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| Jacqueline taps the mic. "Testing, testing... is this thing on? Can you all hear me?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I SAID, CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME?" | ||||
| Fang says, "NO" | ||||
| DavidW says, "nope" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe it's not on." | ||||
| vimes gestues frantically from the sound booth. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "huh. Well, anyway, before we begin today, we have a guest speaker." | ||||
| zarf says, "I can hear you and I'm not even in the same room" | ||||
| ASchultz waves | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to vimes), "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I would like to introduce Mr. Maga, who has a public service announcement." | ||||
| maga asks, "Have you enjoyed IF this past year on ClubFloyd?" | ||||
| zarf says, "<soft classical music>" | ||||
| maga says, "(or, y'know, lesser IF outlets)" | ||||
| vimes laboriously spells out in ASL letters: 'Y-O-U-A-R-E-J-A-U-N-T-Y-A-N-D-S-T-Y-L-I-S-H" | ||||
| maga asks, "Then why not show your appreciation by nominating a game for the XYZZY Awards?" | ||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| vimes exits, pursued by bear. | ||||
| Fang murmurs, "phew, I thought this was going to be a copyright notice." | ||||
| maga says, "Ten minutes of your time could help almost dozens of attention-starved IF authors. So go to [LINK]">LINK] and let your voice be heard." | ||||
| maga says, "Also, stay in school, wash behind your ears and only do the cool drugs. Thankyou." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Um, thank you." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Now, on with the Clubbing." | ||||
| (from Jacqueline) Jacqueline says, "Bring out the baby seal!" | ||||
| Fang says, "bring on the ba... timing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, one sec." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "i can hear youooo" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so next one is hugoorn?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's just load it and see if we get deja vu." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load hugoorn" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | Jacqueline says, "Well, that was sort of anticlimactic" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "list h" | ||||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "halothane hamper happy hauntedhouse heated heist heliopause hell help10 hero1r3 heroes hi hi.zip hockey home hoosegow house houseofdreamofmoon htgessay hugoclock hugoclockworkboy hugocwb hugorn hugospin hugowb hugozork hummingbird hunterdarkness" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load hugorn" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | Jacqueline says (to DW), "I'd spelled it wrong was all." | |||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | The Tattoo Parlor Floyd | I'm in a tattoo parlor, getting the Zork logo inked on my forearm, in Floyd | order to get more screen time for the "GET LAMP" documentary. Jason Floyd | Scott is here, grinning like the Sentient Demon Sun on the day mankind Floyd | slowly discerns that there has always been a second, sentient, demon Floyd | sun. He switched the original "Zork" logo the artist was using for Floyd | reference with the one from Zork III when the guy was Floyd | self-administrating a body shot. I'm no stranger to drinking on the Floyd | job, but the artist pooled the booze in the "o" of his self-stenciled Floyd | "MOM" tattoo before lighting it on fire. So I'm sufficiently distracted Floyd | to where I don't realize that the guy is painfully drawing in extra Floyd | Roman numerals until it's too late. Floyd | Floyd | Scott's filming the whole thing, panning up to my grimacing. The Zork Floyd | logo is made up of a bunch of little rocks, and the surface area for Floyd | the extra ones is greater than that of a big batch of Safeway-Brand Floyd | discount popcorn chicken. I can't even remember why "being on film" was Floyd | so important to me, except that I wanted more exposure than Kent Floyd | Tessman, CM, that smug bastard. Scott had a deal for me: First, help Floyd | him break into Adam Thornton's second home in Canada, so we can film Floyd | ourselves torching the place in order to dramatize the ending of Floyd | Trinity. And secondly, be the subject for "the tattoo scene" to show Floyd | how crazy text game fans are. I'd get featured in seven extra clips by Floyd | doing all this. Floyd | Floyd | "How many clips am I in now?" I asked. I'm fucking shrewd, just look at Floyd | me. If it were like four or something, well, I'm no fool. Four clips is Floyd | enough to splice together a Youtube video with and get some thoughtful Floyd | comments, maybe even some that don't bash women, wets or Jews. Floyd | Floyd | "This many," he said, holding up a copy of Zork Zero with his hand over Floyd | the "Zork" part. Fuck! Floyd | Floyd | __________ Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Recchi arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "Okay, yeah, no deja vu here." | |||
| olethros says, "hmhm" | ||||
| ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x jason" | ||||
Floyd | The tattoo artist is looking for approval to keep going. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Though in a cloud of pain and fear, I'm the same as I remember. Floyd | Floyd | With the exception of lots of squiggly lines on my forearm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x artist" | ||||
Floyd | The artist in question is inked-up pretty well himself. He has a thick Floyd | shock of black hair on top of his head and is wearing a t-shirt Floyd | advertising some band you have never heard of. He has a Dali moustache Floyd | that didn't exactly set you at ease when you first sat down. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "let us read please" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that was a long intro." | ||||
| Recchi says, "The _____ bits are supposed to note when the game is paused." | ||||
| ASchultz says, "Sorry about that. I probably didn't wait as long as I thought I did." | ||||
| Bainespal arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "I need to go eat something; I'll be back later." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, I gotta ask, because I'm loathe to use Google for this... is 'wets' an epithet for some group or other?" | ||||
| Recchi says, "It's nothing specific, it just sounded good there" | ||||
| maga says, "Southerners from non-dry counties" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Wetbacks." | ||||
| smartgenes asks, "so are we still supposed to torch somewhere or is that already done?" | ||||
| zarf says, "I thought it was a typo for 'vets', actually" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Rotonoto), "That was what I was wondering precisely." | ||||
| zarf says, "In any case I may import 'I'm fucking shrewd' into my vocabulary" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get zork" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x lines" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "lines". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x tattoo" | ||||
Floyd | The artist in question is inked-up pretty well himself. He has a thick Floyd | shock of black hair on top of his head and is wearing a t-shirt Floyd | advertising some band you have never heard of. He has a Dali moustache Floyd | that didn't exactly set you at ease when you first sat down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x my tattoo" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x arm" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "arm". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kick jason scott in the kneecap" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "kneecap". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kick him" | ||||
Floyd | (assuming you mean the tattoo artist) Floyd | Venting your frustrations on the tattoo artist won't accomplish much. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Ah yesm Recchis game." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "do not give approval" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "not". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x forearm" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "forearm". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to scott" | ||||
Floyd | Go on and give the guy your approval," he says. "You've come this far. Floyd | Grit down. I'll see if I can find the rubber centipede from The Lurking Floyd | Horror for you to bite on while he finishes." That doesn't seem like Floyd | it's likely to make any of this any better. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | You let out a hearty bellow. Nothing else happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i'm not sure jason scott is actually here" | |||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "give approval to artist" | ||||
Floyd | "Yes," I say to him. "Yes, please, finish the tattoo." Why did I say Floyd | please? I'm paying him for this. This is making me come off like a Floyd | total beta. Floyd | Floyd | "I've got an even better idea," says Scott. "Give him a tattoo for Zork Floyd | IV instead." He sort of laughs at that, while I feebly try to object. Floyd | This being a discussion about old, text-based video games, the tattoo Floyd | artist has no fucking idea what we're talking about. Floyd | Floyd | "I... I don't think I can take the needle for additional rocks," I say. Floyd | I grimace a little. Floyd | Floyd | "No rocks," says Scott. "The game Enchanter was supposed to be Zork IV. Floyd | So the guy can just start over and turn your current tattoo into that Floyd | word. What you have looks like shit anyway, it'd be doing you a favor." Floyd | Floyd | I knew I couldn't win this argument, so I bit on my tongue until I Floyd | passed out. They have to let you go when you pass out. Floyd | Floyd | __________ Floyd | Floyd | | smartgenes says, "oh, he is" | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Basement Floyd | We had that tattoo conversation in Colorado after I had my original Floyd | interview that was useless to him. He had driven out from Wisconsin. Floyd | I'm not actually that great with geography, so if that's impossible Floyd | because of the Thousand Lakes or the precipice of a gaping chasm, then Floyd | I guess he took a ferry. He bought hookers for the interview in an Floyd | attempt to relax me beforehand, but one of them was scorching hot and Floyd | looked like a girl I never got in high school, so I kept messing up Floyd | what I was trying to say and making everything worse. Plus, it all took Floyd | place in my basement, which is pretty much just an old oriental rug and Floyd | nine Mr. Do! cabinets in various states of disuse. Floyd | Floyd | The one gal I was trying to get the phone number of was down to pasties Floyd | and heels when there was a knock on the door. Normally that doesn't Floyd | happen that much because 1) I live like a disgusting orc at the bottom Floyd | of a spider-pit and 2) I have a self-styled moat around the house, Floyd | consisting of that week's curry oil, a kraken and old Monster Energy Floyd | Drink cans that I "recycle" back into the "environment" by my lonesome. Floyd | Floyd | "Who is it?" I bellowed. I hoped that taking charge of the situation Floyd | would impress the girl I liked, but she was a hooker. Without even Floyd | answering, five guys from the Lyons Pinball Team came downstairs. I Floyd | recognized them instantly: the Jerk Who Monopolizes the Fireball Floyd | Machine, the Bastard Who Monopolizes the Orbitor 1 machine, the Floyd | Whoreson Who Monopolizes the Twilight Zone Machine and two guys who Floyd | constantly play grabass near the bill change machine. Floyd | Floyd | "Who the fuck are these guys?" I asked Scott anyway. Floyd | Floyd | "Got my fingers in a lot of pies," he said, while at the same time Floyd | knuckle-deep into the one called Chillaxxx. Floyd | Floyd | After a little while it registered to him that, no, seriously, I wanted Floyd | to know what those guys were doing here. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm filming them after you, and I needed to consolidate some things. Floyd | You girls don't mind, do you?" The girls shook their heads and Floyd | tittered; who knows what that means. Floyd | Floyd | There is an extremely beautiful girl waiting to have sex with me here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Ready?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "no" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I've caught up." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "what are "pasties".. ? here in Britain that is a sort-of pie" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Though I am not sure I approve of the seedy underbelly of how Get Lamp was made." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Nipple decor." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Like, nipple stickers." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to sg), "Not pahsties, paysties." | ||||
| Tale says, "jscott has a cameo in the Dr. Kong gane, too" | ||||
| Tale says, "Though surrounded by less hookers and more nerds" | ||||
| vimes says, "most strippers would object to having hot, hearty potato-filled pastry concoctions on their nipples." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "tell girl to put her clothes back on" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "clothes". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x girl" | ||||
Floyd | Which girl do you mean, the prostitute or Chillaxxx? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was going to explain what pasties are, but I can't compete with vimes." | |||
| Rotonoto says, "lol" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "ha ha | You don't need to use the word "clothes"." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "feel nipple with tongue then" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "nipple". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guys" | ||||
Floyd | Everyone wishes these two guys would just bang and cut the tension. Floyd | Nobody needs this when they are trying to get a high score on a pinball Floyd | game, or trying to get out of the environmental Discs of Tron machine Floyd | with some tiny piece of dignity intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "My favorite AIF generic response is still "I don't know the word "no"" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm beginning to wonder if my kickstarter money is going to be used to fund less than savory things." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "snrk" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x jerks" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "jerks". Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf chuckles knowingly | |||
| * Doug has left the channel. | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x prostitute" | ||||
Floyd | She has shoulder-length wavy chestnut hair that you would love to play Floyd | with in less-hectic times. Her green eyes remind you of fresh, crisp Floyd | cash. You knew a girl in jazz band who looked just like her when you Floyd | were a teen. She is almost completely naked, smiling to try to keep you Floyd | calm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "smile at prostitute" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "smile". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chillaxxx" | ||||
