Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
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Floyd | You wake and see blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's blood everywhere. So much blood, that at first you don't
Floyd | realise there's a figure behind the blood. It's alive, just; there's a
Floyd | face, twisted with pain, and more blood that bubbles from its mouth as
Floyd | it breathes, and a hand that spasms as it tries to paw at the thing
Floyd | projecting from where a chest should be. The eyes gaze into yours.
Floyd | There is still life and desperation there, but it it knows that it is
Floyd | quickly running out.
Floyd |
Floyd | You want to help. You reach out --- and that is when you realise that
Floyd | you are looking into the inside of the reflective cockpit canopy, and
Floyd | that the face you can see is yours.
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Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

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Floyd | Changes
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by David Given
Floyd | Release 8 / Serial number 120930 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N) S
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something's different.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cocoon
Floyd | You are immersed in a warm, comforting heap of something soft. It
Floyd | envelops you like an old blanket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's not dissimilar to cotton wool, although feels both more fibrous
Floyd | and less clinging.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You fight your way free of the cottony stuff. Dim light blinds you for
Floyd | a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the soft
Floyd | green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays angle
Floyd | down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light, and
Floyd | reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air seems
Floyd | permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb out of the pile of fluff to find it's heaped on a low, leafy
Floyd | dais. As you step off, the dais silently folds closed behind you to
Floyd | become one of the cocoons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | On closer inspection, the cocoons are actually growing out of the
Floyd | trees. They're hard balls of veiny green leaves of all different sizes,
Floyd | from half a metre to several metres in diameter. You're not sure which
Floyd | one you climbed out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | On closer inspection, the cocoons are actually growing out of the
Floyd | trees. They're hard balls of veiny green leaves of all different sizes,
Floyd | from half a metre to several metres in diameter. You're not sure which
Floyd | one you climbed out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (the closed cocoons)
Floyd | They open and close by themselves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You aren't carrying anything.
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Floyd | >

Floyd | Changes is a game by David Given. This is the IFComp 2012 edition.
Floyd |
Floyd | If you're new to interactive fiction, I would strongly suggest visiting
Floyd | a website such as [LINK], which will explain what it's
Floyd | all about and what the commands are.
Floyd |
Floyd | As basic advice for playing Changes: the game can be completed using
Floyd | simple verb-noun commands. If you find yourself trying to do things
Floyd | with other things, or putting stuff on top of other stuff, you may want
Floyd | to try reconsidering your approach.
Floyd |
Floyd | This game is polite by the Zarfian Cruelty Scale. There are occasions
Floyd | when the game can become uncompletable but it's totally obvious when
Floyd | this has happened.
Floyd |
Floyd | If you have any comments or feedback or cakes, please send them to
Floyd | dg@cowlark.com.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You walk over to the water and study your reflection. The river is wide
Floyd | and dark, and in the dim light makes an almost perfect mirror.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rather than the face you were expecting --- a battered one, but human
Floyd | --- you instead see a furry snout with bulbous eyes on each side and a
Floyd | wide mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You recognise it from the survey report: the temporary name tagged on
Floyd | the creature is rabbit, for fairly obvious reasons. Numbly, you find
Floyd | yourself interested that you're finally seeing one up close.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's definitely you. Now you're actually noticing, it's perfectly
Floyd | apparent that the body you're inhabiting is not your own. The fact that
Floyd | it feels totally natural is strangely unnerving.
Floyd |
Floyd | But that still doesn't explain how, or why, although you can make a
Floyd | decent guess at where.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Your gaze slowly follows the tree trunks up to the canopy far overhead.
Floyd | It's an awesome sight. You've never seen anything this big that was
Floyd | alive before. At least, not in person. You recognise it from the
Floyd | Concerto's survey photographs: it's a Mother Tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Mother Tree is, according to the Concerto, a commensal plant which
Floyd | is semi-symbiotic on the surrounding wildlife. Actually getting more
Floyd | details was like pulling hen's teeth; the ship wouldn't answer
Floyd | questions about them, and the survey department seemed to be almost
Floyd | frightened. Eventually you managed to push enough alcohol down Francis
Floyd | so that he muttered something about taking life with one hand and
Floyd | giving it back with the other before he clammed up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The river is wide and dark, and in the dim light makes an almost
Floyd | perfect mirror.
