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| Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd will be playing Escape from Santaland by Jason Ermer this morning. Six minutes from now in the Toyshop." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Doug arrives, full of fun and funk. | Doug says, "yay" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "G'morning." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Doug), "Have you played, or are you joining us?" | ||||
| Doug says, "I have not played" | ||||
| Doug says, "I may be puttering around though, gotta prepare for people coming over at 2pm" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I have played and I won't say anything about the carnivorous snow weasels." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| Doug asks, "those being people who weasel out of carnivorous snow?" | ||||
| Gunther arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | * Gunther has joined the channel. | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh gosh, I guess it's after the top of the hour." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of ggg), "Just you and I, I suppose. You haven't played this?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Nope" | ||||
| Gunther says, "FINE!!!" | ||||
| Gunther leaves in a huff" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Gunther), "You haven't played it either?" | ||||
| Gunther says, "no" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, woo." | ||||
| Jota asks, "Clubfloyd today?" | ||||
| Gunther says, "(but I *am* about to go idle for 15-20, sadly, and will recap on return)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jota), "Yes. Escape from Santaland, appropriately enough." | ||||
| Jacqueline nods at Gunther. | ||||
| Jota says, "Huh, wow. Good luck." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jota), "That sounds... ominous." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "IF and Chinese food. Best Xmas ever ;)" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "yay, let's begin!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load santaland" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Escape From Santaland Floyd | An Interactive Holiday Puzzle by Jason Ermer Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 110913 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | First time players may wish to type ABOUT before getting underway. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Riverview Mall Floyd | Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during Floyd | the worst time of year to be there. Floyd | Floyd | After a last-minute Christmas Eve shopping run (thank you Aunt Maxine Floyd | and Uncle Felix, who RSVP'd for tomorrow just an hour before the mall Floyd | closed) you're heading for the parking lot, shopping bags in hand. Floyd | Floyd | Everything about this place gives you a headache: the fluorescent Floyd | lights reflecting off the polished faux-marble flooring, the greasy Floyd | funk of the food court, the echoes of screaming children and Christmas Floyd | music piped through tinny speakers. You have got to get out of here. Floyd | Floyd | But, where did you park? All of these mall entrances look the same. Are Floyd | you going the right way? This doesn't look familiar... Floyd | Floyd | The cartoony plastic signpost in front of you has two arrows, both of Floyd | which point east toward a fake-snowy astroturf pathway between Floyd | fake-holly hedges. One arrow reads "Pictures With Santa" the other Floyd | reads "Parking Lots A-G". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About "Escape From Santaland" Floyd | How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | Getting a Hint Floyd | Contacting the Author Floyd | Acknowledgements and Credits Floyd | Copyright | ||||
| zarf arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Christmas puzzle has been a tradition in my family since my brother Floyd | and I were very young. Floyd | Floyd | At first, it was a way to extend the Christmas morning festivities Floyd | during the years when there wasn't a lot of money for presents. My Floyd | father would create a puzzle for each gifts tag -- usually a rebus -- Floyd | and my brother and I would have to solve the puzzle and guess at the Floyd | package's contents before we could open it. Floyd | Floyd | As we grew up, the puzzles became more and more challenging. Plus, my Floyd | brother and I wanted in on the action: we started to create puzzle tags Floyd | for my father. Gifts would sometimes remain unopened for hours before Floyd | the recipient had the breakthrough (or begged for the hint) that would Floyd | solve the puzzle. We laughed a lot and we celebrated each other's Floyd | creativity in both puzzle making and puzzle solving. Floyd | Floyd | But my brother and I grew up and started out own lives. Years passed Floyd | and the old Christmas traditions changed, as they must. Floyd | Floyd | And yet sometimes, the old traditions are the best ones. Floyd | Floyd | This holiday puzzle is dedicated to my father. Floyd | Floyd | *** Merry Christmas *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | genericgeekgirl says, "Aw." | |||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About "Escape From Santaland" Floyd | How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | Getting a Hint Floyd | Contacting the Author Floyd | Acknowledgements and Credits Floyd | Copyright Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About "Escape From Santaland" Floyd | How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | Getting a Hint Floyd | Contacting the Author Floyd | Acknowledgements and Credits Floyd | Copyright | genericgeekgirl asks, "Skipping the rest?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Riverview Mall Floyd | Everything about this place gives you a headache: the fluorescent Floyd | lights reflecting off the polished faux-marble flooring, the greasy Floyd | funk of the food court, the echoes of screaming children and Christmas Floyd | music piped through tinny speakers. You have got to get out of here. Floyd | Floyd | The cartoony plastic signpost in front of you has two arrows, both of Floyd | which point east toward a fake-snowy astroturf pathway between Floyd | fake-holly hedges. One arrow reads "Pictures With Santa" the other Floyd | reads "Parking Lots A-G". Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl pauses, after that text dump. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "view river" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are a little harried and headachy from this last minute trip to the Floyd | mall, but you've bought the last of the gifts and you're ready to head Floyd | home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a scented candle (closed) Floyd | an impenetrable super-plastic package (inside which is a flashlight) Floyd | a Hickory Farms gift box (closed) Floyd | your coat Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Those gifts suck." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. That's a pretty cool tradition." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | For the mere price of $24.99 you became the owner of twenty-two ounces Floyd | of white wax in a glass jar. How does the Yankee Candle Company get Floyd | away with it? Plus, is the name "Winter Wonderland" meant to describe Floyd | the scent? What does that even mean? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smell candle" | ||||
Floyd | You can't smell much with the lid clamped shut. Mercifully. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "agreed" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open candle" | ||||
Floyd | You open the scented candle and immediately it begins making your eyes Floyd | water with its piney, musky reek. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smell candle" | ||||
Floyd | "Winter Wonderland": the crispness of a damp pine forest mixed with the Floyd | musky reek of a damp moose. Delightful. And imagine: somebody gets paid Floyd | to design fragrances like this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Why do I sense we're going to need that flashlight inside the 'impenetrable super-plastic package'?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close candle" | ||||
Floyd | You close the scented candle and the fir-tree-plus-wet-fur funk Floyd | gradually begins to dissipate. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | The Brookstone waterproof, shock-resistant flashlight, encased in a Floyd | shell of nearly-impenetrable super-plastic packaging. It was a steal at Floyd | $44.99, and when you saw the price you actually considered stealing it Floyd | -- especially since you'll have to buy the not-included pair of AA Floyd | batteries separately. Floyd | Floyd | While there in Brookstone you toyed for a minute with the idea of Floyd | getting the combined flashlight and self-massager, but then you Floyd | considered your audience. Aunt Maxine would not find it anywhere near Floyd | as funny as you do. Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "heh heh" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gift" | ||||
Floyd | The Hickory Farms Sausage and Cheese gift box is $35.99 worth of Floyd | artery-clogging goodness. "A great combo of rich and savory flavors," Floyd | the box claims. Uncle Felix is sure to love it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | No Easter eggs here. This is a Christmas game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | No Easter eggs here. This is a Christmas game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ho ho ho" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Very cute" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And apropos." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lights" | ||||
Floyd | Standard mall-issue lighting. It makes you want to get the heck out of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | A dim echo of some annoying Christmas tune. It sounds a bit like Floyd | "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline sniffs aimlessly. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | You catch a faint odor of food court. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | A dim echo of some annoying Christmas tune. Maybe "Mary's Boy Child"? Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yay, it does change." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Is that a real song?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Apparently yes." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smell gift box" | ||||
Floyd | From the Hickory Farms gift box you smell nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There are a gazillion Christmas songs, so I wouldn't at all doubt it." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell me" | ||||
Floyd | As inoffensive as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait. Is that a new default?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hedges" | ||||
Floyd | The "hedges" are about ten feet high and covered in waxy, plastic holly Floyd | leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Or the author?" | |||
| zarf says, "no" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search hedges" | ||||
Floyd | The leaves are fake, but dense. You find nothing else inside the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to z), "Cool, thanks." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "count leaves" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(Assuming by the timing of that you mean it's not a default.)" | |||
| zarf says, "it's not a default" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Riverview Mall Floyd | Everything about this place gives you a headache: the fluorescent Floyd | lights reflecting off the polished faux-marble flooring, the greasy Floyd | funk of the food court, the echoes of screaming children and Christmas Floyd | music piped through tinny speakers. You have got to get out of here. Floyd | Floyd | The cartoony plastic signpost in front of you has two arrows, both of Floyd | which point east toward a fake-snowy astroturf pathway between Floyd | fake-holly hedges. One arrow reads "Pictures With Santa" the other Floyd | reads "Parking Lots A-G". Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "this is why I keep the standard rules and some generated I6 open in emacs at all times. So I can answer these questions" | |||
| Jacqueline laughs. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Good to know." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||||
Floyd | The cartoony plastic signpost in front of you has two arrows, both of Floyd | which point east toward a fake-snowy astroturf pathway between Floyd | fake-holly hedges. One arrow reads "Pictures With Santa" the other Floyd | reads "Parking Lots A-G". Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Santa? :)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "You look like you actually want to see Santa, so sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline motions for ggg to lead the way. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x arrow" | ||||
Floyd | The cartoony plastic signpost in front of you has two arrows, both of Floyd | which point east toward a fake-snowy astroturf pathway between Floyd | fake-holly hedges. One arrow reads "Pictures With Santa" the other Floyd | reads "Parking Lots A-G". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You proceed down the narrow hallway of synthetic hedges: away from the Floyd | mall, deeper into Santaland. Floyd | Floyd | Entrance to Santaland Floyd | Something about the 10-foot tall hedges and the squishy, padded Floyd | astroturf under your feet transports you away from the Floyd | migraine-inducing chaos of the mall. But now the narrow pathways and Floyd | tall hedges make you feel antsy and claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the north, the east, and the west. Floyd | Floyd | (Note: The right-hand side of the status bar displays a compass rose of Floyd | possible locations to travel. Locations you have not yet visited are Floyd | shown in red.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x w" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x n" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x e" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. West, I guess." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | That way takes you back into the mall. Surely the parking lot can't be Floyd | far. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ah." | |||
| :05 # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
