NightFloyd Transcript:
First Things First by First Things First
As played on ifMUD on May 16 & 23, June 6 & 13, 2013

Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Unlike ClubFloyd, NightFloyd often takes on significantly larger works of interactive fiction, knowing going in that each one will take multiple sessions (but not always, as you'll see in this transcript). NightFloyd is also a bit more informal than ClubFloyd in that it's only announced on the ifMUD #clubfloyd bulletin board, and the time shifts around to meet player's schedules far more than ClubFloyd does. NightFloyd is organized by genericgeekgirl, aka Adri.

Below is a transcript of First Things First written by First Things First. First Things First was released in 2001. It was nominated for Xyzzies for Best Game and Best Story, and won the Xyzzy for Best Puzzles. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting IFDB.


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


ToyShop & Floyditorium
#ClubFloyd Discussion



genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ftf2"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 
Floyd |
Floyd | You've just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and
Floyd | invention section of the local public library, where you spend each
Floyd | night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel
Floyd | machine.  Tonight, for some reason, you're especially fatigued, and
Floyd | can't wait to get inside and go right to bed.  Seems like a good plan,
Floyd | but somehow you have a premonition it's not going to be that easy...
Floyd |
Floyd | First Things First - A Text Adventure Game by J. Robinson
Floyd | Wheeler
Floyd | Developed with TADS:  The Text Adventure Development System.
Floyd |
Floyd | Release Version 3.0 20061221
Floyd | Copyright 2001, 2006 by J. Robinson Wheeler.  All Rights Reserved.
Floyd | Published by JRW Digital Media.
Floyd | Type ABOUT, CREDITS, and HELP for general information.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read doormat"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 0/1 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ DOORMAT
Floyd |
Floyd | It reads, "Welcome."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 0/2 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a library book
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 0/3 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You have never been one to care about your appearance.  You're wearing
Floyd | comfortable clothes, the same as always.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 0/4 
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Tonight, like every night, you brought home a book on time-travel
Floyd | theories.  This one talks about the paradoxes involved in changing the
Floyd | future from the past, or some such.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 0/5 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Tonight, like every night, you brought home a book on time-travel
Floyd | theories.  This one talks about the paradoxes involved in changing the
Floyd | future from the past, or some such.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Sorry. I think I'm a little lagged."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 0/6 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked.  Drat the luck, you've forgotten your house key tonight.
Floyd | There must be a spare around here somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under mat"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 0/7 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER MAT
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing under the doormat.  It would be a good place to put
Floyd | your spare house key, if only you knew where it was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl wanders off for a bit.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under stones"
genericgeekgirl arrives, ready to play with the toys.
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/8 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER STONES
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a spare key!
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 3 points. You can toggle these
Floyd | notifications at any time by typing 'notify.' ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/9 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | This key doesn't fit the front door lock.  It must open something
Floyd | else.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you move the key away from the lock, you are hit with a strong
Floyd | sense that it is going to be a long and complicated night before
Floyd | you'll be able to unlock and open this door.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the same moment, something causes your spine to shiver.  Something
Floyd | is definitely in the air this evening, but you don't know what.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar keeps forgetting how quickly everyone reads here
Johnny says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/9 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | In a total of 9 turns, you have achieved a score of 3 points out of a
Floyd | possible 151, which means you are barely getting started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/10 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "smell"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/11 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SMELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You smell nothing unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/12 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/13 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a library book
Floyd |    a spare key
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/14 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Tonight, like every night, you brought home a book on time-travel
Floyd | theories.  This one talks about the paradoxes involved in changing the
Floyd | future from the past, or some such.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "dance"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/15 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | You trot out a couple of your best steps.  Hopefully, no one was
Floyd | watching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "yay dancing"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/16 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | Your driveway is to the northeast.  A small path leads northwest and
Floyd | southwest. The front door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/17 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You have never been one to care about your appearance.  You're wearing
Floyd | comfortable clothes, the same as always.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/18 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It's solid wood, a real beauty, with the best lock money can buy.  You
Floyd | always considered it to be nicely inviting.  Until now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x key"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/19 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | This is a spare key that you left yourself in case of emergency.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "But perhaps not THIS emergency"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "punch door"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/20 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUNCH DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know how to attack the front door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on door"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/21 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You knock on the front door.  There is no response.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "I guess we can wander around the house"
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ring doorbell"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/21 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RING DOORBELL
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "doorbell".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Wandering sounds good to me."
DavidW says, "well, walk around the house? Maybe it's a backdoor key."
Binder says (to Floyd), "take mat"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 3/22 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You really ought to leave the doormat where it is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Maybe if we run around the house faster enough we'll travel back in time."
Binder says, "hrmph"
Binder says, "Or we'll go to Oz"
Zach says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 3/23 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is closed.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb wall"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/24 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 4 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "woo"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x gutter"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/25 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GUTTER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's clogged full of leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "x chimney"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/26 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the chimney.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x leaves"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/27 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like there's something in the leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search leaves"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/28 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | You find an old tennis ball, which you take.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "count leaves"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/29 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > COUNT LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | There isn't much point to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x ball"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/30 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BALL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's faded to a pale whitish green over the years, and it's sticky
Floyd | with mud and rotten leaves.  You must have lost it during an exuberant
Floyd | game of catch some years ago.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fetch ball"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/31 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FETCH BALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have the old tennis ball!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw ball"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/32 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW BALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You throw the old tennis ball.  It sails off the roof to the north,
Floyd | and bounces into the driveway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/31 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "maybe we find a dog to play with."
Binder says (to Floyd), "x tiles"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/32 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TILES
Floyd |
Floyd | The shingles are in bad shape.  What cheapskate ordered these?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "admit fault"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/32 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ADMIT FAULT
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "admit".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "move tiles"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take shingles"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/33 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MOVE TILES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't move the shingles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/34 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SHINGLES
Floyd |
Floyd | They're fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter chimney"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/35 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | The chimney isn't a way into the house, if that's what you mean.  You
Floyd | can climb down the stone wall to get back to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/36 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Santa, we are not."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in chimney"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/37 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing in the chimney.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "search chimney"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/38 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder asks, "s?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Sure"
Binder says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/39 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel is rather squat and feral, but it regards you with an
Floyd | almost intelligent interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/40 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | Definitely male, all right.  He's got a tuft of white hair on his head
Floyd | that almost gives him an Einstein-like appearance.  In his little paws
Floyd | is a big, juicy acorn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel gazes into the distance, daydreaming about something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe it'll play fetch with us."
Gerynar says, "I think that I'm a bit lagged"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take acorn"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/41 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ACORN
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel is carrying the big juicy acorn and won't let you have
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel dashes from one spot to another, then twitches its jaws.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Maybe we can find something to swap"
DavidW says, "like a brazilian nut"
Zach says (to Floyd), "throw ball at squirrel"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give ball to squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/42 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW BALL AT SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel isn't interested in playing catch with you right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel nibbles at his tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/43 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE BALL TO SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't what the squirrel is interested in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel lazes about in a state of squirrel contentment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Because any time I see acorn and think time travel, I think of planting it in the past."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nibble squirrel" DavidW says, "You guys threw the ball away."
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/43 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NIBBLE SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "nibble".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "And then we undid."
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask squirrel about einstien"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/43 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK SQUIRREL ABOUT EINSTIEN
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "einstien".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Give him the key. He can have this stupid house."
Binder says (to Zach), "You quitter."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give key to squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/44 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE KEY TO SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't what the squirrel is interested in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel shakes his little head.  It doesn't mean anything
Floyd | significant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "ha"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/45 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel gazes into the distance, daydreaming about something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/46 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel isn't a housepet.  You shouldn't touch it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel flicks his tail and blinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "x drainpipe"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pet squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/47 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | It runs from here down to a spout at the back of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel paces back and forth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/48 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PET SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel isn't a housepet.  You shouldn't touch it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel squats down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drainpipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/49 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | It runs from here down to a spout at the back of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | A mood seems to come over the squirrel, indistinguishable from other
Floyd | squirrel moods.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "clean drainpipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/50 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLEAN DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out a few stray leaves, but it does nothing to unclog the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel pouts, looks excited, then pouts again.  Just your usual
Floyd | squirrel business.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "look in drainpipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/51 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing but muck and darkness in the drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel waddles a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask squirrel about acorn"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/52 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK SQUIRREL ABOUT ACORN
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel sighs.  You didn't know squirrels could do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "okay, here I am"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "climb drainpipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/53 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | The drainpipe is not suitable for climbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel scampers back and forth on the rooftop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison arrives, full of funk, but no fun.
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "follow squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/54 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOLLOW SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel darts around too quickly for you to catch it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel looks around, then stares at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "mock squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/55 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MOCK SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | You laugh at the squirrel.  Your derisiveness falls on deaf ears, as
Floyd | it were.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel nibbles and fidgets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "hee hee"
DavidW says, "I think if we had something heavish, we could unplug the pipe with it. Or find Drano."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "shake drainpipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/55 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHAKE DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "shake".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Yeah, I feel like this is a dead end for now"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "hit drainpipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/56 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You strike the drainpipe.  It makes a dull noise, padded by all the
Floyd | leaves clogging it up.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel doesn't react.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I suggest more exploring."
genericgeekgirl says, "Ok"
Binder asks, "n?"
Binder says, "back the way we came, I mean"
DavidW says, "unless there's west and east roof areas"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/57 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel walks in a slow circle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "only exit is north or so it claims"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/58 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel makes a funny 'tk-tk-tk-tk' noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "say tk"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 7/58 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAY TK
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "tk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/59 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "The squirrel is not a bomb."
Johnny says, "Don't worry."
DavidW says, "..yet"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x stone"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/60 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to DW), "Honestly, I don't remember either."
DavidW says, "No way do we blow up a cute Einsteinian squirrel."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take leaves"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/61 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull a few stray leaves from the gutter and toss them aside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "exits"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 7/62 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | The roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to
Floyd | be the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "let's climb down and keep exploring."
Binder says, "down, I think and then on around the house"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 7/63 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is closed.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "open garage door"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 7/64 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN GARAGE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The garage door refuses to open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 7/65 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It's closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "maybe need a remote?"
Gerynar asks, "which could be in the car?"
Binder says, "A cigarette lighter to burn the squirrel with"
Binder says, "a spare house key could be in it for all we know"
DavidW says, "Save Our Squirrel"
Binder says, "Son of Squirrelfright"
Binder says, "We haven't seen sw yet"
Binder asks, "any opposed?"
DavidW says, "We have a key; find out what it unlocks."
Binder says (to Floyd), "unlock garage door"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 7/66 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNLOCK GARAGE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The locking mechanism is on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Not that, anyway."
Binder says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/67 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | The back of your house is pretty non-descript, except for some really
Floyd | nice trees that make up for the lack of landscaping in the front.  The
Floyd | spout of your drainpipe comes down here from the roof.  A gravel path
Floyd | extends northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/68 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a library book
Floyd |    a spare key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x trees"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/69 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TREES
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the nice trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder asks, "no back door what?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x drainpipe"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/70 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "look in drainpipe"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/71 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | The drainpipe is clogged with leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take leaves"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take leaves"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/72 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out a few stray leaves, but it does nothing to unclog the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/73 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out a few stray leaves, but it does nothing to unclog the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "haha"
Zach says, "No, the leaves are mine!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "search drainpipe"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/74 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | The drainpipe is clogged with leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, ">put dwarf goat in drainpipe"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "tap pipe"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/74 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAP PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "tap".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "hit pipe"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/75 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You strike the drainpipe.  It makes a dull noise, padded by all the
Floyd | leaves clogging it up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "exits"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 7/76 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | A gravel path extends northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 7/77 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 7/78 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | The little window is probably the one that leads into your attic.
Floyd | It's hard to judge from here, but it looks like you could just fit
Floyd | through it.  Getting all the way up to it is going to be the real
Floyd | problem.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "se please"
Zach says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 7/79 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach asks, "Southwest?"
Gerynar says, "sw leads to the wood"
Gerynar says, "+s"
Zach says, "We also didn't check out the driveway"
DavidW says, "It would be simpler if we checked the woods first, I think."
Gerynar likes simple
DavidW says, "If I recall, the driveway leads to the rest of the town, but the woods area is relatively smaller in scope."