Floyd | Chillaxxx has this Czech porn model look that does it for you. Dark Floyd | hair, almond eyes. You're into what she's got to offer. She's occupied, Floyd | however. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We've run another one off. Nice work, peeps." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x chillaxxx" | ||||
Floyd | Chillaxxx has this Czech porn model look that does it for you. Dark Floyd | hair, almond eyes. You're into what she's got to offer. She's occupied, Floyd | however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "occupy chillaxxx" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "occupy". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x her occupation" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "occupation". Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "Now, did I tell y'all about my gum infection?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to prostitute" | ||||
Floyd | The prostitute is listening. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask prostitute about life goals" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "life". Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Oh go ahead, have all the sex." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "tell prostitute about comics" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "comics". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask prostitute about college" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "college". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale is fired from breathing. | ||||
| Tale has disconnected. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tattoo to prostitute" | ||||
Floyd | You don't see him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bainespal checks out genericgeekgirl. | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, it's a him?" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask prostitute about pornography" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "pornography". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "</kidding>" | |||
| Rotonoto says, "tattoo = tattoo artist" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "tell prostitute that jesus loves her" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "jesus". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x jason" | ||||
Floyd | Jason looks like the guy you are told you are in Thomas M. Disch's Floyd | Amnesia if you don't go in trying to describe a muttonchopped hacker or Floyd | cracker. Let me explain. Amnesia asks you what you think you look like, Floyd | right before you look into a mirror. You think beforehand, in the 80s, Floyd | "Is this game fucking with me?" and "I wonder if I buy a few more Floyd | copies of Little Computer People if I'll eventually get a girl." When I Floyd | played, I'd always describe the way I looked back in 1986. Floyd | Clean-shaven, blonde, square jaw and haunted by a boyish but Floyd | transgendered glow. The game says, "You couldn't be farther from the Floyd | truth! Instead, you look like JASON SCOTT." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Rotonoto), "Ah, that makes sense." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kiss prostitute" | ||||
Floyd | "You know what," I said, "There's a better than zero percent chance Floyd | that one of you guys are going to try to monopolize the girl I'm all Floyd | into, so I'm just going to get started." I bring the hot one over to Floyd | the couch. The couch is brown like everything else downstairs, except Floyd | for the one new old stock Do! marquee and the Monster cans I haven't Floyd | yet got round to "recycling." Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a world record holder," said the Jerk Who Monopolizes the Fireball Floyd | Machine. "I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but I really think Floyd | -- " Floyd | Floyd | I cut him off. "If you can't be best, be first." I proceed. It's all Floyd | over for me within a couple minutes. Nobody else lasts much longer, Floyd | except for the two grabass guys when one realizes the other is wearing Floyd | a portable change maker around his belt. Floyd | Floyd | Scott took a crucible out of one of his Bags of Magic that he carries Floyd | around with him, and ignited a discarded "Player One" button he found Floyd | on the floor. He chased the pinball guys back to their van, and the Floyd | girls left because they were paid to. He took a long puff and I Floyd | answered a bunch of questions about text games. He said my answers were Floyd | shit and offered me the torching and tattoo deal. Floyd | Floyd | __________ Floyd | Floyd | | genericgeekgirl says, "Wow." | |||
| Rotonoto says, "Wow, Amnesia references. This is a serious retro game." | ||||
| DavidW says, "back. I think I'll sit this game out. I don't think I and it grok on the same wavelengths." | ||||
| Tale arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | TheXenographer says, "Yeah, I've just been kind of watching and going "... huh. Okay."" | |||
| smartgenes says, "i'm a little disorientated, i'm not entirely sure if I've had sex and drugs or am high playing pinball" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "or both" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to TheXenographer), "That is me as well." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Van Floyd | Back in the present time, I paid the tattoo artist. I was actually Floyd | racking up a substantial bill on this excursion. I usually bribe the Floyd | border guard when I travel to Canada, since I am too repulsive to just Floyd | be let into most NATO countries without a lot of paperwork, bother and Floyd | disapprovingly clucked tongues. But more people means more bribing. Floyd | Floyd | "I haven't bribed this many people since I played Exodus: Ultima III." Floyd | It's not a text game reference, so Scott doesn't acknowledge it. Which Floyd | is fair, because I rarely got satisfying replies from anyone in that Floyd | game. That's where the comparisons really end, though, because at no Floyd | point in Exodus did Dupre or Chuckles tell you that every time they Floyd | travel to Canada, they're consumed by the desire to snuff out a handful Floyd | of lives. Floyd | Floyd | "Not just any humans," Scott says. "It's Canadians I specifically Floyd | loathe, which is why I'm letting you work out your little dominance Floyd | issues with Tessman on my dime." I attempt to interrupt, in order to Floyd | remind him who bribed whom, when he shuts me up by hinting at a scrap Floyd | of a story that features Steve Meretzky, my idol. But he goes back to Floyd | talking about his true passion: killing off animals. Floyd | Floyd | "But you know how, if you are really into cake but can't have it, you Floyd | might take up smoking?" I'm hypnotized by this point by the idea that I Floyd | might get an untold tidbit from Planetfall, so I just sort of go along Floyd | with it all. I tell him 'sure.' "It's the same thing with me. I come Floyd | from a long line of famous Scotts, who bagged the big game. Tigers, Floyd | lions, blue whales, probably a Rakasha in there, too, for all I know. Floyd | Well, it just so happens that it's illegal to film yourself killing Floyd | animal after animal, using the stuff I have in that bag." He makes a Floyd | dismissive wanking noise. He then points to the bag on the floor in Floyd | front of me. "Could you get me the lens in there." He doesn't phrase it Floyd | as a question. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's hard to onto tangents if there's no established baseline." | |||
| maga says (to smartgenes), "that is what it is like to be Robb Sherwin *every day*" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yikes, another textdump." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "For the record, maga is really enjoying this game, Recchi. You are meeting all his expectations for a Robb Sherwin game." | ||||
| zarf says, "I think textdump are the point here" | ||||
| zarf says, "I deduce this from the lack of anything else" | ||||
| Tale says, "Playing a game by Recchi is like being on a sit and spin in a room full of TV monitors which all simulcast while epilespy-inducing lights are flashing" | ||||
| Tale says, "They are super-awesome" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look in bag" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the bag is the lens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | (assuming you mean the bag) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Inside the bag is the lens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Now Ultima ... I'm waiting for the obligatory Tass Times in Tonetown reference." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get lens from bag" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | (assuming you mean the lens) Floyd | It's huge. Meant for a 35mm camera, and not disposables, like people Floyd | have tried in the past using duct tape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "throw lens across room" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "across". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "throw lens" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to be a little more specific about what you'd like to throw Floyd | the lens at. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give lens to scott" | ||||
Floyd | "What does this do? Does it add film grain?" I try to make a Photoshop Floyd | joke, because I assume that all good lenses add "film grain", but he Floyd | doesn't know what I'm talking about and I hope he quickly forgets. Floyd | Floyd | "It adds gibs and shit. There's a processor in there. Give me that Floyd | back," he says, with agitation that I chalk up to his ever-growing Floyd | blood lust. I give him back the lens and shrug. I reach into his bag Floyd | and pull out a book of matches. Floyd | Floyd | "Did MC Frontalot give these to you?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah," he says. "I directed a video of his, you know. At first he was Floyd | trying to get me to go down to the park and knock down midgets Floyd | unneededly. I didn't know how to tell him that he could hop on a bus Floyd | and ride it for fifty miles and not find anyone shorter than Floyd | 'non-smoking Mexican' unless we passed a morgue. So he gave me some Floyd | matches that automatically re-light themselves instead. I don't know, I Floyd | guess it was some text adventure reference or some shit." Floyd | Floyd | I grunted, and pocketed the matchbook. "So who are we hunting up here? Floyd | Are we even really torching Thornton's place? See, I think that's the Floyd | perfect crime because the entire place is rum-soaked. Any crime scene Floyd | investigation would be impossible since the place is already completely Floyd | covered in a fluid just a few atoms removed from formaldehyde. You Floyd | can't find justice in liquidy conditions, it's why the X-COM aliens Floyd | went to the sea next." Floyd | Floyd | "Let's just get out of here," says Scott. He goes out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "throw lens at scott" | ||||
Floyd | You don't see him. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "also, out of respect to the artist's original intent, could you all change your MUD clients to hot pink on black" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Aren't you supposed to give the lens to whoever's there?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to ggg), "thanks" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "follow scott" | ||||
Floyd | Which way did he go? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | They're novelty matches that were probably ordered out of a comic book. Floyd | Scott's thrown thousands of them onto on-line archives. Comics, I mean. Floyd | I don't think anyone is preserving what historical matchbooks looked Floyd | like for generations. Future generations, in that respect, can get Floyd | fucked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "leave van" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Snowy Trail Floyd | Scott takes in the wonderful nature and hocks a loogie into a drift. Floyd | "We're hunting something called the Beast of Exmoor," he sneers. "It Floyd | just so happens to be at Adam Thornton's house." Floyd | Floyd | "Did you know he had a MAME machine?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | "I know the location of every single MAME and JAMMA machine in the Floyd | western hemisphere," he says. "Ask me the pinouts! ASK ME THE FUCKING Floyd | PINOUTS!" I do, because he might have a gun in the van. With the way Floyd | this trip is going, I might suddenly learn that he can turn himself Floyd | into a gun, all like Galvatron but with Scourge's goatee. He starts Floyd | listing off voltages and I do the right-hand rule a couple times to Floyd | mime like I am following along. I usually do this sort of thing at Floyd | work, when one of my co-workers starts talking about Java. I don't mind Floyd | programming in Java, but I can't stand to hear other people talk about Floyd | it. This creates a few problems for me that I end up having to hear Floyd | about at my yearly performance review. After confirming that he's not Floyd | going to launch into a Meretzky story any time soon, I let my mind Floyd | wander. When did it go all wrong? Floyd | Floyd | It occurs to me that it went all wrong when I let the hookers in, so Floyd | it's a pretty quick self-reflection. Floyd | Floyd | Thornton's house is to the north. I'm not just saying that because I Floyd | think everything in Canada is north of each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "transform into galvatron" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "transform". Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "> go back to van and search for gun" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think that's my favourite line. "it all went wrong when I let the hookers in."" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "'Everything in Canada is north of each other.' I need tp remember that." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Adam Thornton's Winter Home Floyd | We approach the house. Floyd | Floyd | "I actually do want to interview Thornton for this 'documentary'," Floyd | sneers Scott, as we get into the right ZIP code, or whatever they use Floyd | in Canada. "I'm just trying to think of a way to do it where we kill Floyd | everything in his house afterwards." He scrunches up his forehead and Floyd | nose in mild, distracted thought. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, you know, as an experienced text gamer, I am trained in creative Floyd | problem solving. You want to get some good sound bites out of the guy, Floyd | but no more than seven, because otherwise I made a horrible mistake. I Floyd | -- " Floyd | Floyd | "I didn't agree to that," he snaps. "You'll get your seven; if I have Floyd | to feed you the lines you'll get them. But Thornton has a talent for Floyd | eloquent descriptions." Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, what makes you think Thornton will be able to slur seven Floyd | words together, much less provide seven quality clips? He's a Floyd | hard-drinking, dazzlingly original Missouri classicist who sweats some Floyd | kind of bathtub gin/Herradura mix out of every pore in his body. He's Floyd | also telepathically bonded to at least one of his dogs, like E.T. and Floyd | Elliot, so the one he named Golem gets shit-faced out its gourd as he Floyd | does." Floyd | Floyd | "You're really obsessed about clip length," says Scott. "Look, if I Floyd | don't make it out of here and something independently horrible happens Floyd | to like seven other guys involved with this project, it will be up to Floyd | you and Jon Blask to release this thing. Don't fail me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x van" | ||||
