographer says, "put the basket on his head and then steal from him" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Heh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think so, yes" | ||||
| TheXenographer exclaims, "this is Skry Im, after all!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "buy arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You cast a critical eye on the items in the clearance basket, examining Floyd | each from several angles, tsk-tsking and tut-tutting with slightly Floyd | exaggerated disapproval. "You have only the one arrow?" you ask after a Floyd | few moments. Floyd | Floyd | "Toy bow don't need but one," the proprietor responds. "One farthing Floyd | for each piece in the basket. Or two for the lot," he adds. Floyd | Floyd | "A farthing for one arrow?" you ask incredulously. You pick the arrow Floyd | from the basket and hold it up to your eye, looking carefully down the Floyd | length of it. "And the arrow is out of true anyway. Not worth much of Floyd | anything, is it?" Floyd | Floyd | The proprietor takes the arrow out of your hand and puts it back in the Floyd | basket. "Don't make much difference to a kid, y'ask me. Two farthings Floyd | for the lot," he repeats. Floyd | Floyd | "One. For the lot." You meet the proprietor's hostile gaze with Floyd | equanimity. For one tense moment, it's a stand-off. Then, wordlessly Floyd | and reluctantly, he holds out his hand. You pay him your one farthing, Floyd | taking care not to move too quickly, and casually pick up the whole Floyd | basket. Floyd | Floyd | "And I shall save you the trouble of throwing out this worthless basket Floyd | as well." For a moment, the merchant looks as though he's about to Floyd | object, but he just glares at you murderously instead. "Pleasure doing Floyd | business, my good man," you say cheerfully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put basket on man" | ||||
Floyd | Not while there's something still in it. Floyd | Floyd | He glares at you angrily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all from basket" | ||||
Floyd | short arrow: Prehended. Floyd | archer's arm-guard: Acquired. Floyd | bow: Commandeered. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee - this is great." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put basket on man" | ||||
Floyd | You upend the basket and put it over Mr Guy's head-- a trick you saw Floyd | once. You do so hate to have to engage in such chicanery, but desperate Floyd | times call for desperate measures. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | Removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | basket: That seems to belong to Merchant Guy. Floyd | small crystal ball: Appropriated. Floyd | bismuth crystal: Acquired. Floyd | glass prism: Taken up. Floyd | calcite prism: Appropriated. Floyd | magnifying glass lens: Pocketed. Floyd | jar of silica: Seized. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Village Square Floyd | You're in Skry Im, a collection of ramshackle cottages and shops at the Floyd | crossroads of the King's Highway and the Way of the Sea. One such Floyd | ramshackle shop can be found to the northeast: Merchant Guy's Specialty Floyd | Minerals and Archery Supplies. Also there's a ramshackle inn to the Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Chicanery is a great word. This game gets a gold star." | |||
| DavidW asks, "what, you took everything?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Sweet!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Why not? This *is* IF, after all." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, ">TAKE ALL is king." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe we can sell it back to him." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suspect the basket doesn't come off him." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "It works in Nethack." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I also love that when you did >TAKE ALL it said:" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess that is how it goes down in Skry Im" | ||||
| Jacqueline | basket: That seems to belong to Merchant Guy. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, we go toward the sea?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Ok. South?" | ||||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You consider the possibility that your dragonfly set off along the Way Floyd | of the Sea to points south. She has mentioned wanting to see the swamps Floyd | and jungles of the Darklands before, but it isn't like her to just run Floyd | off in the middle of the night. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe the inn is open now.." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | The cleverly-named Skry Inn is closed at present. What little business Floyd | it does, it typically does after sundown. Presumably the proprietors Floyd | clean up the place or sleep during daylight hours-- although based on Floyd | what you saw of the establishment last night, likely they do more of Floyd | the latter than the former. You're pretty sure your dragonfly isn't to Floyd | be found in there anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Of all the directions Emma could have gone, west to the sea seems the Floyd | most likely, relatively speaking. But there's little reason for her to Floyd | simply leave you behind-- it's not as if a dragonfly can hire a ship. Floyd | And in any case, you aren't about to go gallivanting off that way Floyd | without a firm lead. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You don't suppose Emma has been dragonflynapped, do you>" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Better go hunt them down and kill the guy with our toy bow and --- oh wait." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay. I was hoping that our shiny blue rock would be the lead we needed." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | It shimmers blue and green in the light, like a dragonfly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw labradorite in air" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wave labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | There would probably be talk if you were seen doing any such thing to a Floyd | polished piece of labradorite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "rub labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | You suddenly realize that you don't really need to do that to the Floyd | polished piece of labradorite. Most likely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "shoot bow" | ||||
Floyd | This bow is so flimsy it would likely break if you tried to shoot it in Floyd | earnest. Frankly, you'd be better off throwing the arrow at your Floyd | target. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "think about dragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "find dragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Do we know who Troy Jones III is?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "throw arrow" | ||||
Floyd | Better not drop that. It might come in handy later. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh really?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "He's not a mudder. (He asked on the forum whether he had to join ifmud to participate.)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. One sec." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | jar of silica: Dropped. Floyd | magnifying glass lens: Better not drop that. It might come in handy Floyd | later. Floyd | calcite prism: Dropped. Floyd | glass prism: Dropped. Floyd | bismuth crystal: Dropped. Floyd | small crystal ball: Dropped. Floyd | polished piece of labradorite: Dropped. Floyd | bow: Better not drop that. It might come in handy later. Floyd | archer's arm-guard: Better not drop that. It might come in handy later. Floyd | short arrow: Better not drop that. It might come in handy later. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "undo" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Useful." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Village Square Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look through lens" | ||||
Floyd | Thoroughly searching the square with the magnifying glass, you discover Floyd | some dragonfly tracks! How fortunate for you that Emma's left wing is Floyd | still recovering from that bit of unpleasantness with the goblin Floyd | fanatics, rendering her earthbound for the time being. Evidently she Floyd | went southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Kinda cheaty in a smart, strategic way. Nice." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I love this game." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I would have eventually retried all the directions as well :P" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully follow the tiny dragonfly tracks southeastwards through Floyd | the farmland and into the dark forest. Why on earth would she...? But Floyd | no matter; you enter the forest. The gnarled, twisted trees of this Floyd | place resent your intrusion and seek to impede you at every turn. Floyd | Nonetheless you press on as any proper adventurist would... Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Fae Forest Floyd | Your dragonfly's trail has led you here, to the gloomy underbrush of Floyd | this centuries-old forest. Apparently she continued south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, a swarm of venemous time flies impedes further progress. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee. Time Flies." | |||
| DavidW says, "You needed to find the tracks before you could follow them, I'm sure." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x flies" | ||||
Floyd | The flies swarm menacingly to the south of your position, preventing Floyd | you from following the dragonfly tracks any farther. The undergrowth is Floyd | too thick and the light thorugh the forest canopy too dim to try to go Floyd | round and find the trail again further along-- it is difficult enough Floyd | following these tracks directly what with all the dead leaves still Floyd | covering the forest floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "show arrow to flies" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open jar" | ||||
