  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| DavidW says, "I'm wondering if I should mention the unusual mechanic right away or let it be a wonderful aha relevation." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Let's do that, then. Only took us half an hour to decide on a game! Huzzah!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Let us have the aha moment, yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask insight" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Is this alright?" asks the young cop. "Do you need the lights lower, Floyd | or incense, or something?" Floyd | Floyd | "This is fine. I just need to see him, ask some questions." Floyd | Floyd | "Okay," he nods. "Just buzz the buzzer when you're done." He leaves, Floyd | pulling the metal door to with the click of a magnetic lock. Across Floyd | the table from you the man stiffens, waiting for you to speak. Floyd | Floyd | INSIGHT Floyd | An interactive investigation, by Jon Ingold (c) 2003 Floyd | Type HELP for brief instructions. Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 030209 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Interview Room Floyd | The six walls are metal. This is a box in which nothing happens but Floyd | people talk, and fans whir air in and out to help the words move Floyd | along. By the door in the north wall is a small red button that rings Floyd | the buzzer for the guard, and it's smart enough to know who's pushing. Floyd | This isn't a place people leave of their own accord, and they rarely Floyd | come here that way either. Floyd | Floyd | The man across the table from you is no different. His eyes are Floyd | sagging from lack of sleep, and he is sweating just a little even Floyd | though the air is regulated to be cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder makes a note to say 'aha' when he would ordinarily say 'oh you piece of sh--' | |
| DavidW says, "You will want to type HELP, I'm sure, for this one, as suggested by the banner." | ||
| Binder says, "mm saggy eyes" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You look just as you would expect to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | Mackenzie is a broad man, with receding spiky hair and the slow march Floyd | of middle-age filling out his stomach. His fingers are the only Floyd | delicate thing about him, long and arachnid, somehow out of place on Floyd | the ends of his bulky hands. He watches you, afraid, perhaps guarding Floyd | something. He fidgets nervously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | INSIGHT is a standard text-game in many ways. The most Floyd | important commands are EXAMINE (provide a closer description of Floyd | something), LOOK (describe the current location), TAKE (to collect an Floyd | object), and INVENTORY (to list your current possessions). These can Floyd | be abbreviated X, L, T and I respectively. (eg. "T KETTLE. X KETTLE.") Floyd | Floyd | To talk to characters, you may ASK them about various topics, or type Floyd | a character's name, a comma and then a question. (eg. MAN, WHY DID YOU Floyd | MOVE THE BODY?) The game understands quite complicated constructions, Floyd | but is less prone to error if you keep input simple. Asking the same Floyd | questions again will often prompt more complete answers; you can also Floyd | type "PROMPT CHARACTER". "ASK" can be shortened to A. Floyd | Floyd | Movement is via compass directions (N, S, E, W), also Up and Down. You Floyd | may type RESTART and QUIT at any time; also SAVE will store your Floyd | current position and RESTORE will reload it. Acknowledgements and Floyd | credits are in the end-game text. Bugs and feedback to Floyd | jonnyingold@netscape.net. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Binder says, "hsm prompt character" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about crime" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT CRIME Floyd | Floyd | "Poison, did they say? I have a lab, it could have been anything." He Floyd | is jittery, his face twitching. "She might have eaten one of my bulbs Floyd | or something. I don't know why it's being called a murder." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "prompt man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PROMPT MAN Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know! A lab is full of poisons, that's how I work! She must Floyd | have got into it." Floyd | Floyd | It is a little difficult to follow the man's speech. His accent is Floyd | thick, and the language is still unfamiliar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Oh no, not <em>murder</em>!" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about her" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT HER Floyd | Floyd | His language is something you only started learning two weeks ago, Floyd | when this crime was reported and he was put on the ship back home. Floyd | You're still sufficiently rusty that there are some things (such as Floyd | that) you still do not know how to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wow. @Netscape.net" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about poison" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT POISON Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know! A lab is full of poisons, that's how I work! She must Floyd | have got into it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about the victim" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT THE VICTIM Floyd | Floyd | He flinches. "Do you have to put it like that? She was my wife." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "aha" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about his wife" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT HIS WIFE Floyd | Floyd | His face pales. "She's dead, I know," he whispers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "man, what is your wife's name" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAN, WHAT IS YOUR WIFE'S NAME
Floyd |
Floyd | "My name's Mackenzie. But... I guess you already know that. Yes," he
Floyd | says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about bulb" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT BULB Floyd | Floyd | You rack your brain but cannot come up with the right vocabulary to Floyd | express it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about murder" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about language" | ||
Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT MURDER Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know! A lab is full of poisons, that's how I work! She must Floyd | have got into it." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LANGUAGE Floyd | Floyd | "I'm monolingual; I never even learnt English. My wife used to say it Floyd | made it fairer. She didn't understand what I did, but I didn't Floyd | understand a word of her documents." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mackenzie, can I call you mac" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > MACKENZIE, CAN I CALL YOU MAC
Floyd |
Floyd | He frowns, confused. It seems your two-week attendance at the language
Floyd | course hasn't totally paid off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about documents" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT DOCUMENTS Floyd | Floyd | "What documents? I don't know what you're talking about," he replies, Floyd | looking quite confused. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about wife" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT WIFE Floyd | Floyd | His face pales. "She's dead, I know," he whispers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about job" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT JOB Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a genetic designer. I design plants for the soil, to grow Floyd | naturally. To fill up the atmosphere. I'm at the top of my field," he Floyd | adds, nervously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about confession" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT CONFESSION Floyd | Floyd | "Just because I had the lab. That doesn't mean anything." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about genetics" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT GENETICS Floyd | Floyd | "It's my field; designing organisms. Sorry, no offence intended," he Floyd | quails. "I mean, I only work with plants. My company invented oxyalg." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, I may have interrupted a sequence there. Perhaps he can answer about documents if the previous response mentioned them." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "waterboard man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > WATERBOARD MAN Floyd | Floyd | -- "waterboard" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about oxyalg" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT OXYALG Floyd | Floyd | "Oxyalg. You know what it is. Three quarters of Mars does. It's Floyd | growing us the atmosphere up there. Why are you asking this? What does Floyd | it matter to... you know." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "prompt man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PROMPT MAN Floyd | Floyd | "It's almost finished with, then we have a little bacterial agent to Floyd | release which will destroy the stuff. And that's it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "oooh, Mars" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | He sighs, helplessly. "We have a thousand tanks of bacteria ready to Floyd | release, to mop up all the algae once its finished its job. If we Floyd | don't do it, it'll just keep on spreading. And then it's flat-out Floyd | colonisation. The only thing to slow it are the windstorms." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | He sighs, helplessly. "We have a thousand tanks of bacteria ready to Floyd | release, to mop up all the algae once its finished its job. If we Floyd | don't do it, it'll just keep on spreading. And then it's flat-out Floyd | colonisation. The only thing to slow it are the windstorms." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about windstorms" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT WINDSTORMS Floyd | Floyd | "The windstorms have been a problem since the atmosphere started to Floyd | grow. I was working on solutions, using plants. Would you like to know Floyd | how they work, is that it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "The idea is to grow plants with some pollination that'll trigger in Floyd | high winds, but with pollen redesigned to clump together in the air, Floyd | act as a biological thickener. If enough is released, the air will be Floyd | locally very viscous, and the wind will slow. Of course," he adds, Floyd | "we'd need a lot of these plants if it was ever to work. Or in Floyd | strategic places. I think it's unlikely," he finishes. "Whatever the Floyd | papers might think." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about plants" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT PLANTS Floyd | Floyd | "They've been a hobby for a while. I've been growing things around the Floyd | house. I'm particularly proud of the bush outside the front." Floyd | Floyd | "But just tell me," he says suddenly. "Is this going to hurt me? Is it Floyd | like torture?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "man, is what like torture" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAN, IS WHAT LIKE TORTURE
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm sorry," Mackenzie replies. "I didn't quite follow that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about bush" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT BUSH Floyd | Floyd | "That bush is one of my personal collection; I made it. Its sap is Floyd | laced with a chemical that briefly sharpens your reflexes, muscle Floyd | control, that sort of thing. I use it before I drive." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "It's not illegal or anything. It's just like caffeine; that comes Floyd | from plants too." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about papers" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | "I read 'The Native'. It's a hackrag, but it's the only paper in my Floyd | language after all." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "There's been a lot of rubbish recently about Knassion," he remarks. Floyd | "It's a big thing up there." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about Knassion" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT KNASSION Floyd | Floyd | "Knassion?" he smiles. "Everyone else calls it 'Genus K' like it was a Floyd | codename." He smiles bitterly. "It's a plant designed to reduce the Floyd | windstorms." There is a pause, and he sighs. "They're a problem for Floyd | everyone," he replies. "We've been working on it at AlgCorp. But Floyd | that's not why I'm here, surely?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "It's a plant designed to reduce the windstorms." There is a pause, Floyd | and he sighs. "They're a problem for everyone," he replies. "We've Floyd | been working on it at AlgCorp. But that's not why I'm here, surely?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about AlgCorp" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT ALGCORP Floyd | Floyd | "AlgCorp. Nice enough company, too, I suppose. They gave us the Floyd | house." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "AlgCorp. Nice enough company, too, I suppose. More or less the only Floyd | one we've got," he finishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about house" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | "We've been in Olympia about ten years now. I like it. I think Laura Floyd | did too." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "It's a beautiful area," he says wistfully. "The long red deserts and Floyd | the cracked-up horizon." You feel like reminding him its bone-dry Floyd | sand, but refrain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about Laura" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LAURA Floyd | Floyd | "She was American by birth, and came up here to act as a scientific Floyd | interpreter. She was always gifted with languages; she picked up mine Floyd | in about a month." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "She worked as a translator," he says, voice shaking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "prompt man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PROMPT MAN Floyd | Floyd | "How could I have poisoned her? I loved her!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "I don't what more you want me to say." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about Mars" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT MARS Floyd | Floyd | "I love my planet. I've never wanted to leave it. We've managed to do Floyd | without all the problems you have down here. No overcrowding, Floyd | employment. It's an idyll." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man how did he fall in love" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN HOW DID HE FALL IN LOVE Floyd | Floyd | He shakes his head. "I wish I could talk to you in English," he says, Floyd | "but I never learnt." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "man, how did you meet laura" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAN, HOW DID YOU MEET LAURA
Floyd |
Floyd | "She was American by birth, and came up here to act as a scientific
Floyd | interpreter. She was always gifted with languages; she picked up mine
Floyd | in about a month."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about torture" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT TORTURE Floyd | Floyd | "Look," he says, his voice shaking and his fingers winding around one Floyd | other like olive trees. "I'm just a scientist. That's all. Just a Floyd | scientist. You don't have to hurt me." Floyd | Floyd | The door opens briefly and the guard appears. "Brought you some tea, Floyd | sir," he says politely, and brings a mug over to put on the table. Floyd | Mackenzie looks startled by this appearance and is offered nothing Floyd | himself. The guard leaves with a nod and a click of a magnetic lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about hobbies" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT HOBBIES Floyd | Floyd | You think very hard, but cannot come up with the right words to say it Floyd | in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x tea" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | The tea is black, no sugar; the mug is white and marked "EUPD" below Floyd | the department's badge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about eupd" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT EUPD Floyd | Floyd | Your language skills are deficient, such that you cannot come up with Floyd | the right words to say it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "give tea to man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE TEA TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the mug of tea) Floyd | He looks suspiciously at the mug. "No, thank you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "demonstrate tea" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > DEMONSTRATE TEA Floyd | Floyd | -- "demonstrate" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about family" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT FAMILY Floyd | Floyd | You think very hard, but cannot come up with the right words to say it Floyd | in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take tea" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TEA Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about enemies" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT ENEMIES Floyd | Floyd | You rack your brain but cannot come up with the right words to convey Floyd | it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about associates" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT ASSOCIATES Floyd | Floyd | You think very hard, but cannot come up with the right vocabulary to Floyd | say it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about laura" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LAURA Floyd | Floyd | "I don't what more you want me to say." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "drink tea" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK TEA Floyd | Floyd | You sip a little of the tea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about coworkers" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT COWORKERS Floyd | Floyd | For all the classes and the work, you cannot come up with the right Floyd | phrase to say it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "feign poisoning" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > FEIGN POISONING Floyd | Floyd | -- "feign" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about torture" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT TORTURE Floyd | Floyd | "Look," he says, his voice shaking and his fingers winding around one Floyd | other like olive trees. "I'm just a scientist. That's all. Just a Floyd | scientist. You don't have to hurt me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about genus a" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT GENUS A Floyd | Floyd | "Genus A - alaphabax. That one didn't work because it didn't pollinate Floyd | enough." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "a genus b" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS B Floyd | Floyd | "Genus B - brodilus. No good as the wind just blew it over and Floyd | uprooted it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "hum" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Are there more?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus c" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS C Floyd | Floyd | "Genus C - caromange. Died. Not quite sure what from, but I think lack Floyd | of sunlight." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "I'm guessing at least to K" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus d" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS D Floyd | Floyd | "Genus D - dexilille. No good." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "All the way to K I guess" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, I must have missed the K comment, sorry." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus e" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS E Floyd | Floyd | "Genus E - edisonia. It was cactus-based and the spines just broke, Floyd | and then the wind blew them everywhere. Lethal." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "let man go" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > LET MAN GO Floyd | Floyd | -- "let" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus f" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS F Floyd | Floyd | "Genus F - forrage. Most common problem - degenerative. Never made it Floyd | past a metre high." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS G Floyd | Floyd | "Genus G - gwenish. Most common problem - degenerative. Never made it Floyd | past a metre high." Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "let mango" | |
