  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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pa #ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline hollers, "So, um, I'm throwing a party in the Toyshop and you all were invited but I'm the only one here. Well, me and Perry. I guess we'll play Christopher Huang's Sunday Afternoon by ourselves. [This message has been brought to you by PassiveAgressiveNotes.com]" | ||
| Zach arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | inky says, "ha ha" | |
| djfletch arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | djfletch says, "another victory for passive aggression" | |
| Bert arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Bert says, "Fine, fine." | Jacqueline says, "Yay" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. I was hoping Mis would be here. I guess he'll probably show up at some point." | ||
| Bert exclaims, "I'm here, but I'm promising you I don't plan to like it!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Fine, fine." | Jacqueline says, "So, I guess we should do this, then." | |
| maga arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask sundayafternoon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | July, 1892. Floyd | Floyd | Father is off to Oxford again, and Mother's gone with him. You know Floyd | what that means: another day in the care of Uncle Stephen, who is nice Floyd | but boring, and Aunt Emma, who means well but won't let you do Floyd | anything fun. Worst of all, it's a Sunday, which means you're sitting Floyd | very upright in Aunt Emma's parlour, in all your stiff-starched Sunday Floyd | best, trying to read Uncle Stephen's latest sermon about one of the Floyd | less-interesting parts of the Bible while Aunt Emma pretends that she Floyd | wouldn't rather be knitting and Uncle Stephen hides under a pile of Floyd | Hebrew and Latin and Greek in his study. Floyd | Floyd | Plus, it's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from Floyd | in here. It's just not fair. All the servants have the day off Floyd | because Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma don't believe in making people do Floyd | any real work on Sundays, and you can bet that they -- Janet and Floyd | Morris and Cookie, each of whom is loads more fun than Uncle Stephen Floyd | and Aunt Emma put together -- are probably not all cooped up indoors Floyd | in their Sunday best. Floyd | Floyd | If only there were some way you could escape.... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Type "HELP" for further information, instructions or hints) Floyd | Floyd | Sunday Afternoon Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Christopher Huang (originally writing as Floyd | "Virgil Hilts") Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 121213 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x victoria" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X VICTORIA Floyd | Floyd | Mother has a portrait just like this back home, hung in exactly the Floyd | same place over the parlour fireplace. Everybody you know has the Floyd | same. You reckon that anyone who doesn't must be a spy, a heretic, a Floyd | foreigner, or worse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Tangentially: what's 'sleepmask'?" | |
| maga says, "I wonder how one reads the Bible dutilessly" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Bert), "It's the thing that gives us html formatting and the status line." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a thing vimes created." | ||
| Bert says (to maga), "Someone who's just going over Song of Solomon." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x Bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma's had the same Bible for as long as you've known her. How Floyd | she manages to keep it from getting dog-eared, given how often she Floyd | reads it, you do not know. Aunt Emma has it open on her lap, and you Floyd | notice that she's using Janet's master key to mark her place. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "'going for the dirty bits' was my first thought, yes" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | The master key is usually carried by the servants, which seems a Floyd | little ironic. But then it's the servants who need to get into every Floyd | nook and cranny of the house, from attic to coal cellar; normal people Floyd | only need to get into the civilised living spaces. Since the servants Floyd | today are out, it's been handed over to Aunt Emma ... which still Floyd | seems a little ironic, since she's the mistress of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma is Uncle Stephen's sister, one of those maiden aunts who Floyd | always ends up chaperoning people around; which, as you understand it, Floyd | means it's her job to make sure people don't have any fun. You know Floyd | she means well, really, but she takes her job much too seriously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | The fireplace is cold this time of the year, just as it should be. Floyd | The mantel above is, as usual, burgeoning with a million little Floyd | ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantel" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANTEL Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs. Every time you Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | Among the many souvenirs of ancient history, you spot a duelling Floyd | pistol. That doesn't look like the sort of thing boring people like Floyd | Aunt Emma or Uncle Stephen (or, let's face it, anyone in your whole Floyd | family) are likely to keep around the house! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X PISTOL Floyd | Floyd | It's a little chipped and battered, which means that it's been used, Floyd | which is even more surprising because you really cannot picture Uncle Floyd | Stephen handling a pistol without sermonising about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about pistol" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT PISTOL Floyd | Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend. I don't normally hold with Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get Floyd | back to your reading, Hector." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about friend" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FRIEND Floyd | Floyd | "You are referring to a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Floyd | Emma, not looking at you. "He got a commission with the army and went Floyd | to India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector. I hope and Floyd | pray that you never have to see it." Well, perhaps, but it would be Floyd | really exciting.... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about war" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WAR Floyd | Floyd | "That," says Aunt Emma firmly, "is thankfully something about which I Floyd | know absolutely nothing." Floyd | Floyd | Your family is so boring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about india" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT INDIA Floyd | Floyd | "I much prefer to stay in England, thank you very much. Strange lands Floyd | like India are for wanderers with more courage than sense." Aunt Emma Floyd | pauses. "Well, courage ... it's a very fine thing, I suppose...." Floyd | Floyd | You're sure you hear Aunt Emma say something about "dear old Captain Floyd | Davis..." as she turns back to her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about davis" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAVIS Floyd | Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma, Floyd | not looking at you. "He got a commission with the army and went to Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector. I hope and pray Floyd | that you never have to see it." Well, perhaps, but it would be really Floyd | exciting.... Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "(Am I overcontrolling?)" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(No, it's fine. Please keep doing it.)" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x armchair" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ARMCHAIR Floyd | Floyd | Give Aunt Emma due credit: she did make sure you always got the most Floyd | comfortable armchair in the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You've been thoroughly scrubbed and ironed and starched into your Floyd | least comfortable set of clothes. One day, when you are either Prime Floyd | Minister or Archbishop of Canterbury -- depending on whether you Floyd | listen to Mother or Father -- you're going to outlaw starch or declare Floyd | it anathema or both. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant spires Floyd | of the cathedral. The sun is shining and you know that the woods are Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I guess I see what maga means about knowing nearly immediately that this was a Miseri game." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x cathedral" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CATHEDRAL Floyd | Floyd | Barchester Cathedral is just visible beyond the woods. You can't make Floyd | out the details, but you know it's all very grand and impressive, at Floyd | least to someone who isn't made to go there quite as regularly as you Floyd | are. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Heh. Indeed." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUN Floyd | Floyd | Why are you still indoors? Why? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x woods" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WOODS Floyd | Floyd | The woods look incredibly enticing this time of the year. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Uncle Stephen's latest sermon Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SERMON Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have picked 1 Chronicles 6:1-15 as the topic of Floyd | his sermon. Oh dear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | Believe it or not, the part where Uncle Stephen expounds upon the Floyd | chosen passage is even less interesting than the passage itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERMON Floyd | Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me, Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermon to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW SERMON TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you. Her rather confused and Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky | [LINK] | |
| Bert says, "Oh, man. I was thinking to myself 'at least it's not the begats', and then I looked it up." | ||
| Zach says, "heh" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about levi" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LEVI Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sermon on mantel" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SERMON ON MANTEL Floyd | Floyd | There's no room. There's never any room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Also, Uncle Stephen would tan Floyd | your hide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "swear" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SWEAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Emma where baby Bible characters come from" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA WHERE BABY BIBLE CHARACTERS COME FROM Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "go find a nice girl and do some begetting" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GO FIND A NICE GIRL AND DO SOME BEGETTING Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "give sermon to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE SERMON TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | You show Uncle Stephen's latest sermon to Aunt Emma. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you. Her rather confused and Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask emma about key" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "Someone has to take care of supper while the servants are away, Floyd | Hector." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Convenient that it's a master key." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | The portrait is out of reach. Besides, that would probably be Floyd | lèse-majesté, which you just learned about last Spring in Floyd | your French lessons. You would never want to visit a French crime on Floyd | your English queen. That would be wrong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET KEY Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be Floyd | the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for key" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR KEY Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here. Floyd | Floyd | Something among the ornaments on the mantel catches the light, and Floyd | gleams momentarily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get pistol" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PISTOL Floyd | Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head. You're too young to die. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your Floyd | place. Or keeps you there, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your Floyd | place. Or keeps you there, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about three-headed monkey" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT THREE-HEADED MONKEY Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about uncle" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT UNCLE Floyd | Floyd | "Your uncle is a busy man, Hector. He does not wish to be disturbed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about me" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | You're not so vain that you need Aunt Emma to tell you what a good boy Floyd | you are; nor do you care to hear about how you should have washed Floyd | behind your ears this morning, or some such nonsense. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ears" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X EARS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gleam" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLEAM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > READ SERMON Floyd | Floyd | Believe it or not, the part where Uncle Stephen expounds upon the Floyd | chosen passage is even less interesting than the passage itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other Floyd | little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | Bored, you glance up at the mantel and wonder what Aunt Emma could Floyd | have added to it since your last visit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > READ BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is Floyd | still holding on to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your Floyd | place. Or keeps you there, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about foreset" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FORESET Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about forest" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FOREST Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "search armchair" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH ARMCHAIR Floyd | Floyd | The armchair is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | Give Aunt Emma due credit: she did make sure you always got the most Floyd | comfortable armchair in the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | "What?" Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed Floyd | like a good idea at the time. It was better than yet another game of Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going Floyd | to be at mess in the morning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy, Floyd | grimy hell-hole. You could probably find your way back here in the Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here. Floyd | Floyd | Everyone is staring at Macdougal, who begins to turn a bright red. Floyd | Floyd | "What on earth is that supposed to mean?" barks Anderson at the Floyd | hapless fellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x macdougal" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACDOUGAL Floyd | Floyd | Macdougal joined the battalion only a month ago, thanks to the Floyd | Military Service Act of January last. Just think, when you were his Floyd | age, Edward VII was just clambering up onto the throne. Anderson Floyd | probably picked him for his batman out of pity. Floyd | Floyd | "Magic words," says Macdougal, looking to you in appeal. "It's Floyd | standard operating procedure in these games, isn't it?" Floyd | Floyd | "I've never heard that one before in my life," you declare. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "This is from Xyzzying?" | |
| Bert says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Your uniform was beautifully starched and crisp when you first left
Floyd | England two years ago. You thought you'd be back (for good, not on
Floyd | leave) before the starch had quite softened on your collar. And now
Floyd | look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jellicoe lets out a snort of exasperation. "Really," he drawls.