Floyd | It is sealed very, very tight. You don't seem to be able to get it Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swat flies" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If time flies like an arrow, they might love the arrow we have." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "give arrow to flies" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What's the poem again?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wave arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the short arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "maybe we just throw it at them" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, throw it at them." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "throw arrow at flies" | ||||
Floyd | Foregoing the use of the useless bow, you hurl the arrow into the midst Floyd | of the time flies. As one, they descend onto the arrow and begin to Floyd | devour it. At least... you think they are devouring it. In any event, Floyd | the swarm now covers the arrow, leaving your path clear to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search leaves" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You press on boldy southwards, carefully following the trail with the Floyd | help of the magnifying glass. Surely it can't be that much farther-- Floyd | how far can an earthbound dragonfly get in less than a day's time? Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You suddenly emarge from the trees into a broad clearing. In the midst Floyd | of it is some manner of infernal altar made from one solid piece of Floyd | polished obsidian. Floyd | Floyd | On the infernal obsidian altar is Emma. Floyd | Floyd | As you might've known all along, the diabolical Doctor Magnusson is Floyd | here as well, up to no good as usual. "Charlie, my dear lovely boy!" he Floyd | exclaims upon seeing you. "Your sister and I were beginning to fear you Floyd | wouldn't make it!" Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Oh no!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "appreciate obsidian" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x emma" | ||||
Floyd | She's rather on the petite side, and has pearlescent wings and a Floyd | shimmery blue-green carapace like polished labradorite-- she's been Floyd | thus ever since that unfortunate mishap long ago. She's presently Floyd | unconscious and tied to an obsidian altar. A tiny smoking censer Floyd | dangles above her. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Doctor Magnusson!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x doctor" | ||||
Floyd | He sports a bowler, a purple cravat, a black velvet waistcoat, and a Floyd | van dyke beard. You also notice that he wields a wavy-bladed sacrifical Floyd | dagger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a jar of silica Floyd | a magnifying glass lens Floyd | a calcite prism Floyd | a glass prism Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | a polished piece of labradorite Floyd | a bow Floyd | an archer's arm-guard Floyd | your top hat (being worn) Floyd | your bowtie (being worn) Floyd | your double-brested greatcoat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm guessing the labradorite will act as medicine/stimulant to wake her up." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "This is like that one Gary Larson cartoon." | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "Surely you don't actually need a dagger to dispatch a dragonfly." | ||||
| djfletch says, "well, it's more ritually than if you just squash it" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x censer" | ||||
Floyd | A tiny smoking censer hangs from a little stand on the altar. You Floyd | surmise that the incense fumes from the censer are keeping Emma Floyd | unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | You decide you've seen quite enough. "Doctor Magnusson... It seems," Floyd | you choke out, mostly keeping your composure, "you've set upon my Floyd | sister without cause. I fear I'm obliged to demand satisfaction, sir." Floyd | Floyd | Magnusson sighs. "Must it come to this?" He meets your gaze for a Floyd | moment. "Yes I suppose it must, mustn't it? Very well then, I've no Floyd | pistols, so it's swords or nothing." Floyd | Floyd | "Swords it is then." Floyd | Floyd | "You've a blade...?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | You shake your head. "Sadly, we had a bit of a set-to with some Floyd | ruffians in the mountains--" you start to explain, but Magnusson waves Floyd | off this trifle and starts to root about for a pair of swords suitable Floyd | for dueling. He discovers some on the ground behind the altar, and Floyd | stoops to pick them up. As he stands, he bumps the incense-burning Floyd | censer, knocking it off the altar-- apparently without noticing. He Floyd | approaches and extends the swords to you, hilts first. They are a pair Floyd | of dueling sabres, one with a brass hilt, one bronze, but otherwise Floyd | seemingly identical. Floyd | Floyd | "Choose your weapon, my dear Charlie, and we shall get this sorted." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Wasn't expecting that." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x brass" | ||||
Floyd | It looks just like the other, aside from the hilt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bronze" | ||||
Floyd | It looks just like the other, aside from the hilt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hilt" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through lens" | ||||
Floyd | No need for that-- you've found her. Now to effect her rescue! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "take censor?" | |||
| Tale arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW asks, "er censer?" | |||
| Tale says, "re" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "It's already knocked over, do we need to do more?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe." | ||||
| Tale says, "re" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I mean, is the censer our weapon that we can choose?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x censer" | ||||
Floyd | It's fallen from its place on the altar and now lies upon the ground. Floyd | Magnusson evidently did not note its fall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "re" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think it has to be one of the blades, given that he wants to duel." | ||||
| Tale says, "re" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "May I suggest saving here?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Unless your plan is to whack him in the head with it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "re" | |||
| DavidW says (to Tale), "uh, hi hi hi" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hello againg, T." | ||||
| Tale says, "gar" | ||||
| Tale says, "gar" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take censer" | ||||
Floyd | The tiny smoking censer is too far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "gar gar?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Nope." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "give labradorite to emma" | ||||
Floyd | She appears to be unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe we can get it with the sword." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take emma" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose Emma would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think Emma would love that." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw labradorite in censor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw labradorite in censer" | ||||
Floyd | The polished piece of labradorite isn't bothering you, so you shouldn't Floyd | bother it, I'd say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in crystal ball" | ||||
Floyd | Looking through it causes images to be weirdly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "let's accept a sword" | |||
| DavidW says, "okay. I suppose it doesn't matter which." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bronze" | ||||
Floyd | You choose the bronze-hilted sabre and step back, falling to a fencer's Floyd | stance. Magnusson raises his blade as well. Floyd | Floyd | "Defend yourself!" he cries, and lunges toward you. The clash of steel Floyd | rings out like a bell across the clearing, putting a nearby flock of Floyd | birds to the wing... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You gradually come round, wakening to the sound of steel on steel. A... Floyd | a swordfight? What's going on? Floyd | Floyd | Charlie leaps forward, shouting and swinging wildly up high. Magnusson Floyd | narrowly avoids the blow, and responds with a risky attack against his Floyd | foe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Still a dragonfly, alas. Floyd | Floyd | Magnusson swings toward his opponent's legs. Charlie leaps back, Floyd | dodging the attempt, and offers up a textbook riposte, shouting Floyd | exultantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "ooh - character shift!" | |||
| Tale has disconnected. | ||||
| Tale has connected. | ||||
| Tale disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | Being bound to an altar rather constricts your freedom to do much of Floyd | anything. Floyd | Floyd | Charlie lunges forward, blade aimed toward his opponent's midsection. Floyd | Magnusson deflects the assault, and returns an unexpected counterattack Floyd | of masterful precision. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "This little game is just full of fun twists." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You aren't carrying anything of course, being a dragonfly. But as it Floyd | happens, you have one readied spell: BURN. Floyd | Floyd | Magnusson thrusts toward his opponent's legs. Charlie steps aside, Floyd | avoiding the attack, and returns a standard reprise, shouting Floyd | exultantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think we should've dropped the labradorite onto the altar?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Burn!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, let's burn the good Doctor." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "burn burn burn burn" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "burn" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to burn? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "burn doctor" | ||||