| Jacqueline says, "mmm mango" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus h" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS H Floyd | Floyd | "Genus H - harrallic. Most common problem - degenerative. Never made Floyd | it past a metre high." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Mangos to let, fifty cents." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus i" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS I Floyd | Floyd | "Genus I - innamoxas. Most common problem - degenerative. Never made Floyd | it past a metre high." Floyd | Floyd | Dimly, through the thick walls, layers of piping and cables that Floyd | surround this chamber, resonates the deep tolling of Big Ben. It is Floyd | twelve o'clock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Martian Big Ben." | |
| inky says, "hunh" | ||
| Binder says, "Whole lot of degeneration in this part of the alphabet." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I got the impression we were on earth, but he'd been working on Mars." | ||
| inky says, "this is not what I was expecting this game to be like based on what I remembered people saying about it" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Binder), "hee" | ||
| inky says, "I'm probably mixing it up with a different game" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, we're in London. Mackenzie's from Mars." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "a genus j" | Zach says, "I was wondering is EUPD refered to Europe" | |
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus j" | ||
Floyd | > A GENUS J Floyd | Floyd | "Genus J - jingscum. Most common problem - degenerative. Never made it Floyd | past a metre high." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS J Floyd | Floyd | "Genus J - jingscum. Most common problem - degenerative. Never made it Floyd | past a metre high." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "European Union Police Dept, I assume" | |
| Jacqueline says, "European Union PD, perhaps.. yeah" | ||
| Zach says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a genus k" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A GENUS K Floyd | Floyd | "Knassion," he says. "It's called Knassion." Then he shrugs. "It's a Floyd | plant designed to reduce the windstorms." There is a pause, and he Floyd | sighs. "They're a problem for everyone," he replies. "We've been Floyd | working on it at AlgCorp. But that's not why I'm here, surely?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about London" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LONDON Floyd | Floyd | You rack your brain but cannot come up with the right vocabulary to Floyd | convey it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "And we're drinking tea of course" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about Earth" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT EARTH Floyd | Floyd | "The first Earth creature to spread on Mars was the ant, you know Floyd | that? Building its scurrying colonies, a thousand creatures crawling Floyd | on each other's backs. Just like your world here; that's waiting to Floyd | come and infest mine." Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says (to inky), "Like most Ingold games, there's more to it." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "prompt man" | ||
Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "You can keep your planet," he spits. "Let me keep mine." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PROMPT MAN Floyd | Floyd | "You can keep your planet," he spits. "Let me keep mine." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "You can keep your planet," he spits. "Let me keep mine." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "I suspect you're very right." | |
| Zach says, "I guess he's a native Martian" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, there's something of a twist to all this." | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about crime" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT CRIME Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know! A lab is full of poisons, that's how I work! She must Floyd | have got into it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about set up" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT SET UP Floyd | Floyd | You think very hard, but cannot come up with the right vocabulary to Floyd | express it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about being framed" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT BEING FRAMED Floyd | Floyd | Your language skills are deficient, such that you cannot come up with Floyd | the right vocabulary to say it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. So he's afraid of the Earth folks coming, and his wife was from Earth." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about lab" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LAB Floyd | Floyd | "My lab? It's newly installed - only a week ago. I haven't even been Floyd | in it yet. I don't even know if it's stocked; I didn't oversee the Floyd | installation, we spent that weekend away. Honestly, I didn't take Floyd | anything from in there." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "hm" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about innocence" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT INNOCENCE Floyd | Floyd | You rack your brain but cannot come up with the right vocabulary to Floyd | convey it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about lab" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LAB Floyd | Floyd | "My lab? I can't detail it, I've not been there. I suppose there's Floyd | something poisonous in there, I don't know." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man who did it" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN WHO DID IT Floyd | Floyd | He is looking blank, again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about algcorp" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT ALGCORP Floyd | Floyd | "AlgCorp. Nice enough company, too, I suppose. More or less the only Floyd | one we've got," he finishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about america" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT AMERICA Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know much else about it. I don't speak the language, I have - Floyd | I had - no interest in visiting Earth." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about earth" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT EARTH Floyd | Floyd | "You can keep your planet," he spits. "Let me keep mine." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about europe" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT EUROPE Floyd | Floyd | "What? I don't know... I don't really know anything about it. It's all Floyd | so far from home. That's why she was doing it, impartiality, or Floyd | something. Avoid bias in the language used. As though she wouldn't Floyd | have a bias," he adds, strangely bitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "ask man about face on mars" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT FACE ON MARS Floyd | Floyd | "Could you rephrase that?" he says, timidly. "I didn't quite Floyd | understand." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder asks, "wait what?" | |
| Binder says (to Floyd), "ask man about bias" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT BIAS Floyd | Floyd | For all the classes and the work, you cannot come up with the right Floyd | vocabulary to say it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about me" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "You're from the police. I know. I know all about you. It's not my Floyd | field, but it's close." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Mowsey says (to floyd), "ask man about vacation" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about europe" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT VACATION Floyd | Floyd | "This is not my idea of a holiday, no." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT EUROPE Floyd | Floyd | "What? I don't know... I don't really know anything about it. It's all Floyd | so far from home. That's why she was doing it, impartiality, or Floyd | something. Avoid bias in the language used. As though she wouldn't Floyd | have a bias," he adds, strangely bitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "prompt man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PROMPT MAN Floyd | Floyd | "What? I don't know... I don't really know anything about it. It's all Floyd | so far from home. That's why she was doing it, impartiality, or Floyd | something. Avoid bias in the language used. As though she wouldn't Floyd | have a bias," he adds, strangely bitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Was the wait what about the silly face on Mars bit, or the response to asking about Europe?" | |
| Binder says, "I was reacting to the bias remark but there was a long queue of stuff scrolling in." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about vacation" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT VACATION Floyd | Floyd | "This is not my idea of a holiday, no." Floyd | Floyd | > | Mowsey says, "I know he said something about going away" | |
| Binder makes a note to himself to do any future interrogations solo. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "man, who found the body" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAN, WHO FOUND THE BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | He has not understood your words, again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "man, who found laura" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAN, WHO FOUND LAURA
Floyd |
Floyd | His face pales. "She's dead, I know," he whispers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, the wait what was Binder, not DW, sorry. Misread." | |
| Zach asks (of Binder), "How can we do good cop/bad cop then?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about alibi" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "man, why did you kill her" | ||
Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT ALIBI Floyd | Floyd | You think very hard, but cannot come up with the right vocabulary to Floyd | say it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAN, WHY DID YOU KILL HER
Floyd |
Floyd | "But I loved her. Why would I kill the thing I love the most?" His
Floyd | voice is shaking, he may even be close to tears. "She was the
Floyd | beautiful... beautiful thing." He turns away, screwing up his eyes,
Floyd | his fingers curling into themselves. "And I couldn't have killed her."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Binder says (to Zach), "I guess we'll just be doing ADHD cop/schizo cop this time out." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "prompt man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PROMPT MAN Floyd | Floyd | "You have no idea," he says quietly. "You have no idea what you're Floyd | saying." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "ha" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a do you still beat your wife" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A DO YOU STILL BEAT YOUR WIFE Floyd | Floyd | He has not understood your words, again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "man, do you still beat your wife" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAN, DO YOU STILL BEAT YOUR WIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | He has not understood your words, again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "a do you smoke" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A DO YOU SMOKE Floyd | Floyd | He has not understood your words, again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a wife" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A WIFE Floyd | Floyd | His face pales. "She's dead, I know," he whispers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "a do you drink" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A DO YOU DRINK Floyd | Floyd | He has not understood your words, again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "throw tea at man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > THROW TEA AT MAN Floyd | Floyd | There is no need for crude torture methods. You are more evolved than Floyd | that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "insult man's shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > INSULT MAN'S SHIRT
Floyd |
Floyd | -- "insult" isn't a recognised verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "Advanced torture methods, then?" | |
| DavidW says, "maybe" | ||
| Zach asks, "Mind games?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "mock man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > MOCK MAN Floyd | Floyd | -- "mock" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "man, why did your wife never love you" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "scare man" | ||
Floyd | > MAN, WHY DID YOUR WIFE NEVER LOVE YOU Floyd | Floyd | He has not understood your words, again. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > SCARE MAN Floyd | Floyd | Mackenzie is already quivering right down to his feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | -- "dance" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "threaten man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > THREATEN MAN Floyd | Floyd | Mackenzie is already quivering right down to his feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "a laura's job" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > A LAURA'S JOB
Floyd |
Floyd | "Laura was sent documents to translate, went over them and sent them
Floyd | back. I think she got paid per word," he says with a misplaced smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "a laura's employer" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > A LAURA'S EMPLOYER
Floyd |
Floyd | -- Please be more specific about what you want to say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | -- Please be more specific about what you want to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about translate" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT TRANSLATE Floyd | Floyd | Your language skills are deficient, such that you cannot come up with Floyd | the right phrase to say it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "a laura's job" | |
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "a documents" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A DOCUMENTS Floyd | Floyd | "I couldn't read them. I might have scanned a couple sometimes, but Floyd | the only words I could pick out were place names and maybe a few Floyd | numbers. I told you, I only speak this language." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "a laura's job" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > A LAURA'S JOB
Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't know what you're hoping for," he replies angrily. "I don't
Floyd | know anything more about it, I couldn't read a word of what she did,
Floyd | it was all bloody Turkish to me, or whatever. I think whatever you're
Floyd | talking about you know more than me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Johnny says (to Floyd), "a names" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A NAMES Floyd | Floyd | You think very hard, but cannot come up with the right vocabulary to Floyd | convey it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "place names" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PLACE NAMES Floyd | Floyd | -- "place" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "bah" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "a laura's job" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room
Floyd |
Floyd | > A LAURA'S JOB
Floyd |
Floyd | "She translated," he snaps.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about documents" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT DOCUMENTS Floyd | Floyd | "I couldn't read them. I might have scanned a couple sometimes, but Floyd | the only words I could pick out were place names and maybe a few Floyd | numbers. I told you, I only speak this language." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "a place names" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A PLACE NAMES Floyd | Floyd | You rack your brain but cannot come up with the right phrase to convey Floyd | it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about numbers" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT NUMBERS Floyd | Floyd | You think very hard, but cannot come up with the right vocabulary to Floyd | say it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "a scanned documents" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A SCANNED DOCUMENTS Floyd | Floyd | "I couldn't read them. I might have scanned a couple sometimes, but Floyd | the only words I could pick out were place names and maybe a few Floyd | numbers. I told you, I only speak this language." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Binder says (to Floyd), "prompt man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PROMPT MAN Floyd | Floyd | "I couldn't read them. I might have scanned a couple sometimes, but Floyd | the only words I could pick out were place names and maybe a few Floyd | numbers. I told you, I only speak this language." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "a english" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A ENGLISH Floyd | Floyd | "The only word I know is 'hatchback'; from a magazine Laura had." Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "hrmph" | |
| DavidW says, "Incidentally, the game is larger than this one room. Just so you know." | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "a hatchback" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A HATCHBACK Floyd | Floyd | Your language skills are deficient, such that you cannot come up with Floyd | the right phrase to convey it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "a magazine" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > A MAGAZINE Floyd | Floyd | You rack your brain but cannot come up with the right words to express Floyd | it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you, Mackenzie. That'll be all." You stand, and go over to Floyd | press the buzzer. He looks quite puzzled. After a moment, the door Floyd | slides open and the guard stands aside to let you through into the Floyd | hallway. Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't get it, sir," he reports, and you say nothing to Floyd | contradict him. Floyd | Floyd | "Time for more traditional methods," you reply. The guard nods, and Floyd | you clip down the steel corridors, out to the front and collect a car Floyd | from the pool. Within fifteen minutes you are at the address and Floyd | feeling the sun's cold rays outside the bubble, Mackenzie's file in Floyd | your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Your car is parked at a slight angle at the end of the long drive, its Floyd | nose almost poking into a purple-leaved bush. A dusty wake is Floyd | gradually settling on the long track behind. Mackenzie's bubble is to Floyd | the east, its door closed. The road leads right up to it, with no Floyd | front garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "15 minutes from jolly ol' England to Mars. Nifty." | |