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, still a rabbit. You stare in horrified fascination for a few
Floyd | moments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The canopy is so dense that it's almost like wicker, and is completely
Floyd | impossible to push through. The only ways out seems to be the low
Floyd | arches to the north and south where the river passes through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Just as you're about to move, you see motion at the northern edge of
Floyd | the Mother Tree. In panic, you dive behind a tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | A shape emerges from the light of the river arch: one rabbit dragging
Floyd | another. The one that is doing the pulling is a bit bigger than you
Floyd | are, and marked in black and white. The one on the ground... is
Floyd | obviously dead, eyes staring, grey fur tattered and muddy. It's heavy
Floyd | and awkward and the black and white rabbit is having difficulty moving
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you watch, one of the green cocoons silently splits open and
Floyd | unfolds. The black and white rabbit glances in your direction and then
Floyd | continues dragging the corpse after it into the cocoon.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...the rabbit knows very little, but it knows this: its companion was
Floyd | once alive, and is now dead. And it wants it to be alive. This cannot
Floyd | happen, but there is a way they can be reunited, and the Mother Tree is
Floyd | kind. The rabbit is old and tired but it has enough strength to do
Floyd | this, and so it drags the rigid corpse to the Mother Tree. The strange
Floyd | zombie rabbit is watching it, but that is unimportant now. All there is
Floyd | left to do is wait.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...what just happened?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake and see blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's blood everywhere. So much blood, that at first you don't
Floyd | realise there's a figure behind the blood. It's alive, just; there's a
Floyd | face, twisted with pain, and more blood that bubbles from its mouth as
Floyd | it breathes, and a hand that spasms as it tries to paw at the thing
Floyd | projecting from where a chest should be. The eyes gaze into yours.
Floyd | There is still life and desperation there, but it it knows that it is
Floyd | quickly running out.
Floyd |
Floyd | You want to help. You reach out --- and that is when you realise that
Floyd | you are looking into the inside of the reflective cockpit canopy, and
Floyd | that the face you can see is yours.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

Floyd ]  Cocoon
Floyd |
Floyd | Changes
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by David Given
Floyd | Release 8 / Serial number 120930 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N) S
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something's different.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cocoon
Floyd | You are immersed in a warm, comforting heap of something soft. It
Floyd | envelops you like an old blanket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You fight your way free of the cottony stuff. Dim light blinds you for
Floyd | a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb out of the pile of fluff to find it's heaped on a low, leafy
Floyd | dais. As you step off, the dais silently folds closed behind you to
Floyd | become one of the cocoons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | No, you're not going anywhere just yet. Something's wrong.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You walk over to the water and study your reflection. The river is
Floyd | wide and dark, and in the dim light makes an almost perfect mirror.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rather than the face you were expecting --- a battered one, but human
Floyd | --- you instead see a furry snout with bulbous eyes on each side and a
Floyd | wide mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You recognise it from the survey report: the temporary name tagged on
Floyd | the creature is rabbit, for fairly obvious reasons. Numbly,
Floyd | you find yourself interested that you're finally seeing one up close.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's definitely you. Now you're actually noticing, it's
Floyd | perfectly apparent that the body you're inhabiting is not your own.
Floyd | The fact that it feels totally natural is strangely unnerving.
