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Nautilisia by Ryan Veeder
As played on ifMUD on February 24, 2013

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.

Below is a transcript of Nautilisia written by Ryan Veeder. Nautilisia was released in 2012. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.


WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


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Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Hello."
Binder says (to Jacqeline), "What's so go-- oh, hello."
Jacqueline asks, "Aw, are you not having a good morning?"
Jacqueline hollers, "In 20 minutes ClubFloyd will be playing Nautilisia by Ryan Veeder in the Toyshop. Hope you'll join us."
DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. Binder says, "Nothing wrong with me that a pot of coffee can't fix."
Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Well, then I would brew it now, as we begin in 15."
Roger says, "pop quiz, hotshot"
Binder says (to Jacqueline), "Oh, could you? That'd save me a lot of trouble."
DavidW says, "I'll have a Sanka."
Binder says, "Let's stay on the topic of coffee."
DavidW says, "I was quoting from 'Down With Love'."
Binder says, "I don't know what that is but I support the sentiment."
DavidW says, "It's a fun movie."
DavidW says, "anyway, in reality, I'm mixing up a quick instant coffee."
Binder | An homage to the early 1960s sex comedies that starred Rock Hudson and Doris Day. The story follows a best-selling female advice author who has all the answers until a sly journalist playboy starts asking the questions.
Binder says, "I don't see ANYTHING in there about a car chase or a battle royale."
DavidW says, "you poor lost soul."
Binder asks, "wtf is a soul?"
Jacqueline says, "Anybody know Ryan's handle on here? He might come join us this morning."
Afterward says, "that's me, I am him"
DavidW points at Afterward "There he is!"
Binder exclaims, "The villain was among us all along!"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Aha! Helloe!"
Jacqueline says, "er, the non-Quayle spelling."
Jacqueline says, "Hooray that you are here."
Afterward asks, "hello Jacq and everyone. what a lovely day don't you think?"
Jacqueline says, "It would be lovelier if this sore throat would go away, but otherwise, yes. Yes, indeed."
DavidW says, "I'd be happier without snow outside."
maga arrives, full of fun and funk. Afterward says, "Oh I'm sorry to hear about your throat."
Binder says, "Having finished my first mug of coffee, yes, unqualifedly lovely day."
Binder has an i put out.
Rotonoto arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. Jacqueline says (to Afterward), "I'm a touch achey and there's the throat, but it could be a lot worse - I'm not stuffed up or coughing or anything, so I'm trying to remember that. Thanks."
Rotonoto says, "Good whatever-time-of-day-it-is."
Binder says, "Morning. It's always Morning."
Afterward says, "During this cold and flu season it is important to drink plenty of fluids, such as Sanka"
Jacqueline says, ";..Binder I'm learning a lot about how you see the world this morning."
Binder does a spit-take.
Rotonoto says, "It's actually morning here. :)"
Jacqueline says, "Here as well."
DavidW says, "Early afternoon for me."
Jacqueline hollers, "We're playing Nautilisia today, and the author has joined us. If you haven't yet played, you should join us as well. Right now. Kthxbai." Jacqueline says, "So, it is the appointed time."
Roger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. Jacqueline says, "Welcome, everyone! Looks like a decent little group this morning. Number-wise, at least. Not making any other broad-sweeping judgments."
Binder says (to Jacqueline), "Appreciated."
Emily arrives, full of funk, but no fun. Jacqueline says, "So, here we go..."
Gunther arrives, full of funk, but no fun. DavidW asks, "Perhaps a word or two about which game we're playing?"
Rotonoto asks, "I'm out of touch. Where are we in the xyzzy process at the moment?"
* Gunther has joined the channel.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask nautilisia"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | I know, I know I know, we're gonna be late. But here's the thing: I'm
Floyd | in a coma. Yeah.
Floyd |
Floyd | And my brain has put together this bizarre fantasy world, to try and
Floyd | keep me sane, or protect my fragile psyche from the trauma ofâ¦
Floyd | whatever the coma is about, and I can't wake up until I escape from
Floyd | the dream-world. And that's gonna take a while, because I am really
Floyd | comfortable. I mean in the dream-world and also in the real world,
Floyd | right here.
Floyd |
Floyd | So I don't have a lot of incentive. To wake up, I mean.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | So I don't have a lot of incentive. To wake up, I mean.Well, if you're
Floyd | gonna be so stubborn about it, you can come in the dream-world and
Floyd | solve all the extremely symbolic puzzles and "rescue" me from my
Floyd | delusions. I guess it's only fair to let you try.
Dave arrives, full of funk, but no fun.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | delusions. I guess it's only fair to let you try.But hold on. I said
Floyd | hold on! Let me think of a name. For the dream-world. It has to be
Floyd | sufficiently fantasy-sounding, but it also has to be obviously
Floyd | symbolic of something. Hmm.
DavidW asks, "hm, did something not display properly there?"
Jacqueline says, "Not sure."
Gunther says, "a bunch of things don't, it seems"
Jacqueline says, "Ryan would know."
Jacqueline asks, "Should we unsleepmask it?"
Afterward says, "That ??? is supposed to be an ellipsis, I think."
DavidW says, "We have yet to reach a > prompt."
Gunther says, "I got a -|"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but aside from that."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, I think that's just the game."
Gunther says, "plus no spaces between sentences and a repeat line"
Jacqueline says, "What Gunther said."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | symbolic of something. Hmm.Okay, I've got it.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | symbolic of something. Hmm.Okay, I've got it.## Nautilisia
Floyd | A bizarre and whimsical dream-world steeped in pseudo-Jungian
Floyd | symbolism, by Ryan Veeder
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 120519 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Yeah, it's a stupid name, but it's the best I can come up with.
Binder says, "This coma is messing with our language centers."
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | Stately Manor
Floyd | Okay, so you start out in this stately manor. It's like stately Wayne
Floyd | manor, in that it's on top of a hill, and it's very expansive and full
Floyd | of expensive things, but there's no labyrinthine cave system
Floyd | underneath it. There's even a big grandfather clock in here, that
Floyd | symbolizes punctuality, but it doesn't tell the time. Because it's a
Floyd | dream!
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go outside by going south. Just because it's a dream doesn't
Floyd | mean there aren't still compass directions. Work with me.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Gunther says, "oh, looks like post-space"
Gunther says, "symbolism!!"
Zach arrives, ready to play with the toys. Jacqueline says, "Also, I rather love the name 'Nautilisia,' and don't think it's stupid at all."
Rotonoto exclaims, "A prompt!"
DavidW asks, "Wait, this dream world includes the Wayne mansion but _not_ the Batcave?"
Gunther says, "he's comatose, not a speleologist"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's the PCs dreamworld. Don't judge."
Binder says, "Maybe Batman moved to LEO and had the Batcave filled up with colorful balls to have the world's best ball pit."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You look like yourself. Don't overthink it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "yay"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther asks, "LEO as in Low Earth Orbit?"
Jacqueline says, "That was a yay for the ball pit, fwiw."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clock"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | There aren't even any hands! Or numbers! The face of the clock is just
Floyd | a spinning, spiraling shape, and when you look at it you realize that
Floyd | time is meaningless.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's also that chamber underneath the face, where they keep the
Floyd | pendulums.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the big grandfather clock are some zig-zaggy pendulums.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Gunther), "Yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | There's two of them, and they're made out of this white iridescent
Floyd | substance. And they're in a weird shape, like, a zig-zag shape.
Floyd | They're basically two long white zig-zags.
Floyd |
Floyd | They're just hanging there inside the clock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Batman obviously doesn't want to get TOO far from Gotham."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take them"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE THEM
Floyd |
Floyd | The big grandfather clock isn't open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open clock"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay so you open up the clock and there are these two pendulums
Floyd | inside. I don't know how they work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "that would be the best ball pit ever indeed"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | You pick up the zig-zaggy pendulums.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Should we take them, or set them in motion?"
Binder says, "Batman is prepared for your children's party. CRAZY prepared."
Jacqueline says, "haha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't wear those!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave them"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAVE THEM
Floyd |
Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the zig-zaggy pendulums.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "I think symbolically we should loot them."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push them"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH THEM
Floyd |
Floyd | Pushing the zig-zaggy pendulums is not very effective.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hm, okay."
Afterward says (to Floyd), "feel pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > FEEL PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | The pendulums have a mechanical smoothless and angularity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "straighten them"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > STRAIGHTEN THEM
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "They don't seem to be functional in the clock, but a zigzag could come in handy elsewhere."
Jacqueline says, "Feel? Nice."
Binder asks, "mechanical smoothless?"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "taste pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | Man, how does eating stuff even work in dreams? Can you taste in a
Floyd | dream?
Floyd |
Floyd | This reminds me of that joke about the guy who dreamed he was eating a
Floyd | big marshmallow and when he woke up his pillow was gone. But I don't
Floyd | think there's any actual food items in this dream.
Floyd |
Floyd | Actually, that gives me an idea. Here: You taste the zig-zaggy
Floyd | pendulums, and in accordance with the deranged dream-logic of tastes,
Floyd | the zig-zaggy pendulums taste like bananas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I think we should hold onto them, yeah."
Gunther asks, "FONDLE?"
Jacqueline says (to Rotonoto), "True, I guess."
Binder says, "BANANAS"
DavidW says, "With luck, we can be like Jove and throw them at those we want to smite."
Afterward says, "I'm pretty sure you can feel and taste anything in the game with 99% typo-free results."
Jacqueline says, "Hooray for this >TASTE response."