| Binder says, "what" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We live in bubbles. Cool." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x file" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > X FILE Floyd | Floyd | An A4 brown envelope marked: "MACKENZIE CASE". It is sealed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You slide a finger under the corner of the flap and tear open the Floyd | envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "read file" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > READ FILE Floyd | Floyd | The Mackenzie case file: It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Summary of crime: Murder - Mackenzie, Laura, 32. Floyd | Prime suspect: Mackenzie, Doctor Yogi, husband, 41. Floyd | Date of crime: 23.5.63 Floyd | Location: Bubble 4563. Body found in main bedroom. Floyd | Cause of death: Poison - type unknown. Floyd | Motive: Unknown. Floyd | Floyd | Please clarify unknown variables. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder if that bush is the one with the enhanced reflexes sap." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a brown envelope (which is open) Floyd | a case file Floyd | a printed fax Floyd | a plastic card Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Well that's all the stuff I wanted to know before we interrogated him." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "read fax" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > READ FAX Floyd | Floyd | A fax-printout photograph of the body, as found by police called to Floyd | the scene by Dr. Mackenzie. The woman depicted is lying on a bed, her Floyd | face constricted and her fingers quite stiff and splayed. Her skin has Floyd | gone a pale white, maybe nearing blue. She is fully clothed, and Floyd | wearing shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | (the plastic card) Floyd | A standard plastic card, taken from Mackenzie's wallet, that has his Floyd | house number on it: 4563. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hm, possibly." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x bush" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > X BUSH Floyd | Floyd | A line of bushes growing to about waist-height which border the track Floyd | for about twenty metres from the house. They are unfamiliar to you, Floyd | sprawling, with a purple tinge to the leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "How quaint. Ingold thought we'd still use faxes in the future." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat leaves" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > EAT LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the line of bushes) Floyd | You pluck a leaf from the bush with a thick snap. In response the Floyd | branch moves backwards, far more than just a recoil, curling up into Floyd | itself. The movement seems to disrupt other branches, sparking a wave Floyd | that travels down the hedgerow in an uncoordinated squirm of fauna. It Floyd | is several minutes before it is still once more; by then the leaf in Floyd | your hand has leaked a fine sap as far as your wrist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | | Binder says, "Well we're still using faxes in the future-present and maybe those use cases will persist." | |
Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a purple leaf Floyd | a brown envelope (which is open) Floyd | a case file Floyd | a printed fax Floyd | a plastic card Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "eat sap" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > EAT SAP Floyd | Floyd | -- "sap" isn't a recognised word. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat leaf" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > EAT LEAF Floyd | Floyd | The leaf is tough to chew, and waxy, and taste of little until you Floyd | have pulped the outer skin when a thin banana-like flavour leaks out. Floyd | Eventually you cannot swallow the residue of the hide and spit it out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "eat fax" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > EAT FAX Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the printed fax) Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Ours died about 7-8 months ago at work. We've needed it precisely one time since then." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x bubble" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > X BUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | The bubble is a standard home on a standard road, which runs a few Floyd | hundred metres back to the west. It rises about three metres high and Floyd | is made of a solid white material over which the dust and winds move Floyd | quite harmlessly. There are a few windows; thick and acting as mirrors Floyd | to the seas of dust. There is a door near to you, which a line of Floyd | bushes lead up on either side of the track. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bubble" | Jacqueline says, "And I can't remember why that was, but at the time it was easier to borrow one from someone else than do a work-around." | |
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > X BUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | The bubble is a standard home on a standard road, which runs a few Floyd | hundred metres back to the west. It rises about three metres high and Floyd | is made of a solid white material over which the dust and winds move Floyd | quite harmlessly. There are a few windows; thick and acting as mirrors Floyd | to the seas of dust. There is a door near to you, which a line of Floyd | bushes lead up on either side of the track. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says (to Jacqueline), "Yeah. The thing that bugs me most are the interactions which for some reason DEMAND a document FAX. It's like scanning+email but without all that pesky convenience." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "We should probably enter and search the house." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The standard design of door for one of these buildings, with two main Floyd | doors and a porch between so that the atmosphere inside can be kept Floyd | slightly fuller. The lock is set into the centre. The door is closed Floyd | and locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "unlock door with card" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH CARD Floyd | Floyd | (the plastic card) Floyd | (first taking the plastic card) Floyd | The doorlock beeps distantly through the thin air, and the light Floyd | flicks to a pale green. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You push open the door and step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Porch Floyd | The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built Floyd | into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better Floyd | regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an Floyd | algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook Floyd | for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal Floyd | inside from outside, they are east and west respectively. Floyd | Floyd | On the shoe rack are a pair of lady's shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in shoe" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN SHOE Floyd | Floyd | (the lady's shoes) Floyd | You tip up one shoe, then the second, and peer inside. After a little Floyd | more shaking the left is revealed to contain a small, hardy cactus Floyd | spine. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's the ol' hidden shoe trick" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "get spine" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > GET SPINE Floyd | Floyd | You lift the spine very gingerly indeed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spine" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > X SPINE Floyd | Floyd | A multi-barbed cactus spine, with a central point from which nine Floyd | separate needles radiate outward. Floyd | Floyd | You feel momentarily dizzy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick spine" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | | Zach says, "cactus <em>murder</em>" | |
Floyd | > LICK SPINE Floyd | Floyd | -- "lick" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat spine" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > EAT SPINE Floyd | Floyd | That would hardly be wise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. edisonia, genus e, had lethal spines." | |
| Binder says, "hm" | ||
| Zach says, "I wonder why we got dizzy" | ||
| Zach says, "Maybe he tricked us into eating that plant" | ||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Just by touching it? Huh." | ||
| Binder says, "Maybe we're tripping balls." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think the dizziness was either the sap kicking in or wearing off." | ||
| Binder says, "No, we ate the leaf from outside" | ||
| Binder says, "... for some reason" | ||
| inky says, "it was delicious!" | ||
| Zach asks, "Because of potential tastiness?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "wear shoes" | ||
Floyd | > X RACK Floyd | Floyd | A cyan wire rack for placing shoes on. There is space for four or five Floyd | pairs, and the rack is worn down, but now it is almost empty. Only one Floyd | pair of shoes is in attendance. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SHOES Floyd | Floyd | (your clothing) Floyd | You are already wearing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Man, never trust a murder suspect." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fan" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > X FAN Floyd | Floyd | The grilles are several feet square; enough to quickly vent this room Floyd | if pressures demanded it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fans" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > X FANS Floyd | Floyd | The grilles are several feet square; enough to quickly vent this room Floyd | if pressures demanded it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "wear lady shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR LADY SHOES Floyd | Floyd | -- "lady" isn't a recognised word. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "open fan" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FAN Floyd | Floyd | They're just part of the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume this porch acts like an airlock." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x hooks" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > X HOOKS Floyd | Floyd | -- "hooks" isn't a recognised word. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That was my thought, yes." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You open the door with a soft hiss, and go through into the hallway. Floyd | The lights inside come on automatically. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "her home is homely" | |
| inky says, "and filled with homies" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coat stand" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > X COAT STAND Floyd | Floyd | An antique wooden coat-stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move it" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE IT Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | A hardy plant, quite probably capable of growing as easily outside as Floyd | in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get coat stand" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAT STAND Floyd | Floyd | That's not portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take tree" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TREE Floyd | Floyd | The tree is fairly bulky. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "f x photo" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | The photograph depicts a lake surrounded by snowy peaks; it is from Floyd | Ontario or somewhere in the North American continent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look behind photo" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | It is securely vacuumed-sealed to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |
| DavidW says, "Ontario doesn't have snowy mountains, you silly game." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, blame the character, not the game." | ||
| Zach says, "A picture of Canada? Very suspicious" | ||
| DavidW says, "(I assume it's a photo of Lake Louise, though.)" | ||
| Zach says, "Oh, a fake photo of Canada. Even more so" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It is merely trying to tell us that the PC is ignorant of Canadian geography. Make a mental note." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x algae" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | | Zach says, "haha" | |
Floyd | > X ALGAE Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer Floyd | hums quietly to itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | A white porcelain sink with a stud marked with a tap, built into the Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push stud" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH STUD Floyd | Floyd | You press the stub and water oozes from a nozzle set into the side of Floyd | the sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x square" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X SQUARE Floyd | Floyd | A frosted crystal plexiplastic sheet in the centre of the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "gross, oozy water" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take square" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SQUARE Floyd | Floyd | You lift up the hinged sheet of plastic, and lay it to one side, Floyd | revealing a ladder leading down into the cellar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | A blast of cold air hits you from inside. You open the freezer, Floyd | revealing a shelf of food and some frozen biosamples. Floyd | Floyd | The water shuts off automatically. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "It must be full of algae" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x biosamples" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X BIOSAMPLES Floyd | Floyd | Thirteen frozen biosamples stacked up on the top shelf of the freezer, Floyd | happily coexisting with a frozen pizza and a chicken. They are Floyd | labelled "GENUS A" through "GENUS N". Needless to say: one is missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take biosamples from freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BIOSAMPLES FROM FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You've no idea if they're safe to touch, even if they are sealed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x genus k" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X GENUS K Floyd | Floyd | There is a gap where genus K should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x genus e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X GENUS E Floyd | Floyd | You find the sample for Genus E. Its full name is written on the top: Floyd | edisonia. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, it goes past k" | |
| DavidW says, "We didn't ask about L, M, or N." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to eat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "The twist: we're a robot!" | |
| DavidW says, "It's probably an algae-lovers pizza." | ||
| Johnny says, "yugh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Zach), "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "double algae with mushrooms." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hee" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The lights flick on as you enter the cellar. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | The basement is lit by striplamps crisscrossed across the plastic Floyd | ceiling, and is the only truly grubby room in the building. The floor Floyd | is caked with dust and what even looks like soil; no doubt actually Floyd | decomposing rubbish from various plants stored here over the years. Floyd | The other clear thing about this room is that it's half the width it Floyd | used to be - though the ceiling continues back there is a gleaming Floyd | white wall in the way, in the centre of which is a large, forbidding Floyd | door. It leads into the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | Steps lead upward on one side. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is the bubble thermostat. Floyd | Floyd | Amongst the piles of junk filling the cellar, something stands out as Floyd | though glowing. It is a black chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, close the freezer first" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer Floyd | hums quietly to itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "close freezer" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x thermostat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You close the freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The lights flick on as you enter the cellar. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | The basement is lit by striplamps crisscrossed across the plastic Floyd | ceiling, and is the only truly grubby room in the building. The floor Floyd | is caked with dust and what even looks like soil; no doubt actually Floyd | decomposing rubbish from various plants stored here over the years. Floyd | The other clear thing about this room is that it's half the width it Floyd | used to be - though the ceiling continues back there is a gleaming Floyd | white wall in the way, in the centre of which is a large, forbidding Floyd | door. It leads into the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | Steps lead upward on one side. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is the bubble thermostat. Floyd | Floyd | Amongst the piles of junk filling the cellar, something stands out as Floyd | though glowing. It is a black chest. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X THERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | The thermostat gauge is pushed quite high. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lower thermostat" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > LOWER THERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | -- "lower" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, wait, I'm still confused. Are we on Mars or Earth? We started on Earth, then traveled 15 minutes to this guy's house?" | |
| DavidW says, "I suspect that something is a lie." | ||
| DavidW says, "Either the London business was fake, or Mars is." | ||
| Binder says, "Maybe we're living in a PKD story" | ||
| Zach has disconnected. | ||
| Zach has connected. | DavidW says, "Occam's razor would suggest the London bit was fake, but we'll see." | |
| inky asks, "I wasn't really paying attention earlier, but wasn't the guy working on mas but visiting his wife on earth?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x soil" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X SOIL Floyd | Floyd | A thin layer of rubbish, brought in from outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing in the muck bar more. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't quite figure out where they were for vacation." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X CHEST Floyd | Floyd | A solid metal chest, large enough to hold a ream of paper, with curved Floyd | edges to frustrate hacksaws and hinges buried under a lip of moulded Floyd | steel. It is held closed by a small lock at the front, which takes an Floyd | ordinary key (rather than a fingerprint or a magnetic strip). On the Floyd | lid is a label: "MRS. LAURA MACKENZIE." Not his then, strangely; even Floyd | though this is a storage box for organic material. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "I thought he was from Mars" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search junk" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK Floyd | Floyd | You rummage around for something interesting, and unearth of all Floyd | things, a long hairpin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X LOCK Floyd | Floyd | (the black box) Floyd | A solid metal chest, large enough to hold a ream of paper, with curved Floyd | edges to frustrate hacksaws and hinges buried under a lip of moulded Floyd | steel. It is held closed by a small lock at the front, which takes an Floyd | ordinary key (rather than a fingerprint or a magnetic strip). On the Floyd | lid is a label: "MRS. LAURA MACKENZIE." Not his then, strangely; even Floyd | though this is a storage box for organic material. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes. That's what Mackenzie said." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take hairpin" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HAIRPIN Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open lock with hairpin" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN LOCK WITH HAIRPIN Floyd | Floyd | (the black box with the hairpin) Floyd | You slide your lockpick into the lock and begin to feel for the pins Floyd | of the mechanism. The design suggests there are three; perhaps you get Floyd | the first in place but your hand shakes a little too much and you Floyd | cannot get the third. Irritated, you finally give up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, the sap. Try it with sap enhancer." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer Floyd | hums quietly to itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | inky says, "delicious sap" | |
