Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 
Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A pattern of bits shifts inside your computer.  New information
Floyd | scrolls up the screen.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It is not good.
Floyd |
Floyd | As the impact of the discovery settles on your psyche, you recall
Floyd | the preceding events:  your recent enrollment at Akmi Yooniversity;
Floyd | your serendipitous discovery of the joys of Classical Literature -- a
Floyd | nice change of pace from computer hacking; your compuarchaeological
Floyd | discovery of the long-forgotten treasures that will make your thesis
Floyd | one of the most important this decade.  But now that's all a bit moot,
Floyd | isn't it?
Floyd |
Floyd | How ironic:  You were stunned at how *real* the primitive Unnkulian
Floyd | stories seemed.  Now you know why.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend Lives!
Floyd | An Unnkulian Universe Unventure
Floyd | Opus 2, Version 1.1G for Great Underground Adventures CD
Floyd | Copyright (C) 1994, 1996 David M. Baggett
Floyd | All rights reserved.
Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System.
Floyd | WorldClass library version 1.3.5.
Floyd |
Floyd | Difficulty Rating (without hints):  Legendary (10 out of 10)
Floyd |
Floyd | Recommended for mature readers only.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | This game is free.  We encourage you to distribute it, but you may
Floyd | not charge any money for it beyond the cost of the media it is stored
Floyd | on.
Floyd |
Floyd | ADVENTIONS no longer supports this product.  Please do not
Floyd | contact us for hints or to buy games.  The best place to get our games
Floyd | is from the Interactive Fiction Archive on the Internet, site
Floyd | ftp.gmd.de.  The best place to ask for help with our games is the
Floyd | Usenet newsgroup rec.games.int-fiction.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    For instructions, type "instructions".
Floyd |

Floyd | 1."
Floyd |
Floyd | Use the adaptive hint system by typing "hint".  To toggle hint
Floyd | encrypting, type "encrypt".  The encryption is a simple letter
Floyd | substitution cipher.  Use this option to keep yourself from using too
Floyd | many hints.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Type "credits" for more information about the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |
Floyd | Ahhhhh.  Pod sweet pod!  Sure feels good to be back in the ol'
Floyd | closet-sized capsule again, yes sir.  While slaving away on your
Floyd | master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself

Floyd |
Floyd | Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd | On your desk is your EV, and next to that sits the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Or at least you *assume* it's there; you can't
Floyd | really see it.  It's buried under the pile of books that just crashed
Floyd | down in front of you as you hit your head on the shelf above upon
Floyd | reading more of the awful truth about the Unnkulians.  Still rubbing
Floyd | the bruise on your topknot, you pick up all the books and put them
Floyd | back in order.
Floyd |
Floyd | The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.
Floyd | Right now you see the video for "I Want a Girl with Green Hair and
Floyd | Horns," by Timon Sketch and the Hoi-Polloi.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A full ReVoLT Kola can is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/1 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 2
Floyd |
Floyd | [2]: All Akmi products and their characteristic spellings are
Floyd | trademarks of Akmi Galaktikorp.  Akmi -- proud sponsors of the
Floyd | pan-galactic Cheez Games!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/2 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 1
Floyd |
Floyd | [1]: Footnote markers are numbers enclosed in square brackets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/3 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 42
Floyd |
Floyd | No such footnote.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/4 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | A hollow voice inside your head says, "Wrong genre."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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Floyd | 0/5 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still Gavin Kelly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/5 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "dance".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/6 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You have a Galacticard, your thesis research floppy disk, and a matter
Floyd | mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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Floyd | 0/7 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GALACTICARD
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone has a Galacticard; it's essential for everything from
Floyd | checking out library books to buying a new house.  The shiny
Floyd | holographic stamp on the card not only prevents counterfeiting, but
Floyd | stores a few megabytes of data about you as well [3].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/8 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 3
Floyd |
Floyd | [3]: There was a great public outcry when the cards were
Floyd | introduced as part of the new Republic 94 years ago.  Many claimed
Floyd | that the cards were an invasion of privacy and refused to use them; it
Floyd | wasn't until Akmi made it official policy to accept only Galacticards
Floyd | for all their goods and services that they became truly ubiquitous and
Floyd | universal.  Ha!  -- Imagine how inconvenient everything would be
Floyd | without one!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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Floyd | 0/9 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DISK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a standard 5 centimeter square optical disk with your thesis
Floyd | research materials on it.  There is a label on one side with your
Floyd | writing on it.  The label reads, "Unnkulian Unventures I, II, and III
Floyd | (unfinished)."
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfortunately, the games were designed to be run on an old
Floyd | Zippikraft machine that's pretty hard to find these days.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/10 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X AUTODIALER
Floyd |
Floyd | The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd | To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [4].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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Floyd | 0/11 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 4
Floyd |
Floyd | [4]: For example:  "type 16 on autodialer keypad."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/12 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Most of the textbooks are uninteresting treatises on various aspects
Floyd | of computer science, physics, chemistry, and all the other boring
Floyd | stuff you've taken classes in over the past few years.  Also present,
Floyd | however, are the many tomes of literature you've become so interested
Floyd | in of late.  As you leaf through your first year physics textbook, you
Floyd | find your old color chart.  So that's where that thing was!  You pick
Floyd | it up and take it with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/13 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CHART
Floyd |
Floyd | The chart gives RGB values for various color names:
Floyd |
Floyd | akmi orange (10000, 7470, 1000)
Floyd | alice blue (9411, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | antique white (9803, 9215, 8431)
Floyd | aquamarine (4980, 10000, 8313)
Floyd | azure (9411, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | beige (9607, 9607, 8627)
Floyd | bisque (10000, 8941, 7686)
Floyd | black (0, 0, 0)
Floyd | blanched almond (10000, 9215, 8039)
Floyd | blue (0, 0, 10000)
Floyd | blue violet (5411, 1686, 8862)
Floyd | brown (6470, 1647, 1647)
Floyd | burlywood (8705, 7215, 5294)
Floyd | burnt sienna (6000, 3270, 1732)
Floyd | chartreuse (4980, 10000, 0)
Floyd | chocolate (8235, 4117, 1176)
Floyd | coral (10000, 4980, 3137)
Floyd | cornflower blue (3921, 5843, 9294)
Floyd | cyan (0, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | egg white (10000, 10000, 9521)
Floyd | firebrick (6980, 1333, 1333)
Floyd | forest green (1333, 5450, 1333)
Floyd | gainsboro (8627, 8627, 8627)
Floyd | ghost white (9725, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | goldenrod (8549, 6470, 1254)
Floyd | gray (7529, 7529, 7529)
Floyd | green (0, 10000, 0)
Floyd | honeydew (9411, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | hot pink (10000, 4117, 7058)
Floyd | ivory (10000, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | khaki (9411, 9019, 5490)
Floyd | lavender (9019, 9019, 9803)
Floyd | lawn green (4862, 9882, 0)
Floyd | lemon chiffon (10000, 9803, 8039)
Floyd | lime green (1960, 8039, 1960)
Floyd | magenta (10000, 0, 10000)
Floyd | maroon (6901, 1882, 3764)
Floyd | midnight blue (980, 980, 4392)
Floyd | misty rose (10000, 8941, 8823)
Floyd | moccasin (10000, 8941, 7098)
Floyd | navy (0, 0, 5019)
Floyd | old lace (9921, 9607, 9019)
Floyd | olive drab (4196, 5568, 1372)
Floyd | orange (10000, 6470, 0)
Floyd | orchid (8549, 4392, 8392)
Floyd | peach puff (10000, 8549, 7254)
Floyd | pink (10000, 7529, 7960)
Floyd | plum (8666, 6274, 8666)
Floyd | powder blue (6901, 8784, 9019)
Floyd | purple (6274, 1254, 9411)
Floyd | red (10000, 0, 0)
Floyd | rosy brown (7372, 5607, 5607)
Floyd | saddle brown (5450, 2705, 745)
Floyd | salmon (9803, 5019, 4470)
Floyd | sandy brown (9568, 6431, 3764)
Floyd | sea green (1803, 5450, 3411)
Floyd | seashell (10000, 9607, 9333)
Floyd | sky blue (5294, 8078, 9215)
Floyd | slate gray (4392, 5019, 5647)
Floyd | snow (10000, 9803, 9803)
Floyd | spring green (0, 10000, 4980)
Floyd | steel blue (2745, 5098, 7058)
Floyd | tan (8235, 7058, 5490)
Floyd | thistle (8470, 7490, 8470)
Floyd | tomato (10000, 3882, 2784)
Floyd | turquoise (2509, 8784, 8156)
Floyd | violet (9333, 5098, 9333)
Floyd | violet red (8156, 1254, 5647)
Floyd | wheat (9607, 8705, 7019)
Floyd | white (10000, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | yellow (10000, 10000, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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Floyd | 0/14 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still Gavin Kelly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/15 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |
Floyd | Ahhhhh.  Pod sweet pod!  Sure feels good to be back in the ol'
Floyd | closet-sized capsule again, yes sir.  While slaving away on your
Floyd | master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself

Floyd |
Floyd | Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd | On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you
Floyd | use nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best
Floyd | friend is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.