Floyd | "Magic. What nonsense. I'm surprised at you, Macdougal, although
Floyd | goodness knows what they're teaching you in school these days."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'd suggest we just get on with it, wouldn't you?" says Hardy, and
Floyd | Anderson nods in agreement.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
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| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other Floyd | little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | Goodness. What on earth was that? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x soot" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SOOT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Tsk." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| inky says, "you can't see any such thing, without climbing into the fireplace" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, he's only obsessively implemented every other thing you've asked for." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at inky), "True!" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bathroom" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says (to Jacq), "Hee." | |
| Bert exclaims (at Jacq), "*He's* the one who brought up the soot, not me!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PLOVER Floyd | Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You've been thoroughly scrubbed and ironed and starched into your Floyd | least comfortable set of clothes. One day, when you are either Prime Floyd | Minister or Archbishop of Canterbury -- depending on whether you Floyd | listen to Mother or Father -- you're going to outlaw starch or declare Floyd | it anathema or both. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AW" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLOTHES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyxxy" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > XYXXY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this is a starchy game" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > HIDE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dinner" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DINNER Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about supper" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SUPPER Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, just the one time. Still, very lovely touch." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "sing lullabye" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SING LULLABYE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to sing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about pistol" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT PISTOL Floyd | Floyd | "That used to belong to Captain Davis. I don't normally hold with Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get Floyd | back to your reading, Hector." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about reading" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT READING Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about davis" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAVIS Floyd | Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma, Floyd | not looking at you. "He got a commission with the army and went to Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector. I hope and pray Floyd | that you never have to see it." Well, perhaps, but it would be really Floyd | exciting.... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about commission" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT COMMISSION Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about england" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ENGLAND Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pistol" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PISTOL Floyd | Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head. You're too young to die. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about courage" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT COURAGE Floyd | Floyd | "That is a virtue you would do well to cultivate, but there is such a Floyd | thing as too much of a good thing." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about virtue" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT VIRTUE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aunt Emma has nothing interesting to say about anything." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "feel chair" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FEEL CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "look under chair" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > READ BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is Floyd | still holding on to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be Floyd | the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But she is, afterall, boring." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "emma, give bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, GIVE BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (to Aunt Emma)
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "emma, give bible to me" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, GIVE BIBLE TO ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Bert says, "I bet Uncle Stephen would tell us the story about Captain Davis, if we could find him." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "escape" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ESCAPE Floyd | Floyd | Yes, but how? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |
| Bert says, "It seems like we either want to make Emma stop paying attention to us, or to make her think we're done reading the sermon." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SERMON Floyd | Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me, Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermon to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW SERMON TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you. Her rather confused and Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > KILL EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Also, Uncle Stephen would tan Floyd | your hide. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "study sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > STUDY SERMON Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "finish sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FINISH SERMON Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "eat sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT SERMON Floyd | Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put sermon in fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SERMON IN FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > HIDE SERMON Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Also, Uncle Stephen would tan Floyd | your hide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put sermon in fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SERMON IN FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SERMON Floyd | Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me, Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "So, since that doesn't really seem to be leading anywhere, how can we either distract her or make her go away?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about servants" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVANTS Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | "Your uncle is a busy man, Hector. He does not wish to be disturbed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | No! You want to play! Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I bet he does wish to be disturbed." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "play" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET UP Floyd | Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your Floyd | place. Or keeps you there, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitch" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCH Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitchen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCHEN Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the kitchen fireplace or the kitchen door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "door" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitchen fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCHEN FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant spires Floyd | of the cathedral. The sun is shining and you know that the woods are Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "shout fire" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOUT FIRE Floyd | Floyd | (to Aunt Emma) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cathedral" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CATHEDRAL Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about mail" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MAIL Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Uncle Stephen's latest sermon Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "drop sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP SERMON Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your Floyd | place. Or keeps you there, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "She wouldn't even have anything interesting to say about herself? Golly, Victorian women." | |
| Bert says, "Well, that's it. We're going to spend the rest of our natural life in this chair." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Aie." | ||
| Bert says, "Or at least the rest of Aunt Emma's natural life." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about victoria" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT VICTORIA Floyd | Floyd | "She's our Queen, and on the whole she has been a far better ruler Floyd | than some of the monarchs in our history." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, true. She'll probably die first." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about monarchs" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MONARCHS Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about history" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT HISTORY Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, I am trying to tell myself that I don't desperately want a hint." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about hint" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT HINT Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm not really succeeding." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Walkthrough | Bert says, "Oh, yeah, 'help' was supposed to have more general info/instructions, I think. Not just hints." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "So let's read that rather than hints." | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Walkthrough | Bert says, "So let's read that rather than hints." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm fine with holding off if others want to, but I'm also --- okay." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other Floyd | little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Walkthrough | Bert says, "Which, of course, is the same menu." | |
| Bert presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Thanks go, of course, to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for their work Floyd | on the Inform7 language. Thanks also to my beta-testers: Doug Jones, Floyd | Adri, Andy Joel and Andrew Schultz. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Walkthrough | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | > About the author Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Walkthrough | ||
| Bert presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] About the author Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ABOUT THE AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Christopher Huang is an architectural technician (which is a fancy way Floyd | of saying "Draughtsman" or "CADmonkey") based in Montreal. He is Floyd | perhaps a little overly influenced by the Barsetshire novels written Floyd | by Anthony Trollope, and "Sunday Afternoon" may be said to take place Floyd | within that universe. In spite of this, the author is not himself a Floyd | member of the Church of England. Floyd | Floyd | The author can be reached by e-mail at mise@ricordius.com. Floyd | Alternatively, one might try hunting him down on IFmud Floyd | ([LINK]) where he goes by the name of Miseri. In Floyd | either case, he promises not to speak of himself in the third person; Floyd | truth be told, it is rather a tiresome business. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | > About the author Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Walkthrough | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Walkthrough | ||
| Bert presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About Interactive Fiction Floyd | What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Interacting with Other People Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | Bert says, "Oh." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Standard stuff, it would appear." | ||
| Bert says, "I guess nothing specific to this game." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About Interactive Fiction Floyd | What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Interacting with Other People Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n n n n n n n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | About Interactive Fiction Floyd | > What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Interacting with Other People Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Walkthrough | Bert says, "Hrm." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other Floyd | little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma is Uncle Stephen's sister, one of those maiden aunts who Floyd | always ends up chaperoning people around; which, as you understand it, Floyd | means it's her job to make sure people don't have any fun. You know Floyd | she means well, really, but she takes her job much too seriously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "emma, x window" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma's had the same Bible for as long as you've known her. How Floyd | she manages to keep it from getting dog-eared, given how often she Floyd | reads it, you do not know. Aunt Emma has it open on her lap, and you Floyd | notice that she's using Janet's master key to mark her place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about key" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "Someone has to take care of supper while the servants are away, Floyd | Hector." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about supper" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SUPPER Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about servants" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVANTS Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about janet" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT JANET Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KEY Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be Floyd | the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "OK, I give up." | |
| Bert says, "Hint away." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we can ask maga, or we can consult the game." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Which do we want to do?" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask maga for very general, vague hint" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK MAGA FOR VERY GENERAL, VAGUE HINT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "f OKAY" | |
| Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||
| maga says, "you might perhaps pay more attention to the mantelpiece" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bobbles" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOBBLES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "er" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantle" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANTLE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs. Every time you Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other Floyd | little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | Sunlight glints off a glass unicorn. Now that's more the sort of Floyd | pointless ornament you'd expect to find in Aunt Emma's collection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x baubbles" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BAUBBLES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "tf x unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TF X UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x baubles" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BAUBLES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs. Its horn Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been Floyd | glued back on since. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Huh, I don't remember that being mentioned before." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x horn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Tom: Floyd ] ...Adventure and change were imminent in this year. Floyd ] They were waiting around the corner for all these kids. Floyd ] Suspended in the mist over Berchtesgaden, caught in the Floyd ] folds of Chamberlain's umbrella. In Spain there was Floyd ] Guernica! But here there was only hot swing music and Floyd ] liquor.... Floyd ] Floyd ] - Tennessee Williams, 'The Glass Menagerie' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X HORN Floyd | Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs. Its horn Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been Floyd | glued back on since. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "does it just show up randomly when you describe it?" | |
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | I beg your pardon?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask aunt about unicon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK AUNT ABOUT UNICON Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask aunt about unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK AUNT ABOUT UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "imagine unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > IMAGINE UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head. You're too young to die. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK ABOUT UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "nudge unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > NUDGE UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "touch unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Cogito ergo sum Floyd ] Floyd ] - René Descartes Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You are. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh dear" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about menagerie" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MENAGERIE Floyd | Floyd | "There is nothing interesting to tell there," says Aunt Emma. "The Floyd | other pieces have gotten either lost or broken over the years, and Floyd | that unicorn is the last of the lot." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma why Noah let the unicorns die in the flood" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA WHY NOAH LET THE UNICORNS DIE IN THE FLOOD Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | You spot a statuette of a black falcon in the midst of all the Floyd | clutter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x falcon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FALCON Floyd | Floyd | It's a black bird. How boring. Why anyone would want something like Floyd | this, you do not know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get falcon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET FALCON Floyd | Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head. You're too young to die. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about falcon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FALCON Floyd | Floyd | "Captain Davis picked that up years ago when he was in Malta, and Floyd | brought it back as present." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about malta" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MALTA Floyd | Floyd | "I've never been there, but I've heard that it's quite fascinating." Floyd | Aunt Emma recounts a few vague memories of stories told to her years Floyd | and years ago, when the earth was young. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about stories" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT STORIES Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | Here's something that's not so bad: a painting of a ship sailing into Floyd | the sunrise. Or sunset. One of the two. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ship" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHIP Floyd | Floyd | A rather fantastic-looking ship, with a dragon figurehead, sails over Floyd | greenish-blue waves, into the sunrise. Or the sunset. It's rather Floyd | hard to tell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunset" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUNSET Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's the sunrise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x dragon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | If you were a ship's captain, you'd want your ship to have a Floyd | figurehead like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunrise" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUNRISE Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's the sunset. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x waves" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WAVES Floyd | Floyd | You can almost believe that the waves are moving, if you look long Floyd | enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Sunrise, I assume." | |