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Porch Floyd | The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built Floyd | into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better Floyd | regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an Floyd | algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook Floyd | for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal Floyd | inside from outside, they are east and west respectively. Floyd | Floyd | On the shoe rack are a pair of lady's shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says, "out" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You open the door effortlessly with a loud hissing sound, and go Floyd | through. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Your car is parked at a slight angle at the end of the long drive, its Floyd | nose almost poking into a purple-leaved bush. The low sun makes the Floyd | red dust glow like amber into the distance. Mackenzie's bubble is to Floyd | the east, its door closed. The road leads right up to it, with no Floyd | front garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take leaf" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LEAF Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "At some point, we must remember to find the bedroom, where Laura's body was found." | |
| DavidW says, "take plant to get a leaf." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x bush" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > X BUSH Floyd | Floyd | A line of bushes growing to about waist-height which border the track Floyd | for about twenty metres from the house. They are unfamiliar to you, Floyd | sprawling, with a purple tinge to the leaves. Floyd | Floyd | The door swings silently shut and the light on the card-reader returns Floyd | to red. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take leaves" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | You pluck a leaf from the bush with a thick snap. In response the Floyd | branch moves backwards, far more than just a recoil, curling up into Floyd | itself. The movement seems to disrupt other branches, sparking a wave Floyd | that travels down the hedgerow in an uncoordinated squirm of fauna. It Floyd | is several minutes before it is still once more; by then the leaf in Floyd | your hand has leaked a fine sap as far as your wrist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You slip the card into the lock and the light flicks over to green. Floyd | Then you push open the door and step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Porch Floyd | The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built Floyd | into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better Floyd | regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an Floyd | algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook Floyd | for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal Floyd | inside from outside, they are east and west respectively. Floyd | Floyd | On the shoe rack are a pair of lady's shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a purple leaf Floyd | a hairpin Floyd | a cactus spine Floyd | a plastic card Floyd | a printed fax Floyd | a brown envelope (which is open) Floyd | a case file Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You open the door with a soft hiss, and go through into the hallway. Floyd | The lights inside come on automatically. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer Floyd | hums quietly to itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The lights flick on as you enter the cellar. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | The basement is lit by striplamps crisscrossed across the plastic Floyd | ceiling, and is the only truly grubby room in the building. The floor Floyd | is caked with dust and what even looks like soil; no doubt actually Floyd | decomposing rubbish from various plants stored here over the years. Floyd | The other clear thing about this room is that it's half the width it Floyd | used to be - though the ceiling continues back there is a gleaming Floyd | white wall in the way, in the centre of which is a large, forbidding Floyd | door. It leads into the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | Steps lead upward on one side. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is the bubble thermostat. Floyd | Floyd | Cooling in a corner is a black chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Basement Floyd | -- Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "eat leaf" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > EAT LEAF Floyd | Floyd | The leaf is tough to chew, and waxy, and taste of little until you Floyd | have pulped the outer skin when a thin banana-like flavour leaks out. Floyd | Eventually you cannot swallow the residue of the hide and spit it out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open lock with hairpin" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN LOCK WITH HAIRPIN Floyd | Floyd | (the black box with the hairpin) Floyd | You slide the hairpin in and with a steady wrist and dextrous Floyd | movements set the first pin, then the second, and finally the third Floyd | buried deep in the mechanism. The box springs open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "tada" | |
| Zach says, "huzzah" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X CHEST Floyd | Floyd | A solid metal chest, large enough to hold a ream of paper, with curved Floyd | edges to frustrate hacksaws and hinges buried under a lip of moulded Floyd | steel. It is held closed by a small lock at the front, which takes an Floyd | ordinary key (rather than a fingerprint or a magnetic strip). On the Floyd | lid is a label: "MRS. LAURA MACKENZIE." Not his then, strangely; even Floyd | though this is a storage box for organic material. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so what bio goodies does Ms. dead translator have?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in chest" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | The black box has got a genus K sample in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There you go." | |
| Zach gasps | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take sample" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SAMPLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x sample" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X SAMPLE Floyd | Floyd | A yellow biosample bag containing what looks like just a handful of Floyd | sunflower seeds. In black markerpen a large K has been scrawled. A Floyd | label above reads: "C/O Jasper Morpheus" in a fine handwriting. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So... she was stealing it from her husband?" | |
| Zach says, "I dunno. And who is Morpheus? The mystery deepens" | ||
| DavidW writes Jasper's name down since that's bound to be needed later. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The scanner on the laboratory door lock warms uncomfortably under your Floyd | index finger, almost ready to burn - and then cools again into rough Floyd | plastic. The door does not open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Dang, we should have taken a finger along" | |
| Zach asks, "Check out the bedroom?" | ||
| DavidW says, "And then Goldilocks tried to open Papa Bear's door, but it was TOOO hot." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer Floyd | hums quietly to itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is similarly austere, with its walls all white and Floyd | furniture resting in between large spaces. In the north wall opposite Floyd | the doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Against one wall is a table: not exactly pristine, but hardly messy Floyd | with its papers and computer. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | On the long sofa is a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | You feel momentarily dizzy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The sofa looks in good condition and pretty well made, which means Floyd | almost certainly it was shipped in from Earth as the one luxury the Floyd | house could afford. Simply getting it through the doors must have been Floyd | a puzzle for the greatest scientific minds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The long sofa has got a newspaper on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "read newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > READ NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | The newspaper proclaims itself to be an issue of the single Floyd | Martian-language newspaper, "The Native". It is, however, entirely Floyd | blank below the headline and subhead: 'TOP SCIENTISTS PREDICT Floyd | WINDSTORMS WILL REMAIN FOR "ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS": Sources report Floyd | failure of latest hope'. The date on the banner is 22.5.63. Floyd | Floyd | From somewhere to the south you hear the padding of footfalls, a drift Floyd | of quiet humming, and a quiet slam. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's sounding more and more as if we've been on Mars all along." | |
| Jacqueline says, "There we go being dizzy again." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah" | ||
| Zach says, "Eek" | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps if Mackenzie's never been to Earth, he could be fooled. He might not realize the difference in gravity, for example." | ||
| Zach says, "I'm scared, Floyd. Scared" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, we have a spike for a weapon, if it comes to that." | ||
| DavidW says, "er spine" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Hmm, should we check out the sound or keep exploring?" | |
| DavidW says, "up to you guys" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect the intruder absconded with something from the lab." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm thinking that, as in real life for investigators, Ingold has probably dropped subtle clues into the text that we'll miss if we don't consider them closely enough. Or perhaps I'm just paranoid." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Porch Floyd | The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built Floyd | into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better Floyd | regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an Floyd | algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook Floyd | for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal Floyd | inside from outside, they are east and west respectively. Floyd | Floyd | On the shoe rack are a pair of lady's shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You open the door, with a loud hissing sound, and go through. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Your car is parked at a slight angle at the end of the long drive, its Floyd | nose almost poking into a purple-leaved bush. The low sun makes the Floyd | red dust glow like amber into the distance. Mackenzie's bubble is to Floyd | the east, its door closed. The road leads right up to it, with no Floyd | front garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | A standard car from the pool; low-slung to avoid the dust trails and Floyd | wide to hug the road in the weak gravity. This one is black. Floyd | Floyd | The door swings silently shut and the light on the card-reader returns Floyd | to red. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "no, you're not paranoid. You've played Fail-Safe, no?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You slip the card into the lock and the light flicks over to green. Floyd | Then you push open the door and step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Porch Floyd | The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built Floyd | into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better Floyd | regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an Floyd | algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook Floyd | for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal Floyd | inside from outside, they are east and west respectively. Floyd | Floyd | On the shoe rack are a pair of lady's shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, not sure I have, actually." | |
| Binder says, "I feel like a game which requires me to pay deep attention is not going to work for me in the CF context." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we're doing quite well so far." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You open the door with a soft hiss, and go through into the hallway. Floyd | The lights inside come on automatically. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Binder says, "Oh yeah, I'm sure it works great for people not me." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is designed in spacious fashion - furniture spanned Floyd | neatly between smooth white walls. In the north wall opposite the Floyd | doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Against one wall is a table: not exactly pristine, but hardly messy Floyd | with its papers and computer. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | On the long sofa is a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | A Mx200 notebook computer; built they say for lightness and speed, but Floyd | in reality constructed to handle the flaky network connections running Floyd | under the Marsian dust by devoting half their size to transmitters Floyd | angled in as many directions at once at possible. As a result they're Floyd | renowned for overheating. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "turn on computer" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You flip open the notebook. It bleeps but does not turn on - except Floyd | for a small light which ignites in the corner. It is bright red but Floyd | slowly starts to grow deeper in shade. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "too hot to run it, I bet." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | The screen is blank. A light in the top red corner is a deep maroon, Floyd | and blinking. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "try not to break it" | |
| Zach asks, "Stick it in the freezer?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm, I dunno. Might work?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd still turn it off first." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | -- Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "turn off computer" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Click. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take computer" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Although the computer is light, it has no doubt been positioned in the Floyd | only place in the bubble to receive a decent data-transfer rate. Floyd | Moving it, then, would be bad feng shui. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Humph" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | They are stamped with the seal of the European Union, and look like Floyd | dossiers on various topics. You pick up the first sheet and scan for Floyd | English fragments. Floyd | Floyd | The top document must be new - the date is 23.5.63 and it has yet to Floyd | be annotated; which is to say the whole thing is still in ProtoFrench Floyd | and contains no translations. The only words you recognise in the Floyd | horrendous grammatical nightmare that remains are "colonnaque" Floyd | (colony), "houmlla dla sciesse" (scientists) and "Knassion" - which is Floyd | not PF at all, but is familiar from previous debriefings all the same. Floyd | It's a recent prototype piece of biotech. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ProtoFrench. There was another game with ProtoFrench." | |
| Zach says, "Laura was a ProtoFrench spy!" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | It is unlikely to be useful to cart them all around. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Til Death Makes a Monk-fish Out of Me!, if I remember correctly, had ProtoFrench." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "look out window" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK OUT WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | The dunes are brushed with a delicate haze of floating orange dust Floyd | like the steam rising from a Spaniard's tanned back; still but for the Floyd | sporadic storms that whip across the sky unchecked and unpredictable. Floyd | It is dotted with a few strange plants - wide trunked cacti, large Floyd | flat leaved palms that spread across the ground instead of upwards Floyd | into the sky, and grass stalks that rise and bend flat at two metres Floyd | high. Most are unfamiliar to your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "oooh, I like" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Like the steam rising from a Spaniard's tanned back? Srsly?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I want to play the game with Spaniard's tanned back." | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. If we were on Mars all along, why don't we know the local plantlife?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe we are from Europe -- but the London business was hoaxed for some reason?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We're an investigator, not a botanist, dammit." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The long sofa has got a newspaper on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | | Zach says, "The travel could have just been really condensed" | |
Floyd | > READ NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | The newspaper proclaims itself to be an issue of the single Floyd | Martian-language newspaper, "The Native". It is, however, entirely Floyd | blank below the headline and subhead: 'TOP SCIENTISTS PREDICT Floyd | WINDSTORMS WILL REMAIN FOR "ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS": Sources report Floyd | failure of latest hope'. The date on the banner is 22.5.63. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh right. we saw that." | |