Floyd |
Floyd | But that still doesn't explain how, or why, although you can make a
Floyd | decent guess at where.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as you're about to move, you see motion at the northern edge of
Floyd | the Mother Tree. In panic, you dive behind a tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | A shape emerges from the light of the river arch: one rabbit dragging
Floyd | another. The one that is doing the pulling is a bit bigger than you
Floyd | are, and marked in black and white. The one on the ground... is
Floyd | obviously dead, eyes staring, grey fur tattered and muddy. It's heavy
Floyd | and awkward and the black and white rabbit is having difficulty moving
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you watch, one of the green cocoons silently splits open and
Floyd | unfolds. The black and white rabbit glances in your direction and then
Floyd | continues dragging the corpse after it into the cocoon.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...the rabbit knows very little, but it knows this: its companion
Floyd | was once alive, and is now dead. And it wants it to be alive. This
Floyd | cannot happen, but there is a way they can be reunited, and the Mother
Floyd | Tree is kind. The rabbit is old and tired but it has enough strength
Floyd | to do this, and so it drags the rigid corpse to the Mother Tree. The
Floyd | strange zombie rabbit is watching it, but that is unimportant now. All
Floyd | there is left to do is wait.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...what just happened?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RABBIT
Floyd |
Floyd | The cocoon closes, as silently as it opened, about the two rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wide mouth, widely-spaced bulbous eyes, and folded frog-like hind
Floyd | legs made Francis want to call these creatures ribbits. To
Floyd | everyone's relief, the Concerto put its foot down and
Floyd | insisted that any names assigned now be strictly temporary: the
Floyd | exploitation team, if they ever landed on Elysia, would have the
Floyd | naming rights. And so for now, everyone's just calling them
Floyd | rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Knowing human nature, of course, they'll probably be rabbits from now
Floyd | until the end of time, and you find yourself wondering whether Francis
Floyd | did it on purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RABBIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COCOON
Floyd |
Floyd | (the closed cocoons)
Floyd | On closer inspection, the cocoons are actually growing out of the
Floyd | trees. They're hard balls of veiny green leaves of all different
Floyd | sizes, from half a metre to several metres in diameter. You're not
Floyd | sure which one you climbed out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOTHER TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | Your gaze slowly follows the tree trunks up to the canopy far
Floyd | overhead. It's an awesome sight. You've never seen anything this big
Floyd | that was alive before. At least, not in person. You recognise it from
Floyd | the Concerto's survey photographs: it's a Mother Tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Mother Tree is, according to the Concerto, a commensal
Floyd | plant which is semi-symbiotic on the surrounding wildlife. Actually
Floyd | getting more details was like pulling hen's teeth; the ship wouldn't
Floyd | answer questions about them, and the survey department seemed to be
Floyd | almost frightened. Eventually you managed to push enough alcohol down
Floyd | Francis so that he muttered something about taking life with one hand
Floyd | and giving it back with the other before he clammed up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight. Once your eyes have adjusted,
Floyd | you look up. Yes, this is Elysia. The Semiquaver at least
Floyd | managed to crash on the right planet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you were hurt pretty badly. Maybe the
Floyd | Concerto picked you up and this is some sort of recuperative
Floyd | virtuality? That would at least explain the whole... rabbit... thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Assuming for sanity's sake that this is real, the shuttle should be
Floyd | around here somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small group of deer-like animals, much larger than you are, is
Floyd | grazing here. One of them turns its head to look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The buck is completely secure in his world. He has few needs: his
Floyd | mates, enough to eat, safety. Here in the canyon the only thing he has
Floyd | to be at all wary of is that annoying little creature with the sharp
Floyd | teeth that is always hanging around; if it ever came close enough he
Floyd | could kill it with a single kick, but it always keeps its distance.
Floyd | There is a nagging itch at the back of his mind, however: somewhere in
Floyd | the canyon there is the smell of the Wonderful Plant. He just can't
Floyd | find it.
Floyd |
Floyd | There. It happened again. The deer stare into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something... very strange... starts to happen. You find yourself with
Floyd | this strong feeling of peacefulness, except you know it's not you
Floyd | feeling it; you can even sense the direction. You never felt anything
Floyd | like it before, but nevertheless, you can distinctly feel peacefulness
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | There are five of the creatures. One male, two females, and a couple
Floyd | of juveniles? It's very hard to tell, as they're all very similar
Floyd | apart from the size. They're smaller than you were expecting from the
Floyd | survey, barely the size of a large dog, but the blue-green fur is just
Floyd | as startling as you remember. They each have a single forward-curving
Floyd | horn that looks extremely sharp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vicious-looking brown and white creature trots up from the north.
Floyd | You see bright eyes and hunger. The survey report mentioned these.
Floyd | It's a...
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is hungry, but it is always hungry. A long time ago it was
Floyd | mauled by one of those horrible animals at the dam, and was unable to
Floyd | hunt and was starving; then it found a dead deer, and gorged itself on
Floyd | the half-rancid meat. It was the best thing it ever experienced, and
Floyd | for a few brief hours afterwards, it was replete. Now it follows the
Floyd | deer around endlessly. They are far too large for it to kill, but it
Floyd | lives in hope of another windfall. In the meantime it scavanges for
Floyd | insects and tiny furry things. And, of course, it's always on the
Floyd | lookout for a bigger meal.
Floyd |
Floyd | You blink, disoriented.