Floyd | You don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto asks, "We still have matches, right?" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "car". Floyd | Floyd | > | Bainespal says, "That's a lot of sevens." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure if it matters." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Adam Thornton's Winter Home Floyd | I can see Adam's house from here. I have to admit it's very nice. He Floyd | painted it with its environment in mind. I know that he is an Floyd | interesting mix of liberal and conservative viewpoints, what I didn't Floyd | know is that he became snowblind: his house is cyan and magenta. Floyd | Impossible to miss in all this weather. There is a door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Jason Scott is here, and he looks like he's got something more to say Floyd | to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to jason" | ||||
Floyd | "Tell me about this Beast of Exmoor," I say to Scott. Floyd | Floyd | "I want you to imagine a cross between a puma and a panther." I have a Floyd | documented problem visualizing genetic monstrosities, so I just nod. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, this cat has gone forth and killed reams of livestock all across Floyd | Canada. It throws down chickens like a pack of orange Tic-Tacs. It even Floyd | eats the common predators up there, like, I dunno, mongooses and Floyd | wolverines." I start to suspect that Scott is one of those guys who Floyd | don't actually know a lot about the nation of Canada, like 1) Americans Floyd | who think that Toronto is a quick drive from Calgary, and 2) the Floyd | entirety of the Québécois. "The Beast is completely out of control, but Floyd | nobody will do anything for two reasons. The first is the tax credit Floyd | dispersed to the locals when half their stock goes missing, the second Floyd | is because they all want to skull-fuck it." Floyd | Floyd | He clears his throat. "Although the thing is described as a puma Floyd | crossed with a panther, I don't think that does it justice. You might Floyd | be thinking of a four-legged beast, or some odd amalgam of the two Floyd | distinct beasts, if you're some kind of thick-browed goddamn sped. You Floyd | have to eliminate that First World mindset." Floyd | Floyd | I'm, of course, freezing my testicles off in a Saints jersey, Floyd | undershirt, work boots, pince-nez and little else, involved in some Floyd | kind of amateur poaching/arson operation that's being filmed for Floyd | posterity. Aside from introducing some trouble with malaria and voting, Floyd | I can't feel any less First World. Floyd | Floyd | "It's actually a woman, and it has a great body." Scott turns to look Floyd | me in the eye for the first time since Edmonton. He searches for any Floyd | trace that I might think this is some sort of anthropomorphic Floyd | animal/fetish thing. Floyd | Floyd | "Great rack," he continues. "Fangs, of course, but who isn't into that? Floyd | Certainly not the kind of people that would live up here in this frozen Floyd | wasteland. Sleek, athletic legs... and she kills prey for her food and Floyd | all that. She's an unbelievably sexy creature of mythology, and we're Floyd | going to get her on film when she's passed out at Thornton's." Floyd | Floyd | "Wait... you know that she's here? How? How do you know these things?" Floyd | Floyd | "How did I know that Don Woods killed a dragon with his bare hands and Floyd | then blogged about it in Willie Crowther's FORTRAN game, dummy? I just Floyd | do. We're going to get into Thornton's place under the guise of Floyd | interviewing him and then scour his place once he passes out and his Floyd | eyes are liquor-scented 'XXX's. We'll film the Beast of Exmoor and then Floyd | burn the place to the ground, killing everyone inside." My heart skips Floyd | a beat, as Thornton has a really nice Atari trackball on his MAME Floyd | system. Maybe I've become as inhuman as everyone else in my life. Maybe Floyd | I just love trackballs. Probably both. Floyd | Floyd | He gives me the key so we can get in. I'm sure I'll lose it soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Argh." | |||
| Rotonoto says, "Juno reference; possible An Officer & a Gentleman reference. :)" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "light match" | ||||
Floyd | You didn't learn anything as a child, did you? Don't play with fire. Floyd | And stay away from my house. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think this game needs extensive annotations for anyone who isn't the author." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove pince nez" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "pince". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lose key" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "lose". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||||
Floyd | Unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x undershirt" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "undershirt". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kick door anyway" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "anyway". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kick door" | ||||
Floyd | Venting your frustrations on the house door won't accomplish much. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter door" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the House Floyd | We enter the house and Adam is waiting for us. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm Adam, good to meetcha," he says. He had actually met me twice Floyd | before, but he's so booze-fueled, I doubt he'd be able to spell my name Floyd | if I spotted him both 'B's. "Can I get you two something to drink?" Floyd | Before we can even say anything, he's taken us to his second bathtub. Floyd | "There are few rules here," he says. "Don't bathe in the second through Floyd | sixth bathtub. Don't ask questions about what I'm brewing or have Floyd | brewed in those bathtubs." He walks us out to the MAME cab. "Lastly, Floyd | all these games are yours to play and set high scores on, except one," Floyd | he says. Floyd | Floyd | "Boon-ga Boon-ga?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | "What? No. Major Havoc. Don't fuck with it - I don't have my roller set Floyd | right, and I don't want to go digging back there to reset the score if Floyd | one of you degenerates gets a high score with the arrow keys." There Floyd | aren't any arrow keys on a MAME cabinet, but I'm temporarily blind Floyd | after smelling the bathtub concoction, and Scott's focused on looking Floyd | for the Beast. I try to soak in some of the craftsmanship of the table: Floyd | it's divided into four sections - each player gets his own joystick, Floyd | six cherry microswitch buttons, a martini holder and a bolted-on Floyd | cigarette tray. Floyd | Floyd | "Why don't you," whispers Scott, "distract him while I try to flush out Floyd | the Beast." By the end of it he's not whispering any more, because he Floyd | got a good glance at Thornton's eyeballs, which look like twin, Floyd | bloodshot magnets of a like charge, both trying to escape his skull in Floyd | opposite directions. "In fact," he says to me directly in front of Floyd | Thornton, "Why don't you go into the other room with him while I look Floyd | for the Beast so we can burn this place down." Floyd | Floyd | "OK," I say. Floyd | Floyd | "OK," says Thornton. Floyd | Floyd | Thornton takes me over to the MAME cab and wipes his chin with the back Floyd | of his arm. He had somehow consumed a fifth of something in the brief Floyd | seconds I was listening to Scott. "It'sh my pride and joy, you know," Floyd | he slurs. "It's the most important thing I have ever contributed to the Floyd | world." Floyd | Floyd | "It's a quality machine, definitely," I say as I spin through the Floyd | front-end software, looking for the one game he said I couldn't play. I Floyd | need help. Floyd | Floyd | "No, thish homebrew," he says while one of his knees gives out, and at Floyd | first I think he means some text game he crammed into MAMEWah before Floyd | realizing, no, he was talking booze-homebrew. "The cat-girl is good Floyd | too," he says. I'm slightly surprised that he has any clue that there Floyd | is a creature of myth reportedly hanging around his place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "x house" | ||||
Floyd | The house door is just as loud as the rest of the house. It looks like Floyd | someone murdered a kilt on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hee. "murdered a kilt."" | |||
| DavidW says, "I have no idea what a MAME cab is, not a clue." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about brewing" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "brewing". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about bathtubs" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "bathtubs". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "play game" | ||||
Floyd | You don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "mame is an emulation tool" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cab" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "cab". Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "Hardware of some sort, David." | |||
| smartgenes says, "it's been placed in an old-style arcade cabinet" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | Thornton outdid himself here. There is room for four players, with each Floyd | one getting a joystick and seven buttons. There is a single trackball Floyd | and spinner in the middle, which is tasteful. Not gaudy at all. Floyd | Thornton had the 'MAME' logo created for a nice bezel up top. And the Floyd | joystick colors, from left to right, are yellow, red, blue and green, Floyd | thus matching Gauntlet nicely. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to smartgenes), "Since I don't 'emulate', that doesn't really help me." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "play major havoc" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "major". Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "just imagine a pc inside an arcade machine" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "punch adam" | ||||
Floyd | "Bruce," I say, getting his name wrong, not that it mattered to him or Floyd | me. "Is that the Beast of Exmoor? Where is she?" His eyes just start Floyd | spinning again. I rip off one of the metal cigarette trays and slug him Floyd | with it. Nothing. I crush his goddamn face with it again and still, Floyd | nothing. No reaction whatsoever. Floyd | Floyd | His dog Golem staggers down from upstairs, his face looking like a Floyd | bunch of burst blood sausages tied together with uncongealed Gorilla Floyd | glue. "Shit!" I exclaim, wondering if the thing is going to live or Floyd | die. No matter how many times I remind myself about a psychic bond, I Floyd | always forget once the violence starts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Unable to undo. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "If we go next door, can we emulsify budgerigars on a pool table?" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Heh, sorry." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "An emulator lets you run software designed for one sort of computer on another because it's a program that emulates the OS of something else. So an emulator you run on your PC turns your PC into, say, a Commodore 64, so that you can play old games." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I didn't expect that to have consequences." | ||||
| DavidW says (to ggg), "The violence probably is cued for later." | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to genericgeekgirl), "I'm not sure it did." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we've distracted him :P~" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x adam" | ||||
Floyd | He has a dazzling beard, a foot or two on length. He looks exactly how Floyd | you want your engaging, original and literate authors to look. You've Floyd | always admired his work, be it the written word, cocksmanship or Floyd | arcade-based woodworking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the House Floyd | Due to their sick psychic bond (NOTE: some may think it 'beautiful' Floyd | and 'touching' -- don't let me pre-calibrate this for you, I'm a mess) Floyd | if I am going to beat any answers out of Thornton, I'll have to do it Floyd | through his dog, Golem. Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "ew" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, I see. Beat up his dog, and you beat up him." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit dog" | ||||
Floyd | I do some quick math in my head, and kick the dog in the ribs, which Floyd | has the effect of knocking Thornton back into usefulness. Floyd | Floyd | "Look, you drunk shit, you need to give me some goddamn answers. Is the Floyd | Beast around?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'm right here," she purrs from the MAME screen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "play mame" | ||||
Floyd | I'm too stupid to understand how to play with that, exactly. I'm sorry! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to beast" | ||||
Floyd | I turn to look at the monitor. 25" Wells Gardner, no burn-in. Sentient Floyd | female seductress inside. It's like the show Max Headroom, if they put Floyd | Amanda Pays in the TV instead. And she is, like, half-puma, too. Floyd | Floyd | "I need you to let me out. I'll do anything for you... I'd be so Floyd | grateful." She starts to lick her lips and I see the sharpened Floyd | incisors. Suddenly it's as if I had been drinking all the bathtub gin Floyd | for the last ... well, I don't know how long Thornton has been Floyd | continually drunk, let's just go with "the last forty years." Floyd | Floyd | "Did you find anything?" yells Scott from upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | "Let me tell you about this particular Mr. Do! level on here," I say in Floyd | reply, knowing that no human being with a working brain stem will Floyd | notice if I don't finish that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | "Open the coin door," she says, all sexy. Floyd | Floyd | I can't, though. "It's locked." Floyd | Floyd | That's all the opening the Beast needed. She wasn't actually in the Floyd | MAME machine's monitor, it was just a combination of her reflection and Floyd | my fucked-up vision, thanks to smelling all the homebrew. The Beast of Floyd | Exmoor drives its fangs into the back of my neck, and I instantly make Floyd | a mess out of my shorts. I slump down against the MAME machine, Floyd | smearing blood all over it. Floyd | Floyd | "Jason....!" I attempt to yell his name, to warn him. Floyd | Floyd | "scott, scott," says the Beast, mimicking the Loud Room from Zork I, Floyd | but kind of messing it up. I raise a finger to correct her, but am in Floyd | such poor condition that my held possessions instead scatter around on Floyd | the ground. Floyd | Floyd | "My wife!" exclaims Thornton, as he bursts into tears. "My sweet, feral Floyd | wife... why must you kill again, you know it drives me to drink..." Floyd | Floyd | Jason Scott comes flying down the stairs, equipment in tow, camera Floyd | trained on the Beast. "You!" he bellows to Mrs. Thornton, the Beast of Floyd | Exmoor. "You're, you're -- " Floyd | Floyd | "Sated," she says, as she picks up the book of Frontalot matches from Floyd | just beyond my reach and lights a cigarette. She blows out the match Floyd | and discards it towards one of the hallways with a floor that is soaked Floyd | with standing alcohol. Floyd | Floyd | The match re-ignites during its graceful arc, and everything gets loud Floyd | and orange. Floyd | Floyd | __________ Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW says, "well, now we have a fire." | |||