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/80 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Hopefully the woods are haunted... with time machines"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x rock"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/81 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock is a five foot grey boulder, almost egg-shaped, a single
Floyd | piece of heavy, textured granite.  Polished smooth over time, a wedge
Floyd | shape sheared from the top ages ago provides a comfortable place to
Floyd | sit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/82 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT
Floyd |
Floyd | (the large rock)
Floyd | You sit down on top of the rock.  It is very serene and peaceful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/83 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods (on the large rock)
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sleep"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/84 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd rather wait until you can get inside your house and into your
Floyd | own bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, ">push rock towards house and watch the destruction"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "climb rock"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/85 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | The large rock is not suitable for climbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says (to Floyd), "put key in rock"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/86 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT KEY IN ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't put anything into the large rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "rock, you rock"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/86 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ROCK, YOU ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/87 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the large rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x trees"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/88 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TREES
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the grove of cedar and live oak trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "exits"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/89 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | The path leads northeast to your house, and a clearing is visible to
Floyd | the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "look under rock"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/90 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing under the large rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "must not be that large, then"
Binder says (to Floyd), "check rock for note from past me"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/90 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CHECK ROCK FOR NOTE FROM PAST ME
Floyd |
Floyd | There are words after your command that I couldn't use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/91 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a warmth to the air you don't recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode asks, "who farted?"
Zach says, "Squirrel!"
Binder says, "ha"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x ground"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/92 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | It lies beneath you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Now don't cheat. You put the note there earlier -- then you can get the note now."
Zach says (to Floyd), "lie"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/92 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LIE
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to lie on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "lie on ground"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/93 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LIE ON GROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now sitting on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sky"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/94 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SKY
Floyd |
Floyd | The moon is gibbous and waning, but bright on this cloudless night.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions.
Gerynar has disconnected.
Zach says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/95 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "smell"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/96 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SMELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You smell nothing unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "feel"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/96 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FEEL
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to touch?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read book"
Binder says (to Floyd), "feel air"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/97 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | There are two main theories about the potential for time travel.  The
Floyd | first is that time is linear and immutable.  Even if one were able to
Floyd | travel back and forth, there would be no way to alter the course of
Floyd | events.  This does not rule out free will; rather, it is stipulated
Floyd | that free action is accounted for -- the time traveller's comings and
Floyd | goings have, in a sense, already taken place.  You could not go back
Floyd | in time and prevent your own birth, for circumstances would intervene
Floyd | to make this action impossible.
Floyd |
Floyd | The second theory is that the timeline branches when a time traveller
Floyd | moves back and forth.  A traveller from the future may disrupt the
Floyd | possibility of returning to the same world he or she left behind.
Floyd | Some say that time is an infinitely branching tree, with each moment
Floyd | containing a universe of all probable or possible choices, and the
Floyd | time traveller slips around from one to the next, with free will being
Floyd | a crucial factor in the consequent events.
Floyd |
Floyd | A third theory has been recently posited, and is the core of this
Floyd | particular book.  It delves into the possibility of a merger between
Floyd | the two theories (previously determined to be mutually exclusive).
Floyd | This theory is expanded upon under the heading of paradoxes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/98 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FEEL AIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing special.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read about paradoxes"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/99 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ ABOUT PARADOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | (in the library book)
Floyd | This book centers on a new kind of paradox.  It posits a theory in
Floyd | which the two main theories of time travel (previously determined to
Floyd | be mutually exclusive) are merged, allowing both for a universe in
Floyd | which time travel cannot change the course of events; and yet at the
Floyd | same time depicts a branching time stream where a time traveller may
Floyd | redirect events to change the future.
Floyd |
Floyd | This new paradox goes something as follows:  A time traveller from the
Floyd | future travels back to the past.  The mere act of traveling backwards
Floyd | disrupts the future course of events from that moment, making it
Floyd | impossible for the traveller to return to his or her own time and find
Floyd | it to be as he or she left it.  However, through further manipulation
Floyd | of objects and events, the time traveller will be able to alter the
Floyd | time stream such that the future he or she left will be restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Once the future is restored, the time traveller will have discovered
Floyd | that all of these events -- including the initial time trip which
Floyd | disrupted the time stream -- needed to happen, or else the time
Floyd | traveller would never have existed in the world he or she initially
Floyd | came from, and thus would not have been able to make the trip in the
Floyd | first place.  The existence of the future he or she came from was
Floyd | contingent on the very disruption and manipulation of the time stream
Floyd | that nearly caused their future never to have existed at all!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "oooookay"
Binder asks, "We'll have to destroy the timeline to save the timeline?"
DavidW says, "yeah. Like destroying a solved side of a Rubik's Cube to solve the whole thing."
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/100 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing (on the ground)
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach asks, "Check out town?"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "dig"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/100 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to dig in?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "There's a sandwich shop!"
jenrexrode asks, "nose?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "pick nose"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/101 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PICK NOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't pick up yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "dig nose"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/101 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG NOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to dig in it with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "dig nose with key"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/102 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG NOSE WITH KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't dig with that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "You can pick your nose, and you can pick your boss, but you can't pick your boss's nose."
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 7/103 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 7/104 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "and yes, sure, let's see town. Maybe they have tacos."
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 7/105 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "On the Office tonight, they mentioned that Austin had good tacos."
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 7/106 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/107 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd | This is your front driveway, which leads west to the north side of
Floyd | your house.  A small path leads southwest to the front door.  To the
Floyd | east is the road into town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little car here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x car"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/108 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | It's your baby-blue Mazda.  You decided some time ago that you would
Floyd | take a personal step to helping the environment by walking everywhere,
Floyd | and you haven't driven it since.  The little car is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open car"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/109 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the spare key)
Floyd | Unlocked.  So that's what this key is for.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/110 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | (opening the little car)
Floyd | Okay, you're now in the little car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway (in the little car)
Floyd | The interior of the car has gotten a little dusty with disuse, but the
Floyd | seats are still comfy.  The only obvious things to see are the glove
Floyd | compartment, an armrest compartment, and the steering wheel.  The
Floyd | little car is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "yay"
Zach says (to Floyd), "open glove compartment"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/111 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE COMPARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open armrest compartment"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/112 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN ARMREST COMPARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | Opening the armrest compartment reveals a tourist map.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take map"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/113 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MAP
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x map"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/114 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MAP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a tourist map of Paris.  Must be left over from some other
Floyd | adventure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock glove with key"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 7/115 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNLOCK GLOVE WITH KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open glove"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/116 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Opening the glove compartment reveals a garage door opener and a
Floyd | school pencil.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 5 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "huzzah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x opener"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/117 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X OPENER
Floyd |
Floyd | There's one big button on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pencil"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/118 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PENCIL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a standard school pencil.  It's got some teeth marks, the lead is
Floyd | blunt, and the eraser has worn off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Now we have a weapon with which to fight the squirrel"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheel"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/119 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEEL
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the steering wheel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "or a spell ingredient"
Zach says (to Floyd), "start car"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/120 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > START CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the car key)
Floyd | You put the key into the ignition and give it a turn, but nothing
Floyd | happens.  The battery is long dead, and there's probably no gas in the
Floyd | car, either.  There's nowhere you want to drive to, anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Allen asks, "Austin? Good tacos? WTF?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "chew on pencil"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/121 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CHEW ON PENCIL
Floyd |
Floyd | You chew on the pencil, leaving more teeth marks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Allen says, "Austin tacos circa 2013 are the equivalent of San Antonio tacos circa 1993"
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/122 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway (in the little car)
Floyd | The interior of the car has gotten a little dusty with disuse, but the
Floyd | seats are still comfy.  The only obvious things to see are the glove
Floyd | compartment, an armrest compartment, and the steering wheel.  The
Floyd | little car is open.  The glove compartment seems to contain a garage
Floyd | door opener and a school pencil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/123 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | armrest compartment:  It's fixed in place.
Floyd | glove compartment:  It's fixed in place.
Floyd | seats:  They're fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from glove"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/124 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM GLOVE
Floyd |
Floyd | garage door opener:  Taken.
Floyd | school pencil:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "look under seat"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/125 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SEAT
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing under the seats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "turn wheel"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/126 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TURN WHEEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 12/127 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer in the little car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd | This is your front driveway, which leads west to the north side of
Floyd | your house.  A small path leads southwest to the front door.  To the
Floyd | east is the road into town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little car here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 12/128 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is closed.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 12/129 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the opener button.  Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garage door smoothly glides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/130 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  It would take a long time to sort through the junk in here,
Floyd | and even then it seems unlikely there would be much point to it.
Floyd | There is a garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south
Floyd | leads into your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the
Floyd | way you came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/131 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a crowbar!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/132 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Lies!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take crowbar"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/133 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/133 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which door do you mean, the garage door, or the back door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open back door"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/134 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN BACK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/135 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a can of WD-40!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/136 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You find an old pillowcase!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "pry door"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/136 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PRY DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the crowbar)
Floyd | Which door do you mean, the garage door, or the back door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/137 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a handful of cobwebs.  Bleah!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/138 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a deflated soccer ball!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/139 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a broken tire pump!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/140 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a wasp nest!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/141 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a 2x4 plank!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/142 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a can-opener!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "gee"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x can-opener"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/143 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CAN-OPENER
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the hand-operated kind.  Junk!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/144 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a moose head trophy!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x crowbar"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/145 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | It's an ordinary crowbar, about 2 feet long.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/146 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a shovel!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/147 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a beat-up mattress!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Zach says (to Floyd), "open back door with crowbar"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/148 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a divining wand!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/149 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN BACK DOOR WITH CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The crowbar can't help you with that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/150 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  It would take a long time to sort through the junk in here,
Floyd | and even then it seems unlikely there would be much point to it.
Floyd | There is a garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south
Floyd | leads into your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the
Floyd | way you came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a can of WD-40, an old pillowcase, a
Floyd | deflated soccer ball, a broken tire pump, a wasp nest, a 2x4 plank, a
Floyd | can-opener, a moose head trophy, a shovel, a beat-up mattress, and a
Floyd | divining wand here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/151 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a machete!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/152 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a busted wheelbarrow!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/153 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a frisbee!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/154 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a cannonball!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl finally catches up.
DavidW says, "oh, try that on the drainpipe"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/155 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find the kitchen sink!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sink"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 12/156 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Obviously, you must have found everything there is to find if you've
Floyd | found this relic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/157 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find absolutely nothing else!  At last!!!
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 10 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Hee."
DavidW says, "fun times"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "chew pencil"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/158 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CHEW PENCIL
Floyd |
Floyd | You chew on the pencil, leaving more teeth marks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "No lightsource found, though."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/159 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk
Floyd | in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and
Floyd | there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it.  There is a
Floyd | garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south leads into
Floyd | your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the way you
Floyd | came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a can of WD-40, an old pillowcase, a
Floyd | deflated soccer ball, a broken tire pump, a wasp nest, a 2x4 plank, a
Floyd | can-opener, a moose head trophy, a shovel, a beat-up mattress, a
Floyd | divining wand, a machete, a busted wheelbarrow, a frisbee, a
Floyd | cannonball, and the kitchen sink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pump"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/160 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | I know what you're thinking -- you can pump up the soccer ball with
Floyd | this baby.  Nope.  It's just a piece of junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "I was!"
Zach says, "heh"
DavidW says, "some of this is probably useful."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cannonball"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/161 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CANNONBALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Who knows where you found this sucker, or why you kept it.  It's a
Floyd | solid metal sphere, about 7 inches in diameter, with lettering stamped
Floyd | on the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x trophy"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/162 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TROPHY
Floyd |
Floyd | What a piece of junk!  Perhaps the ultimate.  Be proud.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look in moose's mouth"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/162 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN MOOSE'S MOUTH
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "moose's".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take shovel"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/163 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SHOVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "That seems useful."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read cannonball"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/164 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ CANNONBALL
Floyd |
Floyd | 154th comp.  Div.  -- US Steel -- TM 1880.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "We.. lube up the cannonball with the WD-40 and drop it down the gutter?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Actually, I don't know how big the drain pipe is, but probably smaller."
DavidW says, "I don't know that we need the WD-40 for that."