Binder says, "mmm, banana smit"
Jacqueline asks, "May I just see something?"
Afterward says, "DOUBTFUL"
DavidW says, "mmhm"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put pendulums in clock"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT PENDULUMS IN CLOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the zig-zaggy pendulums into the big grandfather clock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says (to Floyd), "x pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | There's two of them, and they're made out of this white iridescent
Floyd | substance. And they're in a weird shape, like, a zig-zag shape.
Floyd | They're basically two long white zig-zags.
Floyd |
Floyd | They're just hanging there inside the clock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | Pushing the zig-zaggy pendulums is not very effective.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says (to Floyd), "wind clock"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
DavidW says, "pull 'em!"
Floyd | > WIND CLOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > MOVE PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | Pushing the zig-zaggy pendulums is not very effective.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "Call them lightning & see if it knows the word."
Jacqueline says, "Okay, we can take them again."
Jacqueline says, "Thanks."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lightning"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIGHTNING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Stately Manor
Floyd | It's like stately Wayne manor, in that it's on top of a hill, and it's
Floyd | very expansive and full of expensive things, but there's no
Floyd | labyrinthine cave system underneath it. There's even a big grandfather
Floyd | clock in here, that symbolizes punctuality, but it doesn't tell the
Floyd | time. Because it's a dream!
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go outside by going south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "Nope."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull on the pendulums and they detach, almost as if you were meant
Floyd | to carry them around with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take them"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE THEM
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have those.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "take expensive things"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE EXPENSIVE THINGS
Floyd |
Floyd | You better not screw around with those expensive things too much.
Floyd | They're pretty expensive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "haha"
DavidW says, "The dream wants me to be a klepto, so it's not my fault."
Rotonoto says, "lol"
Afterward says, "Jacq said something earlier that was not strictly accurate and I'm going to correct her."
Afterward says, "This isn't the PC's dream world, it's the narrator's dream world."
Afterward says, "This may or may not be a useful distinction."
Jacqueline says, "True."
Jacqueline says, "I actually waffled on how to say that."
Jacqueline says, "Thanks."
Gunther says, "TWIST SPOTTED"
Gunther says, "we're actually a dracula"
Binder asks, "*a* dracula?"
DavidW says, "or a virus"
Gunther says (to Binder), "_a_ Dracuka."
Gunther says, "l"
Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Gunther finds a dracula perpetually hilarious."
Gunther says, "much like an enraged pigs"
Binder says, "> power grandfather clock with Gunther"
DavidW asks, "I assume we ought to go south? Or can we actually explore the manor?"
Gunther says, "we could also be an enraged pigs"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take clock"
Floyd |
Floyd | No, you can't go running around the stately manor. I don't have the
Floyd | creative energy to decide what's in there. Just pretend there's a
Floyd | curse or something on the rest of the manor, and the curse is keeping
Floyd | you from going to any rooms other than the one you're in. If you want
Floyd | to leave, you can go south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "or ... a HOOK."
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CLOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | No, you don't get it. This clock is huge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says (to Floyd), "shrink clock"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHRINK CLOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter clock"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CLOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "break curse"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK CURSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Maybe south. The game likes that."
DavidW says, "south, please"
Binder says, "sure."
Gunther says, "that's what he WANTS us to do"
Jacqueline says, "True."
Jacqueline says, "I am such a pawn."
Gunther says, "it's a trap wherein we'll be eaten by draculas"
Gunther says, "wait, that makes even less sense"
Binder says, "Look, when someone is kind enough to invite you into their coma, you should behave properly."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swing pendulums"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWING PENDULUMS
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing sensible to swing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "swing partner"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWING PARTNER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill
Floyd | As you exit the manor and symbolically shed the shackles of
Floyd | civilization, the sweet summer wind blows like a piccolo song across
Floyd | your weathered brow.
Floyd |
Floyd | So, from up here in front of the stately manor, you can see all the
Floyd | rest of the island, which I don't know if I've mentioned this yet but
Floyd | my dream world has taken the form of an island. To your right, which
Floyd | is west of you if you're facing south, is a thick jungle, with leaves
Floyd | that are deep greens and purples in their colors. It symbolizes the
Floyd | terror and the wonderment of the unknown. But it is impenetrable to
Floyd | you from where you're standing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down the hill to the southwest is a white sandy beach. I'll tell you
Floyd | what it symbolizes when you get there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "> FAFF ABOUT"
Jacqueline says, "Just because you said that again, Gunther, I'm going to tell you that there *are* draculas in this game, and that they SPARKLE. Just to upset YOU, they SPARKLE."
Binder says, "I was using those shackles."
Gunther says (to Jacqueline), "there can be sparkling draculas"
Gunther says, "it's like a male bloody mary"
Binder says, "what"
Binder asks, "Would more coffee make this more or less comprehensible?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wind"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WIND
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "taste wind"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE WIND
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther asks, "doesn't "sparkling dracula" sound like a drink to you?"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The sweet summer wind is still blowing like a piccolo song.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Binder), "It's all part of our freaky dream. Roll with it."
Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "It does, actually."
Binder says (to Gunther), "Not a very good one."
Gunther says, "true"
Binder says, "Flaming Dracula, maybe."
Roger says, "The jaws that refreshes"
DavidW asks, "Shall we take our weathered brow to the beach for more weathering?"
Gunther says, "time since the author has regretted even coming here: the last 2 minutes."
Jacqueline says, "Sure. Let's find out what it symbolizes."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | The gulf that this enchanted beach envelops is itself enchanted, or
Floyd | ensorcelled, with a magical glamour which makes
Floyd | everyone who sees it want to just sit around and take a break for once
Floyd | in their lives. It symbolizes taking a break for once in your life.
Floyd | Only you are able to resist this enchantment, because you alone are so
Floyd | incredibly uptight about getting stuff done all the time and being on
Floyd | time for things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back to the northeast is the hill, and over to the west is that dark,
Floyd | scary jungle.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ways out into the water is a white ship, pitching and yawing
Floyd | on the restless sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | A Siren is here, sitting and singing on a coral reef.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "haha"
Afterward says, "well I thought the bit about "break curse" was pretty witty"
Jacqueline says, "I love that word: ensorcelled."
Gunther says, "indeed"
Jacqueline says, "It's not used nearly enough in daily conversation."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jungle"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JUNGLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The jungle is thick, and leafy. It represents... what did I say it
Floyd | represented? Maybe danger?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "I prefer glamour so I'm glad we got them together."
Gunther says (to Floyd), "HELLO SAILOR"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > HELLO SAILOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "No it represented the unknown."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x siren"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Gunther says, "dammit!"
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | A Siren is actually supposed to be a bird-woman, I guess, but I want
Floyd | this sea-maid to be more like a mermaid. From the hips down she is one
Floyd | hundred percent fish, but from the fish up she is one hundred percent
Floyd | woman, with long, streaming hair.
Floyd |
Floyd | And she's singing a song, but it's not like she's gonna hypnotize you
Floyd | or anything. She's not evil. She symbolizes the beauty that can be
Floyd | found in life if you don't take everything so seriously all the time
Floyd |
Floyd | She's wearing a girdle, which is kind of a curvy belt kind of thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | A hollow voice puts its hand over your mouth and says "Shush!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "A siren, like a dracula, can be a form of jellyfish."
Roger says, "Danger. Deeply-repressed, Freudian danger."
Binder exclaims, "The hollow voice has hands!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x girdle"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GIRDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren's girdle is a pale, opalescent belt thing, pulled snug
Floyd | around her waist. It is the only thing she's wearing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "oh my"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x belt"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BELT
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren's girdle is a pale, opalescent belt thing, pulled snug
Floyd | around her waist. It is the only thing she's wearing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boat"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Apparently wrecked here on the shallow reef. It's white, and shiny,
Floyd | like something out of a dream. I mean, it literally is in this dream
Floyd | that I'm describing to you right now. It symbolizes... Actually, go in
Floyd | there first; give me a second to think about this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren sings in what might be a Romance language, or might be
Floyd | random dream-syllables: "Seré una ola. Seré la luna. He sido
Floyd | todo,
Floyd | soy yo."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "we're just able to ignore the siren? Neat"
Binder says, "This narrator should have done more research for this coma playing session."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | You paddle out toward the white ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ship of Pearl
Floyd | When you are inside the ship, you realize that it symbolizes
Floyd | loneliness. Specifically, loneliness brought on by being an artist,
Floyd | which all artists suffer from deep inside their souls. This is the
Floyd | ship of pearl, which painters sail into the seas of paint, and which
Floyd | sculptors sail across seas of clay, and of marble, searching for the
Floyd | distant moorages of inspiration. I could keep going, but you don't
Floyd | seem to be as into this as I am so I guess I'll stop.
Floyd |
Floyd | The interior of the ship is lit by a pale, eerie luminescence.
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like whatever painter or poet who piloted this craft last
Floyd | left their leather trunk in here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Gunther), "Apparently we're too uptight and punctual for seduction."
Afterward says, "The Siren has a bunch of different songs if you care to listen repeatedly."
Gunther says, "including "woop woop! it's da sound of da police""
Jacqueline says, "I really should work with vimes to get the encoding on Floyd right, but I'm pretty sure it will come out find in the transcript."
Rotonoto asks, "Multilingual songs?"
Binder says, "Man if this same ship sails all those seas, it's got to have fierce barnacles."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trunk"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TRUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | A large leather trunk, scratched and pitted by the slings and arrows
Floyd | of being lugged all over the place for years and years. It symbolizes
Floyd | mystery. The mysterious initials OWH are inscribed on top.