| Tale says, "I love that "My sweet, feral wife" line" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I have been paying intermittent attention and just came back to see... and wow." | ||||
| zarf says (to floyd), "piss" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the burning house Floyd | I wake up and find myself within a melting snow drift, just out of Floyd | range of the Thornton's place as it burns and crumbles. Floyd | Floyd | "This is great footage," says Scott, with his eye into the camera. "I Floyd | see you're awake. I only saved you because I'll need you to bribe the Floyd | authorities when they get here. Of course, we're so deep into the Floyd | sphincter of Canada, it could take weeks." He tears into a hunk of Floyd | MAME-seared elk flesh. "The fire burns off all the alcohol - and how! - Floyd | so I don't mind using it as a giant campfire for cooking. I don't Floyd | really drink; it balances out all the other negative stuff, in my Floyd | opinion." I guess you can categorize blowing up somebody's home, Floyd | killing a guy inside and exterminating a species that science doesn't Floyd | know about as 'negative stuff.' "I prefer games with graphics, so I Floyd | don't really know if this is how Trinity ended, but it's close enough Floyd | for my purposes." He laughs with a sharp snort. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Leaving the inferno might be a good idea. Just sayin'." | |||
| zarf says, "oh, that was a pause line" | ||||
| zarf says, "pissing was not relevant" | ||||
| Tale asks, "Is Thornton married in RL?" | ||||
| zarf says, "I think so" | ||||
| Recchi says (to Tale), "He is, but his wife is not actually meant to be thein the game" | ||||
| Recchi says, "er his real wife" | ||||
| Tale says, "Ah, not based on her" | ||||
| Recchi says, "Yeah. I'm not 100% Adam knows this, though I tried to explain that to him." | ||||
| inky arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Rotonoto exclaims, "I'm gonna order The Making of Get Lamp right away!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying Jason's bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||||
Floyd | It's a tattered and worn old duffel bad that is made out of some Floyd | wasteful 80s faux fabric like rayon, zevron or sweet panda dick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the burning house Floyd | Within a melting snow drift, the house and the world seem to be Floyd | burning. I don't understand what's going on, or what I am doing, nor Floyd | what I ever hoped to accomplish. Scott's still here, perhaps he Floyd | knows... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to scott" | ||||
Floyd | "How did I... you..." I give up, not really caring. Floyd | Floyd | "No idea what happened to the Beast, or Thornton," says Scott. "Perhaps Floyd | they went to the Arctic Circle. Perhaps they didn't make it out of the Floyd | house and are quietly hiding underneath one of the eight bathtubs they Floyd | had in that joint. They really had a thing about keeping themselves Floyd | clean. Who can tell? More to the point, now that I have the footage I Floyd | need, who gives a good goddamn?" He looks me over and starts clucking Floyd | his tongue again. "Are you sure you're not Canadian? Christ, taking Floyd | foreign lives really revs my motor. Maybe I can naturalize you Floyd | posthumously." He starts fumbling for one of his many pistols. Floyd | Floyd | "Why is..." I gasp for air and turn over on my back, in defeat. The air Floyd | is crisp, but also wafting around the scent of a Floyd | peanut-shells-on-the-floor bar right after closing time. It really Floyd | wasn't the last thing in my life I wanted to experience. "Why is the Floyd | sun all... smirking...?" Floyd | Floyd | "Which one??!" says Scott reflexively, as the second sun -- a Demon Sun Floyd | -- reveals itself and begins a deep belly chortle it will never stop. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Rotonoto says (to open), "bag" | ||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open bag" | ||||
Floyd | Retro-Nemesis Floyd | Interactive Fiction Floyd | Copyright (c) 2011. Written and programmed by Robb Sherwin Floyd | Release 1.00 / Serial number 120103 / Hugo 3.1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** END OF SESSION *** Floyd | Floyd | The game has ended. Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game, Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT? | zarf says, "okay, the Demon Sun was it" | |||
| Rotonoto says (to floyd), "open bag" | ||||
Floyd | Enter (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE, (U)NDO, or (Q)UIT: | genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. I guess that's it." | |||
| Recchi says, "So the game in a offline terp has an 'A)bout the game' bit which says..." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Uh. I liked the writing, Recchi." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Ha" | ||||
| Recchi says (to ggg), "(Hahah)" | ||||
| Recchi says, "That while Jason was making Get Lamp he asked me to write a small story. This would have been 2008 or so." | ||||
| Recchi says, ""Make up a crazy story about what you think the filming would have been like," he said." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So he wanted you to write this? Interesting." | ||||
| Recchi says, "Yeah" | ||||
| Recchi says, "; He was going to put it on the Get Lamp disc in a hidden directory, but he hid it so well the duplicators left it off." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So he says." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "A bit arcane to anyone who didn't play IF all thru the 80s." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, but see, old fogies like us, did, Rotonoto." | ||||
| Recchi says (to Jacq), "Right, that is the official story, for all I know he threw up reading it." | ||||
| Recchi says, "So the thing was in limbo until the HugoComp, where I tried to adapt it. I see that with lots of text it doesn't make for a good ClubFloyd game (or not-ClubFloyd game, as the case may be)." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "Yep." | ||||
| Recchi says, "But thanks, everybody, for giving it a try." | ||||
| maga exclaims, "I was entertained!" | ||||
| zarf says, "me too" | ||||
| Recchi says, "thanks :)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, thanks. I always love a good excuse to put the extra ault content warning on a transcript in addition to the spoiler warning." | ||||
| Rotonoto says, "It went pretty smoothly. We just had to stop & read a bit." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "s/ault/adult" | ||||
| zarf asks, "did the Sentient Demon Sun start out as the endpoint, or did you just stick it in at random at the beginning and then run with it?" | ||||
| maga says (to Jacq), "you can abbreviate the adult warning to 'A Robb Sherwin Game'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna have to find some sweet panda dick of my own and craft a bag." | ||||
| Rotonoto exclaims, "Floyd here now!" | ||||
| Recchi says (to zarf), "Yeah, I started out writing that at the very beginning as I just sort of did the opening paragraph free-form, but wanted to make sure the story ended with its reveal as well." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, wow. What to play to follow that up? How about another Hugo game?" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "You're making me dizzy, my head is spinning ..." Floyd | Floyd | SPINNING Floyd | A Hugo Open House Mini-Comp Entry Floyd | by Rob "Flack" O'Hara Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031 Floyd | Floyd | The Playground Floyd | Floyd | In your earliest memory of her the two of you are together on the Floyd | playground. You're four, five years old at the most. In the memory you Floyd | don't know where your Mom is; over talking to one of the other moms, Floyd | perhaps. All the other kids are climbing around on a towering metal Floyd | jungle gym. The fall wind is brisk, and the metal is cold to the touch. Floyd | Floyd | You can see her standing there, alone. Her blonde hair is in messy Floyd | pigtails; her eyes, the bluest blue. Floyd | Floyd | "Wanna spin?" she asks, and without warning she throws her arms out Floyd | like airplane wings and begins spinning in place. She tosses her head Floyd | back and laughs and laughs. Her pigtails are parallel with her arms Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | A dozen rotations later she collapses in a dizzy pile, still giggling. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, come on," she says. "SPIN!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Rotonoto says, "I have to go. Thanks for the good clean fun, y'all." | |||
| Rotonoto goes home. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | It's you, but at the age of five. Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "ditto" | |||
| zarf walks off through the wall; blinding white light flares briefly around him. | genericgeekgirl says, "Well, this is wholesome. I hope." | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x girl" | ||||
Floyd | She's not like the other kids, that's for sure. Her face is round and Floyd | cute, and her smile makes you forget about the cold wind, if only for a Floyd | moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl asks, "Shall we spin?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "spin" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | My Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | The vinyl record on the record player continues to spin as the needle Floyd | reaches the end of the track. The repeated clicking coming from the Floyd | speakers indicates the song has ended. Floyd | Floyd | "Play another one," she says. Digging through the small pile of records Floyd | on the floor, the choices are limited. Floyd | Floyd | "We've already heard them all," you say to her, but she doesn't seem to Floyd | care. "Which one do you want? I Love Rock and Roll? We Will Rock You? Floyd | The Devil Went Down to Georgia?" Floyd | Floyd | "We Will Rock You!" she says. Carefully you lift the record player's Floyd | arm, remove the last record, pop the yellow, spiral adapter into the Floyd | middle of the next 45, and place "We Will Rock You" down on to your Floyd | cheap, plastic turntable. After a moment of crackling, those familiar Floyd | drums kick in. Boom Boom Clap. Boom Boom Clap. Floyd | Floyd | As they do, She stands up and begins marching around the room, stomping Floyd | and clapping. Stomp Stomp CLAP. Stomp Stomp CLAP. You follow her lead Floyd | and soon the two of you are marching around your room in a circle. Floyd | Stomp Stomp CLAP. Stomp Stomp CLAP! The two of you mumble your way Floyd | through the verses, but really belt out the chorus. Floyd | Floyd | "WE, WILL, WE, WILL, ROCK YOU!" the two of you shout. Floyd | Floyd | When the guitar solo rolls around you pick up your tennis racket and Floyd | nail the solo. Your fingers touch each string carefully and Floyd | methodically as if you're actually playing the guitar. You hope she Floyd | notices your attention to detail as you play the tennis racket more Floyd | accurately than anyone ever has. As the song comes to an end the two of Floyd | you collapse on my floor. Your leg brushes against hers. It feels nice. Floyd | Floyd | The two of you continue to laugh, lying on your backs and staring at Floyd | the ceiling. You're still holding that dumb tennis racket. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh my God, it's so hot here. Can you open your window?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Spinning is one of those drugs that leads to magical girls." | |||
| maga says, "I think I need to sniff some coffee grounds or something, because after a Recchi game I am still assuming the protagonist is about to do something grotesquely awful" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x racket" | ||||
Floyd | You can't remember where it came from -- a garage sale, probably. Since Floyd | you've owned it the racket has been a makeshift guitar, a flyswatter, Floyd | and something to conk your sister with. You've never actually hit a Floyd | tennis ball with the thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mustang Floyd | Floyd | The Mustang's window goes down as you crank the handle around in a Floyd | circle. No power windows back then, not for a broke high school student Floyd | such as yourself, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | "How much further is it?" she asks. Floyd | Floyd | "It's right up here, right past this parking lot," you say -- at least Floyd | you hope it is, never having actually been there before. Floyd | Floyd | Right past the parking lot is an unlit dirt road. Recent rains have Floyd | turned the dirt path into muddy ruts, and you weren't expecting it to Floyd | be this bad. Before you know it, your wheels are spinning. You whip the Floyd | steering wheel back and forth, but it's no use. You're stuck. Floyd | Floyd | You turn the ignition off and get out of your car to assess the Floyd | situation. "Listen," she says. "I can hear the falls!" Seeing your car Floyd | stuck in six inches of mud has changed the mood, but there's nothing Floyd | you can do about that now. You stare at the car, wondering how you're Floyd | ever going to get it out of here. Floyd | Floyd | "C'mon!" she says, running up the dirt road. At the end of the road is Floyd | a barbed-wire fence. You lift the top wire up and hold the bottom one Floyd | down with your foot, allowing her to crawl through the opening. Once Floyd | through she does the same for you. Floyd | Floyd | "It's getting louder," she says excitedly, and she's right. You can now Floyd | plainly hear the rushing water. As the two of you walk past the last Floyd | row of trees, you can finally see it -- a giant, natural waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the opening your foot slips on the wet grass and you Floyd | hit the ground hard. "God DAMN it," you shout, which makes her laugh. Floyd | Once the sting from the fall wears off you notice you're lying in a big Floyd | muddy hole. Floyd | Floyd | Still laughing, she plops down next to you and wipes the mud from your Floyd | face. Then, without saying a word, she leans over and kisses you. Floyd | Floyd | You muster up all your courage. "Let's spend the night together," you Floyd | say. Floyd | Floyd | "Let's spend the rest of our lives together," she says, and kisses you Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | As soothing as the sound of the waterfall is, the rising sun finally Floyd | wakes the two of you. Your car is exactly where you left it. Floyd | Floyd | "How about this," you suggest. "You get in the car and turn the wheels Floyd | all the way to the right. I'll rock the car a bit to get things going. Floyd | On the count of three, you hit the gas and shout "PUSH!" Then, I'll Floyd | push. Sounds like a plan?" Floyd | Floyd | "Sounds like a plan," she says, taking her spot inside the car. You Floyd | begin to rock the car as the two of you count together. One ... two ... Floyd | three ... Floyd | Floyd | "PUSH!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to maga), "And Robb seems like such a nice boy in a leather jacket when you meet him." | |||