Floyd |
Floyd | It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, and you wonder what it would be like from the top; you
Floyd | can probably climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes
Floyd | impassably steep to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're suddenly face to face with a swarm of small furry creatures,
Floyd | scattered across the grass. For a moment you panic... and then you
Floyd | recognise them as other rabbits. Some of them look at you, but mostly
Floyd | they ignore you completely. You study them, fascinated. You never
Floyd | realised they came in so many different colours.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rabbit scratches itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rabbits, all in unison, suddenly look to the east for a moment.
Floyd | Then briskly but calmly they file into the burrows and are gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BURROWS
Floyd |
Floyd | There are rabbits sitting in the entrance of the burrows staring at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BURROW
Floyd |
Floyd | The burrow is blocked by a large rabbit. It stares at you calmly. It's
Floyd | quite unthreatening, but it's still not letting you in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that strange sensation again, of caution from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The river's in the way, and rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump and scrabble wildly with your powerful hind legs, eventually
Floyd | managing to haul yourself to the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that peculiar sensation again; there is a new feeling of
Floyd | annoyance from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A long spear of stone, projecting from the ground at an angle. Little
Floyd | wiry plants are rooted in the cracks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox snaps at a flea.
Floyd |
Floyd | You suddenly notice the feeling of annoyance changing to irritation
Floyd | from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox looks even less like a fox than the rabbits looked like
Floyd | rabbits. It's more cat-like than dog-like, with a mottled brown and
Floyd | white coat and long, lynx-like ears; but the tail is bushy and it's a
Floyd | carnivore, so the name stuck.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump down from the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense the feeling of irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger
Floyd | from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | A half-dozen or so humped, stocky creatures are bustling about,
Floyd | working on the dam: Elysian beavers. They bustle about, working on the
Floyd | dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | They're brown and trout-like, but on closer inspection the fins are
Floyd | all wrong and the tail is bifurcated. You think that Elysia could have
Floyd | some very plausible mermaid myths.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beaver pulls something out of the dam, and the other beavers start
Floyd | barking in panic at it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BEAVERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Unlike the other Earth namesakes in the canyon, the beavers here look
Floyd | absolutely nothing like the Earth kind. They're small and
Floyd | stocky, with a bulldog neck and serrated tusks that stick out sideways
Floyd | from their mouths which they use to saw through trees. They don't have
Floyd | big teeth, they don't gnaw and they certainly don't have the trademark
Floyd | tail. The dam they're building isn't much good, either.
Floyd |
Floyd | You did ask Francis about them, you remember: he was the primary
Floyd | author of the survey report. He just shrugged. "They had a dam, and we
Floyd | ran out of imagination," he said.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two beavers seem to be arguing over where to place a forked branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The dam is a big embankment of logs. Unlike dams built by Earth
Floyd | beavers, they haven't sealed it with mud, and the water is pouring
Floyd | through in numerous places. This doesn't seem to affect the water
Floyd | level in the lake, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers darts in to nip one of the deer's legs, but a
Floyd | flourish of the deer's horn sends it running.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, a black animal is playing on the
Floyd | edge of the water. It never seems to stay still and it takes you a few
Floyd | moments to identify it as an Elysian otter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOSTILITY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FEEL HOSTILITY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the smaller deer lips the grass in a dissatisfied manner.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HUNGER
Floyd |
Floyd | All you can tell is that it's coming from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers rests for a moment on top of the dam, enjoying the
Floyd | sun.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HUNGER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IRRIATION
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | Unlike the animals, this plant defies neat categorisation into the
Floyd | Earth ecosystem. A great froth of slightly furry parsley-like leaves
Floyd | shields long, razor sharp thorns underneath. It smells intensely of...
Floyd | something. Mint crossed with vanilla? It's very strong and not very
Floyd | appetising.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IRRITATION
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pair of shining eyes stares at you from out of the thorny bush.
Floyd | After a few seconds, the shape of a vaguely anthropoid creature
Floyd | resolves around them. Ah, yes, you remember this: it's a lemur. You
Floyd | have just enough warning to brace yourself before...
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur stares at the strange rabbit with a distant curiosity.