Floyd | Charlie will doubtless be put out by this, with his peculiar code of Floyd | honor, but nevertheless... You call forth a spirit of burning against Floyd | Doctor Magnusson. In your weakened state you're not capable of Floyd | engulfing him in a pillar of flames, but you are able to burn his hand Floyd | sufficiently hard that he's forced to let go his weapon. Floyd | Floyd | Charlie kicks away the dropped sword and presses the point of his own Floyd | blade to Magnusson's adam's apple. "Yield, cur!" he calls dramatically, Floyd | a bit winded by the sound of it. Floyd | Floyd | "I yield," Magnusson concedes. "And your sister is now awake, it would Floyd | seem," he adds, not without bitterness. Floyd | Floyd | "Indeed." Charlie thinks for a moment, then twitches his sword to the Floyd | side. "Begone. And pray we never cross paths again, Magnusson." Floyd | Magnusson stands and flees into the woods without a word or a glance Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Easy there, Beavis." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "untie dragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take dragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | You are still securely bound. One should hope that your brother would Floyd | release you after going to all this trouble to find you. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh right." | |||
| DavidW says, "We're still Emma." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x charlie" | ||||
Floyd | Charlie grins back at you and doffs his hat in a mock-formal bow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "burn rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "charlie, release emma" | ||||
Floyd | (Freeform conversation is not implemented in this game. To communicate, Floyd | ask Charlie about something.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask charlie about rescue" | ||||
Floyd | "Might I trouble you to help me off this altar?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh! Of course-- forgive me." At a single stroke, Charlie cuts your Floyd | bonds with his newly-liberated bronze-hilted sabre, newly liberating Floyd | you as well. "Are you all right?" Floyd | Floyd | "I will be," you reply. "I need to rest before I can send us, however." Floyd | Floyd | "Very well." Charlie reaches into his pocket and withdraws a piece of Floyd | polished labradorite! Floyd | Floyd | "And just where did you steal that, if may I ask?" you ask, trying not Floyd | to sound too delighted. Floyd | Floyd | He laughs. "Best not to enquire too closely." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "yay" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | ...And after a few hours of rest, you let Charlie know that you're Floyd | ready to go. He picks you up gently with one finger. Floyd | Floyd | "Xyzzy!" you call. You both disappear in a puff of orange smoke. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" | |||
| inky says, "huzzah" | ||||
| DavidW says, "neat" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "woo!" | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "I really liked that one" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What happens if we try to xyzzy before we're up for it?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "That was rather excellent. And that was a speed-if?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to TX), "Yeah, this is a great little game. I love the writing." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "Yeah!" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Who wrote it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Troy Jones III" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Whoever that is." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Possibly vimes." | ||||
| Tale says, "Sounds like a pseudonym" | ||||
| vimes says, "Someone from the intfiction forums" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, not you." | ||||
| vimes says, ";Not me." | ||||
| vimes says, "yoursistheearth is mine." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, whoever it is, I hope I remember this game come Xyzzy time. It could use a nomination for best writing. Speed IFs have done okay in the Xyzzies before." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or puzzles. There were some good puzzles here, too." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, actually fun ones." | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "For a speed IF it was pretty polished." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of vimes), "Next one?" | ||||
| vimes asks, "we've done, what, thecrystalpalace, tocatchadragonfly, and dflieslike?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | vimes says, "theextraordinaryeventsofthe is next, assuming Tale is ready for us to play his, or we can do yoursistheearth" | |||
| vimes says, "(and those are the only two remaining)" | ||||
| Tale says, "Yup, I'm here" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I vote for yoursistheearth" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Either." | ||||
| vimes says, "So as to end on a high note? Good idea." | ||||
| Tale says, "Mine is neither polished, nor has it great puzzles. It should make for a nice change." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| vimes asks, "Does yours have an ending?" | ||||
| Tale says, "Yes" | ||||
| vimes says, "Great, let's do mine." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, an ending would be good." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of vimes), "Are you implying yours doesn't have an ending?" | ||||
| vimes says, "mmmmmmmaybe." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Tale asks, "Why? Was the 2nd one also unwinnable?" | ||||
| vimes says, "(It /ends/. But it doesn't have an ending.)" | ||||
| Ellison says, "the next Speed IF should require that every game starts with an ending so every game has one" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's do vimes' then Tale's" | ||||
| Tale asks, "End,then flashback?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ell), "heehee" | ||||
| TheXenographer exclaims, "All backwards games, all the time!" | ||||
| vimes says, "That would be pretty cool." | ||||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "load yoursistheearth" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| vimes says (to Floyd), ".quit" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | vimes says, "ok, i've forgotten how to use floyd" | |||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load yoursistheearth" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Justin de Vesine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111127 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Walled quadrangle Floyd | Cracked stone pathways meander around an unwalled maze of overgrown Floyd | gardens. A crumbling wall encloses the quad, with an archway leading Floyd | out to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a top hat, a dragonfly*, a small crystal ball, two optical Floyd | prisms, a water pistol, a magnifying glass, a bowtie, a jar of silica, Floyd | a polished piece of labradorite, a bow and arrow, an archer's arm Floyd | guard, and a bismuth crystal here. Floyd | Floyd | * missing | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | >You ordered a dragonfly, and this would be it, were it not missing. Floyd | Instead, it's an empty box. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | >Jaunty. Floyd | | Johnny says, "f this and f that" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear hat" | ||||
Floyd | >(first taking the top hat) Floyd | You put on the top hat. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Are there footnotes?" | |||
| Johnny says, "or wf sweet nothings" | ||||
| vimes says, "Just the one." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | >You see nothing unexpected about yourself. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x i" | ||||
Floyd | >That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look in hat" | ||||
Floyd | >You find nothing of interest. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | >A fantastic polka-dot bowtie. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | >(first taking the bowtie) Floyd | You put on the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Yay" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | vimes says, "Alas, I was so busy getting the dragonfly* right that I didn't implement some of the more common tropes" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hee, no worries." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take dragonfly" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | >(The empty box that doesn't contain a dragonfly) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | >Walled quadrangle Floyd | Cracked stone pathways meander around an unwalled maze of overgrown Floyd | gardens. A crumbling wall encloses the quad, with an archway leading Floyd | out to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small crystal ball, two optical prisms, a water pistol, a Floyd | magnifying glass, a jar of silica, a polished piece of labradorite, a Floyd | bow and arrow, an archer's arm guard, and a bismuth crystal here. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look in ball" | ||||
Floyd | >You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x crystal ball" | ||||
Floyd | >Escher might have contemplated one of these. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear guard" | ||||
Floyd | >(first taking the archer's arm guard) Floyd | You can't wear that. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "drink silica" | ||||
Floyd | >You can't consume the jar of silica, or that's not the way to do so. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | >Which do you mean, the 1) small crystal ball or the 2) bismuth Floyd | crystal? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | >(the small crystal ball) Floyd | Escher might have contemplated one of these. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Tale asks (of vimes), "What did you use to write this?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bismuth crystal" | ||||
