  
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.
To skip directly to a particular game, click on its title: |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline exclaims, "So, ahem. WELCOME EVERYONE AND HAPPY NOT-APOCALYPTIC NEW YEAR!" | ||
| DavidW says, "The year is '13. Plenty of time for an apocalypse." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We have five Ultimate Not Numbered New Year's Speeds" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Is there anyone here who either knows their game is very short or who will be leaving later and wants to see their game played? If so, we'll play that game first." | ||
| Tale says, "I'm the opposite on both counts" | ||
| Nitku says, "Well, mine is very short and not really suitable for CF play" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh?" | ||
| Nitku says, "because it has stuff that works online only" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, we'll miss a lot because of audio/visual or - yeah" | ||
| Roger arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline asks, "So, what would you like us to do? Not play it?" | |
| PaulS says, "Mine is a bit long." | ||
| Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Nitku says, "no, you can try it" | |
| Nitku says, "now that I made the I7 version and all" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Mine is fairly short, unless people spin on it too much, but I've tried to clue it better than when the beta testers flailed with it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, well, let's try that first, then, Nitku." | ||
| djfletch says, "Mine sort of depends how long you take to get bored of it. I'm not going anywhere, anyway." | ||
| Jota asks, "Man, speedIF with betatesters?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Speed-if with _testers_?" | ||
| Tale says, "Mine takes about 60 turns to win, bust most stuff should be fairly obvious." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I know, I know." | ||
| Jota says, "Worst speedIF ever." | ||
| djfletch says, "That's just going to make the rest of us look bad." | ||
| DavidW says, "Kids these days." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry about that." | Jacqueline says, "Sorry about that." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask exnihilo" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are about to play the text-only version of Ex Nihilo. If Floyd | at all possible, you are encouraged to play the full online version at Floyd | [LINK] for a more complete experience. Apart Floyd | from the multimedia features, this version is missing a "magic Floyd | ingredient" which is impossible to replicate offline. Floyd | Floyd | The usual parser is replaced by a keyword interface. Play by typing Floyd | capitalized keywords or as otherwise instructed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Tale says, "But the NY Speeds are all about being embarassed" | |
| Jota says, "If you spend more than a few hours on a game, it seems inappropriate to call it speedIF." | ||
| Jota asks, "I mean, where do you draw the line? Should Emily call Counterfeit Monkey a speedIF too?" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] room 1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the beginning there was nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | From nothing LIGHT and DARKNESS were born.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Tale says, "Yes, it will be called a Minicomp next year, okay. I had this discussion before." | |
| Nitku says, "(this might be better without sleepmask)" | ||
| Jota says (to Tale), "Well, OK, but I still think a little bit more shaming will be required." | ||
| Jota says (to Tale), "We'll see if we can arrange something with a tutu tomorrow." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I spent less than twelve hours on it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] room 1 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | "x light" is not a valid keyword at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tutu says, "Okay..." | |
| Jota says, "Hee." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And wrote it in two sittings." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light" | ||
Floyd ] room 1 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | I watched the universe define itself around me. Particles, atoms and Floyd | molecules engaged in an intricate dance formed more and more complex Floyd | structures. Floyd | Floyd | For eons I was ALONE. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I suggest you restart with sleepmask off" | |
| Tale says, "Okay, not sure how we do that." | ||
| Nitku says, "I didn't remember Floyd shows status line nowadays and didn't bother to remove it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. One sec." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] room 1 Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | Floyd | "quit" is not a valid keyword at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit" | ||
Floyd | %% Quitting! Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "yay force-quit" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load exnihilo" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are about to play the text-only version of Ex Nihilo. If at all Floyd | possible, you are encouraged to play the full online version at Floyd | [LINK] for a more complete experience. Apart from Floyd | the multimedia features, this version is missing a "magic ingredient" Floyd | which is impossible to replicate offline. Floyd | Floyd | The usual parser is replaced by a keyword interface. Play by typing Floyd | capitalized keywords or as otherwise instructed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Nitku says, "thanks" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I am playing offline, too, and it is awesome." | ||
| Tale says, "If only that worked for relationships" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the beginning there was nothing. Floyd | Floyd | From nothing LIGHT and DARKNESS were born. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "darkness" | ||
Floyd | >I watched the universe define itself around me. Particles, atoms and Floyd | molecules engaged in an intricate dance formed more and more complex Floyd | structures. Floyd | Floyd | For eons I was ALONE. Floyd | | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ALONE" | ||
Floyd | >"ALONE" is not a valid keyword at the moment. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | >I beg your pardon? Floyd | | Nitku says, "wait, crap" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "alone" | ||
Floyd | >ANXIOUS - ANGRY - ENTHUSIASTIC - FORSAKEN Floyd | | Nitku says, "oh, good. Lowercase only :)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "anxious" | ||
Floyd | >I was anxious to find a purpose. Floyd | Floyd | I scoured the universe but found no solace. Floyd | Floyd | Until I stumbled upon a world home to a curious kind of creatures who Floyd | were ready to accept CONTROL and INFLUENCE. Floyd | | Tale asks, "Should we vote here or just randomly choose stuff?" | |
| DavidW says (to Tale), "yeah, I was wondering about that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am fine with random, but then, I'm exploring this in the browser as well." | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps just randomly choosing is going too fast for everyone," | ||
| Tale asks, "Okay, raise hands - Control or influence?" | ||
| Tale says, "Control" | ||
| DavidW says, "influence -- more sneaky" | ||
| djfletch says, "influence" | ||
| Baryon says, ""influence" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And I must say, if we should be giving anyone crap about a solid speed... I think it's Nitku. This is really lovely." | ||
| Tale says, "The browser version is fantastic." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| Nitku says, "aww shucks" | ||
| DavidW asks, "How is the browser version different? Pictures? Music?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "influence" | ||
Floyd | >They were like clay in my grip, fulfilling my every wish while Floyd | believing they did it in their own free will. I guided them to wage WAR Floyd | and spread CHAOS around them. Floyd | | DavidW says, "vote chaos" | |
| Tale says, "Chaos" | ||
| Baryon says, "chaos" | ||
| PaulS says, "chaos" | ||
| djfletch says, "chaos" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "chaos" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's got music that is altered by the mode of the game and what you've chosen, and words move around the screen, and there are graphics." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. What's up." | ||
| DavidW says, "dunno" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "CHAOS" | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "chaos" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "test" | Jacqueline says, "Hm, I am going to force quit him again, to see if he's even here." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit" | DavidW asks, "You think we lost Floyd entirely?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Um, Bert? Ideas?" | ||
| maga asks, "so are the text entries stored in the online version and served up to later players?" | ||
| Tale says, "Bert is gone." | ||
| PaulS says, "Well, we did choose chaos." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps Bert has left us, scandalized that I tested my game." | ||
| Jota asks, "Hmm? Was I supposed to be paying attention?" | ||
| Jota arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says (to Paul), "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh look, here's Jota." | ||
| Jota asks, "What's up?" | Tale says, "No he left because vimes hasn't submitted a game." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Floyd is not responding." | ||
| Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "Hey, you. Wake up." | Jacqueline says, "Ah, that's a good reason, too." | |
| Floyd says, "game ended by request of Jota." | ||
| Jacqueline smacks Floyd. | ||
| Jota asks (of Floyd), "Feeling better?" | ||
| Floyd says (to Jota), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Oops, sorry about that. It was for your own good." | ||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||
| Limax arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Lionheart says, "Maybe he was playing Hider and Seeker in plain sight." | Limax says, "Man... I must be tired... I just wandered into the closet" | |
| Jota asks, "All set now?" | Jacqueline asks, "Well, should we try it again, or ... ?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Jota), "Well, unless we try to play it again." | Tale says, "Sure, why not." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load exnihilo" | ||
Floyd | >Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are about to play the text-only version of Ex Nihilo. If at all Floyd | possible, you are encouraged to play the full online version at Floyd | [LINK] for a more complete experience. Apart from Floyd | the multimedia features, this version is missing a "magic ingredient" Floyd | which is impossible to replicate offline. Floyd | Floyd | The usual parser is replaced by a keyword interface. Play by typing Floyd | capitalized keywords or as otherwise instructed. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "As long as we can recover Floyd if he hangs again." | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the beginning there was nothing. Floyd | Floyd | From nothing LIGHT and DARKNESS were born. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "Light, this time?" | |
| Jota says, "I snapped him out of it just by paging 'quit' to him." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I shall now watch what you all do, and click through at home, and ooh and ahh and stuff and pray we don't hang Floyd again." | ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nothing" | ||
Floyd | >"nothing" is not a valid keyword at the moment. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Jota), "Okay, thanks." | |
| Jota has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light" | ||
Floyd | >I watched the universe define itself around me. Particles, atoms and Floyd | molecules engaged in an intricate dance formed more and more complex Floyd | structures. Floyd | Floyd | For eons I was ALONE. Floyd | | vimes says, "you should likewise be able to do 'f %quit'" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "alone" | ||
Floyd | >RESTLESS - LONELY - HOPEFUL - DEPRESSED Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lonely" | ||
Floyd | >Being lonely was what defined me. Floyd | Floyd | I sought the company of my kind, even though I knew there was no-one Floyd | else. I was craving for SOLITUDE and desperate for CONTACT. Floyd | | ||
| vimes arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Limax says, "This reminds me of Aisle" | |
| DavidW says, "vote contact" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Contact" | ||
| djfletch says, "contact" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "contact" | ||
Floyd | >I travelled the universe to find an escape from the loneliness. Ages Floyd | passed and I found a world that was inhabited by creatures much unlike Floyd | me. Still, they were there for me. Floyd | Floyd | Now that I had found them, I wanted to both EMBRACE and SHUN them. Floyd | | Lionheart says, "Seeking company, craving solitude, and desperate for contact." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Embrace" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "embrace" | DavidW says, "uh-oh" | |
| Tale says, "contact" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Same spot, I think." | ||
| Tale says, "er, shun" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hung in the same spot, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Basically, when we get to this option on any track, it hangs." | ||
| vimes says, "give me one moment here before you restart" | ||
| PaulS says, "shun." | ||
| Lionheart says, "shuuuun. shuuuuuuuuun." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But here's the thing... I'm glad Nitku spent time getting this (semi)Floydable, but really, we should be playing it the way it was intended." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vimes), "Okay." | ||
| Nitku says, "the story file works fine offline" | ||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "%showpartial" | ||
| Floyd > > | ||
| (From DavidW) Lionheart says, "and when we're done shunning, shun shunning." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(yay)" | Nitku says, "I did replace the parser and it uses a lot of tables so maybe there's some memory limit or something" | |
| Lionheart says, "Yeah, do another game." | ||
| DavidW asks, "A speed-if that hits a memory limit?" | ||
| Tale says, "But people, play the browser version!" | ||
| vimes says, "well, he's not /hung/, he just isn't getting a response from the game except for another prompt" | ||
| Lionheart 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, "What Tale said." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "So, I'm sorry, Nitku, but omg it's really awesome online!" | ||
| Lionheart pushes the green 'space' button. | PaulS says, "Yes, will do." | |
| Nitku exclaims, "Yes, maybe this was meant to be!" | ||
| vimes says (to Floyd), "%quit" | ||
| Floyd says, "game ended by request of vimes." | Jacqueline says, "So, sounds like David's and mine are the next shortest." | |
| Lionheart says, "Or meant not to be, raher." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Let's do David's next, hm?" | ||
| Limax asks, "Are these the NYE speed IFs?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Limax), "yes" | ||
| Limax says, "Cool" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask emma2" | ||
| Floyd >] Hartfield | ||
Floyd | Floyd | The ladies and gentlemen of your acquaintance are sadly backward when Floyd | it comes to matrimony. It is fortunate that you are a talented Floyd | matchmaker. Floyd | Floyd | Emma II Floyd | by David Fletcher. Floyd | (Type ABOUT for useful information.) Floyd | Floyd | Hartfield Floyd | You are at home at Hartfield. You can go north, south, and east. Floyd | Floyd | Dorothy, Sarah, and Mr Mickleshaw are standing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "Yes, though questions have been raised as to their entitlement to use that trademark." | |
| Limax says, "Wow. HTML" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Emma II Floyd | Floyd | IFID 7E783A85-EABC-4870-B0C1-0F4292028817 Floyd | Version 1, released 2013-01-03 Floyd | First published 2013-01-03 Floyd | Floyd | This is a downgraded TADS-3.0-compatible version of this game. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Tale for organising the ultimate not numbered New Year's Floyd | Speed IF. Floyd | Thanks to whoever wrote Inform 7 example 339 "Emma", which inspired Floyd | this game. Floyd | Thanks to Mike Roberts and others for TADS. Floyd | With apologies to Jane Austen. Floyd | Floyd | In this game you can type MAP for a map. Floyd | Floyd | It may be help to know that doing things more than once can be useful, Floyd | and that other characters will often (though not always) follow your Floyd | advice. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Hooray, someone actually used an example." | |
| Limax says, "I'm guessing MAP won't work here" | ||
| djfletch says, "I think map will be ok." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "That's Sleepmask, a wrapper thing that vimes wrote, that gives us the status line and stuff. We've been using it for, like, a year or so." | ||
| djfletch says, "Not sure why the status line goes wrong." | ||
| DavidW says (to Tale), "What do you mean? I never heard what the premise was." | ||
| Limax says, "Aha" | ||
| Tale | 1) Take an example, any example from the I7 Documentation and expand it into a fullblown game. This has Emily's explicit permission. (The idea was proposed by Juhana Leinonen). | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "The suggested (but not required) premise was to take an example - yeah, that." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hartfield Floyd | You are at home at Hartfield. You can go north, south, and east. Floyd | Floyd | Dorothy, Sarah, and Mr Mickleshaw are standing here. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Mickleshaw converses politely with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask dorothy about kansas" | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DOROTHY ABOUT KANSAS Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to ask people about things. You might CONVERSE WITH Floyd | (or CHAT TO) someone, or you might set out boldly to FLIRT WITH them. Floyd | Or you might advise a person to take some action, with SOMEONE, DO Floyd | SOMETHING. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Mickleshaw chats with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "chat to dorothy" | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CHAT TO DOROTHY Floyd | Floyd | You converse politely with Dorothy. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Mickleshaw chats with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "converse with Mr. Mickleshaw" | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CONVERSE WITH MR. MICKLESHAW Floyd | Floyd | You gossip in the most friendly manner with Mr Mickleshaw. Floyd | Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "man, i have no idea why floyd is freaking out about exnihilo" | |
| Tale asks, "How are the CF rules at the moment? Do we have a driver, do we decide together what to do, or...?" | ||
| PaulS asks, "What sex are we?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Handsome, clever, rich, and as little distressed or vexed as ever. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Mickleshaw flirts with you. Floyd | Floyd | There is startling news! Mr Egerwall has proposed marriage to Floyd | Frederica, but Frederica has declined! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Mickleshaw proposes marriage to you! Floyd | Floyd | Shall you accept Mr Mickleshaw? | Jacqueline says, "Ah, don't put the . on Mr." | |
| Limax asks, "Was species are we?" | ||
| Limax says, "Er... waht" | ||
| Limax says, "Um" | ||
| Tale asks, "Did he at least buy us dinner?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh my, marriage proposal." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "It's up to us. Usually we poke at it all at once, unless we see a reason to designate a driver." | ||
| PaulS says, "He seems much too keen." | ||
| Lionheart exclaims, "Well, I declare!" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Shall you accept Mr Mickleshaw?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You accept Mr Mickleshaw's offer, and retire from your match-making
Floyd | career.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press a key]
| Tale says, "Whoops" | |
| Limax exclaims, "I'm too young!" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | Frederica, Joan, Dorothy, Sarah, and Clara are so far unmarried, and Floyd | you decide they must shift for themselves if they do not wish to Floyd | remain so. Floyd | Floyd | You married Mr Mickleshaw, who is fairly handsome and has an income of Floyd | L5000 a year but is of uncertain reputation, and you live happily ever Floyd | after. Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the Floyd | story, UNDO the last move, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | If this was the proper version of this game you could replay a Floyd | particular scenario using RESTART . This game was number Floyd | 16456, so you could play it again with RESTART 16456. Unfortunately Floyd | it won't work in this special TADS-3.0-compatible version. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I rashly assume we're the Emma in the game title." | |
| Tale says, "But marriage shouldn't end your life!" | ||
| PaulS exclaims, "I think that is probably safe!" | ||
| Limax says, "I thought we were Ethel" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, we're to pair them up?" | ||
| Tale asks, "Should these characters be familiar? Is this about Jane Austen?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Tale), "obviously if the heroine gets married that's the end of the book" | ||
| Lionheart says, "I suppose that was a good ending." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to LH), "But he has an uncertain reputation..." | ||
| Nitku says, "We should play until we find all the other 16455 endings" | ||
| PaulS says, "I don't think they are actual Austen characters." | ||
| Limax says, "I wonder how many endings there are, and if they all come as quickly" | ||
| Lionheart says (to Jacqueline), "We and our money will just have to endure." | ||
| DavidW says, "In Kiss Chase, we could pair up people by using medallions." | ||
| Limax says, "Hm" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTART Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The ladies and gentlemen of your acquaintance are sadly backward when Floyd | it comes to matrimony. It is fortunate that you are a talented Floyd | matchmaker. Floyd | Floyd | Emma II Floyd | by David Fletcher. Floyd | (Type ABOUT for useful information.) Floyd | Floyd | Hartfield Floyd | You are at home at Hartfield. You can go south, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Rev Queensmere, Mr Sandville, Caroline, Mr Bedcliffe, and Mr Meryman Floyd | are standing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tupwall Park Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Tupwall Park Floyd | You are visiting at Tupwall Park. You can go north, back to Floyd | Hartfield. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hartfield Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Hartfield Floyd | You are at home at Hartfield. You can go south, back to Tupwall Park; Floyd | east; and west. Floyd | Floyd | Rev Queensmere, Mr Sandville, Caroline, Mr Bedcliffe, and Mr Meryman Floyd | are standing here. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Bedcliffe chats with Caroline. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Different people?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| PaulS says, "Let's try to get the Rev Queensmeere to marry Mr Bedcliffe." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | You are visiting at Bridgebrook Grange. You can go south; and west, Floyd | back to Hartfield. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huh." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I guess we should stop moving around." | ||