Floyd | Its mind is unfocused, blurred by the psychedelic drug in the leaves
Floyd | it loves so much. It knows that the rabbit is unusual, but it doesn't
Floyd | care. It doesn't care much about anything except the leaves. It just
Floyd | sits and watches the world, and occasionally, when the colours focus
Floyd | for a moment, interacts with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | That was... unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur seems to find something very interesting under one armpit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEMUR
Floyd |
Floyd | There must be something about Earth-like planets. In shape the Elysian
Floyd | lemur is a startlingly similar creature to the ones in the
Floyd | Concerto's garden, with long spindly arms and legs and
Floyd | delicate fingers. The green and brown mottled fur is different,
Floyd | though.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lower Slopes
Floyd | Nestled in the south-east corner of the canyon, the terrain here
Floyd | sweeps up from the river to a low pass through the canyon wall to the
Floyd | east. Through the dense trees you can just make out the green dome of
Floyd | the Mother Tree far below to the south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOTHER TREE
Floyd |

Floyd | From here you can see the way the Mother Tree completely blocks the
Floyd | throat of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Eastern Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Desert
Floyd | The pass in the canyon wall, now behind you to the west, leads out
Floyd | into open desert. Barren sand stretches off in all directions to the
Floyd | flat horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | A track seems to have been scraped in the sand, heading south. There's
Floyd | something large and metallic in the distance that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd | The desert abruptly drops away on two sides here: to the west you can
Floyd | see the green dome of the Mother Tree a few hundred metres below, and
Floyd | to the south the incomparably vaster drop down to the sea of clouds
Floyd | below. The cliff continues east as far as the eye can see.
Floyd |
Floyd | Of considerably more interest, however, is the wreckage of the
Floyd | Semiquaver.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shuttle's main hatch is tightly closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHUTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Looking at the smashed shuttle, you find yourself utterly astonished
Floyd | that it made it down in one piece. Most of the engine module is simply
Floyd | missing, the hull truncated half-way along in a jumble of twisted
Floyd | wreckage. The shuttle hit the ground to the north of here, and skidded
Floyd | south, stopping just in time --- you can see the burnt out shield
Floyd | projectors where the Semiquaver tried to dig into the sand in
Floyd | a desperate attempt to stop itself. It worked, too: only a few metres
Floyd | more and the Semiquaver would have gone over the edge of the
Floyd | cliff and fallen down to the lowlands. The nose actually overhangs the
Floyd | edge.
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks completely dead. You hope the Semiquaver's simple
Floyd | mind survived. You want to buy it a drink and tell it what a good job
Floyd | it did.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The Semiquaver's main hatch is on the starboard side, now
Floyd | facing west. It's not locked, per se, but in order to prevent
Floyd | accidents it will only open if you enter an access code on a little
Floyd | panel. (The code is written underneath.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ CODE
Floyd |
Floyd | A little nine-digit keypad is next to the door. The access code is
Floyd | written underneath. (It's 314159, of course.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | A little nine-digit keypad is next to the door. The access code is
Floyd | written underneath. (It's 314159, of course.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS 3
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CODE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > TYPE 314159 ON KEYPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | The buttons are designed to be pushed by fingers, which rabbits lack.