DavidW says, "But I really think the cannonball might do the trick."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop cannonball on foot"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/165 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP CANNONBALL ON FOOT
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no good surface on yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/165 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which door do you mean, the garage door, or the back door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "back"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/166 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BACK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's closed and locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/167 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | garage door:  You can't pick up the garage door.
Floyd | junk in the garage:  It's fixed in place.
Floyd | wall opener button:  You can't pick up the wall opener button.
Floyd | can of WD-40:  Taken.
Floyd | old pillowcase:  Taken.
Floyd | deflated soccer ball:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | broken tire pump:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | wasp nest:  It looks dead, but you'd better leave it alone.
Floyd | 2x4 plank:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | can-opener:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | moose head trophy:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | divining wand:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | machete:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | frisbee:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | cannonball:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | the kitchen sink:  You must be kidding.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/166 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk
Floyd | in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and
Floyd | there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it.  There is a
Floyd | garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south leads into
Floyd | your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the way you
Floyd | came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a can of WD-40, an old pillowcase, a
Floyd | deflated soccer ball, a broken tire pump, a wasp nest, a 2x4 plank, a
Floyd | can-opener, a moose head trophy, a beat-up mattress, a divining wand,
Floyd | a machete, a busted wheelbarrow, a frisbee, a cannonball, and the
Floyd | kitchen sink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take wasp nest with pillowcase"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/166 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE WASP NEST WITH PILLOWCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put wast nest in pillowcase"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/166 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT WAST NEST IN PILLOWCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "wast".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pillowcase.put wasp nest in pillowcase"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/168 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PILLOWCASE.PUT WASP NEST IN PILLOWCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't put the wasp nest anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Why on earth...?"
genericgeekgirl shrugs.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read map"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/169 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ MAP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a tourist map of Paris.  Must be left over from some other
Floyd | adventure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put all in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/170 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ALL IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | library book:  Done.
Floyd | car key:  Done.
Floyd | old tennis ball:  Done.
Floyd | tourist map:  Done.
Floyd | garage door opener:  Done.
Floyd | school pencil:  Done.
Floyd | crowbar:  Done.
Floyd | shovel:  Done.
Floyd | old pillowcase:  Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "That map is nod to the game Curses."
genericgeekgirl says, "I figured :)"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/171 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | garage door:  You can't pick up the garage door.
Floyd | junk in the garage:  It's fixed in place.
Floyd | wall opener button:  You can't pick up the wall opener button.
Floyd | can of WD-40:  Taken.
Floyd | deflated soccer ball:  Taken.
Floyd | broken tire pump:  Taken.
Floyd | wasp nest:  It looks dead, but you'd better leave it alone.
Floyd | 2x4 plank:  Taken.
Floyd | can-opener:  Taken.
Floyd | moose head trophy:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | divining wand:  Taken.
Floyd | machete:  Taken.
Floyd | frisbee:  Taken.
Floyd | cannonball:  Taken.
Floyd | the kitchen sink:  You must be kidding.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put all in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/172 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ALL IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | can of WD-40:  Done.
Floyd | deflated soccer ball:  Done.
Floyd | broken tire pump:  Done.
Floyd | 2x4 plank:  Done.
Floyd | can-opener:  Done.
Floyd | divining wand:  Done.
Floyd | machete:  Done.
Floyd | frisbee:  Done.
Floyd | cannonball:  Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/173 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk
Floyd | in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and
Floyd | there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it.  There is a
Floyd | garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south leads into
Floyd | your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the way you
Floyd | came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a wasp nest, a moose head trophy, a beat-up
Floyd | mattress, a busted wheelbarrow, and the kitchen sink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "If the wheelbarrow is busted...?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/174 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a library book
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wheel"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/175 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like you hit it on a rock and loosened the bolt, as well as
Floyd | twisted the axle out of shape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/176 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem able to push the busted wheelbarrow around with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take mattress"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/177 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MATTRESS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't pick up the beat-up mattress.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "I can't wait to roll into town with our wheelbarrow."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search mattress"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/178 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH MATTRESS
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing on the beat-up mattress.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take machete.cut mattress with machete"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/180 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MACHETE.CUT MATTRESS WITH MACHETE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hacking at the beat-up mattress with the machete is unprofitable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Lies."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rod"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/180 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ROD
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any rod here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pillowcase"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/181 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PILLOWCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's got a 70's flower pattern, but the colors have faded.  The old
Floyd | pillowcase is open.  There's nothing in the old pillowcase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "yeah, make sure no suspcious lumps in the mattress hiding a termite emitter."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wand"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/182 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Superstition has it divining wands can find water.  To you, it looks
Floyd | like an ordinary stick, with a kind of forked end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x frisbee"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/183 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FRISBEE
Floyd |
Floyd | One of those little ones, for playing frisbee golf.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Onward?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ram wheelbarrow into back door"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/183 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RAM WHEELBARROW INTO BACK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "ram".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow into back door"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/183 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW INTO BACK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Bah."
Zach says, "Maybe the squirrel wants some of this"
Zach says, "Though I don't know what we'd want his acorn for."
Binder says, "like a machete to his smug little face"
DavidW says, "I assume we're gonna leave our garage wide open for thieves."
Binder says, "I think I know what we want the acorn for"
Zach says, "It would be doing us a favor"
genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe they'll take that mattress away for us."
DavidW says, "ok"
Binder says, "But it's just a guess based on room description"
genericgeekgirl says, "I'm sure it's full of bed bugs."
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit on mattress"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/184 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT ON MATTRESS
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now sitting on the beat-up mattress.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "lie down"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/184 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LIE DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to lie on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sleep"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/185 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd rather wait until you can get inside your house and into your
Floyd | own bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lie on mattress"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/186 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LIE ON MATTRESS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're already on the beat-up mattress!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Did someone mention sandwiches? I can't remember; it was so long ago..."
Zach asks, "In town?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Sandwiches!?!"
genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe we can barter some of this fantastic stuff for a sandwich."
DavidW says, "ooh"
Binder says, "Johnny alluded to sandwiches."
DavidW asks, "What type of sandwich do we want? Can we have foccacia bread?"
Zach says, "And Johnny would never lie to us about something as important as sandwiches."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/187 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage (on the beat-up mattress)
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk
Floyd | in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and
Floyd | there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it.  There is a
Floyd | garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south leads into
Floyd | your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the way you
Floyd | came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a wasp nest, a moose head trophy, a beat-up
Floyd | mattress, a busted wheelbarrow, and the kitchen sink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in trophy"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/187 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN TROPHY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't reach that from the beat-up mattress.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/188 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the beat-up mattress.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow out"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 22/188 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | There are words after your command I couldn't use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow north"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 22/189 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NORTH
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow east"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 22/190 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd | This is your front driveway, which leads west to the north side of
Floyd | your house.  A small path leads southwest to the front door.  To the
Floyd | east is the road into town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little car and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow east"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 22/191 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sidewalk
Floyd | The concrete sidewalk that leads away from your house is starting to
Floyd | show the wear and tear of the hot summers and cool winters.  The
Floyd | sections are uneven and tufts of grass poke up through the cracks.
Floyd | The sidewalk wanders east alongside the road away from your house and
Floyd | toward the nearby shopping village.  Your driveway is back to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a mailbox and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open mailbox"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 22/192 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN MAILBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "look in mailbox"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 22/193 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN MAILBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing in the mailbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 22/193 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | In a total of 193 turns, you have achieved a score of 22 points out of
Floyd | a possible 151, which means you are starting to get somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sidewalk" Binder says, "woo somewhere"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 22/194 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SIDEWALK
Floyd |
Floyd | The concrete sidewalk that leads away from your house is starting to
Floyd | show the wear and tear of the hot summers and cool winters.  The
Floyd | sections are uneven and tufts of grass poke up through the cracks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cracks"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 22/195 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CRACKS
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the cracks in the sidewalk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow east"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/196 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in path
Floyd | As you approach the local nub of suburban civilization, you again are
Floyd | reminded that community expansion has a price.  A small shrubbery here
Floyd | serves, apparently, as an excuse for people to litter, as it is full
Floyd | of bits of trash.  The footpath bends here from west to north, leading
Floyd | into the shopping village.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the shrubbery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hope the sandwich shop accepts barter. Or there's a pawn shop."
Zach says, "oooh, trash for our wheelbarrow"
Zach says (to Floyd), "search trash"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/197 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH TRASH
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a sewer grating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search shrubbery"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/198 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH SHRUBBERY
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing else in the shrubbery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "point wand at shrubbery"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/199 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > POINT WAND AT SHRUBBERY
Floyd |
Floyd | You need to be holding the divining wand before you can point it at
Floyd | anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grating"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/200 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GRATING
Floyd |
Floyd | The grating is made of iron that has long since rusted.  A trickle of
Floyd | water is visible underneath it.  Sitting in the muck about a foot and
Floyd | a half down is a five-dollar bill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take bill"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/201 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BILL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't reach the five-dollar bill through the grating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bill with wand"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/201 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BILL WITH WAND
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "noooo our sandwich money"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take wand"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/202 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE WAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open grating"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/203 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN GRATING
Floyd |
Floyd | It's too heavy to open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/204 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take crowbar"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/205 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open grating with crowbar"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 22/206 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN GRATING WITH CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You pry up the sewer grating.  The sewer hole is now wide open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Binder says, "Nice."
DavidW says, "tada!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take money"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 26/207 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MONEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 4 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x money"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 26/208 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MONEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Money:  You have five dollars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "I don't know how I feel about spending it. It's dirty money."
DavidW says, "ka-ching"
Zach says (to Floyd), "point wand at shrubbery"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 26/209 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > POINT WAND AT SHRUBBERY
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you point the divining wand at the shrubbery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 26/210 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in path
Floyd | As you approach the local nub of suburban civilization, you again are
Floyd | reminded that community expansion has a price.  A small shrubbery here
Floyd | serves, apparently, as an excuse for people to litter, as it is full
Floyd | of bits of trash.  The footpath bends here from west to north, leading
Floyd | into the shopping village.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow and a sewer grating here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Hmm what was | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the shrubbery."
Zach says, "All about"
Zach says, "Ooh, maybe a hint about the grating"
DavidW says, "it detects water"
Zach says (to Floyd), "search trash"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 26/211 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH TRASH
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing else in the shrubbery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Yup"
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter sewer"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 26/211 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER SEWER
Floyd |
Floyd | Which sewer do you mean, the sewer grating, or the sewer hole?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter sewer hole"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 26/212 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER SEWER HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't fit in the sewer hole.  Besides, that would be a somewhat
Floyd | sullying endeavor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode rides off into the sunset.
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow north"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/213 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NORTH
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | This little shopping village is attractively decorated with colored
Floyd | signs pointing you to this merchant and that.  To the west is the
Floyd | bank, and to the east is the public library.  Because it is late, the
Floyd | only thing open is the sandwich shop, which is to the north.  The road
Floyd | leading back home is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow north"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/214 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NORTH
Floyd |
Floyd | The wheelbarrow won't fit through the doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/215 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the sandwich shop
Floyd | The room is painted a gaudy yellow color.  On closer inspection, it is
Floyd | merely spattered with mustard stains.  That's the kind of shop this
Floyd | is, I guess -- heavily frequented because it's the only one nearby.
Floyd | There's a counter, a menu, a big advertisement, and a row of tables
Floyd | and chairs.  The door is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred, the sandwich guy, is standing at the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says, "Hey there.  How can I help you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred is cleaning some utensils.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "You found Fred, I see."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ad"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/216 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X AD
Floyd |
Floyd | The advertisement is a big photo of the cold cut sandwich, with a big
Floyd | star-shaped balloon that contains the phrase:  "BUY THE SPECIAL!  Now
Floyd | only 99 cents!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred is cleaning some utensils.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x menu"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/217 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MENU
Floyd |
Floyd | The menu lists two items:  a hot meatball sandwich, and a cold cut
Floyd | combo sandwich.  Both are 5 dollars with tax.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred is cleaning some utensils.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "sigh. I think we gotta get the special."
DavidW says, "Unless the bank has more money for us."