| DavidW says, "The geography is different too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I'm kind of curious why, if all the peeps are here, why there are other locales." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we look the third direction, please?" | ||
| PaulS says, "Maybe we can send people there, so we can pair them off." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps locations are necessary for when there are lover's spats and someone needs to cool off." | ||
| Tale says, "Yes, I was thinking something like that." | ||
| Limax says, "Oooo" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or yeah, perhas that is how people 'get a room'" | ||
| Limax says, "Maybe we can start a lover's spat" | ||
| Lionheart says, "Get a grange, you two" | ||
| yournamehere says, "(heh...i don't think i intended matchmaking to be an activity in KC)" | ||
| Tale says, "Yeah, let's try and get these suckers happily married" | ||
| Limax asks, "Lollipops?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Carford Hall Floyd | You are visiting at Carford Hall. You can go north, back to Floyd | Bridgebrook Grange. Floyd | Floyd | Cassandra, Chloe, Belinda, and Captain Larfield are standing here. Floyd | Floyd | Chloe recoils from Captain Larfield as though he has suggested Floyd | something scandalous to her. Floyd | Floyd | Cassandra leaves to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| maga says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | The word "help" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | (If this was an accidental misspelling, you can correct it by typing Floyd | OOPS followed by the corrected word now. Any time the story points Floyd | out an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your Floyd | next command.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "chloe, marry belinda" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CHLOE, MARRY BELINDA Floyd | Floyd | A lady would hardly marry another lady. You seem sadly confused. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield converses politely with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| vimes was. If he was so, he might be, and if he were so, he would be, but as he isn't, he ain't. That's logic. | ||
| maga says (to Floyd), "chloe, flirt with belinda" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CHLOE, FLIRT WITH BELINDA Floyd | Floyd | A lady would hardly flirt with another lady. You seem sadly confused. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield chats with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | Belinda leaves to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS exclaims, "Cursed heteronormativity!" | |
| maga says (to Floyd), "heteronormativity off" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > HETERONORMATIVITY OFF Floyd | Floyd | What, you think you can just reorder the whole of society? Go and Floyd | play something in ChoiceScript. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am not sure if I should be all, 'Aw, why not?' or all, 'Man, boys and their desire to see women kiss each other.'" | |
| Lionheart exclaims, "!" | ||
| Roger says, "Haha" | ||
| maga says (to Floyd), "zombies on" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > ZOMBIES ON Floyd | Floyd | The word "zombies" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "chloe, flirt with captain" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CHLOE, FLIRT WITH CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Emma! I could not possibly!" says Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield chats with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |
| Lionheart says, "Seriously? Ha ha ha ha" | ||
| Tale says (to jacqueline), "heh" | ||
| Tale says, "I wonder how we find out who to pair up" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "chat with chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CHAT WITH CHLOE Floyd | Floyd | You converse politely with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield converses politely with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about larson" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK CHLOE ABOUT LARSON Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to ask people about things. You might CONVERSE WITH Floyd | (or CHAT TO) someone, or you might set out boldly to FLIRT WITH them. Floyd | Or you might advise a person to take some action, with SOMEONE, DO Floyd | SOMETHING. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield proposes marriage to Chloe, but Chloe declines! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "converse with chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CONVERSE WITH CHLOE Floyd | Floyd | You chat with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield chats with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| maga says (to Floyd), "larfield, flirt with chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, FLIRT WITH CHLOE Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield flirts with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lionheart says, "Okay, Chloe's not going to be any help" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHLOE Floyd | Floyd | Chloe Bromgrove is attractive. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield converses politely with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield is of good character but is ugly and has a neglible Floyd | income. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield chats with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah, so Captain has to lower his standards, I guess." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Carford Hall Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Carford Hall Floyd | You are visiting at Carford Hall. You can go north, back to Floyd | Bridgebrook Grange. Floyd | Floyd | Chloe and Captain Larfield are standing here. Floyd | Floyd | Chloe leaves to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield leaves to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Looks like Larfield isn't giving up" | |
| Tale asks, "Isn't there still an unvisited location?" | ||
| PaulS says, "I don't think Larfield is much of a catch." | ||
| Roger says, "Alas he has upwards of 99 problems, but a betrothal is not among them." | ||
| Nitku says, "I suppose we should leave too" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | You are visiting at Bridgebrook Grange. You can go south, back to Floyd | Carford Hall; and west, to Hartfield. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield and Chloe are standing here. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield chats with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Shoot... I have errands to run..." | |
| Limax exclaims, "Enjoy!" | ||
| Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "larfield, marry chlose" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, MARRY CHLOSE Floyd | Floyd | The word "chlose" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "larfield, marry chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, MARRY CHLOE Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield must propose and be accepted first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "larfield, kiss chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, KISS CHLOE Floyd | Floyd | You would not like to think of Captain Larfield kissing Chloe without Floyd | some definite understanding. Floyd | Floyd | (A little flirtation might be a different matter.) Floyd | Floyd | There is startling news! Mr Meryman has proposed marriage to Floyd | Caroline, but Caroline has declined! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| vimes arrives, ready to play with the toys. | vimes says, "fwiw, exnihilo doesn't seem to crash in sleepmask" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, yes, I suppose flirtation is more acceptable than out and out smooches." | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "larfield, propose to larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, PROPOSE TO LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield cannot propose to himself! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of vimes), "That makes even less sense, doesn't it?" | |
| Baryon goes home. | Lionheart asks, "So I suppose we're to work out what each lady desires based on the properties of the gentlemen they reject, and find their match?" | |
| vimes says, "well, it is using a different underlying interpreter" | ||
| vimes says, "(git rather than a rather old version of glulxe)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | ||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield is of good character but is ugly and has a neglible Floyd | income. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield flirts with Chloe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "chloe, slap larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CHLOE, SLAP LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | The word "slap" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "and, indeed, the old glulxe terp just goes off into la-la land at those points where git does not" | |
| maga says (to Floyd), "x chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHLOE Floyd | Floyd | Chloe Bromgrove is attractive. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield proposes marriage to Chloe, but Chloe declines! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "larfield, cry" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, CRY Floyd | Floyd | The word "cry" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "Maybe we need to match them trait to trait: ugly to ugly, etc." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I was thinking that." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we at least suggest they move to where other people are?" | ||
| yournamehere says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | Chloe leaves to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There is startling news! Mr Bedcliffe has proposed marriage to Joan, Floyd | but Joan has declined! Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield chats with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And thinking that that is really horrible but likely." | |
| Roger says, "It'd be an interesting comment on the human heart if basically there's nothing to be done but just wait until couples collide and get married through Brownian motion. Not much of a game, though." | ||
| PaulS says, "I think we should get them to move, yes." | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Handsome, clever, rich, and as little distressed or vexed as ever. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield flirts with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |
| Nitku says, "Larfield, you're making us feel like the second choice" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Gosh, that cad." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Didn't he just propose to Chloe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smack Larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > SMACK LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | The word "smack" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to djfletch), "BUG" | |
| djfletch says, "ha" | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "larfield, w" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, W Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield leaves to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Sandville enters from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not getting a good sense of the characters. Which I suppose can't be helped in a speed-if." | |
| Roger says (to floy), "ask sandville about chloe" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "ask sandville about chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK SANDVILLE ABOUT CHLOE Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to ask people about things. You might CONVERSE WITH Floyd | (or CHAT TO) someone, or you might set out boldly to FLIRT WITH them. Floyd | Or you might advise a person to take some action, with SOMEONE, DO Floyd | SOMETHING. Floyd | Floyd | There is news of the most shocking kind! Joan has run away with Rev Floyd | Queensmere! Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield enters from the west. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Sandville converses politely with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Are the traits and names and locations and all of that dealt out upon starting the game, djf?" | |
| Nitku says, "Larfield just can't stay away" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | This story doesn't use scoring. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says (to Jacqueline), "yes" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read society pages" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SOCIETY PAGES Floyd | Floyd | The word "society" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS asks, "Can we go in search of some other people?" | |
| PaulS says, "... before they all elope." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sandville" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X SANDVILLE Floyd | Floyd | Mr Sandville is handsome and has an income of L5000 a year but is Floyd | notoriously wicked. Floyd | Floyd | Belinda enters from the west. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Sandville chats with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x belinda" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X BELINDA Floyd | Floyd | Belinda Grenbury is distinctly plain. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield proposes marriage to you! Floyd | Floyd | Shall you accept Captain Larfield? | Roger says, "Why they say he was spotted on St George's Day and he was not wearing a waistcoat" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "decline" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | Shall you accept Captain Larfield? Floyd | > DECLINE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You decline Captain Larfield with as much firmness as you can command. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Sandville flirts with Belinda. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "No! Belinda and Larfield should marry each other." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "belinda, flirt with larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > BELINDA, FLIRT WITH LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | "Emma! I could not possibly!" says Belinda. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Sandville chats with you. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield converses politely with Belinda. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "Both munters." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "belinda, chat with larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > BELINDA, CHAT WITH LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | Belinda chats with Captain Larfield. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Sandville leaves to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "larfield, flirt with belinda" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, FLIRT WITH BELINDA Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield flirts with Belinda. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "Sorry, phone. Where do we stand?" | |
| DavidW says, "Joan and the Rev ran off, and we're trying to match up plain Belinda with ugly Larfield." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, this game makes statements." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "belinda, chat with larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > BELINDA, CHAT WITH LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | Belinda chats with Captain Larfield. Floyd | Floyd | There is news of the most shocking kind! Caroline has run away with Floyd | Mr Bedcliffe! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |
| Tale asks, "Are we trying to get these two to marry?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "How do we feel about marrying the notoriously wicked Sandville?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Tale), "yeah, kinda." | ||
| Roger says, "If it doesn't work out we can just give him an arsenic sandwich" | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "larfield, propose to belinda" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, PROPOSE TO BELINDA Floyd | Floyd | You are not yet on such friendly terms as to advise Captain Larfield Floyd | in such a matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| PaulS says (to Floyd), "Belinda, Flirt with Larfield" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > BELINDA, FLIRT WITH LARFIELD Floyd | Floyd | "Emma! I could not possibly!" says Belinda. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield converses politely with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "larfield, flirt with emma" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LARFIELD, FLIRT WITH EMMA Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield flirts with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Roger was just saying on #craft (and off transcript) that 'This is one of those games in which the underlying mechanic of the game actually isn't all that" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "chat with belinda" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > CHAT WITH BELINDA Floyd | Floyd | You converse politely with Belinda. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Larfield leaves to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Roger was just saying on #craft (and off transcript) that 'This is one of those games in which the underlying mechanic of the game actually isn't all that interesting, so it really needs to pick up the slack by having interesting characters or settings or something. I mean, to judge it as a real nonspeedif game.'" | |
| Jacqueline says, "And I think that's worth discussing here." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This whole dynamic could be really played up with amusing random faux Victorian Values." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd forgotten completely about this example." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, yeah, I see this a useful skeleton to build on, but there's not enough meat on the bones to interest me at the moment." | ||
| Roger says, "Ah I just didn't want to step on the gameplay but yeah." | ||
| maga says, "I tried to do something very similar a few years back, but predictably attempted something wildly overambitious" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Enh, that's what this channel is for, is to discuss." | ||
| Nitku says, "It might lose something if the characters weren't obviously generated" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of maga), "I rather wish you'd revisit that - but didn't it get really sluggish with all the lists or tables or whatnot?" | ||
| Tale says, "For a Speed IF, it's impressive the author choose to do this. There must be a lot of mechanics beneath the layers." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Nitku), "Hm, you think?" | ||
| maga says, "(with highly complex generated characters, and, yeah, it wasn't nearly done and it still ran like a brick)" | ||
| Nitku says, "I mean it's kinda hilarious how everything is stripped down" | ||
| Roger says, "In another more general sense, it sorta 'builds on an example' in the worst possible way, by just making it more example, without any real new dimension to it" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, djf did say we should just play it until we didn't want to poke at it anymore." | ||
| djfletch says, "The thing I thought I would need to decide if I was going to develop it any more would be whether to expose more of the underlying numbers explicitly like Kerkerkruip, or whether to try and make the descriptions good enough that you wouldn't need to see them." | ||
| Nitku says, "compared to, say, costume dramas on tv" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Hm, true." | ||
| djfletch says, "To be fair to you playing it I should probably let you know that there isn't a particular win condition." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Roger says, "I think the direction I'd like to see developed is: characters reacting to the actions of other characters." | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't really played Kerkerkruip. RPGs aren't my usual cuppa." | ||
| djfletch says, "except maybe whether it says you live happily ever after, but that's pretty easy to get" | ||
| Roger says, "On the level of an experimental game, I think the experiment teaches me quite a bit, so a full success there." | ||
| djfletch says, "so you can decide to try and marry as many people off respectably as you can, or you can try to grab the best man yourself, and that's about it." | ||
| Tale says (to djfletch), "But if I only cared about my own happiness, I can just continue to live my own life!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm curious what was here in the example, verses what you added." | ||
| djfletch says, "I basically only took the idea of basing it on "Emma", and having people move about towards places that look interesting." | ||
| djfletch says, "(and the moving is pretty simple-minded)" | ||
| djfletch says (to Tale), "you are allowed to RESOLVE ALWAYS TO REMAIN A SPINSTER. (It would tell you this if nothing happened for a while.)" | ||
| djfletch says, "(it ends the game)" | ||
| Tale asks, "Can we try that?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "resolve to always remain a spinster" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESOLVE TO ALWAYS REMAIN A SPINSTER Floyd | Floyd | You retire from society, entirely disenchanted with the prospects for Floyd | connubial felicity in the neighbourhood. Floyd | Floyd | [press a key] | ||
| Tale pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | Belinda, Cassandra, and Chloe are so far unmarried, and you decide Floyd | they must shift for themselves if they do not wish to remain so. Floyd | Floyd | Let us not dwell on the fates that befell poor Caroline and poor Joan. Floyd | Floyd | You resolve always to remain a spinster. But whether your resolution Floyd | will remain firm, should some more suitable gentleman address you in Floyd | the future, is a question you must settle for yourself. Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the Floyd | story, UNDO the last move, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | If this was the proper version of this game you could replay a Floyd | particular scenario using RESTART . This game was number Floyd | 7142, so you could play it again with RESTART 7142. Unfortunately it Floyd | won't work in this special TADS-3.0-compatible version. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "So, shall we play around with it some more?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Or move on, you mean?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Personally, I think I am good on this one." | ||