Floyd | Plus, it's too high to reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP ON KEYPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | That would be suicide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK SHUTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That wouldn't achieve much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the western cliff or the southern cliff?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH WRECKAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > SOUTHERN CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLUFF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the western cliff or the southern cliff?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOUTHER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOUTHERN CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | The edge of the cliff under the nose of the shuttle is fractured and
Floyd | crumbly, and you're not willing to go close enough to look down. You
Floyd | know what you'll see, though: several thousand metres of empty air and
Floyd | then the opaque cloud that covers the lowlands. The only way to get
Floyd | down there is at terminal velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WESTERN CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | You sidle close to the edge and try to peer over. The drop sucks at
Floyd | you and you can feel your paws sweating. You get a climpse of the
Floyd | green dome of the Mother Tree far below before backing away with great
Floyd | relief.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The edge of the plateau goes on as far as you can see, and there is
Floyd | absolutely nothing of interest you can see out there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEBRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember a flash not long after leaving the Concerto; the
Floyd | Semiquaver said "Oh, no," and then something stabbed you in
Floyd | the back. Everything after that was a vivid but incoherent memory of
Floyd | pain, noise, blood spattering everywhere, and the sight of Elysia
Floyd | wheeling through the cockpit canopy while the Semiquaver
Floyd | quietly gibbered. You don't like to think about it --- it makes your
Floyd | fur stand on end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > RUB SHUTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Eastern Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Desert
Floyd | The pass in the canyon wall, now behind you to the west, leads out
Floyd | into open desert. Barren sand stretches off in all directions to the
Floyd | flat horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | A track seems to have been scraped in the sand, heading south. There's
Floyd | something large and metallic in the distance that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lower Slopes
Floyd | Nestled in the south-east corner of the canyon, the terrain here
Floyd | sweeps up from the river to a low pass through the canyon wall to the
Floyd | east. Through the dense trees you can just make out the green dome of
Floyd | the Mother Tree far below to the south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | The water is reddish and probably full of minerals.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | Not when you're carrying the bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | You carefully put down the bundle of aromatic leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a loud rustling of leaves as the lemur swings up from the
Floyd | north, runs down a tree and dives into the spiky bush.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense peacefulness fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | The water tastes just the way it looks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur languidly picks up a some small insect of some kind, stares
Floyd | at it for a while, and then pulls the legs off before throwing it
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the bundle of aromatic leaves, the trees or the
Floyd | aromatic bush?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > THE BUNDLE OF AROMATIC LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | In the absence of any other options, you pick up the bundle of
Floyd | aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur just stares into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > X INSECT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVES LEAVES TO LEMUR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE LEAVES TO LEMUR
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves to the lemur)
Floyd | The lemur doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur licks itself contemplatively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > LEMUR, HELLO
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no way you, or anyone else, can reach the lemur while it's
Floyd | inside those thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BUSHES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur starts carefully pulling leaves off a twig and popping them
Floyd | into its mouth, one by one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > FEED LEAF TO LEMUR
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves to the lemur)
Floyd | The lemur doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNDERGROWTH
Floyd |
Floyd | The ferns look just like the Earth equivalent. The other plants don't.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CONCENTRATION
Floyd |
Floyd | All you can tell is that it's coming from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PEACEFULNESS
Floyd |
Floyd | All you can tell is that it's coming from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. The deer seem to find you
Floyd | utterly fascinating to an extent that makes you quite nervous.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, a black animal is playing on the
Floyd | edge of the water. It never seems to stay still and it takes you a few
Floyd | moments to identify it as an Elysian otter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north, and concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW LEAVES TO DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves to the deer)
Floyd | The deer is unimpressed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE LEAVES TO DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves to the deer)
Floyd | The deer doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and hostility and irritation
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Water's pouring into it, but there doesn't seem to be any exit.
Floyd | There's a narrow ledge leading round it to the north, but if you fell
Floyd | in, the sides are far too steep to climb out of and you're pretty sure
Floyd | that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox chases you from the south onto the ledge --- which abruptly
Floyd | gives way underneath you. You, the fox, and what seems like several
Floyd | tonnes of rock drop into the water in a shocking plunge that stuns you
Floyd | for a few moments.
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | From down here the sides of the pool are steeper and even less
Floyd | climbable than they were from above --- this is less of a pool and
Floyd | more of a well, and you are at the bottom of it. One of the many
Floyd | waterfalls crashes into the dark water near where you are and vortices
Floyd | in the water buffet you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | The sides of the pool and sheer. There's no way out that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The survey report said that rabbits can't swim. You paddle furiously
Floyd | nevertheless in the hope that you remembered incorrectly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is mindlessly flailing at the water in panic, trying to stay
Floyd | afloat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | You're doing the best you can already!
Floyd |
Floyd | You keep paddling, but your strength is beginning to give out.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is clawing at the sides of the pit, trying to climb out. A few
Floyd | rocks come down but it can't get any purchase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB ON FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | The sides of the pool and sheer. There's no way out that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're having trouble keeping your head above the surface...
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is exhausted and can't keep its head above the water any more.
Floyd | Some bubbles come up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | (first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | I don't suppose the fox would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | You're a rabbit. About the only thing you're capable of hurting are
Floyd | leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > HOLD FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | (first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | I don't suppose the fox would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > RIDE FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WATERFALL
Floyd |
Floyd | The dark water makes the bottom invisible, but you know it's a long
Floyd | way down.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIVE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | The last thing you want to do is swim down --- you're doing all you
Floyd | can to stay afloat!
