  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline hollers, "Just over fifteen minutes until ClubFloyd - we'll (hopefully) be finishing off the Apollo 18+20 games today (I say 'hopefully' not because we don't love them, but because soon there will be even *more* new games to play... so many new games coming out, ClubFloyd can't keep up! It's a great thing!)." | ||
| maga arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| mwmiller arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | maga asks, "which games are left?" | |
| DavidW says, "gimme a sec to find a list" | ||
| DavidW says, "I *think* we got as far as Fingertips: Mysterious Whispers." | ||
| inky arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| eu arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "If I'm right, the next would be Fingertips: The Day That Love Came to Play" | |
| vimes arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | genericgeekgirl says, "No, one sec." | |
| genericgeekgirl says, "The only Fingertips game left is I Walk Along Darkened Corridors, plus Space Suit." | ||
| DavidW says, "huh. okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, it's the last two." | ||
| genericgeekgirl arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says, "Was in another window." | |
| borowski arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| Jacqueline I think I need to physically schedule a 'catch up on transcripts' day. Possibly next Saturday. | Jacqueline says, "I think I need to physically schedule a 'catch up on transcripts' day. Possibly next Saturday." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Mmkay, it's time." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18iwalkdarkenedcorridors" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The spirits called you each off to one side. Said they had riddles. Floyd | You'd boned up on mythological puzzles and even guessed the stab Floyd | wound/hanged man and puddle of water right your first time; You felt Floyd | confident, but you got straight-out math. Floyd | Floyd | Your pal wanted a beautiful wife--thought he'd get a lady-and-tiger Floyd | deal but instead had to choose number one of a thousand and one. At Floyd | least he got time to browse. Floyd | Floyd | You had to go with writing the perfect song. Beautiful women would Floyd | follow. Nobody said you'd get to sing it, though. Still, you've got at Floyd | least a chance in a thousand--well, a thousand and one--of getting it Floyd | right. Maybe even better. Floyd | Floyd | One of these doors ahead holds that song--it's all you, but universal, Floyd | as well. The other thousand? Gulp. Floyd | Floyd | Fingertips - I Walk Along Darkened Corridors Floyd | Fingertips: I Walk Along Darkened Corridors -- Episode 37 of the Floyd | Apollo 18 Tribute by Andrew Schultz Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 120518 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | Ten paths branch in front of you, to ten darkened stairways each, with Floyd | five doors on each side of the stairways. You'll have to walk down one Floyd | of them. Well, actually, there's door 1001. It seems boarded up for Floyd | effect, but it's got drawings on it. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural C. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Virgo." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x angel" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X ANGEL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and twirls his pitchfork. He Floyd | suddenly looks down, blinks and wipes out a number written on one Floyd | hand. You noticed it said Combo is 343-391-439 for supreme world Floyd | leader. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, this may be a tougher than usual 'Fingertips'." | |
| Binder arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x devil" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVIL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and primps his haloYou don't Floyd | catch any more hints, though. He's a bit too alert right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "stab wound/hanged man?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Or it may be deceptively simple (she says, optimistically)." | ||
| ASchultz arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You haven't gone all ethereal, yet. At least you don't have to wear Floyd | some corny robes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x 1001" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X 1001 Floyd | Floyd | Door 1001 is different from the other doors. You see a treble clef Floyd | with a note on the second rung from the bottom. There's a picture of a Floyd | guy holding a serpent, which you know/can deduce as Ophiuchus. There's Floyd | also a depiction of a three-on-one where the leftmost advanced player Floyd | is about to shoot on goal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X CHART Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Odd. You haven't seen a soccer/football formation without a back Floyd | four for a while. Floyd | Floyd | CF Floyd | LF RF Floyd | LW RW Floyd | Floyd | LH CH RH Floyd | LB RB Floyd | GK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 121/143 7 = .846153 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "The old riddle about the hanged man alone in the room or the old riddle about the man stabbed with no murder weapon." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | That looks like a handy little distraction... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | |...|. |. .|. .| | Floyd | | | | . | . | . | = ?? Floyd | |...| .|. .|. .| | Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want, and I'll Floyd | even let you know the answer is always even... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I know Petals Around the Rose, at least." | |
| eu exclaims, "Ooh, I know this one!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm... lots of fancy riddles this comp." | ||
| inky says (to Jacqueline), "oh, I see, the puddle of water was part of it" | ||
| phoenix arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "guess 8" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > GUESS 8 Floyd | Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning--you can also Floyd | shorthand to, say, DOOR 17, ENTER 17, or 17. (For those familiar with Floyd | text adventures, you can also try standard verbs a few times for minor Floyd | amusement.) Floyd | Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yep. I shan't say more." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | (Okay, you don't want to guess. But the answer was 8.) Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | |. |. .|. | |...| Floyd | | | . | | . | | = ?? Floyd | | .|. .| .| |...| Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | Right! But was it just luck? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | |. .| |. .|. .|. .| Floyd | | | . | | | | = ?? Floyd | |. .| |. .|. .|. .| Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "0" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 0 Floyd | Floyd | Right! But was it just luck? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | |. .|...|. |. .| | Floyd | | . | | | | . | = ?? Floyd | |. .|...| .|. .| | Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | Right! But was it just luck? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | |. | .|. |. .|. .| Floyd | | | . | | | . | = ?? Floyd | | .|. | .|. .|. .| Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Hmm, no reward for it." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, it's literally a distraction?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | Wrong! The question marks turn into the number 6. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops, missed 2." | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural C. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Virgo." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x devil" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVIL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and primps his haloYou don't Floyd | catch any more hints, though. He's a bit too alert right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x halo" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X HALO Floyd | Floyd | (the devil with a halo) Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and primps his haloYou don't Floyd | catch any more hints, though. He's a bit too alert right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask devil about angel" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DEVIL ABOUT ANGEL Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, was that combo noted down by anyone?" | |
| eu says, "Aye." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wrote it down." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The angel combo-- cool." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | | .| .|. .|. .|. .| Floyd | | . | . | . | | . | = ?? Floyd | |. |. |. .|. .|. .| Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "12" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 12 Floyd | Floyd | Right! But was it just luck? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | |. |...|. | .|. | Floyd | | | | | . | | = ?? Floyd | | .|...| .|. | .| Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Wrong! The question marks turn into the number 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | | .|. .|. .| .|. .| Floyd | | . | . | . | . | | = ?? Floyd | |. |. .|. .|. |. .| Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "10" | |
| eu says, "12" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "12" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 12 Floyd | Floyd | Right! But was it just luck? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | | .| | .|. .|. .| Floyd | | . | . | . | | . | = ?? Floyd | |. | |. |. .|. .| Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "8" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 8 Floyd | Floyd | Right! But was it just luck? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "damn I missed the first 2" | |
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DICE Floyd | Floyd | It seems simple enough, even if it may not help you choose the right Floyd | door... Floyd | Floyd | PETALS AROUND THE ROSE Floyd | |. |. | .|. .|. | Floyd | | | | . | . | | = ?? Floyd | | .| .|. |. .| .| Floyd | Floyd | The answer hasn't appeared yet. You can guess, if you want... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "f 6" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > F 6 Floyd | Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning. Floyd | Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | Right! But was it just luck? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, maybe we really don't get anything for this this" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Only your hopes and dreams. And a heaping helping of fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "take dice" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DICE Floyd | Floyd | Now's a bad time to be materialistic. And where would you put that Floyd | anyway? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hopes" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X HOPES Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the muscular statue or the starry-eyed statue? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x starry" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X STARRY Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything new--just letters saying Virgo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x muscular" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X MUSCULAR Floyd | Floyd | Hm, maybe the other statue has a clue. Floyd | Floyd | It seems very proud of its Center Half Back trophy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search starry" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH STARRY Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trophy" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the trophy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I know almost nothing about football plays." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x football" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X FOOTBALL Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Odd. You haven't seen a soccer/football formation without a back Floyd | four for a while. Floyd | Floyd | CF Floyd | LF RF Floyd | LW RW Floyd | Floyd | LH CH RH Floyd | LB RB Floyd | GK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so Left Wizard, Left Fieldsman, Center Fieldsman, Right Fieldsman, Right Wizard?" | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | It's thankfully devoid of astrological theory, instead concentrating Floyd | on the rough order of the signs, clockwise from the top: Saggitarius, Floyd | Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Floyd | Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Ophiuchus. Ophiuchus? Hmm. Might make a Floyd | decent song title. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ugh, yeah. I know a bit, but not much at all about formations and stuff." | |
| inky says, "w = wing" | ||
| inky says, "h = half" | ||
| inky says, "f = forward" | ||
| DavidW asks, "b = bishop; k = king?" | ||
| inky says, "b = back, gk = goalkeeper" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I prefer wizard :P" | ||
| eu says, "Heh." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "kick ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > KICK BALL Floyd | Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning. Floyd | Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so presumably the trophy is for the CH" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural C. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Virgo." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What's a 'back four'?" | |
| phoenix says, "defenders in football" | ||
| inky says, "probably LH, RH, LB, RB" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tag" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TAG Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or maybe LB, RB, CH, GK" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x virgo" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X VIRGO Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trophy" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the trophy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search trophy" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fear" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X FEAR Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop fear" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > DROP FEAR Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am reminded of how angry people got over the baseball puzzle in Zork." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural C. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Virgo." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table'" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
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Floyd | > X TABLE'
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Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be.