:05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland :05 # Floyd | You are at the intersection of several narrow, snowy passages. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the south (back toward the entrance to :05 # Floyd | Santaland), the north, and the east. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of ggg), "Do we need to be worried? Or mapping?" | |||
| DavidW says, "A map won't hurt, but it's not a large space. You'll get more (back to wherever) asides in the directions statements as you explore." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of ggg), "Any opposition to us asking the people who've played not so much for a hint, but just to ask if it's prudent to map or whether this is one of those 'looks like a scary annoying maze but really isn't' thing?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, timing." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Onward. North, I guess." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Trying to go, uh.. that's clockwise?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think the maze-like area is just a 3x3 grid, iirc." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Copper Panel Floyd | This corner of Santaland would be indistinguishable from the Floyd | neighboring passages were it not for an unexpected feature. Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the fake hedge-wall you see a glinting copper panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | The upper part of the shiny panel frames a thin, horizontal window of Floyd | glass. Beneath the window is a dial. A word, written in fancy Floyd | calligraphy, is visible in the window: "Blitzen". Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh.." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | The upper part of the shiny panel frames a thin, horizontal window of Floyd | glass. Beneath the window is a dial. A word, written in fancy Floyd | calligraphy, is visible in the window: "Blitzen". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Rudolph" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | genericgeekgirl shrugs. "Anyone have a favourite reindeer?" | |||
| zarf says, "mooseven" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "s" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Weinerschitzen" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the intersection of several narrow, snowy passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the south (back toward the entrance to Floyd | Santaland), the north (back to the room with the copper panel), and the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "What DW said. (Gesundheit!)" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Checking east." | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, Weinerschnitzen. He's a difficult reindeer to spell." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Santa's Workshop Floyd | This must be one of the highlights of Santaland. When it's powered up, Floyd | that is. Floyd | Floyd | A small army of animatronic elves stands immobile amidst an array of Floyd | silent toy producing machines. Dressed in festive red and green aprons, Floyd | clenching mallets and bellows and hand-powered drills, they are Santa's Floyd | sweatshop workforce (although you wonder how much sweating one does at Floyd | the North Pole, and then remind yourself that these are animatronic Floyd | elves who wouldn't sweat anyhow, and besides even if they could sweat Floyd | they're just standing there not moving or anything at the moment). Floyd | Floyd | A string of Christmas lights extends from a power outlet in the hedge Floyd | wall, trails across the floor of the workshop, and disappears into the Floyd | cluster of machines. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side, a lone robotic elf stands at a tall desk working Floyd | busily, unlike his peers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lights" | ||||
Floyd | The lights stretch from a power outlet in the hedge wall, across the Floyd | floor, and into the cluster of animatronics. Despite being plugged in Floyd | and having bulbs in all of its sockets, the string of Christmas lights Floyd | is completely unlit. Typical. When one goes out they all go out. Floyd | Floyd | In the string of Christmas lights are five twinkle lights (orange, Floyd | purple, white, red, and blue). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take lights" | ||||
Floyd | You tug on the string of Christmas lights, but meet resistance from the Floyd | end that is tucked up among the automatons. It seems it's attached Floyd | somehow. (If you wanted to take an individual light bulb, though, you Floyd | could.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the yellow twinkle light, the green twinkle light, Floyd | the orange twinkle light, the purple twinkle light, the white twinkle Floyd | light, the red twinkle light, or the blue twinkle light? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | string of Christmas lights: You tug on the string of Christmas lights, Floyd | but meet resistance from the end that is tucked up among the Floyd | automatons. It seems it's attached somehow. (If you wanted to take an Floyd | individual light bulb, though, you could.) Floyd | yellow twinkle light: Taken. Floyd | green twinkle light: Taken. Floyd | orange twinkle light: Taken. Floyd | purple twinkle light: Taken. Floyd | white twinkle light: Taken. Floyd | red twinkle light: Taken. Floyd | blue twinkle light: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We're the Grinch." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x elf" | ||||
Floyd | This fellow must be on a different circuit than the others. Floyd | Representing the toy factory's bookkeeper, he stands on a chair behind Floyd | the tall desk and scribbles notes into a thick ledger. On top of the Floyd | desk are a little ink bottle, into which the bookkeeper occasionally Floyd | dips his quill pen, and an electric candle that has no light bulb. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "GET ALL THE THINGS" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "But wait, they're all turned off, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So how is he occasionally dipping his quill?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, because - nevermind" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read notes" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||||
Floyd | A little prop jar that has dried ink running down the side. The jar Floyd | itself is empty so nothing actually happens when the elf dips his pen Floyd | in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline iz gud @ reeding compreehenzhun skillz. | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pen" | ||||
Floyd | A long feather that the robot elf uses as he pretends to write notes in Floyd | the ledger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | The electric candle is attached to the tall desk. It has a little Floyd | socket for a twinkle light where the flame would be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put purple bulb in candle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the purple twinkle light into the electric candle. It lights Floyd | up! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | The electric candle is attached to the tall desk. It has a purple Floyd | twinkle light plugged into its socket which twinkles adorably. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read ledger" | ||||
Floyd | A thick, leather-bound book (actually, a plastic prop made to look like Floyd | a thick, leather-bound book). Some scribbles have been painted on the Floyd | pages, but they are just for show. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of ggg), "Whatcha thinkin?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I was just messing around, but I guess this is a way to test which bulbs work." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | six twinkle lights (blue, red, white, orange, green, and yellow) Floyd | a scented candle (closed) Floyd | an impenetrable super-plastic package (inside which is a flashlight) Floyd | a Hickory Farms gift box (closed) Floyd | your coat Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take purple bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put blue bulb in candle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the blue twinkle light into the electric candle. It lights up! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take blue bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put red bulb in candle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the red twinkle light into the electric candle. The bulb Floyd | remains dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take red bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop red bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put white bulb in candle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the white twinkle light into the electric candle. It lights up! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take white bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put orange bulb in candle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the orange twinkle light into the electric candle. It lights Floyd | up! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take orange bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put green bulb in candle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the green twinkle light into the electric candle. It lights up! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm wondering what the motivation is here, but then recalled that I played a bit (just at the beginning of the game and didn't get far) so I know what the motivation is, I think, but I think we've somehow missed it and I will hang out until we find it, perhaps." | |||
| ASchultz arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take green bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I dunno." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put yellow bulb in candle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the yellow twinkle light into the electric candle. The bulb Floyd | remains dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. The colours were different when I played." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | five twinkle lights (green, orange, white, blue, and purple) Floyd | a scented candle (closed) Floyd | an impenetrable super-plastic package (inside which is a flashlight) Floyd | a Hickory Farms gift box (closed) Floyd | your coat Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x coat" | ||||
Floyd | You started feeling dehydrated and headachy almost the moment you Floyd | walked into the mall (a psychosomatic reaction, perhaps), so you took Floyd | off your coat. And here it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search coat" | ||||
Floyd | In the pocket are your keys. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x keys" | ||||
Floyd | Just a few keys (car, house) on a simple key ring. Nothing fancy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), " l" | ||||
Floyd | Santa's Workshop Floyd | A small army of animatronic elves stands immobile amidst an array of Floyd | silent toy producing machines. Dressed in festive red and green aprons, Floyd | clenching mallets and bellows and hand-powered drills, they are Santa's Floyd | sweatshop workforce (although you wonder how much sweating one does at Floyd | the North Pole, and then remind yourself that these are animatronic Floyd | elves who wouldn't sweat anyhow, and besides even if they could sweat Floyd | they're just standing there not moving or anything at the moment). Floyd | Floyd | A string of Christmas lights extends from a power outlet in the hedge Floyd | wall, trails across the floor of the workshop, and disappears into the Floyd | cluster of machines. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side, a lone robotic elf stands at a tall desk working Floyd | busily, unlike his peers. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a red twinkle light here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Back?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Are we supposed to put the bulbs back into the string and fix it? (Does it work with empty sockets, so long as none are actually dead?)" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Skookum), "Have you considered that lying *next* to me might be almost as rewarding as sleeping across my forearms and making it hard for me to type?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we can try." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Awww." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put bulbs in string" | ||||
Floyd | green twinkle light: You put the green twinkle light into the string of Floyd | Christmas lights. Nothing. (Of course that's because there are still Floyd | empty sockets in the string of Christmas lights. Floyd | orange twinkle light: You put the orange twinkle light into the string Floyd | of Christmas lights. Nothing. (Of course that's because there are still Floyd | empty sockets in the string of Christmas lights. Floyd | white twinkle light: You put the white twinkle light into the string of Floyd | Christmas lights. Nothing. (Of course that's because there are still Floyd | empty sockets in the string of Christmas lights. Floyd | blue twinkle light: You put the blue twinkle light into the string of Floyd | Christmas lights. Nothing. (Of course that's because there are still Floyd | empty sockets in the string of Christmas lights. Floyd | purple twinkle light: You put the purple twinkle light into the string Floyd | of Christmas lights. All of the lights suddenly flick on and twinkle Floyd | brilliantly! Floyd | Floyd | Simultaneously, Santa's workshop clatters to life! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Hm, sure. Try. I am not sure about the dead bulb bit." | |||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Ah!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I'm confused." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We need to find a light, it would appear." | ||||
| Binder says, "Nice." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, no." | ||||
| Jacqueline needs to read faster. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Was one of those lights from the candle?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We took all those bulbs out, and put some of them back in. There *should* still be empty sockets." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "No. It was empty." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, then I *am* confused." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Christmas magic." | ||||