Floyd | >A heavy lump of strangely lustrous crystal. Its stairstep pattern Floyd | makes the iridescent colors even more striking. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | >Labradorite ((Ca,Na)(Al,Si)4O8), a feldspar mineral, is an Floyd | intermediate to calcic member of the plagioclase series. It is usually Floyd | defined as having "%An" (anorthite) between 50 and 70. The specific Floyd | gravity ranges from 2.68 to 2.72. The streak is white, like most Floyd | silicates. The refractive index ranges from 1.559 to 1.573. Twinning is Floyd | common. As with all plagioclase members the crystal system is triclinic Floyd | and three directions of cleavage are present two of which form nearly Floyd | right angle prisms. It occurs as clear, white to gray, blocky to lath Floyd | shaped grains in common mafic igneous rocks such as basalt and gabbro, Floyd | as well as in anorthosites. Floyd | Floyd | Well, at least that's what Wikipedia says. This particular piece is Floyd | nearly clear. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Looks like I7" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "rub labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | >Rubbing the polished piece of labradorite would have no effect in Floyd | these circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Tale asks, "let's explore some?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok" | ||||
| TheXenographer asks, "Should we get all the things before we go?" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | Ruined building Floyd | Stone walls and wood floor, dusty from long disuse. The ancient dust is Floyd | pristine and untouched. An overgrown garden is visible through an Floyd | archway to the west, and a hallway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dust" | ||||
Floyd | >Decades or perhaps centuries of dust. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write in dust" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "yeah, shouldn't we take all that stuff first?" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | Walled quadrangle Floyd | Cracked stone pathways meander around an unwalled maze of overgrown Floyd | gardens. A crumbling wall encloses the quad, with an archway leading Floyd | out to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small crystal ball, two optical prisms, a water pistol, a Floyd | magnifying glass, a jar of silica, a polished piece of labradorite, a Floyd | bow and arrow, and a bismuth crystal here. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Love the labradorite description, Justin." | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | >small crystal ball: Taken. Floyd | small optical prism: Taken. Floyd | large optical prism: Taken. Floyd | water pistol: Taken. Floyd | magnifying glass: Taken. Floyd | jar of silica: Taken. Floyd | polished piece of labradorite: Taken. Floyd | bow and arrow: Taken. Floyd | bismuth crystal: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | vimes says, "fie, i didn't even /remember/ to think about not implementing elbereth for reasons of time" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | Ruined building Floyd | Stone walls and wood floor, dusty from long disuse. Footprints have Floyd | been left in the ancient dust. An overgrown garden is visible through Floyd | an archway to the west, and a hallway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I've become a little nervous about 'taking all', after I found a pretty horrible bug in "Doctor M"." | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x footprints" | ||||
Floyd | >You don't need to use the word "footprints" in that way. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "hm?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look through glass" | ||||
Floyd | >You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Tale says, "I had a terrible taking bug in my Ectocomp game." | |||
| Tale asks, "So, do we explore some more?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "'take all' can easily break a game if the author isn't careful, yes." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Onward" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | Apologetic Room Floyd | Well. Yeah. The asterisk and the title, that's all there really are Floyd | here. (And a little bit of work on the dragonfly*, of course.) Floyd | If you want to go be amused by the asterisk some more, go south; to Floyd | "win", go north. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | * missing | Tale says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "To this day one of my favorite beta testing moments was when I was working on Dennis Jerz's Fine Tuned and tried to climb a tree. >CLIMB What do you want to climb? >TREE (But he'd forgotten to shut off the debugging verbs.)" | ||||
| Lionheart can see a dream in your dance. Lionheart can see tomorrow in your dance. We can call it, "our hope"! | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take *" | ||||
Floyd | >>TAKE Floyd | What do you want to take? Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "missing" | ||||
Floyd | >You don't need to use the word "missing" in that way. Floyd | | Tale asks, "what does tree do?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It lists all the objects in the game." | ||||
| Ellison says, "nice" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ha" | ||||
| Tale asks, "So, do we win or what?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "'tree' is a debugging verb in Inform games." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's win." | ||||
| Tale asks, "Or be amused some more?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Can we go south first?" | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | Ruined building Floyd | Stone walls and wood floor, dusty from long disuse. Footprints have Floyd | been left in the ancient dust. An overgrown garden is visible through Floyd | an archway to the west, and a hallway leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Well, amusing is also good." | |||
| Tale says (to DavidW), "Sure" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x footprints" | ||||
Floyd | >You don't need to use the word "footprints" in that way. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "oh, is it just the way we came?" | |||
| Tale says, "follow footprints" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "follow footprints" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x footprints" | ||||
Floyd | >You don't need to use the word "footprints" in that way. Floyd | | TheXenographer says, "I think they're our footprints anyway" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "ah" | ||||
| Tale says, "Aha." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | Apologetic Room Floyd | Well. Yeah. The asterisk and the title, that's all there really are Floyd | here. (And a little bit of work on the dragonfly*, of course.) Floyd | If you want to go be amused by the asterisk some more, go south; to Floyd | "win", go north. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | * missing | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get asterisk" | ||||
Floyd | >You don't need to use the word "asterisk" in that way. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x *" | ||||
Floyd | >>X Floyd | What do you want to examine? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x title" | ||||
Floyd | >You don't need to use the word "title" in that way. Floyd | | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a bow and arrow Floyd | a polished piece of labradorite Floyd | a jar of silica Floyd | a magnifying glass Floyd | a water pistol Floyd | two optical prisms Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | an archer's arm guard Floyd | a dragonfly* Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | * missing | genericgeekgirl says, "Just curious~" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think the '*' is stripped from our input." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "shoot bow" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x asteriks" | ||||
Floyd | >You don't need to use the word "asteriks" in that way. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Is it? I am seeing the *" | |||
| vimes says, "It is. Smarter Parser has an unintended effect." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x no dragonfly" | ||||
Floyd | >I didn't understand that. You used a word that ends in "ly"; if it was Floyd | an adverb like "slowly" or "carefully," you don't usually need to be Floyd | that specific. Floyd | | Tale asks (of vimes), "So, you could do things with it?" | |||
| vimes says, "(I also didn't handle interacting with "*", though I should have)" | ||||
| vimes says, "I wrote some things for it and then didn't write the bit that actually parsed * as a thing you could refer to, that is" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear prisms" | ||||
Floyd | >You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x prisms" | Jacqueline says (to vimes), "Cart goes *behind* the horse, man." | |||
Floyd | >You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | | vimes says, "heresy!" | |||
| vimes says, "conventional wisdom only ever talks about putting it *before* the horse!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x prism" | ||||
Floyd | >Which do you mean, the 1) large optical prism or the 2) small optical Floyd | prism? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | >(the large optical prism) Floyd | A great prism of little clarity. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x small prism" | ||||
Floyd | >A little prism of great clarity. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a bow and arrow Floyd | a polished piece of labradorite Floyd | a jar of silica Floyd | a magnifying glass Floyd | a water pistol Floyd | two optical prisms Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | an archer's arm guard Floyd | a dragonfly* Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | * missing | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||||
Floyd | >Bone dry. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x jar" | ||||