| Bert says, "Since, knowing Jeff, it's got to be the Dawn Treader." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, are we going to have a daydream involving all this stuff?" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about ship" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SHIP Floyd | Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes. But I suppose, as your Uncle Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dragon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes. But I suppose, as your Uncle Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dawn treader" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAWN TREADER Floyd | Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes. But I suppose, as your Uncle Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Yup." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "enter ship" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SHIP Floyd | Floyd | That sort of thing only happens in books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gryphon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X GRYPHON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x manticore" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANTICORE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cyclops" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CYCLOPS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x reepicheep" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X REEPICHEEP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | There's a saucer leaning against the wall at the back of the mantel. Floyd | Normally you wouldn't give it a second glance, but there's something Floyd | odd about the design. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x jabberwock" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SAUCER Floyd | Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken. It's flowers ... Floyd | definitely flowers. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X JABBERWOCK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x owls" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X OWLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] 'No,' said Huw. 'She was made for her lord. Nobody is Floyd ] asking her if she wants him. It is a bitter twisting to Floyd ] be shut up with a person you are not liking very much. I Floyd ] think she was longing for the time when she was flowers Floyd ] on the mountain, and it is making her cruel, as the rose Floyd ] is growing thorns.' Floyd ] Floyd ] - Alan Garner, 'The Owl Service' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a Floyd | pattern of flowers, but you see now you were mistaken. It's owls ... Floyd | definitely owls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x owls" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X OWLS Floyd | Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken. It's flowers ... Floyd | definitely flowers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the flower saucer or the elaborate flower Floyd | centrepiece? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "saucer" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SAUCER Floyd | Floyd | "That's from Wales. There used to be a whole dinner service, but ... Floyd | well." Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to Floyd | admit it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x centerpiece" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CENTERPIECE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales. I Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues, Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...." Floyd | Floyd | You are considering asking her for more about this Captain Davis Floyd | character, when Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have Floyd | been...." She turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not Floyd | to say any more. But when you look up a few moments later, she's Floyd | staring out the window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Bert exclaims, "Make a run for it!" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Emma, you saucy minx." | |
| Jacqueline says, "OMG THAT WORKED" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Well done!" | ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | Bert says, "And now we... are probably still locked out of half the rooms in the house." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Maybe we should have grabbed the key first." | |
| Jacqueline says, "hm, possibly" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET KEY Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be Floyd | the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "or not" | |
| Bert says, "Guess not." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunlight" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUNLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | Why are you still indoors? Why? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the kitchen door, the front door or the closet? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "front" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FRONT Floyd | Floyd | The front door is large and imposing ... and creaky. Morris says that Floyd | Aunt Emma makes him keep it that way so she can hear when anyone comes Floyd | in or out of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "panelling" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PANELLING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x small door" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SMALL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x closet" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | The hall closet is where things like winter boots and umbrellas are Floyd | kept. This one is usually a lot tidier than the one back home, but Floyd | Mother says that's probably because Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen don't Floyd | have a nine-year-old to worry about. Floyd | Floyd | Currently, the closet is closed. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "restore?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open it;Yeah, perhaps we ought." | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT;YEAH, PERHAPS WE OUGHT.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Bert says, "Er." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think there is now some auto way to restore" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Floyd ] Floyd ] - Theodore Roosevelt Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy. Father says he's really just Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier, Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down and put that walking stick away. It's not a toy." Floyd | She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking away anything Floyd | that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and returning them. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Hmm. Does opening the front door auto-trigger it?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "under" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Yup." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Leave the hallway?" | |
| Bert says, "Yeah. But we can't go outside, because Emma will hear us opening the door." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... Floyd | Confessiones. Ah yes, the works of Augustine of Hippo. Of Floyd | course, Uncle Stephen would only have the Latin translations. Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "There are other paths, aren't there?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Like the Study?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Woman Floyd | In White. Must be another one of those exhortations to virtue. Floyd | Why doesn't Uncle Stephen keep any exciting fiction in his library? Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "E or NW, yeah" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | You wouldn't think, to look at it, that this is actually the back side Floyd | of the much-larger kitchen fireplace, would you? It's so dressed up Floyd | that it looks like the front side of something fancy. But yes, the Floyd | two fireplaces share a flue and everything, though the flue itself is Floyd | really only accessible from the kitchen side. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |
| Bert says, "And we appear to have a timer as well." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I was scrolled up when you were diong that other stuff. Caught up now." | ||
| inky says, "I guess there's some scam where you slip stuff through the fireplace" | ||
| Bert asks (of inky), "Is that a spoiler?" | ||
| inky says, "no, it's speculation" | ||
| Bert nods. | ||
| Bert says, "I don't know if we could slip ourself through the fireplace, though." | ||
| Bert says, "But it's worth a try." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He draws a match from a nearby Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sermon" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SERMON Floyd | Floyd | If Uncle Stephen had anything interesting to say about that, you Floyd | wouldn't be trying so desperately to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about davis" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DAVIS Floyd | Floyd | "Where'd you hear about him? Owen Davis ... Captain Davis, that is Floyd | ... salt of the earth, but rather a reckless fellow, I'm afraid: Floyd | always had been, from the time we first met him, in Wales. He died in Floyd | the Sepoy Mutiny, in India. We were all dreadfully cut up by it." Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x folder" | ||
Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Whoops." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| inky says, "no biggie" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x folder" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | It's clearly marked "Old Sermons", and its contents are as advertised. Floyd | This probably qualifies it as a weapon of Mass destruction. Floyd | Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh" | |
| inky says, "maybe we should light a fire" | ||
| Bert says, "(Yeah, folder description.)" | ||
| Bert says (to inky), "Go for it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Weapon of Mass destruction. Oh, Christopher, how fortunate that you are not here for us to all pile onto you for that joke." | ||
| Bert says, "(Whoops, s/Yeah/Yay/ -- I was cheering for that joke.)" | ||
| inky says, "oh, heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| inky asks, "can we escape multiple times? or do we only know how to escape the first time and then have to restore?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sepoy" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SEPOY Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma looks grim when you mention the Sepoy Mutiny. "Those people Floyd | were not Christian. And that is all I have to say on the subject." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about christian" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CHRISTIAN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma isn't the best at explaining that sort of thing, and if you Floyd | get her started, you're never going to get out of here before sundown. Floyd | And then there'd be no point. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was wondering that." | |
| Bert says (to inky), "We haven't tried a second time yet." | ||
| Bert says, "I assume the game doesn't become unwinnable the instant we're caught." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sepoy mutiny" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SEPOY MUTINY Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma looks grim when you mention the Sepoy Mutiny. "Those people Floyd | were not Christian. And that is all I have to say on the subject." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh, timing" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mantel" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANTEL Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs. Every time you Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel. It's very Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out Floyd | of wood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x goblet" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X GOBLET Floyd | Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about the holy grail" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT THE HOLY GRAIL Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about goblet" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GOBLET Floyd | Floyd | "That is the cup of a carpenter," says Aunt Emma. You wait for her to Floyd | continue, but she doesn't seem to want to say any more than that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice Indy ref." | |
| Bert says, "Indeed." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had Floyd | a mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I wonder if all of these are refs to things." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask her about cat" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HER ABOUT CAT Floyd | Floyd | (Aunt Emma about the white cat) Floyd | "Charming, is it not? I always imagine it's saying hello to me when I Floyd | come into the parlour in the mornings." But how can it, when it has Floyd | no mouth? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Possibly. That one being The Matrix." | ||
| Bert says, "If so, I am missing most of them." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front. You remember Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "I think the cat is intended to be Hello Kitty" | |
| Bert says, "Ha." | ||
| Bert says, "I think you might be right." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOCKET Floyd | Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate. The snake on the front is curved Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever Floyd | been able to open it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x snake" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] 'A deadly struggle for my soul [said Sirius Black] would Floyd ] have broken the monotony nicely. You think you've had it Floyd ] bad, at least you've been able to get out and about, Floyd ] stretch your legs, get into a few fights.... I've been Floyd ] stuck inside for a month.' Floyd ] Floyd ] - J.K. Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X SNAKE Floyd | Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate. The snake on the front is curved Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever Floyd | been able to open it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, possibly it's just Hello Kitty and not a reference to Mr Smith" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about locket" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LOCKET Floyd | Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been Floyd | able to track down the owners. Well. I suppose we're duty-bound to Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about snake" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SNAKE Floyd | Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been Floyd | able to track down the owners. Well. I suppose we're duty-bound to Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "This, undoubtedly, Trinity." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x wabe" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WABE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X GNOMON Floyd | Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Someone whispers "Gnomon is an island" into your ear, but Floyd | when you look around, there's no-one there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I actually asked maga a second ago if that was a Harry Potter reference, but thought it so outside the realm of possibility that I didn't mention it here. Now I know the realm of possibility is quite large." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "a gnomon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > A GNOMON Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about gnomon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GNOMON Floyd | Floyd | "Your Uncle Stephen picked that up while on holiday in London. I Floyd | don't claim to understand everything about your uncle, but this gnomon Floyd | clearly means something to him." Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "When Stephen wakes up, perhaps we should ask him about Kensington Gardens." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "search ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | There is a multitude of other little trinkets, but nothing of any Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales. I Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues, Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...." Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Ha." | |
| Bert exclaims, "Curses!She's learning!" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...." She Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more. Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the Floyd | window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "More with Stephen, or a different direction?" | |
| Bert says, "(AFK a moment.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, more with Stephen." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "light fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LIGHT FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "light fire" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LIGHT FIRE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "light pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LIGHT PIPE Floyd | Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is Floyd | still holding on to it. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down and put that large matchbox away. It's not a toy." Floyd | She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking away anything Floyd | that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and returning them. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be Floyd | the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "brb" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He draws a match from a nearby Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about trinity" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT TRINITY Floyd | Floyd | Oh no. You do not want to get your uncle started on that. Life is Floyd | far too short as it is. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "No, no, not *that* Trinity." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about kensington gardens" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT KENSINGTON GARDENS Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "duno" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DUNO Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He draws a match from a nearby Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sepoy" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SEPOY Floyd | Floyd | "Nasty business ... years ago, now, but I remember reading about it. Floyd | That sort of thing isn't likely to happen up here in England, thank Floyd | goodness." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | "The family spent a summer there, a long time ago. Your Aunt Emma and Floyd | I must have been about 17 or 18, at the time." It occurs to you that Floyd | Mother must have been born in that year. You're old enough to know Floyd | that parents don't like having the children around when the stork Floyd | makes a delivery, which probably explains why Uncle Stephen and Aunt Floyd | Emma were sent to Wales to begin with. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Wait, are Stephen and Emma siblings?" | |
| Bert says, "I thought they were married." | ||
| maga says, "she *was* referred to as a maiden aunt" | ||
| maga says, "which generally implies certain maidenly qualities" | ||
| Bert says, "Aha. I missed that line." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...." She Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more. Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the Floyd | window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | "Now hold it right there...!" Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed Floyd | like a good idea at the time. It was better than yet another game of Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going Floyd | to be at mess in the morning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy, Floyd | grimy hell-hole. You could probably find your way back here in the Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike. Floyd | Floyd | Anderson was doodling on an old letter of recommendation earlier, and Floyd | seems to have forgotten about it. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here. Floyd | Floyd | Anderson shakes his head. "I can't believe she'd fall for that a Floyd | third time. What kind of a weak-minded aunt did you have, Conrad?" Floyd | Floyd | "You're the ones who can't figure it out," you reply. "So she'll keep Floyd | falling for the same stunt until you do." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hm, and Owen was her love that died?" | |
| Bert says, "It's looking likely, yeah." | ||
| Bert says, "Hmm, a clue." | ||
| Bert asks, "Also, huh, so Conrad *is* Hector?" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x hector" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | > X HECTOR Floyd | Floyd | Your uniform was beautifully starched and crisp when you first left Floyd | England two years ago. You thought you'd be back (for good, not on Floyd | leave) before the starch had quite softened on your collar. And now Floyd | look at you. Floyd | Floyd | "Major Conrad just wants us to try again," says Jellicoe, with an air Floyd | of pouring oil over troubled waters. "So why don't we go and do Floyd | that?" Floyd | Floyd | "We need a better strategy," Hardy muses, drawing the other men to Floyd | him. "Look, we've got only so long before she stops mooning over Floyd | ancient history, and I'm pretty sure the major doesn't mean for the Floyd | trick to happen more than once. What can we do with those few Floyd | minutes?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "So we're telling the story about our own childhood." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, something." | ||