| Zach says (to Jaqueline), "It's not my fault I have bad taste!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do top scientists not know about genus K, then?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (opening the bedroom door first) Floyd | You open the bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom is no more personal than the rest of the house; it occurs Floyd | to you that the photograph in the hallway is the only item of Floyd | decoration from either of the couple who live here. Unless you count Floyd | the yucca plant. A large bed fills the centre, with a nightstand by Floyd | one side. There are no bookcases and no books; there is no television Floyd | because there are no stations here. A doorway in the southwest wall Floyd | leads to the bathroom, built into the central column of the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | In the wall is a long window with a view of the endless desert. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a large chest of drawers, on top of which is a cactus Floyd | plant. Floyd | Floyd | By the bedside is a glass of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "I assume it's a brand new thing" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | A bulb-shaped cactus, covered little clumps of spines. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get spine" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > GET SPINE Floyd | Floyd | (the cactus spine) Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch cactus" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH CACTUS Floyd | Floyd | (the cactus spine) Floyd | That would hardly be wise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch plant" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH PLANT Floyd | Floyd | The spines are sharp, and quite hardy under pressure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X CHEST Floyd | Floyd | A large wooden chest with many drawers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open drawers" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DRAWERS Floyd | Floyd | The interesting drawer is the bottom one - instead of clothes and the Floyd | like, it contains one large cardboard folder. You lift it out onto the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open folder" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You flip open the file. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a genus K sample Floyd | a hairpin Floyd | a cactus spine Floyd | a plastic card Floyd | a printed fax Floyd | a brown envelope (which is open) Floyd | a case file Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read folder" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > READ FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | A plain cardboard folder, its creases a little worn. Floyd | Floyd | The cardboard folder has got several photos in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom is no more personal than the rest of the house. A large Floyd | bed fills the centre, with a nightstand by one side. A doorway in the Floyd | southwest wall leads to the bathroom, built into the central column of Floyd | the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | In the wall is a long window with a view of the endless desert. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a large chest of drawers, on top of which is a cactus Floyd | plant. Floyd | Floyd | By the bedside is a glass of water. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cardboard folder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photos" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTOS Floyd | Floyd | Around hundred photographs: on skimming through they all appear to be Floyd | of Earth. Forests, trees, lakes, rivers; but also many of cities, Floyd | roads, buildings, bridges, famous monuments; and a good twenty of Floyd | people - crowds, a family outside a green house, another family on a Floyd | boat. Some of the pictures are large - ten inches across - some have Floyd | traces of tape on the back from where they were once stuck to a wall. Floyd | Floyd | Buried amongst the photographs is a scrawled sheet of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x family" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X FAMILY Floyd | Floyd | -- "family" isn't a recognised word. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | A sheet of paper covered in scribbles - nothing coherent, but not Floyd | exactly doodles; rather fragments of letters and words and scattered Floyd | at all angles around the edges and middle of the page, with the Floyd | occasional snatch of a drawn line or a distorted margin. Something Floyd | strikes you as odd which takes a minute to place: the sheet is not Floyd | handwritten. It has been printed out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | A sheet of paper covered in scribbles - nothing coherent, but not Floyd | exactly doodles; rather fragments of letters and words and scattered Floyd | at all angles around the edges and middle of the page, with the Floyd | occasional snatch of a drawn line or a distorted margin. The sheet is Floyd | neatly - bizarrely - printed from a computer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X WATER Floyd | Floyd | It looks ordinary enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf14" | DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps it needs to be folded the right way, or seen through a mask of some sort." | |
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | -- Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | You take a tentative sip - it does not taste of anything strange. Your Floyd | heart does not constrict, nor your breathing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell water" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL WATER Floyd | Floyd | Water is not renowned for its fragrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "compare spine to cactus" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > COMPARE SPINE TO CACTUS Floyd | Floyd | -- "compare" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fold paper" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > FOLD PAPER Floyd | Floyd | -- "fold" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "I think they're different since we were willing to touch the cactus" | |
| DavidW says, "hmph. Mysteries should support 'compare' as a verb." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | cardboard folder: Taken. Floyd | glass of water: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we might wanna x genus e in the freezer, see if it matches." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I was thinking maybe if we folded the paper we'd get the coherent bits to match up." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes, I thought so too." | ||
| inky says, "just like mad magazine" | ||
| inky asks, "did we go into the lab in the basement?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no. The door was too hot." | ||
| DavidW says, "We also haven't seen the bathroom or looked under the bed." | ||
| inky says, "man, you call this investigator" | ||
| inky says, "don't make me turn in our badge" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing under the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Heh" | |
| DavidW says (to inky), "You can flush the toilet, if you like." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x desert" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X DESERT Floyd | Floyd | You can almost hear her voice complaining. "But it's so bleak, Floyd | Yogi! Can't we just hang up a painting instead?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | A tight tubular bathroom, built into the central column of the dome to Floyd | give easy access to the sewage tanks. The only doorway is back out to Floyd | the northeast and there isn't even a door, just a curtain across a Floyd | rail. The fittings inside are perfectly standard. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is your own reflection, sketched onto the surface of a Floyd | cabinet with an oil-mirror surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to DavidW), "disposing of evidence, that's what they call it now" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x reflection" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > X REFLECTION Floyd | Floyd | The cabinet is adorned with your features, only transformed into an Floyd | oil painting, currently following the style of Gaughin, such that your Floyd | cheeks seem quite round, almost sticking out of the glass, and your Floyd | nose is cheerily shining. A small dial underneath allows this to be Floyd | readjusted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > TURN DIAL Floyd | Floyd | You spin the dial randomly. The dial clinks into place at Schulz and Floyd | the picture shifts appropriately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x reflection" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > X REFLECTION Floyd | Floyd | The cabinet is adorned with your features, only transformed into an Floyd | oil painting, currently following the style of Schulz, leaving you Floyd | with a simplistic vacant look across your face. A small dial Floyd | underneath allows this to be readjusted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at paper in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT PAPER IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | In the mirror, the sheet is white with a few scrawls, and dotted with Floyd | blobs of black, as someone had split ink over a piece of schoolwork. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > TURN DIAL Floyd | Floyd | You spin the dial randomly. The dial clinks into place at Monet and Floyd | the picture shifts appropriately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at paper in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT PAPER IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | The scrawled sheet appears as a blend of cream and brown paint in the Floyd | mirror, textured as a scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dial to dali" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO DALI Floyd | Floyd | The dials settings are Monet, Gaughin, Picasso, Van Gogh and Schulz. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn dial to picasso" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO PICASSO Floyd | Floyd | The dial clinks into place at Picasso and the picture shifts Floyd | appropriately. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at paper in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT PAPER IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | In the mirror the scrawl has resolved itself with pinpoint accuracy Floyd | into a letter. The heading reads: "AMERICAN DEPARTMENT FOR SOCIAL Floyd | EXPANSION". The message is short, and handwritten (and presumably, was Floyd | then scanned into a computer). Floyd | Floyd | "Dear Laura. Floyd | Your reports so far are excellent, and will prove of great benefit Floyd | as I know you are aware. But you must understand, to hear Genus K is Floyd | functional is not enough, yet. We must test it ourselves, and we must Floyd | be able to deploy it ourselves if anti-American agents on Mars decide Floyd | to resist expansion into their colonies. You understand me. Floyd | -- J.M." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "J.M. = Jasper Morpheus, I bet." | |
| DavidW says, "Laura is not just an innocent translator." | ||
| inky says, "I don't really understand the politics here" | ||
| inky asks, "there's a native mars faction and an american emigrant factin?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sounds like" | ||
| Zach says, "And the EU. I don't know if they're on a different side than the Americans." | ||
| DavidW asks, "But if genus K is just supposed to thicken the air with pollen to lessen windstorms, what is the misuse version?" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's possible we're American and lied about being from the EU." | ||
| Zach says, "Mac mentioned that they had to remove it so it didn't take over, I think." | ||
| inky asks, "wasn't that algae?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | A tight tubular bathroom, built into the central column of the dome to Floyd | give easy access to the sewage tanks. The only doorway is back out to Floyd | the northeast and there isn't even a door, just a curtain across a Floyd | rail. The fittings inside are perfectly standard. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is your own reflection, sketched onto the surface of a Floyd | cabinet with an oil-mirror surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "I dunno, I lost the scrollback" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in toilet" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN TOILET Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | A tight tubular bathroom, built into the central column of the dome to Floyd | give easy access to the sewage tanks. The only doorway is back out to Floyd | the northeast and there isn't even a door, just a curtain across a Floyd | rail. The fittings inside are perfectly standard. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is your own reflection, sketched onto the surface of a Floyd | cabinet with an oil-mirror surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There are more than two political alignments on Earth, fwiw." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "flush toilet" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > FLUSH TOILET Floyd | Floyd | -- "flush" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > X CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | A dingy yellow curtain. Internal doors aren't used because of pressure Floyd | problems, and lazy builders. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "boo no flush" | |
| Zach says (to Jaqueline), "Unless that's a lie too" | ||
| DavidW says, "They probably have carnivorous algae down there." | ||
| Zach says, "Hmm. I wonder if we can report back now" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom is no more personal than the rest of the house. A large Floyd | bed fills the centre, with a nightstand by one side. A doorway in the Floyd | southwest wall leads to the bathroom, built into the central column of Floyd | the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | In the wall is a long window with a view of the endless desert. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a large chest of drawers, on top of which is a cactus Floyd | plant. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "can we x genus e in the freezer? And try to change the thermostat?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | A large bed. The bed, in fact, that the body was found on, clutching Floyd | at its throat. Something to do with that glass of water? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x nightstand" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > X NIGHTSTAND Floyd | Floyd | Just a low table by the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sure" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is designed in spacious fashion - furniture spanned Floyd | neatly between smooth white walls. In the north wall opposite the Floyd | doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Against one wall is a table: not exactly pristine, but hardly messy Floyd | with its papers and computer. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | On the long sofa is a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under nightstand" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER NIGHTSTAND Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Oops, sorry" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is designed in spacious fashion - furniture spanned Floyd | neatly between smooth white walls. In the north wall opposite the Floyd | doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Against one wall is a table: not exactly pristine, but hardly messy Floyd | with its papers and computer. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | On the long sofa is a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Johnny says, "f count nightstand" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | inky says, "no big deal" | |
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom is no more personal than the rest of the house. A large Floyd | bed fills the centre, with a nightstand by one side. A doorway in the Floyd | southwest wall leads to the bathroom, built into the central column of Floyd | the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | In the wall is a long window with a view of the endless desert. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a large chest of drawers, on top of which is a cactus Floyd | plant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "look under nightstand" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER NIGHTSTAND Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing under the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is designed in spacious fashion - furniture spanned Floyd | neatly between smooth white walls. In the north wall opposite the Floyd | doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Against one wall is a table: not exactly pristine, but hardly messy Floyd | with its papers and computer. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | On the long sofa is a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "we had to search these papers for something, right? or did we find something there?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | They are stamped with the seal of the European Union, and look like Floyd | dossiers on various topics. You pick up the second sheet and scan for Floyd | English fragments. Floyd | Floyd | This one appears to be about the colonisation programme. "Schedule for Floyd | '72 appears unrealistic" says one line. "Scientists report the recent Floyd | attempts 'Dexilille', 'Edisonia', 'Forrage' have all been failures." Floyd | The date marked is 3.1.63. "Expansion into Middle Africa has been Floyd | mooted, again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. We need to repeatedly examine them." | |
| inky asks, "middle africa?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Like a certain pile of junk in a garage." | ||
| inky says, "do we think we're on mars and we're actually on earth" | ||
| inky asks, "?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we're on Mars, but these plants are being tested on Earth." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | They are stamped with the seal of the European Union, and look like Floyd | dossiers on various topics. You pick up the third sheet and scan for Floyd | English fragments. Floyd | Floyd | Another about colonisation, more recent (8.5.63): "Reports on Floyd | 'Knassion' appear confused. Initial reports suggested an excellent Floyd | performance, about 84% of original predictions. However, current Floyd | results are split, on the same experiments; some claiming rapid Floyd | degeneration, others claiming the harmful side-effects of the Floyd | pollenation processes." The final line has been underscored in red Floyd | ink. "Recommend we retrieve alternate information on the matter." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |
| DavidW says, "like, if most of Africa is a desert in this time period, perhaps they're trying to jumpstart regrowth." | ||
| inky says, "maybe the pollen makes you hallucinate being on mars" | ||
| inky says, "and then there's a dude with a twin in his belly and a lady with three breasts" | ||
| Zach says, "Or 'Middle Africa' is the name of a place on Mars" | ||
| Zach says, "Or maybe Mars is the name of a place on Earth" | ||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | They are stamped with the seal of the European Union, and look like Floyd | dossiers on various topics. You pick up another sheet and scan for Floyd | English fragments. Floyd | Floyd | It seems the sheets lower in the stack are all concerned with the Floyd | North African drought crisis. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Mars, Arizona." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, no doubt backing onto the sink in the Floyd | bathroom, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer hums quietly to Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | A blast of cold air hits you from inside. You open the freezer, Floyd | revealing a shelf of food and a frozen biosamples. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x genus e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X GENUS E Floyd | Floyd | You skim along the row and locate the sample for Genus E. Its full Floyd | name is written on the top: edisonia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open genus e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GENUS E Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat genus e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > EAT GENUS E Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the genus E sample) Floyd | You've no idea if they're safe to touch, even if they are sealed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "inky, noooo" | |
| DavidW says, "okay, guess we can't do a comparison. Thermostat next, please." | ||