| Binder says, "I'm liking the 'as long as no inserted bulb is dead' thesis" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Fair enough." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Me, too, except that it implies "it doesn't work yet, because there are empty sockets."." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Santa's Workshop Floyd | A small army of animatronic elves work jerkily amidst an array of Floyd | chugging and clanking toy producing machines. Dressed in festive red Floyd | and green aprons, clenching mallets and bellows and hand-powered Floyd | drills, they are Santa's sweatshop workforce (although you wonder how Floyd | much sweating one does at the North Pole, and then remind yourself that Floyd | these are animatronic elves who wouldn't sweat anyhow). Floyd | Floyd | A string of Christmas lights extends from a power outlet in the hedge Floyd | wall, trails across the floor of the workshop, and disappears into the Floyd | cluster of machines. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side, a lone robotic elf stands at a tall desk working Floyd | busily. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a red twinkle light here. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, a whistle chirps and one of the toy machines burps a cloud of Floyd | smoke. Something slides down the chute and lands in the basket with a Floyd | muffled clank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x basket" | ||||
Floyd | A simple container at the terminus of the workshop toy chute. Floyd | Floyd | In the basket is a silver reindeer statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||
Floyd | Made of sparkling silver, the figure stands about six inches tall at Floyd | the shoulder. The reindeer's antlers are small, but it has been Floyd | sculpted in a particularly energetic pose, kicking its front legs into Floyd | the air. You can imagine the holly wreath around its neck jostling as Floyd | the animal bounds away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Yoink!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Shiny!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take reindeer" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the intersection of several narrow, snowy passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the south (back toward the entrance to Floyd | Santaland), the north (back to the room with the copper panel), and the Floyd | east (back to Santa's workshop). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "S?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Back south, and west." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "ERm. East." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance to Santaland Floyd | Something about the 10-foot tall hedges and the squishy, padded Floyd | astroturf under your feet has transported you away from the Floyd | migraine-inducing chaos of the mall. But now the narrow pathways and Floyd | tall hedges make you feel antsy and claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the north, the east, and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the snowy intersection of several narrow passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the north (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | west (back toward the entrance to Santaland), and the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "E again?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Silver Panel Floyd | This corner of Santaland would be indistinguishable from the Floyd | neighboring passages were it not for an unexpected feature (less Floyd | unexpected than it would have been earlier, though, since you have Floyd | already seen something just like it). Floyd | Floyd | Flush with the fake hedge-wall, you see a sparkling silver panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | The upper part of the shiny panel frames a thin, horizontal window of Floyd | glass. Beneath the window is a dial. A word, written in fancy Floyd | calligraphy, is visible in the window: "Prancer". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man it is hard to type with Longcat draped across me." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh... Hm." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x reindeer" | ||||
Floyd | Made of sparkling silver, the figure stands about six inches tall at Floyd | the shoulder. The reindeer's antlers are small, but it has been Floyd | sculpted in a particularly energetic pose, kicking its front legs into Floyd | the air. You can imagine the holly wreath around its neck jostling as Floyd | the animal bounds away. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "No idea." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "We have to match them up, maybe?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||
Floyd | Made of sparkling silver, the figure stands about six inches tall at Floyd | the shoulder. The reindeer's antlers are small, but it has been Floyd | sculpted in a particularly energetic pose, kicking its front legs into Floyd | the air. You can imagine the holly wreath around its neck jostling as Floyd | the animal bounds away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x prancer" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "that pose does seem arguably to be prancing. Did you see other plates before I joined in?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "There's a gold panel." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open nale" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "So I guess there might be another statue?" | |||
| DavidW says, "We saw a copper panel, I think." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, copper." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the scented candle) Floyd | You open the scented candle and immediately it begins making your eyes Floyd | water with its piney, musky reek. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Silver Panel Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | The upper part of the shiny panel frames a thin, horizontal window of Floyd | glass. Beneath the window is a dial. A word, written in fancy Floyd | calligraphy, is visible in the window: "Prancer". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The puzzles appear to have randomized solutions." | |||
| Binder asks, "Oh, is this the control that had the silver statue emerge?" | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Vixen" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "They got the silver statue from the machine in the workshop." | |||
| Binder says, "Yeah, saw that, I just wondered if it was related." | ||||
| Binder says, "I mean, if that was the connection between the two things." | ||||
| Binder is still caffeinating and will be incoherent verging on unintelligible for some span here. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Silver Panel Floyd | This corner of Santaland would be indistinguishable from the Floyd | neighboring passages were it not for an unexpected feature (less Floyd | unexpected than it would have been earlier, though, since you have Floyd | already seen something just like it). Floyd | Floyd | Flush with the fake hedge-wall, you see a sparkling silver panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Explore some more?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search hedge" | ||||
Floyd | The leaves are fake, but dense. You find nothing else inside the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "sure" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | (Note: The right-hand side of the status bar displays a compass rose of Floyd | possible locations to travel. Locations you have not yet visited are Floyd | shown in red.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the snowy intersection of several narrow passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the north (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | west (back toward the entrance to Santaland), and the east (back to the Floyd | room with the silver panel). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Santa's Workshop Floyd | A small army of animatronic elves work jerkily amidst an array of Floyd | chugging and clanking toy producing machines. Dressed in festive red Floyd | and green aprons, clenching mallets and bellows and hand-powered Floyd | drills, they are Santa's sweatshop workforce (although you wonder how Floyd | much sweating one does at the North Pole, and then remind yourself that Floyd | these are animatronic elves who wouldn't sweat anyhow). Floyd | Floyd | A string of Christmas lights extends from a power outlet in the hedge Floyd | wall, trails across the floor of the workshop, and disappears into the Floyd | cluster of machines. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side, a lone robotic elf stands at a tall desk working Floyd | busily. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a red twinkle light here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the intersection of several snowy, narrow passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the west (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | south (back to the room with the silver panel), and the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ah." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x machines" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You are about to begin down the pathway to the north, when you see a Floyd | small man walking south down the path toward you. He is looking down, Floyd | watching his curly-toed shoes kick up drifts of styrofoam snow, and for Floyd | a moment he is oblivious to your presence. Floyd | Floyd | When he finally looks up and notices you, he leaps back with a jolt and Floyd | clutches tightly to the golden statue he is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | "Who...? Who are you? What are you doing here? Santaland is... It's... Floyd | We're closed!" Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Missed that earlier." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh. Golden statue." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | The man's ears and nose are slightly pointier than most people's, and Floyd | his limbs seem too long for his four-foot frame. Green tights hug Floyd | skinny legs and knobby knees, then tuck into huge curly-toed shoes. His Floyd | candy cane turtleneck is particularly, well, some might call it Floyd | "festive". (You would call it "ugly"). Floyd | Floyd | Speaking of adjectives, you search for one that could summarize his Floyd | overall appearance. You decide on "elfin". Floyd | Floyd | He carries a gold statue that looks like a reindeer (or, in any case, Floyd | something with antlers). It's a bit hard to get a good look because he Floyd | keeps moving it nervously out of your line of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||
Floyd | (the silver statue) Floyd | Made of sparkling silver, the figure stands about six inches tall at Floyd | the shoulder. The reindeer's antlers are small, but it has been Floyd | sculpted in a particularly energetic pose, kicking its front legs into Floyd | the air. You can imagine the holly wreath around its neck jostling as Floyd | the animal bounds away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gold statue" | ||||
Floyd | The statue seems to be made of gold, and it looks a bit like a Floyd | reindeer. Every time you try to get a good look, though, the small man Floyd | twists away and tries to shield the statue from your view. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||||
Floyd | The little man is clearly upset by your presence, but you figure it Floyd | couldn't hurt to ask for directions. "Look, I'm just trying to find the Floyd | parking lot." Floyd | Floyd | "I don't... You can't..." He pauses, staring at you and groping for a Floyd | response. He looks nervously back over his shoulder to the north, then Floyd | jabs a finger of his oversized, green-gloved hand over your shoulder to Floyd | the south. "That way!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||||
Floyd | You look south, in the direction the little man's pointing finger. "Is Floyd | that the way to the parking lot? Or..." Floyd | Floyd | "Just go that way!" He gestures so emphatically this time that he Floyd | almost drops his golden statue. "Get out of here, would you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||||
Floyd | "Please GO, would you!?" He jabs his finger to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||||
Floyd | "Just GO already!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| :05 # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smack man" | ||||
:05 # Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says, "Violence is not the answer in Santaland!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Good thinkin' ggg. Now let's just try the Ghostbusters approach." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take statue" | ||||
Floyd | (the gold statue) Floyd | The elf twists violently away from you and swats at your hand. "No Floyd | way!" he barks. "This one is mine. It's the most valuable of the set Floyd | and I've already got a buyer!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Which differentiates it from Zombieland." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "GET HIM" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the elf would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee" | |||
| DavidW says (to Binder), "quite" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show silver statue to man" | ||||
Floyd | The little man eyes the silver statue for a moment. "Mine's better," he Floyd | sneers. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or Westworld, if you've ever seen that." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Why that little ..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I never saw that before!" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show candle to man" | ||||
Floyd | Something about the little man's twitchy temperament combined with the Floyd | way the he's been clutching at that statue suggests that he's not to be Floyd | trusted with your things. In fact, he looks a little larcenous. Or is Floyd | that lecherous? Leprous? Anyhow: he looks like he wants to steal your Floyd | stuff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| :05 # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask man about statue" | ||||