| Roger says, "I may explore it further at my own leisure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You are a man of leisure. I hear that you make L5000 a year." | ||
| DavidW asks, "But is he notoriously wicked?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "YES" | ||
| DavidW says, "(hooray)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, me, Tale, and Paul." | ||
| Tale says, "I think Paul and me have written somewhat longish stuff IIRC" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Paul, yours is longish, you said? Maybe we should do mine next, and then if people are tired (we may be near the 2 hour mark) we can move the two longer ones to next week (though I'm probably up for at least one more after mine)." | ||
| Baryon arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Roger says, "I endorse this plan." | |
| Tale says, "Me too." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask disenchantmentbay" | ||
Floyd ] Bridgebrook Grange Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LOAD SLEEPMASK DISENCHANTMENTBAY Floyd | Floyd | That isn't one of the options. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the Floyd | story, UNDO the last move, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | If this was the proper version of this game you could replay a Floyd | particular scenario using RESTART . This game was number Floyd | 7142, so you could play it again with RESTART 7142. Unfortunately it Floyd | won't work in this special TADS-3.0-compatible version. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | cheaptads quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask disenchantmentbay" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Disenchantment Bay Floyd | A speed-IF by Jacqueline A. Lott, with a head start from Emily Short Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 130106 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Disenchantment Bay was an entry in the Ultimate Not Numbered Floyd | New Year's Speed IF, 2013. Floyd | Floyd | For more about this game, please type ABOUT and CREDITS. Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | The front of the small cabin is almost entirely occupied with Floyd | navigational instruments, a fish finder, and radios for calling back Floyd | to shore. Along each side runs a bench with faded blue vinyl cushions, Floyd | which can be lifted to reveal the storage space underneath. There is a Floyd | glass case against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Slightly scratched windows offer a view of the surrounding bay, and Floyd | there is a door aft to the deck. A sign taped to one wall announces Floyd | the menu of tours offered by the Yakutat Charter Boat Company. Floyd | Floyd | The captain sits at the wheel, steering the boat and occasionally Floyd | checking the depth finder readout. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | The twelve Inform 7 examples collectively known as Disenchantment Floyd | Bay were born of a trip that Emily Short made with Dan Shiovitz Floyd | to Alaska to visit me and Sam Kabo Ashwell, many years ago. 2004, I Floyd | believe it was. We chartered a boat from the Yakutat Charter Boat Floyd | Company to visit Hubbard Glacier, and before heading home we scooped Floyd | up some bits of glacier ice for the creation of fancy mixed drinks Floyd | once back on shore. Floyd | Floyd | So when Marius Müller announced that the theme of this year's New Floyd | Year's speed-IF mini-comp whatever-it-is thing was to "take an Floyd | example, any example from the I7 Documentation and expand it into a Floyd | fullblown game," I started skimming the documentation and realized Floyd | that this one was the one for me. Unforuntately, I realized it three Floyd | hours before the deadline, but hey — back in the day the time limit Floyd | was two hours. And then there's this other tradition where you don't Floyd | finish your speed-IF on time, so I decided to stay up way late and Floyd | actually spent about five and a half hours coding this, all told. Floyd | Floyd | Oh, and then Marius extended the deadline, so I broke yet another Floyd | speed-IF rule and had the game go through a bit of light beta testing. Floyd | Floyd | You might also want to type CREDITS to read who helped out with this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I really need to fix the encoding on tf so it displays stuff correctly.'" | |
| Jacqueline says, "But if memory serves, it all comes out okay in the transcripts." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for including Disenchantment Floyd | Bay as an example in Inform 7. And thanks to them for Inform 7 Floyd | itself. Thanks to Sam Kabo Ashwell and Emily Short the coding help, Floyd | and thanks to Justin de Vesine, Sam Kabo Ashwell, and Adri for a Floyd | smidgeon of last-minute beta testing, though of course all the issues Floyd | remaining are my own. Floyd | Floyd | And finally, thanks to the Yakutat Charter Boat Company for all those Floyd | (real) trips to Hubbard Glacier over the years... rest assured, the Floyd | skippers of the actual real-world YCBC are great, always level-headed, Floyd | and not at all like the captain in this story. Except that they do Floyd | know quite a bit about glaciers. And they do tell bad jokes. But Floyd | they're one of the better outfits in town if you want to charter a Floyd | boat to the face of Hubbard Glacier! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Either that or I'm in for a bunch of editing today." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/2 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You have dreamed of coming to Alaska your entire life, and you're Floyd | finally here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/3 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a backpack (closed) Floyd | a pair of sunglasses (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open backpack" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | You open the backpack, revealing a warm beer. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a low rumble, like thunder, that tells you the glacier's Floyd | calved off another ice berg somewhere nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x glasses" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/5 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | The light off the water and the ice does get pretty bright sometimes. Floyd | You're glad you brought these... who'd have thought they'd come in Floyd | handy in rainy southeastern Alaska? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | > X CASE Floyd | Floyd | In the glass case is a fishing rod. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 10, in 6 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "i think the issue is actually with Floyd's settings, not perry's" | |
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "x beer" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/7 Floyd | Floyd | > X BEER Floyd | Floyd | An Alaskan Amber, made not far from here, in Juneau. Floyd | Floyd | Little bits of glacier ice scratch against the ship's hull. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x menu" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/8 Floyd | Floyd | > X MENU Floyd | Floyd | You can get half-day and full-day sight-seeing tours, and half-day and Floyd | full-day fishing trips. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/9 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | The Captain is wearing a baseball cap and carrying a small silver key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "f ask captain about key" | |
| Tale says, "oops" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask captain about key" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CAPTAIN ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | (To communicate in this story, TALK TO the captain.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/10 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "You know," says the captain, "I never get sick of coming up here. Floyd | It's just so beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere close, the glacier makes a sound like a shotgun going off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to vimes), "Ah." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get ice" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/11 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ICE Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x cushions" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/12 Floyd | Floyd | > X CUSHIONS Floyd | Floyd | They look well-worn, sort of scuffed and dingy on the edges, shiny in Floyd | the center where many a person before you has sat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open cushions" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/13 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CUSHIONS Floyd | Floyd | You open the storage compartment, revealing a net and a warm Coke. Floyd | Floyd | Little bits of glacier ice scratch against the ship's hull. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get bits" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/14 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BITS Floyd | Floyd | Perhaps you could get some ice if you were on the back deck of the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/15 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | The front of the small cabin is almost entirely occupied with Floyd | navigational instruments, a fish finder, and radios for calling back Floyd | to shore. Along each side runs a bench with faded blue vinyl cushions, Floyd | one of which is currently lifted to allow access to the storage Floyd | compartment within. There is a glass case against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Slightly scratched windows offer a view of the surrounding bay, and Floyd | there is a door aft to the deck. A sign taped to one wall announces Floyd | the menu of tours offered by the Yakutat Charter Boat Company. Floyd | Floyd | The captain sits at the wheel, steering the boat and occasionally Floyd | checking the depth finder readout. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "You fall overboard and drown." | |
| DavidW says, "Glaciar ice makes for the bestest drinks, I hear." | ||
| Tale asks, "Shall we try that?" | ||
| vimes says, "remind me sometime when you're not in the midst of a session and i'll turn floyd upside down and shake him and see if unicode characters fall out" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh! I nearly forgot to share a neat thing." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/16 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | "Why do you have the fish finder on when we're not going fishing?" you Floyd | ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it does help you find fish, but it's also useful for Floyd | knowing how deep the water is beneath the boat. We wouldn't want to Floyd | get into water that was too shallow." Floyd | Floyd | You can't get your mind off of that fishing pole you saw in the main Floyd | cabin. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere out of sight, you hear a giant splash. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Cover art is special for this one: [LINK]" | |
| Tale says, "Dan has changed a lot since '04" | ||
| DavidW says, "nice" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open case" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/17 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CASE Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't break my case, I've got a key..." scolds the captain. He Floyd | smiles and says, "...and I'll give it to ya, if you'd be so kind as to Floyd | get me something cold to drink." Floyd | Floyd | Huh. You thought you were paying him to do stuff. Floyd | But then, he's the one making sure the boat stays safe, and that's Floyd | important, so the least you can probably do is find him something to Floyd | drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "find fish" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/17 Floyd | Floyd | > FIND FISH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think maybe use the net to get some ice?" | |
| Tale says, "So, back of the boat to get the guy some ice. He'll need the coke too, because this being jacq's game he'll be all responsible and stuff." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You can probably search for fish. I guess I should implement 'find'" | ||
| Roger says, "Heh" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "search for fish" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/18 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH FOR FISH Floyd | Floyd | Sadly, you haven't any bait or traps, so your chances of encountering Floyd | creatures from the depths is slim. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/19 Floyd | Floyd | > AFT Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the cabin door) Floyd | Floyd | Deck Floyd | The whole back half of the boat is open, allowing you to view the Floyd | surroundings without intervening windows — if you can stand the cold. Floyd | Floyd | All around the boat bob chunks of glacier ice. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cooler (closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a bird cry off in the distance, but can't seem to locate it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take net and pop" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/19 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE NET AND POP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/20 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | You open the cooler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/21 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN IT Floyd | Floyd | The cooler is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ice in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/22 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ICE IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | Little bits of glacier ice scratch against the ship's hull. Floyd | Floyd | You hear an odd barking, almost roaring sound, far off. Floyd | ...could there be sea lions around here? Gosh, there probably could Floyd | be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put beer in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/23 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BEER IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | You place the beer inside the cooler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ice" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/24 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ICE Floyd | Floyd | You are having a hard time fishing out the ice with your bare hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, get the net, please" | |
| Tale says (to davidW), "Ok" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/25 Floyd | Floyd | > FORE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | The front of the small cabin is almost entirely occupied with Floyd | navigational instruments, a fish finder, and radios for calling back Floyd | to shore. Along each side runs a bench with faded blue vinyl cushions, Floyd | one of which is currently lifted to allow access to the storage Floyd | compartment within. There is a glass case against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Slightly scratched windows offer a view of the surrounding bay, and Floyd | there is a door aft to the deck. A sign taped to one wall announces Floyd | the menu of tours offered by the Yakutat Charter Boat Company. Floyd | Floyd | The captain sits at the wheel, steering the boat and occasionally Floyd | checking the depth finder readout. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere out of sight, you hear a giant splash. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS asks, "Do we have the net?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take net" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/26 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE NET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "No, someone ran aft like a maniac" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pop" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/26 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE POP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get coke" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/27 Floyd | Floyd | > GET COKE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "give coke to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/28 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE COKE TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "It needs chilling," the Captain remarks, disgruntled. Floyd | Floyd | Little bits of glacier ice scratch against the ship's hull. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh god, pop as a synonym. That's painful, but I'll implement it." | |
| Tale asks, "Now aft?" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "Are you in 'soda' country?" | ||
| PaulS asks, "Who ever actually used that expression (I mean after about 1968)?" | ||
| Nitku says, "the captain should be disenchanted" | ||
| DavidW says, "I couldn't remember properly what was in the first room. I'm not taking notes." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/29 Floyd | Floyd | > AFT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deck Floyd | The whole back half of the boat is open, allowing you to view the Floyd | surroundings without intervening windows — if you can stand the cold. Floyd | Floyd | All around the boat bob chunks of glacier ice. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cooler (in which is a warm beer) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "or the captain could bay" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get chunks with net" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/29 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CHUNKS WITH NET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get ice with net" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/30 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ICE WITH NET Floyd | Floyd | You scoop up the ice with the net. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No, I'm from 'Coke' country. 'Would you like a Coke?' 'Sure, what kind do you have?' 'Mountain Dew.'" | |
| Roger says, "This game better have a poop deck joke, is all I'm saying." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "ugh. seriously?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put ice and coke in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/31 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ICE AND COKE IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | piece of glacier ice: You dump the ice from the net into the ice Floyd | chest. Floyd | warm Coke: You place the Coke inside the cooler. Floyd | Floyd | You keep thinking about that lovely fishing rod in the glass cabinet, Floyd | and how fun it would be to play with. Floyd | Floyd | You make out a faint scratching sound, like ice rubbing against the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I know, it's kind of weird." | ||
| DavidW says, "That's horrific." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "put beer in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/32 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BEER IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | You place the beer inside the cooler. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "for some reason, soda means water for me." | |
| Baryon says, "I'd think I was being offered drugs" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x coke" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/33 Floyd | Floyd | > X COKE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the cool Coke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get fore" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/34 Floyd | Floyd | > GET FORE Floyd | Floyd | You must name something more substantial. Floyd | Floyd | The glacier is quiet for a moment, and you realize it's been making so Floyd | much noise you're surprised by the silence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get coke" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/35 Floyd | Floyd | > GET COKE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Baryon), "There is actually a condition in this game that things are either cokedup or notcokedup, though perhaps that's a spoiler." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/36 Floyd | Floyd | > FORE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | The front of the small cabin is almost entirely occupied with Floyd | navigational instruments, a fish finder, and radios for calling back Floyd | to shore. Along each side runs a bench with faded blue vinyl cushions, Floyd | one of which is currently lifted to allow access to the storage Floyd | compartment within. There is a glass case against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Slightly scratched windows offer a view of the surrounding bay, and Floyd | there is a door aft to the deck. A sign taped to one wall announces Floyd | the menu of tours offered by the Yakutat Charter Boat Company. Floyd | Floyd | The captain sits at the wheel, steering the boat and occasionally Floyd | checking the depth finder readout. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "give coke to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/37 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE COKE TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, that's great! Thank you," he says. How he can drink an iced soda Floyd | on a day like today boggles your mind... but then again, you've heard Floyd | some crazy statistic that Alaskans eat the most ice cream, per capita, Floyd | of any US state. Floyd | Floyd | You're not sure you believe that, though. Floyd | Floyd | I guess I promised you the key to that case, didn't I? Here ya go." Floyd | He tosses you the silver key. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the water lap gently against the boat. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "What a well-behaved NPC" | |
| Jacqueline says, "The captain is now cokedup." | ||
| Roger says, "I was expecting a surprise gender-expectation switch with the captain, but I guess not." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, you thought the captain would be a girl?" | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/37 Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 2 out of a possible 10, in 37 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "kiss captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/38 Floyd | Floyd | > KISS CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | That's not exactly part of what you had in mind for this vacation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock case with key" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/39 Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK CASE WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the glass case. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open case. take rod" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/39 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CASE. TAKE ROD Floyd | Floyd | You open the glass case, giddy with the idea of using the fishing rod. Floyd | Floyd | Little bits of glacier ice scratch against the ship's hull. Floyd | Floyd | You seize the rod triumphantly (you really should get out more) and Floyd | head onto the deck of the boat to engage in a bit of light casting. Floyd | The boat wasn't set up to go fishing today — you chartered the boat Floyd | just to come see the glacier — so there's no bait on board. Still, Floyd | it's fun to practice your casting... | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/39
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh. My. God.
| ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "cast rod" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/39 Floyd | And almost as soon as you feel the explosion on your line, there is a Floyd | sudden slackening: whatever you "caught," it has severed the line. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/39 Floyd | WTF was that?! | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "captain, marry chloe" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 2/41
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the captain panicking about something in the cabin. It
Floyd | sounds like his words might be interlaced with swears.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| PaulS says, "O no, we've broken something." | |
| Jacqueline says, "And this is where we greatly deviate from the original coding example." | ||
| DavidW says, "Hope he's not a zombie." | ||
| Tale says, "10 bucks on a Godzilla attack" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Paul), "No, I don't think you have." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/42 Floyd | Floyd | > FORE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | The front of the small cabin is almost entirely occupied with Floyd | navigational instruments, a fish finder, and radios for calling back Floyd | to shore. Along each side runs a bench with faded blue vinyl cushions, Floyd | one of which is currently lifted to allow access to the storage Floyd | compartment within. There is a glass case against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Slightly scratched windows offer a view of the surrounding bay, and Floyd | there is a door aft to the deck. A sign taped to one wall announces Floyd | the menu of tours offered by the Yakutat Charter Boat Company. Floyd | Floyd | The captain appears to be freaking out. Floyd | Floyd | The captain says, "Holy shit. What was that?" Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "this is like the IF of "To Have And Have Not"" | |
| PaulS says, "This is why any sensible person keeps me off boats." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That cut scene just gets doled out in short bits, and the effect doesn't work as well on Floyd." | ||
| djfletch says, "(the film at least)" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "examine finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/43 Floyd | Floyd | > EXAMINE FINDER Floyd | Floyd | Useful for knowing how deep the water is, so you don't end up on a Floyd | reef like Captain Hazelwood. Floyd | Floyd | Damn, the captain is kind really not handling this emergency well. Floyd | You're probably going to have to take matters into your own hands. Floyd | Floyd | You see something leap out of the water... did it have a Floyd | horn?? Floyd | Floyd | "Um, did you feel something?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/44 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | The captain doesn't seem to be making much sense, but his swears are Floyd | creative. Floyd | Floyd | You and the captain both search the water frantically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/45 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATER Floyd | Floyd | The water is an oddly milky grey, a consequence of all the sediment Floyd | stirred up by the glacier. The wind makes the water ripple, with Floyd | occasional tiny whitecaps. Floyd | Floyd | "That... nah, can't be. I've never seen one of them this far Floyd | south..." says the captain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/46 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The water is an oddly milky grey, a consequence of all the sediment Floyd | stirred up by the glacier. The wind makes the water ripple, with Floyd | occasional tiny whitecaps. Floyd | Floyd | You feel something big jostle against the boat! Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, that's it. I'm charging you double," says the captain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What are we dealing with, a narwhal?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "..." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/47 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATER Floyd | Floyd | The water is an oddly milky grey, a consequence of all the sediment Floyd | stirred up by the glacier. The wind makes the water ripple, with Floyd | occasional tiny whitecaps. Floyd | Floyd | "Make that triple." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "turn whele" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/47 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN WHELE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "turn wheel" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/48 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN WHEEL Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | The captain says, "Holy shit. What was that?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline implements turn wheel. | |
| Nitku says, "narwhals, the killers of the sea" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "use radio" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 10/48 Floyd | Floyd | > USE RADIO Floyd | Floyd | You get on the radio and send out a May Day. And an SOS. And a Floyd | panicked scream. Floyd | Floyd | It takes nearly an hour for help to arrive, and of course by the time Floyd | the search and rescue folks show up, all the excitement is over. Floyd | "Wait, why did you call for us? There's nothing wrong with you..." Floyd | scolds the lead rescuer. Floyd | Floyd | "Well," the captain begins, "there was this scary sea creature Floyd | bumping against the boat —" Floyd | Floyd | "I swear it was a narwhal!" you interject. The captain throws you a Floyd | quick sideways glance as if to say, "Yes, it sure as hell did look Floyd | like a narwhal, but we're not going to tell him that." Floyd | Floyd | Suffice it to say, you're the laughing stock of the local village, but Floyd | that's okay: you're alive, you had an incredible Alaskan adventure. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 10 out of a possible 10, in 48 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | djfletch says, "We're going to need a bigger boat." | |
| Tale says, "My money is still on Godzilla." | ||
| Roger says, "Heh" | ||
| Nitku says, "hooray" | ||
| DavidW says, "amusing>" | ||
| Roger says, "It's one of those sneaky killer icebergs like what took out Titanic" | ||
| DavidW says, "Shapeshifting iceberg" | ||
| Tale asks, "Is there a better ending or do you just write ambigious endings like I do?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 10/48 Floyd | Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | Have you tried talking to the captain at length? Floyd | Or fiddling with the fish finder until you upset him? Floyd | You could search for wildlife to pass the time. Floyd | Oh, and did you drunk all the beer? Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "s/drunk/drink" | |
| Jacqueline edits. | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/48 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 2/48 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW |Oh, and did you beer all the drunk? | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 2/49 Floyd | Floyd | > AFT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deck Floyd | The whole back half of the boat is open, allowing you to view the Floyd | surroundings without intervening windows — if you can stand the cold. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cooler (in which are a cold beer and a piece of glacier Floyd | ice) here. Floyd | Floyd | There's a huge splash to starboard. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the captain ranting about something in the cabin. It Floyd | sounds like his words might be interlaced with swears. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "no officer, I did not drunk" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 2/50 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BEER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The captain is obviously not thinking straight. You might not be an Floyd | Alaskan boat captain, but surely there's a way out of this. Think! Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the captain screaming about something in the cabin. It Floyd | sounds like his words might be interlaced with swears. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Rather than undo, I would probably restart." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 2/51 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | You open the beer, which sounds as if it still has some fizz to it, Floyd | and you take a sip. Floyd | Floyd | Okay, that's oddly refreshing, despite making you feel even colder Floyd | than you already were. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the captain panicking about something in the cabin. It Floyd | sounds like his words might be interlaced with swears. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes asks, "what better time to get drunk, though?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Once the narwhal attacks, you kind of lose your ability to focus on as much." | ||
| Tale says (to vimes), "That's what I was thinking." | ||
| Tale asks, "Okay, restart then?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I should probably change the response if you start to drink while the boat is being attacked." | ||
| PaulS says, "I guess a narwhal might do that to one." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 2/51
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
| ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Disenchantment Bay Floyd | A speed-IF by Jacqueline A. Lott, with a head start from Emily Short Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 130106 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Disenchantment Bay was an entry in the Ultimate Not Numbered Floyd | New Year's Speed IF, 2013. Floyd | Floyd | For more about this game, please type ABOUT and CREDITS. Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | The front of the small cabin is almost entirely occupied with Floyd | navigational instruments, a fish finder, and radios for calling back Floyd | to shore. Along each side runs a bench with faded blue vinyl cushions, Floyd | which can be lifted to reveal the storage space underneath. There is a Floyd | glass case against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Slightly scratched windows offer a view of the surrounding bay, and Floyd | there is a door aft to the deck. A sign taped to one wall announces Floyd | the menu of tours offered by the Yakutat Charter Boat Company. Floyd | Floyd | The captain sits at the wheel, steering the boat and occasionally Floyd | checking the depth finder readout. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/2 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | "Why do you have the fish finder on when we're not going fishing?" you Floyd | ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it does help you find fish, but it's also useful for Floyd | knowing how deep the water is beneath the boat. We wouldn't want to Floyd | get into water that was too shallow." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/3 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | Useful for knowing how deep the water is, so you don't end up on a Floyd | reef like Captain Hazelwood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/4 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | Useful for knowing how deep the water is, so you don't end up on a Floyd | reef like Captain Hazelwood. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere close, the glacier makes a sound like a shotgun going off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "turn finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN FINDER Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | You can get half-day and full-day sight-seeing tours, and half-day and Floyd | full-day fishing trips. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "look for fish" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/7 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR FISH Floyd | Floyd | Sadly, you haven't any bait or traps, so your chances of encountering Floyd | creatures from the depths is slim. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the water lap gently against the boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "switch off finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/8 Floyd | Floyd | > SWITCH OFF FINDER Floyd | Floyd | You switch off the depth finder. The captain looks at you, frowning, Floyd | and turns it right back on again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "switch off finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/9 Floyd | Floyd | > SWITCH OFF FINDER Floyd | Floyd | You switch it off the depth finder again. The captain says, "Hey, Floyd | don't touch that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "switch off finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/10 Floyd | Floyd | > SWITCH OFF FINDER Floyd | Floyd | You slowly sneak your hand up when you think the captain's not looking Floyd | and switch the depth finder off. Floyd | Floyd | "Look," says the captain, "that's not funny, and I'm definitely not Floyd | amused, and I don't care if you want to hit a rock or whatever your Floyd | death-wish is, but this is my boat and you need to keep your hands off Floyd | of stuff. Got it?" Floyd | Floyd | You nod, but for some reason he doesn't look like he believes you. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere out of sight, you hear a giant splash. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x splash" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/11 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPLASH Floyd | Floyd | There've been all sorts of splashes all morning: some small, like when Floyd | a seal hops off an iceberg or a diving bird goes after a fish, and Floyd | others immense, such as when the glacier calves off another giant Floyd | piece of ice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "switch off finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/12 Floyd | Floyd | > SWITCH OFF FINDER Floyd | Floyd | You reach up to touch the depth finder, and the captain slaps your Floyd | hand. Ouch! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/13 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear the low rumble of the boats engine idling. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the water lap gently against the boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "slap captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/13 Floyd | Floyd | > SLAP CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh. Okay." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "kill captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/14 Floyd | Floyd | > KILL CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x narwhale" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/14 Floyd | Floyd | > X NARWHALE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x narwhal" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/15 Floyd | Floyd | > X NARWHAL Floyd | Floyd | Silly kid, narwhals live a lot farther north than this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fiddle with finder" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/16 Floyd | Floyd | > FIDDLE WITH FINDER Floyd | Floyd | You go to turn off the depth finder, and the captain goes to slap you Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | You decide not to turn off the depth finder. Floyd | Floyd | You make out a faint scratching sound, like ice rubbing against the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Someone wants Disenchanted Emma, I guess." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/17 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear the low rumble of the boats engine idling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/18 Floyd | Floyd | > AFT Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the cabin door) Floyd | Floyd | Deck Floyd | The whole back half of the boat is open, allowing you to view the Floyd | surroundings without intervening windows — if you can stand the cold. Floyd | Floyd | All around the boat bob chunks of glacier ice. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cooler (closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/19 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | This isn't at all like home: no car alarms, no sirens, just... nature. Floyd | Floyd | Little bits of glacier ice scratch against the ship's hull. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Nature and the mind-numbing roar of a marine diesel" | |
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "touch ice" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/20 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH ICE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open backpack" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/21 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | You open the backpack, revealing a warm beer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/22 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | You're not really in the mood for a warm beer. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a bird cry off in the distance, but can't seem to locate it. Floyd | Floyd | You hear an odd barking, almost roaring sound, far off. Floyd | ...could there be sea lions around here? Gosh, there probably could Floyd | be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "listen to bird" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/23 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO BIRD Floyd | Floyd | They're far too far away, and besides, wild animals are best left Floyd | alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Haha dude leave that poor bird alone and stop listening to it" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, stop annoying the bird with your listening." | ||
| Tale asks, "I guess no whale attacked the real boat you were on?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, listen to bird should be different than take or whatnot." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "pet whal" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/23 Floyd | Floyd | > PET WHAL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "that bird is far too jaunty and stylish to be disturbed by your listening, no matter how actively you're doing it" | |
| Roger says, "It's easy to be finnicky over very small details" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Narwhal live in the far north arctic, so no." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "Drop Anchor" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/23 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP ANCHOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pet whale" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/23 Floyd | Floyd | > PET WHALE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "Aha, so it can't be one who attacks the boat in the story?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'm not sure I'll implement 'pet'" | ||
| Roger says, "Killer whales range pretty widely though" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Well, this is fiction." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/24 Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You do not want to sleep with the fishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "In truth, a great white did attack this boat once." | |
| Jacqueline says, "But I didn't implement that." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x icebergs" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/25 Floyd | Floyd | > X ICEBERGS Floyd | Floyd | Bergs of various sizes bob up and down all around you, some of them Floyd | nearly as large as the boat, others small enough to hold in your hand. Floyd | They are so thick in the bay that the boat occasionally must scrape Floyd | against them to make its way through the water, but the captain is Floyd | skilled at this, and the hull is solid enough to do this at slow Floyd | speeds. Floyd | Floyd | Off in the distance, you can see a harbor seal and her pup hauled out Floyd | on one of the larger, flatter bergs. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the glacier pop, far in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| PaulS says (to Floyd), "x harbor seal" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/26 Floyd | Floyd | > X HARBOR SEAL Floyd | Floyd | There are harbor seals everywhere, and as the boat drifts and changes Floyd | direction, it's hard to keep track of any one seal in particular. Floyd | Quite close to the boat, though, you see a seal swimming through the Floyd | water. It looks a bit like a sleek, wet, spotted dog in profile, but Floyd | it swims more gracefully than any dog you've ever seen. Suddenly it Floyd | turns, makes eye contact, and bobs before making what appears to be a Floyd | deep dive. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "I'm not saying Godzilla...but Godzilla!" | |
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "listen to seal" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/27 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO SEAL Floyd | Floyd | They're far too far away, and besides, wild animals are best left Floyd | alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, okay, I will fix the listen to specific critters thing." | |
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||
| Baryon says, "Ha ha, no need to sweat over it" | ||
| Nitku says, ">LISTEN TO SEAL It's not the 90s anymore." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "YOHOHO" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/27 Floyd | Floyd | > YOHOHO Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "ha" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I am not sure if I should leave the other ambient stuff as easter egg or clue it even more." | ||
| Tale says, ">LISTEN TO SEAL LION >The lion sleeps tonight." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, you can search for (and sometimes find) other critters." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Such as sea lions, yes." | ||
| Roger says, "The captain could probably hint in a bit of that" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You guys heard the lions barking, but didn't look for them." | ||
| Roger says, "Maybe some pictures taken from past trips up on a wall somewhere" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Hm, that's a good idea." | ||
| PaulS says (to Jacqueline), "I think the ambient stuff is better not too heavily clued." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look for sea lions" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/28 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR SEA LIONS Floyd | Floyd | Hm, yeah, there could be sea lions up here, you suppose... you search Floyd | the shore, and sure enough, there is a group of them hauled out on the Floyd | eastern shore of the bay. Floyd | Floyd | Little bits of glacier ice scratch against the ship's hull. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look for godzilla" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/28 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR GODZILLA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look for penguins" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/29 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR PENGUINS Floyd | Floyd | Didn't you hear? The North American penguin is endangered. Your Floyd | chances of seeing one are really, really low. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "look for polar bear" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look for polar bear" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/30 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR POLAR BEAR Floyd | Floyd | There aren't any of those here, and even if there were, wild animals Floyd | are best left alone. Especially polar bears. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "Am I the only one imagining this complex puzzle of drinking the coke and pouring the beer into the coke can and giving the beer-containing coke can to the captain?" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look for inuit" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/30 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR INUIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "the drinks seem to be our only weapons" | |