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 61/77 13 = .792207 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But at least here we know it's a football puzzle... or at least we think we know." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen to hum" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO HUM Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | God probably keeps out of this sort of thing. It'd be too easy if he Floyd | didn't, really. Maybe you just want good old-fashioned HINTs. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "hmm 13x77 = 1001" | |
| mwmiller asks, "61/77 ~= .792207792207792207... all right, but what's the 13 for?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door 1001" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR 1001 Floyd | Floyd | Door 1001 is different from the other doors. You see a treble clef Floyd | with a note on the second rung from the bottom. There's a picture of a Floyd | guy holding a serpent, which you know/can deduce as Ophiuchus. There's Floyd | also a depiction of a three-on-one where the leftmost advanced player Floyd | is about to shoot on goal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door 17" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR 17 Floyd | Floyd | The door would provide no special clue even if you were allowed to Floyd | walk there and inspect it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DOORS Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rung" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X RUNG Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clef" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X CLEF Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | mwmiller says, "Okay, Ophiuchus is a Zodiac constellation that's *not* considered one of the 12 signs." | |
| inky says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's the 13th sign." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x door 793" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR 793 Floyd | Floyd | The door would provide no special clue even if you were allowed to Floyd | walk there and inspect it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "which makes sense, since the center halfback guy isn't in the circle either" | |
| Binder says, "it's part of zodiac 2.0" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x 13" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X 13 Floyd | Floyd | The door would provide no special clue even if you were allowed to Floyd | walk there and inspect it. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says (to inky), "Good eye." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X CHART Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Odd. You haven't seen a soccer/football formation without a back Floyd | four for a while. Floyd | Floyd | CF Floyd | LF RF Floyd | LW RW Floyd | Floyd | LH CH RH Floyd | LB RB Floyd | GK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "the treble clef note on the second rung from the bottom is a G?" | |
| phoenix says, "it's a D" | ||
| phoenix says, "oh wait" | ||
| eu says, "Yeah, G." | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah G" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh man, Zodianc 2.0, that thing." | ||
| inky asks, "so the door 1001 code is maybe g-13-???" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Could door 1001's stuff be a rebus?" | ||
| phoenix says, "1001 = 7x11x13" | ||
| phoenix says, "looks like there are 13 signs, 11 football positions" | ||
| eu asks, "Why Virgo then? Wasn't that #10?" | ||
| Allen says (to inky), "a treble clef is a fancy G, wrapped around the second line, showing where the G is." | ||
| phoenix asks, "7 notes on the musical scale?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What's a 'three-on-one'?" | ||
| Binder says, "a good night" | ||
| inky says (to Allen), "hunh!" | ||
| eu says, "Three players on the offensive team facing off against the keeper." | ||
| inky asks (of Allen), "how did they pick G?" | ||
| Allen says, "it's a 5th up from C, C clefs being the clef below it" | ||
| DavidW asks, "If the three-on-one play was drawn on a play board, would it look like the letter L ?" | ||
| Allen says, "(and F clefs being a 5th below that)" | ||
| inky says, "ok, hmm" | ||
| inky says, "so the note number is presumably 3, since we see a hum in the room at C" | ||
| DavidW asks, "what hum?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural C. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Virgo." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "it's wrapped up in hexachords and stuff that is no longer relevant to music theory" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hum G" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > HUM G Floyd | Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning. Floyd | Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hum" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > HUM Floyd | Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning. Floyd | Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | Bad idea. You probably got lucky the spirits didn't have you audition, Floyd | truth be told. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to hum" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO HUM Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to c" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO C Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "anyway, in association football the positions have numbers" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 76/143 7 = .531468 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky | [LINK] | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 75/77 13 = .974025 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so I guess the football number is 5" | |
| DavidW asks, "huh?" | ||
| eu | 5. Centre half back (centre defensive midfield) | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | (the starry-eyed statue) Floyd | Hm, maybe the other statue has a clue you haven't figured yet... Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything new--just letters saying Virgo. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "er" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x muscular" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X MUSCULAR Floyd | Floyd | Hm, maybe the other statue has a clue you haven't figured yet... Floyd | Floyd | It seems very proud of its Center Half Back trophy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "That's what all those numbers mean before they move the ball, then?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hike" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > HIKE Floyd | Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning. Floyd | Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I hadn't really thought of it before." | |
| inky says, "and [LINK] says virgo is sign 6" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say hike" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > SAY HIKE Floyd | Floyd | Whom do you want to say that to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "muscular" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > MUSCULAR Floyd | Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning. Floyd | Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so I guess I will theorize that the clued door is 3*5*6 = 90" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | It's thankfully devoid of astrological theory, instead concentrating Floyd | on the rough order of the signs, clockwise from the top: Saggitarius, Floyd | Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Floyd | Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Ophiuchus. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops!" | |
| inky says, "ok, that's a different order" | ||
| inky says, "good catch" | ||
| inky says, "so virgo is 10, not 6" | ||
| inky says, "f enter door 150" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter door 150" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER DOOR 150
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 653.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson. You
Floyd | remember none of this, so you don't feel the least bit grateful or
Floyd | lucky when you find yourself back in...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| inky says, "oh bah" | |
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural C. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Inside Left Ever" trophy is in the center, and Floyd | a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Libra." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so 1) apparently we were supposed to take them as individual digits, not multiply, and 2) virgo was #6 after all" | |
| phoenix says, "so we have to work out how the 1001 possibilities correspond to the door numbers" | ||
| inky says, "unless it was just a coincidence, but forget that" | ||
| DavidW says, "I still am totally clueless here." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 52/91 11 = .571428 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door 1001" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR 1001 Floyd | Floyd | Door 1001 is different from the other doors. You see a treble clef Floyd | with a note on the second rung from the bottom. There's a picture of a Floyd | guy holding a serpent, which you know/can deduce as Ophiuchus. There's Floyd | also a depiction of a three-on-one where the leftmost advanced player Floyd | is about to shoot on goal. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "anyway, the only thing I'm not sure about what I said before is that the door goes note-constellation-football" | |
| DavidW asks, "Are you assuming a [music note]-[zodiac]-[football] ordering here?" | ||
| inky says, "but the answer was constellation-football-note" | ||
| phoenix asks, "what was our last number. 653?" | ||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x devil" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVIL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and primps his halo. He Floyd | suddenly looks down, blinks and wipes out a number written on one Floyd | hand. You noticed it said Combo is 24-39-104 for sports star. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| vaporware arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | inky says, "also, this time around the constellation is libra, which I guess is 7, and the position is inside left, which is 10" | |
| phoenix says, "say you were to divide the numbers 1-1001 into seven sets" | ||
| inky says, "which is confusing, because that would be 7103" | ||
| inky says, "which doesn't seem right" | ||
| phoenix says, "1-143 144-286 etc" | ||
| inky says (to phoenix), "oh, hmm" | ||
| phoenix says, "each set could correspond to a note" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | It's thankfully devoid of astrological theory, instead concentrating Floyd | on the rough order of the signs, clockwise from the top: Saggitarius, Floyd | Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Floyd | Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Ophiuchus. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "but we don't know exactly how the subdivision is set up" | |
| eu asks, "So mixed-base numbers?" | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X CHART Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Odd. You haven't seen a soccer/football formation without a back Floyd | four for a while. Floyd | Floyd | CF Floyd | LF RF Floyd | LW RW Floyd | Floyd | LH CH RH Floyd | LB RB Floyd | GK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "if it's static, we could work it out by trial and error" | |
| eu asks, "So what were our clue numbers last time? 10, 5, and 3?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I really don't get this. There doesn't seem to be enough clues to make any suppositions." | ||
| inky says, "I think the door order is note, constellation, football" | ||
| inky says, "so say our clue numbers last time were 3, 10, 5" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I'm in your camp, but I'm enjoying watching." | ||
| DavidW says, "Door 1001 doesn't even claim an ordering." | ||
| inky says, "or 3/7, 10/13, 5/11, I should say" | ||
| eu says (to inky), "Ah, thanks." | ||
| DavidW says, "It just says note is here, Also constellation here. Also football play here." | ||
| inky says (to DavidW), "but then the room desc has specific instances of those" | ||
| phoenix asks, "why is the note D 3/7?" | ||
| inky asks, "it was a C, wasn't it?" | ||
| inky says, "if it was a D, maybe I was mistaken" | ||
| phoenix says, "just checked, was C" | ||
| inky says, "hum" | ||
| phoenix says, "it's C again this time, so if we open a random door we can see if the right number's close to the one we had last time" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "I'm tempted to go alphabetic: C+IL+L." | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > I'M TEMPTED TO GO ALPHABETIC: C+IL+L.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all
Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to
Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning.
Floyd |
Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| inky says, "alrighty" | |
| DavidW says, "I like a ;" | ||
| inky says, "so I guess we're predicting a 7 for libra and a 3 for C" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter 17" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 17
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 184.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson. You
Floyd | remember none of this, so you don't feel the least bit grateful or
Floyd | lucky when you find yourself back in...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say cill" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! | inky says, "...I guess not!" | |
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural F. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Forward Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Taurus." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "damn. Missed my chance." | |
| DavidW asks (of inky), "What were you trying?" | ||
| inky says, "well, the number I picked was just random" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X CHART Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Odd. You haven't seen a soccer/football formation without a back Floyd | four for a while. Floyd | Floyd | CF Floyd | LF RF Floyd | LW RW Floyd | Floyd | LH CH RH Floyd | LB RB Floyd | GK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but I was still hoping/assuming there was some correspondence between the stuff in the room and the door number you were "supposed to have picked"" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x door 1001" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR 1001 Floyd | Floyd | Door 1001 is different from the other doors. You see a treble clef Floyd | with a note on the second rung from the bottom. There's a picture of a Floyd | guy holding a serpent, which you know/can deduce as Ophiuchus. There's Floyd | also a depiction of a three-on-one where the leftmost advanced player Floyd | is about to shoot on goal. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "door 1001 is always the same" | |
| DavidW says, "Which suggests it's an example, not the thing itself." | ||
| inky says, "right" | ||
| inky says, "and the things on the door correspond to the things in the room" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BALL Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BALL Floyd | Floyd | Now's a bad time to be materialistic. And where would you put that Floyd | anyway? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Only your hopes and dreams. And a heaping helping of fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "yeah it's just telling us that Ophiuchus + LF + G = 1001 somehow" | |
| inky says, "the note, the tag on the ball, the position of the football" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | What a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 61/91 11 = .670329 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "Trying to catch up, is it true that we know that notes are numbered alphabetically, and signs by the order given by the game?" | |
| phoenix says, "we aren't sure about the notes" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't claim to know anything yet." | ||
| inky says, "we don't know any oo that for sure" | ||
| phoenix says, "it's a good guess that signare anumbered by that order, because Ophiuchus is the last one" | ||
| phoenix says, "and appears on door 1001" | ||
| DavidW says, "I see nothing in the game to suggest that either notes or zodiac signs have anything to do with numbers." | ||
| inky says (to DavidW), "well, the ball had a listing of signs on it" | ||
| eu says, "The factorization of 1001 suggests it." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | It's thankfully devoid of astrological theory, instead concentrating Floyd | on the rough order of the signs, clockwise from the top: Saggitarius, Floyd | Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Floyd | Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Ophiuchus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push virgo" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH VIRGO Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > TURN BALL Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push ball" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BALL Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural F. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Forward Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Taurus." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The ball gives an ordering, but doesn't say that Saggitarius is '1'. I could as easily claim it's a '12' because clocks put a 12 at the top." | |
| inky says, "that is true" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not a bad point." | ||
| inky says, "we've been theorizing that Ophiuchus is 13, though, because it's on door 1001" | ||
| DavidW says, "(I can counterargue that with Ophiculus, yeah 13 numbers on a clock is wrong.)" | ||
| phoenix says, "we need to keep notes" | ||
| eu says, "Or, if 1001 is written in mixed base, Ophiculus is 12, and the numbering starts at zero." | ||
| inky says, "and also on door 1001 it says that the outermost left player is making the shot, and the outside left is #11" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are there really numbers strongly associated with football positions?" | ||
| inky says, "I thought I calculated it as a mixed-based number and didn't get the right answer" | ||
| inky says (to DavidW), "yeah, look at [LINK]" | ||
| phoenix says, "bah, which position is "inside left" anyway" | ||
| inky says, "but maybe I did the calculation wrong" | ||
| inky says, "anyway, I think the first time we had C-Virgo-center half = 653" | ||
| phoenix asks, "mind if I generate a couple more random data points?" | ||
| inky says, "and the second time we had C-Libra-inside left = 184" | ||
| inky asks, "and this time we have F-taurus-center forward=???" | ||
| inky says (to phoenix), "sure, go for it" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "enter 1" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 1
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 137.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson.
Floyd | There's some other babble, too, about whether the mortal deserves an
Floyd | easier chance--and how one more miss will let him have it...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural D. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Virgo." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ack" | |
| inky says, "this one is promising" | ||
| inky says, "it's the same as the first time except a D instead of a C" | ||
| inky says, "so we can see how close the answer is to 653" | ||
| eu says, "Ooh." | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah, so the number we get should tell us a lot" | ||
| phoenix says, "well, if we're guessing, we should either go 653+1, 653+11, 653+13, or 653+91" | ||
| phoenix says, "not 653+91, 653+(11*13)" | ||
| eu asks (of phoenix), "Wait, how to you known the 11 and 13 digits come last?" | ||
| eu says, "Er, do" | ||
| phoenix says, "we don't" | ||
| phoenix says, "thats why the 4 possibilities if we assume that D = C+1" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What do the angel/devil combos have to do with any of this?" | ||
| inky says, "I am guessing the angel/devil ones are based on the fraction table" | ||
| inky says, "but that is just a guess" | ||
| inky says, "I think they're like bonus win conditions (again, just a guess)" | ||
| DavidW says, "That doesn't help me, since I have no idea what the table's function is." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 6/13 77 = .461538 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it has a fraction and then a number" | |
| inky says, "I guess I dunno what the number is" | ||
| phoenix says, "that number is the decimal expansion of 6/13" | ||
| inky asks, "what abut the 77?" | ||
| eu says, "The one before ``=''" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 6/13 77 = .461538 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "13x77=1001" | |
| eu says, "Ah." | ||
| phoenix says, "it's shown us a 6 though." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x zodiac" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X ZODIAC Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 36/77 13 = .467532 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "Is the fraction remaining fairly constant?" | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | 2/13 77 = .153846 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "No." | |
| DavidW asks, "Are we saying that where it's saying A/B C = D, B times C is always 1001?" | ||
| eu says, "Yep." | ||
| phoenix says, "it looks just like a clue about the factorization" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter 796" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 796
Floyd |
Floyd | You step through the door. You half expect to fall as you feel a weird
Floyd | vortex grip you. Instead you feel yourself flying, understanding,
Floyd | knowing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A grand voice booms: "Very good! Hm, but our records show that there's
Floyd | a chance you may've guessed randomly. It's much more serious than
Floyd | you'd think. Imagine if there were five hundred such people as you?