| inky asks, "is there anything in this game I haven't savagely eaten?" | ||
| DavidW says, "and unless leaving the freezer open can cool the place down, we might wanna close the freezer again." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The lights flick on as you enter the cellar. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | The basement is lit by striplamps crisscrossed across the plastic Floyd | ceiling, and is the only truly grubby room in the building. The floor Floyd | is caked with dust and what even looks like soil; no doubt actually Floyd | decomposing rubbish from various plants stored here over the years. Floyd | The other clear thing about this room is that it's half the width it Floyd | used to be - though the ceiling continues back there is a gleaming Floyd | white wall in the way, in the centre of which is a large, forbidding Floyd | door. It leads into the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | Steps lead upward on one side. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is the bubble thermostat. Floyd | Floyd | Cooling in a corner is a black chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close freezer" | Jacqueline says (to inky), "heh" | |
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, no doubt backing onto the sink in the Floyd | bathroom, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer hums quietly to Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "close freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You close the freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The lights flick on as you enter the cellar. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | The basement is lit by striplamps crisscrossed across the plastic Floyd | ceiling, and is the only truly grubby room in the building. The floor Floyd | is caked with dust and what even looks like soil; no doubt actually Floyd | decomposing rubbish from various plants stored here over the years. Floyd | The other clear thing about this room is that it's half the width it Floyd | used to be - though the ceiling continues back there is a gleaming Floyd | white wall in the way, in the centre of which is a large, forbidding Floyd | door. It leads into the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | Steps lead upward on one side. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is the bubble thermostat. Floyd | Floyd | Cooling in a corner is a black chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x thermostat" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X THERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | The thermostat gauge is pushed quite high. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dial termostat" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL TERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | -- "dial" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "set dial to cold" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > SET DIAL TO COLD Floyd | Floyd | -- "cold" isn't a recognised word. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn thermostat" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > TURN THERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull gauge" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > PULL GAUGE Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push thermostat" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH THERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | You flip the gauge of the thermostat to low. You hear a rumbling whir Floyd | as the aircon moves into action. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "set dial to 1" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > SET DIAL TO 1 Floyd | Floyd | -- I understood up to the number. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "push was the winner" | |
| inky says, "wow, ok, I would not have guessed that interaction" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose 'flip' might work too." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x thermostat" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X THERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | The thermostat gauge is pushed quite low. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The scanner on the laboratory door lock warms uncomfortably under your Floyd | index finger, almost ready to burn - and then cools again into rough Floyd | plastic. The door does not open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The scanner on the laboratory door lock warms uncomfortably under your Floyd | index finger, almost ready to burn - and then cools again into rough Floyd | plastic. The door does not open. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The scanner on the laboratory door lock warms uncomfortably under your Floyd | index finger, almost ready to burn - and then cools again into rough Floyd | plastic. The door does not open. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |
| Zach says, "I think it's reading our fingerprint" | ||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we need another person's ... yeah." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glass of water Floyd | a cardboard folder Floyd | a genus K sample Floyd | a hairpin Floyd | a cactus spine Floyd | a plastic card Floyd | a printed fax Floyd | a brown envelope (which is open) Floyd | a case file Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | DavidW says, "It's just asking us to amputate someone." | |
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glass of water Floyd | a cardboard folder Floyd | a genus K sample Floyd | a hairpin Floyd | a cactus spine Floyd | a plastic card Floyd | a printed fax Floyd | a brown envelope (which is open) Floyd | a case file Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "man, I keep being too slow" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASS Floyd | Floyd | It looks ordinary enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "dust for prints?" | |
| inky asks, "do we have any dust?" | ||
| Zach says (to inky), "stop biting my style" | ||
| DavidW says, "floor is dusty" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "pour water on lock" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > POUR WATER ON LOCK Floyd | Floyd | (the black box) Floyd | Don't go making a mess with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dust glass" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > DUST GLASS Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show glass to door" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW GLASS TO DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Inanimate. Give up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "pour water on scanner" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > POUR WATER ON SCANNER Floyd | Floyd | Don't go making a mess with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put glass on scanner" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GLASS ON SCANNER Floyd | Floyd | Why waste your time putting things on the fingerprint lock? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we have a fingerprint kit in the car, maybe?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search glass for fingerpints" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH GLASS FOR FINGERPINTS Floyd | Floyd | -- I only got as far as wanting to search the glass of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search glass for fingerprints" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH GLASS FOR FINGERPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | -- I only got as far as wanting to search the glass of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The computer might be more cooperative now, btw." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, no doubt backing onto the sink in the Floyd | bathroom, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer hums quietly to Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is designed in spacious fashion - furniture spanned Floyd | neatly between smooth white walls. In the north wall opposite the Floyd | doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Against one wall is a table: not exactly pristine, but hardly messy Floyd | with its papers and computer. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | On the long sofa is a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "turn on computer" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | You flip open the notebook. It bleeps but does not turn on - except Floyd | for a small light which ignites in the corner. It is a deep purple. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "uh-oh. Still purple?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | The screen is blank. A light in the top red corner is a deep purple, Floyd | and blinking. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "it was red before, wasn't it?" | |
| Zach asks, "Wasn't it red before?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| inky says, "we could open the freezer too" | ||
| Zach says, "Oh maybe the corner was red" | ||
| inky says, "or maybe we could further mess with the thermostat" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, no doubt backing onto the sink in the Floyd | bathroom, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer hums quietly to Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | DavidW says, "yeah, open the freezer. It shouldn't help, but it might." | |
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | A blast of cold air hits you from inside. You open the freezer, Floyd | revealing a shelf of food and a frozen biosamples. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The lights flick on as you enter the cellar. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | The basement is lit by striplamps crisscrossed across the plastic Floyd | ceiling, and is the only truly grubby room in the building. The floor Floyd | is caked with dust and what even looks like soil; no doubt actually Floyd | decomposing rubbish from various plants stored here over the years. Floyd | The other clear thing about this room is that it's half the width it Floyd | used to be - though the ceiling continues back there is a gleaming Floyd | white wall in the way, in the centre of which is a large, forbidding Floyd | door. It leads into the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | Steps lead upward on one side. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is the bubble thermostat. Floyd | Floyd | Cooling in a corner is a black chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push thermostat" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH THERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | You flip the gauge of the thermostat to high. The hum fades as the Floyd | wallfans decline. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push thermostat" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH THERMOSTAT Floyd | Floyd | You flip the gauge of the thermostat to low. You hear a rumbling whir Floyd | as the aircon moves into action. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, no doubt backing onto the sink in the Floyd | bathroom, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer hums quietly to Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is designed in spacious fashion - furniture spanned Floyd | neatly between smooth white walls. In the north wall opposite the Floyd | doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | Against one wall is a table: not exactly pristine, but hardly messy Floyd | with its papers and computer. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | On the long sofa is a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "turn on computer" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | It will turn itself on as soon as it finishes cooling down, and the Floyd | gauge reaches blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | The screen is blank. A light in the top red corner is a deep purple, Floyd | and blinking. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. thermostat + freezer seems to be working." | |
| inky says, "I'm not sure it is" | ||
| inky says, "but it's hard to figure out" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The screen is blank. A light in the top red corner is a deep purple, Floyd | and blinking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search tree" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH TREE Floyd | Floyd | You root around in the leaves but find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, no doubt backing onto the sink in the Floyd | bathroom, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer hums quietly to Floyd | itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take ice" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ICE Floyd | Floyd | -- "ice" isn't a recognised word. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "can we fan the computer manually?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | The bottom shelf of the freezer holds a couple of pizzas and a slab of Floyd | meat in a coldbag, shipped from one of the dome-farms nearer the Floyd | equatorial region. The top shelf is a line of yellow biosample bags, Floyd | each air-sealed and marked in fat marker pen: "GENUS A", "GENUS B", Floyd | etc. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put glass in freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GLASS IN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | This freezer is traditionally only loaded with foodstuffs and Floyd | pathogens. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, coldbag?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coldbag" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE COLDBAG Floyd | Floyd | -- "coldbag" isn't a recognised word. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take meat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MEAT Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to eat. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat" | |
| Zach says, "Want to look in the car? Computer could be a purple herring" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fan meat" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > FAN MEAT Floyd | Floyd | -- "fan" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose checking the car is worth a try." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Porch Floyd | The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built Floyd | into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better Floyd | regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an Floyd | algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook Floyd | for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal Floyd | inside from outside, they are east and west respectively. Floyd | Floyd | On the shoe rack are a pair of lady's shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You open the door, with a loud hissing sound, and go through. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Your car is parked at a slight angle at the end of the long drive, its Floyd | nose almost poking into a purple-leaved bush. The low sun makes the Floyd | red dust glow like amber into the distance. Mackenzie's bubble is to Floyd | the east, its door closed. The road leads right up to it, with no Floyd | front garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | -- Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open car" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You get into the car and drive away from the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Investigation is finished *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | -- Done. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Your car is parked at a slight angle at the end of the long drive, its Floyd | nose almost poking into a purple-leaved bush. The low sun makes the Floyd | red dust glow like amber into the distance. Mackenzie's bubble is to Floyd | the east, its door closed. The road leads right up to it, with no Floyd | front garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Huh, so was that a bad ending?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Did you notice the final question wasn't the standard one?" | ||
| Zach says, "Yeah" | ||
| Zach asks, "Would restarting do something different?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Restarting from that prompt might be a smidge different, yes." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open car" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Mackenzie's Bubble Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You get into the car and drive away from the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Investigation is finished *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Is this alright?" asks the young cop. "Do you need the lights lower, Floyd | or incense, or something?" Floyd | Floyd | "This is fine. I just need to see him, ask some questions." Floyd | Floyd | "Okay," he nods. "Just buzz the buzzer when you're done." He leaves, Floyd | pulling the metal door to with the click of a magnetic lock. Across Floyd | the table from you the man stiffens, waiting for you to speak. Floyd | Floyd | INSIGHT Floyd | An interactive investigation, by Jon Ingold (c) 2003 Floyd | Type HELP for brief instructions. Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 030209 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Interview Room Floyd | The six walls are metal. This is a box in which nothing happens but Floyd | people talk, and fans whir air in and out to help the words move Floyd | along. By the door in the north wall is a small red button that rings Floyd | the buzzer for the guard, and it's smart enough to know who's pushing. Floyd | This isn't a place people leave of their own accord, and they rarely Floyd | come here that way either. Floyd | Floyd | The man across the table from you is no different. His eyes are Floyd | sagging from lack of sleep, and he is sweating just a little even Floyd | though the air is regulated to be cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You have saves, though." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | -- "about" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The 'lights lower, or incense' thing... that sounds like we're ... what?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "kiss man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > KISS MAN Floyd | Floyd | You are not that sort of information-gatherer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "oh my" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about crime" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT CRIME Floyd | Floyd | "Poison, did they say? I have a lab, it could have been anything." He Floyd | is jittery, his face twitching. "She might have eaten one of my bulbs Floyd | or something. I don't know why it's being called a murder." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "did we try putting the glass of water in the freezer?" | |
| Zach says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, we tried. It didn't belong there." | ||
| Zach says, "Maybe we could try doing something with water from the sink" | ||