Floyd | Right now you see the video for "Innocence Lost, Paradise Found," by
Floyd | Cherry and Plum Blossom.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A full ReVoLT Kola can is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/16 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X KOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | The ReVoLT Kola can has the usual gaudy tomato red and
Floyd | intergalactic orange design and the standard snappy slogan:  "Make
Floyd | every cell in your body RIOT...  with ReVoLT!"  The makers of this
Floyd | beverage claim that it is the most powerful stimulant available
Floyd | without a prescription.  You've probably taken years off your life
Floyd | with this toxic elixir.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The can seems to contain some carbonated beverage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > X NOWTZ
Floyd |
Floyd | The hundred or so Stik-Em Nowtz littering your pod are largely
Floyd | incomprehensible; most of them are scribbled diagrams and notes you've
Floyd | made to yourself during your two year stay here.  Among the
Floyd | long-forgotten reminders you find the address of Terminal Velocity,
Floyd | the favorite hang-out for the galaxy's best computer jocks.  It says,
Floyd | "Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5) [5]," but a fat lot of good that's
Floyd | going to do you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You chuckle as you recall your last visit there three years ago --
Floyd | they weren't particularly interested in yet another 3-dimensional
Floyd | chess program, especially one that couldn't beat their own weekend
Floyd | implementations.  Trying to find software that'll impress them enough
Floyd | to let you in is nearly impossible, which is why it's the most
Floyd | exclusive club around.  It's also probably the best source of computer
Floyd | information in the galaxy...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/18 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE KOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/19 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET KOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have the full ReVoLT Kola can.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 5
Floyd |
Floyd | [5]: Matter mover coordinates are often given relative to
Floyd | colorspace basis coordinates.  E.g., "Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5)" means to
Floyd | take the base coordinates for Hot Pink and add zero to red, subtract
Floyd | 52 from green, and subtract 5 from blue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > X EV
Floyd |

Floyd | unimpressive, particularly considering you've seen about ten thousand
Floyd | identical models before.  (Akmi sometimes has a hard time letting go
Floyd | once they've found a formula that works.)  It's orange, it's mauve,
Floyd | it's purple.  It's squat and has functionless dimples all over its
Floyd | irregularly shaped bulbous case.  The screen is nearly square and
Floyd | inset at a jaunty angle.  In short, a typical product of the Akmi
Floyd | Aesthetix Division [7].
Floyd |
Floyd | The EV has a tuning dial; you can choose from thousands of
Floyd | different stations from across the galaxy.  The dial goes from 1 to
Floyd | 100,000 and is currently set to 1000.
Floyd |
Floyd | The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.
Floyd | Right now you see the video for "Surf, Surf, Surf that Wormhole," by
Floyd | Rad Doodz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/22 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TUNE TV TO 1001
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1001.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TV
Floyd |

Floyd | unimpressive, particularly considering you've seen about ten thousand
Floyd | identical models before.  (Akmi sometimes has a hard time letting go
Floyd | once they've found a formula that works.)  It's orange, it's mauve,
Floyd | it's purple.  It's squat and has functionless dimples all over its
Floyd | irregularly shaped bulbous case.  The screen is nearly square and
Floyd | inset at a jaunty angle.  In short, a typical product of the Akmi
Floyd | Aesthetix Division [7].
Floyd |
Floyd | The EV has a tuning dial; you can choose from thousands of
Floyd | different stations from across the galaxy.  The dial goes from 1 to
Floyd | 100,000 and is currently set to 1001.
Floyd |
Floyd | The signal is fading in and out.  It sounds like music, but you
Floyd | can't tell what kind, and the picture is rolling like crazy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 6
Floyd |
Floyd | [6]: PM stands for Photonic Modulation, a technique that
Floyd | converts sound and images into light.  The light is then accelerated
Floyd | to beyond its normal speed via the same mechanism used in matter
Floyd | movers.  (Look, don't ask me, I didn't invent the stuff!)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 7
Floyd |
Floyd | [7]: Type "watch ev" to get just a description of what's on the
Floyd | screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > X COMPUTER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A -- that's the technical
Floyd | term for "one fast machine."  Zippikraft makes the fastest computing
Floyd | hardware in the galaxy using technology no one else has been able to
Floyd | copy yet, despite several years of desperate (and creative) industrial
Floyd | espionage [8].
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Liquidizer is entirely lime green, the only color Zippikraft
Floyd | computers come in, with a built-in optical disk drive, detachable
Floyd | keyboard and high-resolution HoloScanning monitor.  You don't usually
Floyd | use the 3D video mode in your research since you deal mainly with
Floyd | text, but it's great for impressing guests and convincing your parents
Floyd | that the machine was really worth as much as the rest of your entire
Floyd | college education costs combined.
Floyd |
Floyd | Liquidizers also come with built-in AkNet transceivers, allowing
Floyd | access to Akmi's galactic network, which now permeates almost all
Floyd | aspects of daily life, from electronic mail to shopping and funds
Floyd | transfers.  You use AkNet to access the many ancient literature
Floyd | archives in the galaxy, particularly those that might have lost works
Floyd | on the mythical Unnkulians.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mythical...  or so it seemed.  Your Liquidizer's screen is still
Floyd | silently displaying the portentous words "the Unnkulians shall rule
Floyd | again!"
Floyd |
Floyd | These words, you recall, explain the painful bruise on your head.
Floyd | And why you've got to do everything in your power to stop the virus
Floyd | the Unnkulians have unleashed upon AkNet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Who'd have thought you'd really find anything of value by searching
Floyd | random records in AkNet's database for "Unnkul," much less the code to
Floyd | a virus that's probably been wending its way through AkNet's bowels
Floyd | for years.  Only the Unnkulians' matchless arrogance and some divine
Floyd | force could have led you to this single black grain of sand in the
Floyd | immense digital beach that is AkNet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, the Unnkulians' supreme arrogance -- an arrogance that's
Floyd | driven them to broadcast their secret declaration of war with the very
Floyd | instrument their success depends upon -- will (with any luck) prove to
Floyd | be their downfall again, as told so many times in the tales of the
Floyd | ancient Valley King Era battles with these thoroughly evil creatures;
Floyd | legends that you've nearly come to memorize through thousands of
Floyd | readings.
Floyd |
Floyd | But how to stop the virus?  How can you halt the relentless
Floyd | progress of this robotic self-propagating piece of Unnkulian
Floyd | handiwork, their will and psyche and utter evilness distilled into
Floyd | crisp, razor-sharp digital efficiency?
Floyd |
Floyd | And what if, as in "Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme,"
Floyd | your most recent compuarchaeological find (and one of only two known
Floyd | examples of Unnkulian literature from the 5th VK Era, both of which
Floyd | are computer-driven interactive literature, and both of which only you
Floyd | will know about until your thesis is published), Akmi is involved?
Floyd | Contacting the main AkNet headquarters might be the worst possible
Floyd | tactic; if Akmi is allied with the Unnkulians again, your spouting off
Floyd | about the virus would be disastrous, and probably fatal.
Floyd |
Floyd | And what have the Unnkulians been doing all these years?  Where are
Floyd | they now?  And did the world simply forget about them between 2nd VK
Floyd | Era and 5th VK Era [9], or did the Unnkulians destroy every
Floyd | reference to themselves they could find on AkNet in an attempt to
Floyd | rewrite history?
Floyd |
Floyd | So many questions.  So little time.  And the consequences of
Floyd | failure are great indeed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfortunately, your computer seems to have locked up.  Cycling the
Floyd | power has no effect.  You notice the unfamiliar text
Floyd | "hq.orange.akmi.aknet:  remote access = excomm" at the bottom of the
Floyd | screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENGAGE PANIC MODE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "engage".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/27 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 8
Floyd |
Floyd | [8]: The fact that Zippikraft is entirely owned and run by
Floyd | Skivlets from the planet Poot (in the Baig system) probably has a lot
Floyd | to do with the success of the Data Liquidizer line of hardware.
Floyd | Skivlets are so small they can dance on the heads of pins, and it is
Floyd | widely believed that have a genetically-endowed, deep understanding of
Floyd | quantum physics.  Unfortunately they're quite xenophobic, though
Floyd | they're more than willing to take your money.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/28 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 8
Floyd |
Floyd | [8]: The fact that Zippikraft is entirely owned and run by
Floyd | Skivlets from the planet Poot (in the Baig system) probably has a lot
Floyd | to do with the success of the Data Liquidizer line of hardware.