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "listen to penguins" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/31 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO PENGUINS Floyd | Floyd | Look, penguins live in the southern hemisphere, not here, you idiot. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere close, the glacier makes a sound like a shotgun going off. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "we could shake one up and feed it to the monster" | |
| djfletch says, "your plan actually seems quite likely though" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x glacier" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/32 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLACIER Floyd | Floyd | The Hubbard Glacier appears, at this distance, as a towering wall of Floyd | ice. It rises nearly three hundred feet high from the waterline, and Floyd | the wind off its face chills you noticeably, despite the sunny day. Floyd | You have to wonder if the boat is far enough away from the glacier Floyd | should an entire column of ice break free... but you know that the Floyd | captain knows these waters extremely well and that he'll get you close Floyd | enough for the experience you paid for, but will keep his boat in the Floyd | clear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "dive" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/33 Floyd | Floyd | > DIVE Floyd | Floyd | You do not want to sleep with the fishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline wonders whether to implement responses for inuit, eskimo, and, hrm, igloo. | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/34 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Isn't this place magical enough for you? Floyd | Floyd | You hear the water lap gently against the boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/35 Floyd | Floyd | > PLOVER Floyd | Floyd | Yes, yes there are small brown birds around here. Well done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/36 Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the spot, but not without fruit: the boat seems to rock, Floyd | ever so slightly from your efforts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look for emily" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/36 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR EMILY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/37 Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | You make out a faint scratching sound, like ice rubbing against the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/38 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You have dreamed of coming to Alaska your entire life, and you're Floyd | finally here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick ice" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/39 Floyd | Floyd | > LICK ICE Floyd | Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "lick birds" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/40 Floyd | Floyd | > LICK BIRDS Floyd | Floyd | They're far too far away, and besides, wild animals are best left Floyd | alone. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the water lap gently against the boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look for mammoth" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/40 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR MAMMOTH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "lick boat" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/40 Floyd | Floyd | > LICK BOAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x boat" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/40 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huh - I thought that was in there." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look for wildlife" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/41 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR WILDLIFE Floyd | Floyd | You suppose in a place this wild there must be animals everywhere, and Floyd | where you look will dictate what you see. The seals seem to be on the Floyd | icebergs, for instance, but you'd probably only see a bear if you were Floyd | specifically looking for one on the distant shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "search shore" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/42 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SHORE Floyd | Floyd | That's far too far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x shore" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/43 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHORE Floyd | Floyd | The shores on both sides of the bay, which are quite far off, appear Floyd | to be pretty rocky. Just beyond them, thick vegetation lines the Floyd | shore, quickly sloping up and away into terrain too steep to easiliy Floyd | climb. You skim the beach, looking for bears, because the captain Floyd | said there was a pretty good chance of seeing one. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere out of sight, you hear a giant splash. Floyd | Floyd | You hear an odd barking, almost roaring sound, far off. Floyd | It's those sea lions again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/44 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | The shores on both sides of the bay, which are quite far off, appear Floyd | to be pretty rocky. Just beyond them, thick vegetation lines the Floyd | shore, quickly sloping up and away into terrain too steep to easiliy Floyd | climb. You skim the beach, looking for bears, because the captain Floyd | said there was a pretty good chance of seeing one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look for bears" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/45 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR BEARS Floyd | Floyd | You scan the beach, knowing that sometimes bears come down to look for Floyd | clams or other tidepool foods — and you see one! This one is a large Floyd | grizzly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "talk to bear" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/46 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO BEAR Floyd | Floyd | It's far too far away, and besides, wild animals are best left alone. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a bird cry off in the distance, but can't seem to locate it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "watch bear" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/47 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH BEAR Floyd | Floyd | There's a grizzly bear on the rocky beach, flipping over rocks in Floyd | search of food. It sniffs the ground, checking something out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| yournamehere was hungry for freedom, particularly new improved freedom. | ||
| yournamehere has disconnected. | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "watch grisly bear" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/47 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH GRISLY BEAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "oops grizzly" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/48 Floyd | Floyd | > OOPS GRIZZLY Floyd | Floyd | There's a grizzly bear on the rocky beach, flipping over rocks in Floyd | search of food. It nudges a stone with its snout. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baryon says, "Impressive randomised responses" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/49 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | There's a grizzly bear on the rocky beach, flipping over rocks in Floyd | search of food. How cool — it appears to have found a clam. It takes Floyd | a seat, pries the shell open, and enjoys some lunch. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the glacier pop, far in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | |
| Jacqueline says, "There's other ambient stuff, but there are a couple of amusing things I'm not sure you tried." | ||
| PaulS says, "The ambient stuff is really great." | ||
| PaulS asks, "I don't think we got drunk yet, did we?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think you drank all the beer, though that's not really amusing so much as a response to genericgeekgirl finding a bug that the beer was unlimited (she called that a 'feature, not a bug')." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And then I'm not sure you've talked to the captain much." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But you guys don't have to - I know we have other stuff to play." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look in backpack" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/50 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | In the backpack is a warm beer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think you'd enjoy the captain, though. Most beta testers did." | |
| vimes says, "i presume, sadly, you fixed the backpack of devouring bug" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put beer in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/51 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BEER IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | You open the cooler and place the beer inside the it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "look in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/52 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | In the cooler is a warm beer. Floyd | Floyd | You make out a faint scratching sound, like ice rubbing against the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/53 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | In the cooler is a warm beer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "put backpack in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/54 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BACKPACK IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | You see no reason to put the backpack in the cooler. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "No ice yet" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/55 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a backpack (open but empty) Floyd | a pair of sunglasses (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere close, the glacier makes a sound like a shotgun going off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/56 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Compass directions make no sense on this tiny boat, but you can use Floyd | AFT and FORE (abbreviated as A or F) to move around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "f" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/57 Floyd | Floyd | > F Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | The front of the small cabin is almost entirely occupied with Floyd | navigational instruments, a fish finder, and radios for calling back Floyd | to shore. Along each side runs a bench with faded blue vinyl cushions, Floyd | which can be lifted to reveal the storage space underneath. There is a Floyd | glass case against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Slightly scratched windows offer a view of the surrounding bay, and Floyd | there is a door aft to the deck. A sign taped to one wall announces Floyd | the menu of tours offered by the Yakutat Charter Boat Company. Floyd | Floyd | The captain sits at the wheel, steering the boat and occasionally Floyd | checking the depth finder readout. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "gte net" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/57 Floyd | Floyd | > GTE NET Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get net" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/57 Floyd | Floyd | > GET NET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open bench" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/58 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You open the storage compartment, revealing a net and a warm Coke. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the glacier pop, far in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get net" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/59 Floyd | Floyd | > GET NET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get coke" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/60 Floyd | Floyd | > GET COKE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "aft" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/61 Floyd | Floyd | > AFT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deck Floyd | The whole back half of the boat is open, allowing you to view the Floyd | surroundings without intervening windows — if you can stand the cold. Floyd | Floyd | All around the boat bob chunks of glacier ice. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cooler (in which is a warm beer) here. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere close, the glacier makes a sound like a shotgun going off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get ice" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/62 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ICE Floyd | Floyd | You scoop up the ice with the net. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put ice in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/63 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ICE IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | You dump the ice from the net into the ice chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/64 Floyd | Floyd | > X BEER Floyd | Floyd | An Alaskan Amber, made not far from here, in Juneau. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the water lap gently against the boat. Floyd | Floyd | You hear an odd barking, almost roaring sound, far off. Floyd | It's those sea lions again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "remove glasses" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/65 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | You take off the pair of sunglasses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/66 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN COOLER Floyd | Floyd | In the cooler are a piece of glacier ice and a cold beer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There you go. Cold now." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think it takes three turns" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get beer then drink it" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/68 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BEER THEN DRINK IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You make out a faint scratching sound, like ice rubbing against the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | You open the beer, which sounds as if it still has some fizz to it, Floyd | and you take a sip. Floyd | Floyd | Okay, that's oddly refreshing, despite making you feel even colder Floyd | than you already were. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "It's probably got one of those fancy colour-changing labels" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Do beers ever have those?" | ||
| Roger says, "They do in Canada" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Canada is such a magical place." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/69 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, nice and smooth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/70 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy another sip, and decide that you may have to buy a case of Floyd | this stuff to take home. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a bird cry off in the distance, but can't seem to locate it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/71 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | Ahhh, this is good. Wonder if they brew any other good stuff. Maybe Floyd | you'll do a layover in Juneau on the way home, and take a tour of the Floyd | Alaskan Brewing Company's facility. That'd be fun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "listen to beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/72 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO BEER Floyd | Floyd | This isn't at all like home: no car alarms, no sirens, just... nature. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Really" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/73 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | Okay, darn, this seems like the last sip, and it's mostly just Floyd | backwash. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the water lap gently against the boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "How else do you know if it's flat?" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/74 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | Yep, that was it. No more beer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I think once it's open it doesn't make noise anymore, does it?" | |
| Roger says (to floyd), "throw can at ocean" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/74 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW CAN AT OCEAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink beer" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/75 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | Sorry, all gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "It kinda sparkles a little" | |
| Jacqueline says, "OH MAN. Yes, I never even thought about littering. Thanks, Roger." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/76 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cold beer Floyd | a warm Coke Floyd | a net Floyd | a backpack (open but empty) Floyd | a pair of sunglasses Floyd | Floyd | You hear a low rumble, like thunder, that tells you the glacier's Floyd | calved off another ice berg somewhere nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "shake coke" | ||
Floyd ] Deck 0/76 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE COKE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, I guess if you want, go talk to the captain." | |
| PaulS says, "I've got to go and grab something to eat. I'll be back in twenty minutes or so." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "fore" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/77 Floyd | Floyd | > FORE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cabin Floyd | The front of the small cabin is almost entirely occupied with Floyd | navigational instruments, a fish finder, and radios for calling back Floyd | to shore. Along each side runs a bench with faded blue vinyl cushions, Floyd | one of which is currently lifted to allow access to the storage Floyd | compartment within. There is a glass case against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Slightly scratched windows offer a view of the surrounding bay, and Floyd | there is a door aft to the deck. A sign taped to one wall announces Floyd | the menu of tours offered by the Yakutat Charter Boat Company. Floyd | Floyd | The captain sits at the wheel, steering the boat and occasionally Floyd | checking the depth finder readout. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There will definitely be a release two with all of your names in it." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/78 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "You know," says the captain, "I never get sick of coming up here. Floyd | It's just so beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/79 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "It is incredibly surreal up here by the glacier," you say, "thanks Floyd | for bringing me up here." Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, I'd say 'You're welcome,' except that, y'know, you're paying me Floyd | pretty well to do this." Floyd | Floyd | You hear the water lap gently against the boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | vimes says, "TALK TO THE CAPTAIN. HE'LL SURELY LET ME GO HOME" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "g" | Jacqueline asks (of vimes), "Is that a reference to something?" | |
Floyd ] Cabin 0/80 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "So, where's all this ice coming from?" Floyd | Floyd | "Way up in those mountains, over seventy miles from here. This is the Floyd | longest tidewater glacier in North America. The ice takes decades to Floyd | travel this far." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "GIVE HAMMER TO CAPTAIN" | |
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "give captain glasses" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/81 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CAPTAIN GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | The Captain doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "John B, I think" | |
| vimes says, "sloop john b, a beach boys song" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I am anti-Beach Boys." | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/82 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Really?" you ask. "Just decades? I thought glacier ice was, like, Floyd | ancient or something." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I guess some glacier ice might be, but this glacier moves Floyd | pretty fast, so the ice calves off into the sea and melts before it Floyd | can get too old." Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere close, the glacier makes a sound like a shotgun going off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "listen to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/83 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | The captain is quiet, watching the instruments and navigating the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "don't tell Bishop" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Really? Huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/84 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "So, why's some of the ice blue?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "It's because of how dense the ice is... the ice absorbs most of the Floyd | light and in some spots all that escapes is the blue." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/85 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Why's the water so chalky looking?" Floyd | Floyd | "Man, you're just full of questions, aren't you?" The captain looks a Floyd | little bit annoyed, but he recovers quickly. "It's because as the Floyd | glacier moves through the mountains it grinds down rock, some of it Floyd | into a fine powder, and it carries that powder in all the water runoff Floyd | and stuff, and so eventually that spills out into the ocean and close Floyd | to the glacier all that sediment gets churned up in the water, so it Floyd | looks like that." Floyd | Floyd | You make out a faint scratching sound, like ice rubbing against the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | You hear an odd barking, almost roaring sound, far off. Floyd | It's those sea lions again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/86 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Say, you want to hear a joke?" the captain asks, switching tracks. Floyd | You shrug and nod your head. Floyd | Floyd | "Have you seen that movie, Titanic?" You nod your head. Floyd | "And have you seen The Sixth Sense?" You nod your head Floyd | again. The captain leans forward, grinning childishly, "You know Floyd | what those two films have in common??" Floyd | Floyd | You think about it for a second. "Um, no," you admit. Floyd | Floyd | "ICY DEAD PEOPLE!" He laughs, like this is the first time he's ever Floyd | told this joke (you're actually quite sure it's more like the Floyd | millionth). "Get it? I SEE DEAD PEOPLE!" Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "yay" | |