Floyd |
Floyd | It has a big lock thing on it, but no keyhole: Instead, there's just
Floyd | two depressions in the front, in the shape of the astrological symbol
Floyd | for Aquarius. See? Symbolism.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "alright, let's throw open that trunk"
Gunther says, "heh, two depressions, I see what you did there"
Rotonoto exclaims, "woop, woop, siren style!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open trunk"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN TRUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push depressions"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH DEPRESSIONS
Floyd |
Floyd | Just pushing on the depressions doesn't do anything. Your hand is not
Floyd | the right shape for these zig-zaggy depressions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "check out the lock"
Gunther says, "zig-zaggy eh"
Jacqueline says, "Normally I am less keen on this sort of writing, but Ryan's pulling it off really well and I'm rather enjoying this."
Binder says, "Pendulous."
Jacqueline says, "ZIG-ZAGGY"
DavidW says (to Gunther), "heh"
Gunther says, "I love that writing"
Jacqueline says, "Let's get ziggy with it."
DavidW asks, "Who wants the honors?"
Rotonoto says, "Yep. Put pendulums in depressions"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Go for it."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pendulums in depressions"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT PENDULUMS IN DEPRESSIONS
Floyd |
Floyd | You insert the pendulums into the depressions, and they click into
Floyd | place. The pendulums were the symbol for Aquarius all along, and the
Floyd | symbol was the key to the trunk! You solved the mystery!
Floyd |
Floyd | The trunk opens, revealing a wreathèd horn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder asks, "a what horn?"
Afterward says, "UGH"
Afterward says, "wreathed, with, an accent on the e"
Jacqueline says (to Afterward), "Not your fault. Floyd's fault."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take horn"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | You pick up the horn from the trunk; it has a strange weight to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "this is the worst day of my LIFE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in horn"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x horn"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK IN HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a huge conical, spiral shell of the type you often find on
Floyd | islands, like in that book, Animal Farm. Wait, that's not it.
Floyd | That wasn't even on an island. What book am I thinking of?
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like somebody has already drilled a hole in it for you to
Floyd | blow into.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "oooh, a cornucopia"
Jacqueline asks (of Afterward), "It is???"
Rotonoto asks, "wreath-ed?"
Afterward says (to Rotonoto), "Yeah exactly."
Jacqueline asks, "Lord of the Flies?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to horn"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN TO HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | You put your ear up to the wreathèd horn, and as if by magic you hear
Floyd | the soft sighing of a person in a coma, waiting to be awoken. Or maybe
Floyd | you're just hearing the noise of your own blood vessels, multiplied in
Floyd | the conical natural echo chamber. Since this is a magical dream world,
Floyd | it could be either one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "snrk"
Binder says (to Floyd), "taste horn"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the wreathèd horn tastes like
Floyd | Bavarian cream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "nah, the one with the genetic experiments"
Binder says, "The Portrait of Dorian Moreau."
DavidW says, "creamy horn"
Gunther says, "ew, earwax"
Rotonoto says, "yummy horn"
Binder tasted the bell end, y0
Jacqueline says, "A Bavarian cream horn sounds pretty darn good right aboutnow."
Binder says, "srsly"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "x horn"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a huge conical, spiral shell of the type you often find on
Floyd | islands, like in that book I can't remember. Shoot, what was it?
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like somebody has already drilled a hole in it for you to
Floyd | blow into.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Should we return to the Siren or blow it here?"
Gunther asks, "do we blow it here or at the siren?"
Gunther says, "timing"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "x horn"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a huge conical, spiral shell of the type you often find on
Floyd | islands, like in... Oh! Lord of the Flies. I knew I'd
Floyd | remember it eventually.
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like somebody has already drilled a hole in it for you to
Floyd | blow into.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "I say siren"
Rotonoto says, "with brogmoid earwax"
Jacqueline passes out this morning's feelies: everyone gets a Bavarian cream Nautilisia horn.
Gunther says (to Rotonoto), "YES exactly"
Binder says (to Jacqueline), "YAY"
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "thanks!"
Jacqueline says, "You're very welcome."
Rotonoto says, "oh go on, let's summon something"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "blow horn"
Floyd ]  Ship of Pearl
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | You start to blow into the horn, but the tremendous sound that emerges
Floyd | is too much for you to handle. It symbolizes the conclusion of the
Floyd | individuation process, which, if attained prematurely, would result in
Floyd | a psychological short-circuit. What I'm saying is, this is not the
Floyd | time or place for unleashing the power of the horn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Something symbolic."
Binder exclaims, "We can't handle the toot!"
Gunther says, "i.e. phallic"
DavidW says, "Let's go find Jericho and wake him with it."
Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "Sometimes a horn is just a horn, dude."
Rotonoto says, "I guess we'll know when it's time to TOTALLY BLOW IT."
Binder says (to Rotonoto), "ha"
Jacqueline asks, "So, onwards?"
DavidW says, "yeah. I want to try 'kiss siren'."
Gunther says (to Jacqueline), "name ONE instance in which it is."
Rotonoto says, "& upwards"
Binder says, "Look, just because a lady is lying around with only a corset on doesn't mean she's fair kissing game."
Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "Well, this one time, at band camp-- oh wait, that was a flute."
DavidW says (to Binder), "fine, I'll just kiss the dudes, then."
Binder says (to DavidW), "OK by me."
Rotonoto exclaims, "referencey!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | You leave the ship and swim back toward the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | The gulf that this enchanted beach envelops is itself enchanted, or
Floyd | ensorcelled, with a magical glamour which makes
Floyd | everyone who sees it want to just sit around and take a break for once
Floyd | in their lives. It symbolizes taking a break for once in your life.
Floyd | Only you are able to resist this enchantment, because you alone are so
Floyd | incredibly uptight about getting stuff done all the time and being on
Floyd | time for things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back to the northeast is the hill, and over to the west is that dark,
Floyd | scary jungle.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ways out into the water is a white ship, pitching and yawing
Floyd | on the restless sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | A Siren is here, sitting and singing on a coral reef.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Gosh, I have this horrible poem in my head now. David Wavid, pudding and pie, kissed the dudes and made them cry."
Afterward asks, "is anybody making a map?"
Rotonoto says, "Remove Corset would be more productive, as well as aesthetically pleasing."
Jacqueline asks, "Oh dear. No. Should we?"
DavidW says, "I am."
Jacqueline says, "Oh. Yay."
Gunther says, "let's not get creepy"
Binder says, "'get'"
DavidW says, "we're only 4 rooms so far."
Jacqueline asks, "Jungle?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to siren"
Binder says (to Floyd), "listen siren"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren smiles and says hello. She is extremely helpful and would
Floyd | love to tell you about anything you want to ask her about.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to listen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "you should stick around and bug the siren"
Rotonoto says, "Impenetrable."
Binder says, "A helpful NPC? I'm suspicious."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask siren about jungle"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT JUNGLE
Floyd |
Floyd | She says that she is a fan of the jungle, but can't hang out there as
Floyd | much as she'd like, because her legs are a fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask siren about herself"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT HERSELF
Gunther says, "ha ha, a fish"
Floyd |
Floyd | She smiles. She says she's doing just fine, thanks for asking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask siren about nautilisia"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT NAUTILISIA
Floyd |
Floyd | "You have to understand," explains the Siren, "After you solve all the
Floyd | puzzles, the dream will be over. It's in the nature of dreams, to end.
Floyd | And when the sleeper awakens, Nautilisia will be gone... only the
Floyd | memory of this dream land will exist in the waking world.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But someday, you might recall this island... That memory must be the
Floyd | real Nautilisia."
Floyd |
Floyd | She smiles. "I stole that speech from a video game."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Should we pick her up and carry her into the jungle?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask siren about sleeper" Binder says, "Yes."
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT SLEEPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren doesn't have anything interesting to say about that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "Nautalisia. Nautalisia has changed."
Rotonoto says, "Many leggies have I lost, many have I gained."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask siren about girdle"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT GIRDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you like it?" she asks. "I got it on Etsy for like sixteen bucks."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "snicker"
DavidW says, "ouch. That broke a wall."
Jacqueline says, "snrk"
Binder says, "I see no wall here."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask siren about horn"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | When you bring up the wreathèd horn, the Siren's eyes go wide. "That
Floyd | horn is an artifact of tremendous psychic potential!" she whispers.
Floyd | "Either that, or it symbolizes psychic potential."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "A wall begging to be broken."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask siren about batman"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT BATMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren doesn't have anything interesting to say about that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto asks, "Does it hurt you when a fourth wall breaks, David?"
Jacqueline says, "aw"
Binder says, "I am disappoint."
Binder says (to Floyd), "ask siren about beach"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT BEACH
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren says she isn't crazy about sand. You can't blame her,
Floyd | really. Sand is annoying sometime.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIG
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren sees you digging and freaks out. "Great!" she yells. "Dig
Floyd | it! Dig it! Dig to the center of the earth!!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder exclaims, "!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIG
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren sees you digging and freaks out. "Great!" she yells. "Dig
Floyd | it! Dig it! Dig to the center of the earth!!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "My."
Gunther says (to Floyd), "Dig to the center of the earth"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIG TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to dig.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Maybe she's just messing with us."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make sandcastle"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAKE SANDCASTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | The gulf that this enchanted beach envelops is itself enchanted, or
Floyd | ensorcelled, with a magical glamour which makes
Floyd | everyone who sees it want to just sit around and take a break for once
Floyd | in their lives. It symbolizes taking a break for once in your life.