Floyd | (To communicate in Escape From Santaland, TALK TO a character.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to man about statue" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to talk to the elf. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "ew, leprouscan" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the intersection of several snowy, narrow passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the west (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | south (back to the room with the silver panel), and the north. Floyd | Floyd | The little man glowers at you and clutches tightly to the gold statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Attempting north again." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You attempt to sidestep the little man and proceed on your quest for Floyd | the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | Quick as a whip the elf skitters up to you and starts grabbing at the Floyd | scented candle. As you twist to avoid his hot little hands, he swipes Floyd | your coat! Floyd | Floyd | "I bet this will be worth a few bucks!" he cries and scampers away to Floyd | the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "just 'talk to man'" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We did that." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I was trying for more." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "THat little jerk." | ||||
| DavidW says, "He stole your coat." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "And our keys." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| :05 # [clubfloyd] Jacqueline says, "I told you we should have 'got him'" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the silver reindeer statue Floyd | a scented candle (closed) Floyd | an impenetrable super-plastic package (inside which is a flashlight) Floyd | a Hickory Farms gift box (closed) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the silver reindeer statue Floyd | a scented candle (closed) Floyd | an impenetrable super-plastic package (inside which is a flashlight) Floyd | a Hickory Farms gift box (closed) Floyd | your coat Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ok." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "I suspect it is inevitable, but I like your optimism." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah.." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we'll try going north, and then again after he leaves." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You attempt to sidestep the little man and proceed on your quest for Floyd | the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | Quick as a whip the elf skitters up to you and starts grabbing at the Floyd | impenetrable super-plastic package. As you twist to avoid his hot Floyd | little hands, he swipes your coat! Floyd | Floyd | "I bet this will be worth a few bucks!" he cries and scampers away to Floyd | the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | You arrive just as the larcenous little elf starts to climb down a Floyd | secret staircase hidden beneath Santa's chair, which is tipped back at Floyd | an awkward angle. When he sees you, the elf yelps and grasps at the Floyd | underside of the trap door in an attempt to tip the chair back onto its Floyd | feet. Floyd | Floyd | In the process, he fumbles the gold statue, which skitters across the Floyd | astroturf as the trap-door-chair slams shut. With that, the elf and Floyd | your coat (and, unfortunately, your car keys) are gone. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath. Floyd | Floyd | The gold reindeer statue lies on its side in a pile of fake snow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take gold statue" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gold statue" | ||||
Floyd | Cast in solid gold, the reindeer figure stands about six inches tall at Floyd | the shoulder. The sculpture is unmistakably of Rudolph the reindeer. Floyd | His nose isn't red (it's gold, like the rest of him), yet the sculptor Floyd | has somehow made it seem to glow. It's also somewhat more bulbous than Floyd | you'd expect to see on a reindeer, which is a bit of a giveaway. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Well, good." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Good?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We have another reindeer. I presume that's good." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I am missing the 'good' part." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | The tree itself is very attractive, but somehow less impressive than Floyd | the colorful tree skirt spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x skirt" | ||||
Floyd | The nine reindeer have been beautifully rendered by the hand of an Floyd | expert rug maker. The reindeer are not identified (except for Rudolph, Floyd | whose nose gives him away), but they stand in single file between Floyd | Rudolph and Santa's present filled sleigh. Floyd | Floyd | The four reindeer behind Rudolph are standing on their back legs as Floyd | though ready to leap into the air. The next four have all hooves on the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | Alternating pairs of reindeer wear different decorations: the first two Floyd | reindeer behind Rudolph have holly wreaths around their necks. The next Floyd | two wear collars clustered with jingle bells. The third pair again wear Floyd | wreaths. The last two reindeer again wear bells. Floyd | Floyd | Every other reindeer, starting with the one behind Rudolph, has an Floyd | impressive rack of antlers. The antlers of the other reindeer are Floyd | smaller. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "But our car keys!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah.. I'm sure it's fine. :P" | ||||
| Binder asks, "chase him down?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x silver statue" | ||||
Floyd | Made of sparkling silver, the figure stands about six inches tall at Floyd | the shoulder. The reindeer's antlers are small, but it has been Floyd | sculpted in a particularly energetic pose, kicking its front legs into Floyd | the air. You can imagine the holly wreath around its neck jostling as Floyd | the animal bounds away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So here is our code for the reindeer." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "So.. dancer?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hoofs in air, holly wreath, small antlers." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hooves." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, I think your silver statue is Dancer." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take skirt" | ||||
Floyd | You work the fancy tree skirt out from under the Christmas tree and Floyd | shake off the fake snow and pine needles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, the code involves knowing the order they're called out in the poem, I'm guessing." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Right. Dasher and dancer, and so on." | ||||
| DavidW says, "huh. I didn't know that the skirt was takeable." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That's handy." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | Santa's chair, the place where untold numbers of children have screamed Floyd | and wet themselves in terror. It's a dramatic piece of furniture with Floyd | lots of gold decoration and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | The chair stands on a short, square platform which, as you saw when you Floyd | first entered the room, is actually a trap door that conceals a Floyd | stairway. The platform is marred with a bunch of scuff marks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pillows" | ||||
Floyd | Up close, Santa's chair looks pretty cheap. You're sure it looks Floyd | impressive in all of those holiday portraits, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search pillows" | ||||
Floyd | Up close, Santa's chair looks pretty cheap. You're sure it looks Floyd | impressive in all of those holiday portraits, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open trap door" | ||||
Floyd | The chair doesn't move other than to wobble a bit. As it does, though, Floyd | you hear the rattling of some kind of locking mechanism coming from the Floyd | front of the chair. Beneath it, actually, down by the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | The floor of Santaland is covered with a layer of padded astroturf Floyd | (which, in turn, is heavily dusted with a layer of fake snow). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x floor in front of chair" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the astroturf. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x astrotur" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x astroturf" | ||||
Floyd | The floor of Santaland is covered with a layer of padded astroturf Floyd | (which, in turn, is heavily dusted with a layer of fake snow). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x snow" | ||||
Floyd | The "snow" appears to be some kind of styrofoam shavings. Whatever it Floyd | is, static electricity has it clinging to your pantlegs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any locking mechanism on the outside of Santa's chair. Floyd | From the noise, it sounds like whatever it is works from the inside, Floyd | under the chair. There must be some other means of unlocking it. Floyd | Something sneaky, you suspect. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "A ha." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Reindeer Pen Floyd | Yeeouch. What a smell. Floyd | Floyd | Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a real, live reindeer living Floyd | in Santaland for a month must have been fired (or should have been, Floyd | based on the state of this place). There's a little rustic barn, a Floyd | trough, and a few synthetic pine trees... and everything is coated with Floyd | some combination of feces, oats, reindeer dander, and fake snow. Floyd | Floyd | However: mounted in the wall next to the barn glisters a shiny golden Floyd | panel. It's just like the other two you found, but with a little added Floyd | filth. Floyd | Floyd | The reindeer scratches at the astroturf with his hoof. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "I was testing exits. Does anyone want to go back?" | ||||
| Binder says, "Gold panel." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gold panel" | ||||
Floyd | The upper part of the shiny panel frames a thin, horizontal window of Floyd | glass. Beneath the window is a dial. A word, written in fancy Floyd | calligraphy, is visible in the window: "Dancer". Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I think we'll want to go back eventually to poke at the underchair." | |||
| Binder says, "but I'm in no hurry" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, but I meant right now. Ok." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Since I moved without asking. (I wanted a list of exits.)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x reindeer" | ||||
Floyd | (the animal) Floyd | The reindeer's shaggy hair is mostly a dull brown, but lighter around Floyd | its neck. He also has an impressive and, frankly, dangerous-looking Floyd | rack of antlers. Otherwise, he seems a bit bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pet reindeer" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the animal, the gold reindeer statue, or the silver Floyd | reindeer statue? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "animal" | ||||
Floyd | The reindeer growls when you reach for him. Better to keep your Floyd | distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nah, I'm good." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | As you reach for the dial, the reindeer growls at you. He doesn't seem Floyd | to like the idea of your touching the gold panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Every single time I come to clubfloyd the movement is nearly stochastic" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the fancy tree skirt Floyd | the gold reindeer statue and silver reindeer statue Floyd | a scented candle (closed) Floyd | an impenetrable super-plastic package (inside which is a flashlight) Floyd | a Hickory Farms gift box (closed) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gift box" | ||||
Floyd | The Hickory Farms Sausage and Cheese gift box is $35.99 worth of Floyd | artery-clogging goodness. "A great combo of rich and savory flavors," Floyd | the box claims. Uncle Felix is sure to love it. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "No crackers, hm?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Good thinking. Sadly, no." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put skirt on reindeer" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the animal, the gold reindeer statue, or the silver Floyd | reindeer statue? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| :05 # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "animal" | ||||
:05 # Floyd | Putting things on the reindeer would achieve nothing. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ride reindeer" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the animal, the gold reindeer statue, or the silver Floyd | reindeer statue? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(doesn't answer ggg)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ride animal" | ||||
Floyd | You make like you're about to kick one leg up over the reindeer's back, Floyd | but the squinty, not-on-your-life-buddy look he shoots you makes you Floyd | change your mind in a hurry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pet animal" | ||||
Floyd | The reindeer growls when you reach for him. Better to keep your Floyd | distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick animal" | ||||
Floyd | Have you no conscience? Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I don't think reindeer growl, do they>" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Aw." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Binder says, "maybe it's just clearing its throat in a menacing manner we interpret as a growl" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show gold statue to animal" | ||||
Floyd | The reindeer doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show candle to animal" | ||||
Floyd | The reindeer sniffs around the lid of the candle and seems interested. Floyd | At least, he seems a little less bored than usual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| :05 # [clubfloyd] genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open candle" | ||||