Floyd | Well, there're more. Probability one slips through is pretty good.
Floyd | I--well, if you didn't guess, you have nothing to worry about, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| inky says, "ha ha" | |
| inky says, "ok so I guessed 653 + (11*13)" | ||
| phoenix says, "lol we guessed right, huh" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, that's weird if it is factorization, since the first set-up had Center Half, which is a 5 according to Wikipedia, and 653 isn't divisible by 5." | ||
| eu says, "So it looks to be mixed base." | ||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||
| eu says, "I was hoping for Chinese remainder theorem." | ||
| DavidW asks, "'mixed base'? What's that mean?" | ||
| eu says, "Like hours and minutes." | ||
| mwmiller asks, "Um. Uh. I suppose the Petals Around the Rose bit was supposed to nudge us into similar thinking about all the other numbers?" | ||
| eu says, "You can have 0--23 in hours, but 0--59 in minutes." | ||
| inky says, "ok, so I'm going to guess it's N*143 + C*11 + P, for note, constellation, position" | ||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| inky says, "I think I'm wrong" | ||
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural F. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Aquarius." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uhhh" | |
| phoenix says, "Hang on. We didn't win" | ||
| inky says, "yeah, they want us to do it a second time to prove it" | ||
| eu says (to DavidW), "So a constellation number would be like an hour, worth so many of a pitch number." | ||
| eu says, "Erm, that explanation made no sense." | ||
| eu says, "Just see inky's formula." | ||
| DavidW says, "That seems rather far-fetched and if true, severely underclued." | ||
| inky says, "but anyway, what we also saw before was C-Libra-inside left = 184" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Gosh. Brutal. But sensible." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Where is 143 from?" | ||
| phoenix says, "143 is 11x13" | ||
| inky says, "143 = 11*13, but I think I did the math wrong otherwise" | ||
| inky says, "(since it doesn't come out right)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Why would constellation be multipled by 11 when there's 13 constellations?" | ||
| phoenix says, "so D is note 5, and anything with a D in it is going to be 143*5, + a number from 0-142 depending on the other two things" | ||
| eu says (to DavidW), "Cause it's worth 11 football positions." | ||
| inky says, "(D is presumably 4, not 5, right?)" | ||
| DavidW says, "This is making so little sense to me." | ||
| vaporware says, "We played this one at the sfbay IF meetup last weekend." | ||
| DavidW says, "Spaghetti is 12 therefore telephones are multipled by nosehair numbers." | ||
| phoenix says, "actually..." | ||
| phoenix says, "my theory can't be right because we had C give both 653 and 184" | ||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||
| inky says, "also F gave 137, which is even lower" | ||
| inky says, "and yet we do know that D-virgo-center half - C-virgo-center half = (11*13)" | ||
| inky says, "which seems pretty significant" | ||
| phoenix says, "which raises the question as to how the hell we got that number right" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is there anything in-game that relates any note to a number, any zodiac sign to a number, or any football position to a number?" | ||
| inky says, "not to my knowledge" | ||
| DavidW says, "Like, seriously. What the hell." | ||
| inky says, "except that if you have a list X, Y, Z, it seems reasonable to map those to X=1, Y=2, Z=3" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x angel" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X ANGEL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and twirls his pitchfork. He Floyd | suddenly looks down, blinks and wipes out a number written on one Floyd | hand. You noticed it said Combo is 88-120-165 for Grand Unification Floyd | Theory solver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| vaporware vows never to return again, as he leads a rumba line out of the lounge after setting the place on fire. | DavidW says, "If there was a Stop sign in one version and a Yield sign in another, and the Stop Sign didn't mean 8 and the Yield didn't mean 3, I'd like to know why." | |
| inky says, "just so" | ||
| eu says, "Question." | ||
| DavidW says, "The way this is going, a Stop Sign would mean 1 because Stop Signs are red and red is the first colour in the rainbow." | ||
| eu asks, "We had C-Virgo-center half = 653 and C-Libra-inside left = 184, no?" | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah" | ||
| eu says, "They're congruent mod 7." | ||
| inky says, "nice!" | ||
| eu asks, "Chinese remainder theorem?" | ||
| inky says, "I'm not sure exactly what that means but it's very impressive" | ||
| eu exclaims, "Ooh!" | ||
| eu exclaims, "And 653 and 796 are congurent mod 11!" | ||
| Jacqueline blinks. | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Remainders when dividing." | ||
| phoenix says, "We gussed that number by adding 11*13 after all, so yes" | ||
| inky says, "it is dark in this equation. you are likely to be eaten by a congrue" | ||
| eu says, "Haha." | ||
| DavidW gives Best Comment Ever trophy to inky. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||
| phoenix asks, "I remember playing another game on here which was a disguised maths puzzle too with square roots a month or so ago?" | ||
| mwmiller says, "It'd probably be best if someone just walks through all the steps coming up with whatever the final result is this round." | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Are there 7 notes, 11 football positions, and 13 zodiac signs? Can we work with that, somehow?" | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah, that's what we have been working with" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to phoenix), "I think that was another A18+20 game, yeah." | ||
| inky says, "well, the wikipedia page for the chinese remainder theorem that eu mentioned says that | For example, consider the problem of finding an integer x such that x mod 3 is 2, x mod 4 is 3, x mod 5 is 1" | ||
| inky says, "so that sounds like exactly the situation we're in" | ||
| DavidW says, "y'know, I have to wonder if my Keys game is to blame for this." | ||
| inky says, "ha ah" | ||
| eu says, "Haha." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | First, I would like to thank my beta-tester. So should you--any bugs Floyd | and nuisances you find would've been worse without his mails checking Floyd | what I needed to get right. His name is Melvin Rangasamy, and I hope Floyd | you enjoy his puzzles in this collection, too. Floyd | Floyd | I'd also like to thank David Welbourn, who doesn't know he partially Floyd | inspired this game with his simpler and catchier 69,105 keys. Floyd | Floyd | However, this game would not have been conceived without Kevin Floyd | Jackson-Mead organizing the entire album tribute. Floyd | Floyd | I would also like to thank Ryan Veeder for creating a document of Floyd | ideas for each song/game, and all the people on IFMud and Floyd | intfiction.org who helped with coding and implementation details that Floyd | often led to bigger realizations. There are too many people to name. Floyd | Floyd | Of course, general thanks go to Graham Nelson for creating Inform 7, Floyd | David Kinder for creating the Windows front-end, and Aaron Reed for Floyd | his wonderful book Programming in Inform 7. If you'd like to try your Floyd | hand at writing, check the IDE out on inform7.com, or Sand-Dancer, Floyd | Aaron's excellent sample game from the book at Floyd | [LINK] to the creators of Inform 7, the Floyd | organizer of this tribute album, and you, for sticking with this. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "you were using large numbers of nearly-identical items before it was cool" | |
| inky says, "ha ha ha" | ||
| inky says, "good call man" | ||
| phoenix says, "well if it is X mod Y, I don't get why the note C would give 2 as its remainder, and D 5" | ||
| DavidW says, "ok, so the 7, 11, 13 thing is, I dunno, Key to this." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "So this is all your fault." | ||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "enter 1002" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER 1002 Floyd | Floyd | There aren't that many doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "well let's get a data point" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "enter 1" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 1
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 543.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson. You
Floyd | remember none of this, so you don't feel the least bit grateful or
Floyd | lucky when you find yourself back in...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural D. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Forward Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Aquarius." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "Ok, both times we had F, that number gave 4 mod 7" | |
| eu says, "This would be a lot easier if I had taken better notes." | ||
| phoenix says, "virgo - centrehalfback - C - 653 - 2 mod 7 / libra - inside left - C - 184 - 2 mod 7" | ||
| inky | C-Virgo-center half = 3-10-5 = 653 | ||
| inky | C-Libra-inside left = 3-11-10 = 184 | ||
| inky | F-Taurus-center forward = 6-6-9 = 137 | ||
| inky | D-Virgo-center half = 4-10-5 = 796 | ||
| inky | F-Aquarius-center half = 6-3-5 = 543 | ||
| inky | D-Aquarius-center forward = 4-3-9 = ??? | ||
| inky says, "is what I have so far" | ||
| DavidW asks, "if note G is 7, would it be safe to assume that A=1, B=2, C=3, etc as far as the musical notes are concerned?" | ||
| eu exclaims, "Thanks!" | ||
| phoenix says, "david, unfortunately, no" | ||
| inky says (to DavidW), "well, that's what I have been assuming, but it doesn't seem to have been working" | ||
| phoenix says, "according to the mod arithmetic theory C would equal 2 and F 4" | ||
| inky says, "man" | ||
| eu says, "And D = 5. :/" | ||
| inky says, "so the author randomized the order and expects us to just run a bunch of these and solve it" | ||
| inky says, "that seems kind of crazy" | ||
| eu says, "Or the theory is wrong." | ||
| phoenix says, "do we think this one will pop up as 5 mod 7? I have a bad feeling it will" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter 42" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 42
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 621.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson. You
Floyd | remember none of this, so you don't feel the least bit grateful or
Floyd | lucky when you find yourself back in...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! | mwmiller says, "Seems like it, Inky. (That's the *other* salient point of Petals Around the Rose!)" | |
| inky says (to mwmiller), "good point" | ||
| phoenix says, "and it does" | ||
| eu says, "Well, the mod theory would have gotten us that answer." | ||
| phoenix says, "well running the football positions on mod 11" | ||
| phoenix says, "centre half back = 4 mod 11 every time" | ||
| eu says, "And center forward = 5." | ||
| eu says, "And inside-let = 8." | ||
| eu says, "Er, left." | ||
| inky says, "nice" | ||
| phoenix says, "which seems random." | ||
| eu asks, "Right. Why that order?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scale" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! | inky asks, "er, did I break something?" | |
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural B. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Inside Right Ever" trophy is in the center, and Floyd | a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Cancer." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok good" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X CHART Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Odd. You haven't seen a soccer/football formation without a back Floyd | four for a while. Floyd | Floyd | CF Floyd | LF RF Floyd | LW RW Floyd | Floyd | LH CH RH Floyd | LB RB Floyd | GK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scale" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X SCALE Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "I don't see how the CF would be 5" | |
| inky says, "it does seem a little mysterious" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask angel about music" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGEL ABOUT MUSIC Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask angel about me" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGEL ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "i mean we could just keep trying until we figured out the remainder for each note, position and sign" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to angel" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO ANGEL Floyd | Floyd | ...there's not much to do here. You suspect the spirits have seen all Floyd | the fancy end-arounds before, and sooner or later you'll be forced to Floyd | ENTER DOOR (1-1001) to have a chance at winning. Floyd | Floyd | Otherwise, you should pretty much just EXAMINE what you see for clues. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "but the random number-associations don't make sense as yet" | |
| inky says, "well, we probably only have to get another couple" | ||
| inky says, "so we don't really need complete coverage" | ||
| inky says, "admittedly we don't have cancer" | ||
| inky says, "or inside right" | ||
| phoenix says, "or indeed B" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter 1001" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER 1001 Floyd | Floyd | Yup, it's actually boarded up. That gives you .000001 more of a chance Floyd | of choosing the right one at random. Well, .000000999999 repeating, Floyd | but I rounded up because I like you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter 1000" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 1000
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 629.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson.