Zach says, "Nooo"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x menu"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/218 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MENU
Floyd |
Floyd | The menu lists two items:  a hot meatball sandwich, and a cold cut
Floyd | combo sandwich.  Both are 5 dollars with tax.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred is cleaning some utensils.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x fred"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/219 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FRED
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred, the sandwich guy, always smiles at you even though you must have
Floyd | bought a thousand sandwiches from him.  He's got a pudgy frame, dark
Floyd | eyebrows, and a tiny mustache, but there is always a happy twinkle
Floyd | behind his eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred whistles a half-remembered melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask fred about sandwich"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/220 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT SANDWICH
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says, "It's a good deal.  On special."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask fred about house"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/221 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT HOUSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says, "Heh.  I don't know anything about that.  I just sell
Floyd | sandwiches."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, ">ask fred if the meatmall sandwich is made with the world famous gravy that won awards last year."
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask fred about time travel"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/222 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT TIME TRAVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says, "Time travel, eh?  I used to watch a lot of Doctor Who.
Floyd | I'm not really into science fiction stuff any more, though."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, ">ask fred if he needs to visit his sick aunt and if we can watch over the shop while he's gone. Employees eat free, right?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/222 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/222 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF8
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "buy meatball"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/223 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BUY MEATBALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You hand Fred five dollars, and he hands you the sandwich.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says, "Thank you.  Come again."
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred dries his hands with a paper towel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "eat sandwich"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/224 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT SANDWICH
Floyd |
Floyd | You eat the hot meatball sandwich.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred dices some vegetables.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "RESTORE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/224 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/222 
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | > CF8
Floyd |
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the sandwich shop
Floyd | The room is painted a gaudy yellow color.  On closer inspection, it is
Floyd | merely spattered with mustard stains.  That's the kind of shop this
Floyd | is, I guess -- heavily frequented because it's the only one nearby.
Floyd | There's a counter, a menu, a big advertisement, and a row of tables
Floyd | and chairs.  The door is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred, the sandwich guy, is standing at the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "buy special"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/223 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BUY SPECIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You hand Fred five dollars, and he hands you the sandwich and your
Floyd | change.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says, "Thank you.  Come again."
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred dries his hands with a paper towel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sandwich"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/223 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SANDWICH
Floyd |
Floyd | Which sandwich do you mean, the cold cut special, or the hot meatball
Floyd | sandwich?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/224 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred dices some vegetables.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x special"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/225 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SPECIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a bunch of meat on bread.  Not bad for 99 cents, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred dices some vegetables.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x penny"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/226 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PENNY
Floyd |
Floyd | Minted in Denver in 1975, this penny is worth one cent.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred cleans the countertop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, and a napkin."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x napkin"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/227 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X NAPKIN
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary paper napkin to me.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred puts some bread into the oven.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "and a penny. Shiny penny"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x penny"
Floyd ]  In the sandwich shop
Floyd | 26/228 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PENNY
Floyd |
Floyd | Minted in Denver in 1975, this penny is worth one cent.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred cleans the countertop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Somehow this sandwich has still left me empty"
Binder says, "I gotta crash. Good luck."
Binder goes home. DavidW says, ">ask fred what's the largest sandwich he's ever made and how many toothpicks were needed to hold it together."
DavidW says, "(sorry, I'll go make sandwiches in RL and stop fixating.)"
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
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Floyd | 26/229 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the sandwich shop
Floyd | The room is painted a gaudy yellow color.  On closer inspection, it is
Floyd | merely spattered with mustard stains.  That's the kind of shop this
Floyd | is, I guess -- heavily frequented because it's the only one nearby.
Floyd | There's a counter, a menu, a big advertisement, and a row of tables
Floyd | and chairs.  The door is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred, the sandwich guy, is standing at the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred stirs the hot meatball sauce.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I suppose the penny will be important later."
DavidW says, "Maybe use it as a screwdriver. Maybe there's a wishing well. Or a beggar. Or an old-style salt water and two metals battery."
DavidW asks, "Did we want to check out the library? Or the bank?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/230 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | This little shopping village is attractively decorated with colored
Floyd | signs pointing you to this merchant and that.  To the west is the
Floyd | bank, and to the east is the public library.  Because it is late, the
Floyd | only thing open is the sandwich shop, which is to the north.  The road
Floyd | leading back home is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Sorry, distractions"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/231 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll have to open the public library first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open library"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/232 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN LIBRARY
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open library with crowbar"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/233 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN LIBRARY WITH CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The crowbar can't help you with that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x library"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/234 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIBRARY
Floyd |
Floyd | This is the library you left just a few minutes ago.  It is closed for
Floyd | the night.  A depository slot is the only thing of note.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open bank"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/235 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN BANK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x slot"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/236 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SLOT
Floyd |
Floyd | The library depository slot is for returning books after hours.
Floyd | Wedged just inside the slot are two books.  Someone must have tried to
Floyd | cram them both in at the same time, because they should have slid down
Floyd | and out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "reach in slot"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/236 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > REACH IN SLOT
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take books"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/237 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | wedged books:  You grab ahold of the books and give them a few solid
Floyd | yanks.  They pop free and tumble onto the ground.
Floyd | library book:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "We could return our book, no?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take books"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/238 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | rare book:  Taken.
Floyd | biology book:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Sure"
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf9"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/238 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/238 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF9
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put library book in slot"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/239 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT LIBRARY BOOK IN SLOT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the library book to the library.  It slides down the slot
Floyd | and out of view.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read rare book"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/240 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ RARE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't the slightest interest in the subject.  Who would?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read biology book"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/241 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ BIOLOGY BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | The only thing interesting about this book is that the author was
Floyd | apparently stranded on a small island in the Pacific for fifteen years
Floyd | while researching the material.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rare"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/242 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X RARE
Floyd |
Floyd | A rare scientific volume, detailing the mating habits of small
Floyd | rodents.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Well, rodents would"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x biology"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/243 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BIOLOGY
Floyd |
Floyd | The title of this book is "Fun With Ferns" by Prof. Roy Hinkley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bank"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open rare"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/244 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BANK
Floyd |
Floyd | This bank has been here as long as you can remember.  You haven't had
Floyd | enough money to open a valid account here for as long as you can
Floyd | remember.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/245 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN RARE
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't the slightest interest in the subject.  Who would?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open biology"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/246 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN BIOLOGY
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only thing interesting about this book is that the author was
Floyd | apparently stranded on a small island in the Pacific for fifteen years
Floyd | while researching the material.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm, no hidden coupons used as bookmarks."
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/247 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | This little shopping village is attractively decorated with colored
Floyd | signs pointing you to this merchant and that.  To the west is the
Floyd | bank, and to the east is the public library.  Because it is late, the
Floyd | only thing open is the sandwich shop, which is to the north.  The road
Floyd | leading back home is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach asks, "Hmm, where else to go?"
DavidW asks, "Go into the bank?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter bank"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/248 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER BANK
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll have to open the bank first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open bank"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/249 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN BANK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bank"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/250 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BANK
Floyd |
Floyd | This bank has been here as long as you can remember.  You haven't had
Floyd | enough money to open a valid account here for as long as you can
Floyd | remember.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "no ATM, I guess"
DavidW says, "Perhaps we can dig with the shovel in the clearing."
DavidW says, "Also, try that cannonball in drainpipe idea."
Zach says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/251 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "look in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 26/252 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | In the busted wheelbarrow you see a car key, an old tennis ball, a
Floyd | tourist map, a garage door opener, a school pencil, a shovel, an old
Floyd | pillowcase, a can of WD-40, a deflated soccer ball, a broken tire
Floyd | pump, a 2x4 plank, a can-opener, a frisbee, and a cannonball.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Oh, I forgot about the shovel"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow s"
Floyd ]  Bend in path
Floyd | 26/253 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW S
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bend in path
Floyd | As you approach the local nub of suburban civilization, you again are
Floyd | reminded that community expansion has a price.  A small shrubbery here
Floyd | serves, apparently, as an excuse for people to litter, as it is full
Floyd | of bits of trash.  The footpath bends here from west to north, leading
Floyd | into the shopping village.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a sewer grating and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the sewer hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow w"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 26/254 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW W
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sidewalk
Floyd | The concrete sidewalk that leads away from your house is starting to
Floyd | show the wear and tear of the hot summers and cool winters.  The
Floyd | sections are uneven and tufts of grass poke up through the cracks.
Floyd | The sidewalk wanders east alongside the road away from your house and
Floyd | toward the nearby shopping village.  Your driveway is back to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a mailbox and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow w"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 26/255 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW W
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd | This is your front driveway, which leads west to the north side of
Floyd | your house.  A small path leads southwest to the front door.  To the
Floyd | east is the road into town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little car and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 26/256 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 26/257 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 26/258 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take shovel"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 26/259 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SHOVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "dig rock"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 26/260 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the shovel)
Floyd | Digging in the large rock won't accomplish anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "dig up rock"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 26/261 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG UP ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the shovel)
Floyd | Digging in the large rock won't accomplish anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/262 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel as if something is about to happen, but don't know what.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "dig"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/262 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to dig in?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "dig ground"
Floyd ]  Clearing
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG GROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the shovel)
Floyd | The ground is too hard for digging here.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a strange vibration to the air, and the smell of ozone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf10"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/263 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/263 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF10
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "smell" DavidW says, "hmmmmm"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/264 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SMELL
Floyd |
Floyd | The air smells of ozone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something is definitely happening!  The center of the clearing is
Floyd | starting to glow bright yellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/265 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | A sound like the crack of thunder erupts, sucking in the air from
Floyd | around you into a vacuum in the center of the clearing.  The light
Floyd | becomes blindingly bright.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/266 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | When the light fades, you see that a time machine has appeared!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "I knew it! Haunted forest!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x time machine"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/267 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TIME MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a large contraption that's about the size and shape of an engine
Floyd | block, and made of solid metal.  It sits on a platform that is welded
Floyd | firmly to the machine itself.  On the front is a knob and a large red
Floyd | button.  On the back side of it is a hinged compartment.  There is a
Floyd | label on the knob.
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine pings and clicks as the metal cools down.  You feel
Floyd | heat radiating from the machine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read label"
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ LABEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It reads:  -20, -10, 0, +10, +20.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x knob"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/269 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X KNOB
Floyd |
Floyd | The knob can be turned to settings numbered from 1 to 5.  It's
Floyd | currently set to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/269 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Which button do you mean, the opener button, or the large red button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "red"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/270 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RED
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary large red button to me.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read red button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/271 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know how to read the large red button.
Floyd |
Floyd | The haze and ozone dissipate from the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "press open"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/271 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PRESS OPEN
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any open here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open compartment"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/272 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN COMPARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | A wave of heat comes out of the compartment.  Opening the hinged
Floyd | compartment reveals the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "press open button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/272 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PRESS OPEN BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any open button here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take manual"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/273 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MANUAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read manual"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/274 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ MANUAL
Floyd |
Floyd | There are ten chapters and a full index.  Chapters 1 through 3 go into
Floyd | excruciating theoretical detail about time travel, and how it was
Floyd | discovered to be possible.  Chapters 4 through 6 go over the operation
Floyd | of this particular machine, with historical description of early
Floyd | prototypes, which apparently were invented years from now, if that
Floyd | makes any sense.  Chapters 7 through 10 are really a detailed appendix
Floyd | featuring technical schematics of how to build one of these from
Floyd | scratch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe one of these days you'll build one just to see if it works,
Floyd | which is apparently what the author did.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read chapter 4"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/275 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ CHAPTER 4
Floyd |
Floyd | The manual is technical to the point of being over your head,
Floyd | involving seven-dimensional calculus and other intimidating
Floyd | mathematics.  Maybe if you had a few years to get up to speed, you
Floyd | might be able to understand its explanation of how this particular
Floyd | machine works, but not before then.  Your best bet is probably to look
Floyd | up specific subjects, like the knob or the button, in the index.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach asks, "Hmm, so if someone invents a time machine and sends the manual back in time, no one has to invent the time machine themselves?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up knob in machine"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/275 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP KNOB IN MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any machine here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up knob in index"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/276 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP KNOB IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | The knob can be turned to one of five settings, indicating the desired
Floyd | jump in time relative to the machine's current time location.  See
Floyd | also:  label, red button, alert bulb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up label in index"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/277 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP LABEL IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | The label describes the five settings of the knob.  A setting of 1
Floyd | indicates a jump twenty years into the past from the current position.