| TheXenographer says, "whoa, textdump." | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "yeah, we kept the textdumps." | |||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Leather jacket? Tell me more." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I seem to recall Robb in either that or a football jersey." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is our loving girl about to kill us with our own car?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push" | ||||
Floyd | Be a little more specific about what you'd like to push. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push car" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Hospital Floyd | Floyd | "PUSH!" screams the nurse, over your wife's cries. You grip her hand Floyd | and squeeze. She squeezes back, ten times harder. Floyd | Floyd | "There's the head," the doctor says, calmly. Floyd | Floyd | "One more push now, come on now," says the head nurse. "PUSH!" Floyd | Floyd | She does. Your wife's screams are followed by a moment of silence. Floyd | Floyd | And then ... a cry. A crying baby. Floyd | Floyd | "It's a boy!" says the nurse. A boy. A son. My son. Floyd | Floyd | Our son. Floyd | Floyd | The nurses whisk him away for a moment to clean him up. As they wipe Floyd | off the blood and count his fingers and toes, you take a moment to Floyd | check on your wife. Floyd | Floyd | "Is he okay?" she asks. Floyd | Floyd | "He's fine, just fine," you say. "You okay?" Floyd | Floyd | "Eh," she says, before the tears well up in those blue eyes. "I'm Floyd | okay," she says. "What happened to your shirt?" she asks. Confused, you Floyd | look down -- there's a hole in your shirt surrounded by blood, but you Floyd | aren't sure where it came from. Floyd | Floyd | "Huh, that's weird," you say. As you touch your shirt, a nurse taps you Floyd | on your shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | "Would you like to hold your son now?" she says. He's so tiny, and Floyd | looks ridiculous in his little matching blanket, hat and mittens. Floyd | Floyd | "Everybody's waiting outside," your wife says. "Go on out." Floyd | Floyd | You walk out into the hallway and a dozen people run toward you to see Floyd | your newborn son. Everybody is smiling and crying at the same time. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Dad," you say. "Grab my camera there and shoot a picture of me and Floyd | the boy, will ya?" you say. He picks up the camera and points it at Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | "Ready?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Hold on," you say, as one of the baby's mittens is about to fall off. Floyd | "Wait until I say "shoot". You wrestle the mitten the best you can back Floyd | on to a baby who does not want to wear it. Whenever you're ready for Floyd | him to take the picture, say "SHOOT". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "AIE - WE PUSHED THE CAR RIGHT INTO ANOTHER TEXT DUMP!" | |||
| Ellison says, "hope you had insurance" | ||||
| DavidW says, "y'know, I guessed this type of scene would result from 'push'." | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "Yeah, I saw that coming as well" | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "It seems like wherever it's going next won't be good" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I totally didn't. Nervous what "shoot" produces now." | ||||
| maga says, "aww, man, why did we marry a facehugger" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "seems to be quite a bit of flashbacking going on" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm a little worried about 'shoot'. If lucky, it'll be graduation for our grown-up child." | ||||
| Ellison says, "reminds me of that time I flashbacked through Europe" | ||||
| inky says, "babies start out by hugging your face, and then hug their way into your heart" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear ballistic vest" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "ballistic". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x baby" | ||||
Floyd | He's the most beautiful baby in the world. Of course, that may not me a Floyd | completely impartial opinion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit the ground" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or maybe father and son will be duck hunting." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Maybe!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Times Square Floyd | Floyd | The noise is deafening and you can't tell if people are screaming at Floyd | you, to you, or simply near you. Floyd | Floyd | The same hole is in your shirt, but this time, blood is pouring from Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | "Happy New Year!" people are shouting. Horns are blowing all around Floyd | you. Someone near you is setting off fireworks. Floyd | Floyd | You can't catch your breath. Why are you so tired? You drop to one Floyd | knee. Floyd | Floyd | All you can hear is ringing in your ears. You look up and, there she Floyd | is. You weren't scared until you saw her face. You can tell she's Floyd | screaming, but you can't hear her. Your son is standing next to her and Floyd | looks as confused as you are. What's happening? Floyd | Floyd | You look down at your shirt again. Jesus Christ, you've been shot! Floyd | Floyd | You try to stand up, but blood begins to fill your lungs. You're Floyd | drowning in your blood, here, in the middle of Times Square. If only Floyd | you could ... Floyd | Floyd | You fall over to your side. Your grown son extends his hand down to Floyd | help you up but ... you can't catch your breath. Too much blood. Floyd | Floyd | Everything's spinning. Floyd | Floyd | Spinning ... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED *** Floyd | Floyd | The game has ended. Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game, Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT? | genericgeekgirl says, "Well." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh well." | ||||
| Ellison says, "on the JC forums, out alternate title for this one is 'The One Where The Guy Gets Shot in Time Square'" | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "Those New Year's tourists can be vicious." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, um, presumably we are supposed to do this the first time we play, then go back to try for a better outcome." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That or it's like Ascii and the Argonauts and we are thorough screwed." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I'm inclined to think the latter, but I'm open to trying it out." | ||||
| Ellison says, "I'm pretty sure there's just the on ending" | ||||
| maga says, "the pattern that emerges is that, in the world of Hugo, victory means getting laid and then dying" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| maga says, "they are the salmon of the text adventure world" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "mmm, salmon" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I have a few tins. I should eat some." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, like, the memories are our life passing before our eyes. Nice." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "IRTA 'I have a few twins. I should eat some,' and given the games this morning, I didn't realize it was a misread at first." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, so play again or play something else?" | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Aw | And Two, at least I hope, the somewhat interesting story and mystery as to what is going on would divert the player's attention away from the fact that my Hugo programming skills are poor and that the game is (except for a few viewable objects and harshly-steered commands) essentially non-interactive" | ||||
| Touchy exclaims, "Hello people!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I doubt that last game can change much. You can probably examine more scenery items en route, but I doubt much more." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "So that's a 'we should play the next one?'" | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "Yeah, I'm for playing the next one" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I still thought it was interesting. Nice approach." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Onwards." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, one sec..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load hugowb" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hugo detects that you are playing this game on an interpreter that uses Floyd | the Glk API. Does this interpreter normally have a status bar? (If this Floyd | question confuses you, answer "yes") Floyd | Floyd | Please answer YES or NO: | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You've built dreams and brought to life legends. But all that is Floyd | useless to you -- a means to an end. And now, the culmination of your Floyd | long work is nearly finished. Floyd | You gingerly take the imager device from its dock, the final Floyd | precautionary tests complete. The narrow strip of metal resonates Floyd | deeply within you as you scrutinize it, a felt echo of your own Floyd | essence. Now, all that is left is for the imager to be installed so Floyd | your consciousness can be attuned with your creation. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | World Builder Floyd | by Paul Lee (bainespal@yahoo.com) Floyd | Originally for the Hugo Open House Competition Floyd | Release 2 Floyd | January 11, 2012 Floyd | IFID: 7D41B470-B518-4241-A71C-50D107E1EEEA Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031 Floyd | Floyd | (Enter "ABOUT" to access background information and credits.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your workshop Floyd | Automatons scurry to and fro in the complex of interconnected Floyd | machinery, which churns and whirls across the vast convex surface of Floyd | the Sphere. Floyd | None of the sprawling apparatuses and cybernetic miracles are worth Floyd | anything compared to the masterpiece that lies prone and powerless Floyd | before you. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I liked the story itself." | |||
| Bainespal says, "There are a lot of clever hints in Spin as to what is going on." | ||||
| smartgenes says, "i thought that game's writing was good.. confused about the blood thing though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh hey, it's Bainespal's game." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Bainespal), "Yes." | ||||
| Bainespal says, "yes" | ||||
| Bainespal nods. | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | [N]ext item [Q]uit menu Floyd | [P]revious item [Enter] to select Floyd | Floyd | * About the Game Floyd | Credits Floyd | Instructions Floyd | SPOILERS (Please try to beat the game before viewing) Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | This game would probably never have been written had the Hugo Open Floyd | House Competition not been held. The short processes of writing "World Floyd | Builder" began on December 26th, 2011 and was essentially complete by Floyd | December 30th. The Hugo Open House Competition games were played and Floyd | discussed beginning January 4th, and this second release incorporates Floyd | bug fixes and improvements based on the discussion. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [PRESS A KEY TO CONTINUE] Floyd | | ||||
| genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | [N]ext item [Q]uit menu Floyd | [P]revious item [Enter] to select Floyd | Floyd | * About the Game Floyd | Credits Floyd | Instructions Floyd | SPOILERS (Please try to beat the game before viewing) Floyd | Floyd | | Bainespal exclaims, "Wow, Jon Blasks menu extension looks good even in a MUD!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your workshop Floyd | Automatons scurry to and fro in the complex of interconnected Floyd | machinery, which churns and whirls across the vast convex surface of Floyd | the Sphere. Floyd | None of the sprawling apparatuses and cybernetic miracles are worth Floyd | anything compared to the masterpiece that lies prone and powerless Floyd | before you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, that's the nicest a menu has ever appeared here." | |||
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Is there anything special under 'instructions' we should see, or just the basics?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It is jaunty and stylish." | ||||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Bainespal says, "Just use TALK TO for dialog." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x masterpiece" | ||||
Floyd | The figure of an artificial man stands rigidly, staring vacantly Floyd | downward from empty eyes. The android is flawless, a perfect imitation Floyd | of natural life -- except for the empty rectangular socket above his Floyd | right brow, revealing circuitry that spoils the preternatural beauty of Floyd | his human form. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x socket" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "socket". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x circuitry" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "circuitry". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are human, and you are the World Builder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying the imager. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We have a plastic pal that's fun to play with!" | |||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x imager" | ||||
Floyd | The device looks like a small, slightly-curved metal band, featureless Floyd | and smooth on the outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Put imager in masterpiece?" | |||
| Bainespal says, "Yes." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm sure it's friendly plug-n-play software." | ||||
| jojo arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put imager in man" | ||||
Floyd | You slide the smooth, rounded rectangular bar into the groove on the Floyd | android's forehead. The invisible field draws the device into place Floyd | soundlessly, recessing it to the level of the skin. Floyd | The figure of the android shudders for a moment, and then it raises Floyd | its head, its mechanical eyes opening wide to focus on you. The imager Floyd | begins to blink in the forehead, the metal pulsing softly with white Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Finally sorta really back!" | |||
| jojo asks, "What are we playing?" | ||||
| Tale says, "Oh, this one is great" | ||||
| DavidW says, "World Builder" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||||
Floyd | He hears, but he cannot listen. Not yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x android" | ||||
Floyd | The android stands poised before you, its eyes locked onto your face. Floyd | The imager insterted into the forehead throbs slowly, pulsing with Floyd | bright white light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | The android stands poised before you, its eyes locked onto your face. Floyd | The imager insterted into the forehead throbs slowly, pulsing with Floyd | bright white light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close man" | ||||
Floyd | You can't do that with the android. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "x imager" | ||||
Floyd | The imager is a small silver bar above Hugor's right brow, hanging out Floyd | over his scorched face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push imager" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "push". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brow" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "brow". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x face" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "face". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ears" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "ears". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||||