Floyd | >The label says "do not eat". Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "eat silica" | ||||
Floyd | >Ew. Dessicated stomach doesn't sound fun. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "pour silica in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | ||||
| Mao says (to Floyd), "shoot silica with pistol" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "In real life I need a constant reminder, on my good days, that I am jaunty and stylish. Just to keep my attitude in the proper place." | |||
| vimes says, "You should wear a top hat and bowtie, then." | ||||
| Jacqueline giggles. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "They don't really go with the uniform." | ||||
| trojo says (to floyd), "fill pistol" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "How about a flat hat and standard forest-green tie?" | |||
| Tale says, "I'd like to own a bowler one day" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You would look good in one. You should make a point of acquiring one." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, should we just go that one direction and win? Or..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't see much else to do." | ||||
| vimes says, "There are two things listed under AMUSING if you do, one of which you've done." | ||||
| Tale says, "Duly noted." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "find butterfly" | ||||
Floyd | >I didn't understand that. You used a word that ends in "ly"; if it was Floyd | an adverb like "slowly" or "carefully," you don't usually need to be Floyd | that specific. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I suppose we could try 'forgive author' in the apolegetic room." | |||
| vimes says, "hah, what a good idea" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "ha!" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I agree that a bowler would work quite well for Tale" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "be a man" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | Tale says, "I some american mudmeet works out for next year, I'll wear one" | |||
| djfletch says, "just seeing if the title is relevant" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "be a man my son" | ||||
Floyd | >That's neither a verb I recognise nor a keyword you can use right now. Floyd | | ||||
| trojo says (to floyd), "put silica in pistol" | ||||
Floyd | >That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Mao says, "Indeed we are." | |||
| * trojo has joined the channel. | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a bow and arrow Floyd | a polished piece of labradorite Floyd | a jar of silica Floyd | a magnifying glass Floyd | a water pistol Floyd | two optical prisms Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | an archer's arm guard Floyd | a dragonfly* Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | * missing | djfletch says, "ok I vote for the official winning move of winning now" | |||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | >Which do you mean, the 1) bismuth crystal or the 2) small crystal Floyd | ball? Floyd | | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | >(the bismuth crystal) Floyd | A heavy lump of strangely lustrous crystal. Its stairstep pattern Floyd | makes the iridescent colors even more striking. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says (to trojo), "We just played your game. Everyone liked it a lot." | |||
| TheXenographer says (to djfletch), "I second that." | ||||
| Tale asks, "A hint on the second winning move?" | ||||
| Tale says, "er, amusing things" | ||||
| trojo exclaims (at genericgeekgirl), "thanks!" | vimes says, "you can go win and then ask for the amusing things" | |||
| vimes says, "(or I can tell you, of course)" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Trojo, are you Troy Jones III?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, good work everybody so far" | ||||
| trojo says, "a few amusing things to try would be singing and swearing..." | ||||
| trojo says, "yeah i'm Troy" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | Winning Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? | Jacqueline says (to trojo), "To speak on the channel, type #CLUBFLOYD HI then after you've designated which channel, you can just say ;HI AGAIN" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | > Did you try BUYING the empty box that doesn't contain a dragonfly? Floyd | How about when it's not empty? Floyd | Floyd | Did you try wearing both the bow tie and the top hat? Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | > Did you try BUYING the empty box that doesn't contain a dragonfly? Floyd | How about when it's not empty? Floyd | Floyd | Did you try wearing both the bow tie and the top hat? Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | > Apologetic Room Floyd | Previous turn undone. Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "buy box" | ||||
Floyd | >You tried to. You really did. But this empty box showed up. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I really loved your game, Troy. Excellent job. Can't believe it's a speed IF (though of course it is short)." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | >You are carrying: Floyd | a bismuth crystal Floyd | a bow and arrow Floyd | a polished piece of labradorite Floyd | a jar of silica Floyd | a magnifying glass Floyd | a water pistol Floyd | two optical prisms Floyd | a small crystal ball Floyd | an archer's arm guard Floyd | a dragonfly* Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | * missing | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put crystal in box" | ||||
Floyd | >Which do you mean, the 1) bismuth crystal or the 2) small crystal Floyd | ball? Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | >(the bismuth crystal in a dragonfly*) Floyd | You put the bismuth crystal into a box (which does not contain a Floyd | dragonfly). Floyd | | trojo says, "HI" | |||
Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | Floyd | * missing | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "buy box" | ||||
Floyd | >You tried to. You really did. But an empty box showed up, and Floyd | putting other things in it just isn't the same. Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Not that I don't also love being jaunty and stylish, vimes." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at trojo), "That's it! Yay!" | ||||
| trojo says, "ha i'm such a newb" | ||||
| vimes says, "there you go! all of the amusement except for a bad joke in the description of the magnifying glass." | ||||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||||
Floyd | >What is the highest level of education Sherlock Holmes reached? Floyd | Elementary, my dear Watson! Floyd | Floyd | You are jaunty and stylish. Floyd | | Tale says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha yay" | ||||
| Tale says, "This is also a good lead-in to the next game" | ||||
| vimes says, "hurrah!" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Hooray! Let's play it!" | ||||
| Tale asks, "Did we find all the stuff here?" | ||||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "quit" | vimes says, "yeah, there's nothing else worthwhile" | |||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "load theextraordinaryeventsofthe" | ||||
Floyd | >Are you sure you want to quit? Welcome to the Cheap Glk Floyd | Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The extraordinary events of the last day of Professor Mangleworth Floyd | a retelling of those events based on the finding of Mr. Sherlock Holmes Floyd | of 221b Baker Street Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111127 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | The Study Floyd | You are in the western part of your study. Before the library, which Floyd | has been started by your grandfather Jeremiah, this houses the display Floyd | case with your findings from your last expedition to the Americas. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "ha ha yay" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "That *is* a great segue!" | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x display case" | ||||
Floyd | Furnished from dark oak and lined with red velvet, this houses the Floyd | polished piece of labradorite which you brought back in 1875 and which Floyd | one and for all disproved Jemmings theory of geoloic expansion. Floyd | Long gone are the days when you would take it out and muse at it's Floyd | significance. After what happened Maura, it all became shallow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember Maura" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "WHY ARE WE NOT CONSISTENTLY JAUNTY?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x labradorite" | ||||
Floyd | Furnished from dark oak and lined with red velvet, this houses the Floyd | polished piece of labradorite which you brought back in 1875 and which Floyd | one and for all disproved Jemmings theory of geoloic expansion. Floyd | Long gone are the days when you would take it out and muse at it's Floyd | significance. After what happened Maura, it all became shallow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "hm, i did do a player description." | |||
| TheXenographer says, "We know in our heart that we are jaunty and stylish, that's good enough" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says (to Jacq), "You are jaunty and stylish." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the bowtie. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of vimes), "Keep saying that every few seconds, okay?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bowtie" | ||||
Floyd | It's quite dapper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | Usually you wouldn't wear your top hat indoors, but this is a special Floyd | occassion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "er, all the typos are an extra easter egg *cough*" | |||
| olethros arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | genericgeekgirl says, "Ha" | |||
| vimes says (to Jacq), "You are jaunty and stylish. You are jaunty and stylish. You are jaunty and stylish. Hey! Listen! Hey! Listen! Hey! Listen! You are jaunty and stylish. All jaunty and not stylish makes Jacq a dull girl." | ||||
| Tale says, "ha ha" | ||||