Floyd | A setting of 2 indicates a jump ten years into the past.  A setting of
Floyd | 3 is a safety position, or "Off" setting, understood to mean a jump of
Floyd | zero time, neither forward nor backward.  A setting of 4 indicates a
Floyd | jump ten years into the future.  A setting of five indicates a jump
Floyd | twenty years into the future.  See also:  knob.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up button in index"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/278 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP BUTTON IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine manual contains no information about that subject.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up red button in index" Zach says, "Oh man, I bet they have amazing sandwiches in the future."
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/279 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP RED BUTTON IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | After years of refinement, the operation of the time machine has been
Floyd | reduced to the simple push of a button.  Once the knob has been set,
Floyd | pushing the button will activate the machine.  However, if the machine
Floyd | attempts to make a jump beyond its imposed safety limit, the alert
Floyd | bulb will flash and no jump will occur.
Floyd |
Floyd | In addition, a safety feature is built into the machine which
Floyd | deactivates the button for a period of time after each time jump.  Due
Floyd | to the heat generated in the engine of the time machine, immediate
Floyd | successive jumps will cause its parts to fuse and become useless, a
Floyd | rather dangerous occurrence for a time traveller to face.  Therefore,
Floyd | the time machine must cool off before the button may be successfully
Floyd | pushed.  Fortunately, this only takes a few minutes (depending on the
Floyd | climate).  See also:  alert bulb, knob, platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up alert bulb in index"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/280 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP ALERT BULB IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | For safety reasons, the time machine can be set to limit the maximum
Floyd | jumping distance.  The alert bulb will flash if the red button is
Floyd | pressed while the knob is set to jump beyond the imposed safety limit,
Floyd | and no jump will occur.  This safety limit cannot be changed except by
Floyd | dismantling the machine, which is forbidden due to the use of
Floyd | hazardous isotopes in the machine's engine.  See also:  red button,
Floyd | knob, label.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up platform in index"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/281 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP PLATFORM IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | Years of development have resulted in the successful manufacture of
Floyd | time machine units designed for small, short trips.  This engineering
Floyd | compaction has resulted in the proportionally scaled-down emission
Floyd | fields which allow the transportation of the machine and its contents
Floyd | intact through time.  If the machine is activated, anything that is
Floyd | not on the platform will not be transported.  It is vital that the
Floyd | person who activates the time machine be also standing on the
Floyd | platform, or he or she will have the unfortunate experience of seeing
Floyd | the unit disappear without them.  This is why solo travel is generally
Floyd | considered very dangerous.  See also:  red button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up inventor in index"
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Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP INVENTOR IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up history in index"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/281 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP HISTORY IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "history".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up me in index"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/282 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP ME IN INDEX
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine manual contains no information about that subject.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put manual in compartment"
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Floyd | 26/283 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT MANUAL IN COMPARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "So, I suppose the platform is a way to move the wheelbarrow, if we need to."
DavidW says, "I suppose since the knob's at 1, the previous user wanted the machine to go 20 years into the past, so it came from 20 years in the future."
Zach says, "Ah ha"
Zach says, "Want to travel back there"
DavidW says, "so set the knob to 5, get on the platform, and push the red button."
Zach says (to Floyd), "set know to 5"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/283 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOW TO 5
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "know".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "set knob to 5"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/284 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 5
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Maybe there's an older 'us' that'll explain why he sent the machine back to us,"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/285 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 26/286 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 31/287 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 5 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf11"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 31/287 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 31/287 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF11
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "press red button"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/288 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PRESS RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A
Floyd | blinding purple light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a
Floyd | wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a
Floyd | ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parking lot
Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a gigantic parking lot which extends
Floyd | as far as you can see in most directions.  An ugly, hot wind whips
Floyd | past you, scorching across the miles of black pavement, drawing at you
Floyd | like a vacuum, pulling you toward one of the ugliest skyscrapers you
Floyd | have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | A monolith of black glass and steel, it rises fully 80 stories, at
Floyd | least.  The fearsome structure is a short walk to the northeast, right
Floyd | where your house used to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach has disconnected.
Zach has connected.
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/289 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parking lot (on the time machine platform)
Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a gigantic parking lot which extends
Floyd | as far as you can see in most directions.  An ugly, hot wind whips
Floyd | past you, scorching across the miles of black pavement, drawing at you
Floyd | like a vacuum, pulling you toward one of the ugliest skyscrapers you
Floyd | have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | A monolith of black glass and steel, it rises fully 80 stories, at
Floyd | least.  The fearsome structure is a short walk to the northeast, right
Floyd | where your house used to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Zach), "I waited 20 years for you, y'know."
Zach says, "aww"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  Beneath the skyscraper
Floyd | 31/290 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.  You maneuver the
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow off of the time machine platform and push it
Floyd | northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the skyscraper
Floyd | The skyscraper looms, looms, looms above you.  It could be as high as
Floyd | 100 stories, but somehow the rippling heat from the blacktop is making
Floyd | your vision distorted, and you really can't trust your eyes right now.
Floyd | The name "Lothario" is displayed in striated steel letters 20 feet up
Floyd | over the entranceway, which extends through glass doors into an
Floyd | expansive lobby.  There is not another soul in sight.  Your only means
Floyd | of escape is the time machine, visible through the hazy heat to the
Floyd | southwest.  You hope it isn't just a mirage.  The glass doors are to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd ]  Beneath the skyscraper
Floyd | 31/291 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/292 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | The blast of dessicating heat settles into the sterile chill of air
Floyd | conditioning as you pass through the doors...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Expansive lobby
Floyd | The floor of this oppressively architectured lobby, with proportions
Floyd | guaranteed to make the visitor feel powerless and insignificant, is
Floyd | made of polished pink granite.  Black marble walls laced with stripes
Floyd | of brass lurch upward to a curved ceiling.  An almost laughable fresco
Floyd | has been painted in the dome, depicting Atlas shouldering the world as
Floyd | angels look on.  In this rendition, Atlas sports a tailored,
Floyd | double-breasted gray suit and an advertising-age, beaming white smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are aware of the presence of security cameras, at least four that
Floyd | you notice right away, pointed in your direction.  A massive security
Floyd | desk built of granite, with an arcing black marble countertop, is
Floyd | situated in the middle of the lobby.  An array of black and white
Floyd | monitors are visible behind it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lobby doors exit to the east.  To the northeast is a long hallway,
Floyd | and to the northwest you see a set of three elevators.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a security guard here, sitting behind the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fresco"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/293 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FRESCO
Floyd |
Floyd | The almost laughable fresco has been painted in the ceiling dome.  It
Floyd | depicts Atlas shouldering the world as angels look on.  In this
Floyd | rendition, Atlas sports a tailored, double-breasted gray suit and an
Floyd | advertising-age, beaming white smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guard"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/294 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | She is a tall, powerful-looking woman in her late thirties.  Her
Floyd | orange hair has been yanked straight back into a tight bun, stretching
Floyd | her already tense face into a taut mask of ill humor.  She wears a
Floyd | uniform, a badge, a stun gun, a pistol, and an air of unassailable
Floyd | authority.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about building"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/295 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK GUARD ABOUT BUILDING
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard says, "I'm not authorized to tell you anything
Floyd | about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about lothario"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/296 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK GUARD ABOUT LOTHARIO
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard says, "I'm not authorized to tell you anything
Floyd | about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about fresco"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/297 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK GUARD ABOUT FRESCO
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard says, "I'm not authorized to tell you anything
Floyd | about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "hm. ne?"
Zach says, "I'm falling asleeping"
DavidW says, "oh, ok"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/298 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard stops you.  "You don't have any business down
Floyd | there," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. DavidW says, "I'm gonna lie down for a bit."
DavidW wakes
DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/298 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nfftf1"
*** SESSION TWO ***
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 
Floyd |
Floyd | You've just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and
Floyd | invention section of the local public library, where you spend each
Floyd | night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel
Floyd | machine.  Tonight, for some reason, you're especially fatigued, and
Floyd | can't wait to get inside and go right to bed.  Seems like a good plan,
Floyd | but somehow you have a premonition it's not going to be that easy...
Floyd |
Floyd | First Things First - A Text Adventure Game by J. Robinson
Floyd | Wheeler
Floyd | Developed with TADS:  The Text Adventure Development System.
Floyd |
Floyd | Release Version 3.0 20061221
Floyd | Copyright 2001, 2006 by J. Robinson Wheeler.  All Rights Reserved.
Floyd | Published by JRW Digital Media.
Floyd | Type ABOUT, CREDITS, and HELP for general information.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 
Floyd | >
Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd | I beg your pardon?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to restore game from >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), ""nfftf1"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | > "NFFTF1
Floyd |
Floyd | The saved position file could not be opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to restore game from >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nfftf1"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/298 
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | > NFFTF1
Floyd |
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Expansive lobby
Floyd | The floor of this oppressively architectured lobby, with proportions
Floyd | guaranteed to make the visitor feel powerless and insignificant, is
Floyd | made of polished pink granite.  Black marble walls laced with stripes
Floyd | of brass lurch upward to a curved ceiling.  An almost laughable fresco
Floyd | has been painted in the dome, depicting Atlas shouldering the world as
Floyd | angels look on.  In this rendition, Atlas sports a tailored,
Floyd | double-breasted gray suit and an advertising-age, beaming white smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lobby doors exit to the east.  To the northeast is a long hallway,
Floyd | and to the northwest you see a set of three elevators.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a security desk here.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a security guard here, sitting behind the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Oops."
[LINK]
Zach says, "We had just used the time machine to go 20 years into the future."
genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
Zach says, "The forest is now an evil parking lot"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guard"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/299 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | She is a tall, powerful-looking woman in her late thirties.  Her
Floyd | orange hair has been yanked straight back into a tight bun, stretching
Floyd | her already tense face into a taut mask of ill humor.  She wears a
Floyd | uniform, a badge, a stun gun, a pistol, and an air of unassailable
Floyd | authority.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x authority"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/300 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X AUTHORITY
Floyd |
Floyd | It is unequivocally intimidating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "A female guard? This is the future!"
genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "flirt with guard"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/300 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FLIRT WITH GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "flirt".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kiss guard"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/301 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KISS GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard is startled by your display of affection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Aw."
Zach says, "We also have a wheelbarrow full of stuff outside."
Zach says (to Floyd), "blush"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/301 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BLUSH
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "blush".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to guard"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/302 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard grimaces and deigns only to nod at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | [To engage in conversation with characters in this story, use the
Floyd | verbs ASK and TELL.
Floyd |
Floyd ASK [the security guard] ABOUT [subject] will prompt her to give
Floyd | you any opinion or information they have about the subject.
Floyd TELL [the security guard] ABOUT [subject] will give herthe chance
Floyd | to react to any information that you might have about the subject that
Floyd | they may not know.  If you don't have any special information about
Floyd | the subject, you will get the character's opinion about the topic as
Floyd | if you had ASKed a question.
Floyd |
Floyd | This message will appear only once.  ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/303 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask guard about time travel"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/304 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK GUARD ABOUT TIME TRAVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard says, "I'm not authorized to tell you anything
Floyd | about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tell guard about special"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/305 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TELL GUARD ABOUT SPECIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard says, "I have no interest in hearing anything about
Floyd | that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask guard about building"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/306 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK GUARD ABOUT BUILDING
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard says, "I'm not authorized to tell you anything
Floyd | about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give special to guard"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/307 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE SPECIAL TO GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard rejects the offer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl wounded.
Zach says, "Aw"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x elevators" genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe doughnuts."
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/308 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ELEVATORS
Floyd |
Floyd | The elevators are to the northwest.  You'll have to walk over to them
Floyd | before you can do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "I was thinking recently about how in one of the Floyds, we should play The Windhall Chronicles."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/309 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lobby elevators
Floyd | This short hallway is painted a deep shade of crimson.  A large
Floyd | building directory is bolted to the wall.  A leafy plant sits in the
Floyd | corner, attempting to breathe some semblance of real life into the
Floyd | sterile atmosphere.  There are three closed elevator doors here, and
Floyd | up and down call buttons.  The lobby is back to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x plants"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/309 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any plants here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x plant"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/310 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | Alas, it is only a semblance of real life, as the plant turns out to
Floyd | be artificial on closer inspection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search plant"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/311 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Sure."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x directory"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/312 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DIRECTORY
Floyd |
Floyd | The directory lists well over fifty companies, each occupying a
Floyd | different floor.  None of them mean anything to you.  The Lothario
Floyd | Corporation's main offices are on the top floor, level 70.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Does there exist a Volume 2?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/312 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Which button do you mean, the up button, or the down button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push up button"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/312 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH UP BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the up button.  You assume one of them will respond to your
Floyd | call, but nothing immediately changes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard comes walking slowly towards you.  "You there," she
Floyd | says.  "Who are you going to see?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl signed NightFloyd Suggestions.