Floyd | He hears, but he cannot listen. Not yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your workshop Floyd | Automatons scurry to and fro in the complex of interconnected Floyd | machinery, which churns and whirls across the vast convex surface of Floyd | the Sphere. Floyd | None of the sprawling apparatuses and cybernetic miracles are worth Floyd | anything compared to the masterpiece that lies prone and powerless Floyd | before you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||||
Floyd | The Sphere is what you call the hollow planetoid you constructed to Floyd | serve as your workshop and laboratory. Miles of equipment and consoles Floyd | stretch across the inside surface of the artificial globe, diligently Floyd | attended by your robotic assistants. The transparent alloy of the Floyd | outer wall beneath allows an unobscured view of the cosmos. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x cosmos" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take man" | ||||
Floyd | The android probably wouldn't be too big on that idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bainespal asks, "I obviously didn't clue this well enough, so should I just tell you?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Not quite yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I assume we skipped past something." | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch man" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "turn on hugor" | ||||
Floyd | You meet the android's cold gaze. Your nano implants detect the Floyd | interface signal from the imager, rendering the transmission visible to Floyd | your eyes in a sort of non-sight, separate from the three-dimensional Floyd | world. You follow the signal through the imager, into the intricate Floyd | being. Floyd | The imager flares brightly, and the android inhales deeply through Floyd | his nostrils. Suddenly, you are conscious of the android through your Floyd | link to him. More than that, you can feel the echo of his Floyd | consciousness of you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "You are Hugor," you tell him. "Welcome, my son." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Gerynar), "yay. Thanks." | |||
| Gerynar says, "it was the 'lying powerless' that clued me in" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "but spelled correctly" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | "You were created for a very special purpose," you explain, still Floyd | looking earnestly into his eyes. "You posses within you the key to Floyd | endless wonders and mysteries. Together, we will have many great Floyd | adventures." Floyd | Floyd | The light of the imager diminishes to a faint but steady gleam. Floyd | Hugor opens his hands and looks at you, raising his right hand toward Floyd | you vaguely. Floyd | Floyd | "Father," he says. He blinks. "I am Hugor." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | "You were created for a very special purpose," you explain, still Floyd | looking earnestly into his eyes. "You posses within you the key to Floyd | endless wonders and mysteries. Together, we will have many great Floyd | adventures." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "key". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "hugor, stand up" | ||||
Floyd | Hugor ignores you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hugor, follow me" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "follow". Floyd | Floyd | > | jojo says, "I think we have to give him something." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss hugor" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "kiss". Floyd | Floyd | > | jojo says, "Only, he's raising his open hand towards us." | |||
| DavidW asks (of jojo), "Like, um, clothes? A map? A bowl of courage?" | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Floyd | Floyd | Hugor's arched eyebrows draw together. "Father... I do not Floyd | understand," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "take hugor's hand" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hug hugor" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "hug". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake hand" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "shake". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hold hand" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "hold". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "ask hugor about his feelings" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "feelings". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell hugor about me" | ||||
Floyd | (Plese use the command "TALK TO (CHARACTER NAME)" to initiate dialog.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | "You needn't, Son. Not yet. In time, you will learn to use your Floyd | gift." Floyd | You motion Hugor over to a clearer area. "Come now," you say, "We Floyd | won't be trying it out here in the Sphere, but you may as well begin to Floyd | get a feel for how it works. Look around you. Your vision is as Floyd | capable of rendering dimensional lines as it is of light photons. You Floyd | can also touch those dimensional lines, as easily as you can bend down Floyd | and touch the floor of the Sphere. Now, look inside yourself, feel the Floyd | mystery that I created you to persue, and..." Floyd | Hugor suddenly whips his head around to look at you, jerking down the Floyd | hand that he had raised in the air as you spoke. "No." He shakes his Floyd | head, softly at first, but then wildly and vehemently. "No," he Floyd | repeats, his voice crackling mechanically. "Does not compute. Error. Floyd | Sequence abort." His voice is consumed by robotic monotony; no trace Floyd | of the naturalness he possessed for a moment remains. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | "Hugor, stand by to receive autocorrect passcode," you say calmly, Floyd | transmitting with your nanotide neural implants the sequence to Floyd | initiate Hugor's debugging routines. The imager receives the signal, Floyd | but in response Hugor only turns away from you with a hiss. Floyd | Floyd | Hugor unsteadily backs away from you, throwing up his hands in front Floyd | of him as if to ward you off, fingers bent claw-like. Suddenly, the Floyd | air before him shimmers and bends, being replaced for a moment by a Floyd | small vortex of light. The area around the vortex erupts in blue Floyd | energy, sending Hugor flying backward and vaporizing the nearest Floyd | equipment. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Whoa." | |||
| jojo says, "I wish *I* had debugging routines." | ||||
| DavidW says, "He probably saw bones and organs and icky stuff inside us and was grossed out." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop, Hugor!" you command. "You don't know what you're doing. You Floyd | could both destroy yourself and cause grave harm to others!" But Hugor Floyd | does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | The instant Hugor smashes bodily into a console against a far wall, Floyd | he leaps back to his feet, looking around uncertainly. The right-most Floyd | part of his face is burned off up to his nose, revealing his metallic Floyd | internal structure beneath his human aesthetic. A tendril of smoke Floyd | rises from the damaged imager. You look with your nano-sight, but the Floyd | dimensional signal that linked the android to you is reduced to garbled Floyd | jibberish, giving you a headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take imager" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "turn off hugor" | ||||
Floyd | At the speed of thought, you initiate in your own mind the nano-signal Floyd | to deactivate Hugor, but the broken imager spits out chaotic Floyd | interference, failing to receive. You glance at a console, about Floyd | equidistant between you and Hugor, from which you can initiate a Floyd | stronger overide to bypass the imager. You lunge for the console, both Floyd | physically and remotely through your nanotides. But with his Floyd | super-human strength and reflexes, Hugor reacts faster, simultaneously Floyd | sending out interference to block the signal from your implants and Floyd | crossing the distance between himself and the console in a single jump Floyd | to smash it to ruin with his arm. Floyd | Floyd | Hugor runs to the nearest port along the Sphere, covering the Floyd | distance in moments. You signal the docking system to deny him access Floyd | to the cruiser bay, and the nearest automatons shuffle towards him, Floyd | hemming him in. He throws the robots out of his way and slams his Floyd | scorched fist against the closed docking lift, but the reinforced alloy Floyd | fails to yield even to his great strength. He raises his hands, and a Floyd | shimmering field appears before the lift. The field expands Floyd | horizontally toward the lift, which disappears in a burst of molten Floyd | slag. Several loyal automatons fall into the vortex, and are gone. Floyd | The vortex disintegrates, and Hugor disappears through the hole he Floyd | created. Floyd | How could he have gained so much control over his ability already? Floyd | Floyd | > | Bainespal says, "As you can see, the ability to take the imager again is the biggest bug I know still exists. Fortunately, it doesn't make the game unwinnable." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we invented Superboy Prime here." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I was hoping taking the imager would stop him." | ||||
| DavidW says, "but yeah, I thought of turning him off just a little too late." | ||||
| jojo exclaims, "Alas, we have created a moooooonnnnsterr!" | ||||
| Bainespal says, "Good thought. I'll make it equivalent to trying to "TURN OFF" for the next release, if I make one." | ||||
| TheXenographer exclaims, "What has science done?!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, we wanted adventures, so we have one." | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x port" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "port". Floyd | Floyd | > | jojo asks, "Erm, so should we see about vowing to stop our horrendous creation at all costs?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "yes, but how?" | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Your workshop Floyd | Automatons scurry to and fro in the complex of interconnected Floyd | machinery, which churns and whirls across the vast convex surface of Floyd | the Sphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we have a supersuit or ultra-gun or whatever handy?" | |||
| Bainespal smiles. | DavidW asks, "Can we find Hugor with our GPS implants?" | |||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "hole". Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "we could just let him go free and start making a better one" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "follow hugor" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "follow". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying the imager. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "repair imager" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "repair". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x imager" | ||||
Floyd | The device looks like a small, slightly-curved metal band, featureless Floyd | and smooth on the outside. Floyd | Floyd | A portion of the transparent diameter of the Sphere glows red and Floyd | then explodes outward, and a star cruiser glides out of the breach as Floyd | atmosphere and equipment vents out into space. The Sphere's central Floyd | control system automatically closes the breach with a force field. Floyd | Hugor's hijacked star cruiser disappears from light-based sight as it Floyd | engages its photon engines. Floyd | Hugor is far too precious to lose. You must find him and stop him Floyd | from destroying himself! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You enter the star cruiser's control pod and launch out through the Floyd | Sphere's space port in pursuit of your lost creation, your lost child. Floyd | Floyd | Space Floyd | The stars evaporate in dim streaks as you leave light behind. Floyd | The interior of the control pod of your ship is a spherical room with Floyd | four molded chairs facing the viewscreen that covers the enitre Floyd | diameter of the wall. The viewscreen remains locked onto Hugor's Floyd | cruiser. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "x viewscreen" | ||||
Floyd | The sheet of transparent aluminum wraps all around the diameter of the Floyd | circular room, displaying a projection of the stolen star cruiser Floyd | rendered by calculations based on photon emissions. A narrow strip Floyd | below the screen displays panels to activate and control the targeting Floyd | system, navigation system, and photon engines. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "'The stars evaporate in dim streaks' is nicely put." | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x panels" | ||||
Floyd | The sheet of transparent aluminum wraps all around the diameter of the Floyd | circular room, displaying a projection of the stolen star cruiser Floyd | rendered by calculations based on photon emissions. A narrow strip Floyd | below the screen displays panels to activate and control the targeting Floyd | system, navigation system, and photon engines. Floyd | Floyd | Hugor's vessel abruptly changes course and drops out of photon Floyd | velocity. Your ship's computer immediately calculates Hugor's exit Floyd | vector and makes corresponding course adjustments before entering Floyd | sublight speed, and the stars snap into sharp focus on your viewport. Floyd | But the stars are all you see as the computer wildly scans the Floyd | sector, searching for the renegade ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to examine the systems in turn." | |||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x targeting system" | ||||
Floyd | The sheet of transparent aluminum wraps all around the diameter of the Floyd | circular room, displaying a field of stars. A narrow strip below the Floyd | screen displays panels to activate and control the targeting system, Floyd | navigation system, and photon engines. Floyd | Floyd | > | TheXenographer says, "Nope, i guess not." | |||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "target hugor" | ||||
Floyd | Your computer hasn't yet locked on to Hugor's location, so you don't Floyd | know where to shoot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x navigation" | ||||
Floyd | The sheet of transparent aluminum wraps all around the diameter of the Floyd | circular room, displaying a field of stars. A narrow strip below the Floyd | screen displays panels to activate and control the targeting system, Floyd | navigation system, and photon engines. Floyd | Floyd | Your shipboard sensors detect spatial distortion and photon Floyd | displacement that was not present before. Investigating, you watch a Floyd | swirling vortex of light energy expand as Hugor's star cruiser, Floyd | drifting near the field of distortion, accelerates gently away from it Floyd | and then begins to turn toward it in a long arc. Floyd | Incredible. He should not have been able to generate such a large Floyd | field for a long time. You cannot allow him to escape through it, or Floyd | you may lose him forever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "target hugor" | ||||