| trojo says, "hee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to vimes), "That is the lazy man's way out." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But thank you." | ||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The Study Floyd | You are in the western part of your study. Before the library, which Floyd | has been started by your grandfather Jeremiah, this houses the display Floyd | case with your findings from your last expedition to the Americas. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open case" | ||||
Floyd | The key is carried by one of the valets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look behind case" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We have valets. Plural." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "East?" | ||||
| vimes says (to Jacq), "Well, you are jaunty and stylish, so you deserve it." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "(I'm assuming.)" | ||||
| djfletch says (to DavidW), "one to look after the hats, one for the bow ties." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Which valet carries my hors d'oeurves? Bring him or her hither." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to vimes), "Thank you." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yay" | ||||
| vimes says, "I'm afraid he or she is permanently thither." | ||||
| Tale says (to DavidW), "hah" | ||||
| vimes says, "But jaunty and stylish, just like Jacq." | ||||
| trojo says, "but whither" | ||||
| Jacqueline tilts her hat rakishly. | ||||
| DavidW says, "dash it. And I left my unthithering stick in the upswing gallery." | ||||
| Tale says, "Now I'm imaging a valet like Jeeves" | ||||
| djfletch says, ">tilt hat to jaunty angle" | ||||
| vimes says, "Creepy Watson and his creepy valets" | ||||
| Tale says, "As played by Stephen Fry, which would be the best valet ever" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I am reminded, vimes, of:" | ||||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||||
| vimes says, "hee hee" | ||||
| vimes says, "JAM!" | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "ah, Kate Beaton" | ||||
| vimes says, "JAUNTY AND MSTYLISH!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, let's go find Mrs Wentworth-Parkington was Uggenthrope or whatever we're supposed to here." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x east" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Except I guess that cartoon would be more like 'Holmes and his creepy Watsons.'" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | At the window Floyd | An ornate lead glass window is open to the garden. Through it you can Floyd | see the cage which houses the thylacine. Beside the window stands Floyd | another display case. Further to the east is your desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Right outside the window is a huge heap of kindling wood, part of your Floyd | plan. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Is 'what happened Maura' supposed to be 'what happened to Maura' and if so then I would like us to figure out who Maura is." | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x thylacine" | ||||
Floyd | This one you brought back from Tasmania, after it had howled for hours Floyd | in one of your traps and you went out to shoot it. It has the body of a Floyd | wolf and tiger stripes on its haunches. Floyd | It looks as unhappy as it did the day you caught it, pacing back and Floyd | forth powerlessly as if even that activity has become meaningless. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | It's a functional metal cage, its floor covered with hay. A single bar Floyd | is all that keeps the thylacaine from escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "> release thylacaine" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x display case" | ||||
Floyd | This velvet houses a bismuth crystal. It was given to you by the Floyd | grandson of Claude François Geoffroy, in recognition of your travels to Floyd | Antarctica in the early 1860s. Floyd | It was in early 1863, 6 months after you left, that Maura was born. Floyd | You only received the news on your return to Spitzbergen in 1865. And Floyd | when you finally returned home, she was already toddling around the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x heap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There we go. Backstory." | |||
| Tale says, "Yes, you're supposed to find out about Maura" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "think about plan" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | At your desk Floyd | This mahagoni desk was given to you by your parents on the day you Floyd | received your doctorate. Many hours were spent here, hours probably Floyd | better spent elsewhere. It has a single drawer. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a jar of silica. Floyd | Floyd | Mounted on the wall above the desk are the bow and arrow, given to you Floyd | by the people of Melanesia. Floyd | Floyd | A small table stands to one side. On it is a flower pot and a squirt Floyd | gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x squirt gun" | ||||
Floyd | It's a small brass squirt gun. Once it was one of Mauras toys, now you Floyd | use it to SPRAY the flower occasionally. Floyd | It has gotten a more sinister use today. You've filled it with the Floyd | poison of the Pseudonaja, one of Australias deadliest snakes. Once you Floyd | sprayed yourself with it, you'll be dead within a hearbeat. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Awesome." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take gun" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "cool" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x silica" | ||||
Floyd | It is only half full. Floyd | You were frantically working on your categorization of minerals at the Floyd | time, to be ready for the composium the following month. Your wife had Floyd | tried time and time again to raise your mind towards the state of Floyd | Maura's health. You only visited her once in all those weeks, when she Floyd | was already riddled beyond all earthly hope with that terrible disease. Floyd | That was the last time you called her your dragonfly. A mildly mocking Floyd | nickname from her unsteady childhood days. Dragonflies were a bad omen Floyd | among your ancestors; Surely little Maura was for the valets and maids Floyd | and the kitchenware. You dropped that jar when your butler informed you Floyd | of her death, and when it rolled away across the carpet you began to Floyd | realize how much had been rolling away from you fast, messily spilling Floyd | its contents, all your days. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "Did they have squirt guns in the 1800s? MY IMMERSION" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "A ha." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take jar" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x flower" | ||||
Floyd | A small flower, added by your wife to make this room less gloomy. You Floyd | never paid it much mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take flower" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about small table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | You open the drawer, revealing a hand guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Gosh, this is not a happy work of IF." | |||
| Tale says, "Yeah well." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "The day I poisoned myself?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | It's a leather hand guard for archery. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "snrk" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take guard" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bow" | ||||
Floyd | You never used yourself, but you've seen the chief SHOOT a turtle with Floyd | this very bow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bow" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | At your desk Floyd | This mahagoni desk was given to you by your parents on the day you Floyd | received your doctorate. Many hours were spent here, hours probably Floyd | better spent elsewhere. It has a single drawer. Floyd | Floyd | A small table stands to one side. On it is nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take drawer" | ||||
Floyd | That seems to be a part of the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look behind drawer" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks (of genericgeekgirl), "Thorough, are we?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I try." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Bow and arrow Floyd | a hand guard Floyd | a flower pot Floyd | a jar of silica Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "We Xed all these things in our inventory?" | |||
| Ellison asks, "belatedly, if we're so depressed, shouldn't our jar of silica be half empty?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm surprised it didn't break when it hit the ground." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rug" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "let's see if we can kill the flower by spraying it" | |||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "But it makes everything less gloomy!" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "spray flower" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "obviously already dead" | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says (to djf), "heehee" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where's the book for the speed-if?" | |||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "The announcement is in my about FWIW" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "In the lounge" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | "The extraordinary events on the last day of Professor Mangleworth" was Floyd | written for the 2011 Thanksgiving speed-IF. The premise was as follows: Floyd | Floyd | A speed-IF! A veritable feast! Using the following inventory items, Floyd | based on a list of photographed items from Grocible's book-in-progress: Floyd | a top hat. a dragonfly*. a small crystal ball. two optical prisms. a Floyd | water pistol. a magnifying glass. a bowtie. a jar of silica. a polished Floyd | piece of labradorite. a bow and arrow. an archer's arm guard. a bismuth Floyd | crystal. Floyd | Floyd | Scientific detail was provided by a quick google. Hence, there will be Floyd | great inaccuracies that will make some people cry. No apologies are Floyd | intended or offered. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't see it there." | |||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | vimes says, "Sorry, I picked it up already." | |||