Zach says (to Floyd), "tell guard about Lothario"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/313 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TELL GUARD ABOUT LOTHARIO
Floyd |
Floyd | She says, "I'm not sure who that is, but you've proven to me that you
Floyd | have no legitimate business here.  I'm going to have to ask you to
Floyd | leave this area."  She escorts you back to the lobby and eyes you
Floyd | warily from behind her desk, as if at any moment she expected you to
Floyd | start waving sticks of dynamite and making wild demands.
Floyd |
Floyd | Expansive lobby
Floyd | The floor of this oppressively architectured lobby, with proportions
Floyd | guaranteed to make the visitor feel powerless and insignificant, is
Floyd | made of polished pink granite.  Black marble walls laced with stripes
Floyd | of brass lurch upward to a curved ceiling.  An almost laughable fresco
Floyd | has been painted in the dome, depicting Atlas shouldering the world as
Floyd | angels look on.  In this rendition, Atlas sports a tailored,
Floyd | double-breasted gray suit and an advertising-age, beaming white smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lobby doors exit to the east.  To the northeast is a long hallway,
Floyd | and to the northwest you see a set of three elevators.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a security desk here.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a security guard here, sitting behind the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "We could "find" one that "fell of a truck"."
Johnny says, "+f"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x desk"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/314 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | The desk is built of granite with an arcing black marble countertop.
Floyd | An array of black and white monitors are visible behind it.  There's
Floyd | nothing on the security desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x monitors"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/315 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MONITORS
Floyd |
Floyd | On the monitors you see various places in the building, with
Floyd | interchangeable people in dark suits going to and fro.  As you turn
Floyd | your head, a face catches your eye.  It's an older woman, dressed in a
Floyd | dark suit like everyone else.  Something about her seemed very
Floyd | familiar, but she exits the view of the elevator camera before you can
Floyd | place her.  You scan around, trying to see where she goes, but you
Floyd | can't find her again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x fresco"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/316 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FRESCO
Floyd |
Floyd | The almost laughable fresco has been painted in the ceiling dome.  It
Floyd | depicts Atlas shouldering the world as angels look on.  In this
Floyd | rendition, Atlas sports a tailored, double-breasted gray suit and an
Floyd | advertising-age, beaming white smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take plant"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/316 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any plant here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "One sec."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/317 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lobby elevators
Floyd | This short hallway is painted a deep shade of crimson.  A large
Floyd | building directory is bolted to the wall.  A leafy plant sits in the
Floyd | corner, attempting to breathe some semblance of real life into the
Floyd | sterile atmosphere.  There are three closed elevator doors here, and
Floyd | up and down call buttons.  The lobby is back to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take plant"
Floyd ]  Lobby elevators
Floyd | 31/318 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/319 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Expansive lobby
Floyd | The floor of this oppressively architectured lobby, with proportions
Floyd | guaranteed to make the visitor feel powerless and insignificant, is
Floyd | made of polished pink granite.  Black marble walls laced with stripes
Floyd | of brass lurch upward to a curved ceiling.  An almost laughable fresco
Floyd | has been painted in the dome, depicting Atlas shouldering the world as
Floyd | angels look on.  In this rendition, Atlas sports a tailored,
Floyd | double-breasted gray suit and an advertising-age, beaming white smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lobby doors exit to the east.  To the northeast is a long hallway,
Floyd | and to the northwest you see a set of three elevators.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a security desk here.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a security guard here, sitting behind the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Fine."
Zach says, ">take unimportant plant"
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Expansive lobby
Floyd | 31/320 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | The security guard stops you.  "You don't have any business down
Floyd | there," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Beneath the skyscraper
Floyd | 31/321 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The sterile chill of conditioned air gives way to the punishing blast
Floyd | of dessicating heat as you pass through the doors...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the skyscraper
Floyd | The skyscraper looms, looms, looms above you.  It could be as high as
Floyd | 100 stories, but somehow the rippling heat from the blacktop is making
Floyd | your vision distorted, and you really can't trust your eyes right now.
Floyd | The name "Lothario" is displayed in striated steel letters 20 feet up
Floyd | over the entranceway, which extends through glass doors into an
Floyd | expansive lobby.  There is not another soul in sight.  Your only means
Floyd | of escape is the time machine, visible through the hazy heat to the
Floyd | southwest.  You hope it isn't just a mirage.  The glass doors are to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Beneath the skyscraper
Floyd | 31/322 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Beneath the skyscraper
Floyd | 31/323 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | A blast of heat obscures your vision.  You retreat, oppressed by
Floyd | feelings of black foreboding.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "There are other time periods to try as well. I can't think of what to do here."
genericgeekgirl says, "Ok."
genericgeekgirl says, "I was asleep during that part of last week."
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/324 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parking lot
Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a gigantic parking lot which extends
Floyd | as far as you can see in most directions.  An ugly, hot wind whips
Floyd | past you, scorching across the miles of black pavement, drawing at you
Floyd | like a vacuum, pulling you toward one of the ugliest skyscrapers you
Floyd | have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | A monolith of black glass and steel, it rises fully 80 stories, at
Floyd | least.  The fearsome structure is a short walk to the northeast, right
Floyd | where your house used to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine and a busted wheelbarrow here.  The hinged
Floyd | compartment seems to contain the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a sharp noise that dies quickly away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow on platform"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/325 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see something moving in the shimmering air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/326 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parking lot
Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a gigantic parking lot which extends
Floyd | as far as you can see in most directions.  An ugly, hot wind whips
Floyd | past you, scorching across the miles of black pavement, drawing at you
Floyd | like a vacuum, pulling you toward one of the ugliest skyscrapers you
Floyd | have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | A monolith of black glass and steel, it rises fully 80 stories, at
Floyd | least.  The fearsome structure is a short walk to the northeast, right
Floyd | where your house used to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something is moving quickly toward you from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read manual"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/327 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ MANUAL
Floyd |
Floyd | There are ten chapters and a full index.  Chapters 1 through 3 go into
Floyd | excruciating theoretical detail about time travel, and how it was
Floyd | discovered to be possible.  Chapters 4 through 6 go over the operation
Floyd | of this particular machine, with historical description of early
Floyd | prototypes, which apparently were invented years from now, if that
Floyd | makes any sense.  Chapters 7 through 10 are really a detailed appendix
Floyd | featuring technical schematics of how to build one of these from
Floyd | scratch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Black shapes are surrounding you on all sides.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x dial"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/328 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | The knob can be turned to settings numbered from 1 to 5.  It's
Floyd | currently set to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | Everything seems to fade into the haze...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read label"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/329 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ LABEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It reads:  -20, -10, 0, +10, +20.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/330 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A blinding
Floyd | light envelops the machine, and it vanishes in a fancy puff of smoke,
Floyd | leaving only the smell of ozone behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "belatedly, no, I don't believe there is a Windhall Chronicles Vol. 2, but I have a registered version of Vol. 1 (the only difference between it and the free version is some hints I got in the mail)."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/329 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parking lot
Floyd | You are standing in the middle of a gigantic parking lot which extends
Floyd | as far as you can see in most directions.  An ugly, hot wind whips
Floyd | past you, scorching across the miles of black pavement, drawing at you
Floyd | like a vacuum, pulling you toward one of the ugliest skyscrapers you
Floyd | have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | A monolith of black glass and steel, it rises fully 80 stories, at
Floyd | least.  The fearsome structure is a short walk to the northeast, right
Floyd | where your house used to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand on platform"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/330 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/331 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | A little alert bulb on the time machine flashes briefly.  Perhaps the
Floyd | machine has a limited range, because nothing seems to happen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "set dial to 2"
Floyd ]  Parking lot
Floyd | 31/332 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET DIAL TO 2
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/333 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A dull
Floyd | orange light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild
Floyd | vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The clearing here is desolate, giving the distinct impression that all
Floyd | natural life has left this area.  The ground is hard and overgrown by
Floyd | weedy grass.  There are no trees any more, but there are some stumps
Floyd | where once they stood.  Your old footpath is nowhere to be seen.  You
Floyd | do see your house to the northeast, but it too looks abandoned.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 5 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "This should be 10 years in our future"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x stumps"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/334 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STUMPS
Floyd |
Floyd | Some of the stumps look deliberately cut, and others look like the
Floyd | result of a fierce storm that once blew through.  There is some
Floyd | evidence of blackening, as if, somewhat recently, a fire ripped
Floyd | through the woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Do the black shapes eventually kill us?"
Zach says, "I don't know, but they seemed scary"
genericgeekgirl says, "I'm sure they just wanna be our friends <3"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/335 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.  You maneuver the
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow off of the time machine platform and push it
Floyd | northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the rock
Floyd | A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, a familiar
Floyd | landmark in an otherwise unfamiliar landscape.  Once nestled along a
Floyd | wooded path, it now is the sole feature of an eerily empty landscape,
Floyd | distorting your perceptions of scale and distance.  The broken remains
Floyd | of dark glass bottles lie around the base.  The rock itself looks
Floyd | darker than you remember it, somewhat blackened.  To the northeast is
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bottles"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/336 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOTTLES
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the broken bottles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take glass"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/337 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE GLASS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reason to touch the broken glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Yeah, but just because you're a villainess"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x rock"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/338 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock is a five foot grey boulder, almost egg-shaped, a single
Floyd | piece of heavy, textured granite.  Polished smooth over time, a wedge
Floyd | shape sheared from the top ages ago provides a comfortable place to
Floyd | sit.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is now darkened near the base, covered in a filmy black soot.
Floyd | Other marks, small circular burns that have left yellow drip-stains,
Floyd | are noticeable to the left and right of the sitting shelf.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x stains"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/339 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STAINS
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the yellow drip-stains.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on rock"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/340 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT ON ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You sit down on top of the rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sleep"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/341 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd rather wait until you can get inside your house, in your proper
Floyd | time, and into your own bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "kiss rock"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/342 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KISS ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know how to kiss the large rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Well, let me teach you"
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/343 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the large rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 36/344 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | This is not your house as you expected to find it, but a scene of
Floyd | devastation.  The house has been destroyed by fire.  There is nothing
Floyd | left of the roof or the upper half, and of the lower half, merely
Floyd | charred timbers and twisted pipes that no longer lead to anything.  To
Floyd | the southwest is the old rock and, farther, the clearing.  You can
Floyd | walk around what's left of your house to the northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow nw"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 36/345 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | The house has been destroyed by fire.  There is nothing left of the
Floyd | roof or the upper half, and of the lower half, merely charred timbers
Floyd | and twisted pipes that no longer lead to anything.  A gravel path
Floyd | extends northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 36/346 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The house has been destroyed by fire.  There is nothing left of the
Floyd | roof or the upper half, and of the lower half, merely charred timbers
Floyd | and twisted pipes that no longer lead to anything.  The stone chimney
Floyd | that once led up is a crumbled pile of blackened stone and mortar.
Floyd | The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to the
Floyd | front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow se"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 36/347 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | The house has been destroyed by fire.  There is nothing left of the
Floyd | roof or the upper half, and of the lower half, merely charred timbers
Floyd | and twisted pipes that no longer lead to anything.  Sopping mounds of
Floyd | rotting leaves that have collected along the edges and corners
Floyd | indicate years of neglect.  A pool of dirty yellow water trickles down
Floyd | from the driveway and collects, full of black silt, near where the
Floyd | front door used to be.  The driveway is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible far to the southwest.  You can enter the burned
Floyd | house to the west, but there won't be much to see there.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Oh no. I hope our squirrel was ok."