Floyd | There's some other babble, too, about whether the mortal deserves an
Floyd | easier chance--and how one more miss will let him have it...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| inky says, "but besides that!" | |
| inky says, "oops, they're about to go into easy mode" | ||
| inky says, "how embarrassing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| phoenix says, "the thing is we haven't figured out why the numbers should be giving these remainders" | ||
| inky says, "yeah, I guess I just assumed it was random, but maybe it's not" | ||
| eu says, "The notes work out if you have A=3, B=6, C=9, etc." | ||
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural E. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Right Fullback Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Taurus." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to eu), "oh, hmm" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x devil" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVIL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and primps his halo. He Floyd | suddenly looks down, blinks and wipes out a number written on one Floyd | hand. You noticed it said Combo is 6-22-33 for inventor. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "The signs if you have multiply by -1." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x devil" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVIL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and primps his haloYou don't Floyd | catch any more hints, though. He's a bit too alert right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x angel" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X ANGEL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and twirls his pitchforkYou Floyd | don't catch any more hints, though. He's a bit too alert right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "maybe the devil/angel numbers mean something" | |
| eu says, "That's a good point. We haven't done anything with them." | ||
| phoenix says, "6-22-23 is 2x3 - 2x11 - 3x11" | ||
| eu says, "6-22-33, but yeah." | ||
| inky asks, "what do you mean by the notes work out if you multiply by 3?" | ||
| eu says, "If G=0, A=1, B=2, etc., then the remainders we get are congruent to the note number times three." | ||
| eu says, "Both notes and signs work out if you multiply by 42, and part of me wants that the be the trick." | ||
| eu says, "``that _to_ be''" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door 1001" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR 1001 Floyd | Floyd | Door 1001 is different from the other doors. You see a treble clef Floyd | with a note on the second rung from the bottom. There's a picture of a Floyd | guy holding a serpent, which you know/can deduce as Ophiuchus. There's Floyd | also a depiction of a three-on-one where the leftmost advanced player Floyd | is about to shoot on goal. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "42?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x signs" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGNS Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Life, universe, etc." | |
| eu says, "But that's probably not it." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 9/77 13 = .116883 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "well, I checked the signs" | |
| phoenix says, "remainders on those seem to be 12,11,10... 0 corresponding tot he order on that list" | ||
| eu says, "Right." | ||
| eu says, "Football positions are *3." | ||
| phoenix says, "so we should have enough information to work this out" | ||
| eu says, "Yeah." | ||
| phoenix says, "E = 1 mod 7, taurus = 7 mod 13" | ||
| phoenix asks, "right fullback is position 2, which works out as... 6 mod 11?" | ||
| eu asks, "358?" | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "enter 358" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 358
Floyd |
Floyd | You step through the door. You half expect to fall as you feel a weird
Floyd | vortex grip you. Instead you feel yourself flying, understanding,
Floyd | knowing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A grand voice booms: "Very good! Hm, but our records show that there's
Floyd | a chance you may've guessed randomly. It's much more serious than
Floyd | you'd think. Imagine if there were five hundred such people as you?
Floyd | Well, there're more. Probability one slips through is pretty good.
Floyd | I--well, if you didn't guess, you have nothing to worry about, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| inky asks, "man, how many times do we have to get this right?" | |
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural B. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Inside Left Ever" trophy is in the center, and Floyd | a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Pisces." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or maybe it's that we have to get two right in a row" | |
| phoenix says, "we know how to generate the solution now" | ||
| mwmiller says, "Two in a row, yes. Stop guessing doors randomly." | ||
| mwmiller says, "Or if you *do* guess wrong, follow with /undo. ;)" | ||
| DavidW says, "undo might be disabled, possibly." | ||
| phoenix says, "I don't see the need for the obfuscation on the number correspondence with the list items or maybe we missed a clue" | ||
| eu asks, "What number is Pisces?" | ||
| phoenix says, "pisces is 9 mod 1" | ||
| inky says, "9" | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "enter 951" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 951
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 503.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson. You
Floyd | remember none of this, so you don't feel the least bit grateful or
Floyd | lucky when you find yourself back in...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! | DavidW says, "I have no idea where you guys are getting these numbers from." | |
| eu asks, "Here's what I did; where did I go wrong?" | ||
| phoenix says, "we have to find a number that is equal to A mod 7, B mod 11, C mod 13" | ||
| eu says, "B = 2. 3B = 6." | ||
| eu says, "Oh..." | ||
| eu says, "Wrong order." | ||
| inky says (to DavidW), "well, you can go to [LINK]" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know the theorem." | ||
| phoenix says, "where A, B and C are associated with each note, football position, and zodiac sign respectively" | ||
| inky says, "and put in 'x = A mod 7<newline>x = B mod 13<newline>x = C mod 11' where A, B, and C are the note, zodiac, and position" | ||
| inky says, "heh, should have standardized B/C there" | ||
| inky says, "and it'll output the right answer" | ||
| phoenix says, "i don't know if there is an easy way to solve that without a comp" | ||
| inky says, "like for our first one, A=2, B=3, C=4" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are you saying Virgo is 3?" | ||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Why? How?" | ||
| inky says, "but (I think) we've only been able to deduce that retroactively, we don't know the rule" | ||
| phoenix says, "because we tried a bunch of combinations and did mod calculations on the resulting door number" | ||
| inky says, "but if you look at any of the answers with virgo and take them mod 13, they're always 3" | ||
| eu says (to David), "The best we have now is that Virgo is 10, and if you multiple by -1 and take that mod 13 you get 3." | ||
| inky says, "eu had some explanation for an order that makes sense but I don't really understand it, I have to admit" | ||
| phoenix says, "then compared them to the order things appeared on the lists to figure out a pattern" | ||
| DavidW says, "That's like working the I Ching backwards, trying to guess what tangram you ought to have thrown." | ||
| inky says, "hmm, that seems a little disordered" | ||
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural A. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Outside Right Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Libra." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh" | |
| inky says, "actually, for the signs we do know the pattern" | ||
| inky says, "the order is | Saggitarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Ophiuchus" | ||
| inky says, "like we see on the ball" | ||
| inky says, "but they're numbered 12, 11, 10 .., 0" | ||
| inky says, "instead of 1, 2, 3 .. 13 like we were thinking originally" | ||
| phoenix says, "so. A=3, Outside right=10, and libra = 2" | ||
| eu asks, "101?" | ||
| borowski's corporeal form was TP'ed while he was astral projecting. | ||
| borowski has disconnected. | DavidW says, "well, I can vaguely understand that G, Ophiuchus, and outside left are all zeroes," | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "enter 101" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 101
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 626.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson. You
Floyd | remember none of this, so you don't feel the least bit grateful or
Floyd | lucky when you find yourself back in...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| eu says (to phoenix), "Oy, we need to agree on order." | |
| eu says, "Sorry." | ||
| eu asks, "Once more?" | ||
| phoenix says, "I think you got the football one wrong" | ||
| eu says, "I switched to 2 and 10." | ||
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural G. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Left Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Aries." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "well, i can do this a bit more clearly" | |
| eu says, "Go for it." | ||
| phoenix says, "g = 0 (mod 7), leftback = 7 (mod 11), aries = 8(mod 13)" | ||
| phoenix says, "how do you solve this equation quickly again" | ||
| inky says, "oops, that url I gave bfore seems to be giving the wrong answers sometimes" | ||
| eu says, "I wrote a lisp program. I think inky posted a website that does it." | ||
| inky says, "this one seems right: [LINK]" | ||
| inky says, "(it got 990 for the previous one)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Wouldn;t left half be a 5, assuming backwards numbering from 0?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "enter 931" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 931
Floyd |
Floyd | You step through the door. You half expect to fall as you feel a weird
Floyd | vortex grip you. Instead you feel yourself flying, understanding,
Floyd | knowing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A grand voice booms: "Very good! Hm, but our records show that there's
Floyd | a chance you may've guessed randomly. It's much more serious than
Floyd | you'd think. Imagine if there were five hundred such people as you?
Floyd | Well, there're more. Probability one slips through is pretty good.
Floyd | I--well, if you didn't guess, you have nothing to worry about, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural D. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Right Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Gemini." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Yeah, but the positions aren't numbered backwards." | |
| eu says, "You multiply the usual numbering by three and reduce mod 11." | ||
| DavidW asks, "3?" | ||
| eu shrugs. | ||
| phoenix says, "D = 5 mod 7, right half back = 1 mod 11, and gemini = 6 mod 13" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "enter 474" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 474
Floyd |
Floyd | You step through the door. You half expect to fall as you feel a weird
Floyd | vortex grip you. Instead you feel yourself flying, understanding,
Floyd | knowing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A grand voice booms: "I--well, this is most impressive. We have faith
Floyd | in you--but how would you like to be trumped by some punk who guessed
Floyd | twice? We didn't think so. Anyway, this whole adversity thing is only
Floyd | going to make your song better. No, really."