Floyd | Skivlets are so small they can dance on the heads of pins, and it is
Floyd | widely believed that have a genetically-endowed, deep understanding of
Floyd | quantum physics.  Unfortunately they're quite xenophobic, though
Floyd | they're more than willing to take your money.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/28 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OVERTHROW SOCIETY
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "overthrow".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/29 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 9
Floyd |
Floyd | [9]: Researcher Jens Brams at Tel University unearthed the
Floyd | first Unnkulian tales in 2051VK.  They were paper texts, dating back
Floyd | to around 400VK -- late First Valley King Era to early Second.  Since
Floyd | then, many other similar works have been found, all from around the
Floyd | same period.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your treasures, the Unnkulian Unventures, are the only examples of
Floyd | Unnkulian literature dated later than 420VK -- you've traced them back
Floyd | to around 1701VK, the beginning of the Fifth Valley King Era.  They're
Floyd | especially interesting because they're early and primitive examples of
Floyd | what is now a widespread form:  interactive literature.  The works
Floyd | employ a rudimentary sentence parser to interact with the reader --
Floyd | quite unsophisticated, but nonetheless similar to today's
Floyd | government-regulated RLR's (Real Language Recognizers) in spirit.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Unnkulian Unventures portray their namesakes as wholly evil
Floyd | beings bent on destroying everything they are not a part of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/30 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BED
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks more like a counter top than a bed, though with enough
Floyd | blankets to cushion (about 15 layers) it's bearable.  It's supposed to
Floyd | be able to fold up into the wall but you've never been able to get it
Floyd | to work reliably.  Unless you lock it in the down position it tends to
Floyd | close up in the middle of the night, with you in it, which would be
Floyd | all right except that you can't afford to miss too many classes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/31 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER BED
Floyd |
Floyd | Please be more specific.  You can sit, stand or lie on your bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, lying on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/32
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LIE ON BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You're now lying on your bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, lying on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/33
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | This is no time for napping!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, lying on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/34
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNLOCK BED
Floyd |
Floyd | I wouldn't risk it, if I were you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, lying on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/35
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see the contents of your bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/36 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/37 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNLOCK BED
Floyd |
Floyd | I wouldn't risk it, if I were you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/38 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH BED
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks more like a counter top than a bed, though with enough
Floyd | blankets to cushion (about 15 layers) it's bearable.  It's supposed to
Floyd | be able to fold up into the wall but you've never been able to get it
Floyd | to work reliably.  Unless you lock it in the down position it tends to
Floyd | close up in the middle of the night, with you in it, which would be
Floyd | all right except that you can't afford to miss too many classes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/38 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WHO IS ADA
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/39 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WHAT IS AKMI
Floyd |
Floyd | Akmi Galacticorp is the direct corporate descendent of Acme, one of
Floyd | the first companies to do business in the Valley King's demesne on
Floyd | Tode.  Akmi is such a large and far-reaching company that it's hard to
Floyd | have a conversation that doesn't bring up something Akmi has a hand
Floyd | in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/39 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WHO AM I
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "who".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/39 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WHAT IS ADA
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You're now standing on your bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll have to get off of your bed first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CEILING
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bed blocks your view of the ceiling
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WHAT IS MONKEY
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "monkey".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FLOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bed blocks your view of the ground
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "exits".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WHAT AM I
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "what".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The escape hatch is buried under a pile of papers.  It appears to be
Floyd | sealed shut, and you've never had occasion to use it in the past.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT ON BED
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Kick what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KICK BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "bucket".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KICK HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Kicking your pod's emergency escape hatch doesn't seem like a good
Floyd | idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Some of these sheets of paper have been here since you moved in, but
Floyd | you've held on to all of them JUST IN CASE you might need some
Floyd | important bit of information scribbled on one.  Leafing through a few
Floyd | piles, you don't find anything of great interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed
Floyd |
Floyd | Ahhhhh.  Pod sweet pod!  Sure feels good to be back in the ol'
Floyd | closet-sized capsule again, yes sir.  While slaving away on your
Floyd | master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself

Floyd |
Floyd | Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd | On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you
Floyd | use nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best
Floyd | friend is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | The signal is fading in and out.  It sounds like music, but you
Floyd | can't tell what kind, and the picture is rolling like crazy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X THESIS
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a standard 5 centimeter square optical disk with your thesis
Floyd | research materials on it.  There is a label on one side with your
Floyd | writing on it.  The label reads, "Unnkulian Unventures I, II, and III
Floyd | (unfinished)."
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfortunately, the games were designed to be run on an old
Floyd | Zippikraft machine that's pretty hard to find these days.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOLD BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't seem to get the bed to fold up into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | Your desk is piled with papers and junk food containers.  What
Floyd | would your mother say?
Floyd |
Floyd | A Zippikraft optical disk drive, your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer
Floyd | 1024/A, an Enterviewer (EV), and a Zippikraft detachable keyboard
Floyd | (attached to your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A) are on your desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIQUIDIZER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A -- that's the technical
Floyd | term for "one fast machine."  Zippikraft makes the fastest computing
Floyd | hardware in the galaxy using technology no one else has been able to
Floyd | copy yet, despite several years of desperate (and creative) industrial
Floyd | espionage [8].
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Liquidizer is entirely lime green, the only color Zippikraft
Floyd | computers come in, with a built-in optical disk drive, detachable
Floyd | keyboard and high-resolution HoloScanning monitor.  You don't usually
Floyd | use the 3D video mode in your research since you deal mainly with
Floyd | text, but it's great for impressing guests and convincing your parents
Floyd | that the machine was really worth as much as the rest of your entire
Floyd | college education costs combined.
Floyd |
Floyd | Liquidizers also come with built-in AkNet transceivers, allowing
Floyd | access to Akmi's galactic network, which now permeates almost all
Floyd | aspects of daily life, from electronic mail to shopping and funds
Floyd | transfers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CONTAINERS
Floyd |
Floyd | They're just normal junk food containers, more gross than interesting,
Floyd | frankly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET LIQUIZIDER
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "liquizider".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET LIQUIDIZER
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer is not a portable.  In fact, it's not
Floyd | even a liftable or a movable, at least without a fork lift.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWITCH LIQUIDIZER TO 3D
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X KEYBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just a standard 233-key model.  It is currently attached to your
Floyd | Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIAL 2
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't turn the number.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIAL 2 ON AUTODIALER PAD
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 2
Floyd |
Floyd | [2]: All Akmi products and their characteristic spellings are
Floyd | trademarks of Akmi Galaktikorp.  Akmi -- proud sponsors of the
Floyd | pan-galactic Cheez Games!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET AUTODIALER TO 2
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't turn the matter mover autodialer to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod, standing on your bed  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Fro
Floyd | ... 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TYPE 2 ON AUTODIALER
Floyd |
Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/57 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER MOVER
Floyd |
Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd | You are in your true love Ada's pod.  It's quite similar to your
Floyd | own, but isn't nearly as messy.  Ada seems to have gone off and left
Floyd | saving the galaxy to you alone [10].
Floyd |
Floyd | On the EV, Progressive 52109 is playing the music video for "Zing
Floyd | Tschang Tum," by ZZiT PHyT.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A handwritten note and a paperback book are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/58 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X AUTODIALER
Floyd |
Floyd | The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd | To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [4].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/59 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NOTE 10
Floyd |
Floyd | [10]: Perhaps she's off gallivanting with that annoying
Floyd | salesman again.  What an annoying fellow he is, and with horrible
Floyd | taste in clothing to boot!  You hope it's just a phase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/60 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WATCH EV
Floyd |
Floyd | On the EV, Progressive 52109 is playing the music video for "Give me
Floyd | the XES in Excess," by ToonSmiths.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/61 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HANDWRITTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The note is to you.  It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd | Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune
Floyd | seeds from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how
Floyd | Grandma is about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/62 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | The book is entitled, "The Horror of Rylvania, and Other Ghost
Floyd | Stories."  "Ada Man" is written in the inside cover.  It's one of her
Floyd | favorite books, and it appears to be autographed.  The handwriting is
Floyd | so poor, however, that you can't make out much of the author's name --
Floyd | it looks like "D. O. Louty" but you're sure that's not right.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/63 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Ada has told you on many occasions how great the title tale is, but
Floyd | you don't have time to kick back for a few hours and read it right
Floyd | now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/64 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd | You are in your true love Ada's pod.  It's quite similar to your
Floyd | own, but isn't nearly as messy.  Ada seems to have gone off and left
Floyd | saving the galaxy to you alone [10].
Floyd |
Floyd | On the EV, Progressive 52109 is playing the music video for "Dream
Floyd | Terminator," by Crucial Taunt.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A handwritten note and a paperback book are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/64 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X COMPUTER
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/65 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HANDWRITTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The note is to you.  It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd | Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune
Floyd | seeds from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how
Floyd | Grandma is about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/66 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET RED TO 8549
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8549.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/67 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET GREEN TO 4392
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4392.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Ada's pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 0/68 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET BLUE TO 8392
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8392.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/69 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER MOVER
Floyd |
Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd | Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case,
Floyd | from here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands
Floyd | here and there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over
Floyd | prices.