| DavidW asks, "And what's a FWIW?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "For What It's Worth" | ||||
| Tale says, "For what it's worth" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear guard" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the hand guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, it was here earlier. Vimes must've picked it up or something." | |||
| vimes was. If he was so, he might be, and if he were so, he would be, but as he isn't, he ain't. That's logic. | Jacqueline says, "Timing." | |||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | djfletch asks, "hmm, what can we shoot arrows at?" | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "oh, c'mon. I can't get to vimes now." | |||
| vimes says, "it's back in the lounge" | ||||
| DavidW says, "thank you" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I suppose we could shoot the thylacine." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Poor thing." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vimes arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray bow" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "yes, let it out then hunt it around the house" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | At the window Floyd | An ornate lead glass window is open to the garden. Through it you can Floyd | see the cage which houses the thylacine. Beside the window stands Floyd | another display case. Further to the east is your desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Right outside the window is a huge heap of kindling wood, part of your Floyd | plan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||||
Floyd | It's a functional metal cage, its floor covered with hay. A single bar Floyd | is all that keeps the thylacaine from escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot bar" | ||||
Floyd | Taking careful aim, you fire the arrow across the garden and hit the Floyd | bar dead-on. The arrow shatters into unrecognizable pieces of wood, as Floyd | you predicted, The door swings open with a slight creak. The thylacine Floyd | is confused at first - it sniffs the morning air, then takes one Floyd | tentative step outside. There is shouting from the house. The tasmanian Floyd | wolf take this as its cuse and dashes across the lawn and into the Floyd | wood. You break the bow across and stuff it into a heap of kindling Floyd | below the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee." | |||
| djfletch says, "aha" | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "aha" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb out window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to climb outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | At the window Floyd | An ornate lead glass window is open to the garden. Through it you can Floyd | see the cage which houses the thylacine. Beside the window stands Floyd | another display case. Further to the east is your desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open case" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "It housed it, past-tense, right?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Presumably." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||||
Floyd | It's a functional metal cage, its floor covered with hay. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, ";I have emailed you the games, and a copy of the book and the bb post, and a link to the intfiction forum announcement post" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Better get on Release 2, Tale." | ||||
| DavidW says (to vimes), "Thanks!" | ||||
| Tale says, "Duly noted." | ||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| vimes says, "(ilac)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Mhm. Now what?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a hand guard (being worn) Floyd | a flower pot Floyd | a jar of silica Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||||
Floyd | This velvet houses a bismuth crystal. It was given to you by the Floyd | grandson of Claude François Geoffroy, in recognition of your travels to Floyd | Antarctica in the early 1860s. Floyd | It was in early 1863, 6 months after you left, that Maura was born. Floyd | You only received the news on your return to Spitzbergen in 1865. And Floyd | when you finally returned home, she was already toddling around the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break glass" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take crystal" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "remove hat" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in pot" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pot" | ||||
Floyd | A small flower, added by your wife to make this room less gloomy. You Floyd | never paid it much mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove flower from pot" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "maybe we couldn't kill ourselves until we freed our hylacine, and now we can." | |||
| vimes says (to Jacq), "You are jaunty and stylish. By the way." | ||||
| Tale says, "ha ha" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray self" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot a good dose of the poison straight into your mouth. You'll be Floyd | dead within seconds now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | At the window Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Life needs an Every Turn rule." | |||
| Tale says, "Everx turn when the player is Tale: now the player is awesome." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of ggg), "Wait, don't we *want* to die?" | ||||
| maga asks (of Tale), "what's happening to drag your awesome down that you need to reset it so constantly?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess so, but wondering if that's really the next step." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "That like the old BASIC programs I would make as a little girl on our C64... 10 PRINT "Jacqueline is awesome!" 20 GOTO 10" | ||||
| maga says, "also, your code is bugged. it's not working." | ||||
| Tale says, "Life, man." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "You are cruel." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess I saved specifically so we could try that." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray self" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot a good dose of the poison straight into your mouth. You'll be Floyd | dead within seconds now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The poison works as quickly as expected. There is little pain. Floyd | You have freed the thylacine from a prison far different and yet Floyd | similar to your own, but this clearly looks like suicide. The shame on Floyd | your family will be great. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 54 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "OHO" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "No, probably not." | ||||
| maga says, "you need to spell 'every' without an X, is your issue" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | At the window Floyd | An ornate lead glass window is open to the garden. Through it you can Floyd | see the cage which houses the thylacine. Beside the window stands Floyd | another display case. Further to the east is your desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So we were supposed to let it free, but have it maul u." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "er, us" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "How... how very painful compared to poison." | ||||
| djfletch says, "it ran off pretty quickly though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We did it from far away." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I'm not sure how to get out of this room." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "but I guess we'd have to or it wouldn't look like an accident." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Go for a hike??" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | At your desk Floyd | This mahagoni desk was given to you by your parents on the day you Floyd | received your doctorate. Many hours were spent here, hours probably Floyd | better spent elsewhere. It has a single drawer. Floyd | Floyd | A small table stands to one side. On it is nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | At the window Floyd | An ornate lead glass window is open to the garden. Through it you can Floyd | see the cage which houses the thylacine. Beside the window stands Floyd | another display case. Further to the east is your desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "we had one turn to do something in after spraying ourselves - could we throw away the gun or something?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "jump out window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Hm. Throw it out the window, maybe?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Have you guys figured out own cunning plan yet?" | ||||
| trojo says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er s/own/our/" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We want to die, but we want to do it in a way that looks like an accident so as not to bring shame on our family." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spray self" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot a good dose of the poison straight into your mouth. You'll be Floyd | dead within seconds now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw gun out window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to throw the squirt gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "No, maybe not." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat plant" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat silica" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "throw gun through window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to throw the squirt gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Remind me what was stacked outside the window?" | |||