Floyd | Only you are able to resist this enchantment, because you alone are so
Floyd | incredibly uptight about getting stuff done all the time and being on
Floyd | time for things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back to the northeast is the hill, and over to the west is that dark,
Floyd | scary jungle.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ways out into the water is a white ship, pitching and yawing
Floyd | on the restless sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | A Siren is here, sitting and singing on a coral reef.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coral"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CORAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Coral is super scratchy, you know that? It cuts you open and then the
Floyd | saltwater gets in there and it stings like a mother. This dream coral
Floyd | symbolizes the fundamental painfulness of existence.
Floyd |
Floyd | I guess I don't know why the Siren is sitting on it then.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "ask siren about gulf"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT GULF
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren looks out to the sea and sighs. "This island symbolizes a
Floyd | lot of things," she says. "A lot of things." She sighs again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coral"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CORAL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther asks, "give her the horn?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break coral"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK CORAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Don't start with that stuff. Nautilisia is a safe place, a peaceful
Floyd | place. Play along a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | When you start singing, the Siren glares at you and starts singing
Floyd | louder. So you stop singing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "yeah, DAVID"
Binder says, "HA"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fly"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | You hop up in the air, but are unable to stay aloft. I've never been
Floyd | able to fly in a dream, so I'm deciding you can't fly either.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "dance"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | Your dancing is abominable! Quit ruining my dream-world!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "So judgey."
Afterward says (to Floyd), "sleep"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | No, I'm already asleep. A person in a coma is always asleep basically.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Did we try to kiss her?"
DavidW says, "nope"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss siren"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > KISS SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren isn't the type to get all sexy on you unprovoked, but since
Floyd | you decided to initiate things, the Siren goes ahead and rocks
Floyd | your world.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline exclaims, "!"
Binder says, "My."
Jacqueline says, "World: rocked."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pick up siren"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > PICK UP SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't suppose the Siren would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says (to Floyd), "kiss siren"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > KISS SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | When you move in for some more action, the Siren does that thing where
Floyd | she pulls her head away at the last moment. So annoying.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Aw."
Jacqueline says, "I thought she would like to go to the jungle."
DavidW says, "anyway, maybe we can find her a dulcimer."
Afterward says, "This Siren is based on a lot of things, including this girl I dated in college"
Jacqueline says, "Seems cruel to say, "Siren, follow me." and the go into the jungle."
Zach says, "Feelings: hurt"
DavidW asks, "I assume our only option is west into the jungle?"
Afterward says, "uh hold on"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "x hair"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | (the long streaming hair)
Floyd | Her hair is black. Long and black and wet. It's all the more black for
Floyd | its being wet.The strands are all tangled up after a long day of
Floyd | swimming around, though, and she seems a bit frustrated at this.
Floyd |
Floyd | But I can't decide whether her hair should cover up her boobs or not.
Floyd | I mean, maybe it's not very important, but I'm getting hung up on it
Floyd | anyway. For now I'm gonna say it covers up... neither boob.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Unless there's directions to go that haven't been pointed out, of course."
Jacqueline says, "Golly."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boobs"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOBS
Floyd |
Floyd | As you gaze upon the Siren's boobs, which apparently the Siren does
Floyd | not mind you doing, I am going to decide whether they're covered up by
Floyd | her hair or not. It's not a completely arbitrary question, you know.
Floyd | This kind of detail does a lot to determine the overall tone of my
Floyd | dream world.
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm gonna say... just the left boob is covered up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "I hope all my comas are this risque."
Jacqueline says, "I was thinking earlier that it would be fun to brush her hair."
Rotonoto asks, "Did the girl in college flash you all the time?"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's take the bait."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x left breast"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEFT BREAST
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh, come on. Let's be mature, okay? Just say "boobs."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward sighs:
Binder says (to Floyd), "x boobs"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOBS
Floyd |
Floyd | As you gaze upon the Siren's boobs, which apparently the Siren does
Floyd | not mind you doing, I am going to decide whether they're covered up by
Floyd | her hair or not. It's not a completely arbitrary question, you know.
Floyd | This kind of detail does a lot to determine the overall tone of my
Floyd | dream world.
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm gonna say... both boobs are covered up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline rolls her eyes.
Binder says, "Either the hair or the boobs are wriggly."
Jacqueline says, "That's slightly disturbing, Binder."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "brush hair"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > BRUSH HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, your hair or the long streaming hair?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "long streaming hair"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > LONG STREAMING HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't have a combing-instrument with you, do you?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "No a.i.f. today, I guess."
Jacqueline says, "oho - combing instrument."
Jacqueline says, "Let's find it."
Gunther says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | Yeah! Yeah, exactly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "To the bat-brush!"
Binder says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | No?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "maybe"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAYBE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "perhaps"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > PERHAPS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "& brush is a recognized verb"
Jacqueline asks, "It's not normally, is it?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Jungle
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Jungle
Floyd | I keep forgetting what this jungle is supposed to symbolize. I think
Floyd | it was intrigue. The branches, heavy with purple leaves, lean down
Floyd | toward you in a vaguely threatening way. It's a scary experience, but
Floyd | it's also kind of exciting. That's the fun of being in a coma-induced
Floyd | dream world.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rough path through the vegetation leads from the gulf to the east to
Floyd | a clearing in the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | A long vine hangs from the trees, swaying like a snake in front of
Floyd | your face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "haha what is wrong with me"
Gunther says, "...what"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x vine"
Floyd ]  Jungle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VINE
Floyd |
Floyd | It dances hypnotically before your vision. It's a symbol of risk. You
Floyd | have to take risks, see? Otherwise you can't get anywhere in life.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "I do not remember why I implemented 'yes' and 'no'"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb vine"
Floyd ]  Jungle
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB VINE
Floyd |
Floyd | After giving a little resistance, the vine falls to the ground,
Floyd | dislodging something from the branches in the process.
Floyd |
Floyd | When the entire length of the vine has fallen, it turns into a giant
Floyd | green snake, which slithers off into the jungle. That snake symbolizes
Floyd | the horrible things that can happen when you take risks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The thing you dislodged finally hits the ground. It's a shell, a venus
Floyd | comb. That thing could have killed you!
Floyd |
Floyd | You see what happens when you take risks?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "go up, young pc"
Binder says, "A COMB"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x comb"
Floyd ]  Jungle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COMB
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a seashell, spiral in shape and conical in form, but it's covered
Floyd | in dozens of long, skinny spines, like a hairbrush designed by H.R.
Floyd | Giger. It symbolizes beauty as a desirable but fundamentally dangerous
Floyd | aspect of experience.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "COMB"
Binder says (to Floyd), "get shell"
Floyd ]  Jungle
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SHELL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the venus comb)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto asks, "convenient, ey?"
DavidW asks, "Back to the Siren?"
Binder says, "See, if she had legs instead of a fish, she wouldn't have rucked up hair."
Gunther says, "nah, brush our own hair first"
DavidW asks, "Are we a Venus?"
Rotonoto says, "we will come rejoicing, grooming all the sirens"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "comb hair"
Floyd ]  Jungle
Floyd |
Floyd | > COMB HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | The venus comb pokes your hand something fierce, but it straightens
Floyd | your hair out nicely. When I say "your hand" and "your hair" I mean
Floyd | "your dream-hand" and "your dream-hair," obviously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Obviously."
Jacqueline says, "So, Ryan, did you use a dream interpretation book, or did you just pull all of these interpretations out of your... I mean, out of thin air? They're rather good."
DavidW says, "Of course, obviously, for sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | The gulf that this enchanted beach envelops is itself enchanted, or
Floyd | ensorcelled, with a magical glamour which makes
Floyd | everyone who sees it want to just sit around and take a break for once
Floyd | in their lives. It symbolizes taking a break for once in your life.
Floyd | Only you are able to resist this enchantment, because you alone are so
Floyd | incredibly uptight about getting stuff done all the time and being on
Floyd | time for things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back to the northeast is the hill, and over to the west is that dark,
Floyd | scary jungle.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ways out into the water is a white ship, pitching and yawing
Floyd | on the restless sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | A Siren is here, sitting and singing on a coral reef.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "comb long hair"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > COMB LONG HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach her hair with the dangerous shell, the Siren's eyes go
Floyd | wide.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Is this what I think it is? Where on earth did you find this? Well,
Floyd | anyway, thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | She takes the comb from you and immediately starts brushing her hair.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I suppose it's customary to repay you somehow, right? Well, here."
Floyd |
Floyd | She takes off her girdle, which dream-logically turns into...
Floyd | something else, I guess, and hands it to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a Siren's girdle
Floyd |   a wreathèd horn
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x girdle"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GIRDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Now that she's not wearing it, the Siren's girdle has turned into more
Floyd | of a two-dimensional curvy H shape, like a crude drawing of a girdle
Floyd | being worn around an hourglass waist. It's still pale and opalescent,
Floyd | though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder asks, "Man we don't even get to brush her hair, our dream-self?"
Rotonoto says, "go check out the clearing. maybe there'll be 69,105 leaves there ... or keys, pace DavidW."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear girdle"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR GIRDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm not saying you don't have the figure for it, but that's not how
Floyd | you're supposed to use the girdle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put girdle on head"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT GIRDLE ON HEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "gird loins"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIRD LOINS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder snorts.
Jacqueline says, "I have no idea where these weird move impulses are coming from, but I'm guessing that there are some weird things in the game and we should try those weird ideas when we have them."
DavidW asks, "onward to clearing?"