Floyd |
Floyd | The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/69 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X AUTOTYPER
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "autotyper".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/70 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X AUTODIALER
Floyd |
Floyd | The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd | To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [4].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/71 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CREATURES
Floyd |
Floyd | They're all scurrying about in a frenzy, looking for great prices on
Floyd | foodstuffs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/72 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Fruit MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd | The Barfee Fruit MegaStore is not quite as crowded as the rest of
Floyd | the outlet, but than again that's not saying much.  Fortunately
Floyd | walking around is easy here, and you can actually breathe, which is a
Floyd | definite plus.
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a friendly-looking salesperson standing in front of a
Floyd | large bin and approach him.  From the looks of it, he's a Hoppian.
Floyd | (The big floppy ears give it away.)  The bin is filled with fruit seed
Floyd | packets.  Seed Central is north of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hoppian salesman waits until he thinks you're not looking, then
Floyd | straightens his bowtie and pulls back his ears, which, to his
Floyd | consternation, plop right back down into their usual cockeyed
Floyd | configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/73 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X EARS
Floyd |
Floyd | It's hard to say what makes it more obvious that the salesman
Floyd | standing in front of you is a Hoppian -- the fact that he looks like a
Floyd | giant rabbit, or the fact that he's exceedingly well-dressed.  The
Floyd | tuxedo looks quite smart on the 10-foot tall Barfee representative,
Floyd | whose light gray fur and two oversized shiny white teeth perfectly
Floyd | complement his picture-perfect formalwear.  His large, floppy ears
Floyd | might be best tucked into a spiffy top hat, you think, but then again
Floyd | they do add a bit of levity to an otherwise stuffy appearance.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hoppian salesman waits until he thinks you're not looking, then
Floyd | straightens his bowtie and pulls back his ears, which, to his
Floyd | consternation, plop right back down into their usual cockeyed
Floyd | configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/73 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | Which seeds do you mean, the packet of blackberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | blueberry seeds, the packet of boysenberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | elderberry seeds, the packet of Hoppian gooseberry seeds, the packet
Floyd | of jostaberry seeds, the packet of kiwi seeds, the packet of Floran
Floyd | gowperfruit seeds, the packet of raspberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | Grandpa Jones apple seeds, the packet of apricot seeds, the packet of
Floyd | Tellian cherry seeds, the packet of peach seeds, the packet of pear
Floyd | seeds, the packet of Todian plum seeds, the packet of persimmon seeds,
Floyd | or the packet of Akmi Dam Joosee Froot seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/73 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FROOT
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/74 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X JOOSEE FROOT SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee Akmi Dam
Floyd | Joosee Froot seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs
Floyd | in feeds.  Visit the Barfee Outlet:  (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hoppian sighs gently, looks in a random direction, and then
Floyd | down at a wristwatch strapped to his left paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/74 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HOPPIAN ABOUT PRUNES
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "prunes".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/75 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLUM SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee Todian
Floyd | plum seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs in feeds.
Floyd | Visit the Barfee Outlet:  (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Is there something I might be able to help you with today?"  the
Floyd | Hoppian inquires, chuckling quietly but in an officious way that makes
Floyd | you feel kind of like you're in a classy jewelery store with nothing
Floyd | but 50% off coupons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/75 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HOPPIAN ABOUT SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | Which seeds do you mean, the packet of Foonian eggplant seeds, the
Floyd | packet of blackberry seeds, the packet of blueberry seeds, the packet
Floyd | of boysenberry seeds, the packet of elderberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | Hoppian gooseberry seeds, the packet of jostaberry seeds, the packet
Floyd | of kiwi seeds, the packet of Floran gowperfruit seeds, the packet of
Floyd | raspberry seeds, the packet of Grandpa Jones apple seeds, the packet
Floyd | of apricot seeds, the packet of Tellian cherry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | peach seeds, the packet of pear seeds, the packet of Todian plum
Floyd | seeds, the packet of persimmon seeds, the packet of Akmi Dam Joosee
Floyd | Froot seeds, or the packet of prune seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/76 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK SALESMAN ABOUT PRUNE SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm afraid we're all out of prune seeds, friend," the Hoppian
Floyd | apologizes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hoppian salesman waits until he thinks you're not looking, then
Floyd | straightens his bowtie and pulls back his ears, which, to his
Floyd | consternation, plop right back down into their usual cockeyed
Floyd | configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/77 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HOPPIAN ABOUT PLUM SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hoppian tells you more than you could ever possibly want to
Floyd | know about the packet of Todian plum seeds; at the end of it all
Floyd | you're sorry you asked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sunlight dances off the Hoppian's whiskers as he wiggles his nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/77 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PRUNE SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/78 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUNCH SALESMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no reason to get huffy!
Floyd |
Floyd | "You'll notice, Sir, that we have quite a wide selection," the
Floyd | Hoppian says, gracefully running a paw over the rim of the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/79 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You have a full ReVoLT Kola can, an RGB color chart, a Galacticard,
Floyd | your thesis research floppy disk, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sunlight dances off the Hoppian's whiskers as he wiggles his nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/80 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLUM SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee Todian
Floyd | plum seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs in feeds.
Floyd | Visit the Barfee Outlet:  (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd | "You'll notice, Sir, that we have quite a wide selection," the
Floyd | Hoppian says, gracefully running a paw over the rim of the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/80 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PRUNE SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nothing matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/80 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PLUM SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll have to pay for it first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/81 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BUY PLUM SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | Please specify who you want to pay for the packet of Todian plum
Floyd | seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hoppian sighs gently, looks in a random direction, and then
Floyd | down at a wristwatch strapped to his left paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Barfee Fruit MegaStore  [Orchid: Orf, Flora]
Floyd | 0/81 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 
Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A pattern of bits shifts inside your computer.  New information
Floyd | scrolls up the screen.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It is not good.
Floyd |
Floyd | As the impact of the discovery settles on your psyche, you recall
Floyd | the preceding events:  your recent enrollment at Akmi Yooniversity;
Floyd | your serendipitous discovery of the joys of Classical Literature -- a
Floyd | nice change of pace from computer hacking; your compuarchaeological
Floyd | discovery of the long-forgotten treasures that will make your thesis
Floyd | one of the most important this decade.  But now that's all a bit moot,
Floyd | isn't it?
Floyd |
Floyd | How ironic:  You were stunned at how *real* the primitive Unnkulian
Floyd | stories seemed.  Now you know why.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend Lives!
Floyd | An Unnkulian Universe Unventure
Floyd | Opus 2, Version 1.1G for Great Underground Adventures CD
Floyd | Copyright (C) 1994, 1996 David M. Baggett
Floyd | All rights reserved.
Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System.
Floyd | WorldClass library version 1.3.5.
Floyd |
Floyd | Difficulty Rating (without hints):  Legendary (10 out of 10)
Floyd |
Floyd | Recommended for mature readers only.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | This game is free.  We encourage you to distribute it, but you may
Floyd | not charge any money for it beyond the cost of the media it is stored
Floyd | on.
Floyd |
Floyd | ADVENTIONS no longer supports this product.  Please do not
Floyd | contact us for hints or to buy games.  The best place to get our games
Floyd | is from the Interactive Fiction Archive on the Internet, site
Floyd | ftp.gmd.de.  The best place to ask for help with our games is the
Floyd | Usenet newsgroup rec.games.int-fiction.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    For instructions, type "instructions".
Floyd |

Floyd | 1."
Floyd |
Floyd | Use the adaptive hint system by typing "hint".  To toggle hint
Floyd | encrypting, type "encrypt".  The encryption is a simple letter
Floyd | substitution cipher.  Use this option to keep yourself from using too
Floyd | many hints.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Type "credits" for more information about the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |
Floyd | Ahhhhh.  Pod sweet pod!  Sure feels good to be back in the ol'
Floyd | closet-sized capsule again, yes sir.  While slaving away on your
Floyd | master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself

Floyd |
Floyd | Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd | On your desk is your EV, and next to that sits the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Or at least you *assume* it's there; you can't
Floyd | really see it.  It's buried under the pile of books that just crashed
Floyd | down in front of you as you hit your head on the shelf above upon
Floyd | reading more of the awful truth about the Unnkulians.  Still rubbing
Floyd | the bruise on your topknot, you pick up all the books and put them
Floyd | back in order.
Floyd |
Floyd | The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.
Floyd | Right now you see the video for "I Want a Girl with Green Hair and
Floyd | Horns," by Timon Sketch and the Hoi-Polloi.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A full ReVoLT Kola can is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    A pattern of bits shifts inside your computer.  New information
Floyd | scrolls up the screen.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It is not good.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As the impact of the discovery settles on your psyche, you recall
Floyd | the preceding events:  your recent enrollment at Akmi Yooniversity;
Floyd | your serendipitous discovery of the joys of Classical Literature -- a
Floyd | nice change of pace from computer hacking; your compuarchaeological
Floyd | discovery of the long-forgotten treasures that will make your thesis
Floyd | one of the most important this decade.  But now that's all a bit moot,
Floyd | isn't it?
Floyd |
Floyd |    How ironic:  You were stunned at how *real* the primitive Unnkulian
Floyd | stories seemed.  Now you know why.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend Lives!