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| inky says, "ha ha" | |
| phoenix pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural D. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Center Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Taurus." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So not following this." | |
| phoenix asks, "AGAIN?" | ||
| inky says, "well, we've only gotten two right consecutively" | ||
| inky says, "I assume this one will do it" | ||
| phoenix says, "D = 5 mod 7, CHB = 4 mod 11, taurus = 7 mod 13" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "enter 488" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER 488 Floyd | Floyd | You step through the door. You half expect to fall as you feel a weird Floyd | vortex grip you. Instead you feel yourself flying, understanding, Floyd | knowing. Floyd | Floyd | A grand voice booms: "We know you are worthy. Go and write that song. Floyd | No, you won't write it right away. Inspiration doesn't work like Floyd | that." And it doesn't. What you felt as you walked through that Floyd | door--those doors--takes a while to express, and when you figure it Floyd | out, you can't believe how simple it is. Floyd | Floyd | It's incredibly catchy--something that can be caught only in song, not Floyd | quite in a game or science or even the company of friends, but you Floyd | know there were other better songs you lost despite paying attention. Floyd | It's sung by a beautiful woman who follows it up with the song of a Floyd | man who realized she was the most beautiful of a thousand when nobody Floyd | else did, then realized he was not good enough for her. Sentimental Floyd | rubbish but it stays at #1 longer than your effort, somehow. Floyd | Floyd | You spend the rest of your life trying, but failing, to expound on or Floyd | recapture the whole incident with a follow-up song that's really Floyd | yours. But it is oddly fulfilling. Floyd | Floyd | Congratulations! You figured this game out. Nothing more to see here. Floyd | Please move on to a much more lyrical game in this collection. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Binder says, "wow" | |
| inky says, "ok, that is kind of a weird ending" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That was the winning ending that made it sound like we didn't really write the right song." | ||
| phoenix says, "I'm not quite sure how doing all that maths inspired us to write the song" | ||
| inky says, "we did the math to solve the puzzle to go through the door to let us get some inspiration" | ||
| inky says, "it is symbolic of how when you are writing an IF game you have to do a bunch of coding to get any art out" | ||
| phoenix says, "I missed the beginning" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to phoenix), "Well, people who are good at music are often good at math, and possible vice versa, or something." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, I'm still confused but yay" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| eu says, "Now we need ASchultz to explain." | ||
| phoenix asks, "did we miss clues somewhere?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think either we missed clues or they weren't there at all." | ||
| phoenix says, "the whole process we went through to solve this seems a bit brute force/tedious" | ||
| DavidW says, "To solve it, you had to collect data points and try to work it out backwards." | ||
| eu says, "Yeah, I'm betting we missed some clue." | ||
| inky says, "well, we never did anything with the table" | ||
| inky says, "or the thing on their hand" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The use of UNDO is forbidden in this game. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |
| phoenix says, "lol" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The spirits called you each off to one side. Said they had riddles. Floyd | You'd boned up on mythological puzzles and even guessed the stab Floyd | wound/hanged man and puddle of water right your first time; You felt Floyd | confident, but you got straight-out math. Floyd | Floyd | Your pal wanted a beautiful wife--thought he'd get a lady-and-tiger Floyd | deal but instead had to choose number one of a thousand and one. At Floyd | least he got time to browse. Floyd | Floyd | You had to go with writing the perfect song. Beautiful women would Floyd | follow. Nobody said you'd get to sing it, though. Still, you've got at Floyd | least a chance in a thousand--well, a thousand and one--of getting it Floyd | right. Maybe even better. Floyd | Floyd | One of these doors ahead holds that song--it's all you, but universal, Floyd | as well. The other thousand? Gulp. Floyd | Floyd | Fingertips - I Walk Along Darkened Corridors Floyd | Fingertips: I Walk Along Darkened Corridors -- Episode 37 of the Floyd | Apollo 18 Tribute by Andrew Schultz Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 120518 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | Ten paths branch in front of you, to ten darkened stairways each, with Floyd | five doors on each side of the stairways. You'll have to walk down one Floyd | of them. Well, actually, there's door 1001. It seems boarded up for Floyd | effect, but it's got drawings on it. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural A. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Left Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Ophiuchus." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I figured UNDO would be tabooed." | |
| inky says, "so this is note=3, left half=?, sign=0" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 6/11 91 = .545454 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "is the left half 6? because that would be convenient" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hand" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X HAND Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x devil" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVIL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and primps his halo. He Floyd | suddenly looks down, blinks and wipes out a number written on one Floyd | hand. You noticed it said Combo is 24-39-104 for sports star. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON TABLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says (to inky), "7." | |
| phoenix says, "a left half wears 6, but that's 7 mod 11 in this system" | ||
| inky says, "hrmf" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 10/13 77 = .769230 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "and 10 isn't correct for the sign at all" | |
| phoenix says, "because we kno that's zero" | ||
| eu says, "The table seems to generate a bunch of random exaples." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 5/7 143 = .714285 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | 73/77 13 = .948051 repeating. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to shift as you turn your head away. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "but they aren't useful in any way, are they?" | |
| phoenix says, "it just seems to be pointing us at the modulo arithmetic stuff" | ||
| eu says (to inky), "Not that I can divine." | ||
| inky asks, "but how does it do that? just that we're supposed to see 73/77 13 and think "oh, 77 * 13 = 1001"?" | ||
| inky asks, "also, is there some way we can use our current knowledge to deduce what 'Combo is 24-39-104 for sports star' means?" | ||
| inky asks, "like could we just plug those in as the values instead?" | ||
| phoenix says, "3x8, 3x13, 8x13" | ||
| inky asks, "but what do those numbers mean?" | ||
| phoenix says, "not a clue" | ||
| inky says, "heh" | ||
| eu exclaims, "Oh!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | ||
| eu says, "Ha." | ||
| phoenix asks, "?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||
| phoenix asks, "I guess we're done with this one?" | ||
| ASchultz says, "ouch, I fell asleep, you all are still stuck? I'm sorry :(" | ||
| eu says, "Hmm, maybe not. But they give us 3, 8, and 13. Our numbers right now are 3, 7, and 0=13. I thought there was a link." | ||
| inky says, "no, we just solved it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought we were five minutes ago, but ..." | ||
| phoenix says, "we solved it, but we're wondering if we missed any clues" | ||
| eu says, "But explanation would be great." | ||
| inky says, "but we are confused about how -- yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thought we were done, that is." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But now that ASchultz is here..." | ||
| ASchultz asks, "did you go to the 30 door room?" | ||
| phoenix says, "no" | ||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||
| DavidW says, "(30 door room?)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(30 door room?)" | ||
| phoenix asks, "Oh, thats when the genie said he'd make it easier if we kept getting it wrong?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think people wanted to avoid that." | ||
| inky says, "well, we just got lucky about staying out of that room" | ||
| ASchultz says, "Yes" | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah, we really wanted to avoid that" | ||
| ASchultz says, "Maybe I should've made the easy room the game. I think it was enough of a puzzle." | ||
| ASchultz says, "ironically, the non 1 move game is easier than the 1 mover... :/" | ||
| ASchultz asks, "so, last call before full spoilers. Any objections?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "None here." | ||
| inky says, "onwards!" | ||
| phoenix says, "go for it" | ||
| DavidW says, "go ahead" | ||
| eu says (to Aschultz), "No objections." | ||
| mwmiller says, "No, don't! ... Okay I changed my mind, go ahead." | ||
| Jacqueline waits for the explanation that will make people pile on ASchultz while screaming, 'I'll show YOU a football formation!' | ||
| ASchultz says, "the "Easy" room was based on 3 factors too...it was a modular arithmetic sort of thing" | ||
| ASchultz says, "basically 15x+10y+6z, where you determined x/y/z after a few failures" | ||
| maga says (to ASchultz), "I HOPE YOU ARE CODING IN THE OTHER WINDOW" | ||
| ASchultz says, "then the big room was 143x+91y+77z, the trick being that 1001/those = 1 of its 3 prime factors" | ||
| inky says, "oh!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "Now, now. He owes all of us a little something." | ||
| ASchultz says (to maga), "Well, I kind of just really woke up but have a pile of ideas." | ||
| inky says, "hum" | ||
| inky says, "that is actually kind of confusing" | ||
| inky asks, "for the notes, for instance, does A = 1, G = 7, etc?" | ||
| eu exclaims, "So that's what the angel/devil numbers were about!" | ||
| inky says (to eu), "oh!" | ||
| inky says, "ok, nice" | ||
| ASchultz says, "They are in order" | ||
| inky says, "weird" | ||
| inky says, "we got some working solution that was not really like this" | ||
| ASchultz says, "basically I thought it'd be mean to force people to figure it out. Hence trying to order things with the notes, astrological signs and football formations" | ||
| inky says, "althouh I guess it was mathematically equivalent" | ||
| ASchultz says, "well, if it was mathematically equivalent it was" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I was confused by the solution you guys got :P But it seemed to work." | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah it was mathematically equivalent but ended up with all the lists in an odd sequence" | ||
| ASchultz says, "and I think that'll be the last of my mathy games. The more other text adventures I play, the more possibilities I see" | ||
| phoenix says, "we weren't close at all to guessing that 143x+91y+77z formula" | ||
| eu says (to phoenix), "Though you were on the right track." | ||
| eu asks (of ASchultz), "What was the table for?" | ||
| phoenix says, "We spotted the factorization, but there are several different ways you could have assigned the 1001 posssibilities to unique values of x,y,z" | ||
| inky says, "oh, sometimes you have to go mod 1001, I see" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter 17" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 17
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 689.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson. You
Floyd | remember none of this, so you don't feel the least bit grateful or
Floyd | lucky when you find yourself back in...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ASchultz says, "the table was meant to be a clue, but it probably didn't work too well. I maybe should've made it a bit clearer, or given a small hint. Frustrating thing is, I see what to do now" | |
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon, and door 1001 has a lot of scrawlings on Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural F. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Goalie Ever" trophy is in the center, and a Floyd | starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Leo." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu | (mod (* 7 11) 13) | |
| eu | 12 ; congruent to -1 | ||
| eu | (mod (* 7 13) 11) | ||
| eu | 3 | ||
| eu | (mod (* 11 13) 7) | ||
| eu | 3 | ||
| eu says, "There are the 3, -1, and 3 we were talking about." | ||
| eu says (to ASchultz), "Sorry, continue." | ||
| ASchultz says, "no, that's about it" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter 641" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 641
Floyd |
Floyd | You step through the door. You half expect to fall as you feel a weird
Floyd | vortex grip you. Instead you feel yourself flying, understanding,
Floyd | knowing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A grand voice booms: "Very good! Hm, but our records show that there's
Floyd | a chance you may've guessed randomly. It's much more serious than
Floyd | you'd think. Imagine if there were five hundred such people as you?
Floyd | Well, there're more. Probability one slips through is pretty good.
Floyd | I--well, if you didn't guess, you have nothing to worry about, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | The Room of 1001 Doors Floyd | The 1001 doors still beckon, and door 1001 has a lot of scrawlings on Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum in the distance--sounds like a natural B. A muscular Floyd | statue holding a "Best Left Half Back Ever" trophy is in the center, Floyd | and a starry-eyed statue is carrying a big not-quite-ball with a tag Floyd | dangling from it. The tag reads "Virgo." Floyd | Floyd | You see a table of fractions and a yellowed chart of football Floyd | positions here, and a small billboard with five electronically Floyd | rendered dice seems to provide a diversion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angel with a pitchfork and a devil with a halo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hand" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X HAND Floyd | Floyd | That isn't here. Or it isn't implemented. Maybe it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x angel" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! Floyd | Floyd | > X ANGEL Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the doors in front of you and twirls his pitchfork. He Floyd | suddenly looks down, blinks and wipes out a number written on one Floyd | hand. You noticed it said Combo is 343-391-439 for supreme world Floyd | leader. Floyd | Floyd | > | ASchultz says, "spoilers on the spoiler channel, so that we don't waste too much more time on this" | |
| inky says, "so by my math, the world leader door is (343*2 + 391*6 + 439*10) % 1001 = 415" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter 415" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of
Floyd | 'em!
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER 415
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step through the door, you realize the floor underneath was
Floyd | illusory. You have chosen wrong, falling into a vortex of--well, you
Floyd | don't know what it is, but you know it gives you that perfect song.