Floyd | You open the scented candle and immediately it begins making your eyes Floyd | water with its piney, musky reek. Who'd have thought it could smell any Floyd | worse in here? Floyd | Floyd | It takes a moment for the smell to reach the reindeer, but when he Floyd | finally gets a whiff of "Winter Wonderland" he lets out a snort that Floyd | you somehow interpret as glee. The reindeer eyes you, and your smelly Floyd | candle, with a passionate and unnerving intensity. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "oh pine" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop candle" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | As you reach for the dial, the reindeer snorts angrily. Despite being Floyd | somewhat more docile when he can smell that hideous candle, he still Floyd | doesn't seem to like the idea of your touching the gold panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "great, reindeer aphrodesiac" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take candle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Leaving it in the other room." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Drawn to the piney, musky scent of the candle, the reindeer lopes after Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | The reindeer studies you carefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop candle" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Reindeer Pen Floyd | Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a real, live reindeer living Floyd | in Santaland for a month must have been fired (or should have been, Floyd | based on the state of this place). There's a little rustic barn, a Floyd | trough, and a few synthetic pine trees... and everything is coated with Floyd | some combination of feces, oats, reindeer dander, and fake snow. Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the wall next to the barn glisters a shiny golden panel. Floyd | It's just like the other two you found, but with a little added filth. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Weird that it lets me take the candle back." | |||
| Binder asks, "why weird?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Prancer" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Good job, ggg." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Because the reindeer growls at everything else>" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Vixen" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Comet" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Cupid" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Donner" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Blitzen" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Rudolph" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gold statue" | ||||
Floyd | Cast in solid gold, the reindeer figure stands about six inches tall at Floyd | the shoulder. The sculpture is unmistakably of Rudolph the reindeer. Floyd | His nose isn't red (it's gold, like the rest of him), yet the sculptor Floyd | has somehow made it seem to glow. It's also somewhat more bulbous than Floyd | you'd expect to see on a reindeer, which is a bit of a giveaway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | The reindeer is licking at the wax in the scented candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take candle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Drawn to the piney, musky scent of the candle, the reindeer shambles Floyd | after you! Floyd | Floyd | Reindeer Pen Floyd | Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a real, live reindeer living Floyd | in Santaland for a month must have been fired (or should have been, Floyd | based on the state of this place). There's a little rustic barn, a Floyd | trough, and a few synthetic pine trees... and everything is coated with Floyd | some combination of feces, oats, reindeer dander, and fake snow. Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the wall next to the barn glisters a shiny golden panel. Floyd | It's just like the other two you found, but with a little added filth. Floyd | Floyd | The reindeer stares at you (and your scented candle) with great Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop candle" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Bye, bye, Mister Deer." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. We need to turn the silver dial, and I guess find one more statue." | |||
| DavidW says, "If you dropped the candle in Rudolph's room and couldn't take it again, you'd be deadlocked." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, but still :P" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x skirt" | ||||
Floyd | The nine reindeer have been beautifully rendered by the hand of an Floyd | expert rug maker. The reindeer are not identified (except for Rudolph, Floyd | whose nose gives him away), but they stand in single file between Floyd | Rudolph and Santa's present filled sleigh. Floyd | Floyd | The four reindeer behind Rudolph are standing on their back legs as Floyd | though ready to leap into the air. The next four have all hooves on the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | Alternating pairs of reindeer wear different decorations: the first two Floyd | reindeer behind Rudolph have holly wreaths around their necks. The next Floyd | two wear collars clustered with jingle bells. The third pair again wear Floyd | wreaths. The last two reindeer again wear bells. Floyd | Floyd | Every other reindeer, starting with the one behind Rudolph, has an Floyd | impressive rack of antlers. The antlers of the other reindeer are Floyd | smaller. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear skirt" | ||||
Floyd | Fetching though its holiday colors would undoubtedly be on you, I'm Floyd | afraid it's not that kind of skirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Why do you think just one more statue?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Just because that's all the panels we've found" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "(Sorry, cat still draped across my hands... hard to type.)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, at least one more." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "But gold, silver and copper make sense as a trio." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Depot Floyd | Here kids can (beg their parents to) pay an additional $5 to have their Floyd | picture taken aboard the H&O Railroad. In other malls, you recall Floyd | seeing Santaland setups with working trains chugging along through Floyd | their little Santa-scapes, but this one seems much less elaborate. Floyd | Floyd | In the hedge wall to the south stands the stony arch of a tunnel. From Floyd | the tunnel emerges a narrow set of train tracks. The tracks run north Floyd | across the turf and slip under a closed door in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The facade of a little ticket booth stands next to the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am concerned there might be platinum and plastic and more, too." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the narrow, snowy intersection of several passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the south (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | west (back to the room with the copper panel), and the east (back to Floyd | Santa's chair and its trap door). Floyd | Floyd | At the base of the hedge, you spot a pink piece of paper half-buried in Floyd | the synthetic snow. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Just looking." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Stay here, and then back east?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I hate un-clued exits." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | You pick up the paper and discover that, despite being printed on pink Floyd | paper, it's a rather official-looking letter: Floyd | Floyd | Dear Jerry, Floyd | Floyd | As we discussed on Tuesday, recent economic conditions have caused us Floyd | to eliminate several positions at the workshop. Regretfully, although Floyd | your toy-crafting has always been of the highest caliber, we were Floyd | forced to downsize your position. Floyd | Floyd | Accordingly, your employment will be terminated on December 22nd. Your Floyd | medical insurance plan will also be discontinued at that time. Floyd | Unfortunately, given our dire financial straits, we will be unable to Floyd | offer any severance package. Floyd | Floyd | I am happy to provide you a letter of reference, however, if you so Floyd | request. Floyd | Floyd | Sincerely, Floyd | S. Nicholas Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Awwww." | |||
| DavidW says, "ye ol' pink slip" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "East to the train room?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||
| DavidW says, "so, Jerry Otzovdagodz stole your coat." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Depot Floyd | Here kids can (beg their parents to) pay an additional $5 to have their Floyd | picture taken aboard the H&O Railroad. In other malls, you recall Floyd | seeing Santaland setups with working trains chugging along through Floyd | their little Santa-scapes, but this one seems much less elaborate. Floyd | Floyd | In the hedge wall to the south stands the stony arch of a tunnel. From Floyd | the tunnel emerges a narrow set of train tracks. The tracks run north Floyd | across the turf and slip under a closed door in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The facade of a little ticket booth stands next to the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x booth" | ||||
Floyd | The facade is just a prop attached to the holly hedge. There's a little Floyd | fake ticket window with a sign hanging on the inside that reads "Back Floyd | soon!" The H&O Railroad logo is painted on the wall of the booth next Floyd | to the window, and under that there is a train schedule posted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x schedule" | ||||
Floyd | The schedule simply reads: North Pole trains depart regularly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tracks" | ||||
Floyd | The train tracks run north and south, cutting about ten feet across the Floyd | astroturf. To the north, they disappear under an wooden door with a Floyd | fluted glass doorknob. To the south, they lead into the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tunnel" | ||||
Floyd | The fake-stone surround of the tunnel is made from something like Floyd | styrofoam or papier-mâché. It is set in the hedge wall to the south and Floyd | a narrow set of train tracks runs north out of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | A wooden door with a fluted glass doorknob. It seems very out of place Floyd | in the middle of a hedge (even a fake hedge). The train tracks Floyd | disappear under it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x doorknob" | ||||
Floyd | A wooden door with a fluted glass doorknob. It seems very out of place Floyd | in the middle of a hedge (even a fake hedge). The train tracks Floyd | disappear under it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take doorknob" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under door" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "South?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "f" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | You've worked your way pretty deep into the tunnel and it is really too Floyd | dark to see anything. The opening of the tunnel is to the north and a Floyd | bit of light filters in from the mall, but just enough for you to find Floyd | your way back out. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Flashlight time!" | |||
| Doug has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | It seems it won't be so easy. This is that Fort Knox plastic that's Floyd | going to require some kind of a blade to get into. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| :05 # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw flashlight" | ||||
:05 # Floyd | Careful. Dropping the impenetrable super-plastic package here in the :05 # Floyd | dark would be a particularly bad idea. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Heh" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Depot Floyd | Here kids can (beg their parents to) pay an additional $5 to have their Floyd | picture taken aboard the H&O Railroad. In other malls, you recall Floyd | seeing Santaland setups with working trains chugging along through Floyd | their little Santa-scapes, but this one seems much less elaborate. Floyd | Floyd | In the hedge wall to the south stands the stony arch of a tunnel. From Floyd | the tunnel emerges a narrow set of train tracks. The tracks run north Floyd | across the turf and slip under a closed door in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The facade of a little ticket booth stands next to the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "glare angrily at plastic package" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Nice save by the author, blocking dropping in darkness." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So. Have we seen something shar?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "er, sharp?" | ||||
| Binder asks, "reindeer teeth?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "You might be onto something." | ||||
| Binder says, "NO I ... oh on TO" | ||||
| :05 # [clubfloyd] Binder says, "maybe if we pine scent the plastic with a candle rub we can get the reindeer to gnaw it open" | genericgeekgirl says, "Heh. Yeah, ok." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Reindeer Pen Floyd | Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a real, live reindeer living Floyd | in Santaland for a month must have been fired (or should have been, Floyd | based on the state of this place). There's a little rustic barn, a Floyd | trough, and a few synthetic pine trees... and everything is coated with Floyd | some combination of feces, oats, reindeer dander, and fake snow. Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the wall next to the barn glisters a shiny golden panel. Floyd | It's just like the other two you found, but with a little added filth. Floyd | Floyd | The reindeer seems to be trying to stick his nose into the scented Floyd | candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | (from DavidW) Glinda looks like she's about to say something, but it's not the end of the movie yet. | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rub candle on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to rub the scented candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "rub candle" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have time to clean it up when you get home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take candle" | ||||