Floyd | An Unnkulian Universe Unventure
Floyd | Opus 2, Version 1.1G for Great Underground Adventures CD
Floyd | Copyright (C) 1994, 1996 David M. Baggett
Floyd | All rights reserved.
Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System.
Floyd | WorldClass library version 1.3.5.
Floyd |
Floyd | Difficulty Rating (without hints):  Legendary (10 out of 10)
Floyd |
Floyd | Recommended for mature readers only.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    This game is free.  We encourage you to distribute it, but you may
Floyd | not charge any money for it beyond the cost of the media it is stored
Floyd | on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ADVENTIONS no longer supports this product.  Please do not contact
Floyd | us for hints or to buy games.  The best place to get our games is from
Floyd | the Interactive Fiction Archive on the Internet, site ftp.gmd.de.  The
Floyd | best place to ask for help with our games is the Usenet newsgroup
Floyd | rec.games.int-fiction.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    For instructions, type "instructions".
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |    Use the adaptive hint system by typing "hint".  To toggle hint
Floyd | encrypting, type "encrypt".  The encryption is a simple letter
Floyd | substitution cipher.  Use this option to keep yourself from using too
Floyd | many hints.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Type "credits" for more information about the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds of
Floyd | light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for them to
Floyd | put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts of the
Floyd | galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod is
Floyd | situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk is your EV, and next to that sits the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Or at least you *assume* it's there; you can't
Floyd | really see it.  It's buried under the pile of books that just crashed
Floyd | down in front of you as you hit your head on the shelf above upon
Floyd | reading more of the awful truth about the Unnkulians.  Still rubbing
Floyd | the bruise on your topknot, you pick up all the books and put them back
Floyd | in order.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.  Right
Floyd | now you see the video for "I Want a Girl with Green Hair and Horns," by
Floyd | Timon Sketch and the Hoi-Polloi.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A full ReVoLT Kola can is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "legend".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Most of the textbooks are uninteresting treatises on various aspects of
Floyd | computer science, physics, chemistry, and all the other boring stuff
Floyd | you've taken classes in over the past few years.  Also present,
Floyd | however, are the many tomes of literature you've become so interested
Floyd | in of late.  As you leaf through your first year physics textbook, you
Floyd | find your old color chart.  So that's where that thing was!  You pick
Floyd | it up and take it with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    Your desk is piled with papers and junk food containers.  What would
Floyd | your mother say?
Floyd |
Floyd |    A Zippikraft optical disk drive, your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer
Floyd | 1024/A, an Enterviewer (EV), and a Zippikraft detachable keyboard
Floyd | (attached to your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A) are on your desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Trying to look under your desk doesn't gain you anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Opened.  A qualitative calculator is in your desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    Your parents gave you this for your birthday last year.  It's just
Floyd | the sort of thing they'd be absolutely wrong about thinking you'd need.
Floyd | And indeed, you've found no use for it to date.  [3]
Floyd |
Floyd |    It has has 9 buttons:  ZERO, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, ADD, SUBTRACT,
Floyd | MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, Clear and deClear.  The readout currently shows [[ 0
Floyd | ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [3]: Respects to Walter Hamscher and Carl de Marcken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Your thesis research floppy disk slides into the Zippikraft optical
Floyd | disk drive with a solid click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    It's a Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A -- that's the technical
Floyd | term for "one fast machine."  Zippikraft makes the fastest computing
Floyd | hardware in the galaxy using technology no one else has been able to
Floyd | copy yet, despite several years of desperate (and creative) industrial
Floyd | espionage [4].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your Liquidizer is entirely lime green, the only color Zippikraft
Floyd | computers come in, with a built-in optical disk drive, detachable
Floyd | keyboard and high-resolution HoloScanning monitor.  You don't usually
Floyd | use the 3D video mode in your research since you deal mainly with text,
Floyd | but it's great for impressing guests and convincing your parents that
Floyd | the machine was really worth as much as the rest of your entire college
Floyd | education costs combined.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Liquidizers also come with built-in AkNet transceivers, allowing
Floyd | access to Akmi's galactic network, which now permeates almost all
Floyd | aspects of daily life, from electronic mail to shopping and funds
Floyd | transfers.  You use AkNet to access the many ancient literature
Floyd | archives in the galaxy, particularly those that might have lost works
Floyd | on the mythical Unnkulians.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Mythical...  or so it seemed.  Your Liquidizer's screen is still
Floyd | silently displaying the portentous words "the Unnkulians shall rule
Floyd | again!"
Floyd |
Floyd |    These words, you recall, explain the painful bruise on your head.
Floyd | And why you've got to do everything in your power to stop the virus the
Floyd | Unnkulians have unleashed upon AkNet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Who'd have thought you'd really find anything of value by searching
Floyd | random records in AkNet's database for "Unnkul," much less the code to
Floyd | a virus that's probably been wending its way through AkNet's bowels for
Floyd | years.  Only the Unnkulians' matchless arrogance and some divine force
Floyd | could have led you to this single black grain of sand in the immense
Floyd | digital beach that is AkNet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Yes, the Unnkulians' supreme arrogance -- an arrogance that's driven
Floyd | them to broadcast their secret declaration of war with the very
Floyd | instrument their success depends upon -- will (with any luck) prove to
Floyd | be their downfall again, as told so many times in the tales of the
Floyd | ancient Valley King Era battles with these thoroughly evil creatures;
Floyd | legends that you've nearly come to memorize through thousands of
Floyd | readings.
Floyd |
Floyd |    But how to stop the virus?  How can you halt the relentless progress
Floyd | of this robotic self-propagating piece of Unnkulian handiwork, their
Floyd | will and psyche and utter evilness distilled into crisp, razor-sharp
Floyd | digital efficiency?
Floyd |
Floyd |    And what if, as in "Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme,"
Floyd | your most recent compuarchaeological find (and one of only two known
Floyd | examples of Unnkulian literature from the 5th VK Era, both of which are
Floyd | computer-driven interactive literature, and both of which only you will
Floyd | know about until your thesis is published), Akmi is involved?
Floyd | Contacting the main AkNet headquarters might be the worst possible
Floyd | tactic; if Akmi is allied with the Unnkulians again, your spouting off
Floyd | about the virus would be disastrous, and probably fatal.
Floyd |
Floyd |    And what have the Unnkulians been doing all these years?  Where are
Floyd | they now?  And did the world simply forget about them between 2nd VK
Floyd | Era and 5th VK Era [5], or did the Unnkulians destroy every reference
Floyd | to themselves they could find on AkNet in an attempt to rewrite
Floyd | history?
Floyd |
Floyd |    So many questions.  So little time.  And the consequences of failure
Floyd | are great indeed.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Unfortunately, your computer seems to have locked up.  Cycling the
Floyd | power has no effect.  You notice the unfamiliar text
Floyd | "hq.orange.akmi.aknet:  remote access = excomm" at the bottom of the
Floyd | screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | On what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in your true love Ada's pod.  It's quite similar to your
Floyd | own, but isn't nearly as messy.  Ada seems to have gone off and left
Floyd | saving the galaxy to you alone [6].
Floyd |
Floyd |    On the EV, Progressive 52109 is playing the music video for
Floyd | "Tentacled Tyrant," by Going Too Kuwl.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A handwritten note and a paperback book are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | handwritten note:  Taken.
Floyd | paperback book:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd |    Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune seeds
Floyd | from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how Grandma is
Floyd | about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8549.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4392.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8392.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Fruit MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Barfee Fruit MegaStore is not quite as crowded as the rest of
Floyd | the outlet, but than again that's not saying much.  Fortunately walking
Floyd | around is easy here, and you can actually breathe, which is a definite
Floyd | plus.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You find a friendly-looking salesperson standing in front of a large
Floyd | bin and approach him.  From the looks of it, he's a Hoppian.  (The big
Floyd | floppy ears give it away.)  The bin is filled with fruit seed packets.
Floyd | Seed Central is north of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Is there something I might be able to help you with today?"  the
Floyd | Hoppian inquires, chuckling quietly but in an officious way that makes
Floyd | you feel kind of like you're in a classy jewelery store with nothing
Floyd | but 50% off coupons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which seeds do you mean, the packet of blackberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | blueberry seeds, the packet of boysenberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | elderberry seeds, the packet of Hoppian gooseberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | jostaberry seeds, the packet of kiwi seeds, the packet of Floran
Floyd | gowperfruit seeds, the packet of raspberry seeds, the packet of Grandpa
Floyd | Jones apple seeds, the packet of apricot seeds, the packet of Tellian
Floyd | cherry seeds, the packet of peach seeds, the packet of pear seeds, the
Floyd | packet of Todian plum seeds, the packet of persimmon seeds, or the
Floyd | packet of Akmi Dam Joosee Froot seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Please specify who you want to pay for the packet of Todian plum seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sensing your apparent awkwardness, the Hoppian behind the bin asks
Floyd | if you're a newcomer to the seed industry.  You reply that your
Floyd | girlfriend sent you to pick something up for her.  He gives you a look
Floyd | that seems to say, "Ah yes, of course.  That explains it.  Poor sap."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The Hoppian smiles broadly as he takes the Galacticard.  "Credit;" he
Floyd | chimes, "very well, Sir," and disappears into the throng for a moment.