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Inside the house
Floyd | 36/348 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the house
Floyd | You are now inside your house, but it is unrecognizable either as
Floyd | yours or as a house.  All that there is to see, unfortunately, is fire
Floyd | damaged wood and broken things.  The insides have been burnt out,
Floyd | leaving a brittle, soot-stained shell that you can hear wind whistling
Floyd | through.  Sadly, you can exit in any direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd ]  Inside the house
Floyd | 36/349 
Zach says, "3g, I don't know how to say this..."
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Lies."
Zach says, "Squirrels don't live for 10 years"
genericgeekgirl says, "Sure, but I hope it didn't burn in the fire, whenever that was."
Ellison says, "ok, guys, look around for a tiny squirrel grave"
Johnny asks, "Marked by the cap of an acorn?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Wow. | Squirrels that live in the wild live to be 5 to 6 years old. If they are kept in captivity they can live to be 20 years old."
genericgeekgirl says, "Rats live three, if you're lucky."
Johnny says, "Whoa, I want to live in captivity."
Zach says, "That's because squirrels use black magic. I don't trust 'em"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 36/350 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | The house has been destroyed by fire.  There is nothing left of the
Floyd | roof or the upper half, and of the lower half, merely charred timbers
Floyd | and twisted pipes that no longer lead to anything.  Sopping mounds of
Floyd | rotting leaves that have collected along the edges and corners
Floyd | indicate years of neglect.  A pool of dirty yellow water trickles down
Floyd | from the driveway and collects, full of black silt, near where the
Floyd | front door used to be.  The driveway is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible far to the southwest.  You can enter the burned
Floyd | house to the west, but there won't be much to see there.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Inside the house
Floyd | 36/351 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the house
Floyd | You are now inside your house, but it is unrecognizable either as
Floyd | yours or as a house.  All that there is to see, unfortunately, is fire
Floyd | damaged wood and broken things.  The insides have been burnt out,
Floyd | leaving a brittle, soot-stained shell that you can hear wind whistling
Floyd | through.  Sadly, you can exit in any direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search"
Floyd ]  Inside the house
Floyd | 36/351 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to search?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search house"
Floyd ]  Inside the house
Floyd | 36/351 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH HOUSE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any house here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search things"
Floyd ]  Inside the house
Floyd | 36/351 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH THINGS
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any things here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 36/352 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | The house has been destroyed by fire.  There is nothing left of the
Floyd | roof or the upper half, and of the lower half, merely charred timbers
Floyd | and twisted pipes that no longer lead to anything.  Sopping mounds of
Floyd | rotting leaves that have collected along the edges and corners
Floyd | indicate years of neglect.  A pool of dirty yellow water trickles down
Floyd | from the driveway and collects, full of black silt, near where the
Floyd | front door used to be.  The driveway is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible far to the southwest.  You can enter the burned
Floyd | house to the west, but there won't be much to see there.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheel barrow ne"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 36/352 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEEL BARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 36/353 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd | Your driveway looks much the same, a thankful sight after the ruin
Floyd | your house has become.  The road to town still lies to the east.  Your
Floyd | front door is to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a newspaper and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read newspaper"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x newspaper"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 36/354 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ NEWSPAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | An item in the business section catches your eye.  Apparently, the
Floyd | Lothario Corporation has failed to consume DibbleBits, an upstart
Floyd | technology company, in hostile takeover.  It seems DibbleBits is
Floyd | cash-rich right now, its stock value having taken a sudden 80-point
Floyd | jump in the last year, due to technology demand, after having
Floyd | languished at pennies-per-share for 30 years.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 36/355 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X NEWSPAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The name of the paper is the same, but somehow it can't be the same
Floyd | publication to which you have long subscribed.  Missing is the
Floyd | thorough science and technology section.  In its place are colorful
Floyd | graphics, fluffy self-help editorials, and every decoration short of
Floyd | scratch-n-sniff decals.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "scratch paper"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 36/356 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SCRATCH PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | There are no scratch-n-sniff decals in this game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "!!!!!!"
Zach says, "But, but"
genericgeekgirl says, "That's a great response."
Zach says (to Floyd), "sniff paper"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 36/357 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SNIFF PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The newspaper smells like a newspaper.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take paper"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 36/358 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow e"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 36/359 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW E
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sidewalk
Floyd | After the shocking sight of your house, this once-familiar sidewalk is
Floyd | a calming surprise.  Someone must have recently repoured the walk, as
Floyd | it is smooth and free of flaws.  The sidewalk bends runs alongside the
Floyd | road from your house to the west into the nearby strip mall, which is
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a mailbox and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "look in mailbox"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 36/360 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN MAILBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | It's closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "open mailbox"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 36/361 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN MAILBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "look in mailbox"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 36/362 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN MAILBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing in the mailbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/363 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Strip mall
Floyd | The walk to town is much shorter, because progress seems to have
Floyd | brought the town to you.  Where there used to be some nice trees and
Floyd | bushes is a concrete strip-mall.  The old village square with the
Floyd | library, bank, and sandwich shop seems to have been mowed down to make
Floyd | way for this thing.  In fact, a sign here makes you think even this
Floyd | strip mall isn't long for this world.  Even the bank is gone, replaced
Floyd | by an impersonal automated teller machine (ATM).
Floyd |
Floyd | In the strip mall you see a number of vacant offices.  The only shop
Floyd | that seems to be open for business is an alabaster little store
Floyd | labelled "Locksmith," which is directly to the north.  The way back to
Floyd | your house is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read sign"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/364 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ SIGN
Floyd |
Floyd | The sign in the locksmith shop reads, "Going out of business - Free
Floyd | stuff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/365 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Locksmith shop
Floyd | A sign inside says, "Going out of business - Free stuff."  Most
Floyd | everything has been taken already.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a motorized grinder here.  The motorized grinder seems to
Floyd | contain a blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x grinder"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/366 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GRINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | The device is pretty simple:  you put a master key and a blank into
Floyd | the grinder, turn it on, and the lathe cuts the blank into a
Floyd | duplicate.  A black, heavy-duty electrical cord with a plug at the end
Floyd | trails out the back.  The thick black cord is plugged into the socket.
Floyd | In the motorized grinder you see a blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/367 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Oooh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take grinder"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/368 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE GRINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll have to unplug it from the socket first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unplug grinder"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/369 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNPLUG GRINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You unplug the motorized grinder from the socket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take grinder"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/370 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE GRINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put grinder in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/370 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT GRINDER IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "It's still outside"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/371 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Strip mall
Floyd | The walk to town is much shorter, because progress seems to have
Floyd | brought the town to you.  Where there used to be some nice trees and
Floyd | bushes is a concrete strip-mall.  The old village square with the
Floyd | library, bank, and sandwich shop seems to have been mowed down to make
Floyd | way for this thing.  In fact, a sign here makes you think even this
Floyd | strip mall isn't long for this world.  Even the bank is gone, replaced
Floyd | by an impersonal automated teller machine (ATM).
Floyd |
Floyd | In the strip mall you see a number of vacant offices.  The only shop
Floyd | that seems to be open for business is an alabaster little store
Floyd | labelled "Locksmith," which is directly to the north.  The way back to
Floyd | your house is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put rare book shovel in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/371 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT RARE BOOK SHOVEL IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | There appear to be extra words after your command.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put shovel in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/372 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT SHOVEL IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Haha, oops."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/373 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Locksmith shop
Floyd | A sign inside says, "Going out of business - Free stuff."  Most
Floyd | everything has been taken already.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a motorized grinder here.  The motorized grinder seems to
Floyd | contain a blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take grinder"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/374 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE GRINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, c'mon."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/375 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Strip mall
Floyd | The walk to town is much shorter, because progress seems to have
Floyd | brought the town to you.  Where there used to be some nice trees and
Floyd | bushes is a concrete strip-mall.  The old village square with the
Floyd | library, bank, and sandwich shop seems to have been mowed down to make
Floyd | way for this thing.  In fact, a sign here makes you think even this
Floyd | strip mall isn't long for this world.  Even the bank is gone, replaced
Floyd | by an impersonal automated teller machine (ATM).
Floyd |
Floyd | In the strip mall you see a number of vacant offices.  The only shop
Floyd | that seems to be open for business is an alabaster little store
Floyd | labelled "Locksmith," which is directly to the north.  The way back to
Floyd | your house is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put all in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/376 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ALL IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | machete:  Done.
Floyd | divining wand:  Done.
Floyd | crowbar:  Done.
Floyd | cold cut special:  Done.
Floyd | paper napkin:  Done.
Floyd | penny:  Done.
Floyd | some money (four dollars):  Done.
Floyd | rare book:  Done.
Floyd | biology book:  Done.
Floyd | newspaper:  Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/377 
DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk.
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Locksmith shop
Floyd | A sign inside says, "Going out of business - Free stuff."  Most
Floyd | everything has been taken already.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a motorized grinder here.  The motorized grinder seems to
Floyd | contain a blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take grinder"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/378 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE GRINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "It shall be mine."
genericgeekgirl says, "I will grind all the things."
Zach says, "Hey DavidW"
Johnny says, "so much depends upon a busted wheel barrow"
Johnny says, "Hi DavidW"
DavidW says, "I'll catch up in a bit, my eyes are still adjusting to light. Just woke up."
Zach asks, "Hmm, do we have a key to grind?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Not currently, I think."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Locksmith shop
Floyd | 36/379 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Locksmith shop
Floyd | A sign inside says, "Going out of business - Free stuff."  Most
Floyd | everything has been taken already.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Maybe we can go back in time, find our key, and then mail our future selves a copy"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/380 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Strip mall
Floyd | The walk to town is much shorter, because progress seems to have
Floyd | brought the town to you.  Where there used to be some nice trees and
Floyd | bushes is a concrete strip-mall.  The old village square with the
Floyd | library, bank, and sandwich shop seems to have been mowed down to make
Floyd | way for this thing.  In fact, a sign here makes you think even this
Floyd | strip mall isn't long for this world.  Even the bank is gone, replaced
Floyd | by an impersonal automated teller machine (ATM).
Floyd |
Floyd | In the strip mall you see a number of vacant offices.  The only shop
Floyd | that seems to be open for business is an alabaster little store
Floyd | labelled "Locksmith," which is directly to the north.  The way back to
Floyd | your house is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/381 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cary key"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/381 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CARY KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "cary".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "car key"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/381 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CAR KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x car key"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/382 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CAR KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | This is a spare car key that you left yourself in case of emergency.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read rare book"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/383 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ RARE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't the slightest interest in the subject.  Who would?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "nerds"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/383 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NERDS
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "nerds".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "oh, I see. First Things First again, yes?"
jenrexrode arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. Zach says, "Yup. We couldn't find anything to do in the office building, so we went back in time 10 years."
Johnny says, "Hi jen"
Zach says, "To 10 years in our future"
Zach says, "Hey Jen"
jenrexrode says, "hi"
genericgeekgirl says, "Heya"
Zach says, "I guess we could make a copy of our car key"
DavidW says, "Maybe we need to make a copy of our house key? After all, we did want to get in our house at the start."
jenrexrode says, "last thing I remember was mocking a squirrel on the roof"
Zach says, "Yeah, but that would mean we could already get into the house."
DavidW says, "well, I mean, in the past."
Zach says, "Not that it makes sense to copy the car key"
jenrexrode says, "also a wheelbarrow full of junk"
DavidW says, "Hard to tell without seeing all time periods."
Zach says (to jrr), "Now we have even more junk!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x atm"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/384 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ATM
Floyd |
Floyd | The automated teller machine has a slot, a display, and a numeric
Floyd | keypad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Bet the ATM has an attitude too. Darn future ATMs."
Zach says (to Floyd), "open atm with crowbar"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/385 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN ATM WITH CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know how to open that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode says, "glad to be of service"
DavidW asks, "Do we have a bankcard yet?"
Johnny says, "f smash. grab"
Zach says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/386 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Strip mall
Floyd | 36/387 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "This is going to be fun."