Floyd |
Floyd | In that song you realize everyone has that sort of song when they die,
Floyd | that it's the last one and it trumps all factual knowledge and
Floyd | regret--in this case, you never find time--or whatever's beyond
Floyd | time--to lament not choosing door 601.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...or do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | From beyond the void, you hear mumbling about not filling out the
Floyd | paperwork, cutting corners even imps know not to, a poor sucker who's
Floyd | actually lucky enough, and how that one djinni learns a lesson. You
Floyd | remember none of this, so you don't feel the least bit grateful or
Floyd | lucky when you find yourself back in...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| inky says, "dang" | |
| phoenix says, "yeah the angel business was confusing" | ||
| eu says, "I think the numbers are suppose to suggest all multiples of pairs from a triple." | ||
| ASchultz says, "It was not meant to be :/ ...I was looking for a way to clue ab + ac + bc. Basically, all you can do is be a singer" | ||
| phoenix says, "the "supreme world leader" stuff" | ||
| inky says, "that makes sense" | ||
| inky says, "ok, I'm done with this one now" | ||
| inky asks, "was there another ne?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Space Suit" | ||
| phoenix says, "to be fair, clueing in "abx + acy + bcz = N mod xyz" is probably pretty hard to do without hitting us over the head with it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. I'd just been waiting for everyone to be satisfied here." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are we 'good' now?" | ||
| ASchultz says, "I should've stuck with 30 and given the opeion for 1001. Sorry, folks." | ||
| phoenix says, "let's move on" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] The Room of 1001 Doors Pick one of Floyd | 'em! | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit" | ||
Floyd | %% Quitting! Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask a18spacesuit" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Space Suit Floyd | Space Suit -- Episode 38 of the Apollo 18 Tribute Album by Andrew Floyd | Schultz Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120415 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Principal Area Floyd | This is a slightly raised platform area in the center of the Floyd | boggle-box you've been transported into. You can go one move in any of Floyd | the usual 2-d directions, even the crazy ones, before hitting a wall. Floyd | Floyd | A protective spacesuit hangs on a pedestal. Well, you'd guess it's Floyd | protective, since it doesn't look very fashionable. Floyd | Floyd | [Type ABOUT to find out more about this game, or CREDITS to find out Floyd | more about people who helped make it, or make it better.] Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says (to Aschultz), "Ah well, we got it eventually. That was fun." | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Jeans and a t-shirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Like a Boggle boggle-box?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "nne" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > NNE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You leave the center for more a wide-open area with less to see, do Floyd | and take. But hey, you can always come back. Floyd | Floyd | Inscrutable Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the east and north here, and you sense an Floyd | odd energy from them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the west wall, the east wall, the south wall, the Floyd | north wall or the wall? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x north wall" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | You don't see anything special. Floyd | It's too far away to see at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x energy" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X ENERGY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Go closer?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your skin begins tingling as you approach the wall. Radiaton? Heat? Floyd | You're not sure. Even though it appears malleable, you don't trust Floyd | yourself to make it through as is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw, c'mon. Let's try." | |
| phoenix says, "oh, I suppose we need the SPACE SUIT" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, of course, but let's see what horrible end awaits." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your skin begins tingling as you approach the wall. Radiaton? Heat? Floyd | You're not sure. Even though it appears malleable, you don't trust Floyd | yourself to make it through as is. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "A forbidden move." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "touch east wall" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH EAST WALL Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Watching but unable to type for a bit..." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tricky Area Floyd | You're in the center of the east edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | There's a picture of various Pythagorean triangles, size determined by Floyd | notches-3/4/5, 5/12/13, and so forth. Floyd | Floyd | There's a picture of a top spinning around. It seems to be about to Floyd | fall--it's at a close angle to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x top" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X TOP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "oh it's just a picture of a top" | |
| DavidW asks, "more math?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nooooo" | ||
| ASchultz says, "No arithmetic." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Abstruse Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abstruse Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the south and east here, and you sense an Floyd | odd energy from them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Abstruse Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your skin begins tingling as you approach the wall. Radiaton? Heat? Floyd | You're not sure. Even though it appears malleable, you don't trust Floyd | yourself to make it through as is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cryptic Area Floyd | You're in the center of the south edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | It's a list of riddles that make sense once you know the answer, but Floyd | you're glad there wasn't a gnome that made you bet your life on them. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A picture of a hunter aiming at a bird with a bow and arrow captures Floyd | your attention more, anyway--but what's it doing here? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hunter" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X HUNTER Floyd | Floyd | Seems like an anachronism...or maybe a hint? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Anachronism... or ANAGRAM?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, still traumatized from the last game." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Enigmatic Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Enigmatic Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the south and west here, and you sense an Floyd | odd energy from them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Secretive Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Secretive Area Floyd | You're in the center of the west edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Secretive Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | There's a picture of a big long maze. You begin puzzling your way Floyd | through it, starting at the bit marked "end" and trying to block out Floyd | various dead ends. Floyd | Floyd | Below the maze, there's a picture of a kite trailing its owner at a Floyd | forty-five degree angle--must be windy. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "these angles are a bit of a theme" | |
| inky says, "yeah" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Strange Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the west and north here, and you sense an Floyd | odd energy from them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Unclear Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unclear Area Floyd | You're in the center of the north edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Unclear Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | You see a stick figure holding an opaque umbrella at an angle. Also, Floyd | there appears to be an impromptu treatise on tic-tac-toe strategy, but Floyd | you have nobody to play it with. Rats. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Principal Area Floyd | This is a slightly raised platform area in the center of the Floyd | boggle-box you've been transported into. You can go one move in any of Floyd | the usual 2-d directions, even the crazy ones, before hitting a wall. Floyd | Floyd | A protective spacesuit hangs on a pedestal. Well, you'd guess it's Floyd | protective, since it doesn't look very fashionable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x spacesuit" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X SPACESUIT Floyd | Floyd | Largely white, with an opaque helmet and handy pockets for fitting Floyd | scraps of paper in. It's got some weird dark LCD output on the chest Floyd | with a lever off to the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "uh oh, a LCD..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x lcf" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X LCF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x lcd" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X LCD Floyd | Floyd | It's dark. You imagine there's a way to switch it on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Sorry, I had to answer another window. How are we doing?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You should be wearing the spacesuit before doing that. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "we've just been examining things" | |
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We're still just starting." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take suit" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SUIT Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. As you pick it up, a brochure falls off the pedestal and onto the Floyd | floor, and a small lead ball also falls from a sleeve onto the ground. Floyd | Floyd | You also see the spacesuit was covering a couple of drawings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | In case the brochure has small print, you take it first. Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. There's no actual writing. At the top, you see shows five lines Floyd | in an S through a 3-by-3 square of dots...and a big red X through all Floyd | that. Below, there're four lines next to an intact 3-by-3 square. Floyd | There are a few more pages on the inside, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | There're diagrams about spacesuit operation--likely, the one you're Floyd | holding--and how it protects from radiation and heat and so forth. The Floyd | wavy lines and fire are universal enough. No letters are needed. But Floyd | you don't see any dangers here, so maybe there's more useful later. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was figuring we wouldn't even be able to take the suit." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | It seems unremarkable. You wonder what it's for, and what to do with Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | This is more a puzzle than a treasure hunt. Besides, there aren't that Floyd | many items IN the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ball" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BALL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You should be wearing the spacesuit before doing that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | The suit fits comfortably. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You might want to read the brochure...the center may not be the best Floyd | place to start recording your movements. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh dear" | |
| eu says, "The four lines puzzle." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or what I call a one-right-path puzzle." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "read brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > READ BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | There's a close-up of a lever on the side of the spacesuit. Two-way Floyd | arrows indicate that it detects bends, or changes in direction. You Floyd | see a few more pages. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready)
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
| ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "read brochure" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | You see a square of nine faces -- the middle frowny and red, the Floyd | others smiley and green. The northwest -- assuming north is up -- has Floyd | little sunshiney rays around it. Maybe the last bit will be more Floyd | informative. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > READ BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | Hmph. Just a finger pointing at you, a brain with lines coming from it Floyd | (it appears to have just jumped from a box,) and pictures of medals Floyd | and ribbons. But there's a loose page behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, I am not in a spot where I can take notes, but a map will be pretty much critical." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x loose page" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOOSE PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You rip the page from the brochure.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a whole hash of universal warning symbols including a circle
Floyd | with a line through it--some poor stupid looking face is crossed out.
Floyd | There's also someone wearing a spacesuit next to a crossed-out stick
Floyd | figure that is not.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a big exclamation mark in the upper right-hand corner--a
Floyd | pretty universal meaning. The slots on the left side are labeled A, B
Floyd | and C, from top to bottom (okay, they're unreadable glyphs. But you
Floyd | have to call them SOMEthing.) On the right, there's D, which you
Floyd | decide is a tab.
Floyd |
Floyd | B and D are parallel with the middle row, while A is close to the top
Floyd | row, and C is close to the bottom row.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to see a physical representation?
| phoenix says, "it's a 3 by 3 square. But we ought to see what happens if we step out of the box while wearing the suit" | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | . . . Floyd | A - Floyd | B - . . . - D Floyd | C - Floyd | . . . Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "this is where graphical adventures have their advantages" | |
| Jacqueline says, "This *is* graphical." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "See that physical representation?" | ||
| eu says, "Floyd-compatible graphical even." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Sorry, feeling snarky today.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to eu), "Right." | ||
| DavidW says, "Graphical puzzles aren't really well-suited for pure text IF." | ||
| mwmiller exclaims, "Better than fumbling around trying to visualize seven-segment digits, I think!" | ||
| phoenix asks, "so this stuff is outside the box, then?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You wonder if and when you should switch that lever at the side of Floyd | your spacesuit. Perhaps some places are better than others. Floyd | Floyd | Inscrutable Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the east and north here, but they don't Floyd | seem menacing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Hm. It's like some weird foamy turnstile. Floyd | Floyd | Just plain moving around with the spacesuit doesn't seem to be doing Floyd | anything. But exploring may turn up some clues. Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southwest and south, or you can dither around Floyd | to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, I was thinking inside." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe that's my issue, always thinking inside the box." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The foamy wall turnstile seems to work the same way going inside as Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. Switch the lever here? Technically, there's no rush. Floyd | Floyd | Inscrutable Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the east and north here, but they don't Floyd | seem menacing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Let's see more of the outside the box area." | |
| phoenix says, "Ok, so the description of that outsid area wasnt precisely right, was it" | ||
| phoenix says, "it didn't say we could go west, but we could" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||
| phoenix says, "go ahead" | ||
| eu says, "Well, the description was for getting back in the box, which we didn't do." | ||
| eu says, "Oh." | ||
| eu says, "I see, you meant the next sentence." | ||
| eu says, "Or phrase, rather." | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah. it said we had 3 exits, we took a 4th - back the way we came" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You're used to this turnstile action by now. Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southwest and south, or you can dither around Floyd | to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southwest and south, or you can dither around Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Unclear Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Nothing weird happens the second time on your way back, either. Floyd | Floyd | Unclear Area Floyd | You're in the center of the north edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Whew. I think I'm all caught up." | |
| ASchultz says, "Hm. You're right. This is something I thought I checked." | ||
| phoenix asks, "that is just a bug?" | ||
| phoenix says, "anyway, it seems there's a room both east and north of the NE cell, let's see if there are any more out-of-box rooms" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southwest and south, or you can dither around Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Here, you can only go south, southeast and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Here, you can only go south, southeast and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "ok, nope" | |
| phoenix says, "so we have the nine rooms in the box, and eight more attached to the corners" | ||
| DavidW asks, "did we see anything corresponding to the A, B, C slots or D tab?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Eight, or ten?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, eight." | ||
| phoenix says, "no, the outside of the box area is very nondescript" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Surely there are 16 out-box places?" | ||
| phoenix says, "it looks like just 8 - E and N off the NE room" | ||
| phoenix says, "and presumably the corresponding spots in other corners" | ||
| phoenix asks, "What were we supposed to do again?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "But the entire game space is a 5 by 5 grid, no?" | ||
| phoenix says, "it's a 5 by 5 grid with the squares 2 away from the middle in the 8 compass directiosn not there" | ||
| eu says, "Which makes sense, because we don't need them." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not parsing the 'not there' part." | ||
| phoenix says, "*-*-*" | ||
| phoenix says, "-----" | ||
| phoenix says, "*---*" | ||
| phoenix says, "-----" | ||
| phoenix says, "*-*-*" | ||
| phoenix says, "that's our map" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Really?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Here, you can only go south, southeast and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Here, you can only go south, southeast and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Here, you can only go south, southeast and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Well, I'll play it on my own later, I guess. I missed the beginning." | |
| phoenix says, "yeah. Here i'm trying to go east and west from the left room on the top row" | ||
| DavidW says, "I have a different map of the 5 by 5 grid." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "afk" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > AFK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "afk" | |
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "What's your map?" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, I don't know how to represent it here." | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought the inside box area is a 3x3 region, with 16 rooms on the outside of the box, making a 5x5 grid in total." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, that's what I was thinking too, but I wasn't mapping, so I was deferring to others." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But from what I'd read that was my thought as well." | ||
| DavidW says, "So I don't know what the *'s in the other map represent." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I didn't get the corner bit, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think the *'s in his map represent squares where we can't go / that aren't there." | ||
| eu says, "Right." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Easily enough tested, I guess." | ||
| DavidW says, "so, I'll play independently to get a better idea of what's really going on." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Aw. But he's away now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So if you go away then we're down even more." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southwest and south, or you can dither around Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Yeah, we can just get everyone on the same page now, because I got lost too." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'd like us to get on the same page here." | ||
| eu says, "I was taking the map on blind faith." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| eu says, "I suppose the first thing is to reenter the box so we know where we are." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, can we start talking about this in RxC? Like, is this R1C4?" | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southwest and south, or you can dither around Floyd | to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tricky Area Floyd | You're in the center of the east edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | eu says, "This should be R3C4." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Right." | ||
| eu says, "If the 5x5 is R1--R5 and C1--C5." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Right." | ||
| eu says, "So east..." | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | There's no secret door behind the mural. You've found how to get Floyd | outside the box, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "OH. Examine the pedestal in the center." | |
| genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we go back to the center room for a moment?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Timing." | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Principal Area Floyd | This is a slightly raised platform area in the center of the Floyd | boggle-box you've been transported into. You can go one move in any of Floyd | the usual 2-d directions, even the crazy ones, before hitting a wall. Floyd | Floyd | The pedestal you took the spacesuit from is here, too. It's prominent Floyd | enough that you couldn't trip over it if you tried. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > X PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | It's cylindrical, with an odd diagonal line down the side--you'd think Floyd | it'd be straight up and down, but it's perpendicular to a ramp that Floyd | seems to circle the outside. Floyd | Floyd | There's a hole about the size of the ball you're carrying on top of Floyd | the ramp, and you can see a couple drawings, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x drawings" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAWINGS Floyd | Floyd | You see two pictures: one, a grid of nine dots, and another, a black Floyd | eight-pointed star with a big red X through its center. The star looks Floyd | as below: Floyd | Floyd | * * Floyd | |\ /| Floyd | | \ / | Floyd | *--*--*--*--* Floyd | \ | / \ | / Floyd | \|/ \|/ Floyd | * * Floyd | /|\ /|\ Floyd | / | \ / | \ Floyd | *--*--*--*--* Floyd | | / \ | Floyd | |/ \| Floyd | * * Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "There." | |
| DavidW says, "That's our map." | ||
| eu exclaims, "Map!" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ramp" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > X RAMP Floyd | Floyd | You can't actually touch inside it--it's covered all the way down. But Floyd | it cuts a spiral through the cylindrical pedestal that winds around Floyd | almost three times before the hole at the bottom. The line cutting Floyd | through the pedestal starts just to one side of the entry and to the Floyd | other side of the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh damn, he was right." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Sorry, phoenix!" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put ball in ramp" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BALL IN RAMP Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, mask is ready to be washed off my face now. BRB." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put ball in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BALL IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | It drops into the hole and begins its spiralling descent around the Floyd | outside of the pedestal. After a half-minute, the ball rolls slowly Floyd | out the bottom. You could pick it up and try again, if you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ball" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BALL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put ball in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BALL IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | It's fun to watch the ball roll down, but you doubt you're doing Floyd | anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl pouts. | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You remember rolling a penny down a similar spiral at some toy store. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Whee! Somehow, it never quite gets boring. Floyd | Floyd | > | genericgeekgirl says, "Lies." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Okay, I lied. You start wondering what the ramp is there for, or what Floyd | it's demonstrating. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You roll the ball down the ramp yet again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "twist ramp" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > TWIST RAMP Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Hmm, spiral." | |
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stand on pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | No magic to this. Just logic. Floyd | Floyd | Which, if you're clever, may help you find a solution even better than Floyd | the common one. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks, "Shall we plot a course?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "A course to map or a course to do a test run of a symbol?" | ||
| eu says, "The latter, if I understand you." | ||
| eu says, "I meant using the space suit's lever." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, yes, in particular using the lever." | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tricky Area Floyd | You're in the center of the east edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the northwest and west, or you can dither around Floyd | to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here 0 room 0 lines Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum, then a loud BEEP, from your spacesuit. You look down Floyd | and notice the LCD output has begun to glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "x lcd" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here 0 room 0 lines Floyd | Floyd | > X LCD Floyd | Floyd | The LCD output reads: Floyd | Floyd | - - - 0 / 4 -+ Floyd | - - - | Floyd | - - - 0 / 9 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "I'm not sure what that means." | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area 1 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tricky Area Floyd | You're in the center of the east edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a beep. A turn-arrow pulses on part of your LCD, then Floyd | vanishes. You assume this means you can change directions three more Floyd | times. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Unclear Area 2 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unclear Area Floyd | You're in the center of the north edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here 2 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southeast and south, or you can dither around Floyd | to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "btw, I found out something important" | |
| eu asks, "What's that?" | ||
| DavidW says, "On the loose page, try examining the tab." | ||
| eu asks, "Hmm, can I turn the lever off?" | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "push lever" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here 2 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Maybe you meant to SWITCH the lever? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "switch lever" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here 2 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > SWITCH LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You hear a grinding and whooshing as you start. You back off. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Let me finish up this spiral, I guess." | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area 3 rooms 2 lines Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Strange Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the west and north here, but they don't Floyd | seem menacing--they're even pulling your spacesuit towards them, Floyd | slightly. Floyd | Floyd | You hear two beeps. A turn-arrow pulses on part of your LCD, then Floyd | vanishes. You assume this means you can change directions two more Floyd | times. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm" | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Secretive Area 4 rooms 2 lines Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Secretive Area Floyd | You're in the center of the west edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Enigmatic Area 5 rooms 2 lines Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Enigmatic Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the south and west here, but they don't Floyd | seem menacing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here 5 rooms 2 lines Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the northeast and north, or you can dither around Floyd | to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "back" | |
| eu says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area 6 rooms 3 lines Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cryptic Area Floyd | You're in the center of the south edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | You hear three beeps. A turn-arrow pulses on part of your LCD, then Floyd | vanishes. You assume this means you can change directions once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area 6 rooms 3 lines Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tricky Area Floyd | You're in the center of the east edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here 6 rooms 3 lines Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southwest and south, or you can dither around Floyd | to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area 7 rooms 4 lines Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inscrutable Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the east and north here, but they don't Floyd | seem menacing. Floyd | Floyd | You hear four beeps. A turn-arrow pulses on part of your LCD, then Floyd | vanishes. You assume this means you can change directions zero more Floyd | times. Crunch time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Unclear Area 7 rooms 4 lines Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unclear Area Floyd | You're in the center of the north edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area 7 rooms 4 lines Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Strange Area Floyd | There are glowing walls to the west and north here, but they don't Floyd | seem menacing--they're even pulling your spacesuit towards them, Floyd | slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Oy." | |
| eu says, "I did that wrong." | ||
| eu asks, "Now what?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x lcd" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area 7 rooms 4 lines Floyd | Floyd | > X LCD Floyd | Floyd | The LCD output reads: Floyd | Floyd | * + + 4 / 4 -+ Floyd | + - + | Floyd | + + - 7 / 9 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "The middle had a frowny face, so I avoided it." | |
| eu says, "But I also avoided the opposite corner." | ||
| eu asks, "I guess turn again?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not getting the LCD output just yet." | ||
| phoenix says, "it just said that we can't" | ||
| phoenix says, "turn" | ||
| phoenix says, "but why not try it and see what happens" | ||
| eu says, "Top line is number of lines drawn." | ||
| eu says, "Bottom is number of center rooms visited with lines." | ||
| eu says, "Pluses are visited rooms, asterisk is current location." | ||
| eu asks, "I guess we were supposed to visit the center too?" | ||
| phoenix says, "the LCD implies that although the brochure says otherwise" | ||
| eu says, "The spiral part and the frowny face threw me." | ||
| eu says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area 8 rooms 5 lines Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Principal Area Floyd | This is a slightly raised platform area in the center of the Floyd | boggle-box you've been transported into. You can go one move in any of Floyd | the usual 2-d directions, even the crazy ones, before hitting a wall. Floyd | Floyd | The pedestal you took the spacesuit from is here, too. It's prominent Floyd | enough that you couldn't trip over it if you tried. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small lead ball here. Floyd | Floyd | A loud horn begins honking. You have made one too many turns with your Floyd | spacesuit activated! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | eu says, "Well that ended well." | |
| phoenix says, "lol" | ||
| eu asks, "Does someone want to try the traditional solution?" | ||
| phoenix says, "sure, why not" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (no scoring Floyd | yet) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Space Suit Floyd | Space Suit -- Episode 38 of the Apollo 18 Tribute Album by Andrew Floyd | Schultz Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120415 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Principal Area Floyd | This is a slightly raised platform area in the center of the Floyd | boggle-box you've been transported into. You can go one move in any of Floyd | the usual 2-d directions, even the crazy ones, before hitting a wall. Floyd | Floyd | A protective spacesuit hangs on a pedestal. Well, you'd guess it's Floyd | protective, since it doesn't look very fashionable. Floyd | Floyd | [Type ABOUT to find out more about this game, or CREDITS to find out Floyd | more about people who helped make it, or make it better.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the protective spacesuit) Floyd | Hmm. As you pick it up, a brochure falls off the pedestal and onto the Floyd | floor, and a small lead ball also falls from a sleeve onto the ground. Floyd | Floyd | You also see the spacesuit was covering a couple of drawings. Floyd | Floyd | The suit fits comfortably. You didn't need instructions to put the Floyd | spacesuit on, but...maybe for what do to while you're in it? Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Also," | |
| eu says, "Check the tab, DavidW says." | ||
| eu | DavidW says, "On the loose page, try examining the tab." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "read brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > READ BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | In case the brochure has small print, you take it first. Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. There's no actual writing. At the top, you see shows five lines Floyd | in an S through a 3-by-3 square of dots...and a big red X through all Floyd | that. Below, there're four lines next to an intact 3-by-3 square. Floyd | There are a few more pages on the inside, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | There're diagrams about spacesuit operation--likely, the one you're Floyd | holding--and how it protects from radiation and heat and so forth. The Floyd | wavy lines and fire are universal enough. No letters are needed. But Floyd | you don't see any dangers here, so maybe there's more useful later. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | There's a close-up of a lever on the side of the spacesuit. Two-way Floyd | arrows indicate that it detects bends, or changes in direction. You Floyd | see a few more pages. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You see a square of nine faces -- the middle frowny and red, the Floyd | others smiley and green. The northeast -- assuming north is up -- has Floyd | little sunshiney rays around it. Maybe the last bit will be more Floyd | informative. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Hmph. Just a finger pointing at you, a brain with lines coming from it Floyd | (it appears to have just jumped from a box,) and pictures of medals Floyd | and ribbons. But there's a loose page behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "get page" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > GET PAGE Floyd | Floyd | It pulls out easily. It's got the three-by-three square of dots, but Floyd | it also has four slots cut into the sides--three on one side, one on Floyd | the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "What does that mean about 'in case it has small print?'" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "read page" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready)
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a whole hash of universal warning symbols including a circle
Floyd | with a line through it--some poor stupid looking face is crossed out.
Floyd | There's also someone wearing a spacesuit next to a crossed-out stick
Floyd | figure that is not.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a big exclamation mark in the upper right-hand corner--a
Floyd | pretty universal meaning. The slots on the left side are labeled A, B
Floyd | and C, from top to bottom (okay, they're unreadable glyphs. But you
Floyd | have to call them SOMEthing.) On the right, there's D, which you
Floyd | decide is a tab.