Floyd | He returns with an expression that seems to indicate that he's just
Floyd | gotten a whiff of something very unpleasant, and informs you that your
Floyd | card has been declined.  Gosh, I wonder what's happened to your credit
Floyd | rating?
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sunlight dances off the Hoppian's whiskers as he wiggles his nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Everyone has a Galacticard; it's essential for everything from checking
Floyd | out library books to buying a new house.  The shiny holographic stamp
Floyd | on the card not only prevents counterfeiting, but stores a few
Floyd | megabytes of data about you as well [8].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian salesman waits until he thinks you're not looking, then
Floyd | straightens his bowtie and pulls back his ears, which, to his
Floyd | consternation, plop right back down into their usual cockeyed
Floyd | configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The shiny holographic stamp on the card not only prevents
Floyd | counterfeiting, but stores a few megabytes of data about you as well
Floyd | [8].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian informs you that the Grandpa Jones apples are a new
Floyd | strain, genetically engineered by Barfee scientists only this year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    "I'm afraid I don't know terribly much about that, friend," the
Floyd | Hoppian salesman says apologetically.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sunlight dances off the Hoppian's whiskers as he wiggles his nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "himself".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which barfee do you mean, the packet of Foonian eggplant seeds, the
Floyd | packet of blackberry seeds, the packet of blueberry seeds, the packet
Floyd | of boysenberry seeds, the packet of elderberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | Hoppian gooseberry seeds, the packet of jostaberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | kiwi seeds, the packet of Floran gowperfruit seeds, the packet of
Floyd | raspberry seeds, the packet of Grandpa Jones apple seeds, the packet of
Floyd | apricot seeds, the packet of Tellian cherry seeds, the packet of peach
Floyd | seeds, the packet of pear seeds, the packet of Todian plum seeds, the
Floyd | packet of persimmon seeds, the packet of Akmi Dam Joosee Froot seeds,
Floyd | or the packet of prune seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    "I'm afraid I don't know terribly much about that, friend," the
Floyd | Hoppian salesman says apologetically.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "You'll notice, Sir, that we have quite a wide selection," the
Floyd | Hoppian says, gracefully running a paw over the rim of the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary Barfee fruit seed bin.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian sighs gently, looks in a random direction, and then down
Floyd | at a wristwatch strapped to his left paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Fruit MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Barfee Fruit MegaStore is not quite as crowded as the rest of
Floyd | the outlet, but than again that's not saying much.  Fortunately walking
Floyd | around is easy here, and you can actually breathe, which is a definite
Floyd | plus.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in front of the friendly Hoppian's bin.  The bin is
Floyd | filled with fruit seed packets.  Seed Central is north of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The tall and dapper Hoppian salesman tends to the bin in front of
Floyd | you.  He nods politely as you look at him.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian sighs gently, looks in a random direction, and then down
Floyd | at a wristwatch strapped to his left paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Trying to look under the Barfee fruit seed bin doesn't gain you
Floyd | anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian sighs gently, looks in a random direction, and then down
Floyd | at a wristwatch strapped to his left paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's looks like an expensive one.  That's all you can tell.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian informs you that the Grandpa Jones apples are a new
Floyd | strain, genetically engineered by Barfee scientists only this year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee Grandpa
Floyd | Jones apple seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs in
Floyd | feeds.  Visit the Barfee Outlet:  (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sunlight dances off the Hoppian's whiskers as he wiggles his nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Vegetable MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the Barfee Vegetable MegaStore, standing in front of a
Floyd | large bin filled with seed packets.  There are so many shoppers here
Floyd | that this is really the only place you can get to the goods -- it's
Floyd | that crowded.  Seed Central is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A matronly Foonian salescreature watches you expectantly from behind
Floyd | the bin.  She seems eager to engage you in conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    From her green skin and red and silver hair it's obvious she is a
Floyd | native of Foon, a farming planet in your home system of Val [9].  She's
Floyd | quite wide around the beam, but in a pleasant way that makes her seem
Floyd | to be perpetually chuckling.  At the moment you are her only customer;
Floyd | her stand is an island of bare space in the midst of a thick throng of
Floyd | creatures bearing in on all sides.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matronly saleswoman looks up from her seeds and eagerly
Floyd | implores, "Yee mest visit mau daghter, Senny, shu's quaute eh girl
Floyd | thawt wen.  If yee want her nember, jest awsk; yee look lauk eh faun
Floyd | ooneff bayu -- hawndsem awnd vury learnud Au'll but."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    From her green skin and red and silver hair it's obvious she is a
Floyd | native of Foon, a farming planet in your home system of Val [9].  She's
Floyd | quite wide around the beam, but in a pleasant way that makes her seem
Floyd | to be perpetually chuckling.  At the moment you are her only customer;
Floyd | her stand is an island of bare space in the midst of a thick throng of
Floyd | creatures bearing in on all sides.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Mau Kessawndreh wen eh contust jest thu ethur dowu," the hefty
Floyd | Foonian proclaims loudly, "fare graying theh larjust uggplawnt in all
Floyd | ev Feen.  Theh uggs ware this big araind awnd made en ahfeel towstu
Floyd | omlutte!"  She makes a gesture with her hands that suggests something
Floyd | about 8 inches across.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (the matronly old salescreature)
Floyd |    She hands you a scrap of paper.  "If yee wawnt tee knai ebait her,
Floyd | whau not pou her eh visit?  Jest yeese this nember awnd yee'll bu
Floyd | raught noor theh farm. Au'll lut her knai you're kemming!," the old
Floyd | woman says gleefully.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 2 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    "So, bayu," the saleswoman mentions, "if yee dayn't maund mu
Floyd | awsking, are yee frem Tade?  Au that Au keed tull frem yair
Floyd | mawnnerisms, thawt's al.  Yee maught oovun so yee look lauk wen ev theh
Floyd | Vawllu Kings -- fawnsu thet!  Dayn't seppase yair rulotud?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [9]: Foon has a reputation for being a bit -- how to put this?  --
Floyd | backwater.  Neither the advent of miraculous new technology nor the
Floyd | formation of the Republic has changed the Foonians' simple way of life
Floyd | one bit.  They provide much of the food for Tode, Tel, Hop, and Kuwl,
Floyd | however, and as such are appreciated in the Val system even though
Floyd | they're considered frighteningly rural by today's standards.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Cawn Au intrust yee in sem soods teedowu, mau bayu?"  the
Floyd | saleswoman asks eagerly, motioning broadly at the packages in the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which seeds do you mean, the packet of asparagus seeds, the packet of
Floyd | Todian bush bean seeds, the packet of Tellian pole bean seeds, the
Floyd | packet of soybean seeds, the packet of broccoli seeds, the packet of
Floyd | hawper sprouts seeds, the packet of cabbage seeds, the packet of Ten
Floyd | Foo seeds, the packet of cantaloupe seeds, the packet of carrot seeds,
Floyd | the packet of celery seeds, the packet of Tellian corn seeds, the
Floyd | packet of Hoppian black corn seeds, the packet of Foonian eggplant
Floyd | seeds, the packet of Todian eggplant seeds, the packet of tricolor corn
Floyd | seeds, the packet of cucumber seeds, the packet of endive seeds, the
Floyd | packet of Floran textured lettuce seeds, the packet of Alduvian pink
Floyd | lettuce seeds, the packet of Tellian lettuce seeds, the packet of onion
Floyd | seeds, the packet of pea seeds, the packet of peanut seeds, the packet
Floyd | of radish seeds, the packet of spinach seeds, the packet of strawberry
Floyd | seeds, the packet of yellow tomato seeds, the packet of blue tomato
Floyd | seeds, or the packet of watermelon seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (the matronly old salescreature)
Floyd |    "Thawt's a good stroun.  A good bau, Au tull yee," she proclaims
Floyd | enthusiastically.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau daghter Kessawndre's uggplawnt shu wen
Floyd | theh graying contust with?  Thue uggs were jest dropping aff thawt
Floyd | thing -- wu hawd ooneff uggs tee lawst eh menth!," the woman laughs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Written in barely-legible script is "Cassandra:  Elwood Farm (3921,
Floyd | 5840, 9278) (Just up road from mover.)"
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "accent".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "wink".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "eggplants".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which eggplant seeds do you mean, the packet of Foonian eggplant seeds,
Floyd | or the packet of Todian eggplant seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    "This big araind!"  she exclaims.  "What un euggplawnt thawt wez."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "uggplawnts".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    "Thawt's a good stroun.  A good bau, Au tull yee," she proclaims
Floyd | enthusiastically.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Mau Kessawndreh wen eh contust jest thu ethur dowu," the hefty
Floyd | Foonian proclaims loudly, "fare graying theh larjust uggplawnt in all
Floyd | ev Feen.  Theh uggs ware this big araind awnd made en ahfeel towstu
Floyd | omlutte!"  She makes a gesture with her hands that suggests something
Floyd | about 8 inches across.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You fight your way through the thick throng and, gasping for breath,
Floyd | arrive at the...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Flower Warehouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the entrance to the Barfee flower warehouse.