| Baryon says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/86 Floyd | Floyd | > CRY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "laugh" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/86 Floyd | Floyd | > LAUGH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Baryon), "haha" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/87 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Want to hear another joke?" You're about to tell him no, when he Floyd | says, "Why did the shark wear a tuxedo? Because he was dressed to Floyd | kill!" Floyd | Floyd | Oh, brother. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/88 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, okay, you'll love this next one," says the captain. "How do Floyd | harbor seals like their soda? ON THE ROCKS!" Floyd | Floyd | The captain laughs hard at first, then looks around at all the ice Floyd | bergs and to the shore not far away, and his laughter sputters out. Floyd | "I guess that's not too funny, huh, us being in a boat and all." Floyd | Floyd | The glacier is quiet for a moment, and you realize it's been making so Floyd | much noise you're surprised by the silence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/89 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Wait," you point out. "You thought that Titanic joke was Floyd | hilarious, but the silly harbor seal joke is unnerving?" Floyd | Floyd | Silence from the captain. I think he's pretending not to have heard Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It was in coding this bit that I learned Inform 7 has a limit as to how much text you can put in quotes." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/90 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | The captain seems quiet, with nothing more to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look for icebergs" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/91 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK FOR ICEBERGS Floyd | Floyd | They're beautiful, and you could probably take a small one if you had Floyd | the right tool, but really, they're better admired from afar for the Floyd | most part. Floyd | Floyd | You make out a faint scratching sound, like ice rubbing against the Floyd | boat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Which is probably for the best, or I would have gone on all day with bad jokes, many of which I probably actually did learn from the guy who owns this charter boat company." | |
| Jacqueline says, "He had little kids, so he was just full of bad one line riddle jokes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, there's other stuff you haven't found, but it's all minor, so I would suggest we take a short 15 minute break and maybe Paul will be here when we reconvene and then we can decide whether to play his game or Tale's." | ||
| Tale says, "I like silly knock-knock jokes which all y'all will probably have heard as kids" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are knock-knock jokes in English hard when English isn't your first language?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Reconvene at ten after.)" | ||
| genericgeekgirl arrives, full of fun and funk. | djfletch asks, "Is there any major difference if we give the captain beer instead of coke?" | |
| Roger says, "It might be fun if the PC had a camera" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to djf), "He won't take the beer." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/92 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cold beer Floyd | a warm Coke Floyd | a net Floyd | a backpack (open but empty) Floyd | a pair of sunglasses Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give beer to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/93 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BEER TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "I don't drink on the job, thanks," he says. "You can help yourself if Floyd | you want it, though." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Roger), "I was thinking that." | |
| djfletch says, "aha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "In a glulx version, I could show photos of things you take pictures of." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I have thousands of photos from this place, so it'd be easy." | ||
| Roger says, "Snazzy" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd have to 'shop the narwhal photos, though." | ||
| Roger says, "They could be authentically blurry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If there were other endings, what would you guys do to deal with the narwhal? Maga tried attacking it and tried to take control of the boat." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Yes" | ||
| djfletch says, "get it drunk." | ||
| Tale says, "It should offer you 3 wishes" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "If you give it beer it should, you mean?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't know... if I were to mock this up into a release with photos, I think I'm might figure out something less silly than a narwhal." | ||
| djfletch says, "push the captain overboard" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Narwhal is very speed-IFfy, but I might do a subsequent release that's less so." | ||
| Roger says, "It could be a submarine of, well, lots of nations are possibilities" | ||
| Tale says, "GODZILLA" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, since we're on break, I get that you're thinking this isn't a speed-if, but I hate the term 'minicomp' when it's not a competition. Or were you thinking of making it a competition?" | ||
| Roger says, "Haha" | ||
| Nitku says, "I like "game jam"" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Tale says, "I don't like game jam, really" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Don't worry. In an alternate dimension, the first release of this game did in fact have Godzilla instead of a narwhal, and MOTHRA saves you from him." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Tale), "You don't?" | ||
| Tale says, "Just the term, on a language appreciation level that's weird" | ||
| Tale says, "It probably is a game jam, though" | ||
| maga says, "game jam sounds pretty wanky to my ear, but it's probably the least misleading description" | ||
| Tale says, "Yeah, what maga said" | ||
| Roger says, "IFopalooza" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger,), "hm, nix that first o. Just IFpalooza." | ||
| djfletch says, "It could be a Fest of some sort." | ||
| djfletch says, "IFpaloozafest" | ||
| Tale says, "IF New Year's Fest" | ||
| Roger says, "IFpocalypse" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "New Year Gamefest?" | ||
| PaulS says, "You eat the red pepper chilli. Not bad." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "I am *so* over the apocalypse." | ||
| Roger says, "Sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh oh oh Paul is back." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I think David is still gone." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(We are on break for six more minutes)." | ||
| Tale says, "New Year Gamfest is not half bad." | ||
| PaulS says, "I hate the term minicomp too. Or anything comp-y." | ||
| Baryon says, "I'm leaving now, so have fun" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Tale), "Look at those gams!" | ||
| Baryon goes home. | Tale says, "Gam jam" | |
| PaulS asks, "Perhaps it could be slow-IF?" | ||
| Roger says, "IF Allthing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There was a 24 Hours of Inform thing once. This could be 24 Hours of New Year's." | ||
| PaulS says, "IF anything" | ||
| Tale says, "A Merry Month of IF" | ||
| Roger says, "New Year's takeall" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, that sort of suggests a holiday theme. But then, you always say 'whatever you want is fair game'." | ||
| Tale says, ""IF Month" sounds a bit pompous" | ||
| Emily arrives, full of fun and funk. | Tale says, "maybe just "New Year's IF"" | |
| Roger asks, "Have we already had noncomps?" | ||
| djfletch says, "A Winter's Tale" | ||
| Nitku says, "what about "New Year's IF event"" | ||
| Tale says (to djfletch), "Hooray" | ||
| Tale says (to nitku), "Hmm...that's also pretty good and sums it up very well" | ||
| PaulS says, "New Year's iffy event." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, Paul or Tale next?" | ||
| Tale says, "I don't mind either way" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Got a preference, Paul?" | ||
| maga says, "hey Em" | Jacqueline says (to Em), "Aw, you just missed the narwhal." | |
| PaulS says, "No, no preference." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] Cabin 0/93
Floyd |
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > Y
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0
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| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask shortofsushi" | ||
Floyd | The Burj al-Fawalti thrusts itself -- boldly, modernly, assertively -- Floyd | aloft. In the Penthouse Suite on the fifty-seventh floor, an Floyd | interactive fictionista reaches perfectly manicured fingers languidly Floyd | towards the telephone ... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press any key] | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Short of Sushi Floyd | A New Year's Speed IF Floyd | Copyright (c) 2013 by Paul Stanley. Floyd | Release 1 (2013-01-03) Floyd | Inform v6.31 / Platypus release 4+ Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Everything has its less dignified parts. There are toilets to be Floyd | scrubbed, linens to be laundered -- and down in the basement pantry, Floyd | there is room-service to be prepared and delivered. Floyd | Floyd | Here, all is functional: tiled walls and floor, a desk, a telephone, a Floyd | refrigerator. Your job is simple. Wait for orders, then trundle off to Floyd | collect them and deliver them to the guests. Nothing to it. The Floyd | service elevator is south. The guest elevator (which you are not Floyd | supposed to use) is north. The kitchen is northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wow, a Platypus game." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/2 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Resigned to working in this dump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/3 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your pass key Floyd | Floyd | A mouse sidles in from a crack in the tiles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh. Mouse." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x mouse" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/4 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | Not a surprise, of course, to see such a thing in this particular part Floyd | of this particular establishment. In your idler moments you wonder Floyd | whether mice (wasps, rats, cockroaches) might be some sort of argument Floyd | against the existence of any intelligent designer. What purpose can Floyd | they possibly serve? What are they good for? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I assume we're supposed to go northeast?" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "catch mouse" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/5 Floyd | Floyd | > CATCH MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You are not fast enough. The mouse scuttles away, and squeezes itself Floyd | out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm for that." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Going NE, I meant" | ||
| DavidW says, "We might be able to make a mousetrap." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Uniquely, perhaps, among the staff of this hotel, you intend to do Floyd | your duty. Which -- at present -- requires you to stay here. You can Floyd | leave once you have an order. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "True" | |
| Jacqueline says, "And making a mousetrap is the sort of thing DavidWs like to do." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, we stay here." | ||
| DavidW says, "I had a Mousetrap game as a kid." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x telephone" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/7
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TELEPHONE
Floyd |
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x service elevator" | ||
Floyd | Dark grease stains the handset and covers the cord. Floyd | Floyd | Rodent eyes seem to watch opportunistically from a crevice beside the Floyd | service elevator. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Pantry 0/8 Floyd | Floyd | > X SERVICE ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | Where the guest elevator is fast, clean and efficient, the service Floyd | elevator is slow, grubby and ... broken. As usual. A notice to this Floyd | effect is taped to the door. Floyd | Floyd | The telephone begins to ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "answer phone" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/9 Floyd | Floyd | > ANSWER PHONE Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the receiver. Floyd | Floyd | A woman's voice: "Room service? This is room 5701." Floyd | Floyd | Room 5701, the Penthouse Suite. Floyd | Floyd | "I am in the mood for some sushi, some fresh sushi. Could you bring Floyd | some, please? As quick as you can?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "oh she's got... rodent eyes" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/10 Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Intended to hold food and drink for immediate service. Intended, Floyd | presumably, to hold them in a cool condition. Which it doesn't. Floyd | Because it's on the blink. It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry? Did you say something?" the voice on the other end of the line Floyd | continues. "The line is not altogether satisfactory." Floyd | Floyd | There is indeed a strange whistling and squeaking, and you can hardly Floyd | hear her. Floyd | Floyd | "Sushi! Fresh sushi! As quick as you can." The voice is imperious. Floyd | Floyd | Then silence. Whether she has put down the phone, or whether it has Floyd | simply stopped functioning you cannot tell. But this much you know: Floyd | you need to find some sushi. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read notice" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/11 Floyd | Floyd | > READ NOTICE Floyd | Floyd | A handwritten notice "Out of Order. Engineer called." A fixture: it Floyd | has been here, on and off, a long as you have, and you confidently Floyd | expect it to outlast you. Floyd | Floyd | Rodent eyes seem to watch opportunistically from a crevice beside the Floyd | service elevator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/12 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You open the refrigerator, revealing a piece of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale asks, "Veggie sushi?" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/13 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You close the refrigerator. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Don't you want the cheese?" | |
| Tale says, "right" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/14 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You open the refrigerator, revealing a piece of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/15 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | You take the piece of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | Rodent eyes seem to watch opportunistically from a crevice beside the Floyd | service elevator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/16 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You close the refrigerator. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "First part of the mousetrap done" | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe we're building a mouse-controlled elevator." | ||
| Roger says, "mmm, rat sushi coming right up" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/16 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x aquarium" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/16 Floyd | Floyd | > X AQUARIUM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/16 Floyd | Floyd | > X TANK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/17 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Everything has its less dignified parts. There are toilets to be Floyd | scrubbed, linens to be laundered -- and down in the basement pantry, Floyd | there is room-service to be prepared and delivered. Floyd | Floyd | Here, all is "functional" (i.e., ugly): tiled walls and floor, a desk, Floyd | a telephone, a broken refrigerator. The service elevator (which is Floyd | broken) is south. The guest elevator (which you are going to have to Floyd | use instead) is north. The kitchen is northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Now ne should work" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/18 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Kitchen Floyd | Not quite your standard kitchen. No cabinet. No sink. No stove, or Floyd | oven, or drawer. Instead you see an empty room, in the centre of which Floyd | is a gleaming machine, supposedly capable of producing any food that Floyd | the guests desire. Could it be more simple? All you need do is ask for Floyd | some sushi. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel's chef, Monsieur Micronde, stands proudly by the machine. Floyd | Floyd | As soon as he sees you, he bustles over. "No! No! No! What are you Floyd | doing in here without a hairnet? Have you no consideration for the Floyd | hygiene?" He hands you a hairnet, which you dutifully wear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/19 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | A stainless steel cube, standing taller than a man. Every surface is Floyd | covered with dials, lights, screens, knobs, levers, handles, buttons, Floyd | keypads and valves. A vast glass tank filled with greenish material Floyd | sits on top of it. The side is blazoned "Gastroreactor: Reversing the Floyd | Natural Order". Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "('Micro-Onde' is French for 'microwave oven')" | |
| DavidW asks, "Why isn't this machine in the suite itself?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask machine for sushi" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/19 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MACHINE FOR SUSHI Floyd | Floyd | That can only be done to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask monsieur for sushi" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/20 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MONSIEUR FOR SUSHI Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, but of course, that will be not at all a problem. She is Floyd | Japanese, the machine. She will produce the most exquisite sushi." Floyd | Floyd | The machine pops and produces copious quantities of grey smoke. As the Floyd | smoke clears, you see that it has produced a hamburger. Floyd | Floyd | Monsieur Micronde stares at it. "The machine," he says, "she has her Floyd | little moments, her little tempests and tantrums. All will correct Floyd | itself." He fiddles with the buttons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hamburger" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/21 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HAMBURGER Floyd | Floyd | You take the burger. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "Bugs. Bugs. Everywhere. Always." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask monsieur for hamburger" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/22 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MONSIEUR FOR HAMBURGER Floyd | Floyd | A smile spreads over the Chef's face. "This," he says, "she will most Floyd | assuredly produce with ease." Floyd | Floyd | The chef twiddles with the dials, pulls a lever, and stands back while Floyd | the machine grinds and whirrs and finally, with a belch of pale green Floyd | vapour, produces ... a burger. Floyd | Floyd | "Eh, voila!" says Monsieur Micronde. "She has performed, exactly as Floyd | commanded." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell monsieur about mouse" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/23 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL MONSIEUR ABOUT MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | Monsieur Micronde shugs, gallically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x burger" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/24 Floyd | Floyd | > X BURGER Floyd | Floyd | (the burger) Floyd | Not exactly mouthwatering. The beige bun barely conceals a leathery Floyd | puck, wilting lettuce and watery tomato. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask monsieur for mousetrap" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/25 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MONSIEUR FOR MOUSETRAP Floyd | Floyd | The chef looks troubled. "I'm not sure about that," he says, "but let Floyd | us essay what she can accomplish, the machine." Floyd | Floyd | The machine pops and produces a puff of brownish smoke. As the smoke Floyd | clears, you see that it has produced another hamburger. Floyd | Floyd | Monsieur Micronde stares at it. "The machine," he says, "she has her Floyd | little moments, her little tempests and tantrums. All will correct Floyd | itself." He fiddles with the buttons. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Haha" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/26 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a burger Floyd | your pass key Floyd | a piece of cheese Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | a hairnet Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "Everywhere, I say." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/27 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Kitchen Floyd | Not quite your standard kitchen. No cabinet. No sink. No stove, or Floyd | oven, or drawer. Instead you see an empty room, in the centre of which Floyd | is a gleaming but largely useless machine. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel's chef, Monsieur Micronde, stands unhappily by the Floyd | malfunctioning machine. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see two burgers here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get burgers" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/28 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BURGERS Floyd | Floyd | burger: Taken. Floyd | burger: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "make supersized burger" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/28 Floyd | Floyd | > MAKE SUPERSIZED BURGER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm thinking: get mouse with cheese; get cat with mouse; use cat to get fish." | |
| Tale asks, "we need to do something to the cheese first, don't you think?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/29 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | A stainless steel cube, standing taller than a man. Every surface is Floyd | covered with dials, lights, screens, knobs, levers, handles, buttons, Floyd | keypads and valves. A vast glass tank filled with greenish material Floyd | sits on top of it. The side is blazoned "Gastroreactor: Reversing the Floyd | Natural Order". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/30 Floyd | Floyd | > X TANK Floyd | Floyd | The tank is full of a semi-liquid, greenish brown matter. Floyd | Floyd | "Remarkable, is it not," says Micronde. "Totally natural! Totally Floyd | local! Absolutely vegetarian! All delivered from a local farm." Floyd | Floyd | "Is it ..." you ask. Floyd | Floyd | He beams. "But of course, my friend. Merde. Crap. Manure. All turned Floyd | by the miracles of genetic engineering and nuclear physics into Floyd | wholesome, delicious food." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "Show cheese to micronde" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/31 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW CHEESE TO MICRONDE Floyd | Floyd | The Monsieur Micronde is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "eat cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/32 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | You eat the piece of cheese. Not good. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/31 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Kitchen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put cheese in net" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/32 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CHEESE IN NET Floyd | Floyd | The hairnet can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/32 Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 60, in 32 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's using crap? ugh." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x net" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/33 Floyd | Floyd | > X NET Floyd | Floyd | The acme of good hygiene. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "remove net" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/34 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE NET Floyd | Floyd | You take off the hairnet. Floyd | Floyd | "Please, I beg you!" says Monsieur Micronde. "I beg you! She is most Floyd | delicate, the machine. She cannot abide dirt." Floyd | Floyd | The tank tells a different story, but you put the hairnet on, Floyd | nonetheless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "put burger in tank" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/35 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BURGER IN TANK Floyd | Floyd | The tank can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hm. The net might help us catch a fish elsewhere." | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/35