| Bert says, "Also, it sounds like they're playing this game cooperatively too, just like we are." | ||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask hardy about outdoors" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HARDY ABOUT OUTDOORS
Floyd |
Floyd | The men can figure this out on their own.
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal says, "there's bound to be something in one of the other
Floyd | rooms that will convince her to leave us alone."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It can't be that simple," snorts Anderson in reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Anyway we can just keep trying until we get it right, right?" Hardy
Floyd | looks around the table, and the others nod. "So, let's get on with
Floyd | this."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | Goodness. Where did that dream come from? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your Floyd | place. Or keeps you there, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...." She Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more. Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the Floyd | window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table Floyd | just large enough for six. A huge bay window looks out over the lawn Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is Floyd | and why he's here. Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the Floyd | hall is to the southeast. The butler's door into the kitchen is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x centerpiece" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CENTERPIECE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma believes in "civilised dining", which is why she insists on Floyd | maintaining a pretty centrepiece on the dining table at all times. Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry. The Floyd | flowers and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and Floyd | the ribbons holding it together are looking droopy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "push it" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH IT Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Is anyone else thinking 'kindling'?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ribbons" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X RIBBONS Floyd | Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry. The Floyd | flowers and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and Floyd | the ribbons holding it together are looking droopy. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down and put that elaborate flower centrepiece away. It's Floyd | not a toy." She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking Floyd | away anything that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and Floyd | returning them. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I wasn't, but I am now." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...." She Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more. Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the Floyd | window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n.get centerpiece.se.e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > N.GET CENTERPIECE.SE.E Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table Floyd | just large enough for six. A huge bay window looks out over the lawn Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is Floyd | and why he's here. Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the Floyd | hall is to the southeast. The butler's door into the kitchen is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "light centerpiece" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LIGHT CENTERPIECE Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down and put that elaborate flower centrepiece away. It's Floyd | not a toy." She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking Floyd | away anything that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and Floyd | returning them. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Darn." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, there are other places we've not yet been, right?" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...." She Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more. Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the Floyd | window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Yeah" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table Floyd | just large enough for six. A huge bay window looks out over the lawn Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is Floyd | and why he's here. Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the Floyd | hall is to the southeast. The butler's door into the kitchen is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the butler's door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Except, er." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant spires Floyd | of the cathedral. The sun is shining and you know that the woods are Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the kitchen door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and Floyd | grabs you by the ear. "What have you been up to, Hector? It's the Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week! Now Floyd | please, sit down." She hauls you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I think we've seen all the unlocked rooms: the parlor, hall, study and dining room." | |
| Bert says, "...these are starting to sound familiar." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah." | ||
| Bert says, "If we find a lead pipe soon, I think I'm going to claim another reference." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That covered the bases I was most curious about. We need that key." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...." She Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more. Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the Floyd | window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table Floyd | just large enough for six. A huge bay window looks out over the lawn Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is Floyd | and why he's here. Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the Floyd | hall is to the southeast. The butler's door into the kitchen is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get centerpiece. s" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CENTERPIECE. S Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show centerpiece to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW CENTERPIECE TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma is distractedly gazing out the window. Surely you have Floyd | better things to do than to draw her attention back to the task of Floyd | keeping you in your place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "drop centerpiece" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CENTERPIECE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around. When she sees you out of Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, and grabs you by the ear. "What have Floyd | you been up to, Hector? It's the Lord's day: do try to behave Floyd | yourself this one day of the week! Now please, sit down." She hauls Floyd | you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "So at least we can collect items here..." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...." She Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more. Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the Floyd | window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e.e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E.E Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | brown folder: Taken. Floyd | large matchbox: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w.w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W.W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around. When she sees you out of Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, but stops in surprise when she sees Floyd | the folder of Uncle Stephen's old sermons in your hands. "Oh!" she Floyd | says. "Oh ... are those your Uncle Stephen's old sermons? So that's Floyd | what you were after! You should have just said so. I see I should Floyd | have trusted you enough to know you could not possibly mean any Floyd | mischief when you leave your seat." Floyd | Floyd | She actually smiles and pats you on the head. On the bright side, it Floyd | looks as though she doesn't mind you wandering around any more, since Floyd | she makes no further attempt to usher you into your chair. She does, Floyd | however, firmly advise you to return the large matchbox to its Floyd | rightful place, and ushers you out into the Hall to do so. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Hey hey." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Bert exclaims, "We are free! FREE!" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you, Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you? Please Floyd | don't." Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Mostly." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He reaches for his trusty matchbox and Floyd | notes with even more annoyance that it has somehow gone missing. Floyd | Sighing, he stands up and begins looking around. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen's sharp eyes spot the matchbox in your possession. Floyd | "Give it here, Hector," he says sternly, and you can practically hear Floyd | him thinking "Thou shalt not steal" at you, and you have no choice but Floyd | to hand over the matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen relights his pipe and settles back behind his mound of Floyd | boring literature. He'll probably be asleep again in no time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen just smiles and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about davis" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DAVIS Floyd | Floyd | "Where'd you hear about him? Owen Davis ... Captain Davis, that is Floyd | ... salt of the earth, but rather a reckless fellow, I'm afraid: Floyd | always had been, from the time we first met him, in Wales. He died in Floyd | the Sepoy Mutiny, in India. We were all dreadfully cut up by it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | "The family spent a summer there, a long time ago. Your Aunt Emma and Floyd | I must have been about 17 or 18, at the time." Uncle Stephen looks a Floyd | little lost in the memory, and eventually descends into pointless talk Floyd | about valleys and old houses and patterned dinner services. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about mutiny" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MUTINY Floyd | Floyd | "Nasty business ... years ago, now, but I remember reading about it. Floyd | That sort of thing isn't likely to happen up here in England, thank Floyd | goodness." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about india" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT INDIA Floyd | Floyd | "Hm? Fascinating place, I'm sure, but I would rather leave missionary Floyd | work to those with a calling to it. Otherwise, it's rather too much Floyd | trouble...." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What about that walking stick?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pistol" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PISTOL Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Ooh, yes" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about stick" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT STICK Floyd | Floyd | "A walking stick is a rather useful item, I must say. I simply could Floyd | not tell you the number of times I've been glad of having a nice, Floyd | stout staff on hand while walking across the downs." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about emma" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT EMMA Floyd | Floyd | "You should ask her yourself," says Uncle Stephen vaguely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get stick" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STICK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wield stick" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WIELD STICK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Floyd ] Floyd ] - Theodore Roosevelt Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy. Father says he's really just Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier, Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. White smoke Floyd | curls from the bowl of his pipe. Floyd | Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show stick to stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW STICK TO STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He draws a match from a nearby Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x smoke" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SMOKE Floyd | Floyd | It curls lazily from the bowl of the pipe and dissipates into the air, Floyd | smelling up the place something awful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert aimlessly. | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "smell it" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL IT Floyd | Floyd | It smells awful, and for some unknown reason it always makes you feel Floyd | hungry. The less you have to do with it, the better. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show stick to stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW STICK TO STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | "A walking stick is a rather useful item, I must say. I simply could Floyd | not tell you the number of times I've been glad of having a nice, Floyd | stout staff on hand while walking across the downs." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
| Bert asks, "Does whatever Uncle Stephen is smoking give us the munchies?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Now I know why you said, '...'" | ||
| maga says, "hey, asshole, puff puff pass" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Uncle Stephen should move to Seattle." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen just smiles and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about tobacco" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT TOBACCO Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily. In a few moments, his pipe Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be Floyd | the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen for pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN FOR PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here. Floyd | Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "smoke pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SMOKE PIPE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "hit stephen with stick" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT STEPHEN WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit Uncle Stephen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | It's a brilliant painting of a town beside the sea, with the sun Floyd | shining on whitewashed houses and the bluest sky you ever did see. Floyd | Uncle Stephen always smiles and says he's seen better when you ask him Floyd | about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about it" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT IT Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He draws a match from a nearby Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about it" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT IT Floyd | Floyd | "I'm rather fond of it, even if your Aunt Emma isn't." Uncle Stephen Floyd | smiles wistfully. "Admittedly, it's not the artist's best work, but Floyd | it brings back memories, you see." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about memories" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MEMORIES Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks a little wistful. "You know, the late summer of Floyd | 1886 found me on the continent...." But you quickly stop him before Floyd | he gets carried away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about artist" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT ARTIST Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen is reading a really ancient-looking manuscript while Floyd | making notes in another sheaf of papers. White smoke curls from the Floyd | bowl of his pipe. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily. In a few moments, his pipe Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x manuscript" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANUSCRIPT Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those ancient, dusty artefacts that Uncle Stephen Floyd | occasionally gets out of the rare books department at the British Floyd | Museum. It's all written in funny squiggles that no-one can read. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x sheaf" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHEAF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about manuscript" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MANUSCRIPT Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about manuscript" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MANUSCRIPT Floyd | Floyd | "It's quite an interesting, apocryphal document, I must say. I'll let Floyd | you read it when I'm done, if you're good." Right. Better misbehave Floyd | before it's too late. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Heh." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | It looks like a translation of some sort, full of crossed-out bits and Floyd | notes about notes about other notes. As far as you can tell, it's Floyd | about some servant's account of the water-into-wine miracle from the Floyd | Bible, although why Uncle Stephen is working on translating that when Floyd | he can just read it in any old Bible, you do not know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about papers" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. | Bert asks, "Anything obvious to do here other than letting Stephen nod off and stealing his matchbook?" | |
| maga says, "flimsiest pseudonym ever" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen is reading a really ancient-looking manuscript while Floyd | making notes in another sheaf of papers. White smoke curls from the Floyd | bowl of his pipe. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Apologies for my lateness." | |
| Jacqueline says, "That seems to be the only gankable thing." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen's desk is covered with all sorts of papers. There's a Floyd | huge dictionary that Uncle Stephen keeps flipping through, and things Floyd | in languages that you've never even heard of before. Uncle Stephen is Floyd | sitting right up close to the desk, blocking its only drawer. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily. In a few moments, his pipe Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x dictionary" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X DICTIONARY Floyd | Floyd | The dictionary on Uncle Stephen's desk is actually some sort of book Floyd | about Hebrew grammar. You have enough trouble with Latin and French; Floyd | Father says he wants to get you started on Greek next year, which Floyd | sounds like the end of the world as you know it; Hebrew looks like it Floyd | goes beyond even Greek, Latin and French all put together in terms of Floyd | things Man was not meant to know. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hey hey. Do that thing I love for people to do when they come late and ask what we're playing." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view. Floyd | Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Jus kidding. Hope all is well." | |
| Bert asks, "Hmm. Can we make Stephen move away from the desk?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hidden drawer of forbidden mystery." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessin' it's Miseri's game." | ||
| Zach asks, "Whatcha playin', Jacq?" | ||
| Bert says, "Indeed." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... Plato's Floyd | Republic. No surprise there.... Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... Les Floyd | Misérables. No. You are not reading French outside of lessons, Floyd | and that is final. Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Sign Floyd | Of Four. Something about the four gospels, obviously. You'd Floyd | kill to have a decent mystery novel right about now. Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... King Floyd | Solomon's Mines. This is either an archaeological report, or Floyd | another dry examination of ancient Biblical history. Either way, it's Floyd | probably not very interesting. Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Man, we are so prejudiced here." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company. Finally, some R.M. Ballantyne! One that Floyd | you've already read, but you're not fussy. You are disappointed, Floyd | however, to discover that this is in fact a prospectus from the real Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company, full of deadly-dull talk about profits and Floyd | shares. Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Obviously we need to find a specific book, if any at all." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company. Another copy of the prospectus you'd Floyd | pulled out before, in a different cover. You're not going to be Floyd | fooled again, though; you don't even bother opening the ruddy thing. Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sign of four" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He draws a match from a nearby Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sign of four" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | "One can never have too many books, I always say." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily. In a few moments, his pipe Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "burn papers" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > BURN PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a walking stick Floyd | a brown folder Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons Floyd | Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is his chair on casters?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "push stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | That would be less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "It would appear not." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind painting" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Woman Floyd | In White. Must be another one of those exhortations to virtue. Floyd | Why doesn't Uncle Stephen keep any exciting fiction in his library? Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... De Floyd | Doctrina Christiana. Ah yes, the works of Augustine of Hippo. Floyd | Of course, Uncle Stephen would only have the Latin translations. Floyd | Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the Floyd | same precise location. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Get the matchbox, at least." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bible" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbook" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET MATCHBOOK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It's a large box of matches that Uncle Stephen keeps handy, for Floyd | lighting his pipe. He goes through an awful lot of them, no-one knows Floyd | why. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "light match" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LIGHT MATCH Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen would skin you alive. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Hee." | |
| Bert says, "('no-one knows why')" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "idgi" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take match" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MATCH Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a large matchbox Floyd | a walking stick Floyd | a brown folder Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says (to Jacq), "He has already gone through a dozen matches in this playthrough alone." | |
| Bert says (to Jacq), "I think we can start to guess why." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | You wouldn't think, to look at it, that this is actually the back side Floyd | of the much-larger kitchen fireplace, would you? It's so dressed up Floyd | that it looks like the front side of something fancy. But yes, the Floyd | two fireplaces share a flue and everything, though the flue itself is Floyd | really only accessible from the kitchen side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, I thought it was another reference beyond that." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put all in fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ALL IN FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | large matchbox: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great Floyd | outdoors. Floyd | walking stick: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great Floyd | outdoors. Floyd | brown folder: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great Floyd | outdoors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma spots the walking stick in your possession. "Hector Floyd | Percival Conrad! What are you doing with your Uncle Stephen's walking Floyd | stick? Put it back at once!" Floyd | Floyd | She practically bullies you out into the hall on the way to returning Floyd | everything to its rightful place. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Shame I missed the beginning of the game. I have no clue what's going on." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP ALL Floyd | Floyd | (the brown folder) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "We're a kid who is visiting our aunt and uncle. It's Sunday, and Aunt Emma wants us to study sermons, while we would prefer to be outside." | |
| DavidW asks, "So we're just trying to escape the house?" | ||
| Bert says, "We've figured out how to get Emma to let us wander the house, but she still doesn't want us going out, and some internal doors are locked (Emma has the key)," | ||
| Bert says, "Yeah." | ||
| Bert says, "If we try to open the front door, Emma hears us and stops us." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Taken. Floyd | displaced gnomon: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too Floyd | young to die. Floyd | snake locket: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too young Floyd | to die. Floyd | white cat: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too young Floyd | to die. Floyd | wooden goblet: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too Floyd | young to die. Floyd | flower saucer: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too Floyd | young to die. Floyd | ship painting: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too Floyd | young to die. Floyd | black falcon: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too young Floyd | to die. Floyd | glass unicorn: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too Floyd | young to die. Floyd | duelling pistol: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head. You're too Floyd | young to die. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma spots the big, brushy centrepiece in your hands. "Hector Floyd | Percival Conrad! That belongs in the dining room ... you'll get dry Floyd | leaves and petals all over the place and Janet isn't around to sweep Floyd | up after you. Put that back right now!" Floyd | Floyd | She practically bullies you out into the hall on the way to returning Floyd | the stupid thing to its rightful place. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brown folder (in which are Uncle Stephen's old sermons) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. White smoke Floyd | curls from the bowl of his pipe. Floyd | Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Does the door hinge squeak, then?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brown folder (in which are Uncle Stephen's old sermons) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x front door" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FRONT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The front door is large and imposing ... and creaky. Morris says that Floyd | Aunt Emma makes him keep it that way so she can hear when anyone comes Floyd | in or out of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "(For W.)" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Reckon there's some way to make it not squeak?" | ||
| Bert says, "That seems plausible." | ||
| Bert asks, "Maybe oil, if we can get into the kitchen?" | ||
| Bert says, "(Emma has the key to it.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. Well, it there were hinges, we could oil them, but 'creaky' is ambiguous." | ||
| DavidW says, "So maybe there has to be enough noise near Emma to mask it instead, or Emma needs to be fitted with earplugs somehow." | ||
| Bert says, "Or we might be able to find something else for Emma to do to keep her busy and distracted." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or (maybe) there's another exit." | ||
| Bert says, "Yeah." | ||
| Bert says, "If we had the servants' key, we might find a back door." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | brown folder: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table Floyd | just large enough for six. A huge bay window looks out over the lawn Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is Floyd | and why he's here. Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the Floyd | hall is to the southeast. The butler's door into the kitchen is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get centerpiece" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CENTERPIECE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an elaborate flower centrepiece Floyd | a large matchbox Floyd | a brown folder Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I think these are all the pickupable objects we've found so far." | |
| DavidW asks, "How about the pipe?" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "se.e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SE.E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be Floyd | the case here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons. You've been forced to read a couple of Floyd | them, unfortunately, and the fact that there are more just makes your Floyd | head want to implode. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put sermons in fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SERMONS IN FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to uncle" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO UNCLE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Uncle Stephen's old sermons) Floyd | You're not feeling ready for sleep just yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Heh." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an elaborate flower centrepiece Floyd | a large matchbox Floyd | a brown folder Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suspect I'll be of little help since I've seen so little of the game." | |
| DavidW asks, "Where did the gnomon come from?" | ||
| Bert says, "I don't think we've actually gotten terribly far so far." | ||
| Bert says (to W), "It's one of the ornaments on the mantle." | ||
| Bert says, "(It appears to be a Trinity reference.)" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Want to see the transcript thus far?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, you could @recap the toyshop, too, I guess." | ||
| Allen says, "hard to imagine find ing a gnomon that isn't a trinity ref" | ||
| DavidW says, "Recapping is mucho awkward." | ||
| Allen says, "trinity players account for 90% of people who know the word in the US" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I agree the gnomon has to be a Trinity ref." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "One sec, I'll pull the transcript thus far." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose all the windows have all been tested and found to be painted shut, locked, barred, too small, etc." | ||
| Bert says, "(We also identified the locket as a Harry Potter ref, he cat as a Hello Kitty ref, the goblet as an Indiana Jones ref, and the ship as a Narnia ref.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "A Hello Kitty ref?!?!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or a Matrix ref." | ||
| Bert says (to W), "It's white, has no mouth, and Emma imagines it saying 'hello' to her in the mornings." | ||
| Bert says, "Oh, also, the falcon is probably Maltese." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh dear" | ||
| Bert says, "I think the flower saucer cited its own ref, even though I didn't recognize it." | ||
| Bert says, "And I have no idea what the glass unicorn with the broken horn refers to." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Has the game said how we're related to the aunt and uncle exactly? Which is the brother or sister to which of our parents?" | ||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||
| Bert says (to W), "Both." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Thanks." | ||
| Bert says, "(They are siblings.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think the aunt and uncle are siblings to each other as well as to one of our parents, though they're significantly older than our parent." | ||
| Bert says, "Our Mother, I think." | ||
| Bert says, "Based on Stephen's comments on Wales." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why don't we chill a few minutes and let DW catch up?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll get another cup of coffee." | ||
| inky says, "the glass menagerie is a play" | ||
| Bert says (to Jacq), "OK." | ||
| inky says, "and it's actually kind of thematically similar to the game" | ||
| Bert says (to Jacq), "I'm running out of ideas, so maybe he'll come up with some ideas we haven't." | ||
| Bert says (to inky), "Oh, aha." | ||
| inky says, "[LINK]" | ||
| Bert says (to inky), "Mmm" | ||
| inky says, "(I remembered Jim as being an army guy, which would have made it more similar, but that is not the case)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't finished reading, but perhaps reading material would help with Emma. If she could be persuaded to read a very boring book, she might fall asleep too." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an elaborate flower centrepiece Floyd | a large matchbox Floyd | a brown folder Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mmkay, back with tea." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "drop all but folder" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP ALL BUT FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Dropped. Floyd | large matchbox: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon. Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to Floyd | you. While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon. Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to Floyd | you. While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I think these sermons are the boringest thing we've found so far." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about books" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sign of four" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "You're back, right?" | |
| DavidW says, "no, still reading" | ||
| DavidW says, "It took forever for you guys to get out of the parlour." | ||
| Bert says, "Yes. Yes it did." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. So Emma doesn't even let us walk around freely." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, she sorta does after we (inadvertently) win her trust with the sermon folder." | ||
| DavidW says, "the 'Somewhere In Flanders' business is weiiiird." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I'm assuming we eventually try reading the folder of sermons, not just the latest sermon?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we did at some point, but I think we should do that more." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's certainly something 'covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting'." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "read sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > READ SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | No. No no no. Your sanity would never survive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | It's clearly marked "Old Sermons", and its contents are as advertised. Floyd | This probably qualifies it as a weapon of Mass destruction. Floyd | Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x old sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X OLD SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons. You've been forced to read a couple of Floyd | them, unfortunately, and the fact that there are more just makes your Floyd | head want to implode. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take old sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE OLD SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | You're not feeling ready for sleep just yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon. Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to Floyd | you. While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, you've already tried that." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scramble folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SCRAMBLE FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shuffle sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHUFFLE SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > EMPTY FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scatter sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SCATTER SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mix up the sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > MIX UP THE SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, maybe we've run that idea to its end." | |
| Jacqueline says, "For some reason I was thinking we'd gotten Emma to say a bit more about them, but I guess not." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me, Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cathedral" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CATHEDRAL Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about lunch" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Hmm, what if we hide the matchbox and wake Stephen?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large matchbox and an elaborate flower centrepiece here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put matchbox in closet" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MATCHBOX IN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the large matchbox) Floyd | Floyd | You put the large matchbox into the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "close matchbox" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE MATCHBOX Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "close closet" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You close the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He reaches for his trusty matchbox and Floyd | notes with even more annoyance that it has somehow gone missing. Floyd | Sighing, he stands up and begins looking around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen motions you vaguely away from the desk drawer. It's Floyd | clearly private, and he would appreciate it if you stayed out of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about matchbox" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MATCHBOX Floyd | Floyd | "Rather a necessary evil, I would say. Some people still call them Floyd | lucifers, so it's rather like letting the devil into your own house Floyd | ... but do you know, the actual lucifers fell out of fashion when I Floyd | was a boy, after a more reliable sort of match was invented. There's Floyd | a lesson right there, my boy, if you'll take note of it." Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen shakes his head and wanders out into the Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert exclaims, "Yay!" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the drawer, revealing a letter crammed in among an assortment Floyd | of other junk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get letter" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x junk" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUNK Floyd | Floyd | You don't need any of that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x letter" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen is wandering the house and could walk in on you any Floyd | minute. You don't have time to give this a proper read, though you Floyd | can see already that it's more interesting than anything this house Floyd | has to offer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY" | |
| DavidW says, "close drawer" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You close the drawer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a letter Floyd | a brown folder Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You put the letter into the brown folder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the letter) Floyd | Floyd | You put the letter into the brown folder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat letter" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT LETTER Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the letter) Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen is casting about for his missing matchbox. His pipe Floyd | droops unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a large matchbox and a walking stick. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen catches sight of the matchbox sitting where you'd left Floyd | it, and happily retrieves it. Thankfully, he doesn't seem too Floyd | interested in wondering how it got there in the first place. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen returns to his study. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but I have to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy!" | |
| Bert exclaims (at inky), "We're not in Flanders anymore!" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > READ LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Let's see. It's from a Mr John Austin, thanking your Uncle Stephen Floyd | for something ... boring stuff, boring stuff ... well. It looks as Floyd | though Uncle Stephen has been sending money regularly to this Mr Floyd | Austin, but why? You separate the letter out into its three pages, Floyd | and regard each one individually.... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | three pages of a scandalous letter Floyd | a brown folder Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x letter" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "first" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FIRST Floyd | Floyd | Mr John Austin sends his regards ... lovely weather ... good health Floyd | ... first child ... all very standard fare, nothing you wouldn't Floyd | expect to find in a hundred other letters.... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x second page" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SECOND PAGE Floyd | Floyd | Thanks for the assistance ... goodness, here's an account of all sorts Floyd | of money that Uncle Stephen has been sending to this Austin fellow Floyd | over the past year. Mr Austin sounds as though he should have been a Floyd | bank clerk, but why on earth would Uncle Stephen be sending him money? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x third letter" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X THIRD LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Here's where Mr Austin talks about his wife, which sounds terribly Floyd | boring. But the way this page is creased, it looks as though Uncle Floyd | Stephen's been reading and re-reading it over and over, for some odd Floyd | reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "My my." | |
| Jacqueline says, "tut tut" | ||
| Bert asks, "Does Stephen have a begat of his own?" | ||
| Bert asks, "Do we confront Emma with this? Or Stephen?" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show letter to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW LETTER TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "first" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FIRST Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma would never even look at that if you were to present it to Floyd | her directly. You'll need a more subtle approach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | Sorry, you can only have one item here. Which exactly? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put first in folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FIRST IN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You put the first page into the brown folder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put second in folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SECOND IN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You put the second page into the brown folder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put third in folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT THIRD IN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You put the third page into the brown folder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon. Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens quite by chance Floyd | upon the first page of that letter to Uncle Stephen. She reads the Floyd | first few lines, then stops, carefully extracts the offending pages, Floyd | and hands them to you. "This doesn't belong in here with your uncle's Floyd | sermons, Hector; it looks like a private letter, probably from a Floyd | parishioner. I don't know how it got mixed in with the old sermons, Floyd | but you had better return it to him." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear we are an evil nephew." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put third page in folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT THIRD PAGE IN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You put the third page into the brown folder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon. Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens quite by chance Floyd | upon the third page of that letter to Uncle Stephen. She reads the Floyd | first few lines, then stops, carefully extracts the offending page, Floyd | and hands it to you. "This doesn't belong in here with your uncle's Floyd | sermons, Hector; it looks like a private letter, probably from a Floyd | parishioner. I don't know how it got mixed in with the old sermons, Floyd | but you had better return it to him." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put second letter in folder" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SECOND LETTER IN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You put the second page into the brown folder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon. Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens upon the second Floyd | page of that letter to Uncle Stephen, the one that you'd left in Floyd | there. She reads the first few lines, stops, then reads it again. Floyd | Clearly, the information about Uncle Stephen's money management has Floyd | caught her attention, and she is not at all happy about it. "Excuse Floyd | me, Hector," she says, "but I really must speak to your uncle about Floyd | something." Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma slips something between the pages of her Bible to mark her Floyd | place, then takes the folder from you and stalks off. She's left her Floyd | Bible behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get bible" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "KEY" | |
| Bert says, "Get equipped with: GOLD KEY" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "THE KEY" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | The master key is usually carried by the servants, which seems a Floyd | little ironic. But then it's the servants who need to get into every Floyd | nook and cranny of the house, from attic to coal cellar; normal people Floyd | only need to get into the civilised living spaces. Since the servants Floyd | today are out, it's been handed over to Aunt Emma ... which still Floyd | seems a little ironic, since she's the mistress of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table Floyd | just large enough for six. A huge bay window looks out over the lawn Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is Floyd | and why he's here. Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the Floyd | hall is to the southeast. The butler's door into the kitchen is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock kitchen" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK KITCHEN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the butler's door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock it" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK IT Floyd | Floyd | You haven't the key on you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET KEY Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the butler's door) Floyd | You unlock the butler's door with the master key. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting Floyd | and cooking gets done. You're generally not allowed in here, although Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down. There's also the Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west. Floyd | Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | The kitchen fireplace is almost big enough to stand in. It's Floyd | back-to-back with the fireplace in Uncle Stephen's study, and shares a Floyd | flue. You remember this from the time Uncle Stephen let you watch the Floyd | sweep clean out the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x staircase" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAIRCASE Floyd | Floyd | That's how the servants get all over the house without anyone Floyd | noticing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | A small unit of soldiers poses in front of an elephant. You recognise Floyd | a much-younger Morris as one of the soldiers; the others are Floyd | strangers, though one looks vaguely familiar for reasons you can't Floyd | quite determine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x flue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLUE Floyd | Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study. You Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be Floyd | paid for. It's currently closed, since there's no reason to light a Floyd | fire just yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to open? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "flue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FLUE Floyd | Floyd | You open the flue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen to flue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO FLUE Floyd | Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study. It's a pity they never raise Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ... Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "'... "Owen" ...'" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Bert asks, "Wait, is Owen our dad?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No, Owen is dead, isn't he... or wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | ||
| Bert says, "Hmm. I think he might be too old for that to be likely." | ||
| Bert says, "Since he was friends with Emma and Stephen, who met him when they were around 17/18, which was also when Mother was born." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study. It's a pity they never raise Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ... Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "While we're being evil, how about locking the door behind us?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "lock door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LOCK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the butler's door or the kitchen door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "butler's" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BUTLER'S
Floyd |
Floyd | First you'll have to close the butler's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "close it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE IT Floyd | Floyd | You close the butler's door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "lock it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LOCK IT Floyd | Floyd | You lock the butler's door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Done." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting Floyd | and cooking gets done. You're generally not allowed in here, although Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down. There's also the Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west. Floyd | Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x staircase" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAIRCASE Floyd | Floyd | That's how the servants get all over the house without anyone Floyd | noticing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "photo" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "photograph" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x morris" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MORRIS Floyd | Floyd | That is definitely Morris, Uncle Stephen's faithful gardener and Floyd | general handyman, in the photograph. He looks a lot younger there Floyd | than you've ever known him, and considerably less grizzled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x photograph" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | A small unit of soldiers poses in front of an elephant. You recognise Floyd | a much-younger Morris as one of the soldiers; the others are Floyd | strangers, though one looks vaguely familiar for reasons you can't Floyd | quite determine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x familiar" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FAMILIAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Is the familiar one Owen Davis, perhaps?" | |
| Bert says, "I guess from here it's up or down." | ||
| Bert says, "Unless we want to make another attempt at the front door." | ||
| Bert says, "But I don't want to risk distracting Emma from her conversation with Stephen." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there. Even Aunt Emma would hesitate Floyd | to trespass that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | That way is the secret passages to all the rooms that you could just Floyd | as easily get to from the main stairs, not that you want to. There's Floyd | no point going that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "...wait, where are the main stairs?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting Floyd | and cooking gets done. You're generally not allowed in here, although Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down. There's also the Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west. Floyd | Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, she might be so engaged in that conversation that she wouldn't notice the front door." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind photo" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind photograph" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PHOTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get photograph" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PHOTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the kitchen door) Floyd | You unlock the kitchen door with the master key. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | It sounds as though Aunt Emma is having something of an argument with Floyd | Uncle Stephen in the study. Floyd | Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open, revealing a walking stick. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an elaborate flower centrepiece here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get stick" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STICK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you, Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you? Please Floyd | don't." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x pistol" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] All she saw was a silhouette of a gun Floyd ] (Far away on the other side) Floyd ] He was shot six times by a man on the run Floyd ] (And she couldn't find how to push through) Floyd ] Floyd ] - Mike Oldfield, 'Moonlight Shadow' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X PISTOL Floyd | Floyd | It's a little chipped and battered, which means that it's been used, Floyd | which is even more surprising because you really cannot picture Uncle Floyd | Stephen handling a pistol without sermonising about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head. You're too young to die. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Hmm. Is there anything we wanted to do in here but couldn't before?" | |
| Bert says, "(Aside from leave.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "There's stairs in the hall plus the door to the servants' area." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look behind painting" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Huh, somehow my brain never really registered the stairs." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | It sounds as though Aunt Emma is having something of an argument with Floyd | Uncle Stephen in the study. Floyd | Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an elaborate flower centrepiece here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x stairs" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAIRS Floyd | Floyd | The stairs go up to the first floor of the house. There's nothing up Floyd | there but bedrooms and bathrooms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You're trying to get out of the house, not sequester yourself in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen are having a very private conversation in Floyd | there. Better keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a walking stick Floyd | the master key Floyd | a Bible Floyd | two pages of a scandalous letter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting Floyd | and cooking gets done. You're generally not allowed in here, although Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down. There's also the Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west. Floyd | Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINETS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x flue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLUE Floyd | Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study. You Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be Floyd | paid for. It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "enter it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER IT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I guess the matches are now out of reach." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an elaborate flower centrepiece Floyd | a walking stick Floyd | the master key Floyd | a Bible Floyd | two pages of a scandalous letter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > STICK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy. Father says he's really just Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier, Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose that stick is available for some reason." | |
| Bert says, "Yeah." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > READ BIBLE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma seems to have been somewhere in the middle of the Acts of Floyd | the Apostles: "... And there sat in a window a certain young man named Floyd | Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long Floyd | preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, Floyd | and was taken up dead...." Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "My." | |
| DavidW says, "We're too young to die." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is there anything up high that we couldn't reach?" | ||
| Bert says, "Not that I recall." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the butler's door) Floyd | You unlock the butler's door with the master key. Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table Floyd | just large enough for six. A huge bay window looks out over the lawn Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is Floyd | and why he's here. Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the Floyd | hall is to the southeast. The butler's door into the kitchen is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant spires Floyd | of the cathedral. The sun is shining and you know that the woods are Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x woods" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WOODS Floyd | Floyd | The woods look incredibly enticing this time of the year. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x cathedral" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CATHEDRAL Floyd | Floyd | Barchester Cathedral is just visible beyond the woods. You can't make Floyd | out the details, but you know it's all very grand and impressive, at Floyd | least to someone who isn't made to go there quite as regularly as you Floyd | are. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Also, Uncle Stephen would tan Floyd | your hide. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there no window in the kitchen?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting Floyd | and cooking gets done. You're generally not allowed in here, although Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down. There's also the Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west. Floyd | Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant steeple Floyd | of St Swithin's. The sun is shining and you know that the woods are Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x swithin" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SWITHIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x swithin's" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWITHIN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | That's Uncle Stephen's parish. You were there just this morning,
Floyd | trying to stay awake through Uncle Stephen's sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there. Even Aunt Emma would hesitate Floyd | to trespass that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Hmm. That name is familiar. Doctor in the House?" | |
| DavidW says, "I wouldn't know." | ||
| Bert asks, "Gas and Gaiters, maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Listen through the flue?" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "listen to flue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO FLUE Floyd | Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study. It's a pity they never raise Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ... Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLUE Floyd | Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study. You Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be Floyd | paid for. It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "(Ah, it was Doctor in the House.)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tap flue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TAP FLUE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "hit flue with stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT FLUE WITH STICK
Floyd |
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chimney" | ||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the flue. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHIMNEY Floyd | Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study. You Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be Floyd | paid for. It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "enter flue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER FLUE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "enter chimney" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CHIMNEY Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x lawn" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X LAWN Floyd | Floyd | It's green, and it looks freshly mown. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Does this place not have a door to the back garden." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cupboards" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CUPBOARDS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINETS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sparsely appointed kitchen." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it was another time." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did they have fridges in 1892?" | ||
| Bert says, "People ate less then." | ||
| Bert says, "Mostly just rocks." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Bert), "hee" | ||
| DavidW says, "iceboxes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Probably downstairs, though, I'm thinking." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there. Even Aunt Emma would hesitate Floyd | to trespass that way. Floyd | Floyd | "What exactly is your interest in the backstairs, any road?" Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "Root cellarish, or something." | |
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed Floyd | like a good idea at the time. It was better than yet another game of Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going Floyd | to be at mess in the morning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy, Floyd | grimy hell-hole. You could probably find your way back here in the Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here. Floyd | Floyd | Hardy blinks at Anderson's question. "Well, sir, what I was thinking Floyd | was, I thought perhaps we could get out by the tradesman's door." Floyd | Floyd | "There isn't a tradesman's door," you say quickly. Floyd | Floyd | "No tradesman's door? How do the servants get in and out, then? Floyd | Where does the butcher deliver? Not the front door, surely?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Yay, Flanders." | |
| Jacqueline says, "ooh Flanders." | ||
| Bert says, "Yay." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x jellicoe" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | > X JELLICOE Floyd | Floyd | Jellicoe's father was Uncle Stephen's curate back around '95. You Floyd | didn't care much for him at the time, but two years of hell can make Floyd | brothers out of anyone. Floyd | Floyd | "Hardy's right," says Anderson slowly, "there ought to be a Floyd | tradesman's door. Never would have occurred to me. Never been Floyd | below-stairs, or thought about what goes on there." Floyd | Floyd | Macdougal shrugs. "I've spent all my life in flats, myself. Setup's Floyd | a little bit different." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x hardy" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HARDY
Floyd |
Floyd | Resourceful chap, Hardy. Not someone you'd care to rub elbows with in
Floyd | peacetime, but his ... acquisitions make life in the trenches just a
Floyd | touch more bearable. Which is why you've taken him as your batman.
Floyd | Hope he lasts.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jellicoe looks from you to the others and back. "There's a reason,
Floyd | surely, that you didn't poke around more? Or perhaps the door was
Floyd | locked, or blocked somehow, or...."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Right, right," you say, "of course there was. I quite forgot.
Floyd | Morris was there...."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| DavidW asks, "yeah, wherein is our providence come hither, govn'r?" | |
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting Floyd | and cooking gets done. You're generally not allowed in here, although Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down. There's also the Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west. Floyd | Floyd | Deep snoring rumbles up from the servant's stair. Floyd | Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | Goodness. What was that all about? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs, it looks like Morris is back, propped right up against the Floyd | tradesman's door with a bottle of the demon drink. He'll give you a Floyd | good whipping for trespassing if he catches you here, so you'd best Floyd | keep your distance. Besides, the alcohol fumes coming off him would Floyd | do you in for sure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "listen to snoring" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO SNORING Floyd | Floyd | It sounds as though Morris is back, and dead drunk. You don't want to Floyd | get too close to him when he's like this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Well then." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Golly" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, now I'm wondering if we're dead." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or in a war-induced coma." | ||
| Bert asks, "You think that Flanders is really Hell?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's a possibility." | ||
| Bert says, "Enh, I assume that we're really in Flanders and alive at the time of this narration, just passing the time in the trenches. Of course, that's not to imply that we won't be dead tomorrow..." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| maga says, "hunh, I missed that bit" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Another possibility." | ||
| maga says, "or it's new" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Might be new." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This is this week's release." | ||
| Bert says, "Hmm. If Morris is in the photo, he might know the mysteriously familiar fellow in the photo. Shame he's too drunk to tell us." | ||
| Bert asks, "Do we want another hint?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an elaborate poppy centrepiece Floyd | a walking stick Floyd | the master key Floyd | a Bible Floyd | two pages of a scandalous letter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit morris with walking stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT MORRIS WITH WALKING STICK Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the image of Morris. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "He's on the other side of the basement door, I think." | |
| DavidW asks, "poppy?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Flanders?" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x poppy" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X POPPY Floyd | Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry. Poppies Floyd | and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and the Floyd | ribbons holding it together are looking droopy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says (to W), "Mmm, interesting." | |
| Bert says, "First Stephen is smoking something that gives us the munchies, and now Emma is keeping poppies." | ||
| Bert says, "I think these two might be quite different from what we assumed." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "smoke poppy" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SMOKE POPPY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "eat poppy" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT POPPY Floyd | Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "smell poppy" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL POPPY Floyd | Floyd | There's still the very faint smell of the fields and hedgerows about Floyd | the poppies, but otherwise it's mostly just dry grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "I don't really know what poppies signified before WWI" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||
| DavidW says, "sleep" | ||
| Bert says, "I would have thought opium, yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "Like the wicked witch of the west says, 'poppies will put them to sleep'." | ||
| maga says, "other than opium, yes, but you can't get much of that out of normal poppyseeds, no? Enough to set off a drug test, not enough to do much else" | ||
| DavidW says, "I remember one Sandman issue where the language of flowers was referenced." | ||
| Bert asks (of maga), "So you're thinking that our family maybe *isn't* a bunch of drug fiends?" | ||
| Bert says (to maga), "I guess that's plausible." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie ribbon" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNTIE RIBBON Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "I suspect that the poppies are a foreshadowing of WWI" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "water poppies" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WATER POPPIES Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search centerpiece" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CENTERPIECE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says (to maga), "Given the Flanders scenes, yeah. But I still find my interpretation sufficiently entertaining that I refuse to entirely abandon it." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "tie flowers to stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > TIE FLOWERS TO STICK Floyd | Floyd | You firmly affix the centrepiece to the head of the walking stick, Floyd | using as many of its own ribbons as you can get your hands on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Well. There." | |
| Bert says, "*That* surely seems like it must be useful." | ||
| maga says, "and surely poppies must have had a symbolic function for flower-arrangements before WWI" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a walking stick (with flower centrepiece attached) Floyd | the master key Floyd | a Bible Floyd | two pages of a scandalous letter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy. There's a bristly flower centrepiece Floyd | attached to one end, like the head of a brush, which makes it look Floyd | exceedingly silly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "what use is flowers on a stick without a horse?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "sweep fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SWEEP FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | You thrust the flowery end of the walking stick up into the flue, and Floyd | are rewarded with a sudden explosion of soot ... and the sounds of Floyd | Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen's consternation at a corresponding Floyd | explosion of soot on the other side. Not long after, you hear them Floyd | both hurrying up the stairs to get themselves cleaned off and changed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert exclaims, "Hey hey!" | |
| DavidW says, "oh my!" | ||
| inky says, "hunh!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "how the heck did you think of that?" | ||
| inky says, "this says red poppies used to mean pleasure" | ||
| maga says, "okay, apparently they were for sleep, peace and death even *before* WWI" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose now the front door isn't blocked by aunts any more." | ||
| Bert says (to W), "The fact that there were ribbons made me think of tying, and the stick was the only thing local to tie it to, and then the description mentioned bristles and a brush, which made me realize it resembled a broom, so I wondered what to sweep with it, and chimney sweeping had been mentioned in the game, so." | ||
| Bert says, "s/local/logical/" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | With Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen otherwise occupied, you quickly open Floyd | the front door (it creaks like the blazes) and slip outside into the Floyd | warm, summer sunshine. You're going to be in a world of trouble when Floyd | you get back, but for the moment there is nothing but you, the summer, Floyd | and the wonders of God's green earth. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Freedom! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | All right, men. Move out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, when you put it like that." | |
| Bert says, "WE WIN" | ||
| DavidW says, "woot!" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | IFcomp 2012 Floyd | Have you tried... Floyd | The Flanders vignettes | inky says, "hunh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Very well done, Master Bert." | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Thanks go, of course, to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for their work Floyd | on the Inform7 language. Thanks also to my beta-testers: Doug Jones, Floyd | Adri, Andy Joel and Andrew Schultz. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Bert says, "I wonder if 'All right, men. Move out.' means that as soon as the story finished, we marched into battle and probably died." | |
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | IFcomp 2012 Floyd | Have you tried... Floyd | The Flanders vignettes | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | > About the author Floyd | IFcomp 2012 Floyd | Have you tried... Floyd | The Flanders vignettes | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | > IFcomp 2012 Floyd | Have you tried... Floyd | The Flanders vignettes | maga says, "that is the most straightforward interpretation, yes" | |
| Bert presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] IFcomp 2012 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Sunday Afternoon" was entered into the 18th annual IF competition, Floyd | 2012, where it placed 5th. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | > IFcomp 2012 Floyd | Have you tried... Floyd | The Flanders vignettes | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | IFcomp 2012 Floyd | > Have you tried... Floyd | The Flanders vignettes | ||
| Bert presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Have you tried... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...Examining each item on the parlour fireplace mantel more than once? Floyd | ...Examining the saucer more than once? Floyd | ...Looking up the actual text of the sermon passage (not in-game, but Floyd | in real life)? Floyd | ...Examining the books in Uncle Stephen's bookshelves? Several times? Floyd | ...Reviewing the breakfast? Floyd | ...Fidgeting? Floyd | ...Swearing strongly? And again while in Flanders? Floyd | ...Swearing mildly? While in Flanders? Floyd | ...Attacking someone in Flanders? Floyd | ...Asking Uncle Stephen about Llew, Gronw or Bloduwedd, the mythical Floyd | characters referenced in "The Owl Service"? Floyd | ...Wearing the elaborate centrepiece? Several times? But not after Floyd | you've attached it to the walking stick, of course! Floyd | ...Finishing the game without once encountering a Flanders vignette? Floyd | ...Finding all the Flanders vignettes? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW asks, "saucer?" | |
| Bert asks, "Hmm. Did we examine everything more than once?" | ||
| Bert says (to W), "One of the mantlepiece items." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not sure. I don't recall fidgeting, either." | ||
| Bert asks, "What does he mean about reviewing the breakfast?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not surea about that, either." | ||
| Bert says (to W), "I think 'The Owl Service' is the saucer." | ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | IFcomp 2012 Floyd | > Have you tried... Floyd | The Flanders vignettes | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | IFcomp 2012 Floyd | Have you tried... Floyd | > The Flanders vignettes | ||
| Bert presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] The Flanders vignettes Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1) Type "xyzzy", but not while you're already in Flanders. Note that Floyd | you cannot access this scene once you've tried typing "xyzzy", Floyd | "plover" or "plugh" while in Flanders. Floyd | Floyd | 2) Ask Aunt Emma about the army three times. For added fun, ask her Floyd | about the army a couple more times after that. Floyd | Floyd | 3) Try distracting Aunt Emma three times, without ever getting caught Floyd | with the folder of old sermons. Floyd | Floyd | 4) After Aunt Emma has decided that you can be trusted to leave your Floyd | seat and wander the house, but before you've managed to cover her in Floyd | soot and send her upstairs to clean up, try leaving by the front door Floyd | three times. Floyd | Floyd | 5) Try going down from the kitchen three times. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | NOTE: you can only access a total of three vignettes in any one Floyd | playthrough. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "I was curious what swearing would do in this game. I'm sure Emma wouldn't like it." | |
| Bert says, "I know the command SWEAR wasn't implemented, but I didn't try being more specific." | ||
| Bert asks (of W), "Would you like to take over to try the swearing et al.?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Bert), "Leaving it to an expert?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If so, maga is here, too." | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh, wouldn't we need Emma back?" | ||
| Bert says (to Jacq), "Either that, or I'm getting lazy." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We have saves." | ||
| Bert says (to W), "Yeah, we'd have to restore or restart for some of them." | ||
| inky says, "hmm, this was fun but it seemed kind of slight" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we'd get our mouth literally washed with soap." | ||
| Bert says, "I think some of the puzzles were a little bit mind-ready." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of inky), "You mean for a comp entry?" | ||
| inky says, "I think if we hadn't got stuck at the beginning for so long it could have squeezed in as an introcomp entry" | ||
| Bert asks, "What about when we got stuck in the middle for so long?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought it was rather good, but I suspect that others probably felt that way as well (that it was slight as larger comp games go) and that perhaps that's why it placed 5th." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Hm, I guess it wasn't meant to be as long as we made it, that's true. Heh." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] End Notes Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Credits Floyd | About the author Floyd | IFcomp 2012 Floyd | Have you tried... Floyd | > The Flanders vignettes | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or Floyd | north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fuck" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FUCK Floyd | Floyd | If anyone heard you, they'd want to know where you learned such Floyd | terrible language. And then Morris would be in terrible trouble, and Floyd | you don't want that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drat" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DRAT Floyd | Floyd | Quite. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around. When she sees you out of Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, and grabs you by the ear. "What have Floyd | you been up to, Hector? It's the Lord's day: do try to behave Floyd | yourself this one day of the week! Now please, sit down." She hauls Floyd | you back into your seat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say damn to emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SAY DAMN TO EMMA Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "damn emma" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DAMN EMMA Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to damn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "curse" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > CURSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "damn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > DAMN Floyd | Floyd | You shouldn't say such things unless you mean it. And you should Floyd | never mean such things, ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shit" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SHIT Floyd | Floyd | If anyone heard you, they'd want to know where you learned such Floyd | terrible language. And then Morris would be in terrible trouble, and Floyd | you don't want that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY Floyd | Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended." Aunt Emma pauses for just a Floyd | little too long before going on. "All the same, I cannot say I am at Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first Floyd | place. However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful Floyd | business." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY Floyd | Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended." Aunt Emma pauses for just a Floyd | little too long before going on. "All the same, I cannot say I am at Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first Floyd | place. However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful Floyd | business." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY Floyd | Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended." Aunt Emma pauses for just a Floyd | little too long before going on. "All the same, I cannot say I am at Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first Floyd | place. However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful Floyd | business." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh for pity's sake...!" Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed Floyd | like a good idea at the time. It was better than yet another game of Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going Floyd | to be at mess in the morning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy, Floyd | grimy hell-hole. You could probably find your way back here in the Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike. Floyd | Floyd | Anderson was doodling on an old letter of recommendation earlier, and Floyd | seems to have forgotten about it. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here. Floyd | Floyd | Anderson glares at his batman. "How many times are you going to ask Floyd | her about that, Macdougal?" Floyd | Floyd | "I think Macdougal just likes hearing the Major talk about how war is Floyd | such a dreadful business," says Hardy with a look of amusement. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it's getting tiresome," snaps Anderson, still glaring at poor Floyd | Macdougal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill anderson" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | > KILL ANDERSON Floyd | Floyd | Violence is the answer to a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. Floyd | Floyd | "It's clear she's got nothing else to say on the subject," reasons Floyd | Jellicoe, "and anyway the story isn't about war or the army or Floyd | anything like that, is it?" Floyd | Floyd | You shake your head in agreement. This was supposed to be a diversion Floyd | into a more innocent time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | MacDougal flashes you a knowing smile, but says nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal has the grace to look sheepish. "Sorry, sir," he mumbles.