Floyd | You see Barfee employees giving away plastic daisies inside the
Floyd | warehouse -- perhaps that's why it's so crowded here.  The fact is that
Floyd | you couldn't fall down here if you tried -- you're crammed in like an
Floyd | olive in a bottle with all the rest of the would-be plastic daisy
Floyd | owners.  Actually getting inside the warehouse looks absolutely
Floyd | impossible.  Not only that, but you suspect that you'd be crushed to
Floyd | death even if you made it in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The warehouse itself is nondescript; it's just a big, long, gray
Floyd | building, about 100 feet tall.  Come to think of it, it looks a lot
Floyd | like a hangar; perhaps in days past it housed starships or
Floyd | intraplanetary craft [10].  You can't help wondering how flowers could
Floyd | possibly take up so much space.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only obvious way to travel is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "fall".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [10]: Barfee's main distribution center is located on the opposite side
Floyd | of planet Flora.  The outlet you're currently in is mainly for
Floyd | noncommercial buyers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    The warehouse itself is nondescript; it's just a big, long, gray
Floyd | building, about 100 feet tall.  Come to think of it, it looks a lot
Floyd | like a hangar; perhaps in days past it housed starships or
Floyd | intraplanetary craft [10].  You can't help wondering how flowers could
Floyd | possibly take up so much space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | They look like cheap plastic flowers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | No chance.  You can't even see into the warehouse, much less move into
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a faint mechanical hissing sound in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Distant craft is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a mechanical hissing sound coming from somewhere above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a steadily loudening hissing sound.  It seems to be coming
Floyd | from a dot-sized craft on the horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Garden Supply Depot
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing inside the supply depot, a small white building
Floyd | with buyers swarming all around inside it.  Though there's a lot of
Floyd | activity here, it's surely the least crowded section of the Barfee
Floyd | outlet.  Oddly enough, there don't seem to be many salescreatures
Floyd | around -- you can't get anyone's attention.  Fortunately there's a
Floyd | vending machine of some kind right in front of you.  The vending
Floyd | machine is about twice your height, emerald green, and cylindrical.  A
Floyd | giant red Barfee logo climbs up the machine in a wide spiral.  There is
Floyd | a slot for Galacticards in the side and a keypad next to the slot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    The vending machine is about twice your height, emerald green, and
Floyd | cylindrical.  A giant red Barfee logo climbs up the machine in a wide
Floyd | spiral.  There is a slot for Galacticards in the side and a keypad next
Floyd | to the slot.
Floyd |

Floyd | vending machine.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The machine looks a bit unstable.  I wouldn't get too close if I
Floyd | were you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You stick the card in the slot.  Seconds later the machine makes a loud
Floyd | buzzing sound and ejects your card.  You retrieve it from the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You boot the machine roundly, much to the astonishment of several
Floyd | onlookers.  The vending tower beings to wobble a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "tip".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Undeterred, you give the machine one more swift kick in the coin slot.
Floyd | It's really rocking back and forth now.  Nearby customers are starting
Floyd | to flee in terror.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which keypad do you mean, the vending machine keypad, or the autodialer
Floyd | keypad?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There's no reason to get huffy!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | In a dramatic display of poise, agility, and apparent insanity, you
Floyd | execute a flying sidekick into the Barfee vending machine, sending it
Floyd | and you hurtling to the ground with a tremendous crash.  The Barfee
Floyd | patron you nearly crushed to death looks a bit peeved, but other than
Floyd | that your spectacular theatrics seem to have gone largely unnoticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    It's lying on its side pitifully.  One of the compartments is
Floyd | smashed open.  A giant red Barfee logo slides across the machine in a
Floyd | wide spiral.
Floyd |

Floyd | Barfee vending machine.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You carefully reach into the now-open compartment and snatch the can of
Floyd | Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro [11].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [11]: Barfee does make their own plant growth enhancers, and Akmi's
Floyd | products are known to be quite inferior to Barfee's.  Perhaps this got
Floyd | into the vending machine by mistake.  On the other hand, it might the
Floyd | result of some unspoken agreement between Akmi and Barfee higher-ups.
Floyd | It's hard to say no to Akmi since they control half the galaxy's
Floyd | assets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro is bright orange, with mauve
Floyd | lettering.  Considering it's an Akmi product, the mauve if pretty
Floyd | subdued -- you can barely read it.  The label says, "Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro:  Por on a dahb and watch yur plantz gro layk nevur befor!
Floyd | Garanteed sayf by Akmi Resurch Labz.  Werks grate on petz to!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro is bright orange, with mauve
Floyd | lettering.  Considering it's an Akmi product, the mauve if pretty
Floyd | subdued -- you can barely read it.  The label says, "Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro:  Por on a dahb and watch yur plantz gro layk nevur befor!
Floyd | Garanteed sayf by Akmi Resurch Labz.  Werks grate on petz to!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's just the word "Barfee" in very stylized letters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Written in barely-legible script is "Cassandra:  Elwood Farm (3921,
Floyd | 5840, 9278) (Just up road from mover.)"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't turn the red Barfee logo to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't turn the Barfee vending machine to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 3921.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5840.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 9278.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You fight your way through the thick throng and, gasping for breath,
Floyd | arrive at the...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Flower Warehouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Flower Warehouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the entrance to the Barfee flower warehouse.
Floyd | You see Barfee employees giving away plastic daisies inside the
Floyd | warehouse -- perhaps that's why it's so crowded here.  The fact is that
Floyd | you couldn't fall down here if you tried -- you're crammed in like an
Floyd | olive in a bottle with all the rest of the would-be plastic daisy
Floyd | owners.  Actually getting inside the warehouse looks absolutely
Floyd | impossible.  Not only that, but you suspect that you'd be crushed to
Floyd | death even if you made it in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The warehouse itself is nondescript; it's just a big, long, gray
Floyd | building, about 100 feet tall.  Come to think of it, it looks a lot
Floyd | like a hangar; perhaps in days past it housed starships or
Floyd | intraplanetary craft [10].  You can't help wondering how flowers could
Floyd | possibly take up so much space.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only obvious way to travel is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Distant craft is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Distant craft is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's too small for you to make out any features.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a faint mechanical hissing sound in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Distant craft is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a mechanical hissing sound coming from somewhere above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's too small for you to make out any features.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a steadily loudening hissing sound.  It seems to be coming
Floyd | from a dot-sized craft on the horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's too small for you to make out any features.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A distant intraplanetary craft of some kind hurtles towards you,
Floyd | accompanied by a rushing sound reminiscent of the sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's a fairly small craft -- the sort you'd expect would be used for
Floyd | short distance transport missions.  It's completely black except for
Floyd | the bright green letters on the side that read "Barfee Advanced
Floyd | Research Foundation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    A small intraplanetary vehicle decelerates noticeably as it
Floyd | approaches the Barfee flower warehouse.  The violent sound dissipates
Floyd | as the craft slows.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's a fairly small craft -- the sort you'd expect would be used for
Floyd | short distance transport missions.  It's completely black except for
Floyd | the bright green letters on the side that read "Barfee Advanced
Floyd | Research Foundation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    A small intraplanetary vehicle hovers overhead as it attempts to
Floyd | negotiate a landing on top of the warehouse.  The jet black craft
Floyd | prominently features the words "Barfee Advanced Research Foundation" in
Floyd | large green letters on its side.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking more closely, you notice that two individuals roughly your
Floyd | size are guiding the ship in to a touchdown on the rooftop a hundred
Floyd | feet above.  They look like the second stringers, hardly confident of
Floyd | their guidance, and surely afraid of being crushed.  The fact that
Floyd | their vests are emblazoned with the word "Trainee" doesn't exactly fill
Floyd | you with confidence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The two initiates are waving their arms around frantically; this is
Floyd | made all the more obvious by the intergalactic orange sticks they're
Floyd | holding in their hands.  The pilot of the ship periodically pokes his
Floyd | head out the window and looks to the ground, perhaps hoping against
Floyd | hope that some more competent help will show up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You have a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a
Floyd | paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A small intraplanetary vehicle hovers overhead as it attempts to
Floyd | negotiate a landing on top of the warehouse.  The jet black craft
Floyd | prominently features the words "Barfee Advanced Research Foundation" in
Floyd | large green letters on its side.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking more closely, you notice that two individuals roughly your
Floyd | size are guiding the ship in to a touchdown on the rooftop a hundred
Floyd | feet above.  They look like the second stringers, hardly confident of
Floyd | their guidance, and surely afraid of being crushed.  The fact that
Floyd | their vests are emblazoned with the word "Trainee" doesn't exactly fill
Floyd | you with confidence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The two initiates are waving their arms around frantically; this is
Floyd | made all the more obvious by the intergalactic orange sticks they're
Floyd | holding in their hands.  The pilot of the ship periodically pokes his
Floyd | head out the window and looks to the ground, perhaps hoping against
Floyd | hope that some more competent help will show up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro is bright orange, with mauve
Floyd | lettering.  Considering it's an Akmi product, the mauve if pretty
Floyd | subdued -- you can barely read it.  The label says, "Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro:  Por on a dahb and watch yur plantz gro layk nevur befor!