Floyd |
Floyd | > HM. THE NET MIGHT HELP US CATCH A FISH ELSEWHERE.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. And, unfortunately for me, I'm eating lunch rightnow." | |
| Tale asks, "chef for human flesh" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask chef for human flesh" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/36 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CHEF FOR HUMAN FLESH Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm," says the chef. "Let us see." Floyd | Floyd | The machine whirrs and produces copious quantities of grey smoke. As Floyd | the smoke clears, you see that it has produced another hamburger. Floyd | Floyd | Monsieur Micronde stares at it. "It is insupportable!" he exclaims. "I Floyd | am unable to comprehend why this has happened." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "By the same thing, I meant 'crap? ugh' but yeah - the net might be useful." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x dials" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/37 Floyd | Floyd | > X DIALS Floyd | Floyd | The machine is infernally complicated. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "Let me know if you want a gentle nudge. It is quite long (my fault) ..." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "turn dials" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/38 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN DIALS Floyd | Floyd | "Non, non, non, non, non!" Monsieur Micronde becomes animated. "You Floyd | are not trained to operate her. Whatever you need, you have only to Floyd | ask for it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "mmm, soylent brown" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put burgers in tank" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/39 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BURGERS IN TANK Floyd | Floyd | burger: The tank can't contain things. Floyd | burger: The tank can't contain things. Floyd | burger: The tank can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Tale says, "I'm thinking make a trap with the cheese and the net in some way." | ||
| Roger says, "I'm in favour in wandering more" | ||
| Tale asks, "Do we have that many place to go?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Tale), "This is a speed-if. It may be as simple as DROP CHEESE. TAKE MOUSE WITH NET." | ||
| Roger says, "Let's find out" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/40 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel Kitchen Floyd | Not quite your standard kitchen. No cabinet. No sink. No stove, or Floyd | oven, or drawer. Instead you see an empty room, in the centre of which Floyd | is a gleaming but largely useless machine. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel's chef, Monsieur Micronde, stands unhappily by the Floyd | malfunctioning machine. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a burger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get burger" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/41 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BURGER Floyd | Floyd | (the burger) Floyd | You take the burger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel Kitchen 0/42 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The only way out is southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/43 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Everything has its less dignified parts. There are toilets to be Floyd | scrubbed, linens to be laundered -- and down in the basement pantry, Floyd | there is room-service to be prepared and delivered. Floyd | Floyd | Here, all is "functional" (i.e., ugly): tiled walls and floor, a desk, Floyd | a telephone, a broken refrigerator. The service elevator (which is Floyd | broken) is south. The guest elevator (which you are going to have to Floyd | use instead) is north. The kitchen is northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "m" | ||
Floyd ] Pantry 0/43 Floyd | Floyd | > M Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/44 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The floor is not perfectly clean, and the brass fixtures not perfectly Floyd | polished, but at least it works. An advertisement for the hotel's spa Floyd | is fixed to the wall, in an attempt to attract custom. Floyd | Floyd | The control panel is beside the door. Above it, an illuminated sign Floyd | tells you that the elevator is currently on the basement floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/45 Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | There is an array of buttons, marked B (for the basement), L (for the Floyd | lobby), 2 to 56 for the hotel's various floors, and P for the Floyd | penthouse. Beside the button for floor 2, an engraved sign reminds Floyd | patrons that the hotel's famous ballroom is on that floor. No floor Floyd | has been selected. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "The elevator was the example on which it is based, by the way." | |
| Tale asks, "Where do we want to go?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read ad" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/46 Floyd | Floyd | > READ AD Floyd | Floyd | (in the yourself) Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "I'm saying ball room" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x ad" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/46 Floyd | Floyd | > X AD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), " read advertisement" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/47 Floyd | Floyd | > READ ADVERTISEMENT Floyd | Floyd | An athletic couple lie with their eyes closed and their faces covered Floyd | in mud. Seraphic smiles spread across their features. "Feeling past Floyd | your best?" the advertisement asks. "Freshen up fast at our spa on Floyd | five!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says (to Tale), "You just like saying 'ball room'" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "See, I was thinking Day for Fresh Sushi, though of course that's already a game... but wasn't it originally an example?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "press 2" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/48 Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS 2 Floyd | Floyd | You push the button marked "2" and it lights up. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator doors slide closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "There's sushi everywhere in the examples." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/49 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator rises, slows, and the doors open at floor 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/50 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | The ballroom is evidently being prepared for some sort of function. Floyd | The grand chandelier (the largest in Torquay!) illuminates the sprung Floyd | parquet floor. Dead centre in the middle of the dancefloor is a vast Floyd | fishtank. Floyd | Floyd | Someone has dropped a piece of paper on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Game first, example second." | |
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||
| Tale says, "The plot thickens in the ball room" | ||
| DavidW says, "Fresh Sushi was originally in I6, I think, before it became an I7 example." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/51 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | MEMORANDUM TO HOTEL MANAGEMENT Floyd | Floyd | In preparation for the New Year Speed IF convention, various equipment Floyd | is to be installed in the Ballroom. It consists of a fishtank, fish, Floyd | and associated apparatus. Floyd | Floyd | Please ensure that it is properly installed and that no harm comes to Floyd | the fish. I will bring the remainder of the work to which it relates Floyd | as soon as I have finished it. Any problems, my room number is 4302. Floyd | Floyd | PS Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "I gues Em really likes Sushi" | |
| Jacqueline says, "She does." | ||
| DavidW asks, "There's no actual fishtank here, though, is there?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/52 Floyd | Floyd | > X TANK Floyd | Floyd | Someone has installed a large aquarium in the middle of the ballroom. Floyd | It must be 10 feet square, and almost as tall as you are. You half Floyd | expect to see a kraken, or at least a small shark, gliding with quiet Floyd | menace. Instead a tiny goldfish is making slow circles round the tank. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x fish" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/53 Floyd | Floyd | > X FISH Floyd | Floyd | It swims knowingly, even insolently, about the tank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "talk to goldfish" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/53 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO GOLDFISH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give burger to fish" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/54 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BURGER TO FISH Floyd | Floyd | That seems to be part of the fishtank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask goldfish about sushi" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/55 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK GOLDFISH ABOUT SUSHI Floyd | Floyd | Are you mad? It's a fish, not a conversation partner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get paper" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/56 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You take the memo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fish with net" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/57 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FISH WITH NET Floyd | Floyd | You dip the hairnet quickly into the water, and briefly drag it like a Floyd | trawler. Success rewards your efforts: the fish flaps in your hand, Floyd | then expires. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/56 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "What? We do need sushi" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm uncertain such a little fish is useful." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed fish" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/57 Floyd | Floyd | > FEED FISH Floyd | Floyd | (to the yourself) Floyd | (taking the goldfish) Floyd | You try to grab the fish, but it slips through your fingers. Floyd | Floyd | "Nice try!" you imagine the fish saying. "But you can't have thought Floyd | that was going to do the trick!" Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "I assume that game logic, not real-world logic, applies here" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, perhaps" | ||
| PaulS says, "I should have implemented that, since it is the actual key command in day for fresh sushi." | ||
| Tale says, "Maybe we check out the guy" | ||
| DavidW asks, "So we take the dead goldfish to the spa for 'fresh'-ening it up?" | ||
| Tale says, "we havbe his room number and all" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Tale), "visit or phone?" | ||
| PaulS says, "I can see a slightly monstrous bug looming." | ||
| Tale says, "I was thinking of visiting. Phoning works too." | ||
| DavidW asks, "And take the fish first or not?" | ||
| Tale says, "Maybe it won't be fresh if we carry it around for a while" | ||
| Tale says, "So I say leave it" | ||
| DavidW says, "ok." | ||
| DavidW says, "feel free to drive" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get paper" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/58 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You already have the memo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/59 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | The ballroom is evidently being prepared for some sort of function. Floyd | The grand chandelier (the largest in Torquay!) illuminates the sprung Floyd | parquet floor. Dead centre in the middle of the dancefloor is a vast Floyd | fishtank. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "elevator is north" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x chandelier" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom 0/60 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHANDELIER Floyd | Floyd | Its twinkles lustrously over the fishtank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/61 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The floor is not perfectly clean, and the brass fixtures not perfectly Floyd | polished, but at least it works. An advertisement for the hotel's spa Floyd | is fixed to the wall, in an attempt to attract custom. Floyd | Floyd | The control panel is beside the door. Above it, an illuminated sign Floyd | tells you that the elevator is currently on floor 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/62 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | MEMORANDUM TO HOTEL MANAGEMENT Floyd | Floyd | In preparation for the New Year Speed IF convention, various equipment Floyd | is to be installed in the Ballroom. It consists of a fishtank, fish, Floyd | and associated apparatus. Floyd | Floyd | Please ensure that it is properly installed and that no harm comes to Floyd | the fish. I will bring the remainder of the work to which it relates Floyd | as soon as I have finished it. Any problems, my room number is 4302. Floyd | Floyd | PS Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "press 4" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/63 Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS 4 Floyd | Floyd | You push the button marked "4" and it lights up. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator doors slide closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/64 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator rises, slows, and the doors open at floor 4. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Floor 4 (by the elevator) 0/65 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floor 4 (by the elevator) Floyd | Apart from the brass sign announcing that this is floor 4, there is Floyd | nothing to distinguish this from any of the other residential floors Floyd | of the hotel. The doors of rooms 401 and 402 are east and west Floyd | respectively. The elevator is north. The windowless corridor continues Floyd | south into the further reaches of the hotel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Floor 4 (by the elevator) 0/66 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You begin to head down the corridor, but it occurs to you that this is Floyd | not, after all, the time to explore the further reaches of the hotel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Hm...so we do have to call, I guess" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess so" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/67 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The floor is not perfectly clean, and the brass fixtures not perfectly Floyd | polished, but at least it works. An advertisement for the hotel's spa Floyd | is fixed to the wall, in an attempt to attract custom. Floyd | Floyd | The control panel is beside the door. Above it, an illuminated sign Floyd | tells you that the elevator is currently on floor 4. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "err ... no; it's just a bad clue; check the panel again." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/68 Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | There is an array of buttons, marked B (for the basement), L (for the Floyd | lobby), 2 to 56 for the hotel's various floors, and P for the Floyd | penthouse. Beside the button for floor 2, an engraved sign reminds Floyd | patrons that the hotel's famous ballroom is on that floor. No floor Floyd | has been selected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "push 43" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/69 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH 43 Floyd | Floyd | You push the button marked "43" and it lights up. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator doors slide closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/70 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator rises rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/71 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator rises rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/72 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator rises rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 0/73 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator rises, slows, and the doors open at floor 43. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Floor 43 (by the elevator) 0/74 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floor 43 (by the elevator) Floyd | Apart from the brass sign announcing that this is floor 43, there is Floyd | nothing to distinguish this from any of the other residential floors Floyd | of the hotel. The doors of rooms 4301 and 4302 are east and west Floyd | respectively. The elevator is north. The windowless corridor continues Floyd | south into the further reaches of the hotel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 0/75 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Room 4302 Floyd | A perfectly ordinary hotel bedroom, like thousands of others here. Floyd | This one almost appears unlived in: none of the usual clothes, luggage Floyd | and muddle.Whoever is staying here seems to be working. Floyd | Floyd | A laptop computer is open on the bed. Floyd | Floyd | The bathroom door is shut, and it sounds like someone is in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Okay, examine the laptop, I guess? maybe this is timed" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 0/76 Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | The laptop is switched on, and from the look of the screen someone Floyd | seems to have been doing some sort of programming. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read screen" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 0/77 Floyd | Floyd | > READ SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | Verb cast Floyd | * topic -> Cast; Floyd | Floyd | [ CastSub w; Floyd | wn = consult_from; Floyd | w = NextWord(); Floyd | switch (w) { Floyd | 'soyfac': MoveTo(Soy, player); Floyd | "A dish of soy sauce magically appears in your hand."; Floyd | default: "This is not that kind of game."; Floyd | }]; Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That seems to you rather unfair: indeed, without some clear clue, it Floyd | looks positively misleading! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hm, think it is?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cast" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 0/77 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "cast soyfac" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 5/78 Floyd | Floyd | > CAST SOYFAC Floyd | Floyd | A dish of soy sauce magically appears in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | [For conjuring up some soy sauce, your score has just gone up by five Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Tale says, "Hooray, points!" | ||
| DavidW says, "'soyfac" | ||
| DavidW asks, "?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "knock on bathroom" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 5/79 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | Violence won't help matters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 5/80 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Room 4302 Floyd | A perfectly ordinary hotel bedroom, like thousands of others here. Floyd | This one almost appears unlived in: none of the usual clothes, luggage Floyd | and muddle. Floyd | Floyd | A laptop computer is open on the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's a spell from that game that person is writing on their laptop" | |
| Tale asks, "Okay, now we catch the fish and prepare sushi?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't see the word 'SOYFAC' there, though." | ||
| PaulS says, "Given the time, and the need to play Tale's game, I think you might want a gentle nudge." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, now I see it" | ||
| Tale says (to PaulS), "My game has basically been moved on to next week, so don't worry" | ||
| DavidW says, "Sometimes I hate CF's scrolling." | ||
| PaulS says, "OK. I'm afraid mine is too long." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x soy" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 5/81 Floyd | Floyd | > X SOY Floyd | Floyd | A small porcelain dish of dark soy sauce. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So what's this for?" | |
| Tale says, "For the Sushi. You eat sushi with soy sauce." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Really? Soy sauce on sushi?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Gosh yes" | ||
| Tale says, "you dip the bits of sushi in it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "With wasabi and ginger, too." | ||
| PaulS says, "Some people do, anyway." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "How long did it take you to code this if it's that big a game?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 5/82 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You have other things to do than spend your time rooting around other Floyd | people's bathrooms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 5/83 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. The door to the elevator is east. Floyd | Floyd | You hear flushing from the bathroom. Then the sound or the shower Floyd | being turned on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 5/84 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You have other things to do than spend your time rooting around other Floyd | people's bathrooms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Room 4302 5/85 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. The door to the elevator is east. Floyd | You can't go that way. The door to the elevator is east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Floor 43 (by the elevator) 5/86 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floor 43 (by the elevator) Floyd | Apart from the brass sign announcing that this is floor 43, there is Floyd | nothing to distinguish this from any of the other residential floors Floyd | of the hotel. The doors of rooms 4301 and 4302 are east and west Floyd | respectively. The elevator is north. The windowless corridor continues Floyd | south into the further reaches of the hotel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/87 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The floor is not perfectly clean, and the brass fixtures not perfectly Floyd | polished, but at least it works. An advertisement for the hotel's spa Floyd | is fixed to the wall, in an attempt to attract custom. Floyd | Floyd | The control panel is beside the door. Above it, an illuminated sign Floyd | tells you that the elevator is currently on floor 43. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, maybe the spa does seaweed facials." | |
| Tale says, "To the spa!" | ||
| PaulS says, "Well, I started on about the 16th of December, and did a bit when I could. But I can get obsessive. So a long time, actually." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/88 Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | There is an array of buttons, marked B (for the basement), L (for the Floyd | lobby), 2 to 56 for the hotel's various floors, and P for the Floyd | penthouse. Beside the button for floor 2, an engraved sign reminds Floyd | patrons that the hotel's famous ballroom is on that floor. No floor Floyd | has been selected. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "oh my that sounds dirty" | |