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIRDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't recall anything in the survey report about these.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | The tough, springy heather holds the stones in an immovable grip.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT GRAS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the first rules of exploring a strange planet is never to eat
Floyd | anything ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | That wouldn't achieve much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | You quite like the grass where it is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIRDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't recall anything in the survey report about these.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks a long way down from here and rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With some relief, you crawl back along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Water's pouring into it, but there doesn't seem to be any exit.
Floyd | There's a narrow ledge leading round it to the north, but if you fell
Floyd | in, the sides are far too steep to climb out of and you're pretty sure
Floyd | that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and annoyance from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | They're old and bleached the sun, and look well-gnawed. There's quite
Floyd | a lot of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not quite desperate enough to use your mouth to pick up things
Floyd | that have been chewed and spat out by something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > MOVE BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't have enough weight and traction to do that. You'll have pick
Floyd | it up and drag it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the north and hunger fading
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the west. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > PICK UP BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not quite desperate enough to use your mouth to pick up things
Floyd | that have been chewed and spat out by something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and concentration from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense concentration changing to hostility and a new feeling of
Floyd | irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and excitement and hostility
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With some relief, you crawl back along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north, and concentration from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer leans over and sniffs you. It looks very big.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > SNIFF DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | All you can smell is that plant.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense concentration changing to hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the south with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With some relief, you crawl back along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIG
Floyd |
Floyd | You scuff the soil a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

Floyd | %% Critical error.
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Floyd ]  Beach
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Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
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Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > CF17
Floyd |
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
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Floyd | command?
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
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Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves, you jump and scrabble wildly
Floyd | with your powerful hind legs, eventually managing to haul yourself to
Floyd | the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox grubs around under something for insects.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIG BURROW
Floyd |
Floyd | You go to work with your front paws and quickly clear the loose sand
Floyd | out of the burrow. It's surprisingly satisfying work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BURROW
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Burrow
Floyd | The burrow is cool and dark, and the sandy soil smells pleasantly
Floyd | spicy. Emotionally, you feel totally secure here. Intellectually, you
Floyd | know that the unstable walls could collapse on you, and probably kill
Floyd | you, at any time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, and you wonder what it would be like from the top; you
Floyd | can probably climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes
Floyd | impassably steep to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the rabbits is asleep on its back, legs waving in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Western Desert
Floyd | You were wrong: the view is terrible from here. Outside the canyon
Floyd | there is just barren, sandy wasteland, with the occasional scrubby
Floyd | plant, stretching away in all directions. There are mountains on the
Floyd | horizon, but there's no way you could survive out here long enough to
Floyd | reach them. Down to the east the oasis of the canyon is mostly hidden
Floyd | behind the terrain. There is a rise to the south, near where the land
Floyd | stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Bluff
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Bluff
Floyd | A narrow finger of rock points out over the cliff. Unlike the desert,
Floyd | the view here is extraordinary: the lush green canyon falls away to
Floyd | the west, and the endless cloud ocean of the Elysian Lowlands fills
Floyd | the eastern horizon, thousands of metres below. Straight down you can
Floyd | see where the river falls away over the edge of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something large and metallic shines on the other side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Bluff
Floyd |
Floyd | > X METAL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's the sad wreck of the Semiquaver, looking abandoned and
Floyd | out of place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Western Desert
Floyd | You were wrong: the view is terrible from here. Outside the canyon
Floyd | there is just barren, sandy wasteland, with the occasional scrubby
Floyd | plant, stretching away in all directions. There are mountains on the
Floyd | horizon, but there's no way you could survive out here long enough to
Floyd | reach them. Down to the east the oasis of the canyon is mostly hidden
Floyd | behind the terrain. There is a rise to the south, near where the land
Floyd | stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Several rabbits seem to be watching you with suspicion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cocoon silently folds open. There's a moment's pause, and then a
Floyd | grey rabbit leaps out, streaks past you, and is gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cocoon closes again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd | Sheer rock walls tower above you to the east and west, and only
Floyd | slightly less impressive is the green wall of the Mother Tree to the
Floyd | north. But to the south the ground just stops, and the river pours
Floyd | endlessly into the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a glint of metal high up to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > X METAL
Floyd |
Floyd | The Semiquaver looks much less precarious from down here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You aren't carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north, and caution from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >