  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd begins in less than ten minutes (at half past the hour). We'll be playing Spiral, by Justin Morgan." | * Doug has joined the channel. | |
| Doug asks, "was this a comp entry?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes! And we have the author here with us this morning." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think so. Also one that I missed." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(And BRB - gotta refill the egg nog. Presidential directive, and all that.)" | ||
| Baryon says, "Hi David" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hi Baryon" | ||
| Doug says (to Baryon), "nice to meet you!" | ||
| Baryon says, "Hello" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Mmkay. Back. One more minute before half past. So, Baryon, the way this works is that we have this bot who facilitates the game, and any player can enter commands, though we don't want any hints or spoilers so it's probably best that you not suggest any commands until after we've decided we need one or we've finished the game and there's stuff we missed that you'd like us to see." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "All conversation about the game will take place here, on this channel." | ||
| Baryon says, "Yes, great. I should definitely come here more often..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There are some other etiquette things, but they mostly apply to players, so I don't think I'll bore you with those this morning." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If you come back for a future game that you *didn't* write, then I'll bore you with all that." | ||
| Baryon says, "Ok thanks" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, shall we?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load spiral" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Spiral Floyd | by Justin Morgan Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 121106 / Inform v6.32 Library 6/11 S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Hint: important commands are THINK and REMEMBER ] Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Oops - wait a sec." | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [ Please press a key ]
Floyd |
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Floyd | And then you hear something. The low, steady rumbling of a train. As
Floyd | your eyelids slowly peel back, you feel like you're swimming up to the
Floyd | surface of a deep, black ocean. For a while, the disorientation is
Floyd | overwhelming, and you can't think about anything. But once you start
Floyd | thinking, you can't stop.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage
Floyd | It's dark, and the only artificial light is flickering, but it doesn't
Floyd | take much light for you to know that you're in trouble. Most of your
Floyd | body is numb. Directly opposite you is a man, plastered with fear,
Floyd | gagged. His arms are tied to his sides, his legs bound together in
Floyd | three different places. The numbness gives way to pain, as though
Floyd | needles are shooting out of all your blood vessels and you start to
Floyd | feel more than just your pounding heart: the tight ropes digging into
Floyd | you, the rigid metal floor, the stale air, the gag over your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask spiral" | ||
Floyd |
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Floyd | Spiral
Floyd | by Justin Morgan
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 121106 / Inform v6.32 Library 6/11 S
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Floyd | [ Hint: important commands are THINK and REMEMBER ]
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Please press a key ]
| Jacqueline says, "There." | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 0 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | And then you hear something. The low, steady rumbling of a train. As Floyd | your eyelids slowly peel back, you feel like you're swimming up to the Floyd | surface of a deep, black ocean. For a while, the disorientation is Floyd | overwhelming, and you can't think about anything. But once you start Floyd | thinking, you can't stop. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage Floyd | It's dark, and the only artificial light is flickering, but it doesn't Floyd | take much light for you to know that you're in trouble. Most of your Floyd | body is numb. Directly opposite you is a man, plastered with fear, Floyd | gagged. His arms are tied to his sides, his legs bound together in Floyd | three different places. The numbness gives way to pain, as though Floyd | needles are shooting out of all your blood vessels and you start to Floyd | feel more than just your pounding heart: the tight ropes digging into Floyd | you, the rigid metal floor, the stale air, the gag over your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh wait, I did play some of this, but I didn't get very far." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Mmkay, well, jump in when you feel it's safe." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Doug, have you played any of this?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(I know maga has, he played all the comp games...)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You can see your legs stretched out in front of you, tied together at Floyd | the ankles, shins and thighs with thick ropes that really seem to bite Floyd | into your skin. Just looking at it makes you shuffle in discomfort, Floyd | but it doesn't make it any better. In the dark light you can't tell if Floyd | you're wearing blue jeans or black ones - you think black - but either Floyd | way they're very dusty. You look down at your similarly hue-ambiguous Floyd | sweater, which is also marked by tight ropes around your upper and Floyd | lower arms. Your mouth is covered by a patch that is stuck right over Floyd | your lips: you can only make muffled, incoherent groaning noises. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It took me ages to just get started past this opening scene." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I guess if I take inventory I will have some ropes (being worn). (Or not.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 2 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Your hands are bound to your sides, and honestly, there's nothing here Floyd | that you'd want to pick up anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 3 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Carriage Floyd | You look around again. The carriage is small and is practically empty. Floyd | On the floor in front of you is a sea of dead wasps - there's not a Floyd | live one to be found. You look over at your only living companion, Floyd | tied up and leaning against the wall opposite you. Your eyes meet, and Floyd | you try to convey sympathy, and you try to read sympathy from his, but Floyd | that wouldn't do either of you any good even if you could Floyd | hide the fear. The light flickers off for a second, sending you Floyd | temporarily into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, we're on the train, it would seem." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wasps" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X WASPS Floyd | Floyd | Disgustingly, there are about a hundred dead things on the floor - Floyd | concentrated in the centre of the carriage - bobbing up and down with Floyd | the train's movement in a grotesque dance. They're bigger than wasps, Floyd | and they're red, with menacing needles for stinging. It's a good thing Floyd | they're all dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | You look over at your only companion. He's looking as battered as you Floyd | feel, with disheveled black hair, a grimy face and crumpled clothes, Floyd | dusty and discoloured. He's not agitated, or nervous, but you can just Floyd | about see a forlorn, almost despairing expression if you catch his Floyd | eyes at the right moment. Something about him is familiar, but you're Floyd | damned if you know what it is. Floyd | Floyd | [ To switch perspective, use the BE command. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your legs are tied together at the ankles, shins and thighs with thick Floyd | ropes that really seem to bite into your skin. In the dark light you Floyd | can't tell if you're wearing blue jeans or black ones - you think Floyd | black - but either way they're very dusty. Further ropes bind your Floyd | upper and lower arms, and you can feel your dry skin and lips where Floyd | the gag is stuck over them. Floyd | Floyd | Panic is setting in. Breathing getting heavy, blood pumping faster and Floyd | faster. Thoughts and possibilities, each more frightening than the Floyd | last, are starting to bombard you, and frankly, you'd rather die and Floyd | be free of it forever. Each dread is coming at you, like a spectre Floyd | from the air that wants to wrap its cold hands around your brain and Floyd | banish you to a place of endless torment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 7 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | For a moment, everything is blank. Tabula rasa. You could be anyone - Floyd | a terrorist, a psychopath, a drug addict, a prostitute, a mugger. But Floyd | then memories flood in all at once, as if you'd asked to borrow a Floyd | lighter and got your house set on fire instead. You're Helen Wright. Floyd | You can picture the faces of your mum and dad and your older sister Floyd | Mary in your house in London; you can see the bright white walls of Floyd | that house - everything white and pristine, like a hospital; you can Floyd | see yourself playing with dolls at the foot of your bed; you can see Floyd | yourself telling Mary to leave you alone; you see the park, you're on Floyd | the swings, you're down the slide, you're on your own, playing with Floyd | the playground grass; you're at school, you're scribbling in your Floyd | book, you're the last one out of the classroom, and the first one in. Floyd | You're eight years old, and the memories are still coming... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "make muffled, incoherent groaning noises" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 7
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAKE MUFFLED, INCOHERENT GROANING NOISES
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "dang, this game is so under-implemented!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 8 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | Faster and faster, your memories are coming back, and you can't keep Floyd | up with them. Then, suddenly, they stop. The last one is just an Floyd | ordinary day on the London Underground and you're going to lectures. Floyd | How did you get from there to here? That can't be the end - that can't Floyd | have been the last thing that happened. Unless perhaps some random Floyd | madman came along, beat you up and locked you in here. But who would Floyd | want to kidnap you? There's nothing special about you - far from it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "I know - surely every game implements that one these days" | |
| DavidW says, "There is more than this one room. I hope that's not a spoiler." | ||
| Zach arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "There will be more than one room if we don't die, you mean." | |
| DavidW says, "no comment" | ||
| Baryon says, "In my original design, this was going to be the only room. But this isn't the original design..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 9 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | There aren't any particular memories going through your head at the Floyd | moment. [ You can REMEMBER things. If you see something in bold Floyd | print in the description of a memory, then you can use the remember Floyd | command with that too. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, think and remember are kinda synonymous?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "(That is an okay question for you to answer, Baryon.)" | ||
| Baryon says, "No, they're not" | ||
| genericgeekgirl arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "Okay." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "be a mugger" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 9 Floyd | Floyd | > BE A MUGGER Floyd | Floyd | You can't become that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You know who you are now: Helen Wright, just another horrible person. Floyd | Your memories have come back, though apparently not all of them. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sudden clanging noise, and the room flashes momentarily red. Floyd | Your heart rate goes up. Something's happening. The red light keeps Floyd | flashing in a regular cycle, and two small vents opens on the wall, Floyd | just little circular holes. There's the sound of rushing air, and you Floyd | fear what might come out of those dark tubes. You feel a certain Floyd | warmth in the air as it hits you, and a vile, acrid smell. It's Floyd | certainly not the ventilation. Then the flashing light suddenly stops, Floyd | the vent covers slide back into place, and the train rumbles on along Floyd | as though nothing happened at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "this game keeps lying about things I could do." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "You are in rare form this morning." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "be the man" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > BE THE MAN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Ross) Floyd | When you look around again, the most striking thing is the floor: Floyd | dozens of dead insects are scattered around it, and you can't see a Floyd | single living one. What does that mean? That you've been here for Floyd | ages? Or is there a fly trap? You try not to dwell on it, and look Floyd | around the whole carriage. It's not big, and it doesn't take long to Floyd | realise that there's nothing else here, except the other captive and Floyd | the flickering light. The shadows are deep, oppressive. The noise of Floyd | the train's movement is a dull but constant clanking. The air is Floyd | stale. Floyd | Floyd | You try to think about what happened. But nothing is coming. Floyd | Literally, nothing. And who is that over there? Floyd | Floyd | Since it doesn't seem like anything is happening, you wonder if it Floyd | might be OK to get some sleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 12 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Who are you? The question bounces around in your mind for a moment, Floyd | with no answer forthcoming. But then it's as though someone opens a Floyd | tap, and things start trickling back. Your name is Ross. You can see Floyd | your flat in London, your mum and dad, arguing, doors slamming, Floyd | crumpled pieces of paper on the floor. There's your brother, hitting Floyd | and kicking you, and you trying to fight back. You can see yourself, Floyd | six or seven years old, looking at a large rash, going to the Floyd | hospital. But then the memories stop, and you feel drained. For God's Floyd | sake, why is this so hard to remember? It's there, and it's coming Floyd | back, but it's just so much effort to get it. Floyd | Floyd | As your mind begins to wake up, thoughts and possibilities start Floyd | whirling around, bombarding and confusing you. Your limbs feel so Floyd | stiff, but are slowly getting better. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 13 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | It really is as bad as it feels. Your arms are bound to your sides Floyd | with one rope that crosses your chest and one over the stomach, and Floyd | both are hurting like hell as they dig into your skin through your Floyd | shirt. You wouldn't rate your chances of being able to wriggle free, Floyd | and you don't think you could even move anywhere: three more ropes are Floyd | bound tightly around your ankles, shins and thighs. The worst thing, Floyd | though, is the thick tape covering your mouth. If it ever does come Floyd | off, it'll probably rip off your lips with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x her" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > X HER Floyd | Floyd | She looks frightened, of course. Her eyes are wide and she's looking Floyd | around everywhere, presumably trying to see a way out. There's Floyd | something familiar about her, but you don't know what it is. Floyd | She's quite tall. Very, very pale. Shoulder-length brown hair. You get Floyd | the impression that it's only as tangled as it is because of the Floyd | situation - knocked out, gagged, tied up and thrown into this place. Floyd | You flinch just thinking about it. You hope this isn't your fault. You Floyd | don't know why it would be. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling quite sleepy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 14
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.
| Jacqueline says, "Wonder if that's the gas or just trying to remember or we're just the sort that gets sleepy when things seem scary." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 15 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The beast hisses. Something rips through you, wrenching out your soul, Floyd | which floats through the vacuum of space to become part of the Floyd | machine. There's the Earth, with a whirlwind of nature being sucked Floyd | into one end of the machine, and there's a big tube running along the Floyd | top of it, until it gets to the beast at the other end. The beast Floyd | snarls. It wants more, and then more still, and then more and more, Floyd | and the machine has to go faster and faster. It has your soul now too. Floyd | You're being pulled in towards the machine, and you don't want to go Floyd | there, you don't want to! The beast roars. Floyd | Floyd | Platform (as Ross) Floyd | You're on a ledge jutting out from the machine, a metal platform. You Floyd | get a real sense of the enormity of the machine from this perspective, Floyd | as it stretches as far as you can see in both directions. The Earth Floyd | and the beast themselves are just out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | There's an unusual archway in the east wall, which is doing something Floyd | to the light so that you can't see through it. Floyd | Floyd | You're not going to sell yourself to the machine. You've got to get Floyd | your soul back. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Ah. I never saw any of Ross's 'dream', if dream it is." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 16 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ledge" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 17 Floyd | Floyd | > X LEDGE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Platform (as Ross) Floyd | You're on a ledge jutting out from the machine, a metal platform. You Floyd | get a real sense of the enormity of the machine from this perspective, Floyd | as it stretches as far as you can see in both directions. The Earth Floyd | and the beast themselves are just out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | There's an unusual archway in the east wall, which is doing something Floyd | to the light so that you can't see through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look down" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 18 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK DOWN Floyd | Floyd | The everlasting nothingness is out there, dotted with stars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 19 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | Just another idiotic idealist here, who thinks he can make a Floyd | difference but is just as powerless as everyone else, if not more so Floyd | for being such a fucking weakling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x archway" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 20 Floyd | Floyd | > X ARCHWAY Floyd | Floyd | The archway in the east wall is an unusual shape, and is distorting Floyd | the light so much that you can't see through it. The edges are very Floyd | clearly defined though, so that the whole thing looks a bit like a Floyd | sticker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 21 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | It's a monstrosity, groaning and clanking and humming as it tears away Floyd | all the beauty from the Earth. The machine gets ever faster, to Floyd | satisfy the growing hunger of the beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch archway" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 22 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH ARCHWAY Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "Cringe at default response" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "peel sticker" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 23 Floyd | Floyd | > PEEL STICKER Floyd | Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the Floyd | way to the east. You now have a sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh, new toy" | |
| Doug says, "huh, wasn't expecting that to work." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You can emote that with ; (on the channel it'd be ;: to make sure you cringe on the channel, not in the room)... ;:cringes at the default response." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's a dream. Wile E Coyote logic has a chance at working." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x sticker" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 23 Floyd | Floyd | > X STICKER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 24 Floyd | Floyd | > X SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | A dependable worker's tool. You got it by removing an arch from the Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 25 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Platform (as Ross) Floyd | You're on a ledge jutting out from the machine, a metal platform. You Floyd | get a real sense of the enormity of the machine from this perspective, Floyd | as it stretches as far as you can see in both directions. The Earth Floyd | and the beast themselves are just out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So, east to the fields of milk and honey or wheat and windmills, or whatever's east?" | |
| Doug says, "can we still go east? the archway's gone" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 26 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You bang your fist against the closed wall of the machine. It feels Floyd | somehow delicate, as though it could easily be cut open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe we can put the sticker up wherever." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut machine" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 27 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | You'd love to, but you're not sure you can do it with just your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut machine with sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 28 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT MACHINE WITH SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You don't think that would do much damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, we can cut it. But I'm kind of wondering what it would have said if we'd tried to go through the sticker." | |
| Jacqueline shrugs. "You could always put it back and see." | ||
| Doug says, "hm" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Or put it on another wall. Portable hole, maybe?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle back" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 28 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE BACK Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle on wall" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 29 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE ON WALL Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I don't think we can" | |
| Doug asks, "or did you mean undo/restart?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x east wall" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 30 Floyd | Floyd | > X EAST WALL Floyd | Floyd | The closed wall of the machine. It looks somehow spongy, as though you Floyd | could easily cut into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 31 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You expropriate the sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut wall" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 32 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT WALL Floyd | Floyd | [ You should specify a compass direction. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut east" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 33 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT EAST Floyd | Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape Floyd | of an arch, leading east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look east" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 34 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK EAST Floyd | Floyd | The archway in the east wall is an unusual shape, and is distorting Floyd | the light so much that you can't see through it. The edges are very Floyd | clearly defined though, so that the whole thing looks a bit like a Floyd | sticker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sponge" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 34 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SPONGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh huh, it still looks like a sticker" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Ross Moves: 35 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Interesting." | |
| Doug says, "yay for reversibility." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 36 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x machinery" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 37 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | Cogs are turning, machines whirring, lights flashing and pistons Floyd | hammering, in service to the beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stake" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 38 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAKE Floyd | Floyd | There's a single pole in the ground, and a round hole next to it where Floyd | another one could go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x gap" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 39 Floyd | Floyd | > X GAP Floyd | Floyd | The everlasting nothingness is out there, dotted with stars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stairs" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 40 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAIRS Floyd | Floyd | A long, metal staircase. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 41 Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The archway in the west wall is an unusual shape, and is distorting Floyd | the light so much that you can't see through it. The edges are very Floyd | clearly defined though, so that the whole thing looks a bit like a Floyd | sticker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x round hole" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 41 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROUND HOLE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the upright stake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 42 Floyd | Floyd | > GET POLE Floyd | Floyd | You give the stake an experimental wobble, and it looks like it would Floyd | come free, but you think it would make more sense to complete the Floyd | pair, rather than remove it completely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "new quest!" | |
| DavidW asks, "so, east or up?" | ||
| Doug says, "east" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 43 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A small crystal is here - a part of your soul ready to be taken back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 44 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRYSTAL Floyd | Floyd | You're not sure it'll ever be the same after being ravaged by the Floyd | beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 45 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | This part of you is encased in crystal, and you snatch it up from the Floyd | floor, wondering where the other pieces might be. They're probably in Floyd | the clutches of the machine already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cogs" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 46 Floyd | Floyd | > X COGS Floyd | Floyd | You walk up close to one of the machines. A face stares back at you, Floyd | anguished and pale, frozen in the act of screaming. You step back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x east wall" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 47 Floyd | Floyd | > X EAST WALL Floyd | Floyd | (the patch on the wall) Floyd | There's a wall to the east, but some of the cogs and other machines Floyd | cut right through it, so maybe there is another area on the other Floyd | side. What's more, there's a rectangular patch on the wall where a Floyd | door might once have been. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 48 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | There's a wall to the east, but some of the cogs and other machines Floyd | cut right through it, so maybe there is another area on the other Floyd | side. What's more, there's a rectangular patch on the wall where a Floyd | door might once have been. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut patch" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 49 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PATCH Floyd | Floyd | You'd love to, but you're not sure you can do it with just your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut patch with sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 49 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PATCH WITH SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 50 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "peel" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 50 Floyd | Floyd | > PEEL Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to peel? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sticker" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 51 Floyd | Floyd | > STICKER Floyd | Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the Floyd | way to the west. You now have a sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 52 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut door" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 53 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape Floyd | of an arch, leading east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so it *is* a portable hole." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 54 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: East (as Ross) Floyd | It's a continuation of the machine room, with more of the squeaking, Floyd | pulsing mechanisms and gizmos. A trapdoor in the floor leads into Floyd | darkness via a ladder. Emanating from it is a symphony of slicing, Floyd | cutting and crashing sounds, and there's a machine up here that's Floyd | buzzing and shaking in time with it. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gizmos" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 55 Floyd | Floyd | > X GIZMOS Floyd | Floyd | Cogs are turning, machines whirring, lights flashing and pistons Floyd | hammering, in service to the beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "down?" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 55 Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN? Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oops. down?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 56 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | The machine is buzzing, whirring and even shaking. No wires are Floyd | visible, but there's a raised bit of the floor connecting the machine Floyd | to the hole in the floor. You imagine this machine is controlling the Floyd | slicing you can hear. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sure" | |
| Jacqueline says, "'symphony of slicing' is great" | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh wait. Will going down slice US?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x raised bit" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 57 Floyd | Floyd | > X RAISED BIT Floyd | Floyd | The machine is buzzing, whirring and even shaking. No wires are Floyd | visible, but there's a raised bit of the floor connecting the machine Floyd | to the hole in the floor. You imagine this machine is controlling the Floyd | slicing you can hear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 57
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 58 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You look down the hole. The ladder just vanishes into blackness, but Floyd | you can hear the sounds of slicing blades and other destructive Floyd | machinery. Now, now. Let's hold on for... just a moment longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, we want this machine off first." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x north wall" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 59 Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | There are just more machines that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn machine off" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 60 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN MACHINE OFF Floyd | Floyd | There are no visible controls on the machine. You'll have to take a Floyd | more physical approach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x east wall" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 61 Floyd | Floyd | > X EAST WALL Floyd | Floyd | There are just more machines that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 62 Floyd | Floyd | > X LADDER Floyd | Floyd | There's a trapdoor in the floor with a ladder that leads down into Floyd | darkness. The music of slashing, grinding and cutting is emanating Floyd | from it. There's a raised part of the floor connecting the hole to a Floyd | particularly loud machine here in the room, which you assume is in Floyd | control of the slicing action. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 63 Floyd | Floyd | > X W Floyd | Floyd | You've cut an archway through the wall there, so you can go to the Floyd | rest of the machine room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 64 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "peel sticker" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 65 Floyd | Floyd | > PEEL STICKER Floyd | Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the Floyd | way to the west. You now have a sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 66 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | You'd love to, but you're not sure you can do it with just your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut machine with sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 67 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT MACHINE WITH SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You don't think that would do much damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut east" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 68 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT EAST Floyd | Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape Floyd | of an arch, leading east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 69 Floyd | Floyd | > X E Floyd | Floyd | There are just more machines that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 69
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You fall through the hole, and drop into space outside the machine.
Floyd | You can't scream, and you can't breathe.
| DavidW says, "yeah, it won't be that easy. We need a spanner, a monkey wrench, at the very least." | |
| Doug says, "whoops" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 70 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Ross) Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're Floyd | going or how you got here. Floyd | Floyd | There's that clanking sound again. As before, a red light fills the Floyd | room every second, and little vents open on the walls. There's the Floyd | sound of rushing air, a horrid smell, and then they shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vents" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 71 Floyd | Floyd | > X VENTS Floyd | Floyd | You can just about see the outline of the circular covers of those Floyd | tubes. You have no idea what they're for, but the way that red light Floyd | comes on and the way the air gets so foul when they're open suggests Floyd | that they're not your friends. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "sorry... should we restore? or see where we can go now?" | |
| Baryon says, "It was a dream, so you can go back to sleep any time" | ||
| DavidW says, "Dying in the dream didn't kill us." | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, I figured we could return to the dream, but wasn't sure if it would restart at the beginning" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, only one way to find out." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 71
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 72 Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: East (as Ross) Floyd | It's a continuation of the machine room, with more of the squeaking, Floyd | pulsing mechanisms and gizmos. A trapdoor in the floor leads into Floyd | darkness via a ladder. Emanating from it is a symphony of slicing, Floyd | cutting and crashing sounds, and there's a machine up here that's Floyd | buzzing and shaking in time with it. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "cool" | |
| smartgenes arrives, full of fun and funk. | smartgenes says, "hey" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "peel sticker" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 73 Floyd | Floyd | > PEEL STICKER Floyd | Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the Floyd | way to the east. You now have a sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut west" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 74 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT WEST Floyd | Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape Floyd | of an arch, leading west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "want to go up the stairs?" | |
| smartgenes asks, "have i missed much?" | ||
| DavidW says (to smartgenes), "Not too much." | ||
| DavidW says, "We're playing Spiral." | ||
| Doug says, "we're in Ross's dream. it's wacky." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 75 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 76 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 77 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | There's a loud sucking noise, and a small crystal suddenly drops out Floyd | of the flow, strangely intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 78 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRYSTAL Floyd | Floyd | (the piece of soul) Floyd | You're not sure it'll ever be the same after being ravaged by the Floyd | beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 79 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Now you've got two of these soul things. Something tells you there are Floyd | seven in total... at least, that's what you're going to aim for. Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly see a burst of colour floating past you, and it turns out Floyd | to be a glass sphere drifting up towards the pipe. Presumably Floyd | someone's soul is within. You have no time to save it before it is Floyd | caught by the flow and vanishes down the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x flow" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 80 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOW Floyd | Floyd | Material from the Earth is gushing through this pipe, on its way to Floyd | the beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 81 Floyd | Floyd | > X LADDER Floyd | Floyd | A little ladder leads up to the material surging through the tube. Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly catch sight of a human face, burnt and disfigured, Floyd | shooting past in the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 81 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, up or back down, I guess." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 81
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Is this really the only option? You hesitate a minute and let the
Floyd | Earth gush past your eyes. Then you step in. The flow instantly
Floyd | arrests you, seizes you, hurls you, compacts you, bashes you, forces
Floyd | you into compliance. The beast and its insatiable hunger is waiting.
Floyd | Waiting for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello, lost one," it hisses. "You should have known there's no
Floyd | escape..."
Floyd |
Floyd | You fly between its jaws and for a moment find yourself hanging at the
Floyd | top of its digestive tract, looking down at a fiery, rocky end. Then
Floyd | you scream.
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 82 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Ross) Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're Floyd | going or how you got here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm, not quite what we wanted to do, was it?" | |
| Doug says, "guess not." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 82
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
| Baryon says, "There's a press any key moment every time you die" | |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes. | ||
| Doug presses the large red button on the FREE DONUTS machine. Within seconds, the room is flooded with a thousand tiny, happy donuts, running about your feet in an exuberant dance of freedom. They then disappear as quickly as they had arrived. | Jacqueline says, "Wrong button." | |
| Doug says, "haha" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 83 Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly catch sight of a human face, burnt and disfigured, Floyd | shooting past in the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "thanks" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Absolutely." | ||
| Doug says, "now I want a donut." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 83
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Are they right? Is there no other way? You hesitate a minute and let
Floyd | the Earth gush past your eyes. Then you step in. The flow instantly
Floyd | arrests you, seizes you, hurls you, compacts you, bashes you, forces
Floyd | you into compliance. The beast and its insatiable hunger is waiting.
Floyd | Waiting for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello, lost one," it hisses. "You should have known there's no
Floyd | escape..."
Floyd |
Floyd | You fly between its jaws and for a moment find yourself hanging at the
Floyd | top of its digestive tract, looking down at a fiery, rocky end. Then
Floyd | you scream.
| DavidW says, "oops. That was a mistake." | |
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 84 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Ross) Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're Floyd | going or how you got here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sorry." | |
| Doug asks, "maybe we can cut the pipe with the sickle?" | ||
| Doug asks, "also, will the sickle fit into the hole next to the pole?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Or block it. Or grab something new from the flow. Or give it something indigestible." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 84
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.
| ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 85 Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The stake hole wanted another stake, I think." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 86 Floyd | Floyd | > X LADDER Floyd | Floyd | A little ladder leads up to the material surging through the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x material" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 87 Floyd | Floyd | > X MATERIAL Floyd | Floyd | This material has been sucked out of the Earth and processed into a Floyd | barely recognisable mush. Every so often a human form, or just a face Floyd | flashes past, usually disfigured, burnt and incomplete. Except for the Floyd | bits that have slipped out and coated the floor in a deathly crust, Floyd | it's all headed for the beast's stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 88 Floyd | Floyd | > GET LADDER Floyd | Floyd | It seems to be firmly attached there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crust" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 89 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRUST Floyd | Floyd | This material has been sucked out of the Earth and processed into a Floyd | barely recognisable mush. Every so often a human form, or just a face Floyd | flashes past, usually disfigured, burnt and incomplete. Except for the Floyd | bits that have slipped out and coated the floor in a deathly crust, Floyd | it's all headed for the beast's stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search material" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 90 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH MATERIAL Floyd | Floyd | This material has been sucked out of the Earth and processed into a Floyd | barely recognisable mush. Every so often a human form, or just a face Floyd | flashes past, usually disfigured, burnt and incomplete. Except for the Floyd | bits that have slipped out and coated the floor in a deathly crust, Floyd | it's all headed for the beast's stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take material" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 91 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MATERIAL Floyd | Floyd | You wouldn't be able to scrape up the bits that have fallen out of the Floyd | stream, and besides, it's too late to save it now. Floyd | Floyd | A burnt body shoots through the flow of material in the tube above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 92 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 2 pieces of soul (of 7) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat soul" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 93 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT SOUL Floyd | Floyd | Disgusting thought. Not even going to try. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put soul in me" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 94 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SOUL IN ME Floyd | Floyd | Oh no - you're not letting the machine get hold of it again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 95 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down, Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from. Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 96 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 97 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the Floyd | way to the east. You now have a sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 98 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 99 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | A burnt body shoots through the flow of material in the tube above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut pipe with sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 100 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PIPE WITH SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You don't think that would do much damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "didn't think so." | |
| Jacqueline says, "hm" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x wall" | DavidW asks, "We might try north or south of the central room?" | |
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 100 Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 101 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down, Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from. Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 102 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x n" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 103 Floyd | Floyd | > X N Floyd | Floyd | There are just more machines that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh" | |
| Doug says, "I think we'll just fall into the void that way" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's hard to be sure." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 104 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Can you honestly say you're above all this? Ross, you're an idiot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember soul" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 104 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER SOUL Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 105 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | Can you honestly say you're above all this? Ross, you're an idiot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 106 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Remember? Was there a past? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 107 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Remember? Was there a past? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "maybe we have to do something in her dream before we can progress here" | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "She's gonna sleep through her panic?" | ||
| Doug says, "I'm out of ideas here" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Can we switch from within the dream." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know if the dreamscapes are conjoined or not." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "be her" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 107 Floyd | Floyd | > BE HER Floyd | Floyd | You can't become that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "You can" | |
| Doug says, "probably have to wake up first" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's her name? Helen?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "be Helen" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 108 Floyd | Floyd | > BE HELEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Helen) Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide. Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ah" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 108
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.
| ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 109 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You're walking up the mountain along with all the other dead people, Floyd | heading for judgement at the summit. Grimy fear and sweat-soaked Floyd | resignation are trooping up with you. The dust sweeps around your head Floyd | and blinds you every now and then until you blink. Suddenly, you're at Floyd | the top. There are countless books open on the table. A bony hand is Floyd | holding your book in front of your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "NO!" the judge shrieks, and you're thrown forwards, and the book is Floyd | flying with you. As you soar through the air, you can see its pages Floyd | fluttering down over the rocky landscape. You manage to snatch one Floyd | from the air just before you crash into the mountainside and roll over Floyd | and over, and stop yourself before you shoot over into the pit of fire Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | Mountainside (as Helen) Floyd | You're looking out upon the enormous pit of fire surrounding the Floyd | mountain. Rocks of various sizes litter the ground, and an acrid dust Floyd | suffuses your senses. It looks like you could probably scramble down Floyd | to the south without much injury. Up above, the judgement continues. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a noise from up the mountain, and see a colourful glass Floyd | sphere tumbling down towards you. The sphere instantly smashes into a Floyd | million shards, which disappear in the dust. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I like this one slightly better already." | |
| DavidW says, "I did play some of Helen's dream, so this'll be sandwich time for me. bbiab." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get sandwich" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 109 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SANDWICH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 110 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You look at yourself and immediately look away. You don't want to be Floyd | reminded of what an ugly thing you are. You're wearing shitty clothes Floyd | as usual and are taking up too much of the universe's precious space Floyd | with your good-for-nothing body. Floyd | Floyd | You don't know why, but something's telling you that you want your Floyd | book back. You want to see your life, work out where you went wrong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 111 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a page Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x page" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 112 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAGE Floyd | Floyd | A page from your book, a piece of you. But the words are blurred and Floyd | you can't read them properly. Maybe if you were awake you'd be able to Floyd | concentrate on it? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 113 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly you're awake, and you struggle back into a sitting position, Floyd | but it feels like you've just come from one nightmare to another. Floyd | Images and memories from your dreams are parading through your mind, Floyd | as if you didn't have enough torment. [ Use the REMEMBER command, Floyd | with or without a memory. ] Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Helen) Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide. Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember page" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 113 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER PAGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aw" | |
| Jacqueline says, "mah" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 113
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.
| ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 114 Floyd | Floyd | Mountainside (as Helen) Floyd | You're looking out upon the enormous pit of fire surrounding the Floyd | mountain. Rocks of various sizes litter the ground, and an acrid dust Floyd | suffuses your senses. It looks like you could probably scramble down Floyd | to the south without much injury. Up above, the judgement continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "That's not quite how it works" | |
| Baryon says, "Sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 115 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROCK Floyd | Floyd | The whole landscape is strewn with dusty rocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get rock" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 116 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ROCK Floyd | Floyd | You touch one, and find that it's too hot to handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 117 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. You can reach it by a wooden bridge to the Floyd | southeast, which is held up by two anchoring poles lodged into the Floyd | ground. There are also paths around the base of the mountain to the Floyd | west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "more poles!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 118 Floyd | Floyd | > X POLE Floyd | Floyd | The bridge is connected to two anchors on this side and two on the Floyd | other side. The stakes are lodged into recesses in the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 119 Floyd | Floyd | > GET POLE Floyd | Floyd | You pull out one of the stakes, and the bridge to the southeast burns Floyd | up, disappearing in an instant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "huh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 120 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 121 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | (the wooden stake in the recess) Floyd | You lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into Floyd | existence, leading southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A body rolls down the mountain, screeching desperately, before Floyd | expiring in the flames below. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "not want to go southeast instead?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well lookie there. Guess we didn't need the bridge anyway." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm fine with whatever." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 122 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen) Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, and the bridge comes back. Dreams are trippy." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 123 Floyd | Floyd | > X FENCE Floyd | Floyd | A wire mesh fence topped with spikes is hugging the walls of the Floyd | church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 124 Floyd | Floyd | > GET FENCE Floyd | Floyd | That's not portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 125 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB FENCE Floyd | Floyd | There are no footholds, and besides, the spikes at the top of the Floyd | fence are not very inviting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 126 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen) Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x flames" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 127 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLAMES Floyd | Floyd | It's a colossal pit of constant flame. You can feel its heat from Floyd | here, and hear the blaze as loudly as if it were already consuming Floyd | you. You know that it will do so. You belong there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go around back" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 127 Floyd | Floyd | > GO AROUND BACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pull fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 127 Floyd | Floyd | > X PULL FENCE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "pull fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 128 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL FENCE Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "shrug." | |
| Jacqueline says, "This is a cheerful game to play 'round Baby Jesus Day." | ||
| Doug asks, "around the mountain then?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "fly above church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 128 Floyd | Floyd | > FLY ABOVE CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to fly the up above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 129 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. You can reach it by a wooden bridge to the Floyd | southeast, which is held up by two anchoring poles lodged into the Floyd | ground. There are also paths around the base of the mountain to the Floyd | west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: East Helen Moves: 130 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You follow the rocky path around the base of the mountain, until it Floyd | suddenly becomes impassable. Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: East (as Helen) Floyd | In front of a line of heavy boulders, there's a cage. A cage, large Floyd | enough for you to get into, and indeed with a door hanging invitingly Floyd | open. A thick wire is connected to the top of the cage and runs right Floyd | up into the sky, disappearing into thick cloud. You can still ignore Floyd | it all and go back to the west, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: East Helen Moves: 131 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAGE Floyd | Floyd | It's a cage, cube-shaped and made of vertical metal bars. A thick Floyd | cable is tied to the top of it, running all the way up into the clouds Floyd | above. A door, also made of vertical bars, is hanging open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We may want a pole." | |
| Doug says, "good point" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "a lift?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 132 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. You can reach it by a wooden bridge to the Floyd | southeast, which is held up by two anchoring poles lodged into the Floyd | ground. There are also paths around the base of the mountain to the Floyd | west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > GET POLE Floyd | Floyd | You pull out one of the stakes, and the bridge to the southeast burns Floyd | up, disappearing in an instant. Floyd | Floyd | There's a scream, and someone rolls down the mountain into the fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: East Helen Moves: 134 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You follow the rocky path around the base of the mountain, until it Floyd | suddenly becomes impassable. Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: East (as Helen) Floyd | In front of a line of heavy boulders, there's a cage. A cage, large Floyd | enough for you to get into, and indeed with a door hanging invitingly Floyd | open. A thick wire is connected to the top of the cage and runs right Floyd | up into the sky, disappearing into thick cloud. You can still ignore Floyd | it all and go back to the west, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "enter cage" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 135 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAGE Floyd | Floyd | No sooner have you stepped into the cage than the door slams shut, and Floyd | you start moving upwards. You look out at the side of the mountain, Floyd | and then the movement gathers pace and before you know it, you've Floyd | passed the summit. You look up through the bars and see the clouds Floyd | getting nearer. Far below, the pit of fire is still bubbling and Floyd | spitting away. You can see the great line of the dead, queuing all the Floyd | way down the mountainside, waiting to be judged at the top, but now Floyd | even the judges and the judging table look small and insignificant. Floyd | Suddenly the vision disappears as you shoot into a cloud. The cage Floyd | keeps on moving up, and you see the clouds changing colour: the first Floyd | ones red and fiery, the next ones gradually cooler, whiter, bluer. Floyd | Then you see people. People looking at you, resting on the clouds and Floyd | looking at you, pointing at you. Angels casting murderous glances at Floyd | you. People laughing. Floyd | Floyd | Then the cage stops, and you're looking out at a familiar group of Floyd | people, playing cards on this white fluffy cloud. Mark is there. Floyd | Floyd | On the Cloud (in the cage) (as Helen) Floyd | Mark, and a couple of unimportant cronies, are playing cards here, Floyd | here on this cloud. This must be the little place in heaven they've Floyd | been granted for their unshakeable faith. You get the feeling you Floyd | should be guilty, but shameless or not, there's only one thing that Floyd | interests you about the whole scene: the page of your book that's on Floyd | the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh this. I couldn't figure out what to do in this location." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get page" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 136 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the page) Floyd | You can't reach that from inside the cage. Floyd | Floyd | "What's that whore even doing here?" says one of Mark's cronies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x page" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 137 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the page) Floyd | A page from your book, a piece of you. But the words are blurred and Floyd | you can't read them properly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x mark" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 138 Floyd | Floyd | > X MARK Floyd | Floyd | Mark is sitting at the table, playing cards with two of his friends. Floyd | He's completely ignoring the page that's right next to him, but Floyd | something also makes you feel that he's guarding it. Floyd | Floyd | "What's that whore even doing here?" says one of Mark's cronies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember mark" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 138 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER MARK Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 139 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | You can't seem to do that. Your mind's gone blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to mark" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 140 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO MARK Floyd | Floyd | "Mark, look, I'm sorry about what happened. I'm really sorry. But I Floyd | was wondering... could I have that page please?" Floyd | Floyd | One of Mark's friends snickers. That's all the response you get. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Mark's friends say mean things to us. And Mark, sniff, acts like we don't exist!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cronies" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 141 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRONIES Floyd | Floyd | Two of Mark's friends are also sat at the table, concentrating hard on Floyd | their game. You think one of them is Chris, and the other one is Paul. Floyd | Or is it Luke? You're not sure. They're all pretty much the same Floyd | anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to cronies" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 142 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CRONIES Floyd | Floyd | "Would one of you be able to let me out of here please?" Floyd | Floyd | "Did you hear something?" says one of Mark's friends. Floyd | Floyd | "No," he replies. Perhaps if you could somehow prove to Mark that he Floyd | once cared about you... Which you're fairly sure is true, even if it's Floyd | incomprehensible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I love the thought that people so judgmental and crass as to publically call someone a whore get a spot in heaven." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "apologize to mark" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 142 Floyd | Floyd | > APOLOGIZE TO MARK Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "It's the faith alone thing" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Doug says, "guessing we have to find something to show him" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mark about tattoo on left bicep" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 143 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MARK ABOUT TATTOO ON LEFT BICEP Floyd | Floyd | [ You cannot specify topics to talk about. ] Floyd | "Mark, that page you've got there... it's useless to you. Let me have Floyd | it. Please!" Floyd | Floyd | Nobody answers you, but you notice Mark slowly shaking his head. Maybe Floyd | you could somehow prove to Mark that he once cared for you. He goes in Floyd | for that soppy stuff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 144 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAGE Floyd | Floyd | It's a cage, cube-shaped and made of vertical metal bars. A thick Floyd | cable is tied to the top of it, running all the way up into the clouds Floyd | above. The cage is currently shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | It's locked! "Hey there!" you call. "Please can I come out for a Floyd | little bit?" Floyd | Floyd | They ignore you. Floyd | Floyd | "What's that whore even doing here?" says one of Mark's cronies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 146 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a wooden stake Floyd | a page Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x stake" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 147 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAKE Floyd | Floyd | It's a simple wooden stake that used to be holding up a bridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 148 Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | You have an awful singing voice. Floyd | Floyd | "Can't we get rid of that horrible thing over there? I swear I'm going Floyd | to puke in a minute." Floyd | Floyd | "She's insignificant enough just to ignore," says Mark coolly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 149 Floyd | Floyd | > CRY Floyd | Floyd | You want to cry out in pain, but you also don't want to attract the Floyd | attention of the judges. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "throw stake at mark" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 150 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW STAKE AT MARK Floyd | Floyd | No! You might not be able to get it back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "show page to mark" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 151 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW PAGE TO MARK Floyd | Floyd | (the page to Mark) Floyd | "Hey, look at this!" you call. But he doesn't pay any attention. Floyd | Floyd | "We've got to be thankful for the Lord's protection," says Mark. Floyd | "There's so much evil around." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 152 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're just as useless in the dream world as in reality. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "let's keep exploring? west of the mountain?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember me" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 152 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER ME Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "I think we can only rememebr when awake?" | |
| Baryon says, "What a bad response" | ||
| Baryon says, "Yes Doug" | ||
| Doug says, "I guess we could wake up and try to remember Mark" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. I never tried that." | ||
| Doug says, "but I kinda want to explore first" | ||
| DavidW says, "feel free" | ||
| Doug asks (of smartgenes), "want to drive?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "ok" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wake up" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 153 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly you're awake, and you struggle back into a sitting position, Floyd | but it feels like you've just come from one nightmare to another. Floyd | Images and memories from your dreams are parading through your mind, Floyd | as if you didn't have enough torment. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Helen) Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide. Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember mark" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 153 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER MARK Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "where did we start?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about mark" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 153 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK ABOUT MARK Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x wasps" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 154 Floyd | Floyd | > X WASPS Floyd | Floyd | Disgustingly, there are about a hundred dead things on the floor - Floyd | concentrated in the centre of the carriage - bobbing up and down with Floyd | the train's movement in a grotesque dance. They're bigger than wasps, Floyd | and they're red, with menacing needles for stinging. It's a good thing Floyd | they're all dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 155 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Pictures and memories of being a bully are lingering in your head, for Floyd | whatever reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We started right here, on the train, as Helen." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 156 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You're not feeling hungry at the moment - not in the slightest - but Floyd | what's going to happen when you are? Will the train stop before that Floyd | happens, and you'll be hauled into a creepy nightmarish abandoned Floyd | mansion in the middle of nowhere, where your screams will echo Floyd | throughout the valleys, startling sheep and assorted wildlife but Floyd | reaching not a single human ear, and you'll be kept barely alive by Floyd | stringy, tasteless sludge that's shoved under the door once a day? Or Floyd | will you be lucky and starve to death? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 157 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | You so wish that you could talk. Of course, you have no idea what he's Floyd | like, but he can't be the bad guy around here. Just having somebody to Floyd | talk to would make things so much more bearable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get wasp" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 158 Floyd | Floyd | > GET WASP Floyd | Floyd | Even if your hands weren't incapacitated, you still wouldn't want to Floyd | touch those things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 159 Floyd | Floyd | > GET UP Floyd | Floyd | You might be able to stand up, but there's no way you can walk Floyd | anywhere without tripping: your legs are tied together with no fewer Floyd | than three ropes. And even if you could walk, there is nowhere to go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x ropes" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 160 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROPES Floyd | Floyd | The ropes around you and him are the same and are in the same places - Floyd | two are binding your arms to your sides and three are sticking your Floyd | legs together. They are all excruciatingly tight. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly that loud noise comes back, and the red light fills the room Floyd | again. You can't help your pulse raising. But it happens just like Floyd | last time: there are little tubes leading into the wall, and some sort Floyd | of gas is being pumped out of them, but nothing happens. Then they Floyd | shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 161 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Pictures and memories of being a bully are lingering in your head, for Floyd | whatever reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "scootch" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 161 Floyd | Floyd | > SCOOTCH Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember bully" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 162 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER BULLY Floyd | Floyd | Your primary school. A drab single-storey building surrounded Floyd | on all sides by the most garish green fence. You were standing next to Floyd | that little extension on the side - you think it was the Floyd | secretary's office or something - and you were trying to count the Floyd | bricks. A girl came up to you, and then she ran off because you Floyd | told her to go away. Floyd | Floyd | "You can't join me because you can't count," you said. "You're too Floyd | stupid." You don't know what happened next. You didn't care. Maybe she Floyd | went and cried in a corner, or maybe she just played with someone Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember girl" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER GIRL Floyd | Floyd | Rhiane was her name. One of many people you looked down on. She Floyd | was stupid, though. She always got the teachers' questions Floyd | wrong. She was enthusiastic, always wanted to answer, but even simple Floyd | arithmetic eluded her. Still, you were mean to her. You never saw her Floyd | again after you went to secondary school. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember was" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER WAS Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember extension" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 164 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER EXTENSION Floyd | Floyd | It was just a little block jutting out from the main building. The Floyd | curtains were almost always shut. You think it was the secretary's Floyd | office. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember primary school" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 165 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER PRIMARY SCHOOL Floyd | Floyd | You don't have too many memories of that place. The building was from Floyd | the eighties: it was ugly, but not intolerable. The playground was Floyd | just concrete with hopscotch painted on it and stuff like that; you Floyd | remember it got really hot in the summer. You spent minimal time Floyd | outdoors. You were first in line to get in, and you just put your head Floyd | down and worked, storming through arithmetic workbooks and leaving Floyd | everyone behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember secretary" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 166 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER SECRETARY Floyd | Floyd | You can't remember how many bricks it had. You did get an answer, but Floyd | you can't remember it, nor even how you felt when you finally got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember curtains" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 167 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER CURTAINS Floyd | Floyd | The curtains were almost always shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember hopscotch" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 168 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER HOPSCOTCH Floyd | Floyd | You don't have too many memories of that place. The building was from Floyd | the eighties: it was ugly, but not intolerable. The playground was Floyd | just concrete with hopscotch painted on it and stuff like that; you Floyd | remember it got really hot in the summer. You spent minimal time Floyd | outdoors. You were first in line to get in, and you just put your head Floyd | down and worked, storming through arithmetic workbooks and leaving Floyd | everyone behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember mark" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 168 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER MARK Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember tubes" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 168 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER TUBES Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 169 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | Time to take stock. Here you are, tied up, gagged, sitting on the Floyd | floor in an iron train car, with only a load of dead wasps and a Floyd | complete stranger who is similarly incapacitated for company. Now, Floyd | what does this mean? Can you solve this one by induction? Stop being Floyd | silly, Helen, this is bloody serious. It means you've been kidnapped. Floyd | But why would that happen? You can't understand why a kidnapping of Floyd | this magnitude would happen to a nobody like you. You would expect a Floyd | random psychopath to just hack your limbs off and be done with it; if Floyd | somebody is actually keeping you alive, it makes you think they need Floyd | you for something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember arithmetic" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 169 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER ARITHMETIC Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 170 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Your hands are bound to your sides, and honestly, there's nothing here Floyd | that you'd want to pick up anyway. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly that loud noise comes back, and the red light fills the room Floyd | again. You can't help your pulse raising. But it happens just like Floyd | last time: there are little tubes leading into the wall, and some sort Floyd | of gas is being pumped out of them, but nothing happens. Then they Floyd | shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember kidnapping" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 170 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER KIDNAPPING Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hold breath" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 170 Floyd | Floyd | > HOLD BREATH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe remembering being a bully will add something new to the dreamscape?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 170
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.
| Jacqueline asks, "So, we deserve to be kidnapped by that stupid girl. WHO'S STUPID NOW, HELEN?" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 171 Floyd | Floyd | On the Cloud (in the cage) (as Helen) Floyd | You're looking out of your prison at the little piece of heaven that Floyd | Mark and his friends have been given. They're sat at a small table, Floyd | completely ignoring you, having a game of cards. One of your pages is Floyd | on the table. If the situation seems hopeless, then you think the Floyd | lever that's poking through the bars of your cage would send you back Floyd | down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cards" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 172 Floyd | Floyd | > X CARDS Floyd | Floyd | The card game seems placid, but serious. Mark's hand is unreasonably Floyd | good. You can't see what the others have got. Floyd | Floyd | "We've got to be thankful for the Lord's protection," says Mark. Floyd | "There's so much evil around." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "call tichu" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 173 Floyd | Floyd | > CALL TICHU Floyd | Floyd | You don't have a phone. Floyd | Floyd | "Can you smell something?" says a friend of Mark. "It's horrid." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] On the Cloud Helen Moves: 174 Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | How do you propose to get down? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: East Helen Moves: 175 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the whole scene disappears as the cage shoots down into the Floyd | cloud. It's swaying violently from side to side, shooting down between Floyd | the clouds, barely giving the other residents chance to see you. Soon Floyd | you're looking down at the pit of fire far below you, but before you Floyd | know it the cage has slammed back into the ground and you're back at Floyd | the side of the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: East (as Helen) Floyd | In front of a line of heavy boulders, there's a cage. A cage, large Floyd | enough for you to get into, and indeed with a door hanging invitingly Floyd | open. A thick wire is connected to the top of the cage and runs right Floyd | up into the sky, disappearing into thick cloud. You can still ignore Floyd | it all and go back to the west, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps we get a phone later." | |
| Doug says, "I'm guessing that's an I7 default response" | ||
| DavidW says, "Don't think so." | ||
| Baryon says, "This is I6 anyway" | ||
| Doug says, "(Tichu is a card game, and one of the things you can do in it is call tichu)" | ||
| Doug says, "(i.e. lame joke)" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 176 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: West Helen Moves: 177 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: West (as Helen) Floyd | Looking west you can see an island, floating on the surface of the Floyd | fiery sea. A single wooden stake is lodged into the ground here, with Floyd | a recess next to it, and directly opposite you on the island's shores Floyd | are two more stakes. You can continue around the mountain to the Floyd | north, or go back where you came from to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stake" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: West Helen Moves: 177 Floyd | Floyd | > STAKE Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: West Helen Moves: 178 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | (the wooden stake in the recess) Floyd | You lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into Floyd | existence, leading west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 179 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coast (as Helen) Floyd | You're on the shores of an island, bigger than the church isle you saw Floyd | earlier, floating in the pit of fire. The great mountain is visible to Floyd | the east, and a bridge leads over to its base. There's a crater here, Floyd | with a signpost next to it that has an arrow pointing down. Floyd | Floyd | There's one of your pages here, glowing faintly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get page" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 180 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PAGE Floyd | Floyd | (the page) Floyd | That was the second of your pages. Somehow, you know there are seven. Floyd | There's always seven. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "The Snowman is on TV at the same time for the ultimate dfreamscape" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get sign" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 181 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The signpost is lodged firmly in the ground, but you have a feeling Floyd | you don't need it anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 182 Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The arrow is pointing straight down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crater" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 183 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRATER Floyd | Floyd | There's a crater, with a radius of almost a metre, and there's a Floyd | signpost next to it with an arrow pointing straight down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read page" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 184 Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAGE Floyd | Floyd | A page from your book, a piece of you. But the words are blurred and Floyd | you can't read them properly. Maybe if you were awake you'd be able to Floyd | concentrate on it? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did we try >CONCENTRATE ON PAGE ?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "(Once awake?)" | ||
| Baryon says, "No, but you already succeeded" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, damn. I missed that." | ||
| Baryon says, "No, I mean you remembered the bullying episode" | ||
| Doug asks, "ohh, each page gives us new memories?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, is *that* why we had the new memory." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 185 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly you're awake, and you struggle back into a sitting position, Floyd | but it feels like you've just come from one nightmare to another. Floyd | Images and memories from your dreams are parading through your mind, Floyd | as if you didn't have enough torment. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Helen) Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide. Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I guess the crystals give Ross new memories too" | |
| DavidW says, "I didn't clue into that. And I suppose Ross can... tmg" | ||
| Doug asks, "tmg?" | ||
| DavidW says, "tmg, timing = You already said what I was about to say." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 186 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Images from your wretched past are swimming around in your mind: the Floyd | holiday in Turkey and being a bully. Most prominent are the memories Floyd | of being a bully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember turkey" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 187 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER TURKEY Floyd | Floyd | There was that nuclear furnace we call the Sun, and though you knew it Floyd | was the same one, it definitely felt different, beating down on you on Floyd | the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. You felt very dizzy on that walk, Floyd | because of the heat. You'd gone out of your little holiday cottage on Floyd | your own, hadn't told your parents where you were going. Mary was in Floyd | the pool, and you didn't like swimming, so you just left. You walked Floyd | through the town, wandered in and out of shops, tried to talk to Floyd | random locals, who didn't answer you, not even if you said "merhaba" Floyd | or some of the other phrasebook things that you can't remember now. Floyd | You ended up on this beautiful coastal path, looking out at the Floyd | glimmering sea and the beautiful rocks poking out of it. Floyd | You were fourteen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember sea" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 188 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER SEA Floyd | Floyd | You remember looking down at the sea, and all you could think about Floyd | was what it would be like to jump in. It was a really long way up, and Floyd | you weren't scared. There was no fence on the side of the cliff - it Floyd | would have been so easy to just dive down. You knew you wouldn't do Floyd | it, but you couldn't resist thinking about it. Floyd | Floyd | Usually you wouldn't want to be asleep when you feel in danger, but Floyd | you've somehow ceased to care. You could do with a nap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember rocks" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 189 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER ROCKS Floyd | Floyd | You thought about the rocks poking out from the water. You thought Floyd | about your jumping trajectory. You imagined what it would be like to Floyd | fall straight onto the rocks, your blood flowing out to sea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember mary" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 189 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER MARY Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember parents" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 189 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER PARENTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Morbid little child." | |
| Baryon says, "She was 14" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember merhaba" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 189 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER MERHABA Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Children are often pretty morbid." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 189
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 190 Floyd | Floyd | Coast (as Helen) Floyd | You're on the shores of an island, bigger than the church isle you saw Floyd | earlier, floating in the pit of fire. The great mountain is visible to Floyd | the east, and a bridge leads over to its base. There's a crater here, Floyd | with a signpost next to it that has an arrow pointing down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 191 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You step into the crater experimentally, finding the ground to be Floyd | somewhat elastic, almost like fabric. Nothing happens though, so you Floyd | step out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Coast Helen Moves: 192 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 2 pages (of 7) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Shame Helen doesn't have the sickle." | |
| Doug says, "well hm." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: West Helen Moves: 193 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: West (as Helen) Floyd | Looking west you can see an island, floating on the surface of the Floyd | fiery sea. A wooden bridge leads over to its shores. You can continue Floyd | around the mountain to the north, or go back where you came from to Floyd | the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: West Helen Moves: 194 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You continue walking around the mountain, clambering over fallen rocks Floyd | and picking your way through dead bushes. You look ahead, and stop Floyd | dead in your tracks. In the distance you can see that parade of death Floyd | that you came from: the dead, clambering up the mountainside towards Floyd | judgement. Nobody's seen you, and you'd rather it stay that way. Your Floyd | heart beating fast with terror, you scurry back around to where you Floyd | came from, moving so recklessly that you almost fall into the fire. Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: West (as Helen) Floyd | Looking west you can see an island, floating on the surface of the Floyd | fiery sea. A wooden bridge leads over to its shores. You can go back Floyd | where you came from to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: West Helen Moves: 195 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Your climbing skills are too pathetic. You might as well just jump Floyd | straight into the fire to save yourself the bother of falling in Floyd | accidentally. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 196 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get stake" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 197 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STAKE Floyd | Floyd | The stake looks as though it would be easy to pull out, but there's Floyd | that other recess right next to it: you'd rather put another in than Floyd | have both recesses empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 198 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mountainside (as Helen) Floyd | You're looking out upon the enormous pit of fire surrounding the Floyd | mountain. Rocks of various sizes litter the ground, and an acrid dust Floyd | suffuses your senses. It looks like you could probably scramble down Floyd | to the south without much injury. Up above, the judgement continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 199 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You don't want to return to the judging table. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm, still haven't found anything to show Mark" | |
| Doug says, "or a way to get into the church or the crater." | ||
| DavidW asks, "You haven't been in the church yet?" | ||
| Doug asks, "nope?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 199 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 200 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 201 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the recess before you can put it into something Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 202 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 2 pages (of 7) Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "there isnt a clear way into church, DavidW" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: West Helen Moves: 203 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: West (as Helen) Floyd | Looking west you can see an island, floating on the surface of the Floyd | fiery sea. A wooden bridge leads over to its shores. You can go back Floyd | where you came from to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get stake" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: West Helen Moves: 204 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STAKE Floyd | Floyd | You pull out one of the stakes, and the bridge to the west burns up, Floyd | disappearing in an instant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 205 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 206 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | (the wooden stake in the recess) Floyd | You lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into Floyd | existence, leading southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Another body wordlessly accepts its fate, and flies down into the pit Floyd | of fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 207 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen) Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "enter church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 208 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs Floyd | momentarily. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't know what to do here, but it seemed significant." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x flames" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 209 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLAMES Floyd | Floyd | It's a colossal pit of constant flame. You can feel its heat from Floyd | here, and hear the blaze as loudly as if it were already consuming Floyd | you. You know that it will do so. You belong there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "follow fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 209 Floyd | Floyd | > FOLLOW FENCE Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut wire" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 209 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT WIRE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the church or the fence? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Have we tried going 'around back?'" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 210 Floyd | Floyd | > FENCE Floyd | Floyd | Things do seem quite soft here, as though you could easily cut into Floyd | them. But you'd still need a tool of some kind. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I think so" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go around back" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 210 Floyd | Floyd | > GO AROUND BACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "yes to around back" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 211 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs Floyd | momentarily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 212 Floyd | Floyd | > X FENCE Floyd | Floyd | A wire mesh fence topped with spikes is hugging the walls of the Floyd | church. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get stake" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 213 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STAKE Floyd | Floyd | If you did that, you wouldn't be able to get back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get spike" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 214 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SPIKE Floyd | Floyd | That's not portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 214 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spire" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 215 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPIRE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen) Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 216 Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs Floyd | momentarily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb spire" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 217 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SPIRE Floyd | Floyd | It's much too high, and you imagine it would just get keep getting Floyd | taller if you climbed up, so that you'd never reach the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go around church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 217 Floyd | Floyd | > GO AROUND CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 218 Floyd | Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | God's dead, remember? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 219 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | You don't think that's really searchable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 220 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs Floyd | momentarily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember god" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 220 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER GOD Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 221 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "church, open" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 221
Floyd |
Floyd | > CHURCH, OPEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't talk to the church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "deny church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 221 Floyd | Floyd | > DENY CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps Ross's memories are more helpful just now." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "WWJD?" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "Besides sandwiches, you mean?" | ||
| Doug says, "get right church" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get right church" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 221 Floyd | Floyd | > GET RIGHT CHURCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "wwjd?" | |
| DavidW says, "What Would Jesus Do" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "walk through fence" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 222 Floyd | Floyd | > WALK THROUGH FENCE Floyd | Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs Floyd | momentarily. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah, let's hop to Ross" | |
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "be ross" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 223 Floyd | Floyd | > BE ROSS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we have to wake up to remember?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 224 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Remember? Was there a past? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull cog" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 224 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL COG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I... think so." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, I guess we need to wake up." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 225 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Ross) Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're Floyd | going or how you got here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x helen" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 226 Floyd | Floyd | > X HELEN Floyd | Floyd | The girl is up against the wall directly opposite you, with the same Floyd | tight ropes binding her limbs together, and the gag over her mouth. Floyd | There's a nagging familiarity about her, but no matter how many times Floyd | you cast your eyes over her tangled brown hair, pale face, the Floyd | expensive-looking navy blue jumper or surprisingly intact jeans, you Floyd | cannot work out who she is. She looks to be in her early twenties, and Floyd | generally, you feel she doesn't deserve to be here. Not that anyone Floyd | does. Floyd | Floyd | She's currently lying on her side, getting some sleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 227 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | It really is as bad as it feels. Your arms and legs are tightly bound; Floyd | you've got no chance of shaking yourself free or even being able to Floyd | move around. And worst of all, you can't even talk to the only other Floyd | person in the room. The gag feels like a permanent attachment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 228 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | You decide to give it another go. Shutting your eyes tightly, you Floyd | devote all your energy to the task of remembering, and this time the Floyd | memories come in thick and fast, so quickly you can scarcely keep up. Floyd | And that's it. Your sad, sorry life. You're just another idealistic Floyd | idiot who thinks he can make a difference. You've achieved nothing, Floyd | done nothing wrong and nothing right. Your last memory is of racing to Floyd | the Underground and fighting your way through the carriage to stop Floyd | Reth's stupid, stupid plan from working. And you did, didn't you? You Floyd | did it. And that's all you remember. Don't say this is his silly Floyd | messed-up idea of revenge... Reth isn't like that. No, you just don't Floyd | get it. Floyd | Floyd | Some memories seem particularly clear in your mind now. Usually you Floyd | have no interest in the past, especially your own. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling quite sleepy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember reth" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 228 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER RETH Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 229 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Various memories are running around your head: the climate change talk Floyd | and the anti-war march. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember climate change talk" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 230 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER CLIMATE CHANGE TALK Floyd | Floyd | The talk was over and you were pretty much exhausted, especially after Floyd | all the long, technical and boring questions that had been asked at Floyd | the end. Various campaign groups had stalls in the entrance Floyd | hall area and you quickly lost Caroline in the crowd. You'd Floyd | been loitering in the middle of the room for a while, not knowing Floyd | where to go, too jaded to go and read the posters and leaflets that Floyd | had been set out, when a youngish or middle-aged woman spotted Floyd | you and started talking to you, for whatever reason. Floyd | Floyd | There's that clanking sound again. As before, a red light fills the Floyd | room every second, and little vents open on the walls. There's the Floyd | sound of rushing air, a horrid smell, and then they shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember woman" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 231 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You'd never seen her before and you never saw her again. She was Floyd | wearing a shirt and a jacket like a businesswoman but she still seemed Floyd | a bit scruffy. She had short hair and a rucksack over one shoulder. Floyd | Her voice was quite deep, full and stern, but it was so busy in there Floyd | that you doubt anyone else heard what she was saying to you. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe you could try going to sleep... Maybe when you wake up you'll Floyd | have arrived. Somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember rucksack" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 232 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER RUCKSACK Floyd | Floyd | You don't remember everything you talked about, but some of it sticks Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | "I just want to know the answer," you remember saying. "All this talk Floyd | about the problems and about how deeply ingrained they are in our Floyd | society, but what do you do about that?" Floyd | Floyd | "You should go over there," she said, pointing to the socialist youth Floyd | stall. "Far as I'm concerned, that is the place to start." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember stalls" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 233 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER STALLS Floyd | Floyd | There were stalls for all kinds of things, from political parties to Floyd | environmental campaign groups to home solar panel installation Floyd | companies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember socialist youth" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 234 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER SOCIALIST YOUTH Floyd | Floyd | You were too tired to look carefully or to speak to them there and Floyd | then, so you just snatched up one of each of the leaflets and fliers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember leaflets" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 234 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER LEAFLETS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the stalls or the socialist youth stall? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "socialist youth" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 235 Floyd | Floyd | > SOCIALIST YOUTH Floyd | Floyd | You were too tired to look carefully or to speak to them there and Floyd | then, so you just snatched up one of each of the leaflets and fliers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember caroline" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 236 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER CAROLINE Floyd | Floyd | Caroline wasn't in the best of moods that day, and you can hardly go Floyd | to a talk on climate change to unwind. You'd just recently caved in to Floyd | getting a soul-destroying job at a supermarket, just for the money, Floyd | and as soon as her ex-husband heard about it, he stopped sending Floyd | Caroline the money packets that were only just keeping you afloat as Floyd | it was. So, money was as tight as ever, if not more so. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember supermarket" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 236 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER SUPERMARKET Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember march" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 237 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER MARCH Floyd | Floyd | The memory has been overtaken a bit by all the other demos you've been Floyd | on since, but the first one always sticks out, of course. The anger on Floyd | the streets was probably more palpable than you've ever felt it. You Floyd | remember loving the crowd, being able to voice that anger along Floyd | with so many others. The streets were familiar but transformed. You Floyd | all felt so powerful; you could make a difference; surely they Floyd | couldn't ignore you, the people. Best of all, Caroline was Floyd | there all the way, shouting along with you. You loved having a mother Floyd | who felt the same way as you. Floyd | Floyd | What you learned from it all was: the government can't be trusted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remeember crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 237 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEEMBER CROWD Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 238 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER CROWD Floyd | Floyd | It's strange that the first march you went on was also the biggest. Floyd | You suppose it was something that tended to cut across political Floyd | differences. You weren't 'political' at 11 years old, after all, so Floyd | you suppose there were plenty of older people who were similarly Floyd | apolitical but just knew injustice when they saw it. The streets were Floyd | simply packed full. You remember catching glimpses of the sidelines; Floyd | the police were always there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember police" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 239 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER POLICE Floyd | Floyd | It's strange that the first march you went on was also the biggest. Floyd | You suppose it was something that tended to cut across political Floyd | differences. You weren't 'political' at 11 years old, after all, so Floyd | you suppose there were plenty of older people who were similarly Floyd | apolitical but just knew injustice when they saw it. The streets were Floyd | simply packed full. You remember catching glimpses of the sidelines; Floyd | the police were always there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember caroline" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 240 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER CAROLINE Floyd | Floyd | You're not really sure how it started, but you can scarcely imagine it Floyd | any other way. It's not like she dragged you into this or that you Floyd | dragged her into it: together you saw what was going on around you and Floyd | together you acted. You were sounding boards for each other, trying to Floyd | disentangle the politics. You learnt from each other. Even then, you Floyd | called her Caroline. Her husband - you didn't call him dad, let alone Floyd | Steve - was out of the picture. You didn't talk about him and didn't Floyd | need to. Floyd | Floyd | There's that clanking sound again. As before, a red light fills the Floyd | room every second, and little vents open on the walls. There's the Floyd | sound of rushing air, a horrid smell, and then they shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember sidelines" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 241 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER SIDELINES Floyd | Floyd | It's strange that the first march you went on was also the biggest. Floyd | You suppose it was something that tended to cut across political Floyd | differences. You weren't 'political' at 11 years old, after all, so Floyd | you suppose there were plenty of older people who were similarly Floyd | apolitical but just knew injustice when they saw it. The streets were Floyd | simply packed full. You remember catching glimpses of the sidelines; Floyd | the police were always there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remember packets" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 241 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER PACKETS Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember injustice" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 241 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER INJUSTICE Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "didentangle politics" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 241 Floyd | Floyd | > DIDENTANGLE POLITICS Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "disentangle politics" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 241 Floyd | Floyd | > DISENTANGLE POLITICS Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "I think the remember command is a bit of a sham" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 242 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You've established you're called Ross, you're twenty-one, a Londoner, Floyd | a worker, a servant, a groundsman. Just another cog in a big Floyd | world-destroying machine, and that's all you'll ever be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember machines" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 242 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER MACHINES Floyd | Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm still not sure if the memories are just rewards for story progress, or if they actually help us advance." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "be reth" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 242 Floyd | Floyd | > BE RETH Floyd | Floyd | You can't become that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "be caroline" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 242 Floyd | Floyd | > BE CAROLINE Floyd | Floyd | You can't become that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "be beast" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 242 Floyd | Floyd | > BE BEAST Floyd | Floyd | You can't become that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "be" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 243 Floyd | Floyd | > BE Floyd | Floyd | (the person opposite you) Floyd | Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen) Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oops, was hoping it would give us a list." | |
| Doug says, "probably we can only be Ross of Helen" | ||
| Doug says, "or" | ||
| Doug says, "so Helen needs the sickle, and Ross needs the pole" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 244 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 2 pages (of 7) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Church Isle Helen Moves: 245 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | If you go that way, you'll fall headlong into the fire. You can sense Floyd | the pain already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug nw | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 246 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. You can reach it by a wooden bridge to the Floyd | southeast, which is held up by two anchoring poles lodged into the Floyd | ground. There are also paths around the base of the mountain to the Floyd | west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get pole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 247 Floyd | Floyd | > GET POLE Floyd | Floyd | You pull out one of the stakes, and the bridge to the southeast burns Floyd | up, disappearing in an instant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "be ross" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 248 Floyd | Floyd | > BE ROSS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Ross) Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're Floyd | going or how you got here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 248
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 249 Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 250 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sickle Floyd | 2 pieces of soul (of 7) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm, I guess Ross already had the sickle." | |
| Doug says, "I was thinking the sickle/pole would have the same status in both, a la Dual Transform" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. If we roll and physically touch the other on the train, will that let us trade items in the dream?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 251 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position. Pictures from Floyd | your past, things you saw in your dream, are still in the front of Floyd | your mind. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Ross) Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're Floyd | going or how you got here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "roll" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 251 Floyd | Floyd | > ROLL Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "touch girl" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 252 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH GIRL Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach her... You're tied up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I tried scootching." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "untie" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 252 Floyd | Floyd | > UNTIE Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to untie? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ropes" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 253 Floyd | Floyd | > ROPES Floyd | Floyd | If only. But there's no way you can do anything with the ropes. Your Floyd | arms are bound to your sides, and your hands come down frustratingly Floyd | short of the rope around your shins, so you can't even touch it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "crawl" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 253 Floyd | Floyd | > CRAWL Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie helen" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 254 Floyd | Floyd | > UNTIE HELEN Floyd | Floyd | So, if you weren't tied up, you'd pick her up and take her... where Floyd | exactly? This plan seems doomed to failure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wriggle" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 255 Floyd | Floyd | > WRIGGLE Floyd | Floyd | You try scraping the ropes against the wall, and the floor, but it's Floyd | not working. They're much too strong. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wow, wriggle was in there." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bite gag" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 256 Floyd | Floyd | > BITE GAG Floyd | Floyd | Even if your hands weren't bound to your sides, you reckon taking it Floyd | off would be extremely painful and might also remove your lips. It Floyd | would probably be worth it, all the same. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lick gag" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 256 Floyd | Floyd | > LICK GAG Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 257 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | You cry out, wanting to release some anger, but the gag over your Floyd | mouth is so thick that it muffles and enfeebles every sound you make. Floyd | Floyd | You feel so tired. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Ross Moves: 257
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 258 Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 259 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 260 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 261 Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | There's a single pole in the ground, and a round hole next to it where Floyd | another one could go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 262 Floyd | Floyd | > X SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | A dependable worker's tool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle in round hole" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 262 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN ROUND HOLE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to put the sickle in the Floyd | upright stake. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we jam the machine east so we can go down the trapdoor?" | |
| Doug asks, "I tried cutting it with the sickle. Maybe if it were a pole?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I mean, JAM MACHINE WITH SICKLE or PUT SICKLE IN MACHINE" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I don't think we've tried to jam the machine, have we?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no. Which is why I'm suggesting it." | ||
| DavidW says, "We could also try PUT SICKLE IN PIPE." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 263 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut east" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 264 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT EAST Floyd | Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape Floyd | of an arch, leading east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 265 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: East (as Ross) Floyd | It's a continuation of the machine room, with more of the squeaking, Floyd | pulsing mechanisms and gizmos. A trapdoor in the floor leads into Floyd | darkness via a ladder. Emanating from it is a symphony of slicing, Floyd | cutting and crashing sounds, and there's a machine up here that's Floyd | buzzing and shaking in time with it. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 266 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the Floyd | way to the west. You now have a sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "jam machine with sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 266 Floyd | Floyd | > JAM MACHINE WITH SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle in machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 267 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | (the sickle in the loud machine) Floyd | You'd rather put things on the floor than on the machines. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle on floor" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 268 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE ON FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the trapdoor) Floyd | If possible you'd rather not drop anything important in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "block machine with sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 268 Floyd | Floyd | > BLOCK MACHINE WITH SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 269 Floyd | Floyd | > X TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | There's a trapdoor in the floor with a ladder that leads down into Floyd | darkness. The music of slashing, grinding and cutting is emanating Floyd | from it. There's a raised part of the floor connecting the hole to a Floyd | particularly loud machine here in the room, which you assume is in Floyd | control of the slicing action. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sickle in gears" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 269 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN GEARS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 270 Floyd | Floyd | > GET LADDER Floyd | Floyd | How on earth could you carry that? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sickle in trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 271 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | If possible you'd rather not drop anything important in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 272 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | |
| DavidW says, "It's already open." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "close trapdoor" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 273 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE TRAPDOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn off machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 274 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | There are no visible controls on the machine. You'll have to take a Floyd | more physical approach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "kick machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 275 Floyd | Floyd | > KICK MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 276 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | You're not going to be able to shut it down with your bare hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "kiss machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 277 Floyd | Floyd | > KISS MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | Disgusting thought. Not even going to try. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "attack machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 278 Floyd | Floyd | > ATTACK MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | You're not going to be able to shut it down with your bare hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 279 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sickle Floyd | 2 pieces of soul (of 7) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wield sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 279 Floyd | Floyd | > WIELD SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say BAD MACHINE to machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 280 Floyd | Floyd | > SAY BAD MACHINE TO MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | There's no use talking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach would probably drive 4.5 hours in astronaut diapers just to have a sip of chai. | ||
| Zach has disconnected. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "try going to the pipe and putting the sickle in it." | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 280 Floyd | Floyd | > TRY GOING TO THE PIPE AND PUTTING THE SICKLE IN IT. Floyd | Floyd | [ Verb not available. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 281 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | There's a wall to the west, but you know how to get to the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut w; w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 281
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT W; W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut w then w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 283 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT W THEN W Floyd | Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape Floyd | of an arch, leading west. Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sorry. I'm getting tired." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm. 2/7ths of the way to our soul... and this is a 2 hour comp game, eh?" | ||
| Doug says, "well, we've been somewhat slow" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get sickle" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 284 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the Floyd | way to the east. You now have a sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 285 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon asks, "Shall I start helping now?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 286 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly see a burst of colour floating past you, and it turns out Floyd | to be a glass sphere drifting up towards the pipe. Presumably Floyd | someone's soul is within. You have no time to save it before it is Floyd | caught by the flow and vanishes down the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle in pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 287 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN PIPE Floyd | Floyd | You stretch your arm out and let the torrent seize the sickle. It Floyd | disappears down the pipe in an instant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ding." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Baryon), "Not just yet, I don't think. Thanks, though." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 288 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, let's see what the machine does below." | |
| Doug says, "I bet Helen will get it now" | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That would be cool." | ||
| Doug says, "we can't get back to the machine, without the sickle to cut the archway" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 289 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 2 pieces of soul (of 7) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x flow" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 290 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOW Floyd | Floyd | Material from the Earth is gushing through this pipe, on its way to Floyd | the beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 291 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bits" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 291 Floyd | Floyd | > X BITS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "be helen" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 292 Floyd | Floyd | > BE HELEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a noise from up the mountain, and see a pair of scissors and Floyd | a colourful glass sphere tumbling down towards you. The sphere Floyd | instantly smashes into a million shards, which disappear in the dust. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get scissors" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 293 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SCISSORS Floyd | Floyd | You bend down and retrieve the pair of scissors. Floyd | Floyd | Another body wordlessly accepts its fate, and flies down into the pit Floyd | of fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 294 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It's a big pair of scissors that came over the mountaintop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 295 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | If you go that way, you'll fall headlong into the fire. Perhaps it's Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 295
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | Time to stop fooling around here. You step to the edge and let the
Floyd | flames lick your feet. You get used to the burns, almost enjoy it, and
Floyd | then you sway forward and let yourself go. The heat surges inside you,
Floyd | an intense pain eating through you, snaking round your blood vessels
Floyd | and turning you to death. You still have the sensation of falling, and
Floyd | falling, and you think you see something metal. Something big and
Floyd | metal, floating in space, consuming the Earth, but that's all you have
Floyd | time to notice before you scream your way into oblivion.
| DavidW says, "huh. A different cutting tool. I suppose it is really the same thing." | |
| Doug says, "oops" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 296 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly you're awake, and you struggle back into a sitting position, Floyd | but it feels like you've just come from one nightmare to another. Floyd | Images and memories from your dreams are parading through your mind, Floyd | as if you didn't have enough torment. Floyd | Floyd | Carriage (as Helen) Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide. Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Carriage Helen Moves: 296
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 297 Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 298 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the recess before you can put it into something Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 299 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 2 pages (of 7) Floyd | Floyd | Another body wordlessly accepts its fate, and flies down into the pit Floyd | of fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "crap, did we lose the scissors and the pole?" | |
| DavidW asks, "uh, did you not take the scissors?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mountainside Helen Moves: 300 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mountainside (as Helen) Floyd | You're looking out upon the enormous pit of fire surrounding the Floyd | mountain. Rocks of various sizes litter the ground, and an acrid dust Floyd | suffuses your senses. It looks like you could probably scramble down Floyd | to the south without much injury. Up above, the judgement continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "no, I got them before" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Foot of the Mountain: South Helen Moves: 301 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen) Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, right, you died again." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "undo a few?" | ||
| Baryon says, "It's fine" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "be ross" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 302 Floyd | Floyd | > BE ROSS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | There's a loud sucking noise, and a sickle and a metal pole suddenly Floyd | drop out of the flow, strangely intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "They gotta be here somewhere." | |
| Doug says, "aha, we got the pole" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 303 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | metal pole: You expropriate the metal pole. Floyd | sickle: You expropriate the sickle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh. Helen passed them back?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 304 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down, Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from. Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself Floyd | extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put pole in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 305 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT POLE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | (the metal pole in the recess) Floyd | You lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into Floyd | existence, leading north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 306 Floyd | Floyd | > X BRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | A simple metal walkway leads north, with bars along it that are bolted Floyd | to two upright stakes at either end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 307 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Over the Gap (as Ross) Floyd | You've crossed the abyss to get over here, and there's just a Floyd | boarded-up door to the north and, slightly more intriguingly, a Floyd | strange device hanging through the ceiling - a column of metal with Floyd | handles at the bottom. You could get back via the bridge to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A small crystal is here - a part of your soul ready to be taken back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get crystal" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 308 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CRYSTAL Floyd | Floyd | (the piece of soul) Floyd | You've found another part of your 'soul'. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Bet Helen could pass over a stake too." | |
| Jacqueline says, "woo" | ||
| Doug says (to DavidW), "yeah, when she died she dropped both the scissors and the stake, which became the sickle and the pole" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 309 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door has been blocked, so thoroughly that there are no gaps Floyd | between the boards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 310 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You tug at the boards, but they don't budge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 311 Floyd | Floyd | > X COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | A strange column of metal is hanging down from the ceiling, a bit like Floyd | a periscope, with handles at the bottom as though you could turn it. Floyd | You imagine it goes up into one of the pipes, but you're not sure what Floyd | effect turning it has. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn it" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. The handles are strangely hot, as though the machine is Floyd | connected to a furnace or something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look into it" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 313 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK INTO IT Floyd | Floyd | That sounds like a waste of time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha. guess it's not actually a periscope" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 314 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door has been blocked, so thoroughly that there are no gaps Floyd | between the boards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn it" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 315 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 316 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 317 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I'm guessing this changes something about the pipe" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 318 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a bridge across a wide gap in the floor. A set of Floyd | stairs leads up, and the machine room itself extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 319 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly see a burst of colour floating past you, and it turns out Floyd | to be a glass sphere drifting up towards the pipe. Presumably Floyd | someone's soul is within. You have no time to save it before it is Floyd | caught by the flow and vanishes down the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "maybe not." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 320 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIPE Floyd | Floyd | Material from the Earth is gushing through this pipe, on its way to Floyd | the beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need to lie down. I'm just too tired to continue right now." | |
| Doug says (to DavidW), "pleasant dreams!" | ||
| Baryon says, "Bye David" | ||
| Doug says (to DavidW), "watch out for the abyss and the fire." | ||
| Baryon laughs | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 321 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down, Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from. Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a bridge across a wide gap in the floor. A set of Floyd | stairs leads up, and the machine room itself extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 322 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Over the Gap (as Ross) Floyd | You've crossed the abyss to get over here, and there's just a Floyd | boarded-up door to the north and, slightly more intriguingly, a Floyd | strange device hanging through the ceiling - a column of metal with Floyd | handles at the bottom. You could get back via the bridge to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x handles" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 323 Floyd | Floyd | > X HANDLES Floyd | Floyd | A strange column of metal is hanging down from the ceiling, a bit like Floyd | a periscope, with handles at the bottom as though you could turn it. Floyd | You imagine it goes up into one of the pipes, but you're not sure what Floyd | effect turning it has. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 323 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to turn? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 324 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 325 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in a Floyd | clockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and it Floyd | finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a new Floyd | position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 326 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise, Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 327 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise, Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 328 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise, Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, I have to say that I should probably go in a bit as well. We've been going two hours now. We could always set a time to resume." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Though I can stay for a bit." | ||
| Doug says, "not actually sure if turning more than once does something different." | ||
| Doug says, "I'm happy to pause until DavidW comes back (or whenever)." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "That one time it talked about the column getting hot, right? But not thereafter?" | ||
| Baryon says, "It did say that" | ||
| Doug says (to Jacqueline), "ohh, right." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Baryon, where are you located, the UK?" | ||
| Baryon says, "Yes" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 329 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 330 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 331 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 332 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 333 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 334 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 335 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 336 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 337 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 338 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sorry for the spam..." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Huh. Not sure we'll get... can you turn it the other way?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 339 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 340 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a Floyd | new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column until hot" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 340 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN UNTIL HOT Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the mechanism. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 341 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise, Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline scrunches her nose and narrows her eyes. | |
| Doug says, "not sure how much it turns each time." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Doug says, "oh, we turned it anticlockwise 5 times, then clockwise 4 times, then anticlockwise a bunch more" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "But it never got hot again?" | ||
| Doug says, "so we should either turn it anticlockwise until it wraps around, or clockwise a bunch" | ||
| Doug says, "not sure which would be shorter." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise five times" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 341 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE FIVE TIMES Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the mechanism. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | |
| Baryon says, "It only printed that message once" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "f turn clockwise.g.g.g.g." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 342 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE Floyd | Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in a Floyd | clockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and it Floyd | finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a new Floyd | position. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "g.g.g.g.g." | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 343
Floyd |
Floyd | > G.G.G.G.G.
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in a
Floyd | clockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and it
Floyd | finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a new
Floyd | position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Over the Gap Ross Moves: 344 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise, Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe it only does stuff once to prevent spamming." | |
| Doug says, "hm" | ||
| Doug asks (of Baryon), "so it won't ever print it again?" | ||
| Doug says, "maybe we already triggered whatever it was" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess that's possible." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 345 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a bridge across a wide gap in the floor. A set of Floyd | stairs leads up, and the machine room itself extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "The handles are strangely hot, as though the machine is connected to a furnace or something." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 346 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross) Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour. Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x beast" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 346 Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 347 Floyd | Floyd | > X LADDER Floyd | Floyd | A little ladder leads up to the material surging through the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "It was supposed to be a one-off hint" | |
| Doug asks, "yeah, ok. Have we seen a furnace?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we shove stuff into the column?" | ||
| Doug asks, "or is that the fire in Helen's dream?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Pipe Ross Moves: 348 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 3 pieces of soul (of 7) Floyd | a sickle Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I don---- ah, yeah" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I like that idea." | ||
| Doug says, "let's see if the machine shut off, maybe" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: West Ross Moves: 349 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down, Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from. Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross) Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north Floyd | end of the room is a bridge across a wide gap in the floor. A set of Floyd | stairs leads up, and the machine room itself extends eastward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 350 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross) Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: Central Ross Moves: 351 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT E Floyd | Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape Floyd | of an arch, leading east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room: East Ross Moves: 352 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room: East (as Ross) Floyd | It's a continuation of the machine room, with more of the squeaking, Floyd | pulsing mechanisms and gizmos. A trapdoor in the floor leads into Floyd | darkness via a ladder. Emanating from it is a symphony of slicing, Floyd | cutting and crashing sounds, and there's a machine up here that's Floyd | buzzing and shaking in time with it. Floyd | Floyd | An archway leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "nope." | |
| Jacqueline says, "No, doesn't look like it." | ||
| Doug asks, "anyway, shall we pause?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But is the column solid? Or can we put things in it to give them to Helen, or is it just the pipe that does that." | ||
| Baryon says, "It's just the pipe that does that" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We could pause, I guess. Though with Baryon several hours ahead of us, he may have to wait for the gripping conclusion via transcript." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I have to work out, and I have to visit a friend in the hospital." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I'm not sure what my schedule will be." | ||
| Doug says, "I should get lunch," | ||
| Baryon asks, "When did you want to continue?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But if you and David pick it back up later I would be fine with that. I'll leave the transcript log going." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Baryon), "I think we were thinking of resuming fluidly when David returned. That might only be half an hour to an hour, or it might be tomorrow. Not exactly precise, I realize. Unless we want to set a time. I'd be fine with playing tomorrow at the same time." | ||
| Doug says, "I'm fine waiting for DavidW, or whenever." | ||
| Baryon says, "OK, I don't mind. Sorry the game wasn't comp length" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No worries - it's an interesting dynamic, and I've been wanting more dream games." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why don't we just say same time tomorrow, Doug, if you're off of work and around and such?" | ||
| Doug says, "I think we're unstuck, for now" | ||
| Doug says, "I won't be around tomorrow until 3 or 4. having a late lunch with family" | ||
| Doug says, "but you can play wthout me, of course." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, well, I will leave the transcript running. If you and David are both on, feel free to continue. I may be away quite a bit today." | ||
| Doug says, "okey doke. seeya." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Baryon), "I'll let you know when the transcript gets posted, and of course feel free to leave your mudwindow open and see if they pick it back up." | ||
| Baryon says, "Yeah, OK. Thanks Jacqueline" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Has it been at all interesting to watch other people play it in real time?" | ||
| Baryon exclaims, "Yes, it's been amazing!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, there's that, at least. Yay. Thanks, Baryon." | ||
| Baryon says, "See you" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "See ya." | ||
| *** LATER *** | ||
| Miseri arrives, full of fun and funk. | Miseri says, "Aw, I missed Justin Morgan? I wanted to give him the third degree on What Does It All Mean." | |
| *** LATER *** | ||
| DavidW asks, "So, I'm awake again. (It's 8pm now.) How did it go?" | ||
| Doug says (to DavidW), "good morning!" | ||
| Doug says, "we played a little more, then decided to pause" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We broke it off not long after you went to lie down." | ||
| Amanda asks, "what are you guys up to right now?" | ||
| Doug says, "I just ordered dinner, but I'd be up for resuming after 30 mins or so" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was about to play something, but the transcript is still going and I would be watching." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I wasn't contributing too much, but am interested in where it goes." | ||
| Amanda says, "I heard ya'll were doin the comp games" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah. We were doing Spiral." | ||
| DavidW says, "I was hoping that once you guys figured out how to pass objects between the PCs that the rest of the game would be a lot easier." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, we really didn't play much longer." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, at all." | ||
| Amanda says, "Oh, Spiral is an interesting one" | ||
| DavidW says, "hi Amanda" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Amanda, have you finished it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Spiral, I mean." | ||
| Amanda says, "I have! I was in the comp, so, I won't spoil anything" | ||
| Amanda says, "Though I will say, without spoiling, that I found the ending moves a little buggy" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Yeah, we don't want spoilers... though I can't say as I think we won't eventually want them. . o O (How's that for crazy sentence construction?)" | ||
| Amanda exclaims, "Makes sense!" | ||
| Amanda says, "I need to get out a post-comp release of my buggy game" | ||
| Doug says, "me too! :(" | ||
| DavidW says, "Sorry that I had to crash, but I really did fall asleep shortly after I stopped talking." | ||
| Ellison says (to DW), "I think the point is, while you sleep, there's supposed to be another person trying to solve things (or is it vice versa?)" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Ellison), "uh, everyone should be trying to solve things, no?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we didn't want him to MISS ANYTHING" | ||
| Ellison says (to DavidW), "I was trying to make a joke about the game mechanics" | ||
| DavidW says, "ooooh" | ||
| Jacqueline narrows her eyes. "... but ... we're helpless and self-doubting (either player, take your pick)." | ||
| Doug says (to Ellison), "nice" | ||
| *** LATER *** | ||
| DavidW says, "ok, I have a partial map of Spiral cobbled together from my notes. [LINK]" | ||
| *** LATER *** | ||
| DavidW says, "uh, hope people won't be too upset with me, but I continued Spiral on my own last night." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "How did it go for you? Did you finish, David?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I finished, but I got one of four unsatisfactory endings. The game said there's two satisfactory endings." | ||
| DavidW says, "I know how to acquire all 7 soul parts for both PCs." | ||
| Zach says, "How was the session? I ended up being too busy to follow or play." | ||
| DavidW says, "The session was good until the point I had to lie down because of exhaustion." | ||
| Zach says, "No wonder you've been so hungry." | ||
| DavidW says, "I was quite pleased that the mechanic of exchanging items was discovered just before that point, because I was sure that was a major breakthrough." | ||
| Baryon says, "The item-exchanging mechanic has been rightly criticised..." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh? I rather liked that part. It just took ages to discover it." | ||
| Baryon says, "Because it feels like destroying the items" | ||
| Baryon says, "It was hinted, but still" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. Yes, I can see that being confusing for some players." | ||
| DavidW says, "IF players are trained to be hoarders and kleptos. They don't like destroying their hard-won booty, it's true." | ||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, once item exchange was possible, it wasn't too difficult to find most of the soul parts. I was a bit stuck getting into the church, but that's because I forgot something discovered much earlier." | ||
| DavidW says, "And then some of the game rules, uh, changed, so I'm still puzzling out the endgame, thinking of possible options." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I suspect I should probably just wrap up the transcript as is, as we probably won't continue it, but that happens from time to time - less because of the game's quality than just because of its length (and CF always goes through games far slower than a single person generally would)." | ||
| Baryon says, "OK, that's all fine" | ||
| Baryon says (to DavidW), "Finding a successful ending shouldn't be too hard now, if you wanted to" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I guess I should say, while you're here, that I thought the dream sequences were very well done. Perhaps a bit more randomization on dialog and bodies rolling by, but really well done." | ||
| DavidW says, "I've updated my maps and added rough notes: [LINK]" | ||
| Baryon says, "Thanks" | ||
| DavidW says, "Spoilers galore, of course." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "For the CF transcript, is that a temp link, or one of those 'tmp' links that will stay there for ever?" | ||
| DavidW says, "That's temporary. I'll want to rename it to spira12.html later." | ||
| Baryon says, "Wow, those are detailed notes" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So the eventual link will probably be... [LINK] ?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes" | ||
| Baryon says, "The game's written in I6 by the way" | ||
| DavidW says (to Baryon), "oh right, you said that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I heard you mention that yesterday." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm curious why you went with I6." | ||
| Baryon says, "It was the only I6 game in the comp" | ||
| Baryon says, "I tried to learn I7 but I didn't like it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I used to code in I6, but don't go back to it very much at all these days..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, okay. Fair enough." | ||
| Baryon says, "It's funny I seem to be the only one who hasn't switched to I7" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think you're entirely alone." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "For some people it just feels like too big a deviation from code to still be code even though it's very much code." | ||
| Baryon says, "That's my feeling exactly" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't know if that's your reason for not liking it, but I've -- well there you go." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I7 is a different *type* of code. It took me ages to figure out how to think that way for it. But it does get easier over time." | ||
| Baryon asks (of DavidW), "Have you written games in it then?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Still, I6 has its good points too." | ||
| DavidW says (to Baryon), "uhhhh, I haven't written any new games in I7, but I did port an ADRIFT game to I7." | ||
| Baryon says, "OK" | ||
| DavidW says, "And I have some WIPs that I'm also porting from I6 to I7." | ||
| Baryon says, "I7 has some attractive features, for sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect two of the pushes behind I7 was to get rid of parse_name and objectloop from the syntax." | ||
| zarf says, "I know Emily specifically asked Graham to never have to write a parse_name again" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, I remember Emily saying that very thing once." | ||
| Baryon says, "I can certainly appreciate that" | ||
| zarf says, "(unfortunately we occasionally get coding questions to which the answer is 'well, you could do that in I6 by writing a parse_name routine, but not in I7'" | ||
| Baryon says, "Oh, that's interesting" | ||
| DavidW says, "Although I have to say, I found parse_name and your (zarf's) parse_name examples extremely helpful in writing 69,105 Keys." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wrote 69,105 Key in I6 because I didn't see how it could be written in I7. Emily suggested that a Before parsing the player's command rule could be a way I could've written it in I7." | ||
| zarf says, "If I had to write it in I7, I'd write an I6 function and manually change the objects' parse_name routine to that address at startup time." | ||
| DavidW says, "heh. Some might call that cheating, but of course all is fair behind the curtain." | ||
| zarf says, "the first rule of IF coding is: get it to do what you need and move on." | ||
| DavidW says, "mmhm. Wise words." | ||
| Roger says, "I'm always a fan of brutalism" | ||
| DavidW says, "I remember once finding a website that had pictures that a fan had taken during a backstage tour of The Price Is Right game show, and suffice it to say, the back views of all those fancy pricing games look a lot less pretty than the side that faces the audience." | ||