Floyd | Your targeting system can't lock on to Hugor's vessel due to Floyd | interference from the vortex, but you fire off a shot at the general Floyd | area anyways, just as Hugor brings his ship around to enter the Floyd | swirling light. The beam misses and is absorbed into the energy field. Floyd | The vortex swells and wavers, and Hugor's ship tumbles away from it, Floyd | turning end-over-end. Floyd | The vortex shrinks and stabilizes, and then opens wide again as Hugor Floyd | regains control of his cruiser, once again turning to enter the field Floyd | of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "target vortex" | ||||
Floyd | Your computer refuses to target the vortex directly due to the energy Floyd | field's emissions, but you unleash a laser volley, the laser turret Floyd | firing thousands of times in the half-second. On your viewport, the Floyd | vortex absorbs the beam and warps chaotically, bursting into a nebula Floyd | of sparks. Floyd | Turning aside from the blast, Hugor's ship halts. As your star Floyd | cruiser continues on an intercept course at its top non-photon speed, a Floyd | swirling nimbus begins to gather in front of Hugor's cruiser. The Floyd | nimbus expands into another vortex, and Hugor promptly accelerates into Floyd | it just as you approach from behind, disappearing into the light. You Floyd | are just seconds away from the light field, but you know that it's Floyd | going to snap closed in the heartbeat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "enter vortex" | ||||
Floyd | You must do so. But you can't simply fly into the energy field at Floyd | sublight velocity. Now that the origin of the dimensional field has Floyd | gone on to the other side, the gateway is unstable and will collapse Floyd | immanently, destroying your craft if you aren't moving faster than the Floyd | photon warp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "speed up" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "speed". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Tale is fired from breathing. | ||||
| Tale has disconnected. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go faster" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "faster". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to warp speed" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "speed". Floyd | Floyd | > | jojo says, "One does not simply fly into the energy field at sublight velocity." | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x photon controls" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't encountered any "photon controls". (If you're sure you Floyd | need to refer to that, try putting it another way.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on photon" | ||||
Floyd | There is only one thing you can do. Responding to your thought faster Floyd | than you can twitch a limb, your computer sets a course through the Floyd | center of the vortex and engages the four photon engines for a Floyd | microsecond burst. Floyd | You are elsewhere. Your sensors show no sign that the vortex ever Floyd | existed. The viewport shows a solar system encircling an angry red sun. Floyd | Hugor's craft is barely within scanning range, in orbit of the nearest Floyd | planet. Even with the computer's precision, you far overshot the exit Floyd | point of the portal, traveling above light speed. You bear down on the Floyd | planet at top sublight speed. Floyd | Floyd | In Orbit Floyd | A cloud of debris encircles a dark terrestrial planet. Floyd | The interior of the control pod of your ship is a spherical room with Floyd | four molded chairs facing the viewscreen that covers the enitre Floyd | diameter of the wall. The viewscreen shows Hugor's cruiser arc down Floyd | and around the dark planet on a landing vector. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of jojo), "It is folly?" | |||
| djfletch says, "eep, another demon sun" | ||||
| Bainespal exclaims, "Hah!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "target hugor" | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "scan debris" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You don't need to use the word "scan". Floyd | Floyd | > | jojo exclaims (at Jacq), "Not with ten thousand men could you do this!" | |||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | You descend into the atmosphere, following Hugor's vessel as it makes Floyd | directly for the strange bulge, which resolves in your viewscreen into Floyd | a misshapen artificial dome of some kind. As the star cruiser Floyd | approaches, a panel opens on the surface of the dome, and Hugor Floyd | decelerates directly into the maw. Floyd | Floyd | As the panel closes behind Hugor's cruiser, your ship lurches, the Floyd | defensive system taking evasive maneuverings. Two turrets have risen Floyd | from beneath ground level on either side of the dome to spit fiery fury Floyd | at you, while assorted artillery outside the dome and smaller guns Floyd | along its surface shoot at you with a variety of energy weapons. The Floyd | defense system works tirelessly to evade, but a few stray beams manage Floyd | to take out your photon engines. You return fire with your lasers, Floyd | destroying one of the turrets and decimating the ground machines. Floyd | Suddenly, the viewscreen flickers out along with the control strip Floyd | and every source of light ,leaving you in total darkness. You feel Floyd | yourself falling. Two tense heartbeats pass, and then the pod lights Floyd | up again dimly. You initiate the eject sequence, and the ship encases Floyd | your body in a close-fitting, rigid suit of alloy plates. The pod Floyd | opens, and you fall, spreading your hands to create a force field just Floyd | before impact. Floyd | Floyd | A Dead Planet Floyd | The bleak landscape is pitted by craters and littered with scrap Floyd | metal and organic offal, strewn around in haphazard heaps. The murky Floyd | atmosphere obscures the sky in an acrid haze. Smoldering nuggets of Floyd | debris rain down slowly but constantly. Floyd | With the exception of the craters, the land is blandly level and Floyd | featureless in all directions -- except in the direction facing the Floyd | planet's south pole, where an asymmetrical black dome blots out the Floyd | horizon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bainespal says, "By nightfall this planet shall be fair teaming with orcs" | |||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You sprint toward the malignant edifice, your shock suit enhancing your Floyd | strength as you bound lightly over the barren terrain. As you draw Floyd | near, the remaining ground turret follows your movement, and you Floyd | proceed warily, activating your suit's force-shield. But the turret is Floyd | content to track you as you walk through the mangled remains of the Floyd | machines that you obliterated during your hurried arrival. Unhindered, Floyd | you walk straight up to the side of the dome, and a portion of the wall Floyd | dematerializes, leaving an uneven opening. Floyd | You enter without hesitation, and the wall rematerializes on your Floyd | heels. You see a dark silhoutte standing before you. Floyd | Floyd | "Remember me, World Builder?" Floyd | Floyd | In the Dome Floyd | An opaque black expanse covers everything, proclaiming itself to be a Floyd | whole world, an entire universe. A multitude of machines and cyborgs Floyd | lurk about, silhouetted against the haphazard red light that unevenly Floyd | illuminates broken terrain. Floyd | A hulking robotic behemoth stands before you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "All the text is crushing me." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Teaming with orcs? ITYM cyborgs." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tickle behemoth" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "tickle". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I have no idea what prompted me to type that." | |||
| TheXenographer says (to david), "Crushing walls of text seem to be the order of the day." | ||||
| TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "talk to behemoth" | ||||
Floyd | "Your pointless war has nothing to do with my son, Minfor. Release Floyd | him now, and I may yet leave you alone." Floyd | The expressionless head swivels, and the lone yellow eye flashes Floyd | brighter and then dimmer. "You have no authority here, World Builder," Floyd | the machine hisses mechanically. "Hugor came to me freely. He is Floyd | mine." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying the imager. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "crush the behemoth" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "crush". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "talk to behemoth" | ||||
Floyd | "Do not feign innocence, Deceiver. I know that something touched my Floyd | son when I had imparted my consciousness to him -- lied to him, no Floyd | doubt, confused him. Told him how to use his ability. Lead him to Floyd | this prison. No, Minfor, it is not Hugor who initiated this rebellion. Floyd | I will have my vengeance." Floyd | A popping cackle. "You did not suppose that you were the only one Floyd | knowing the secrets of sub-dimensional transmission and projected Floyd | consciousness, did you, World Builder? But I can't claim credit for Floyd | Hugor's actions, as you well know. You said that Hugor bears your Floyd | consciousness. If I had the power to control conscious beings, would I Floyd | not have taken you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think we have any tools but talking." | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "beg behemoth to desist" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "beg". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "smite the behemoth" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "smite". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x behemoth" | ||||
Floyd | The rigid, hulking figure before you defies sense and logic in the way Floyd | the many plates, cylinders, and connecting tubes are assymetrically Floyd | positioned. The main part of the "body" is a large, roughly box-shaped Floyd | segment, upon one side of which sits a cylindrical "head" with a single Floyd | oval optic, glowing yellow. Floyd | Floyd | Minfor's incongrouous limbs and components raise themselves higher, Floyd | and he looms over you. "Unless that is exactly what I did. It seems Floyd | Hugor was not the only one whom I lead to this prison. Like son, like Floyd | father. All along, you thought you were acting of your own free Floyd | choice. But what if I had always been communicating with your Floyd | thoughts? What if I gave you the idea to create a being capable of Floyd | opening doors to other dimensions, just so I could eventually conquer Floyd | all worlds, altering reality according to my will? And now I have both Floyd | the portal-maker and the mind that conceived him." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Is 'Minfor' an anagram of 'Inform' on purpose?" | |||
| jojo says, "In a moment we'll see the dreaded Riftda" | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "dismantle minfor" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "dismantle". Floyd | Floyd | > | Bainespal says, "Yes! You're the only one who figured it out" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "challenge minfor to a game of chess" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "challenge". Floyd | Floyd | > | Bainespal says, "that i know of, at least" | |||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x shock suit" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "shock". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "suit". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press optic" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "press". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x optic" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I still see no options but talking." | |||
| djfletch asks, "are we going to have to kill ourselves to save the universe?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I might have gotten that if Hugor had been built out of Minfor's parts" | ||||
| jojo says, "Actually, following the same format as 'Minfro', it would be 'Drifta', the incorrigible space hermit, with his friends Uestq, Nala and Adst." | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to behemoth" | ||||
Floyd | "What you say is false, and I can prove it," you state calmly. Floyd | The cylindrical head extends out from the boxy body and bends down Floyd | into your face. "How?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Because I can freely choose to allow you to enslave me and still see Floyd | my vengeance in the end!" you declare. Floyd | The yellow light on the head blinks, and the cylinder swivels. Floyd | "You can do whatever you want to me, on the condition of Hugor's Floyd | freedom." You square your shoulders and clasp your gauntleted hands Floyd | together, steepling your thumbs. Floyd | Minfor retracts to its previous height and regards you curiously. A Floyd | long moment passes. "Agreed." As soon as the word is grated, you see Floyd | movement out of the corner of your eye, and Hugor is tossed at your Floyd | feet, beaten and smoldering. A grotesque metallic creature detaches Floyd | from the right side of his disfigured face and scuttles across the Floyd | floor to crawl up Minfor, where it disappears somewhere inside the Floyd | robot's asymmetric mass of components. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | "Be strong, son," you tell him. He looks up at you weakly, his Floyd | expression numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hugor" | ||||
Floyd | The right side of his face and parts of his body, including his entire Floyd | right hand, are scorched to the alloy skeleton, marring his human Floyd | countenance. The imager has gone dark above his brow. Floyd | Floyd | "Time now!" Minfor hisses as the opening in the wall of the dome Floyd | reappears. It bends over to wrap a tentacle around Hugor, roughly Floyd | throwing him out the opening. From outside, Hugor meets your eyes for Floyd | a brief moment, and then hangs his head low before the portion of the Floyd | wall rematerializes. Floyd | Floyd | > | jojo says, "I see now why taking the imager was a bug." | |||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Leaving would spoil your plan. Floyd | Floyd | Something strikes you down from behind. The next thing you know, you Floyd | are being beaten by a group of cyborgs. They enthusiastically deliver Floyd | blow after blow. They smash your kneecaps and rake your body with Floyd | metallic claws, lapping your blood like dogs. As you are tossed Floyd | around, you occassionally catch a glimpse of Minfor looming behind the Floyd | cyborgs, watching impassively. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "attack cyborgs" | ||||
Floyd | They do not concern you directly. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i don't really get that, i assume hgor has disappeared, but it didn't say that" | |||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "attack Minfor" | ||||
Floyd | With your nano augmentation and the field-generating capabilities of Floyd | your emergency shock suit, you are far from defenseless. But here, you Floyd | are on enemy territory, and your adversary has access to firepower and Floyd | backup. Best to find another way out of this. Floyd | Floyd | The beating ceases as robots break the cyborgs up. Two androids grab Floyd | you and unceremoniously constrain you to some bent and narrow surface, Floyd | leaving you hanging in an unnatural position. The light from Minfor's Floyd | eye blinks in your face. Then the torture begins. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "he was thrown out of the dome" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh, now, why are we being sliced n diced? I thought Minfor loved us for our mind?" | ||||