| Zach asks, "Maybe water the tree?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about glass" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT GLASS Floyd | Floyd | His language is something you only started learning two weeks ago, Floyd | when this crime was reported and he was put on the ship back home. Floyd | You're still sufficiently rusty that there are some things (such as Floyd | that) you still do not know how to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about fingerprints" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT FINGERPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," he whines. "It's a fingerprint lock on my print, yes, that's Floyd | true. I don't know how she got in, but she must have. There's a lot of Floyd | chemicals inside. I don't know how!" Floyd | Floyd | It is a little difficult to follow the man's speech. His accent is Floyd | thick, and the language is still unfamiliar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "prompt man" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > PROMPT MAN Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," he whines. "It's a fingerprint lock on my print, yes, that's Floyd | true. I don't know how she got in, but she must have. There's a lot of Floyd | chemicals inside. I don't know how!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about black chest" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT BLACK CHEST Floyd | Floyd | "What box?" he says shakily. "I get storage boxes through the mail Floyd | often enough." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Hmm, she got through the door.." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "What box?" he says shakily. "I get storage boxes through the mail Floyd | often enough." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about america" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT AMERICA Floyd | Floyd | "I've never been there. Laura spoke about it a lot. My wife. She was Floyd | born there, and missed it all the time I think. Who wouldn't, out Floyd | there?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know much else about it. I don't speak the language, I have - Floyd | I had - no interest in visiting Earth." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about london" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LONDON Floyd | Floyd | You rack your brain but cannot come up with the right words to say it Floyd | in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about computer" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | "The only computer I ever use is the Magga at work. My wife swears by Floyd | her Notebook though." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "The only computer I ever use is the Magga at work. My wife swears by Floyd | her Notebook though." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, there's a second computer?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about notebook" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT NOTEBOOK Floyd | Floyd | "The only computer I ever use is the Magga at work. My wife swears by Floyd | her Notebook though." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe we project ourselves psychically to mars, which is why we don't need to eat" | |
| Zach says, "Not at the bubble, I think" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about yucca tree" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT YUCCA TREE Floyd | Floyd | "My yucca!" he exclaims, startled. "I mean, I've got a yucca at home. Floyd | It's perfectly ordinary though." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "It's not one of my creations, I mean." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Suuurre" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about spin" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT SPIN Floyd | Floyd | Your language skills are deficient, such that you cannot come up with Floyd | the right vocabulary to convey it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about spine" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT SPINE Floyd | Floyd | "I've grown a few cacti in my time. I'm a genetic designer." He Floyd | shivers a little. "Not the only plants with spines, of course," he Floyd | adds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about cactus" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT CACTUS Floyd | Floyd | "I like cacti, yes. Attractive plants." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about spine" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT SPINE Floyd | Floyd | "I like cacti, yes." He shivers a little. "Not the only plants with Floyd | spines, of course," he adds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT SHOES Floyd | Floyd | "What could I tell you about shoes?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell man about shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > TELL MAN ABOUT SHOES Floyd | Floyd | "What could I tell you about shoes?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | "We're not complete primitives up there, you know," he bridles. "We do Floyd | have a standard of living." Floyd | Floyd | "But just tell me," he says suddenly. "Is this going to hurt me? Is it Floyd | like torture?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "We're not complete primitives up there, you know," he bridles. "We do Floyd | have a standard of living." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about colony" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT COLONY Floyd | Floyd | "I think my wife was looking forward to it," he says sourly. "Hordes Floyd | of Europeans and Americans flooding up, jabbering away in ProtoFrench Floyd | and Amerimexican. I doubt native Marsian will survive myself." His Floyd | face has gone quite stony. "The only thing's that kept them away this Floyd | long are the climate problems - the duststorms - and my company is Floyd | fixing those." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about africa" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT AFRICA Floyd | Floyd | For all the classes and the work, you cannot come up with the right Floyd | phrase to say it in his language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Good luck, folks. I'm going to step away, but will catch up on transcripts later, to include this one." | |
Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Your language skills are deficient, such that you cannot come up with Floyd | the right phrase to convey it in his tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about colony" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT COLONY Floyd | Floyd | "I think my wife was looking forward to it," he says sourly. "Hordes Floyd | of Europeans and Americans flooding up, jabbering away in ProtoFrench Floyd | and Amerimexican. I doubt native Marsian will survive myself." His Floyd | face has gone quite stony. "The only thing's that kept them away this Floyd | long are the climate problems - the duststorms - and my company is Floyd | fixing those." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Zach), "sorry" | |
| Zach says, "OK" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about lab" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LAB Floyd | Floyd | "My lab? It's newly installed - only a week ago. I haven't even been Floyd | in it yet. I don't even know if it's stocked; I didn't oversee the Floyd | installation, we spent that weekend away. Honestly, I didn't take Floyd | anything from in there." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about lab door" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT LAB DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," he whines. "It's a fingerprint lock on my print, yes, that's Floyd | true. I don't know how she got in, but she must have. There's a lot of Floyd | chemicals inside. I don't know how!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take fingerprints" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FINGERPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about jasper" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT JASPER Floyd | Floyd | "Why are you even bothering to ask? Morpheus, that damn sample box... Floyd | I don't believe you, you know. I don't know how you're doing it - Floyd | spies or police or..." Floyd | Floyd | He stops, quite suddenly, a shallow smile moving over his face. "Of Floyd | course. Your spy. This is all rubbish, isn't it? You know because you Floyd | are Jasper Morpheus and you sent her that damn box yourself. Of Floyd | course," he continues, now nodding madly, convinced of his fantasies. Floyd | "This isn't a police station at all, is it? You're not a Genetic at Floyd | all! This is all just political! You think the only way you can get Floyd | your hands on Knassion now that Laura's not around to pick my pocket Floyd | is to get it out of me. Well you won't. If I killed her for it than Floyd | I'm sure as hell not going to just hand it over to you." His eyes Floyd | narrow. "You can do what you like." And he leans back, face in a Floyd | snarl. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. It's too that this room is made cool for him, but his home is warm." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Some bastard American who wants to turn Mars into a dumping ground Floyd | for anyone too poor to wash, I should think. Is that who you are? Or Floyd | do you just work for him?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Some bastard American who wants to turn Mars into a dumping ground Floyd | for anyone too poor to wash, I should think. Is that who you are? Or Floyd | do you just work for him?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about spy" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT SPY Floyd | Floyd | "She was a bitch, simple as that," he says in a voice like sulphuric Floyd | acid. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "woah" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "She was a bitch, simple as that," he says in a voice like sulphuric Floyd | acid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about wife" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT WIFE Floyd | Floyd | "The bitch stole my work and was going to sell it to the Americans. Floyd | Can you imagine how angry I was? I pick-locked open the box, and that Floyd | was it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "The bitch stole my work and was going to sell it to the Americans. Floyd | Can you imagine how angry I was? It's a wonder I didn't strangle her Floyd | straight." Floyd | Floyd | The door opens briefly and the guard appears. "Brought you some tea, Floyd | sir," he says politely, and brings a mug over to put on the table. The Floyd | man looks startled by this appearance and is offered nothing himself. Floyd | The guard leaves with a nod and a click of a magnetic lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about murder" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT MURDER Floyd | Floyd | "So I dipped a cactus spine in a little solution that was lying Floyd | around, and placed it into her shoe for when she went out. Then I Floyd | removed it before calling the police along." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "wait, what?" | |
| DavidW asks, "except the spine was still there?" | ||
| Zach says, "He think that we already know" | ||
| Zach says (to DavidW), "removed it from her foot" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| Zach says, "Interrogators often get people to confess by making them think that the interrogator already knows everything" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about murder" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT MURDER Floyd | Floyd | "So I dipped a cactus spine in a little solution that was lying Floyd | around, and placed it into her shoe for when she went out. Then I Floyd | removed it before calling the police along." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about knassion" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT KNASSION Floyd | Floyd | "If I tell you Genus K doesn't work, you won't believe, so don't even Floyd | ask." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "But in this case we really do" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "ask man about confession" | ||
Floyd ] Interview Room Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT CONFESSION Floyd | Floyd | "What difference does it make? You would have just read it out of me Floyd | if I hadn't spoken!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Knassion doesn't work?" | |
| Zach asks, "Hmm, I wonder what happens if we press the button now?" | ||
| Zach asks, "Didn't the papers say there were still problems with its safety?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] EUPD Foyer Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you, Mackenzie. That'll be all." You stand, and go over to Floyd | press the buzzer. He looks up at you, his eyes flashing. "This is Floyd | insane. I'm lying!" he shouts suddenly to the cameras. "I'm just Floyd | stringing him along! You can't convict me on it!" Floyd | Floyd | You shrug. "Which of us is more insane, Doctor? Me, for believing I Floyd | read minds, or you, for killing your wife so easily for the sake of a Floyd | desert?" Floyd | Floyd | The door slides open and the guard is there. "Thank you, sir," he says Floyd | formally. "I believe that's all." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, you do," is the reply. Floyd | Floyd | EUPD Foyer Floyd | The foyer of the EUPD is a wide expanse of functional metal; every Floyd | wall inlaid with panels, displays, buzzers and listings of the Floyd | voluminous amounts of relevant and irrelevant information generated by Floyd | a building this size and an organisation this complex. Of course, Floyd | complex organisations are much easier for your purposes. Floyd | Floyd | In front of you is the main door of the building, outside which lies Floyd | the street. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't read the papers." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] EUPD Foyer Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | The door will not open until it recognises your fingerprint. Floyd | Floyd | A young man walks past with a cop. "Is it true?" he is saying. "Or do Floyd | they just research it and guess, like at a circus or something?" You Floyd | smile at the foolish question. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm, is it Mars or Earth outside?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "touch door" | ||
Floyd ] Street Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You touch your finger to the lock. It grows gently warm as it reads Floyd | your print, then the door the swings open. A clipped automated voice Floyd | says: "Have a nice evening, Jackson Roberts". You cannot help but tip Floyd | your head in reply as you step outside. Floyd | Floyd | Street Floyd | The street is fairly quiet for London, with a gentle background buzz Floyd | of traffic and pedestrians. Luckily you will have to go no distance in Floyd | this foul city, as the car is already here, parked right out front. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |
| inky says, "the foyer description makes it sound like something else is up" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You open the car door and slip inside. "Good evening," you say to the Floyd | driver, who rolls away from the kerb as the door clicks shut. "Back to Floyd | the office." Floyd | Floyd | "Very good, Mr. Morpheus," he replies. Floyd | Floyd | The drive is uneventful; you are dropped outside your building and Floyd | make your way through the maze of corridors until you reach your Floyd | current - hopefully temporary - room. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Your Office Floyd | The corridor runs off in both directions, but room 42 is directly to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (opening the office door first) Floyd | You touch your finger to the lock. It grows gently warm as it reads Floyd | your print, then falls cold with a flat honk. Your fingerprint has not Floyd | been read. Floyd | So you can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "uh, we are Mr Morpheus as well as Jackson Roberts?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | -- What do you want to knock? Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Morpheus is our super cool code name" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You bash on the door, but it doesn't budge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a plexilatec fingercap on your index finger Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh geez" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fingercap" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > X FINGERCAP Floyd | Floyd | One thin layer of sculpted plexilatecover your index finger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "remove cap" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE CAP Floyd | Floyd | You carefully peel off Jackson Roberts' index finger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You touch your finger to the lock. It grows gently warm as it reads Floyd | your print, and the door clunks heavily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (opening the office door first) Floyd | You open the office door. Floyd | Floyd | Your Office Floyd | Your office is small, and quite sparse, with nothing but a desk by the Floyd | large window which overlooks this ghastly city. It is equipped with a Floyd | little bathroom - you made sure of that before taking it - it lies to Floyd | the north. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a scrawled sheet. Floyd | Floyd | The door locks quietly behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | A sheet of paper covered in scribbles - nothing coherent, but not Floyd | exactly doodles; rather fragments of letters and words and scattered Floyd | at all angles around the edges and middle of the page, with the Floyd | occasional snatch of a drawn line or a distorted margin. It has been Floyd | carefully laser-printed from a computer image. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh c'mon" | |
| DavidW says, "you know it will be a picasso" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Small Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (opening the bathroom door first) Floyd | You open the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Small Bathroom Floyd | The small bathroom is empty and very rarely used. The only thing here Floyd | not provided by the cleaners was, of course, the cabinet you brought Floyd | in yourself. The door to the office is south. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is your own reflection, sketched onto the surface of a Floyd | cabinet with an oil-mirror surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x reflection" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "turn dial to picasso" | ||