| djfletch says, "kindling wood" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Kindling." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "That implies we want a fire. Do we have a firestarter?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a hand guard (being worn) Floyd | a flower pot Floyd | a jar of silica Floyd | a squirt gun Floyd | a bowtie (being worn) Floyd | a top hat Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "We already used it to hide the bow in after we used it." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Not so far as I can tell. Too bad we don't have a magnifying glass." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we don't have one yet." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "call valet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | trojo says, "or a burn spell" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kindling" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is the idea to poison ourselves then burn the place down?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put gun in hat" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No, not unless we do it quickly, because the poison is pretty fast." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put gun in guard" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put gun under guard" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "bury gun" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There are such things as fuses." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put gun in pot" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sorry, I haven't been following the action, so I'm missing parts of the game." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure... we've not seen a fuse." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove guard" | ||||
Floyd | You take off the hand guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | It's a leather hand guard for archery. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The thing is, if we're poisoned, we need to dispose of our body. Can that beast in the cage be made to eat us?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we go outside?" | ||||
| trojo says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer asks, "I think at the point that we saved, we had already released the thylacine -- do we have to restart?" | |||
| djfletch says, "I wonder if just putting the gun back wherever it was originally would be enough." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "On the desk, in the same room as us." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to TX), "I'm not sure we can get out of the room. Seems like ggg tried that earlier." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Worth a try." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | At the window Floyd | An ornate lead glass window is open to the garden. Through it you can Floyd | see the cage which houses the thylacine. Beside the window stands Floyd | another display case. Further to the east is your desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | At your desk Floyd | This mahagoni desk was given to you by your parents on the day you Floyd | received your doctorate. Many hours were spent here, hours probably Floyd | better spent elsewhere. It has a single drawer. Floyd | Floyd | A small table stands to one side. On it is nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put flower on table" | ||||
Floyd | You put the flower pot on small table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "spray me" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot a good dose of the poison straight into your mouth. You'll be Floyd | dead within seconds now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put gun on table" | ||||
Floyd | You put the squirt gun on small table. Floyd | Floyd | The poison works as quickly as expected. There is little pain. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "But what made you realize that this was not a heart attack from seeing Floyd | his famed animal escape, my dear Holmes?" Floyd | "I am not yet ready to believe, Watson, that there are people in this Floyd | world who are more hurt by the escape of a, however, prestigious, Floyd | animal, then the death of their own daughter. This made me think that Floyd | mayhaps we gave the Professor too little credit for human emotion in Floyd | our investigations. The piece of string you idly observe the house cat Floyd | play with on that heap of kindling was another hint that something was Floyd | not quite right here; And finally, the sorry stage of this begonia made Floyd | me investigate the squirt gun and solve this mystery. However, I Floyd | propose, assuming your complicity, we let this matter rest and not get Floyd | our good friend Lestrade involved in this. This family has quite Floyd | suffered enough." Floyd | "Will this be a warning to you, my dear friend, to the effect of not Floyd | letting yourself get too caught up in matters far removed from the Floyd | world?" Floyd | "Some day, dear friend, some day. But first, I have this interesting Floyd | matter of the giant rat of Sumatra to consider." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 65 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Well, ok. That seemed too obvious still." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh, giant rat." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "That's a game I'd like to play :P" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Woo!" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh, wait. What's this? There is a late entry in the Speed IF!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do we have time for one more (very short) game?" | ||||
| Tale says, "I do!" | ||||
| djfletch says, "belated now Holmes has brought shame to our family with his unnecessary interference" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That infernal Holmes." | ||||
| Tale says, "Nope, he clearly states he won't involve Lestrade." | ||||
| Ellison says, "that is a nice ending" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So who called him there to begin with?" | ||||
| (from Tale) Tale says, "In a text game it pays to read the text. Sheesh.B' | ||||
| Tale says (to Jacqueline), "Hush now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so are we up for one more?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | genericgeekgirl says, "Sure" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load youareaturkey" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It's bleak here, and there is a foreboding sense of fear in the air Floyd | that you could cut with a knife. Floyd | Floyd | That is, you could cut it with a knife if you had a knife. Floyd | Floyd | Or opposable thumbs. Floyd | Floyd | You are a Turkey! Floyd | A truly speedy Speed IF. by Jacqueline A Lott Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111127 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | If this is your first time playing this game, you should type ABOUT at Floyd | the prompt. Floyd | I would recommend that you do this on your first turn. Floyd | Floyd | Turkey Farm Floyd | This is the happy little turkey farm where you and all the other Floyd | turkeys live in peace and happiness, just cluckin" and gobblin" and Floyd | gettin" fat. It's a grand life... except things seem sort of less Floyd | happy today for some reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, I wrote this in under half an hour, and there were no beta Floyd | testers. Sorry. Floyd | Floyd | This was written at the very last second for ClubFloyd's 2011 Floyd | Thanksgiving Speed-IF session, inspired by olethros saying, "let's play Floyd | You Are A Turkey!" So before you go blaming me, consider first blaming Floyd | Christos Dimitrakakis. Floyd | Floyd | Happy Thanksgiving! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | "Gobble?" Try phrasing your command in Engish, you silly bird. Floyd | Floyd | The atmosphere here is definitely not a pleasant one today. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | "Gobble?" What do you mean? Speak English, Turkey! Floyd | Floyd | You're beginning to feel a sense of worry deep in your gizzard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "panic" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| trojo says (to floyd), "gobble" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I considered those. I will add them before sharing the game on my website." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "run" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | Wait, was that Sarah Palin? Nah, couldn't be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | "Gobble?" You expect me to understand that gibberish? Floyd | Floyd | Who is that nice man in the flannel shirt? He picks you up and turns Floyd | you upside down and puts your head in some sort of funnel... wait! Floyd | What the... ?! Nooooo! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Don't worry, turkey, I'm sure you were delicious! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Turkey Farm Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ggg), "You, um. You 'won'." | |||
| maga says, "a worthy successor to The Invisible Argonaut" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Nooooo." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Poor turkey." | ||||
| Mao says, "Haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That is all I can code in half an hour is a quick - yeah, it's precisely the Invisible Argonaut joke." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Tale says, "aw" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "olethros said, 'let's play You Are a Turkey!' and I thought to myself, 'Huh, that sounds like a game that wouldn't take that long to code.'" | ||||
| Tale says, "ha haa" | ||||
| maga says, "clearly you are one of the too-obese-to-stand turkeys, not the wild or heritage kind" | ||||
| Tale says, ">SIT ON PLATE" | ||||
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