Jacqueline says, "Sure, let's go count the leaves."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Jungle
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Jungle
Floyd | I keep forgetting what this jungle is supposed to symbolize. I think
Floyd | it was the unknown. The branches, heavy with purple leaves, lean down
Floyd | toward you in a vaguely threatening way. It's a scary experience, but
Floyd | it's also kind of exciting. That's the fun of being in a coma-induced
Floyd | dream world.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rough path through the vegetation leads from the gulf to the east to
Floyd | a clearing in the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "ok by me"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | This is an open area in the jungle, symbolizing the eye of the
Floyd | storm. It isn't the center of the jungle, but it's the center of
Floyd | your experience at this point in time. It's like the guy says:
Floyd | Wherever you go, there you are.
Floyd |
Floyd | The path leading back into the jungle is southeast of here, but to
Floyd | your north is a rock wall, carved with a curious design.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "x design"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DESIGN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a carving, a depression kind of thing, in the shape of the
Floyd | astrological symbol for Pisces.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "watch, it's missing an H"
DavidW says, "Pisces is H shaped, yes."
Binder says, "So put our thingy in that thingy."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put girdle in carving"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT GIRDLE IN CARVING
Floyd |
Floyd | The girdle, which was all along the symbol for Pisces, fits perfectly
Floyd | into the slot on the wall. Both of them dissolve into a silver mist.
Floyd | You overcame the dream logic and defeated the puzzle!
Floyd |
Floyd | This is my favorite one, by the way. Because I'm a Pisces. Anyway,
Floyd | good job.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out that behind the rock is a huge cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "Hm, fishy ..."
Binder asks, "A huge BAT cave?"
DavidW says, "aha!"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Rotonoto says, "Mind your Wayne Manors."
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | This is an open area in the jungle, symbolizing the eye of the
Floyd | storm. It isn't the center of the jungle, but it's the center of
Floyd | your experience at this point in time. It's like the guy says:
Floyd | Wherever you go, there you are.
Floyd |
Floyd | The path leading back into the jungle is southeast of here, but to
Floyd | your north is the mouth of an awesome-looking cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder asks, "n?"
DavidW says, "If there's a boy wonder in there, he's getting smooched."
Gunther asks, "man, why is the output so bork?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Caves of Thought
Floyd | You have finally found your way to the Caves of Thought. This cave
Floyd | represents thought, and thinking. There are stalactites and
Floyd | stalagmites and that kind of thing, but the area has been kept mostly
Floyd | empty, so as not to distract from your meditations as you approach the
Floyd | center of the island.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tunnel continues to the northeast, but if you want you can return
Floyd | to the light and air of the clearing to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "The termcap for comas is lousy"
Jacqueline asks (of Gunther), "What do you mean?"
Gunther says, "uh, apparently it's an issue here somehow? never mind"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Your thoughts reverberate against the walls, bouncing around and
Floyd | multiplying and colliding and eventually canceling each other out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "; Hi sorry hi."
Binder says, "Nice."
Jacqueline asks (of Afterward), "Did you see my question to you earlier?"
Jacqueline | So, Ryan, did you use a dream interpretation book, or did you just pull all of these interpretations out of your... I mean, out of thin air? They're rather good.
Afterward says, "Yes! Kinda! It's hard to scroll up in this client."
Afterward says, "Oh thank you very much."
Jacqueline asks, "You're welcome. Are they yours, or from a book?"
Jacqueline says, "I've been wanting more good dream IF, but I generally think of it as serious. I'm liking this spin on it very much, though."
Rotonoto says, "We forgot to taste the girdle."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "meditate"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > MEDITATE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "premeditate"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > PREMEDITATE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "taste cave"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE CAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "I didn't use a dream interpretation book, no, but I wouldn't say stuff is pulled out of thin air."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "say echo"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAY ECHO
Floyd |
Floyd | (to yourself)
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline nods.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "scream"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yell"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > YELL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says (to Floyd), "echo"
Floyd ]  Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > ECHO
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "There are a few different things going on, and the narrator is trying to get certain ideas across."
DavidW asks, "continue northeast?"
Binder says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | This cave represents deep thought. See, there are always deeper levels
Floyd | of thought. Getting really deep in thought is a necessary step on the
Floyd | path to self-attainment. So, keep going.
Floyd |
Floyd | The way out is southwest, but the deeper caves are to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "The symbolism of the jungle is randomized when you examine it though."
Jacqueline says, "ah"
Afterward says, "Oh, another good random response is 'going nowhere' in the jungle."
Afterward says (to Floyd), "x stalactites"
Floyd ]  Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STALACTITES
Floyd |
Floyd | I actually don't remember the difference. Stalagmites might... They
Floyd | might something. Man, this is gonna keep me up all night. Or it would,
Floyd | if I wasn't in a coma.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says (to Floyd), "taste stalactites"
Floyd ]  Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE STALACTITES
Floyd |
Floyd | Don't be distracted by the beautiful cave formations!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto exclaims, "We're not goin' anywhere, Gilbert!"
DavidW says, "Incidentally, we're walking in a spiral or circular path through locations, for what it's worth."
Jacqueline says, "What a nice touch."
Rotonoto asks, "Didn't interactive fiction begin with being distracted by beautiful cave formations?"
Rotonoto says, "Yes, a chambered nautilus."
Jacqueline says, "No wonder he wanted us to map. :)"
Afterward exclaims, "aha yes!"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Deeper Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deeper Caves of Thought
Floyd | I know, it probably seems like there are too many sections in this
Floyd | cave. I totally understand why you would feel that way. But having a
Floyd | bunch of caves like this is a necessity. It's called
Floyd | "pacing." Just trust me.
Floyd |
Floyd | Even deeper caves are to the south; the less deep caves are west of
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "pace around"
Floyd ]  Deeper Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > PACE AROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "think"
Floyd ]  Deeper Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Your thoughts reverberate against the walls, bouncing around and
Floyd | multiplying and colliding and eventually canceling each other out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think deeper"
Floyd ]  Deeper Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK DEEPER
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "think to the center of the earth"
Floyd ]  Deeper Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd ]  Deeper Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | Danke Schoen, darling, Danke Schoen,
Floyd |  Thank you for all the joy and pain...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Ah. Central Park in fall."
Rotonoto says, "An appropriate song for being in a coma ..."
Gunther disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. DavidW says, "A reference I don't get, I guess."
Gunther arrives, full of funk, but no fun. * Gunther has joined the channel.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd ]  Deeper Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | Danke Schoen, darling, Danke Schoen,
Floyd |  Thank you for all the joy and pain...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "south?"
Binder says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | Okay, okay, here for once is something more interesting than just more
Floyd | caves.
Floyd |
Floyd | At this curve in the tunnel, the east wall is made up of a bunch of
Floyd | rocks. I mean, the whole place is made out of rocks, but these rocks
Floyd | are smaller and... rubblier.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cave continues to the north and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's a well-known song. It got a big popularity boost from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clear rubble"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLEAR RUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move rocks"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > MOVE ROCKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Apparently pushing on the wall of rocks doesn't do anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "taste rocks"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE ROCKS
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the wall of rocks tastes like
Floyd | glue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take rocks"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ROCKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out one of the rocks from the wall. The rest of the rocks
Floyd | immediately fall down in a big pile.
Floyd |
Floyd | But then: a rush of air! A shaft of light! You've uncovered a path to
Floyd | the surface. Nice job!
Floyd |
Floyd | Let's say this symbolizes an act of mutual recognition between your
Floyd | conscious and unconscious minds. I mean, my conscious and unconscious
Floyd | minds. Either way, good going.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "How do we know what glue tastes like? Bleh."
Binder asks, "We're a stamp collector when we're not visiting someone's coma?"
Jacqueline says, "It's all sort of Plato-esque. Sorta."
DavidW says, "Siren rocked our world; we rocked this world."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Heehee"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | Here's the place in the tunnel where there's an exit to the surface
Floyd | instead of an east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cave continues to the north and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto asks, "a huffing dream?"
Jacqueline says, "Hm. Three options."
Jacqueline exclaims, "What will this do to our spiral?!"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill
Floyd | So, from up here in front of the stately manor, you can see all the
Floyd | rest of the island. An entrance has opened into the caves beneath the
Floyd | jungle to the west of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down the hill to the southwest is a white sandy beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "To continue the spiral, we shoulda gone sw, not east."
Rotonoto says, "been here, done that"
Afterward says, "uh, hold on"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Stately Manor
Floyd | It's like stately Wayne manor, in that it's on top of a hill, and it's
Floyd | very expansive and full of expensive things, but there's no
Floyd | labyrinthine cave system underneath it. Well okay, I guess actually
Floyd | there turned out to be a labyrinthine cave system underneath it,
Floyd | sorry to disappoint you.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's even a big grandfather clock in here, that symbolizes
Floyd | punctuality, but it doesn't tell the time. Because it's a dream!
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go outside by going south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "It emerges that the narrator is making this up as they go along."
Jacqueline asks (of Afterward), "Don't spoil us, please... little Easter eggs are fine, but not plot-revealing stuff, 'kay?"
Rotonoto says, "but now DavidW has his bat-cave"
DavidW says, "heh"
Afterward says, "Sorry, I was afraid there wouldn't be a reason to get back to the mansion and resolve the batman issue."
Jacqueline asks, "So, we should go into the cave and continue onward?"
Binder says, "Sure."