Floyd | You pick up the candle and discover that it is slick with reindeer Floyd | drool. Excellent. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ew" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh right. We need that as a gift :P" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "scoop candle" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x drool" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe we can open with it our keys. Oh, wait." | |||
| 12: # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show flashlight to animal" | ||||
12: # Floyd | The reindeer doesn't seem interested. 12: # Floyd | 12: # Floyd | > | ||||
| 12: # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
12: # Floyd | You are carrying: 12: # Floyd | a scented candle (open and stinking up the place with its piney, 12: # Floyd | musky reek) 12: # Floyd | the letter 12: # Floyd | the fancy tree skirt 12: # Floyd | the gold reindeer statue and silver reindeer statue 12: # Floyd | an impenetrable super-plastic package (inside which is a flashlight) 12: # Floyd | a Hickory Farms gift box (closed) 12: # Floyd | 12: # Floyd | > | ||||
| 12: # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open flashlight with reindeer statue" | ||||
12: # Floyd | Which do you mean, the gold reindeer statue or the silver reindeer 12: # Floyd | statue? 12: # Floyd | 12: # Floyd | > | ||||
| 12: # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "silver" | ||||
12: # Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. 12: # Floyd | 12: # Floyd | > | ||||
| 12: # [clubfloyd] DavidW asks (of ggg), "Nice try, tryping to get Rudolph to chew it open?" | ||||
| 12: # [clubfloyd] genericgeekgirl says, "It was an idea." | ||||
| 12: # [clubfloyd] DavidW says, "It was a reasonable guess." | ||||
| 12: # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tear package with silver statue" | ||||
12: # Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. 12: # Floyd | 12: # Floyd | > | ||||
| 12: # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open gift box" | ||||
12: # Floyd | You open the Hickory Farms gift box, revealing a summer sausage, a 12: # Floyd | cheese log, a serrated knife, and a bunch of straw. 12: # Floyd | 12: # Floyd | > | ||||
| 12: # [clubfloyd] genericgeekgirl exclaims, "!!!!" | ||||
| 12: # [clubfloyd] DavidW says, "TA DAAAA" | genericgeekgirl says, "They don't really come with knives." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "!!!!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "sweet" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "(I checked their website.)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open flashlight with knife" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the serrated knife) Floyd | After a moment's pause, you decide that you can still give the Floyd | flashlight as a gift even if it's not in the original packaging (let's Floyd | hope Aunt Maxine doesn't want to return it) and saw your way through Floyd | the not-so-impenetrable-after-all plastic with the serrated knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline chuckles. | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flashlight) Floyd | Nothing happens, most probably because there are no batteries in the Floyd | flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh right." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Bah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "They mentioned that." | ||||
| DavidW says, "they did" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Minor detail, that." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
:05 # Floyd | Drawn to the piney, musky scent of the candle, the reindeer shuffles :05 # Floyd | after you! :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | Pictures With Santa :05 # Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles :05 # Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change :05 # Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to :05 # Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a :05 # Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted :05 # Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There :05 # Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the :05 # Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, :05 # Floyd | spread out beneath it. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | The reindeer studies you carefully. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close candle" | ||||
Floyd | You close the scented candle and the fir-tree-plus-wet-fur funk Floyd | gradually begins to dissipate. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds, the reindeer goes back to ignoring you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open candle" | ||||
Floyd | You open the scented candle and immediately it begins stinking up the Floyd | place with its piney, musky reek. Floyd | Floyd | Again: It takes a moment for the smell to reach the reindeer, but when Floyd | he finally gets a whiff of "Winter Wonderland" he emits a grunt of joy Floyd | (or what sounds to you vaguely like joy). The reindeer eyes you, and Floyd | your smelly candle, with a passionate and unnerving intensity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Drawn to the piney, musky scent of the candle, the reindeer shambles Floyd | after you! Floyd | Floyd | Reindeer Pen Floyd | Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a real, live reindeer living Floyd | in Santaland for a month must have been fired (or should have been, Floyd | based on the state of this place). There's a little rustic barn, a Floyd | trough, and a few synthetic pine trees... and everything is coated with Floyd | some combination of feces, oats, reindeer dander, and fake snow. Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the wall next to the barn glisters a shiny golden panel. Floyd | It's just like the other two you found, but with a little added filth. Floyd | Floyd | The reindeer studies you carefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close candle" | ||||
Floyd | You close the scented candle and the fir-tree-plus-wet-fur funk Floyd | gradually begins to dissipate. Floyd | Floyd | After a few seconds, the reindeer goes back to ignoring you. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says (to reindeer), "Stay." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You haven't explored quite everywhere yet." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "What can we steal batteries from? Mhm, ok. Hmm." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the intersection of several snowy, narrow passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the west (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | south (back to the room with the silver panel), and the north (back to Floyd | Santa's chair and its trap door). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Depot Floyd | Here kids can (beg their parents to) pay an additional $5 to have their Floyd | picture taken aboard the H&O Railroad. In other malls, you recall Floyd | seeing Santaland setups with working trains chugging along through Floyd | their little Santa-scapes, but this one seems much less elaborate. Floyd | Floyd | In the hedge wall to the south stands the stony arch of a tunnel. From Floyd | the tunnel emerges a narrow set of train tracks. The tracks run north Floyd | across the turf and slip under a closed door in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The facade of a little ticket booth stands next to the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the snowy, narrow intersection of several passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the west (back to the train depot) and the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | In the wall to the east is a door that someone has tried, Floyd | unsuccessfully, to camouflage. Bits of fake holly are stuck to it, but Floyd | not enough that it blends in with the rest of the hedges. Plus, they Floyd | did nothing to hide the shiny doorknob. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "east, then north?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x holly" | ||||
Floyd | The "hedges" are about ten feet high and covered in waxy, plastic holly Floyd | leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x doorknob" | ||||
Floyd | Someone has tried, but not very hard, to camouflage the door. Bits of Floyd | fake holly are stuck to it, but not enough that it could ever blend in Floyd | with the rest of the hedges. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the camouflaged door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Elves' Break Room Floyd | This was the break room for the Santaland elves (meaning: the human Floyd | teenagers who worked here in Santaland during their winter breaks from Floyd | school). Once, this might have been an okay place to hang out with your Floyd | fellow slackers and talk about how lame all of this Santaland junk is, Floyd | but now the room has been trashed, even by teenage slacker standards. Floyd | Floyd | All of the drawers in the rickety desk have been dumped out onto the Floyd | floor. Everything has been swept off the short rack of shelves: a Floyd | scattering of magazines, a potted plant, a whole bunch of cup-o-noodle Floyd | instant lunches. A can of ground coffee was opened, dug through, and Floyd | dropped. Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. Coffee, but no coffee pot. Instant noodles, but no microwave. A TV Floyd | remote control but no TV. It seems that all of the appliances have, Floyd | shall we say, walked off. Wonder who might be responsible for that... Floyd | Floyd | In the wall to the west is the door back into Santaland. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x remote" | ||||
Floyd | The remote control for the TV that was stolen from the break room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open remote" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the TV remote control) Floyd | You snap open the battery compartment on the TV remote control, remove Floyd | the pair of AA batteries, and click the compartment closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take noodles" | ||||
Floyd | There's all sorts of post-looting debris here. None of it seems to be Floyd | of much use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search debris" | ||||
Floyd | There's all sorts of post-looting debris here. None of it seems to be Floyd | of much use. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "woo batteries" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put batteries in flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You put the pair of AA batteries into the flashlight and snap shut the Floyd | battery compartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| 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), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the snowy, narrow intersection of several passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the west (back to the train depot) and the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | In the wall to the east is a door that someone has tried, Floyd | unsuccessfully, to camouflage. Bits of fake holly are stuck to it, but Floyd | not enough that it blends in with the rest of the hedges. Plus, they Floyd | did nothing to hide the shiny doorknob. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "checking north" | |||
| :05 # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
:05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | Mall Exit :05 # Floyd | AHA! You knew you'd find it eventually! :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | You stand on the border between Santaland and the rest of the world, :05 # Floyd | where the maze of fake shrubbery finally gives way to shiny, angular :05 # Floyd | architecture. Who'd have thought you would be so happy to once again :05 # Floyd | see polished PVC flooring. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | The mall exit lies just to the north: two sets of shiny glass doors and :05 # Floyd | then freedom. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the snowy, narrow intersection of several passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the west (back to the train depot) and the Floyd | north (back toward the mall exit). Floyd | Floyd | In the wall to the east is a door that someone has tried, Floyd | unsuccessfully, to camouflage. Bits of fake holly are stuck to it, but Floyd | not enough that it blends in with the rest of the hedges. Plus, they Floyd | did nothing to hide the shiny doorknob. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Good to know." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Depot Floyd | Here kids can (beg their parents to) pay an additional $5 to have their Floyd | picture taken aboard the H&O Railroad. In other malls, you recall Floyd | seeing Santaland setups with working trains chugging along through Floyd | their little Santa-scapes, but this one seems much less elaborate. Floyd | Floyd | In the hedge wall to the south stands the stony arch of a tunnel. From Floyd | the tunnel emerges a narrow set of train tracks. The tracks run north Floyd | across the turf and slip under a closed door in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The facade of a little ticket booth stands next to the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the flashlight on. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Into the tunnel." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tunnel Floyd | The plaster cave, you are somewhat disappointed to note (now that Floyd | you've got a light in here), is just a dead end. The narrow train Floyd | tracks terminate here and lead north out of the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | A cartoony, brightly-colored locomotive sits on the tracks. It is large Floyd | enough for two kids (or perhaps one adult) to sit on. Floyd | Floyd | On the ground behind the locomotive sits a small electric generator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x locomotive" | ||||
Floyd | The locomotive is a rideable kid-sized version, which means you can Floyd | mount the train (and, once you are on the thing, dismount it). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "mount train" | ||||
Floyd | You mount the locomotive. You're a bit bigger than the usual clientele, Floyd | but you manage to find a comfortable-enough way to straddle it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x generator" | ||||
Floyd | A small electric generator sits on the ground behind the locomotive. Floyd | The two devices are coupled together and, you gather, the generator is Floyd | the power source for the vehicle. It is completely silent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on generator" | ||||