| smartgenes says, "yeh it didn't say that tho" | ||||
| Gerynar | It bends over to wrap a tentacle around Hugor, roughly | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "talk to minfor" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing remains to be said. Floyd | Floyd | Laser drills bite into your skull and the back of your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "of course, I suppose Minfor is killing the golden goose, trying to get all the gold at once." | |||
| Bainespal says (to gerynar), "Thanks" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Minfor places a spiny robotic creature onto your forehead. "The Floyd | question as to whether or not you act under my compulsion is moot now, Floyd | for this will allow me to control you quite crudely and efficiently." Floyd | The spines shoot into your skull, piercing your brain. You can feel Floyd | the thing rifle through your conscious thoughts and memories. Floyd | Floyd | Before your eyes appears a vision of Minfor, dark and terrible, Floyd | shrouded in raging flame. Your consciousness is consumed by terror, and Floyd | you feel an impulse to beg for mercy. But some rational remnant of Floyd | your mind cannot accept, and your mouth remains closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | jojo asks, "I guess we get beat upon until our progidal son comes to rescue us?" | |||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Your consciousness is plunged into pure pain, and agony because the Floyd | only reality. Floyd | Floyd | The pain diminishes slightly, and your ears discern hollow, lifeless Floyd | words. "The good thing about your projected consciousness is that I Floyd | don't have to worry about killing you prematurely, since I can simply Floyd | gather your nanotides and continue my experiments. Let us see if death Floyd | has any interesting effects." Floyd | You are enveloped in more pain -- a clearly physical pain. All over Floyd | your body, you feel tiny creatures burrow into your flesh, consuming Floyd | your organs. Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED *** Floyd | | DavidW says, "I'm hoping our mind is so awesome, Minfor will go kablooey when he absorbs us." | |||
| jojo says, "Or not." | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "Well, that was a downer." | ||||
| Fang was killed when the Heinkel He 111 which was shuttling him to Berlin crashed shortly after takeoff in Salzburg at Ainring on 21 April 1944. Only his black metal hand was recovered from the wreckage. It received a full state funeral. | jojo asks, "Was there a way to win that?" | |||
| Ellison says, "there is" | ||||
| Bainespal says, "The game isn't over yet" | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | But Minfor did not understand the relationship between consciousness Floyd | and dimension. As your mangled body dies and your brain fails, your Floyd | consciousness breaks free of the dimension barrier and drifts Floyd | unhindered through the fabric of reality. Floyd | Floyd | In the Dome Floyd | An opaque black expanse covers everything, proclaiming itself to be a Floyd | whole world, an entire universe. A multitude of machines and cyborgs Floyd | lurk about, silhouetted against the haphazard red light that unevenly Floyd | illuminates broken terrain. Floyd | Minfor is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh yeah, that" | |||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "enter minfor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't enter Minfor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x minfor" | ||||
Floyd | The rigid, hulking figure before you defies sense and logic in the way Floyd | the many plates, cylinders, and connecting tubes are assymetrically Floyd | positioned. The main part of the "body" is a large, roughly box-shaped Floyd | segment, upon one side of which sits a cylindrical "head" with a single Floyd | oval optic, glowing yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's go find Hugor." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x optic" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x head" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "x self" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "self". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are human, and you are the World Builder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Leaving would spoil your plan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machines" | ||||
Floyd | They do not concern you directly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "talk to minfor" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing remains to be said. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Dome Floyd | An opaque black expanse covers everything, proclaiming itself to be a Floyd | whole world, an entire universe. A multitude of machines and cyborgs Floyd | lurk about, silhouetted against the haphazard red light that unevenly Floyd | illuminates broken terrain. Floyd | Minfor is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | You don't see him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "x machines" | ||||
Floyd | They do not concern you directly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call hugor" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to use the word "call". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cyborgs" | ||||
Floyd | They do not concern you directly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x terrain" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter minfor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't enter Minfor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "attack minfor" | ||||
Floyd | You sense every quantum of energy within the encompassing expanse of Floyd | the dome. You see the entire framework of this reality, and you touch Floyd | it. The atoms in the wall of the dome quiver as you project your Floyd | wrath, and the dome violently implodes, burrying Minfor and its minions Floyd | in a mound of devastation. Floyd | Floyd | Free at last, you drift incorpeally, stretching out to detect your Floyd | son's aberrant signal elsewhere on the dead planet. He has opened a Floyd | vortex portal and is about to step through, shoulders slumped. You Floyd | follow the dimensional lines to the dark, gloomy place on the other Floyd | side of the portal and promptly sever them. As effortlessly as Floyd | breathing, you coalesce in front of Hugor, your nanotides forming Floyd | quarks and atoms that form flesh and blood and bone, until you stand Floyd | before him just as physically as when you first activated him with your Floyd | thought. Floyd | Floyd | A Dead Planet Floyd | Hugor is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to jojo), "Attacking was my next guess!" | |||
| jojo says, "Good we're on the same page, violent tendencies-wise." | ||||
| ASchultz retreats to his comfy little shack | ||||
| ASchultz has disconnected. | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | Words can wait a moment more. Right now, Hugor needs you to restore Floyd | him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "turn on hugor" | ||||
Floyd | The imager does not respond to you, but you no longer need it to. Floyd | Hugor flinches as you lay a hand on his shoulder but otherwise allows Floyd | your grip. You project yourself into him, pulsing through his damaged Floyd | body, causing his atoms to dissassociate but his essence to remain in a Floyd | cloud of light. The light coalesces, forming a body as living as Floyd | yours, but with all the perfection of his original android form. He Floyd | raises his head to look into your eyes, and you feel his own Floyd | consciousness project into your mind. Floyd | The imager is gone, but Hugor's brow shines with a pure silver gleam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| jojo says (to Floyd), "talk to hugor" | ||||
Floyd | "Do not be ashamed, Hugor. All is well. Infinite worlds await!" Floyd | Hugor inhales deeply and looks up at you, smiling softly. He turns Floyd | and raises his right arm, calling forth a bright field of light. Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU'VE WON THE GAME! *** Floyd | Floyd | The game has ended. Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game, Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT? | Jacqueline says, "w00t" | |||
| TheXenographer says, "aww, that's much better." | ||||
| jojo says, "I'm glad that we didn't have to kill our promethean creation." | ||||
| Ellison says, "hooray" | ||||
| Bainespal says, "Thank you all! Fascinating transcript." | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Hooray for a transcript helpful to an author!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. If we can manipulate atoms directly and rebuild our own body from scratch, I'm not sure why we bother with machines at all." | ||||
| Bainespal says, "And I'm really sorry for the places where it was under-implemented" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Bainespal says (to DavidW), "I didn't think of that. But I think the World Builder only gained total mastery of dimensions after getting killed." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ready for another?" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "very nicely written game, Bainespal" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This next one is the last one, I think." | ||||
| Bainespal says (to Gerynar), "Thank you. :)" | ||||
| jojo gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| jojo arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline exclaims, "Okay, I'm not hearing 'no, I need a potty break' or 'yes, onward!' so I'll make a decision: we're going for it!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load hugozork" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | HUGO ZORK: The Great Underground Empire Floyd | A Port of Infocom's Zork I to Hugo Floyd | Beta Release 1 Floyd | Hugo Zork written by John Menichelli Floyd | "Zork I" is copyright by Activision and is used without permission Floyd | Written using Hugo v2.5 by Kent Tessman (c) 1995-1999 Floyd | (New players should type "help") Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded Floyd | front door. Floyd | A small mailbox is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait." | |||
| Ellison says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Bainespal exclaims, "This one looks a bit familiar!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This... this isn't part of the hugo comp, it just is on Floyd and has a similar naming convention." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think this isn't part of the comp." | ||||
| Gerynar says (to Bainespal), "prose like that makes me shudder when I look at my WIPs and WnIPs" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "Have we played them all?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Your score is 0 (total of 350 points), in 0 moves. Floyd | This gives you the rank of Beginner. Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)? | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Ellison says, "assuming you played Retro Nemesis before I got here, yeah" | |||
| jojo says, "That game is over so quickly, it was just getting eerily familiar." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, we played Retro Nemesis all right." | ||||
| Bainespal exclaims (at Gerynar), "I know the feeling, especially when it comes to code. I'd never have finished anything if I didn't crank it out for a quick deadline, either!" | ||||
| jojo asks, "What's everyone's take on the Hugo games then?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, so then I guess we're done. And here I was all psyched out for another. But this will mean I can probably have enough time to actually do transcripts and get my swim in today, so that is good." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of jojo), "What do you mean?" | ||||
| inky says, "we think hugo is swell" | ||||
| TheXenographer says, "I'm not sure we so much played Retro Nemesis as stared blankly at it" | ||||
| jojo says (to Jacq), "I mean, what's the overall impression of game quality, handling etc." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to TX), "haha, true" | ||||
| Bainespal says, "The Hugo Comp made me hope that Hugo will get updated some day." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to jojo), "Oh, well... I'm one of those people that really thinks that it's about the author more than the system. I've enjoyed games coded in a lot of different systems, and I think Hugo can turn out some really great games." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ask that question when a systemsnob like maga is here." | ||||
| jojo says, "Yeah, I think you're probably right on that score." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure if ClubFloyd can really show off Hugo to its best advantage, since we can't see pics or hear sounds via Floyd." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||||
| inky says (to Bainespal), "oh, it's being updated -- now you can use it to create screenplays" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "How extensible is Hugo? Does it have library extensions the way Inform or TADS does it?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "somebody needs to add an ascii art system for pictures on Floyd" | ||||
| Bainespal says (to DavidW), "Yes. I used 3 extensions, all by Jon Blask, in WB" | ||||
| jojo says, "Yep, then we could port in ascii doom." | ||||
| Bainespal exclaims (at djfletch), "I love ASCII art!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh good. I think having a good library of extensions to draw from helps authors a lot." | ||||
| Bainespal says, "I'm really impressed with Jon's interperter-compensation system. It made the menu display correctly in a MUD client." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that was very good." | ||||
| Gerynar says, "I'd also like to point out all the great work he's done at the Hugo wiki" | ||||
| Jacqueline looks at the calendar, realizes it's Compliment Ellison day. "He is also jaunty and stylish." | ||||
| Recchi says (to jojo), "I have to leave, but other people wrote about their impressions at this thread: | [LINK]" | ||||
| jojo exclaims (at Recchi), "I'll check that out, cheers!" | ||||
| Ellison says, "dang, my MUD client someone's-complimenting-me trigger failed to initiate" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "You need to revisit the code for it, evidently." | ||||
| Bainespal exclaims (at recchi), "Thanks for running the Comp!" | ||||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Thanks, everyone!" | ||||
| Bainespal exclaims, "I need to leave, too. I'm really glad I attended!" | ||||
| Ellison says, "Retro Nemesis really is cool with the additional music and color scheme, but it's a good read regardless" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh man, there's music and color?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Glad the comp happened. This was different." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "hm, maybe we need to simul-play again." | ||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, plus there's a picture of Jason Scott with his finger in a whole lot of pies" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "I don't want to see Scott with his fingers in a Chilaxxx pie." | ||||
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