Jacqueline says (to AW), "heh"
DavidW says, "please"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Stately Manor
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Stately Manor
Floyd | It's like stately Wayne manor, in that it's on top of a hill, and it's
Floyd | very expansive and full of expensive things, but there's no
Floyd | labyrinthine cave system underneath it. Well okay, I guess actually
Floyd | there turned out to be a labyrinthine cave system underneath it,
Floyd | sorry to disappoint you.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's even a big grandfather clock in here, that symbolizes
Floyd | punctuality, but it doesn't tell the time. Because it's a dream!
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go outside by going south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill
Floyd | So, from up here in front of the stately manor, you can see all the
Floyd | rest of the island. An entrance has opened into the caves beneath the
Floyd | jungle to the west of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down the hill to the southwest is a white sandy beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | Here's the place in the tunnel where there's an exit to the surface
Floyd | instead of an east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cave continues to the north and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "and sw to ...?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Incredibly Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Incredibly Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | Sorry, this is another room where there isn't really anything going
Floyd | on. I swear I'm not doing this just to frustrate you.
Floyd |
Floyd | I know sometimes it seems like I'm doing stuff just to be annoying,
Floyd | but I always have a good reason. I mean, I always think I
Floyd | have a good reason. Sometimes it turns out later that I didn't
Floyd | actually have a good reason, but I never start out with the intention
Floyd | of doing nothing but screwing with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The caves go northeast and northwest from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "I like caves."
Binder asks, "nw?"
DavidW says, "mmhm"
Rotonoto says, "but a cave is really just a hole on its side."
Afterward says (to Rotonoto), "You should be advised that everything you know about caves is wrong."
DavidW says, "I suppose then, if we look really really closely in our horn, we'll see ourselves."
Rotonoto exclaims, "I'm so happy you got that reference!"
Afterward D
Afterward says, "that was supposed to be a smiley face."
Binder says, "All smile, no face."
Gunther says, "you have to type :\:D"
Gunther says, "it's dream logic"
Binder says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd | This is it. You have reached the deepest part of the caves. From here
Floyd | on out, you've still got underground rooms, but it's more like an
Floyd | ancient underground shrine than a plain old cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | From here you can go back southeast, or you can go northeast, in which
Floyd | direction you can discern an unearthly glow.
Floyd |
Floyd | But first, gaze into that pool of still water, and see the face of
Floyd | your destiny.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "ooh our density"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x pool"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | In the pool is a goat-fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "a what now"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x goat-fish"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GOAT-FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a baby goat-fish. Maybe more of a kid-fish. It only has little
Floyd | nubby horns, and the fish end of it wriggles around energetically.
Floyd | This baby goat-fish represents youthful idealism, or youthful
Floyd | ignorance. I guess those are kind of the same thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "> estimate size of goat-fish whose severed horn we carry"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "taste goat-fish"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE GOAT-FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the goat-fish tastes like
Floyd | pickles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "'Til Destiny makes a goat-fish out of you'"
Jacqueline says, "yay"
Binder says, "Great, the briney sheep."
Rotonoto says, "Another Zodiacal sign, no doubt."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask goat-fish about itself"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK GOAT-FISH ABOUT ITSELF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Apparently swimming about is not animate."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | The pool is too small for you to swim in, so you shrink down to the
Floyd | size of a frog and swim around in it for a while. Then you return to
Floyd | your normal size.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder exclaims, "!"
Jacqueline says, ";Also, no doubt everyone has already seen this six times, but: [LINK]"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet goat-fish"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > PET GOAT-FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | The goat-fish bleats contentedly as you nuzzle its goaty little face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto exclaims, "Well I'll be an inanimate goat-fish!"
Afterward says, "I assure you it is animate in all the...most important ways"
Rotonoto says, "You got to kiss a dude after all."
Jacqueline says, "I'm glad we weren't eaten by the goatfish when we were a frog."
DavidW asks, "so, shall we take Capricorn with us?"
Rotonoto asks, "Can he breathe?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take goat-fish"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE GOAT-FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a couple tries, but eventually you scoop the baby goat-fish
Floyd | up out of the pool. It emits a few high-pitched bleats and then it
Floyd | calms down in your comforting grasp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The goat-fish bleats a little bleating song.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "Well, his top half presumably has lungs"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "squeeze it"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > SQUEEZE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | The goat-fish nibbles on your finger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "Aw, a little bleating song. Now would be the time for Wayne Newton ..."
Binder says, "Ouch."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd | This is it. You have reached the deepest part of the caves.
Floyd |
Floyd | From here you can go back southeast, or you can go northeast, in which
Floyd | direction you can discern an unearthly glow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The baby goat-fish wriggles its way up your arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glow"
Floyd ]  Uttermost Depths of Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GLOW
Floyd |
Floyd | It glimmers, or glistens, or maybe even glisters--no, I'd
Floyd | better stick with glistens--with a radiance you find very slightly
Floyd | unnerving.
Floyd |
Floyd | The kid-fish crawls up to your shoulder and tries to headbutt you in
Floyd | the neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Seriously, [LINK]"
DavidW says, "Let's go into the light. It might be symbolic."
Binder says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shining Archway
Floyd | This room is awash in light: In the south wall, an archway towers over
Floyd | you, glowing as if reflecting the brightness of a distant galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The room with the pool is back to the southwest, and it looks like
Floyd | there's a shortcut to the east. I put that shortcut there just for
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The baby goat-fish almost falls to the ground, but you catch it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I used to have a pet goat, and he did headbutt a lot. It was cute but painful and annoying."
Rotonoto says, "Glister. Impressive."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x archway"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ARCHWAY
Floyd |
Floyd | This archway is a symbol of the ultimate, I mean the penultimate
Floyd | barrier between my comatose mind and the outside world. It literally
Floyd | is that, but it's also symbolically that. The lines are beginning
Floyd | to blur.
Floyd |
Floyd | The path through the arch is blocked by a big door.
Floyd |
Floyd | All of a sudden, the baby goat-fish yawns and falls asleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | This idle door is actually the barrier you have to worry about. I
Floyd | guess if the arch is the symbolic barrier, then this door is the
Floyd | literal barrier. By "literal" here I mean
Floyd | "literal-within-the-dream-world."
Floyd |
Floyd | In the door is another keyhole-depression, this one in the shape of,
Floyd | like, a V with a ridiculous curly thing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Stick the cute little goat fish in there."
DavidW says, "lick yer goat-fish before they get doored."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste fish"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the goat-fish tastes like
Floyd | pickles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put it in door"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT IT IN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | See, that would make sense, but the goat-fish is a literal
Floyd | (dream-)goat-fish, not a Capricorn symbol. You've got a
Floyd | classic confusion between signifier and signified on your hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "ha ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put horn in door"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HORN IN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake fish"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Aw, but it's so cute when it's sleeping! Just let it rest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "symbolize goatfish"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > SYMBOLIZE GOATFISH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "haha, I think it's written such that the door isn't unlockable, but the depression is? good grief"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x capricorn"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CAPRICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | (the goat-fish)
Floyd | It's a baby goat-fish. Maybe more of a kid-fish. It only has little
Floyd | nubby horns, and the fish end of it wriggles around energetically.
Floyd | This baby goat-fish represents youthful idealism, or youthful
Floyd | ignorance. I guess those are kind of the same thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put capricorn in depression"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT CAPRICORN IN DEPRESSION
Floyd |
Floyd | (the goat-fish in the keyhole-depression)
Floyd | See, that would make sense, but the goat-fish is a literal
Floyd | (dream-)goat-fish, not a Capricorn symbol. You've got a
Floyd | classic confusion between signifier and signified on your hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | The baby goat-fish snores a little bleating snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow horn"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | You start to blow into the horn, but the tremendous sound that emerges
Floyd | is too much for you to handle. It symbolizes the conclusion of the
Floyd | individuation process, which, if attained prematurely, would result in
Floyd | a psychological short-circuit. What I'm saying is, this is not the
Floyd | time or place for unleashing the power of the horn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow capricorn"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW CAPRICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | (the goat-fish)
Floyd | That's not something you can blow into. Or, at any rate, you don't
Floyd | need to blow into it. Let's do something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake it"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHAKE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Aw, but it's so cute when it's sleeping! Just let it rest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop it"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP IT
Floyd |
Floyd | No, no! You can't leave it here alone! It can't fend for itself!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Tale says, "YOU ARE DEPRESSED - Achievement unlocked!"
DavidW says, "well, we could ask the siren about it, I suppose"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x fish"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a baby goat-fish. Maybe more of a kid-fish. It only has little
Floyd | nubby horns, and the fish end of it wriggles around energetically.
Floyd | This baby goat-fish represents youthful idealism, or youthful
Floyd | ignorance. I guess those are kind of the same thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "It was alone when we found it."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no handle in the door, just that goofy-looking depression.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Just sayin'"
DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "What are you implying?"
DavidW asks, "oh, that it was alone in the pool and fended fine there?"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Jacqueline says, "I mean, it's cute, and I like the idea of being responsible for it, so I like the response, but yeah, it was doing just fine until we came along."
DavidW says, "Still, maybe Siren would like it. They're both half fish."
Jacqueline says, "OOOOOOHHHH"
Binder says, "Even the same half."
Jacqueline says, "Yes, yes."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" Rotonoto says, "knock on the door"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | Here's the place in the tunnel where there's an exit to the surface
Floyd | instead of an east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cave continues to the north and southwest, and there's that tiny
Floyd | shortcut to the shining archway to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline bounces up and down. "Do that, do that."