Floyd | "I won't do it again."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Good. Let's move on."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Agreed."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
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| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon. Floyd | Floyd | Goodness. What just happened there? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY Floyd | Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Macdougal." For some Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue Floyd | further. Nor are you sure why she just called you "Macdougal". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY Floyd | Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector." For some Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue Floyd | further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY Floyd | Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector." For some Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue Floyd | further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY Floyd | Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector." For some Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue Floyd | further. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Heh." | |
| Jacqueline says, "There we go." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x falcon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Spade said tenderly: 'You angel! Well, if you get Floyd ] a good break you'll be out of San Quentin in twenty Floyd ] years and you can come back to me then.' Floyd ] Floyd ] - Dashiell Hammett, 'The Maltese Falcon' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X FALCON Floyd | Floyd | It's a black bird. How boring. Why anyone would want something like Floyd | this, you do not know. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Aha, it *is* Maltese." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Nice" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x treader" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X TREADER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ship" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time Floyd ] if you are in your own home and they are only visitors. Floyd ] Floyd ] - C.S. Lewis, 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X SHIP Floyd | Floyd | A rather fantastic-looking ship, with a dragon figurehead, sails over Floyd | greenish-blue waves, into the sunrise. Or the sunset. It's rather Floyd | hard to tell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "How apropos." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantlepiece" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANTLEPIECE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs. Every time you Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of Floyd | other little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs. Its horn Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been Floyd | glued back on since. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs. Its horn Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been Floyd | glued back on since. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SAUCER Floyd | Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a Floyd | pattern of flowers, but you see now you were mistaken. It's owls ... Floyd | definitely owls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X SAUCER Floyd | Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken. It's flowers ... Floyd | definitely flowers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel. It's very Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out Floyd | of wood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x goblet" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X GOBLET Floyd | Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x goblet" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Grail Knight: Floyd ] You have chosen ... wisely. But, beware: the Grail Floyd ] cannot pass beyond the Great Seal, for that is the Floyd ] boundary, and the price, of immortality. Floyd ] Floyd ] - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' Floyd ] (Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam) Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X GOBLET Floyd | Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had Floyd | a mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x kitty" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X KITTY Floyd | Floyd | A white porcelain cat, with a red bow perched on one side of its head. Floyd | Rather disturbingly, it has no mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x kitty" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] '...Suppose they had saved up all my punishments?' Floyd ] she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten. Floyd ] 'What would they do at the end of a year? I should Floyd ] be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came....' Floyd ] Floyd ] - Lewis Carroll, 'Through the Looking Glass' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X KITTY Floyd | Floyd | A white porcelain cat, with a red bow perched on one side of its head. Floyd | Rather disturbingly, it has no mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Yeah, the red bow is definitely Helly Kitty." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front. You remember Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOCKET Floyd | Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate. The snake on the front is curved Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever Floyd | been able to open it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] 'A deadly struggle for my soul [said Sirius Black] would Floyd ] have broken the monotony nicely. You think you've had it Floyd ] bad, at least you've been able to get out and about, Floyd ] stretch your legs, get into a few fights.... I've been Floyd ] stuck inside for a month.' Floyd ] Floyd ] - J.K. Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X LOCKET Floyd | Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate. The snake on the front is curved Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever Floyd | been able to open it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X GNOMON Floyd | Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Someone whispers "Gnomon is an island" into your ear, but Floyd | when you look around, there's no-one there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Behold, the Trinity appears to me as an enigma.... Floyd ] Floyd ] - St Augustine of Hippo, 'Confessions' Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X GNOMON Floyd | Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "review breakfast" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > REVIEW BREAKFAST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Were we eating breakfast in one of the vignettes?" | |
| Bert asks, "Perhaps he just means [LINK] ?" | ||
| Bert says, "But that doesn't seem terribly interesting." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about breakfast" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BREAKFAST Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "fidget" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FIDGET Floyd | Floyd | "Don't fidget, Hector," says Aunt Emma. "It's unbecoming." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your Floyd | place. Or keeps you there, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs. "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...." She Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more. Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the Floyd | window, Bible forgotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "fidget" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > FIDGET Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't make you any more comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the Floyd | most boring books imaginable. One whole wall is lined with shelves Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books Floyd | stacked on it. The only decent things you can see here are the Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the Floyd | seaside. The hall is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair. His pipe droops Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead. Floyd | Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get sermons" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SERMONS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance Floyd | that it has somehow gone out. He draws a match from a nearby Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | "Hector...!" Floyd | Floyd | Crumbs! Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles but Floyd | stops in surprise when she sees the folder of Uncle Stephen's old Floyd | sermons in your hands. "Oh!" she says. "Oh ... are those your Uncle Floyd | Stephen's old sermons? So that's what you were after! You should Floyd | have just said so. I see I should have trusted you enough to know you Floyd | could not possibly mean any mischief when you leave your seat." Floyd | Floyd | She actually smiles and pats you on the head. On the bright side, it Floyd | looks as though she doesn't mind you wandering around any more, since Floyd | she makes no further attempt to usher you into your chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about gronw" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT GRONW Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks inexplicably alarmed. "We'll have none of that Floyd | talk here," he says sharply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily. In a few moments, his pipe Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about bloduwedd" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BLODUWEDD Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you. "Eh? I'm awake. Floyd | What is it, Hector?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | This one was mine. As such, I cannot review it without bias, and so I shan't. | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about bloduwedd" | ||
Floyd ] Study July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BLODUWEDD Floyd | Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks inexplicably alarmed. "We'll have none of that Floyd | talk here," he says sharply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | If I were to compare it to breakfast, though, it would quite naturally be the house special. | |
| Bert says, "I don't quite get these responses, but perhaps that's because I haven't read The Owl Service." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table Floyd | just large enough for six. A huge bay window looks out over the lawn Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is Floyd | and why he's here. Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the Floyd | hall is to the southeast. The butler's door into the kitchen is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the elaborate flower centrepiece) Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend Floyd | for a moment that you're a victorious athlete at the Olympic Games in Floyd | ancient Greece. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend Floyd | for a moment that it's a halo, your eternal reward for the dreadful Floyd | trial of sitting through one of Uncle Stephen's interminable sermons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend Floyd | for a moment that it's a magic holly wreath that gives you the power Floyd | of invisibility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend Floyd | for a moment that you're an ancient Irish druid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend Floyd | for a moment that it's a magic holly wreath that gives you the power Floyd | of invisibility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend Floyd | for a moment that it's a halo, your eternal reward for the dreadful Floyd | trial of sitting through one of Uncle Stephen's interminable sermons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Room July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend Floyd | for a moment that you're being crowned king of the known universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you, Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you? Please Floyd | don't." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you, Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you? Please Floyd | don't." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you, Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you? Please Floyd | don't." Floyd | Floyd | "This is a little bit ridiculous, don't you think?" Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed Floyd | like a good idea at the time. It was better than yet another game of Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going Floyd | to be at mess in the morning. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy, Floyd | grimy hell-hole. You could probably find your way back here in the Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here. Floyd | Floyd | Hardy folds his arms. "I really don't see why we can't just open the Floyd | door and make a run for it." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't be absurd," says Jellicoe, "we'd be in terrible trouble if we Floyd | did that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "fuck" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916 Floyd | Floyd | > FUCK Floyd | Floyd | Quite. Floyd | Floyd | "We'd be in trouble anyway, if we ever got out of the house," reasons Floyd | Hardy, not budging. "Which is the point of this little story, isn't Floyd | it? Getting out of the house?" Floyd | Floyd | "But then we'd have both the aunt and the uncle chasing after us," Floyd | says Macdougal thoughtfully, "and we'd have to try and find a hiding Floyd | spot before they catch us, and then we wouldn't be able to enjoy the Floyd | afternoon because we'd always be looking over our shoulder." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "darn" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere In Flanders July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > DARN
Floyd |
Floyd | Seriously? Your sainted Aunt Emma could do better.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson nods. "What we need is a head start. It would also help if
Floyd | no-one knew which direction we ran off in. Isn't that right, Conrad?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod, not wanting to admit that it had never occurred to you to
Floyd | directly defy Aunt Emma, as per Hardy's suggestion. You were just so
Floyd | used to Aunt Emma's authority that the sound of her voice alone was
Floyd | enough to make you stop in your tracks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hardy rolls his eyes. "Fine. Clearly you know what's what better
Floyd | than I do. Let's get back to the story."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Bert pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to Floyd | the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood Floyd | panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet. Floyd | Floyd | Goodness. Was that a dream? Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I think the only one we haven't tried is never seeing Flanders." | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Hall July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
| ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | July, 1892. Floyd | Floyd | Father is off to Oxford again, and Mother's gone with him. You know Floyd | what that means: another day in the care of Uncle Stephen, who is nice Floyd | but boring, and Aunt Emma, who means well but won't let you do Floyd | anything fun. Worst of all, it's a Sunday, which means you're sitting Floyd | very upright in Aunt Emma's parlour, in all your stiff-starched Sunday Floyd | best, trying to read Uncle Stephen's latest sermon about one of the Floyd | less-interesting parts of the Bible while Aunt Emma pretends that she Floyd | wouldn't rather be knitting and Uncle Stephen hides under a pile of Floyd | Hebrew and Latin and Greek in his study. Floyd | Floyd | Plus, it's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from Floyd | in here. It's just not fair. All the servants have the day off Floyd | because Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma don't believe in making people do Floyd | any real work on Sundays, and you can bet that they -- Janet and Floyd | Morris and Cookie, each of whom is loads more fun than Uncle Stephen Floyd | and Aunt Emma put together -- are probably not all cooped up indoors Floyd | in their Sunday best. Floyd | Floyd | If only there were some way you could escape.... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Type "HELP" for further information, instructions or hints) Floyd | Floyd | Sunday Afternoon Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Christopher Huang (originally writing as Floyd | "Virgil Hilts") Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 121213 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair) Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in Floyd | the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly Floyd | claustrophobic. Floyd | Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace. Escape seems Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room. Floyd | Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes Floyd | benignly down on the room. Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky | [LINK] | |
| inky says, "I don't really get why he's so upset, though" | ||
| inky says, "I guess because it involves adultery and death" | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | Among the many souvenirs of ancient history, you spot a duelling Floyd | pistol. That doesn't look like the sort of thing boring people like Floyd | Aunt Emma or Uncle Stephen (or, let's face it, anyone in your whole Floyd | family) are likely to keep around the house! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | Sunlight glints off a glass unicorn. Now that's more the sort of Floyd | pointless ornament you'd expect to find in Aunt Emma's collection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | You spot a statuette of a black falcon in the midst of all the Floyd | clutter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | Here's something that's not so bad: a painting of a ship sailing into Floyd | the sunrise. Or sunset. One of the two. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | There's a saucer leaning against the wall at the back of the mantel. Floyd | Normally you wouldn't give it a second glance, but there's something Floyd | odd about the design. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel. It's very Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out Floyd | of wood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had Floyd | a mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front. You remember Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Which one reminded her of Owen?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about pistol" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT PISTOL Floyd | Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend. I don't normally hold with Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get Floyd | back to your reading, Hector." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about duelling" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT DUELLING Floyd | Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend. I don't normally hold with Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get Floyd | back to your reading, Hector." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about india" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT INDIA Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wear" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WEAR Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about friend" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FRIEND Floyd | Floyd | "You are referring to a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Floyd | Emma, not looking at you. "He got a commission with the army and went Floyd | to India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector. I hope and Floyd | pray that you never have to see it." Well, perhaps, but it would be Floyd | really exciting.... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about family" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FAMILY Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about army" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT ARMY Floyd | Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended." Aunt Emma pauses for just a Floyd | little too long before going on. "All the same, I cannot say I am at Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first Floyd | place. However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful Floyd | business." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about war" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WAR Floyd | Floyd | "That," says Aunt Emma firmly, "is thankfully something about which I Floyd | know absolutely nothing." Floyd | Floyd | Your family is so boring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about uniform" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT UNIFORM Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about davis" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT DAVIS Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value. It boggles Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantle" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANTLE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs. Every time you Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, an owl saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a glass Floyd | unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of other Floyd | little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about falcon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FALCON Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma seems to hesitate. "An ... old friend picked that up years Floyd | ago when he was in Malta, and brought it back as present." Floyd | Floyd | You're sure you hear Aunt Emma say something about "dear old Captain Floyd | Davis..." as she turns back to her Bible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about malta" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT MALTA Floyd | Floyd | "I've never been there, but I've heard that it's quite fascinating." Floyd | Aunt Emma recounts a few vague memories of stories told to her years Floyd | and years ago, when the earth was young. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about ship" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SHIP Floyd | Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes. But I suppose, as your Uncle Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about saucer" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SAUCER Floyd | Floyd | "That's from Wales. There used to be a whole dinner service, but ... Floyd | well." Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to Floyd | admit it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales. I Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues, Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma, Floyd | not looking at you. "He got a commission with the army and went to Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector. I hope and pray Floyd | that you never have to see it." Well, perhaps, but it would be really Floyd | exciting.... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales. I Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues, Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantlepiece" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANTLEPIECE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs. Every time you Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a Floyd | wooden goblet, an owl saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a glass Floyd | unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of other Floyd | little ornaments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about goblet" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GOBLET Floyd | Floyd | "That is the cup of a carpenter," says Aunt Emma. You wait for her to Floyd | continue, but she doesn't seem to want to say any more than that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cat" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CAT Floyd | Floyd | "Charming, is it not? I always imagine it's saying hello to me when I Floyd | come into the parlour in the mornings." But how can it, when it has Floyd | no mouth? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about locket" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LOCKET Floyd | Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been Floyd | able to track down the owners. Well. I suppose we're duty-bound to Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about gnomon" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GNOMON Floyd | Floyd | "Your Uncle Stephen picked that up while on holiday in London. I Floyd | don't claim to understand everything about your uncle, but this gnomon Floyd | clearly means something to him." Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "OK, does anyone remember how we got her to be distracted the first time?" | |
| Bert says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales. I Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues, Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about service" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVICE Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about mother" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MOTHER Floyd | Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that, Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I could look it up." | |
| Jacqueline says, "The first time, I think, was when we asked her about Wales." | ||
| Bert says, "Huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Which we were prompted to do because of the saucer, which she told us is from Wales." | ||
| Bert says, "It seems like we must be missing something." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Does it? What are you trying to trigger?" | ||
| Bert says, "I want her to be distracted so we can leave the room." | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your Floyd | place. Or keeps you there, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about saucer" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SAUCER Floyd | Floyd | "That's from Wales. There used to be a whole dinner service, but ... Floyd | well." Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to Floyd | admit it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES Floyd | Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales. I Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues, Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma, Floyd | not looking at you. "He got a commission with the army and went to Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector. I hope and pray Floyd | that you never have to see it." Well, perhaps, but it would be really Floyd | exciting.... Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "None of that seems to make her look out the window." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" | ||
Floyd ] Parlour July, 1892 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN Floyd | Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma, Floyd | not looking at you. "He got a commission with the army and went to Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector. I hope and pray Floyd | that you never have to see it." Well, perhaps, but it would be really Floyd | exciting.... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, you just did that." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I am fulfilled enough at this point, myself." | ||
| Bert nods. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "At this point I would either be up for a one word story session or a nap and then some IF writin'." | ||
| Bert says, "We also never found out precisely what the deal was with Stephen and the money and that clerk's wife and our Mother." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True. But I'm not sure we can." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I had hope that you unclogging the flue would let us hear more, but it just ended the game." | ||
