  
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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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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| Ellison asks, "what's on the agenda today?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, today we begin with vimes' Belief. I think (hear) that it will be rather short. What we do after that is, of course, up to us. We could (a) call it and have Jacq work on transcripts, (b) play some of the honorable mention IntroComp games, or (c) play something else." | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "But for now, let's play the piece we came to play." | |
| DavidW says, "I may likely be called away soon-ish to eat yummy omelet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to jen), "Ugh. Lovely creatures, aren't they? (I do adore mine, and have managed to not strangle it every time it does things like that.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "oooh" | ||
| Ellison says, "sounds good" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We should get started then." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask belief" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well, that was not at all what you expected out of death - no pain, Floyd | only the mildest of discomfort, and then...an office? Floyd | Floyd | Belief Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Justin de Vesine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120716 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Reception Room Floyd | A hard metal bench sits against one wall, and a desk against the Floyd | opposite wall. Wood-veneer paneling and rough, unyielding carpet lend Floyd | a stagnant air to the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have not played this one yet." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 2 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A pressed-metal desk with a fake wood veneer top. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a brochure. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nor I." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 3 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | A four-color glossy brochure reading "WELCOME TO LIMBO!" Floyd | Floyd | It describes the wonders of limbo (none), the tourist attractions Floyd | (none), the weather (none), the fine places to eat (none), the Floyd | nightlife (none), and the boredom (plenty). There are some coupons on Floyd | the back. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coupons" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 4 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE COUPONS Floyd | Floyd | a coupon for Paradise: There's not really any reason to go tearing out Floyd | expired coupons. Floyd | a coupon for Purgatory: There's not really any reason to go tearing Floyd | out expired coupons. Floyd | a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife: You Floyd | carefully tear a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Floyd | Afterlife out of the brochure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x technicolor" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TECHNICOLOR Floyd | Floyd | A coupon good for 50% off your ticket price for a day trip to Joseph Floyd | and the Technicolor Discount Aftterlife - and a free drink ticket! It Floyd | says "No expiration date!" in big, ugly letters. The small print says Floyd | the normal ticket price is one penny, payable to the ferryman at Floyd | arrival. Floyd | Floyd | There are three brief, muffled metallic noises from somewhere in the Floyd | corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x corner" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CORNER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 7 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife Floyd | a halfpenny Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x halfpenny" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 8 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HALFPENNY Floyd | Floyd | A tiny sliver of silver worth half a penny, by virtue of being a penny Floyd | cut in half. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's not the usual definition of a ha'penny." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh. True." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 9 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Reception Room Floyd | A hard metal bench sits against one wall, and a desk against the Floyd | opposite wall. Wood-veneer paneling and rough, unyielding carpet lend Floyd | a stagnant air to the room. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a brochure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bench" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 10 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BENCH Floyd | Floyd | One of those industrial pressed-metal benches, carefully designed by Floyd | ergonomic and physiological research to be as uncomfortable as Floyd | possible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 11 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the brochure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paneling" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 12 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANELING Floyd | Floyd | Unnatural coloring, precisely even faux-grain, and a slightly sticky Floyd | texture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch it" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 13 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit it" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 14 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT IT Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 15 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 16 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on bench" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 17 Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the metal bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 18 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Probably. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 19 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal bench. Floyd | Floyd | Reception Room Floyd | A hard metal bench sits against one wall, and a desk against the Floyd | opposite wall. Wood-veneer paneling and rough, unyielding carpet lend Floyd | a stagnant air to the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to ferry" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 19 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO FERRY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so, do we need to search for an exit?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carpet" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 20 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARPET Floyd | Floyd | Brownish beige, rough and uncomfortable. It looks like one corner is Floyd | a bit loose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull corner" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 21 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CORNER Floyd | Floyd | You pull on the loose corner of carpet, and it peels back a little bit Floyd | more, revealing a little hole in the stained cement beneath. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "One would think there'd be a place to use the ticket." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 22 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A little hole in the concrete floor. Floyd | Floyd | In the little hole is a tap bell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tap bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 22 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP BELL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 23 Floyd | > Floyd | > RING BELL Floyd | Floyd | You ring the tap bell. It echoes strangely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 24 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BELL Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the tap bell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bell on desk" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BELL ON DESK Floyd | Floyd | You put the tap bell on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 26 Floyd | > Floyd | > RING BELL Floyd | Floyd | You ring the tap bell. It echoes very strangely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 27 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BELL Floyd | Floyd | A little bell of the sort used to annoy receptionists everywhere. On Floyd | the bottom, it says "Ferryman Tours - The Old Firm - Established". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 28 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN BELL Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "take it to the dock" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 29 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BELL Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the tap bell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 30 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 31 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 32 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A little hole in the concrete floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull corner" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 33 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CORNER Floyd | Floyd | The carpet seems to be pretty well glued down everywhere else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 34 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 35 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 36 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 37 Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 37 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 37 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 38 Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | It's rather astonishing that you still can, considering the last thing Floyd | you remember was the very start of what seemed likely to be a quite Floyd | terminal encounter with the ground at high speed. Floyd | Floyd | That's pretty much the first thing you remember, too, at least in any Floyd | detail - there was some falling, and before that there was some kind Floyd | of argument, and before that, just a blank space in your mind where a Floyd | life ought to go. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ooh, good try with the praying." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 38 Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Belief is Justin de Vesine's entry in the 2012 Introcomp. It is also Floyd | less fully realized than it might be, but the important functional Floyd | bits are (probably!) all there. The cover photo is copyright Remy Floyd | Saglier - Doubleray, and used under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Floyd | license. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read coupon" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 39 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ COUPON Floyd | Floyd | (a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife) Floyd | A coupon good for 50% off your ticket price for a day trip to Joseph Floyd | and the Technicolor Discount Aftterlife - and a free drink ticket! It Floyd | says "No expiration date!" in big, ugly letters. The small print says Floyd | the normal ticket price is one penny, payable to the ferryman at Floyd | arrival. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "did we sit, maybe the wall'll spin around if we trigger it" | |
| DavidW says, "I will entertain suggestions on how to get to another location." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We started sitting, I think." | ||
| DavidW says, "I tried sitting on the bench. Nowhere else, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 40 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A pressed-metal desk with a fake wood veneer top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull veneer" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 40 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL VENEER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 41 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 41 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search desk" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 42 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH DESK Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DESK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "climb on?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 44 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You look remarkably good, considering. Not, for instance, entirely Floyd | flat. And you're still thinking, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bench" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 45 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on bench" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 46 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the metal bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 46 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roof" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 46 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROOF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 46 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 47 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the metal bench) Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 47 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 48 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paneling" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 49 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANELING Floyd | Floyd | Unnatural coloring, precisely even faux-grain, and a slightly sticky Floyd | texture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 50 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 51 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick paneling" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 51 Floyd | > Floyd | > LICK PANELING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste it" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 52 Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE IT Floyd | Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub it" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 53 Floyd | > Floyd | > RUB IT Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick it" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 53 Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK IT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Now we're desperate. :)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat it" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 54 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT IT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the wood-veneer paneling) Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 55 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A little hole in the concrete floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hole" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 56 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE HOLE Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wish" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 56 Floyd | > Floyd | > WISH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "stick the coupon to it" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "to the...?" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "sticky wall" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put coupon on paneling" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 57 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT COUPON ON PANELING Floyd | Floyd | (a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife on the Floyd | wood-veneer paneling) Floyd | Putting things on the wood-veneer paneling would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "aw" | |
| DavidW says, "Interesting idea, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read coupon" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 58 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ COUPON Floyd | Floyd | (a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife) Floyd | A coupon good for 50% off your ticket price for a day trip to Joseph Floyd | and the Technicolor Discount Aftterlife - and a free drink ticket! It Floyd | says "No expiration date!" in big, ugly letters. The small print says Floyd | the normal ticket price is one penny, payable to the ferryman at Floyd | arrival. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 58 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHAKE BELL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "maybe we can spiderman the sticky panelling" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb paneling" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 59 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB PANELING Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 60 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull paneling" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 61 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL PANELING Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 62 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search paneling" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PANELING Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 64 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 65 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 66 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 67 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 68 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a tap bell Floyd | a brochure Floyd | a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife Floyd | a halfpenny Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "curse" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 68 Floyd | > Floyd | > CURSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||
Floyd ] Reception Room 69 Floyd | > Floyd | > RING BELL Floyd | Floyd | You ring the tap bell. The echo seems to last a very long time. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, that's new" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "That's different, isn't it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's... ring it again." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 70 Floyd | > Floyd | > RING BELL Floyd | Floyd | You ring the tap bell. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, a swirling rush of dark water surges past you, knocking you Floyd | off-balance and sending the bell flying. A rough wooden platform Floyd | glides soundlessly through the wall, as though the wall were nothing Floyd | more than mist, and settles itself in front of you as the room fades Floyd | slowly from view. Floyd | Floyd | Black Mist Floyd | Deep mist obscures everything but the rough-hewn wooden platform and Floyd | the dark water below it from view. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife Floyd | and a halfpenny here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aha" | |
| DavidW says, "hooray" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 71 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife: You pick Floyd | up a coupon for Joseph and the Technicolor Discount Afterlife. Floyd | halfpenny: You pick up the halfpenny. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 72 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | A rough wooden platform. A dark figure seems to be standing at the Floyd | far end, concealed by the mists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figure" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | A dark figure standing in the mists, draped in a tattered robe and Floyd | carrying a long pole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give coupon to figure" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE COUPON TO FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to figure" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robe" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROBE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ferryman" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FERRYMAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pole" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps we need to go north or something first." | |
| jenrexrode says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figure" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 74 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | A dark figure standing in the mists, draped in a tattered robe and Floyd | carrying a long pole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to figure" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 74 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO FIGURE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I can see what was meant by 'speed if nature' references to this." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 75 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 76 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mists" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 76 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER MISTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mists" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 76 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MISTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mist" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 76 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 77 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Black Mist Floyd | Deep mist obscures everything but the rough-hewn wooden platform and Floyd | the dark water below it from view. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 78 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WATER Floyd | Floyd | The dark water is cold but strangely not wet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch water" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH WATER Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x boat" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "are we on the platform?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Not sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on platform" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the wooden ferry. Floyd | Floyd | The dark figure bends forward for a moment, staring at the coupon in Floyd | your hand, then straightens and nods, plunging his pole into the Floyd | water. The wooden platform trembles, and there is a sensation of Floyd | movement. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have begun your journey *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh, I guess not!" | |
| DavidW says, "Omelet's ready! I'll be back later." | ||
| Ellison says, "huh, I didn't really understand most of that" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "No?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What, specifically?" | ||
| Ellison says, "like, the significance of the bell, mainly" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I believe that's part of the myth." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ringing a bell to cross over." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sadly, the only reference I can come up with respect to this is also from IF." | ||
| Jacqueline <--- Lame | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Remember in Zork I, ringing the bell to open the gates of hell?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think that was Z I." | ||
| Ellison says, "oh yeah. of course, I didn't really know that was a reference to anything, either." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, and then Charon is another myth thing, the ferryman." | ||
| Ellison says, "the Arthur Yahtzee game also mixes Christian belief with Greek mythology while you are wandering around the Afterlife" | ||
| Jacqueline) Jacqueline says, "You know, the ferryman. As we all know from the Chris DeBurgh song." | ||
| Ellison asks, "I just think it's kind of crazy that such a sparse game supports >THINK. since when did >THINK become such an important verb?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I clearly need to go back and review some of this stuff, since I'm only remembering third and fourth source pop culture references." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Yeah, >THINK and >REMEMBER seem to have become somewhat common." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 79 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Black Mist Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "think about bell" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT BELL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That, too, is sparsely implemented." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Ellison says, "(just making sure >THINK ABOUT wasn't also supported)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, that was incredibly short, as reported - twenty minutes. What now, kids?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I totally have Don't Pay the Ferryman in my head now. Thanks, vimes." | ||
| Ellison says, "I'm cool with starting something else or you getting a head start on transcripts" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Head start is funny, given that I'm months behind." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, that might be a good thing." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was churning through them on our primary computer, but it crashed and we're in limbo with it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I think I may just start over on this machine." | ||
| Ellison says, "well, now you know how to get out of limbo so you should be fine" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "TRUE" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'll do that, then. I'll leave the transcript going, if you guys want to play something else, feel free." | ||
| Jacqueline wanders off. | ||
| Ellison says, "sounds good. have fun." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "we never got the full score on speculative fiction" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "oh but dw is in omeletland" | ||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||
| DavidW says, "Omelet, zucchini slices, and walnut square eaten." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "yum" | ||
| DavidW says, "They don't use white sugar, but instead coconut sugar and agave honey." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Black Mist 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | There is no score in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | borowski asks, "I guess clubfloyd was short today?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Very, yes." | ||
| Ellison says, "if you count the time Jacqueline worked on transcripts, it was very long" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh." | ||