Jacqueline says, "Not the knocking bit, the giving the kid to the siren bit."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "f e"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > F E
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill
Floyd | So, from up here in front of the stately manor, you can see all the
Floyd | rest of the island. An entrance has opened into the caves beneath the
Floyd | jungle to the west of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down the hill to the southwest is a white sandy beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | The goat-fish burps in its sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | The gulf that this enchanted beach envelops is itself enchanted, or
Floyd | ensorcelled, with a magical glamour which makes
Floyd | everyone who sees it want to just sit around and take a break for once
Floyd | in their lives. It symbolizes taking a break for once in your life.
Floyd | Only you are able to resist this enchantment, because you alone are so
Floyd | incredibly uptight about getting stuff done all the time and being on
Floyd | time for things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back to the northeast is the hill, and over to the west is that dark,
Floyd | scary jungle.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ways out into the water is a white ship, pitching and yawing
Floyd | on the restless sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | A Siren is here, sitting and singing on a coral reef.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask siren about goat-fish"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SIREN ABOUT GOAT-FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren tells you she is extremely worried about the well-being of
Floyd | her little goat-fish Tarin, who got lost in a cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says (to Floyd), "feel streaming hair"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > FEEL STREAMING HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | The Siren is totally cool with your feeling her hair, which falls away
Floyd | like bashful silk through your fingers. She must use one heck of a
Floyd | conditioner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give tarin to siren"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE TARIN TO SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | Her jaw drops. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh. You brought Tarin!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The goat-fish leaps into the Siren's arms with a triumphant bleat and
Floyd | she immediately begins cooing over it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know, I actually have the perfect reward for you. Check this
Floyd | out:" She produces a piece of pearlescent material from an invisible
Floyd | drawer or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you recognize this? It's the symbol for Capricorn. It's
Floyd | thematically appropriate, because Tarin here is a goat-fish, right?
Floyd | Anyway, I want you to have it." She hands it to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "thank siren"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > THANK SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Well then."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "taste flowing hair"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE FLOWING HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says (to Floyd), "taste streaming hair"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE STREAMING HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the long streaming hair tastes
Floyd | like finely-shredded dark chocolate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "taste streaming hair"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE STREAMING HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the long streaming hair tastes
Floyd | like finely-shredded dark chocolate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "DavidW wins the Internet today."
Jacqueline says, "Timing, had to look it up."
Jacqueline asks, "So it's not random, it's a... table?"
DavidW asks, "hm?"
Jacqueline asks, "Or is it dynamically generated at game start, or?"
Afterward says, "it's actually a huge list of "The taste of the hair is ''." because I am an idiot."
Jacqueline says (to DW), "The table of what objects taste like."
DavidW says, "oh."
Afterward says, "SOME of the tastes actually make sense"
Rotonoto says, "He's a TADS person."
Jacqueline asks, "But this is Inform, no?"
DavidW asks, "shall I head back to the door?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste capricorn" Afterward says, "This is totally Inform."
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE CAPRICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | (the Capricorn symbol)
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the Capricorn symbol tastes
Floyd | like a goat-fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sure, let's go use the symbol."
DavidW says, "Capricorn tastes like something that tastes like pickles. I wonder what pickles taste like."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill
Floyd | So, from up here in front of the stately manor, you can see all the
Floyd | rest of the island. An entrance has opened into the caves beneath the
Floyd | jungle to the west of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down the hill to the southwest is a white sandy beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "I meant DavidW. I know this is Inform."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | Here's the place in the tunnel where there's an exit to the surface
Floyd | instead of an east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cave continues to the north and southwest, and there's that tiny
Floyd | shortcut to the shining archway to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shining Archway
Floyd | This room is awash in light: In the south wall, an archway towers over
Floyd | you, glowing as if reflecting the brightness of a distant galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The room with the pool is back to the southwest, and it looks like
Floyd | there's a shortcut to the east. I put that shortcut there just for
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | This idle door is actually the barrier you have to worry about. I
Floyd | guess if the arch is the symbolic barrier, then this door is the
Floyd | literal barrier. By "literal" here I mean
Floyd | "literal-within-the-dream-world."
Floyd |
Floyd | In the door is another keyhole-depression, this one in the shape of,
Floyd | like, a V with a ridiculous curly thing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put capricorn in door"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT CAPRICORN IN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | (the Capricorn symbol in the idle door)
Floyd | The Capricorn symbol slides into place with a click. The door
Floyd | dematerializes, its constituent dream-atoms disappearing into the
Floyd | dream-aether.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nice job! The path to the final challenge is now open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunless Crypt
Floyd | You have reached the end of your quest. Here, at the center of
Floyd | Nautilisia, is the sunless crypt that symbolizes the spiritual and
Floyd | psychological profundity of the coma that I've been in all this time.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ceiling above roils with irisdescent turmoil, symbolizing the
Floyd | conflux of emotions that are going on in my brain. A spiral design on
Floyd | the floor leads your gaze toward the center of the room, which is the
Floyd | center of the center of Nautilisia:
Floyd |
Floyd | Lying prostrate on a dais of nacreous stone and wrapped in webs of
Floyd | gauze is my own comatose body.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunless Crypt
Floyd | You have reached the end of your quest. Here, at the center of
Floyd | Nautilisia, is the sunless crypt that symbolizes the spiritual and
Floyd | psychological profundity of the coma that I've been in all this time.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ceiling above roils with irisdescent turmoil, symbolizing the
Floyd | conflux of emotions that are going on in my brain. A spiral design on
Floyd | the floor leads your gaze toward the center of the room, which is the
Floyd | center of the center of Nautilisia:
Floyd |
Floyd | Lying prostrate on a dais of nacreous stone and wrapped in webs of
Floyd | gauze is my own comatose body.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto asks, "aw, we don't have to find all 12 signs?"
Binder says, "Ooh nacreous"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x body"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's definitely me. You'd know my face anywhere. And I'm definitely,
Floyd | definitely in a coma. This symbolizes the fact that I'm in a coma
Floyd | right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | So, this is the final puzzle! How can you possibly wake me up, and
Floyd | release my mind from this nice nap? I mean, this coma?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Rotonoto says, "unwrapping seems indicated"
Binder exclaims, "horn horn horn!"
DavidW says, "yeah, horn, obviously, but let's look at stuff first."
Rotonoto says, "or horn :)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spiral"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPIRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You're gonna have to take my word for it, but the spiral on the floor
Floyd | is a logarithmic spiral with a growth factor of about 1.6180339887.
Floyd | This symbolizes the mathematical perfection of pure thought.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "taste body"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the comatose body tastes like
Floyd | a comatose person. What is wrong with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Rotonoto), "Actually, David is multi-lingual."
Rotonoto asks, "And maybe TADS has tables anyway, how should I know?"
DavidW says, "uhh, Jacqueline is far more multi-lingual than me."
Rotonoto says, "I used to know ALAN, but it's grown far beyond me."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunless Crypt
Floyd | You have reached the end of your quest. Here, at the center of
Floyd | Nautilisia, is the sunless crypt that symbolizes the spiritual and
Floyd | psychological profundity of the coma that I've been in all this time.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ceiling above roils with irisdescent turmoil, symbolizing the
Floyd | conflux of emotions that are going on in my brain. A spiral design on
Floyd | the floor leads your gaze toward the center of the room, which is the
Floyd | center of the center of Nautilisia:
Floyd |
Floyd | Lying prostrate on a dais of nacreous stone and wrapped in webs of
Floyd | gauze is my own comatose body.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "I meant IF-platform wise."
DavidW says, "oh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dais"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DAIS
Floyd |
Floyd | The word "nacreous" looks like it means "gross," but it actually
Floyd | refers to the texture of nacre, i.e. mother-of-pearl. So you can
Floyd | imagine this dais as like a great big pearl growing out of the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | I guess when I put it that way it sounds kind of gross anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "taste dais"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE DAIS
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the dais of nacreous stone
Floyd | tastes like asay Kleenex.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CEILING
Floyd |
Floyd | The irised ceiling of the crypt casts all kinds of weird colored
Floyd | lights across the room, symbolizing the blurring of self, shadow,
Floyd | anima, and animus. It also symbolizes emotional turmoil. It symbolizes
Floyd | both things at the same time. That's part of the blurring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "taste ceiling"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE CEILING
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the irised ceiling tastes like
Floyd | the candy coating of an M&M.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "oh yum"
DavidW says, "take ceiling. sell on ebay. profit."
Binder says, "You could probably step all over it and still make bank."
Binder says (to Floyd), "taste me"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE ME
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, yourself taste like vanilla
Floyd | ice cream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "what? lame"
Binder says, "> blend self with ceiling"
Rotonoto says, "melts above your head, not in your hand"
DavidW asks, "Are we ready to be little boy blue and blow our horn?"
Jacqueline says, "Belatedly, hooray for the line, 'According to the dream-logic of tastes, the comatose body tastes like a comatose person. What is wrong with you.'"
Jacqueline says, "That was pure awesome."
Binder says, "Yes, I liked that judgmental tone."
Rotonoto says, "Go, little boy Boromir."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow horn"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | When you put your lips to the wreathèd horn, it emits a huge, deep
Floyd | moan like a mob of whales singing in unison. The ceiling rumbles. The
Floyd | sleeper stirs.
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm trying to decide how many times you should have to blow the horn
Floyd | to make me wake up. How about nine?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW blinks.
Binder says, "Sound sleeper."
Jacqueline says, "So cruel."
Jacqueline says, "But I doubt it will be nine times."
DavidW says, "Just call be Horatio."