Floyd | With a hum and a puff of ozone, the generator powers up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dismount" | ||||
Floyd | You dismount the locomotive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x generator" | ||||
Floyd | A small electric generator sits on the ground behind the locomotive. Floyd | The two devices are coupled together and, you gather, the generator is Floyd | the power source for the vehicle. It hums softly. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "mount train" | ||||
Floyd | You mount the locomotive. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Controls somewhere, I guess." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x train" | ||||
Floyd | The locomotive is a rideable kid-sized version, which means you can Floyd | mount the train (and, once you are on the thing, dismount it). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ride train" | ||||
Floyd | You are already riding the locomotive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drive train" | ||||
Floyd | To operate the locomotive, mount it and then GO or DRIVE in a Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "go n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Depot (on the locomotive) Floyd | Here kids can (beg their parents to) pay an additional $5 to have their Floyd | picture taken aboard the H&O Railroad. In other malls, you recall Floyd | seeing Santaland setups with working trains chugging along through Floyd | their little Santa-scapes, but this one seems much less elaborate. Floyd | Floyd | In the hedge wall to the south stands the stony arch of a tunnel. From Floyd | the tunnel emerges a narrow set of train tracks. The tracks run north Floyd | across the turf and slip under a closed door in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The facade of a little ticket booth stands next to the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "go n" | ||||
Floyd | The train chugs toward the quaint wooden door. Just as collision seems Floyd | inevitable, the door pops open and the train plows headlong not into Floyd | the mall, as you would have expected, but into a long dark corridor. Floyd | Floyd | The train continues through the disorienting darkness for some time, Floyd | then suddenly emerges (you're not quite sure how) into startling Floyd | territory. Floyd | Floyd | Snowy Landscape (on the locomotive) Floyd | You find yourself in the middle of a grove of pine trees with the full Floyd | expanse of the night sky opening above you. A full moon shines down and Floyd | sparkles off the fluffy foot of snow coating the landscape, and the fat Floyd | flakes that continue to fall lazily. Floyd | Floyd | A red and white striped signpost juts out of the snow bearing a Floyd | snow-flecked sign. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby stands a small building. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ah" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x signpost" | ||||
Floyd | The sign, in a sort of chunky, old-timey lettering reads: NORTH POLE. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x building" | ||||
Floyd | The charming cabin seems to hunch itself contentedly in the snow, Floyd | nesting like some furry arctic animal. It has a steep, shingled roof Floyd | and dark wooden siding which frames a door and a window. Smoke drifts Floyd | from the chimney. Icicles hang from the eaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You climb off the locomotive and approach the workshop door. Floyd | Floyd | You are, by this point in your evening, less than totally surprised to Floyd | find that the door to the little cabin is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x snow" | ||||
Floyd | A thick coating of snow covers the landscape as far as you can see, and Floyd | sparkling white flakes catch the moonlight as they drift lazily down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Believe it or not, this actually is unexpected for me." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Heh." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search snow" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing you have would seem to be a candidate for unlocking this door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to knock on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| :05 # genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
:05 # Floyd | It seems there's nobody home. :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The cabin door is nothing particularly interesting. Very practical and Floyd | tight-fitting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The simple four-pane window has thick glass. Through it you can see the Floyd | inside of the cabin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | The window is tightly fitted into its frame to protect against the Floyd | weather. You can't open it from out here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, you're starting to get desperate, but vandalism? You'd be getting Floyd | coal in your stocking until you're in a home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look through window" | ||||
Floyd | You peer through the window into the cabin and see a cozy sort of den. Floyd | To the left of the window, an overstuffed armchair stands by a Floyd | crackling fireplace. To the right, there is a large work table with Floyd | papers scattered across it. On the table stands a reindeer statue made Floyd | of what appears to be copper. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Want." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the gold reindeer statue, the silver reindeer Floyd | statue, or the copper reindeer statue? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x copper statue" | ||||
Floyd | Crafted of shiny copper, the reindeer (like the other statues) is about Floyd | six inches tall at the shoulder. You can practically hear the jingle Floyd | bells on the reindeer's collar as it begins a jump into the air. The Floyd | poised muscles of the leaping stag are as carefully sculpted as the Floyd | elaborate antlers. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we don't need it." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x skirt" | ||||
Floyd | The nine reindeer have been beautifully rendered by the hand of an Floyd | expert rug maker. The reindeer are not identified (except for Rudolph, Floyd | whose nose gives him away), but they stand in single file between Floyd | Rudolph and Santa's present filled sleigh. Floyd | Floyd | The four reindeer behind Rudolph are standing on their back legs as Floyd | though ready to leap into the air. The next four have all hooves on the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | Alternating pairs of reindeer wear different decorations: the first two Floyd | reindeer behind Rudolph have holly wreaths around their necks. The next Floyd | two wear collars clustered with jingle bells. The third pair again wear Floyd | wreaths. The last two reindeer again wear bells. Floyd | Floyd | Every other reindeer, starting with the one behind Rudolph, has an Floyd | impressive rack of antlers. The antlers of the other reindeer are Floyd | smaller. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "No?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We just need to know what it looks like." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's odd, but ggg is correct." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Prancer?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Jingle bells, front hooves up, large antlers." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I feel this is a weakness in the puzzle design, since we got the first two statues, it's natural to think we can get the third as well." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Seems more like a deliberate tease, than a weakness. Because if you think you can get it, and think you need it, you might spend a lot of time trying to get into the cabin." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, you came from the south, but now the train tracks stretch on for Floyd | what seems like miles in that direction. Surely you can't make it on Floyd | foot (especially without your coat). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "mount train" | ||||
Floyd | You mount the locomotive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | As the locomotive starts along the track, a sudden gust of wind whips Floyd | up a white wall of snow. A moment later you find yourself back in the Floyd | mall, a shower of styrofoam shavings drifting to the floor around you. Floyd | Floyd | Depot (on the locomotive) Floyd | Here kids can (beg their parents to) pay an additional $5 to have their Floyd | picture taken aboard the H&O Railroad. In other malls, you recall Floyd | seeing Santaland setups with working trains chugging along through Floyd | their little Santa-scapes, but this one seems much less elaborate. Floyd | Floyd | In the hedge wall to the south stands the stony arch of a tunnel. From Floyd | the tunnel emerges a narrow set of train tracks. The tracks run north Floyd | across the turf and slip under a closed door in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The facade of a little ticket booth stands next to the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dismount" | ||||
Floyd | You dismount the locomotive. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "w" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the narrow, snowy intersection of several passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the south (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | west (back to the room with the copper panel), and the east (back to Floyd | Santa's chair and its trap door). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Copper Panel Floyd | This corner of Santaland would be indistinguishable from the Floyd | neighboring passages were it not for an unexpected feature (less Floyd | unexpected than it would have been earlier, though, since you have Floyd | already seen something just like it). Floyd | Floyd | Mounted in the fake hedge-wall you see a glinting copper panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Dasher" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Dancer" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Prancer" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Off to find the silver panel again." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the narrow, snowy intersection of several passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the south (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | west (back to the room with the copper panel), and the east (back to Floyd | Santa's chair and its trap door). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Santa's Workshop Floyd | A small army of animatronic elves work jerkily amidst an array of Floyd | chugging and clanking toy producing machines. Dressed in festive red Floyd | and green aprons, clenching mallets and bellows and hand-powered Floyd | drills, they are Santa's sweatshop workforce (although you wonder how Floyd | much sweating one does at the North Pole, and then remind yourself that Floyd | these are animatronic elves who wouldn't sweat anyhow). Floyd | Floyd | A string of Christmas lights extends from a power outlet in the hedge Floyd | wall, trails across the floor of the workshop, and disappears into the Floyd | cluster of machines. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side, a lone robotic elf stands at a tall desk working Floyd | busily. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a red twinkle light here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd like to throw an icicle down the chimney to put out the fire and follow it inside." | |||
| Binder says, "that's how I enter most cabins IRL" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Should we try that? I thought about trying to get on the roof, but then saw the fire." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Haha." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we can get onto the roof." | ||||
| Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "Weird" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Just I bumped, though, not Perry. Good." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the snowy intersection of several narrow passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the north (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | west (back toward the entrance to Santaland), and the east (back to the Floyd | room with the silver panel). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Silver Panel Floyd | This corner of Santaland would be indistinguishable from the Floyd | neighboring passages were it not for an unexpected feature (less Floyd | unexpected than it would have been earlier, though, since you have Floyd | already seen something just like it). Floyd | Floyd | Flush with the fake hedge-wall, you see a sparkling silver panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Comet" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Cupid" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Donner" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Blitzen" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Rudolph" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Dasher" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the dial and the word "Dancer" appears in the window. Floyd | Floyd | Faintly, a little chime plays somewhere to the north. It's over before Floyd | you can really catch it, but it was either "Ha-a-a-le-lu-jah!" from Floyd | Handel's Messiah or "Fi-i-i-ve Go-o-o-ld Rings", you can't be sure. Floyd | Anyhow, you take it as a good sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Oooh." | |||