Floyd ] Small Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > X REFLECTION Floyd | Floyd | The cabinet is adorned with your features, only transformed into an Floyd | oil painting, currently following the style of Schulz, leaving you Floyd | with a simplistic vacant look across your face. A small dial Floyd | underneath allows this to be readjusted. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Small Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO PICASSO Floyd | Floyd | The dial clinks into place at Picasso and the picture shifts Floyd | appropriately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "look at paper in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Small Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT PAPER IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You close the door first. Floyd | Floyd | Holding the paper up to the mirror, it takes a little adjustment Floyd | before the fragments of words and letters solidify into lines of text. Floyd | "JM - Delivery from Mars received, placed in desk drawer. Crime Floyd | occurred too late. We have our sample - PK." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "do we ever open these cabinets?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Small Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the mirrored cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "look in cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Small Bathroom Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | The mirrored cabinet is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (opening the bathroom door first) Floyd | You open the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Your Office Floyd | Your office is small, and quite sparse, with nothing but a desk by the Floyd | large window which overlooks this ghastly city. It is equipped with a Floyd | little bathroom - you made sure of that before taking it - it lies to Floyd | the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | You grip the handle, hear the lock click back at your print, and slide Floyd | it open. The drawer has got a key and a black box in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open box with key" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOX WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the key) Floyd | Are you certain? Mackenzie good as said he found it; opened it. Would Floyd | he let Knassion fall into your hands? Of course you might have been Floyd | wrong on that - maybe he never opened the box, never picked the lock, Floyd | and got wind of his wife some other way. Your decision. Make it now. Floyd | Unlock it - or leave it sealed, and close up the drawer again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | -- Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open box with key" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOX WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | No. Your spy did her work, clearly. Mackenzie knew he'd lost the Floyd | sample and was lying to you. Something you'd never fall for - Floyd | mind-reading or no. You slip the key into the lock, and flick open the Floyd | casket. Floyd | Floyd | There is not enough time between the opening of the lid and the Floyd | explosion of pollen into your face to look away. Three hours later you Floyd | are regretting that gap of time, as you stare into the mirror, Floyd | watching the oil-paint running down your face as it burns and scars. Floyd | One miscalculation, that was all. One error, one gamble that you knew Floyd | what he was thinking, and you got it wrong. And then Jasper Morpheus Floyd | falls. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been assassinated *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to UNDO or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Your Office Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Your Office Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | Simple enough. You know Mackenzie opened the box. Jasper Morpheus did Floyd | not get to his position on skill alone, but natural born talent too. Floyd | Science may have engineered the psychics first in lab-rats then in Floyd | men, but nature alone did the work on you. There are only nine men Floyd | with your power, and each one sits around the same table back in the Floyd | US. The box opens and pollen-dust melts at your skin. So - save it for Floyd | the next time a removal is needed. Floyd | Floyd | And, of course, Mars will come to you, eventually. You are not about Floyd | to take a mis-step. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You do not get the sample *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Perhaps there's a way to get the sample?" | |
| Zach says, "We could restart and take it from the bubble" | ||
| Zach asks, "Maybe if we ask Mackenzie about the trap?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Bubble 4563 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Shall we move on this, sir?" Floyd | Floyd | You consider a moment... then shake your head. "No. It's too Floyd | uncertain." You look up at the other man. "Mackenzie is having a Floyd | laboratory fitted into his house in two months time. He and his wife Floyd | will take that weekend away on holiday. The house will be empty apart Floyd | from workmen. I'll go myself." Floyd | Floyd | "Morpheus, we have agents..." Floyd | Floyd | "We have no-one who can be relied upon to get it right first time," Floyd | you reply sternly. Floyd | Floyd | The journey through space is uneventful; the landing in Olympia is Floyd | five minutes of hellish burnslow freefall. The Marsian sky is more Floyd | slate, more rock-like than you have ever imagined. Soon you arrive. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Bubble 4563 Floyd | You have walked here, all the way from the spaceport. The air is dry Floyd | and cold, you wrap your coat tighter and breathe with a little Floyd | difficulty. The low sun makes the red dust glow like amber into the Floyd | distance. Mackenzie's bubble is to the east, its door closed. The road Floyd | leads right up to it, with no front garden. Floyd | Floyd | Parked by the purple-leaved bush that lines the track is a large Floyd | truck. Floyd | Floyd | A workman holding a large sheet of plexiplastic unlocks the door with Floyd | a keycard and slips through. It closes after him, the light on the Floyd | lock still green. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Taking a quick tea break" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure. It bothers me that we didn't get to use the computer or get into the lab." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh! The restart started differently!" | ||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| DavidW says, "So this predates everything we've seen or done so far." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bush" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Bubble 4563 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BUSH Floyd | Floyd | You pluck a leaf from the bush with a thick snap. In response the Floyd | branch moves backwards, far more than just a recoil, curling up into Floyd | itself. The movement seems to disrupt other branches, sparking a wave Floyd | that travels down the hedgerow in an uncoordinated squirm of fauna. It Floyd | is several minutes before it is still once more; by then the leaf in Floyd | your hand has leaked a fine sap as far as your wrist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x truck" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Bubble 4563 Floyd | Floyd | > X TRUCK Floyd | Floyd | On the side is stencilled: AlgCorp FACILITIES MANAGMENT. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "letting the door lock?" | |
| inky says, "oh yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "east" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You push open the door and step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Porch Floyd | The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built Floyd | into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better Floyd | regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an Floyd | algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook Floyd | for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal Floyd | inside from outside, they are east and west respectively. Floyd | Floyd | The inner door hisses closed just as you enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no shoes this time" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You open the door with a soft hiss, and go through into the hallway. Floyd | The lights inside come on automatically. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | From the kitchen you hear someone moving around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer Floyd | hums quietly to itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | A workman is crouched on the floor, and he looks up and stares at you. Floyd | "Who are you?" he demands. You turn to leave, but the workman is Floyd | determined to make sure he helps you on your way. You hit the dust as Floyd | you are thrown through the front door. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You do not get the sample *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to UNDO or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "interesting -- I wonder if this is the last iteration" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is similarly austere, with its walls all white and Floyd | furniture resting in between large spaces. In the north wall opposite Floyd | the doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a long desk. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a glass of water. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | The man sat on the sofa looks up. "Jack..." he begins, but the word Floyd | dies. "Who the hell are you?" He proves to be a big man, when he Floyd | stands and grabs you by the shoulder. Your stealth operation ends as Floyd | you are escorted from the house. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You do not get the sample *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to UNDO or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I see. No restart option that time." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hide behind a yucca tree?" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x yucca" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > X YUCCA Floyd | Floyd | A hardy plant, quite probably capable of growing as easily outside as Floyd | in. Floyd | Floyd | From the kitchen you hear a workman and a powertool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hide behind yucca" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > HIDE BEHIND YUCCA Floyd | Floyd | -- "hide" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get yucca" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > GET YUCCA Floyd | Floyd | The tree is fairly bulky. Floyd | Floyd | In the living room, you hear a man stand. You tense, but then an Floyd | internal door opens somewhere else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a purple leaf Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Maybe the leaf will make us super quick" | |
| DavidW says, "The living room guy might have moved to the bedroom." | ||
| DavidW says, "we should go north now" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The living room is similarly austere, with its walls all white and Floyd | furniture resting in between large spaces. In the north wall opposite Floyd | the doorway is a large window through which the long view of desert Floyd | stretches until reaching the tooth of Mount Olympus, and the room is Floyd | filled by the orange-red tinge. Another door leads east to the Floyd | bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a long desk. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a glass of water. Floyd | Floyd | The sofa stands out quite strikingly; it is pea-green. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice" | |
| Roger goes home. | ||
| Roger has disconnected. | DavidW asks, "hm, no mention of computer or pages. But maybe the glass has fingerprints now?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASS Floyd | Floyd | (the north window) Floyd | The dunes are brushed with a delicate haze of floating orange dust Floyd | like the steam rising from a Spaniard's tanned back; still but for the Floyd | sporadic storms that whip across the sky unchecked and unpredictable. Floyd | It is dotted with a few strange plants - wide trunked cacti, large Floyd | flat leaved palms that spread across the ground instead of upwards Floyd | into the sky, and grass stalks that rise and bend flat at two metres Floyd | high. Most are unfamiliar to your eye. Floyd | Floyd | From the centre of the bubble your hear a toilet flush. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x glass of water" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASS OF WATER Floyd | Floyd | It looks ordinary enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take glass" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GLASS Floyd | Floyd | (the north window) Floyd | That's not portable. Floyd | Floyd | From the south you hear the other workman moving through the hallway. Floyd | The door of the bubble seals with a hiss behind him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take glass of water" | ||
Floyd ] Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GLASS OF WATER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "head to basement?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | You hear someone to the north re-entering the living room, whilst the Floyd | piping of the bubble sucks water from the toilet. However, he goes no Floyd | further than the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "seems like it" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | A hardy plant, quite probably capable of growing as easily outside as Floyd | in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer Floyd | hums quietly to itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take square" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SQUARE Floyd | Floyd | The trapdoor is already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | A blast of cold air hits you from inside. You open the freezer, Floyd | revealing a shelf of food and some frozen biosamples. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x biosamples" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X BIOSAMPLES Floyd | Floyd | Thirteen frozen biosamples stacked up on the top shelf of the freezer, Floyd | happily coexisting with a frozen pizza and a chicken. They are Floyd | labelled "GENUS A" through "GENUS N". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x food" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X FOOD Floyd | Floyd | On the bottom shelf: bricklike slabs of pale stone. On the top: bright Floyd | yellow biosample bags. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Johnny says (to Floyd), "x slabs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > X SLABS Floyd | Floyd | On the bottom shelf: bricklike slabs of pale stone. On the top: bright Floyd | yellow biosample bags. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The lights flick on as you enter the cellar. Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | The basement is lit by striplamps crisscrossed across the plastic Floyd | ceiling, and is the only truly grubby room in the building. The floor Floyd | is caked with dust and what even looks like soil; no doubt actually Floyd | decomposing rubbish from various plants stored here over the years. Floyd | The other clear thing about this room is that it's half the width it Floyd | used to be - though the ceiling continues back there is a gleaming Floyd | white wall in the way, in the centre of which is a large, forbidding Floyd | door. It leads into the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | Steps lead upward on one side. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall is the bubble thermostat. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "you can just steal the k now" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen is largely uninteresting - a small functional room, a Floyd | laboratory of life, with the various implements of cooking arranged Floyd | around the walls. For all the advances in materials over the last Floyd | thousand years; roasting, baking and boiling still work as before. Floyd | Just with the addition of microwave generators and plasmacoil hobs. Floyd | Floyd | So against the northwest wall, is a sink; and in one corner a freezer Floyd | hums quietly to itself. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is seamless bar a square of plexiplastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe not." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take genus k" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GENUS K Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the genus K sample. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd | -- Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Escape away?" | |
| inky says, "though if you can, I kind of don't understand this game" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | The hallway of Mackenzie's home is bare but homely, one wall hung with Floyd | a photograph of some Earth lake surrounded by mountains, and an Floyd | antiquated-looking coat-stand by the porch door to the west. Doorways Floyd | lead off in two other directions; the east appears to be a kitchen and Floyd | the north is a living room. There is no upstairs in the house; the Floyd | entire upper metre or so is filled solid with various forms of algae, Floyd | to grow oxygen, regulate temperature and recycle waste. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stubby yucca tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Think the reason we were confused about if we were on Earth/Mars before is that we didn't really travel the first time" | |
| Zach says, "We were using our psychic powers" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Porch Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Porch Floyd | The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built Floyd | into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better Floyd | regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an Floyd | algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook Floyd | for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal Floyd | inside from outside, they are east and west respectively. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Bubble 4563 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You open the door effortlessly with a loud hissing sound, and go Floyd | through. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Bubble 4563 Floyd | You have walked here, all the way from the spaceport. The air is dry Floyd | and cold, you wrap your coat tighter and breathe with a little Floyd | difficulty. The low sun makes the red dust glow like amber into the Floyd | distance. Mackenzie's bubble is to the east, its door closed. The road Floyd | leads right up to it, with no front garden. Floyd | Floyd | Parked by the purple-leaved bush that lines the track is a large Floyd | truck. Floyd | Floyd | You stash the sample bag of Knassion into your coat, and stride away Floyd | down the long track, feeling quite certain both you and Laura Floyd | Mackenzie will live to see the first wave of colonisation. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been successful *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to read the NOTES or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "notes" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Bubble 4563 Floyd | Floyd | > NOTES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Acknowledgements to Iain Merrick for seeds, Adam Cadre and Sean Floyd | Barrett for fertiliser ('flags.h' and 'varying strings'); and Mike Floyd | Sousa, Adrien Beau, J. D. Berry, Cedric Knight, Philip Dearmore and Floyd | John Bichard for excellent pruning. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to read the NOTES or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "man" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "notes" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Bubble 4563 Floyd | Floyd | > NOTES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Acknowledgements to Iain Merrick for seeds, Adam Cadre and Sean Floyd | Barrett for fertiliser ('flags.h' and 'varying strings'); and Mike Floyd | Sousa, Adrien Beau, J. D. Berry, Cedric Knight, Philip Dearmore and Floyd | John Bichard for excellent pruning. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to read the NOTES or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW asks, "Was it possible to enter the lab?" | |
| Zach says, "I'm not sure. It didn't seem needed." | ||
| DavidW says, "It might've explained a bit more of what was happening." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wasn't expecting the game to end quite like that though." | ||
| Zach says, "That was an interesting twist" | ||
| Zach asks, "Or was it??" | ||
| Binder says, "That was fun to watch." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm glad I saw the end of the game, at least. Another notch in my IF belt." | ||
| Zach says, "I think Mac was lying about her entering the lab anyway" | ||
| inky says, "I was kind of disappointed" | ||
| inky says, "although I think in retrospect I was mixing reviews of this game up with reviews of the other one" | ||
| Zach says, "His excuse for her dying was that she went in there and ate some poison" | ||
| Zach says, "She never needed to go in there when he kept the super secret biosample in the damn freezer" | ||
| Johnny says (to inky), "Fail-Safe" | ||
| Johnny asks, "Or All Roads?" | ||
| inky says, "Make It Good, I guess" | ||
| inky says, "(which I don't really know anything about, to be clear)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't played Make It Good, but it's another reality warper, I think." | ||
| Zach asks (of DavidW), "How large is your IF belt?" | ||
| Binder says, "DavidW is the Batman of IF" | ||
| DavidW says (to Zach), "oh geez. I haven't kept a count." | ||
| Binder says, "He is crazy-prepared to say he's played that." | ||
| DavidW says, "If I'm the Batman of IF, I hope my fight balloons go *XYZZY!* and PLUUUUGH!!" | ||
| Zach says, "Holy Frotz, Batman! There's a bug in the z machine!" | ||
| Binder says, "I would read that comic." | ||
| asks (of Floyd), "How would you like to be my Boy Implementor?" | ||