Floyd | Garanteed sayf by Akmi Resurch Labz.  Werks grate on petz to!"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A small intraplanetary vehicle hovers overhead as it attempts to
Floyd | negotiate a landing on top of the warehouse.  The jet black craft
Floyd | prominently features the words "Barfee Advanced Research Foundation" in
Floyd | large green letters on its side.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking more closely, you notice that two individuals roughly your
Floyd | size are guiding the ship in to a touchdown on the rooftop a hundred
Floyd | feet above.  They look like the second stringers, hardly confident of
Floyd | their guidance, and surely afraid of being crushed.  The fact that
Floyd | their vests are emblazoned with the word "Trainee" doesn't exactly fill
Floyd | you with confidence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The two initiates are waving their arms around frantically; this is
Floyd | made all the more obvious by the intergalactic orange sticks they're
Floyd | holding in their hands.  The pilot of the ship periodically pokes his
Floyd | head out the window and looks to the ground, perhaps hoping against
Floyd | hope that some more competent help will show up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    You flail your hands frantically as the ship's pilot looks around
Floyd | for a safer landing spot.  He evidently mistakes the orange can in your
Floyd | hand for a landing guide, because he starts lowering the ship right
Floyd | towards you!  Hoping to look as official as possible, you solemnly
Floyd | direct the craft to a comfortable landing right outside the flower
Floyd | warehouse, much to the amazement of the nearby patrons, who scatter out
Floyd | of the way at the last minute to avoid being crushed.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    A skinny fellow in a white labcoat soon emerges from the ship and
Floyd | rushes over to you.  "Hornweiler, where in Val have you been?  We've
Floyd | been looking for you for weeks!  I suppose you think you can just go
Floyd | off on vacation and not come back for a month?  We had a Crog of a time
Floyd | getting those damn formulas of yours deciphered -- why don't you just
Floyd | use a computer like everyone else; no one but you can read your bird
Floyd | scratch!"  The researcher pauses for a moment, eyeing you with a chary,
Floyd | almost cold stare.  Perhaps he's not sure you're who he thinks you are.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Realizing what this could mean, you start to panic, babbling in the
Floyd | process: "Well actually, I, ah, well, that is to say, there's been a
Floyd | bit of a mis-"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I don't believe this," he snarls, turning to the pilot, who has
Floyd | joined the two of you outside the ship.  "Hornweiler's got a can of
Floyd | Akmi Wundur Gro!  What's the big idea, Hornweiler?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Well, I uh, I mean it's just a," you improvise badly.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Crog, Hornweiler, you were gonna put that in my prototype growth
Floyd | mix, weren't you?  You underhanded dirtbag!"  There is a tense silence.
Floyd | The pilot looks more than a bit puzzled.  You hold your breath, fearing
Floyd | that even the slightest twitch will set the bespectacled researcher
Floyd | off.  Suddenly, he erupts:  "I missed you, Hornweiler," he exclaims
Floyd | tearfully, hugging you hard and patting you on the back.  "The lab just
Floyd | hasn't been the same without you, you old huckster."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Don't blow it now, Gavin," you think to yourself.  "Well it sure
Floyd | feels good to be back, buddy," you say with as much feeling as you can
Floyd | muster.  "What's the latest news?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    He chortles.  "Now don't try to suck up by calling me by my first
Floyd | name.  You're still in deep with the boss, and there's nothing I can do
Floyd | about that," Buddy taunts, elbowing you.  "Better save it for 'Hakkar
Floyd | the Horrible.'"
Floyd |
Floyd |    You get the idea that Hakkar's the boss.
Floyd |
Floyd |    With your reunion (or, in your case, greeting) completed, you and
Floyd | Buddy chat about the lab and the latest research findings; you realize
Floyd | the irony of your prediction that you'd never use anything you learned
Floyd | in your botany class again.  The pilot reminds you that he has a
Floyd | schedule to keep and that you could catch up on old times just as well
Floyd | elsewhere.  Taking the hint, the two of you climb back in the small
Floyd | craft, which then taxies through the thick crowd of onlookers and
Floyd | around to the rear of the warehouse.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The back of the hangar-sized structure is blocked off; some cleverly
Floyd | positioned foliage prevents customers in the front from noticing either
Floyd | the high barbed-wire fence or the guard station you are waved through
Floyd | on the way to your eventual stopping point in front of a giant metal
Floyd | door in the center of the rear wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Trying to look as natural as possible, you match Buddy's actions
Floyd | closely, paying rapt attention in case you're questioned later.  He
Floyd | places his hand on the keypad next to the door, and as he punches in
Floyd | the entrance code, you strain your eyes in an effort to burn every
Floyd | number into your already taxed neural network:  23, 46, 69, 812 ...  Oh
Floyd | no, you've missed the last number!  Hope you don't need it later...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Buddy leads the way through the door as the pilot bids the two of
Floyd | you farewell, grumbling to himself about being late for the next run.
Floyd | "I'll meet you in the lab after you check in with Hakkar," Buddy says
Floyd | gleefully.  "Have fun," he chuckles as he trots off ahead of you into
Floyd | the laboratory down the hall, sealing the door behind him.  At least he
Floyd | means well.
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | In 87 turns, you have earned 9 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 15 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You don't hear anything unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the button, the Clear button, the Clear
Floyd | button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE button, the
Floyd | ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or the DIVIDE
Floyd | button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | button:  It looks like an ordinary button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any mover button here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The light is currently red.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed; verification
Floyd | code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | This matter mover is a bit different from others you've seen -- it has
Floyd | a button and a light on it.  The light is currently red.
Floyd |
Floyd | The address plate on the machine reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    8549, 4392, 8393 -- colorspace Orchid
Floyd |    *** Leave in accepting mode only for open house day ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the button, the Clear button, the Clear
Floyd | button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE button, the
Floyd | ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or the DIVIDE
Floyd | button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | button:  Click.  The light changes color.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The light is currently green.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | This matter mover is a bit different from others you've seen -- it has
Floyd | a button and a light on it.  The light is currently green.
Floyd |
Floyd | The address plate on the machine reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    8549, 4392, 8393 -- colorspace Orchid
Floyd |    *** Leave in accepting mode only for open house day ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any red t 8549 here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8549.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4392.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8393.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed; verification
Floyd | code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "autotyper".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You carefully peer into the office to your right; you think it's
Floyd | probably a good idea to check things out instead of just blindly
Floyd | traipsing in.  Good thing, too, because your caution affords you the
Floyd | opportunity to snap your head back before Hakkar sees you; he's quite
Floyd | preoccupied with thoroughly chastising an employee, and from the tone
Floyd | of his voice he definitely seems like someone to avoid.  You have,
Floyd | after all, been absent from work for over a month.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Hakkar is currently shouting obscenities at the top of his lungs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "vault".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "xits".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "exits".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You'll have to open the research lab door first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You need to use the keypad to open the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The door is solid metal and quite indestructible.  The only way to get
Floyd | it open seems to be to punch in the correct passcode on the keypad to
Floyd | the right.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (on the door keypad)
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.  Perhaps you should reset the keypad and try
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You press the reset button and then type in the four numbers you
Floyd | remember seeing Buddy type:  23, 46, 69, 812.  Now if you could only
Floyd | remember the last number...  Hmmm.  Your instincts tell you there's a
Floyd | pattern [12].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [12]: When you know the number, type it on the keypad; e.g.  "type 1776
Floyd | on door keypad".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which keypad do you mean, the autodialer keypad, or the door keypad?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The door silently slides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta is on the
Floyd | large marble lab table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's a nondescript themos with potent-smelling liquid in it.  A label
Floyd | on the can says, "Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's just a big plaid box made of some synthetic cheese product that
Floyd | you can put things in.  It has four oversized dials and a large red
Floyd | button on the front.  Large letters on the machine read
Floyd | "Transmogrifyer".  There is a sign on the machine that says, "Out of
Floyd | order".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (trying to take the Akmi Transmogrifyer first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't take the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | magenta dial:  The magenta dial can be turned to settings numbered from
Floyd | 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | salmon dial:  The salmon dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | mauve dial:  The mauve dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | orange dial:  The orange dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The researchers are all hard at work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 7.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the transmogrifier button, the Clear button,
Floyd | the Clear button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE
Floyd | button, the ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or
Floyd | the DIVIDE button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A spray can is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Which can do you mean, the spray can, or the full ReVoLT Kola can?
Floyd |
Floyd | >