| DavidW says, "Darned if I know where the rice is to come from." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "read advertisement" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/89 Floyd | Floyd | > READ ADVERTISEMENT Floyd | Floyd | An athletic couple lie with their eyes closed and their faces covered Floyd | in mud. Seraphic smiles spread across their features. "Feeling past Floyd | your best?" the advertisement asks. "Freshen up fast at our spa on Floyd | five!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "press five" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/90 Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS FIVE Floyd | Floyd | You push the button marked "5" and it lights up. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator doors slide closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/91 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator descends rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/92 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator descends rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/93 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator descends rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/94 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator descends, slows, and the doors open at floor 5. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/95 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Spa Floyd | The hotel's spa and aromatherapy suite. Soft light diffuses from Floyd | hidden sources around the cornice, and gently pours over the pale grey Floyd | walls and cream carpet. At a glass desk in the centre of the room, a Floyd | severe looking young woman sits wearing a white coat: Dr Mell. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Mell sniffs; and you have no doubt that it is you she is sniffing. Floyd | "Not terrible," she says, "but we can do better. We can always do Floyd | better." From the many drawers of the desk she produces a number of Floyd | tiny glass bottles, and sprays them toward you. A fresh smell of Floyd | scrubbed skin and clean linen descends upon you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to mell" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/95 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO MELL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mell about seaweed" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/96 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MELL ABOUT SEAWEED Floyd | Floyd | She seems to have nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | "Perhaps," says Dr Mell, "you would prefer something a little more Floyd | exotic." Once again, her hands play over the drawers, producing a Floyd | fistful of glass bottles which she sprays delicately about her. The Floyd | air fills with the aromas of the souk: spices, coffee, sweet tobacco Floyd | and hashish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask mell about rice" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/97 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MELL ABOUT RICE Floyd | Floyd | She seems to have nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | "Arabia tells a thousand stories," Dr Mell mutters enigmatically. "But Floyd | there are those who prefer the more bracing scents of the north." The Floyd | bottles are duly produced and wielded, and you are transported to a Floyd | northern forest in winter: resinous pine, pure air and woodsmoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "She seems to have plenty to say.." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "cut fish" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/97 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT FISH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/98 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "We can travel in time," Dr Mell boasts, "and not just in place." The Floyd | flurry of bottles and spraying leaves the room with a distinctly Floyd | unsavoury smell: sweat, manure, boiling meat. "I give you," Dr Mell Floyd | announces, "Paris, 1420." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/99 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Let us return to normality," Dr Mell says. The bottles are duly Floyd | wielded and sprayed, and you smell ... nothing unexpected. "Believe Floyd | me," says Dr Mell, "reproducing precisely the scent of a mediocre Floyd | hotel in twenty-first century Britain is at least as challenging as Floyd | any of my other achievements." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mell" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/100 Floyd | Floyd | > X MELL Floyd | Floyd | Dr Mell is an aristocrat among the hotel's staff. She wears a white Floyd | coat, surgical scrubs and severe black glasses, which are perched on Floyd | her highly-trained nose. She peers owlishly through their thick Floyd | lenses. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "he he" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "Arabia had spices, so maybe we need those" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/100
Floyd |
Floyd | > ARABIA HAD SPICES, SO MAYBE WE NEED THOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take spices" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/100 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SPICES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "Arabia had spices, so maybe we need those" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "take arabia" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/100 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ARABIA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x mell" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/101 Floyd | Floyd | > X MELL Floyd | Floyd | Dr Mell is an aristocrat among the hotel's staff. She wears a white Floyd | coat, surgical scrubs and severe black glasses, which are perched on Floyd | her highly-trained nose. She peers owlishly through their thick Floyd | lenses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask mell about japan" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/102 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MELL ABOUT JAPAN Floyd | Floyd | She seems to have nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Mell sits, waiting to assist you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask mell about arabia" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/103 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MELL ABOUT ARABIA Floyd | Floyd | She seems to have nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask mell about perfums" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/104 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MELL ABOUT PERFUMS Floyd | Floyd | She seems to have nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "I hadn't even thought of that way of reading this scene, Tale." | |
| DavidW says, "I suspect now that the spa will merely remove the smell of dead fish from dead fish." | ||
| DavidW says, "Assuming that we can retrigger this sequence on a revisit." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Any idea where to find rice in this hotel?" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "We haven't visited the lobby" | ||
Floyd ] Spa 5/104
Floyd |
Floyd | > WE HAVEN'T VISITED THE LOBBY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW asks, "Is there a wedding?" | |
| Tale says, "We haven't visited the lobby" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure, try the lobby." | ||
| Tale says, "It would be good to know what is required for this sushi" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/105 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The floor is not perfectly clean, and the brass fixtures not perfectly Floyd | polished, but at least it works. An advertisement for the hotel's spa Floyd | is fixed to the wall, in an attempt to attract custom. Floyd | Floyd | The control panel is beside the door. Above it, an illuminated sign Floyd | tells you that the elevator is currently on floor 5. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There might be a sign there too." | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "press L" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/106 Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS L Floyd | Floyd | You push the button marked "L" and it lights up. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator doors slide closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 5/107 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator descends, slows, and the doors open at the lobby floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or clue" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby 5/108 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | With black granite twinkling beneath your feet like a starry sky, the Floyd | lobby makes a thoroughly ill-intentioned promise of grand luxury and Floyd | impeccable service. The deserted reception desk tells a truer story. Floyd | To the south, a chill drizzle plays on the plate glass doors. The Floyd | elevator is north. A distinct odour reminds you that the sushi bar is Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the lobby, the hotel's christmas tree stands Floyd | disconsolately, weeping tinsel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "And you thought there might be nowhere else to go" | |
| DavidW asks, "Sushi bar is west?" | ||
| Tale says, "ha ha ha" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby 5/109 Floyd | Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | Every great city has establishments justly famous for their Christmas Floyd | decorations: Macy's, Fortnum's, the Galeries Lafayette. This is not Floyd | one of them. The lopsided old fir is partially disguised with oddments Floyd | of tinsel, baubles, and some lights which, predictably, seem not to be Floyd | working -- a circumstance explained, perhaps, by the tangle of cables Floyd | taped up at the base of the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe we can make this red herring into sushi." | |
| Roger says, "Haha" | ||
| DavidW says, "mmm, red herring sushi" | ||
| PaulS says, "Might be vile" | ||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x cables" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby 5/110 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLES Floyd | Floyd | Cables are absurdly intertwined like some crazy bird's nest, stuffed Floyd | at the base of the tree. Yellow and black tape has been wrapped around Floyd | it, marked "High Voltage, Do Not Touch." The fraying ends of the cable Floyd | disappear into a junction box, which is turned off. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "it is somewhat slimy" | |
| DavidW says, "but so christmassy" | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "turn on bpx" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby 5/110 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON BPX Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "turn on box" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby 5/111 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON BOX Floyd | Floyd | It looks rather dangerous -- something to be attempted only as a last Floyd | resort. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tale says, "What does the world have against random chaos!" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/112 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby (by the sushi bar) Floyd | Tucked into the corner of the lobby is the "Kamikaze Sushi Bar". It's Floyd | not really a bar at all: just a counter with some stools at which Floyd | guests can sit to eat sushi, brought to them from some hidden recess Floyd | by the Bar's dedicated waiter. Floyd | Floyd | The General Manager is perched on a stool at the bar, picking at a Floyd | plate of sushi. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Tale), "you missed the first game, I assume" | |
| Nitku leaves. | Tale says, "The first game broke when we tried random chaos" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask waiter for suhsi" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/112 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WAITER FOR SUHSI Floyd | Floyd | That can only be done to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x waiter" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/113 Floyd | Floyd | > X WAITER Floyd | Floyd | Not, it seems, as dedicated as he might be, for he's nowhere to be Floyd | seen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x manager" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/114 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | Mr O'Malley is harassed, choleric, overweight, puffy-faced, bug-eyed, Floyd | incompetent, greedy, venal, lazy; short of stature and temper -- and Floyd | currently stuffing his face with sushi. Floyd | Floyd | Across the far side of the lobby a woman with an eye-catching blue Floyd | rinse struggles through the doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I suppose this plate of sushi is the only plate of sushi available?" | |
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/115 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLATE Floyd | Floyd | (the plate of sushi) Floyd | You had him down as a meat-and-potatoes man, but perhaps Mr O'Malley Floyd | wants to lose some weight. It certainly looks like this sushi could Floyd | have all manner of slimming effects. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "get plate" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/116 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PLATE Floyd | Floyd | (the plate of sushi) Floyd | "Hey! Beat it!" says Mr O'Malley graciously (as ever). "That's mine." Floyd | Floyd | You recognise the woman, of course. Mrs Slocombe: one of the hotel's Floyd | most regular and affluent guests. Her beloved puss, as usual, surveys Floyd | the scene from the top of a capacious handbag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on stool" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/116 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON STOOL Floyd | Floyd | You can't do anything with that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay Mrs Slocombe." | |
| Tale says (to davidW), "Cat!Cat! For the mouse!" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's her pussy." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh right" | ||
| PaulS says, "Off a terrible old 70s TV show ... like the hotel itself." | ||
| DavidW says, "Haven't seen that show in years." | ||
| PaulS says, "Though Fawlty Towers was of course in a different class ..." | ||
| DavidW says, "'Are You Being Served?'" | ||
| PaulS says, "That's the one." | ||
| DavidW says, "Since there's no one at the front desk, maybe we should help her." | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/117 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby (by the sushi bar) Floyd | Tucked into the corner of the lobby is the "Kamikaze Sushi Bar". It's Floyd | not really a bar at all: just a counter with some stools at which Floyd | guests can sit to eat sushi, brought to them from some hidden recess Floyd | by the Bar's dedicated waiter. Floyd | Floyd | The General Manager is perched on a stool at the bar, picking at a Floyd | plate of sushi. Floyd | Floyd | Across the lobby, Mrs Slocombe contemplates the empty reception desk Floyd | with some annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask her about her cat" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/117 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HER ABOUT HER CAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see "her" (Dr Mell) at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "talk to mrs slocombe" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/117 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO MRS SLOCOMBE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/118 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | It is axiomatic that the reception desk should always be staffed in Floyd | any well managed establishment. So it is not surprising that this one Floyd | isn't. Beside the desk, a brass-framed sign tells you what is Floyd | happening in the hotel today. Floyd | Floyd | A coloured brochure lies on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | Across the lobby, the cat casts envious glances towards the sushi bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "go behind desk" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/118 Floyd | Floyd | > GO BEHIND DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a place you have been. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/119 Floyd | Floyd | > READ SIGN Floyd | Floyd | "The Burj Al-Fawalti Welcomes," it reads, and then a list of events Floyd | today. Nothing much seems to be happening. Some group called the Floyd | "Ultimate NY Speedifers" (a Manhattan-based motorcycle troupe?) are Floyd | welcomed to the ballroom on floor 2. Otherwise, a blank. Floyd | Floyd | Across the lobby, Mrs Slocombe looks over to the sushi bar, glaring at Floyd | Mr O'Malley. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, maybe tell O'Malley that Mrs S is here, and he'll race over, abandoning his meal." | |
| Tale says, "I'm not yet sure how to communicate with characters here" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/120 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. You can go east to the rest of the lobby, or Floyd | northeast to the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | Across the lobby, Mrs Slocombe's pussy looks at the Christmas tree, Floyd | with a malevolent gleam in its eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulS says, "Ask and tell should work." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell o'malley about slocombe" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/121
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL O'MALLEY ABOUT SLOCOMBE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Bog off!" says the General Manager, "I'm having lunch."
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the lobby, Mrs Slocombe taps her foot in a frustrated manner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point to slocombe" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/121 Floyd | Floyd | > POINT TO SLOCOMBE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell o'malley about pussy" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/122
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL O'MALLEY ABOUT PUSSY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't you speak English? Leave me in peace to eat."
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the lobby, the cat casts envious glances towards the sushi bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Tale says (to Floyd), "ask slocombe about pu...er cat" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/123
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SLOCOMBE ABOUT PU...ER CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Mrs Slocombe is genuinely rather deaf, and selectively deafer still.
Floyd | She doesn't hear you (or pretends not to).
Floyd |
Floyd | Across the lobby, Mrs Slocombe taps her foot in a frustrated manner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Tale says (to Floyd), "x slocombe" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/124 Floyd | Floyd | > X SLOCOMBE Floyd | Floyd | Mrs Slocombe is a familiar face around here. A lady of a certain age, Floyd | she has lived in a suite for as long as anyone can remember. Her white Floyd | face, streaked with two stripes of rouge like warpaint, emerges from Floyd | an eccentric collection of fur and jewels. Her cat, Pussykins, is, as Floyd | usual, in attendance, glaring with feline malice from the top of her Floyd | open handbag. Floyd | Floyd | Across the lobby, Mrs Slocombe carefully folds and unfolds her Floyd | umbrella. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, yeah, she won't deal directly with us lower help." | |
| Roger says, "Hmmm so" | ||
| DavidW asks, "well, perhaps this is what the mouse is for. Drop mouse in lobby, perhaps?" | ||
| Roger says, "I'm all for trying out the tree just to see what it does" | ||
| Tale says, "I didn't let us" | ||
| PaulS says, "Well, Tale, it warned you that it might cause chaos." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm so tired." | ||
| DavidW says, "It seems I've never that awake for CF anymore." | ||
| PaulS says, "I think it's just too long a game for this. It's been fun seeing you batter at it." | ||
| Roger says, "This is a pretty big game, yeah" | ||
| PaulS says, "Though you've pretty much solved it, actually." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "You mean, the things we've said we would try to do?" | ||
| PaulS says, "Yes" | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| djfletch asks, "I forget, did we catch the mouse or did we just see it?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/125 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | four burgers Floyd | a dish of soy sauce Floyd | a memo Floyd | your pass key Floyd | a piece of cheese Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | a hairnet Floyd | Floyd | Across the lobby, Mrs Slocombe stands by the reception desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We never caught it." | |
| PaulS says, "You just saw it." | ||
| PaulS says, "But there is another way of solving this scene." | ||
| DavidW says, "I did suggest DROP CHEESE. TAKE MOUSE (WITH NET)." | ||
| PaulS says, "What is needed is some sort of disturbance." | ||
| Tale says, "Okay, it's past 10 here, and I need to work tomorrow." | ||
| Tale says, "But good luck with this! Looking forward to the transcript!" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "give burger to cat" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby (by the sushi bar) 5/126 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BURGER TO CAT Floyd | Floyd | The cat could not look more bored by the burger. Floyd | Floyd | Across the lobby, the cat peers from the top of Mrs Slocombe's Floyd | handbag. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Next week we play your game." | |
| PaulS says, "Thanks for all your work, Tale." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are you going to hold off on releasing them all until we play yours?" | ||
| PaulS says, "I'll be there." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I swear, even the title of yours is a spoiler, Tale." | ||
| PaulS says, "Yes hold, off, Tale." | ||
| Tale says, "Thank you for submitting a game (You - Paul, djfletch, nitku Jacq)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You're welcome" | ||
| Tale says (to Jacqueline), "I was thinking about that, yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, if people are bailing due to tiredness and bedtimes and naptimes and stuff, I should probably work out." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Do people want to keep poking, or ..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I have to lie down. My head won't let me stay upright any more." | ||
| PaulS says, "Yes, I think everyone should just bail now." | ||
| Tale says, "It seems only fair. Okay, the author involved is me, but still. The thing about these games is that they're played on CF first, so I don't feel like releasing them publically." | ||
| PaulS says, "I've got work I need to do." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Thanks, everyone!" | ||
| Tale says (to Jacq), "We talked about mmmkay, young lady" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Next week: Tale's game!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Tale), "Yes, and I explained it to you!" | ||
| Roger says, "woot" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Tale), "mmkay?!" | ||
| Tale says, "mmkay (grumpily)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||
| Roger says, "mmkay is bad, mmmmmmkay" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay is just a mumbled okay. Often, I say it with a smile." | ||
| Tale says, "Okay, laters kid! mmkay!" | ||
