ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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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 of⦠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
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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
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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?
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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." | ||