DavidW says, "er me"
DavidW says, "Horatio Hornblower,."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow horn"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW HORN
Gunther says (to Floyd), "no"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd |
Floyd | The conch blasts again, like waves crashing on a glass beach. The
Floyd | vibrations shake the irised ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | Yeah, nine is probably too many. How about seven?
Floyd |
Floyd | Fine. Because I like you: three times. Just one more time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | No?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | No?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow horn"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | You blow into the wreathèd horn again, with a tone like a hurricane
Floyd | inside a crystal bell.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then the ceiling cracks, and shatters, and the light of the sun,
Floyd | symbolizing the clarity of conscious thought, shines into the
Floyd | previously sunless crypt, which symbolizes the stagnancy of
Floyd | absolute introspection, right onto my unconscious body, which
Floyd | symbolizes me.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | And then everything goes white.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd |
Zach thought he was being ironic. Then a giant gorilla fell on him.
Zach has disconnected.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | And now I'm awake. Look, see? I'm awake. We can get going now.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Anyway, thanks for putting up with all that nonsense. I know I
Floyd | probably goof off too much, and it gets to be a pain some of the time.
Floyd | I really do want both of us to have fun, even if some of the time the
Floyd | only one having any fun is me. So I really appreciate your tolerance.
Floyd | I guess "tolerance" isn't the right word. You know what I mean.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** No, seriously. Thank you. ***
Floyd |
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 | >
Jacqueline says, "I wonder where we're going."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "amusing"
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > AMUSING
Floyd |
Floyd | Have you tried...
Floyd |
Floyd | ...listening to a shell?
Floyd | ...listening to the Siren's songs?
Floyd | ...anything you wouldn't be able to get away with in the real world?
Floyd | ...manipulating something intangible?
Floyd | ...thinking? Jumping? All that nonsense?
Floyd | ...drawing a map?
Floyd | ...swimming? Swimming in different bodies of water?
Floyd | ...feeling a bunch of different things?
Floyd | ...tasting a bunch of different things?
Floyd | ...sitting on a reef?
Floyd | ...looking for an alternate win condition?
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 | >
Rotonoto says, "Fun, Afterward."
DavidW asks, "hmmm. Alternate win condition?"
Afterward exclaims, "thanks!"
Jacqueline says, "Oh, we didn't think to sit on the painful coral."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunless Crypt
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "How do we get back there, David? To the siren?"
DavidW says, "n, e a few times, sw"
Jacqueline exclaims, "This one is easy. The alternate win condition seems harder. We could kiss the comatose body, perhaps!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shining Archway
Floyd | This room is awash in light: In the south wall, an archway towers over
Floyd | you, glowing as if reflecting the brightness of a distant galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The room with the pool is back to the southwest, and it looks like
Floyd | there's a shortcut to the east. I put that shortcut there just for
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to siren"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO TO SIREN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | Here's the place in the tunnel where there's an exit to the surface
Floyd | instead of an east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cave continues to the north and southwest, and there's that tiny
Floyd | shortcut to the shining archway to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill
Floyd | So, from up here in front of the stately manor, you can see all the
Floyd | rest of the island. An entrance has opened into the caves beneath the
Floyd | jungle to the west of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down the hill to the southwest is a white sandy beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" Jacqueline says (to DW), "Nice try."
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | The gulf that this enchanted beach envelops is itself enchanted, or
Floyd | ensorcelled, with a magical glamour which makes
Floyd | everyone who sees it want to just sit around and take a break for once
Floyd | in their lives. It symbolizes taking a break for once in your life.
Floyd | Only you are able to resist this enchantment, because you alone are so
Floyd | incredibly uptight about getting stuff done all the time and being on
Floyd | time for things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back to the northeast is the hill, and over to the west is that dark,
Floyd | scary jungle.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ways out into the water is a white ship, pitching and yawing
Floyd | on the restless sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | A Siren is here, sitting and singing on a coral reef.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "sometimes GO TO works in games."
Jacqueline says, "Maybe >GO TO [WHATEVER THAT LOCATION IS CALLED], but I doubt it."
Afterward says, "I'm gonna decide right now that I object to implementing "GO TO" on a philosophical level"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh, I realize."
Afterward says, "and that it's not just because I'm lazy"
Jacqueline asks (of Afterward), "As an excuse for why it's not implemented, you mean?"
Jacqueline says, "Timing."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on reef"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Rotonoto says, "It's kinda Colossal-Cave specific ..."
Floyd | > SIT ON REEF
Floyd |
Floyd | When you sit on the reef, it scratches your butt. I'm trying not to be
Floyd | sadistic, but you make it so easy sometimes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says (to Jacq), "Right."
Rotonoto says, "ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take reef"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE REEF
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste reef"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
Floyd | > TASTE REEF
Floyd |
Floyd | According to the dream-logic of tastes, the bare coral reef tastes
Floyd | like .
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says, "there's another thing to try here..."
Jacqueline says, "So, my only alternative solution at present is to kiss the dude, like David implied he would."
Afterward exclaims, "!!! The reef has no flavor!"
Binder says, "Like a severed tongue."
Jacqueline says (to Bunder), "Exactly."
Afterward says, "Indulge me please~~~"
Afterward says (to Floyd), "take a break"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "oh, like in Sleeping Beauty."
Floyd | > TAKE A BREAK
Floyd |
Floyd | All right. Let me tell you how it's done.
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah"
Afterward pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | Sit down on the sand and close your eyes. Listen to the nice lady
Floyd | singing. Listen to the wind.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit down"
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | See? Nothing is urgent. Everything will happen when it needs to
Floyd | happen.
Afterward pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | Maybe the moon is shining through some palm leaves. Maybe an old man
Floyd | is tuning his violin. Maybe it starts to rain a little, but then it
Floyd | stops.
Afterward pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Enchanted Gulf
Floyd | Okay, open your eyes. There. Wasn't that nice?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline exclaims, "It was!"
Rotonoto says, "Dangerous for poets to write IF games. :)"
Binder says, "Safer than letting them write poems."
Afterward says, "My ideal IF game is one where you just hit SPACE repeatedly and I tell you about the moon"
Rotonoto says, "Blat."
Binder says, "If you're loosey-goosey about the meaning of 'moon' that could ALSO work as an AIF."
Jacqueline says (to Afterward), "Yeah, I like writing stuff like that as well. Sadly, such linear low-interactivity gets poor reviews on the whole."
Rotonoto says, "Cool little game. I forgot Club Floyd met today. I came to ask a question about mainframe Zork."
Jacqueline exclaims (at Rotonoto), "Ha - you came by for that and got looped into this? Nice!"
Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Should we try kissing the dude ala Sleeping Beauty?"
DavidW says, "yes, I we should."
DavidW says, "er, I think we should"
DavidW asks, "shall I go and do the deed?"
Afterward says, "you might also try pushing it"
Jacqueline asks, "Could you, please?"
Jacqueline says, "You said you would kiss the boys, iirc. So yes, you do it."
DavidW says, "okalee dokalee"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Hill
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hill
Floyd | So, from up here in front of the stately manor, you can see all the
Floyd | rest of the island. An entrance has opened into the caves beneath the
Floyd | jungle to the west of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Down the hill to the southwest is a white sandy beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Very Deep Caves of Thought
Floyd | Here's the place in the tunnel where there's an exit to the surface
Floyd | instead of an east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cave continues to the north and southwest, and there's that tiny
Floyd | shortcut to the shining archway to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Shining Archway
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shining Archway
Floyd | This room is awash in light: In the south wall, an archway towers over
Floyd | you, glowing as if reflecting the brightness of a distant galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The room with the pool is back to the southwest, and it looks like
Floyd | there's a shortcut to the east. I put that shortcut there just for
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunless Crypt
Floyd | You have reached the end of your quest. Here, at the center of
Floyd | Nautilisia, is the sunless crypt that symbolizes the spiritual and
Floyd | psychological profundity of the coma that I've been in all this time.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ceiling above roils with irisdescent turmoil, symbolizing the
Floyd | conflux of emotions that are going on in my brain. A spiral design on
Floyd | the floor leads your gaze toward the center of the room, which is the
Floyd | center of the center of Nautilisia:
Floyd |
Floyd | Lying prostrate on a dais of nacreous stone and wrapped in webs of
Floyd | gauze is my own comatose body.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss body"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > KISS BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh! Oh, that's adorable! That wasn't the solution I had in mind, but
Floyd | maybe it should work. Do you think that should be what wakes me up?
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | All right, then. When you kiss me, it'll break the psychic spell, and
Floyd | Nautilisia will disappear, but I'll finally wake up from this coma and
Floyd | we can get going to whatever it is you think is so important.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** So, go ahead. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yay"
Jacqueline says, "Yay."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunless Crypt
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | No?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss body"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > KISS BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh! Oh, that's adorable! That wasn't the solution I had in mind, but
Floyd | maybe it should work. Do you think that should be what wakes me up?
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, that's fine. Let's say you kiss me, but nothing happens. Go
Floyd | ahead and try to figure out the "real" solution.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Gunther says (to Floyd), "kill body"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ow! Ow! Stop! STOP. Seriously, stop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push body"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ow! Cut that out!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "HA"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tickle body"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > TICKLE BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Darn"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search body"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Afterward says (to Floyd), "take gauze"
Floyd ]  Sunless Crypt
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE GAUZE
Floyd |
Floyd | No no no no! I'm not wearing anything under those webs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Afterward), "Really nice. Thanks. I enjoyed this a great deal."
Afterward says (to Jacqueline), "Thanks very much! This was great."


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