Floyd |
Floyd | B and D are parallel with the middle row, while A is close to the top
Floyd | row, and C is close to the bottom row.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to see a physical representation?
| ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | . . . Floyd | A - Floyd | B - . . . - D Floyd | C - Floyd | . . . Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x tab" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > X TAB Floyd | Floyd | It's the only slot on the right of the paper. You can probably fold Floyd | any of the others into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu asks (of Jacqueline), "A justification for the automatic take?" | |
| eu says, "I don't know." | ||
| phoenix asks, "so we can fold the tab on this page and it alters the geometry of the room somehow?" | ||
| DavidW says, "bingo" | ||
| phoenix says, "pick A, B or C" | ||
| eu says, "I wonder how tricky this will be to visualize." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect B is most straightforward. Dunno which is most useful yet." | ||
| phoenix says, "right, let's try B then" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "fold b into d" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > FOLD B INTO D Floyd | Floyd | As you twist the leaflet, you see crumbling--walls on the east and Floyd | west appear to fall. You feel the room you're standing on wrenched Floyd | into something you can't quite understand. You're knocked out for a Floyd | minute but wake up where you were. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "also, wowza" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Unclear Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You wonder if and when you should switch that lever at the side of Floyd | your spacesuit. Perhaps some places are better than others. Floyd | Floyd | Unclear Area Floyd | You're in the center of the east edge of the little boggle-box. Jagged Floyd | rubble on the floor indicates there may have been a wall to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Just plain moving around with the spacesuit doesn't seem to be doing Floyd | anything. But exploring may turn up some clues. Floyd | Floyd | Cryptic Area Floyd | You're in the center of the west edge of the little boggle-box. Jagged Floyd | rubble on the floor indicates there may have been a wall to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "AFK for a bit." | |
| phoenix says, "so... we just made the east room of the central box wrap around to the west" | ||
| phoenix says, "let's see if this affects out-of-box areas" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Enigmatic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. Switch the lever here? Technically, there's no rush. Floyd | Floyd | Enigmatic Area Floyd | You thought you remembered this was a corner, but you can't see any Floyd | walls to the east or west for a while. You think you see someone in Floyd | the distance, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Strange Area Floyd | You thought you remembered this was a corner, but you can't see any Floyd | walls to the east or west for a while. You think you see someone in Floyd | the distance, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "(almost ready)?" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Secretive Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Secretive Area Floyd | You're in the center of the north edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Enigmatic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Enigmatic Area Floyd | You thought you remembered this was a corner, but you can't see any Floyd | walls to the east or west for a while. You think you see someone in Floyd | the distance, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x someone" | ||
Floyd ] Enigmatic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > X SOMEONE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave" | ||
Floyd ] Enigmatic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE Floyd | Floyd | You wave, feeling foolish. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "seems the out-of-box areas have gone, at least on the west and east sides; instead they now wrap around" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Hm. It's like some weird foamy turnstile. Floyd | Floyd | Names are Not Important Here Floyd | You're outside the usual boundaries of the box. You can go back Floyd | through the walls to the southeast and south. You're not actually sure Floyd | if being here is the best plan. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I suspect the someone we see is us." | |
| phoenix says, "Right" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Here, you can only go south, southeast and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "And the out-of-box areas to the north and south weren't affected" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't know if this wrapping of geometry is useful or necessary." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Presumably it would make it possible to reach areas without using up turns." | ||
| phoenix says, "this particular wrap doesn't help that much I guess" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "fold a into d" | ||
Floyd ] Names are Not Important Here (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > FOLD A INTO D Floyd | Floyd | (slot a into tab d) Floyd | You see the passage back to the inner area shake. This worries you. Floyd | Perhaps the leaflet is more powerful than you thought. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Too bad they don't wave back." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Enigmatic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The foamy wall turnstile seems to work the same way going inside as Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | Enigmatic Area Floyd | You thought you remembered this was a corner, but you can't see any Floyd | walls to the east or west for a while. You think you see someone in Floyd | the distance, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "Ok - let's see if this warps it some more" | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Strange Area Floyd | You thought you remembered this was a corner, but you can't see any Floyd | walls to the east or west for a while. You think you see someone in Floyd | the distance, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "wait, did you fold it twice?" | |
| phoenix says, "I'm not sure if I folded it or not" | ||
| eu asks, "Can we go look at the map?" | ||
| phoenix says, "I tried to, but it's unclear whether it did it" | ||
| phoenix asks, "Where was the map?" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x page" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > X PAGE Floyd | Floyd | It's wrapped around itself now, the tabs gone--melded into the paper Floyd | somehow. Oddly, the dots that were on opposite sides are now close to Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "X DRAWINGS in the center." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Principal Area Floyd | This is a slightly raised platform area in the center of the Floyd | boggle-box you've been transported into. You can go one move in any of Floyd | the usual 2-d directions, even the crazy ones, before hitting a wall. Floyd | Floyd | The pedestal you took the spacesuit from is here, too. It's prominent Floyd | enough that you couldn't trip over it if you tried. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small lead ball here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "x drawings" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAWINGS Floyd | Floyd | You see two pictures: one, a grid of nine dots, and another, a black Floyd | eight-pointed star with a big red X through its center. The star looks Floyd | as below: Floyd | Floyd | * * Floyd | |\ /| Floyd | | \ / | Floyd | *--*--*--*--* Floyd | \ | / \ | / Floyd | \|/ \|/ Floyd | * * Floyd | /|\ /|\ Floyd | / | \ / | \ Floyd | *--*--*--*--* Floyd | | / \ | Floyd | |/ \| Floyd | * * Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think folding can only be done once, since it says it merges or melds or melts or something." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "unfold page" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > UNFOLD PAGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "fold a into d" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > FOLD A INTO D Floyd | Floyd | (slot a into tab d) Floyd | As you twist the leaflet, you see crumbling--walls on the east and Floyd | west appear to fall. You feel the room you're standing on wrenched Floyd | into something you can't quite understand. You're knocked out for a Floyd | minute but wake up where you were. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "well, I did refold it then. It seems that it didn't want to let me do it when I was outside the box" | |
| phoenix says, "Slot A was one of the "twisted" ones" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, that makes sense." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You be harmed otherwise." | ||
| phoenix says, "we might be able to do the entire thing without turning if I guessed right about what this does" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. that'd be weird if we could traverse all our checkpoints without turning at all." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cryptic Area Floyd | You're in the center of the west edge of the little boggle-box. Jagged Floyd | rubble on the floor indicates there may have been a wall to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inscrutable Area Floyd | There should be an east wall joining the south wall, but the only one Floyd | you see is a bit to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tricky Area Floyd | You're in the center of the south edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Abstruse Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abstruse Area Floyd | Whatever you did with the leaflet did not shake the south and west Floyd | walls here. Floyd | Floyd | > | eu says, "Probably it has to do with this:" | |
| eu | Which, if you're clever, may help you find a solution even better than the common one. | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inscrutable Area Floyd | There should be an east wall joining the south wall, but the only one Floyd | you see is a bit to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix says, "going W off the W warps us to the SE spot" | |
| phoenix says, "going W off the SW still warps us to the SE spot" | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cryptic Area Floyd | You're in the center of the west edge of the little boggle-box. Jagged Floyd | rubble on the floor indicates there may have been a wall to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Because it's folded in with a --- this is hard to explain." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rubble" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > X RUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "A taper." | |
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Abstruse Area (almost ready) Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abstruse Area Floyd | Whatever you did with the leaflet did not shake the south and west Floyd | walls here. Floyd | Floyd | > | phoenix asks, "let's try running just all the wya aeast and see if it covers everything?" | |
| phoenix says, "since we basically rolled our world pu into a slightly twisted cylinder" | ||
| eu says, "Okay. I lost track of where we started from, so I still haven't managed to visualize this twist, but carry on." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Abstruse Area 1 room 0 lines Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hum, then a loud BEEP, from your spacesuit. You look down Floyd | and notice the LCD output has begun to glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tricky Area 2 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tricky Area Floyd | You're in the center of the south edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a beep. A turn-arrow pulses on part of your LCD, then Floyd | vanishes. You assume this means you can change directions three more Floyd | times. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inscrutable Area 3 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inscrutable Area Floyd | There should be an east wall joining the south wall, but the only one Floyd | you see is a bit to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cryptic Area 4 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cryptic Area Floyd | You're in the center of the west edge of the little boggle-box. Jagged Floyd | rubble on the floor indicates there may have been a wall to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Principal Area 5 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Principal Area Floyd | This is a slightly raised platform area in the center of the Floyd | boggle-box you've been transported into. You can go one move in any of Floyd | the usual 2-d directions, even the crazy ones, before hitting a wall. Floyd | Floyd | The pedestal you took the spacesuit from is here, too. It's prominent Floyd | enough that you couldn't trip over it if you tried. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small lead ball here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Unclear Area 6 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Unclear Area Floyd | You're in the center of the east edge of the little boggle-box. Jagged Floyd | rubble on the floor indicates there may have been a wall to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Enigmatic Area 7 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Enigmatic Area Floyd | There should be a west wall joining the north wall, but the only one Floyd | you see is a bit to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Secretive Area 8 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Secretive Area Floyd | You're in the center of the north edge of the little boggle-box. You Floyd | can see a mural on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area 9 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Strange Area Floyd | Whatever you did with the leaflet did not shake the north and east Floyd | walls here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a loud siren. Confetti drops from the ceiling. Three people Floyd | in robes walk out, beaming silently. Floyd | Floyd | You are handed a gold medal! You have done about the best you could Floyd | do. A monk waves his hand, and the topology of the room is Floyd | re-scrambled. You are escorted into a small nook with all manner of Floyd | logic puzzles. They look interesting, but you hope you're let out Floyd | before you solve them all. Floyd | Floyd | I hope you enjoyed this puzzle, and I hope converting it to a text Floyd | adventure was as fun for you as it was for me. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | eu exclaims, "Yay!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Huzzah! Well done." | ||
| phoenix says, "good catch with that loose page David" | ||
| Tale arrives, full of fun and funk. | eu says, "Agreed. This way we were fancy about it." | |
| Jacqueline says, "It's not impossible without the folding is it? As per that hint? Not that I'm challenging anyone, just curious for thoughts." | ||
| Tale asks, "What are you playing?" | ||
| phoenix says, "there's the traditional 4-line solution" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is the smiley face location the start location or the end location?" | ||
| phoenix says, "In this case, it was neither" | ||
| ASchultz says, "oh, hey, congratulations, people. I was implementing stuff you exposed, while you solved it." | ||
| eu says (to Tale), "TMBG tribute album." | ||
| phoenix says, "I just started at the SW room because that's how the fold worked out" | ||
| ASchultz says, "That's how I imagined people would be able to do it w/o visualizing every last bit" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ASchultz), "Okay, you just broke my brane." | ||
| phoenix says (to Floyd), "messing with the geometry of the room was obviously more satisfying" | ||
Floyd ] Strange Area 9 rooms 1 line Floyd | Floyd | > MESSING WITH THE GEOMETRY OF THE ROOM WAS OBVIOUSLY MORE SATISFYING Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says, "yay '9 rooms 1 line'" | ||
| ASchultz says, "Oops. My next game will be much much different. It will involve someone who hates math." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "well, congrats to all of us for finishing all the Apollo 18+20 games." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Well. All the Floyd-playable ones, anyway." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There has been an inquiry as to whether or not we want to move on to the next area minicomp (the cover art games)." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ggg), "Oh, true." | ||
| phoenix says, "yeah, you could have people who hate maths and people who love maths trying to get home from a hotel but they all hate each oth... oh wait" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, sadly one game we couldn't play here." | ||
| ASchultz says, "Yes and thank you for working through my stuff. I didn't know this would be on clubfloyd, but now that I know games might be, I know guidelines to make them user friendly etc. before I start" | ||
| ASchultz says, "the unfloydable game is worth looking at, I think." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sleepmask has been a big help - the status line is often useful." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, thank you, vimes, for that." | ||
| ASchultz says, "Yeah, I think these games really tested it well, and it held up" | ||
| phoenix says, "well, I'm new here, but a regular-length game would be nice after all these short ones" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd like a more traditional IF next week." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, for us, regular length is hoped to be two hours." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "If you want longer than that, come to NightFloyd ;)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "The cover art games should be 'normal.' The only thing about them is that they were inspired by cover art." | ||
| phoenix asks, "When is that?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, I suspect some may be more like short IFs." | ||
| eu asks (of Jacqueline), "The cover art due date is today?" | ||
| eu asks, "Or do I have the wrong Sunday?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's due today." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So by next Sunday there will be publically released games." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Then again, I suspect updates to those releases." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to phoenix), "Tuesdays at 10pm-ish Eastern/MUD-time." | ||
| eu says (to phoenix), "Tuesday nights at 10:00 Eastern. (genericgeekgirl, correct me if I'm wrong.)" | ||
| eu says, "Timing." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, as we did with A18+20, we may want to hold off on these a week or two at least." | ||
| phoenix says, "Oh right. Wrong time zone for me unfortunately" | ||
| eu says (to Jacqueline), "That seems wise, and we intersperse some other IF." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, let's think on it. E-mail me if you have suggestions, and we'll go back to the 'old' way of doing a poll at noon Eastern to see what the people who are here want to play." | ||
| eu says, "Er, can intersperse. Typing not my strong suit today." | ||
| eu exclaims, "Adios, everyone!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh, I read it the right way, even if you didn't type it that way." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Have a great week, everyone." | ||
| phoenix says, "I'm guessing people want something not involving mathematics :)" | ||
| ASchultz says, "goodbye eveyone, and thank you again" | ||