| Binder says, "we did something good and smart" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe we unlocked the chair?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Although, how did the elf get in if the dials weren't turned?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the snowy intersection of several narrow passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the north (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | west (back toward the entrance to Santaland), and the east (back to the Floyd | room with the silver panel). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance to Santaland Floyd | Something about the 10-foot tall hedges and the squishy, padded Floyd | astroturf under your feet has transported you away from the Floyd | migraine-inducing chaos of the mall. But now the narrow pathways and Floyd | tall hedges make you feel antsy and claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the north, the east, and the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "elfin magic" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the intersection of several narrow, snowy passages. | Binder says, "it's not just for cookies" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the south (back toward the entrance to Floyd | Santaland), the north (back to the room with the copper panel), and the Floyd | east (back to Santa's workshop). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "It was unlocked to start with and he pushed a switch inside?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Argh. Last." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Santa's Workshop Floyd | A small army of animatronic elves work jerkily amidst an array of Floyd | chugging and clanking toy producing machines. Dressed in festive red Floyd | and green aprons, clenching mallets and bellows and hand-powered Floyd | drills, they are Santa's sweatshop workforce (although you wonder how Floyd | much sweating one does at the North Pole, and then remind yourself that Floyd | these are animatronic elves who wouldn't sweat anyhow). Floyd | Floyd | A string of Christmas lights extends from a power outlet in the hedge Floyd | wall, trails across the floor of the workshop, and disappears into the Floyd | cluster of machines. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side, a lone robotic elf stands at a tall desk working Floyd | busily. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a red twinkle light here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the intersection of several narrow, snowy passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the south (back toward the entrance to Floyd | Santaland), the north (back to the room with the copper panel), and the Floyd | east (back to Santa's workshop). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Santa's Workshop Floyd | A small army of animatronic elves work jerkily amidst an array of Floyd | chugging and clanking toy producing machines. Dressed in festive red Floyd | and green aprons, clenching mallets and bellows and hand-powered Floyd | drills, they are Santa's sweatshop workforce (although you wonder how Floyd | much sweating one does at the North Pole, and then remind yourself that Floyd | these are animatronic elves who wouldn't sweat anyhow). Floyd | Floyd | A string of Christmas lights extends from a power outlet in the hedge Floyd | wall, trails across the floor of the workshop, and disappears into the Floyd | cluster of machines. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side, a lone robotic elf stands at a tall desk working Floyd | busily. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a red twinkle light here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the intersection of several snowy, narrow passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the west (back to Santa's workshop), the Floyd | south (back to the room with the silver panel), and the north (back to Floyd | Santa's chair and its trap door). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair stands in the center of the room. It's a Floyd | dramatic affair, a throne really: lots of ostentatious gold-painted Floyd | filigree and red velvet pillows. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open chair" | ||||
Floyd | You push against Santa's big comfy chair and the platform tips slowly Floyd | back on a hidden hinge. Beneath the chair, a stairway leads downwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "yay" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "woo" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | The stairs go on for a long way. Eventually you reach the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | Deep Beneath the Mall Floyd | The cramped little cave-room is hoarded with piles of merchandise. It Floyd | appears to be a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the mall is just a small, bright square far above you. Floyd | Floyd | But there, lying among the debris, is your coat! Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a digital camera, coffee pot, television, and Floyd | microwave oven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take coat" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | digital camera: It's tempting to just "acquire" a few extra gifts on Floyd | the cheap, but you have more of a conscience than to take the Floyd | already-stolen digital camera. Floyd | coffee pot: It's tempting to just "acquire" a few extra gifts on the Floyd | cheap, but you have more of a conscience than to take the Floyd | already-stolen coffee pot. Floyd | television: It's tempting to just "acquire" a few extra gifts on the Floyd | cheap, but you have more of a conscience than to take the Floyd | already-stolen television. Floyd | microwave oven: It's tempting to just "acquire" a few extra gifts on Floyd | the cheap, but you have more of a conscience than to take the Floyd | already-stolen microwave oven. Floyd | keys: You still won't need those until you find your car, but maybe now Floyd | would be a good time to go ahead and wear your coat. Floyd | summer sausage: Taken. Floyd | cheese log: Taken. Floyd | bunch of straw: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Darn." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "That was, in fact, my goal." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear coat" | ||||
Floyd | You put on your coat (not willing to run the risk of losing it again). Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "second-hand stealing causes cancer" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "How about our car keys?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pocket" | ||||
Floyd | In the pocket are your keys. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "It says we don't need them yet." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "But we have them." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Deep Beneath the Mall Floyd | The cramped little cave-room is hoarded with piles of merchandise. It Floyd | appears to be a dead end. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the mall is just a small, bright square far above you. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a digital camera, coffee pot, television, and Floyd | microwave oven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I just wanted to make sure we had them, yeah." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back up the long, dark staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Pictures With Santa Floyd | The heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles Floyd | around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change Floyd | the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to Floyd | this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Floyd | Floyd | Santa's big comfy chair is tipped back, revealing the hidden staircase Floyd | underneath. The stairs lead down into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There Floyd | are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the Floyd | colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, Floyd | spread out beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Depot Floyd | Here kids can (beg their parents to) pay an additional $5 to have their Floyd | picture taken aboard the H&O Railroad. In other malls, you recall Floyd | seeing Santaland setups with working trains chugging along through Floyd | their little Santa-scapes, but this one seems much less elaborate. Floyd | Floyd | In the hedge wall to the south stands the stony arch of a tunnel. From Floyd | the tunnel emerges a narrow set of train tracks. The tracks run north Floyd | across the turf and slip under a closed door in the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The brightly-colored locomotive sits on the tracks. Floyd | Floyd | The facade of a little ticket booth stands next to the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in Santaland Floyd | You are at the snowy, narrow intersection of several passages. Floyd | Floyd | From here, pathways lead to the west (back to the train depot) and the Floyd | north (back toward the mall exit). Floyd | Floyd | In the wall to the east is a door that someone has tried, Floyd | unsuccessfully, to camouflage. Bits of fake holly are stuck to it, but Floyd | not enough that it blends in with the rest of the hedges. Plus, they Floyd | did nothing to hide the shiny doorknob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Mall Exit Floyd | You stand on the border between Santaland and the rest of the world, Floyd | where the maze of fake shrubbery finally gives way to shiny, angular Floyd | architecture. Who'd have thought you would be so happy to once again Floyd | see polished PVC flooring. Floyd | Floyd | The mall exit lies just to the north: two sets of shiny glass doors and Floyd | then freedom. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Out?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Finally! After a long and unexpectedly difficult night, you pass Floyd | through the sliding glass doors and step out into the chilly parking Floyd | lot. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a flash of guilt about keeping the gold reindeer statue and Floyd | the silver reindeer statue, but after a moment's reflection about all Floyd | the elf has put you through, that feeling passes. Floyd | Floyd | Now... where the heck is your car? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** CONGRATULATIONS and MERRY CHRISTMAS *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "woohoo" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Mall Exit Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "and we got loot" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop gold statue" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop silver statue" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
:05 # Floyd | You are carrying: :05 # Floyd | a bunch of straw :05 # Floyd | a cheese log :05 # Floyd | a summer sausage :05 # Floyd | your coat (being worn) :05 # Floyd | a TV remote control :05 # Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) :05 # Floyd | a plastic husk :05 # Floyd | a serrated knife :05 # Floyd | a scented candle (closed) :05 # Floyd | the letter :05 # Floyd | the fancy tree skirt :05 # Floyd | a Hickory Farms gift box (open but empty) :05 # Floyd | :05 # Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put log in box" | ||||
Floyd | You put the cheese log into the Hickory Farms gift box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put sausage in box" | ||||
Floyd | You put the summer sausage into the Hickory Farms gift box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put straw in box" | ||||
Floyd | You put the bunch of straw into the Hickory Farms gift box. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "heh heh" | |||
| Binder says, "ahem" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put knife in box" | ||||
Floyd | You put the serrated knife into the Hickory Farms gift box. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "There." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "She's taking the Lost Pig approach to the win." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "They'll never know." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Finally! After a long and unexpectedly difficult night, you pass Floyd | through the sliding glass doors and step out into the chilly parking Floyd | lot. Floyd | Floyd | Now... where the heck is your car? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** CONGRATULATIONS and MERRY CHRISTMAS *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
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, "aw" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I know it didn't say it, but I was hopin'" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "We kept the skirt, though." | ||||
| Binder says, "that was a fun game! I'm glad I caught part of it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to ggg), "heh. So we did." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh, yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, great how it coincidentally fell on Christmas, too." | ||||
| ASchultz I had fun lurking, too...couldn't say much since I'd played it. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for driving, ggg." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, hi, ASchultz." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Didn't see you there." | ||||
| ASchultz says, "Hello Jacqueline, and thanks for hosting." | ||||
| ASchultz says, "I didn't make much noise. I just figured I'd blend in for my 1st time." | ||||
| ASchultz says, "And hello and Merry Christmas to everyone else, too, of course." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Next year perhaps we'll have a Chanukah game. :)" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Ha" | ||||
| Binder exclaims, "eight of them!" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Binder), "Great idea!" | ||||
| ASchultz clubfloyd Who knows, we may have a new year's themed game next week | ||||
| DavidW says, "Dare To Dreidle" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Having recently experienced the Dreidle Dome at inky's Chanukah Chilarity party, I wouldn't count out a game like Dare to Dreidle." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ASchultz), "Yeah, we will hopefully have New Year's Speeds next week." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Dreidle Dome? Is that like a Popamatic Trouble Bubble?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "People were asking if we could go another week, but I'd prefer to do it next week. I still need to confirm for sure with Tale." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "More like Thunderdome, but with Dreidles." | ||||
| ASchultz says, "perhaps someone could make an IF version of the movie The Hebrew Hammer." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "There were dreidles flying everywhere. It was pretty intense." | ||||
| Binder says (to Jacqueline), "I was hoping that's what it was." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Hopefully I can make it for at least a few games." | ||||
| Ellison says, "there was a dreidle game a bunch of years ago" | ||||
| ASchultz says, "but hopefully I'll add to the people who've already mentioned they wrote a game. I know Firion wants to write one too." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, that's all for this week - next week we'll hopefully have the latest New Year's Speeds." | ||||
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