Johnny says, "(to watch)"
Zach asks, "Travel to the past?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Ok"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow s"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 36/388 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW S
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sidewalk
Floyd | After the shocking sight of your house, this once-familiar sidewalk is
Floyd | a calming surprise.  Someone must have recently repoured the walk, as
Floyd | it is smooth and free of flaws.  The sidewalk bends runs alongside the
Floyd | road from your house to the west into the nearby strip mall, which is
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a mailbox and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow w"
Floyd ]  Driveway
Floyd | 36/389 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW W
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Driveway
Floyd | Your driveway looks much the same, a thankful sight after the ruin
Floyd | your house has become.  The road to town still lies to the east.  Your
Floyd | front door is to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 36/390 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | The house has been destroyed by fire.  There is nothing left of the
Floyd | roof or the upper half, and of the lower half, merely charred timbers
Floyd | and twisted pipes that no longer lead to anything.  Sopping mounds of
Floyd | rotting leaves that have collected along the edges and corners
Floyd | indicate years of neglect.  A pool of dirty yellow water trickles down
Floyd | from the driveway and collects, full of black silt, near where the
Floyd | front door used to be.  The driveway is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible far to the southwest.  You can enter the burned
Floyd | house to the west, but there won't be much to see there.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 36/391 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | This is not your house as you expected to find it, but a scene of
Floyd | devastation.  The house has been destroyed by fire.  There is nothing
Floyd | left of the roof or the upper half, and of the lower half, merely
Floyd | charred timbers and twisted pipes that no longer lead to anything.  To
Floyd | the southwest is the old rock and, farther, the clearing.  You can
Floyd | walk around what's left of your house to the northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  At the rock
Floyd | 36/392 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the rock
Floyd | A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, a familiar
Floyd | landmark in an otherwise unfamiliar landscape.  Once nestled along a
Floyd | wooded path, it now is the sole feature of an eerily empty landscape,
Floyd | distorting your perceptions of scale and distance.  The broken remains
Floyd | of dark glass bottles lie around the base.  The rock itself looks
Floyd | darker than you remember it, somewhat blackened.  To the northeast is
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/393 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The clearing here is desolate, giving the distinct impression that all
Floyd | natural life has left this area.  The ground is hard and overgrown by
Floyd | weedy grass.  There are no trees any more, but there are some stumps
Floyd | where once they stood.  Your old footpath is nowhere to be seen.  You
Floyd | do see your house to the northeast, but it too looks abandoned.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine and a busted wheelbarrow here.  The hinged
Floyd | compartment seems to contain the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/394 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/395 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x dial"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/396 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | The knob can be turned to settings numbered from 1 to 5.  It's
Floyd | currently set to 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/397 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A dull
Floyd | orange light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild
Floyd | vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/398 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen.  You recall that the time machine manual
Floyd | specified that the machine has a fail-safe to keep its parts from
Floyd | fusing.  You have to let it cool off before it will let you make
Floyd | another jump.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Oops, this is the present"
Zach says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/399 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/400 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/401 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen.  You recall that the time machine manual
Floyd | specified that the machine has a fail-safe to keep its parts from
Floyd | fusing.  You have to let it cool off before it will let you make
Floyd | another jump.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/402 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/403 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 36/404 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/405 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A dull
Floyd | orange light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild
Floyd | vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 5 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/406 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.  You push through
Floyd | the trees.  Your footpath doesn't seem to exist any more...
Floyd | You maneuver the busted wheelbarrow off of the time machine platform
Floyd | and push it northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x rock"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/407 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock is a five foot grey boulder, almost egg-shaped, a single
Floyd | piece of heavy, textured granite.  Polished smooth over time, a wedge
Floyd | shape sheared from the top ages ago provides a comfortable place to
Floyd | sit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "I had to step afk. What time period are in now?"
Zach says, "-10 years"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 41/408 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the south side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | but apart from that, there's not much to see.  The ground slopes down
Floyd | slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high
Floyd | because of it.  A little bare path made by you just now leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.  To the east is a dirt road leading to town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow nw"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 41/409 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone shouts, "Get that paint over to number eight!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 41/410 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A teenaged kid dashes by with hot coffee for the foreman.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/411 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see four full jugs of miracle-grow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x jugs"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/412 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X JUGS
Floyd |
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  In the full jug of miracle-grow you see
Floyd | some thick liquid.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  In the full jug of miracle-grow you see
Floyd | some thick liquid.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  In the full jug of miracle-grow you see
Floyd | some thick liquid.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  In the full jug of miracle-grow you see
Floyd | some thick liquid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "y'know, I can already guess what these jugs are for."
Zach asks, "What's that?"
jenrexrode says, "jug augmentation"
DavidW asks, "We saw an acorn in the present, didn't we? And a window out of reach? And a bare spot where we always wanted a tree?"
Zach says, "Clever"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/413 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  Taken.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "s. s."
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 41/415 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S. S.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step out, a burly landscaper pushes roughly past you.  "Excuse
Floyd | me.  I need to use these," he says, and scoops up all three remaining
Floyd | jugs of miracle-grow with ease.  He hustles out, whistling a tune.  A
Floyd | large black dog trots along beside him, panting and wagging its tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | It occurs to you that you should have taken all of the jugs when you
Floyd | had the chance.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two guys wheel past with a load of cinder blocks.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A man with a hard hat barks commands to some dust-covered strongarms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "failure!"
Zach says, "crap"
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 41/414 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/413 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see three full jugs of miracle-grow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/412 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see four full jugs of miracle-grow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/411 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see four full jugs of miracle-grow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 41/410 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 41/411 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two guys wheel past with a load of cinder blocks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 41/412 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A man with a hard hat barks commands to some dust-covered strongarms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf18"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 41/412 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 41/412 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF18
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/413 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see four full jugs of miracle-grow and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put all in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/414 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ALL IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | motorized grinder:  Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/415 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  Taken.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put jub in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/415 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT JUB IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "jub".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put jug in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/416 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT JUG IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/417 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  Taken.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put jug in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/418 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT JUG IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/419 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  Taken.
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put jug in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/420 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT JUG IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/421 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put jug in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/422 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT JUG IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 41/423 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Run away!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow s"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 41/424 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW S
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone shouts, "Where's the langstrom 7-inch gangley wrench?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow s"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 41/425 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW S
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A young man scurries by, holding three bundles of copper piping.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 41/426 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the north side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | and the driveway is currently being poured, but apart from that,
Floyd | there's not much to see.  A temporary workshed is to the west, and you
Floyd | can walk around the house to the southeast and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two women walk by, discussing their favorite winch pulley
Floyd | manufacturers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow se"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 41/427 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the front of your house.  The house
Floyd | is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | apart from that, there's not much to see.  A construction blockade is
Floyd | to the northeast, preventing you from stepping on the freshly-poured
Floyd | cement driveway.  A huge supply truck sitting on the other side of the
Floyd | driveway, behind the blockade.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and southwest.  You can go around the driveway and find the
Floyd | road into town to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone up in the roof rafters shouts orders that are ignored.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "I have that conversation with my gal pals all the time."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x truck" DavidW says, "y'know, if you can find some blueprints, you might even be able to add a porch and an extra bathroom to your place."
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 41/428 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TRUCK
Floyd |
Floyd | A sign on the truck says:  Blanc & Lebling Construction Supply
Floyd | Company, Inc.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone cries, "Yeah!  We've been waitin' for those!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter truck"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 41/429 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER TRUCK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | A huge man with a mustache to match lopes by, carrying a trowel and a
Floyd | bag of plaster mix.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "heh Infocom joke."
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow e"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 41/430 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW E
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sidewalk
Floyd | The concrete sidewalk that leads away from your house is also recently
Floyd | poured.  The unpaved dirt road that leads in the direction of the
Floyd | construction site has been crisscrossed by a number of vehicles with
Floyd | large treads.  The road takes a bend here to the north.  The
Floyd | construction site is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  Oakwood drive
Floyd | 41/431 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Oakwood drive
Floyd | This pleasant road wanders peacefully through the lush tree growths
Floyd | native to the area.  In the intervening years, they'll straighten the
Floyd | road and widen it, cutting down dozens of these forty- to
Floyd | ninety-year-old live oaks.  The road leads north into the shopping
Floyd | village, and south in the direction of your house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 41/432 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a little different than you're used
Floyd | to seeing it.  Colored signs point you to this merchant and that.  To
Floyd | the west is the bank, which seems like it's always been here and
Floyd | always will.  To the east is an empty plot of land.  The sandwich shop
Floyd | is to the north.  The road leading back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "read sign"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 41/433 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ SIGN
Floyd |
Floyd | The colorful signs say "Bank <-- to your left", "Sandwiches straight
Floyd | ahead."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Sandwiches!!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 41/433 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | It's lunchtime, and the sandwich shop is crowded with customers.  You
Floyd | don't feel like fighting your way through the line.  It's lunchtime,
Floyd | and the sandwich shop is crowded with customers.  You don't feel like
Floyd | fighting your way through
Floyd | [TADS-1010: object value required]
Floyd | the line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 41/434 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It's lunchtime, and the sandwich shop is crowded with customers.  You
Floyd | don't feel like fighting your way through the line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow w"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 41/435 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW W
Floyd |
Floyd | The wheelbarrow won't fit through the doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the bank
Floyd | 41/436 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the bank
Floyd | The bank interior is polished and impeccable.  A desk to the south
Floyd | says "New Accounts."  A teller window to the north is labeled
Floyd | "Deposits and Withdrawals." A hallway leads west into the bank's back
Floyd | offices.  The exit is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  New accounts
Floyd | 41/437 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | New accounts
Floyd | The new accounts area is a clean little area in the corner of the
Floyd | bank.  No one seems to be here.  The lobby is back to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  In the bank
Floyd | 41/438 
DavidW says, "You're only allowed to push wheelbarrows into banks in cartoon westerns featuring Bugs Bunny."
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the bank
Floyd | The bank interior is polished and impeccable.  A desk to the south
Floyd | says "New Accounts."  A teller window to the north is labeled
Floyd | "Deposits and Withdrawals." A hallway leads west into the bank's back
Floyd | offices.  The exit is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Teller window
Floyd | 41/438 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Teller window
Floyd | The teller stands ready at the window, with a polite but grim
Floyd | expression.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank teller is standing behind the teller window.
Floyd |
Floyd | The teller says, "Good morning.  Would you care to make a deposit or a
Floyd | withdrawal today?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
Zach says, "Hmm"
Zach says (to Floyd), "withdrawal"
Floyd ]  In the bank
Floyd | 41/439 
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > WITHDRAWAL
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm sorry.  You don't seem to have an open account.  Our new accounts
Floyd | clerk will be happy to help you when he gets back from lunch."
Floyd |
Floyd | The teller says, "Have a nice day."
Floyd |
Floyd | In the bank
Floyd | The bank interior is polished and impeccable.  A desk to the south
Floyd | says "New Accounts."  A teller window to the north is labeled
Floyd | "Deposits and Withdrawals." A hallway leads west into the bank's back
Floyd | offices.  The exit is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Maybe we have to open an account in the past"
DavidW says, "I think so."
DavidW says, "My mind is already collecting the interest."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 41/440 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a little different than you're used
Floyd | to seeing it.  Colored signs point you to this merchant and that.  To
Floyd | the west is the bank, which seems like it's always been here and
Floyd | always will.  To the east is an empty plot of land.  The sandwich shop
Floyd | is to the north.  The road leading back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "money money money"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow s"
Floyd ]  Oakwood drive
Floyd | 41/441 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW S
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Oakwood drive
Floyd | This pleasant road wanders peacefully through the lush tree growths
Floyd | native to the area.  In the intervening years, they'll straighten the
Floyd | road and widen it, cutting down dozens of these forty- to
Floyd | ninety-year-old live oaks.  The road leads north into the shopping
Floyd | village, and south in the direction of your house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow s"
Floyd ]  Sidewalk
Floyd | 41/442 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW S
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sidewalk
Floyd | The concrete sidewalk that leads away from your house is also recently
Floyd | poured.  The unpaved dirt road that leads in the direction of the
Floyd | construction site has been crisscrossed by a number of vehicles with
Floyd | large treads.  The road takes a bend here to the north.  The
Floyd | construction site is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow w"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 41/443 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW W
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the front of your house.  The house
Floyd | is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | apart from that, there's not much to see.  A construction blockade is
Floyd | to the northeast, preventing you from stepping on the freshly-poured
Floyd | cement driveway.  A huge supply truck sitting on the other side of the
Floyd | driveway, behind the blockade.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and southwest.  You can go around the driveway and find the
Floyd | road into town to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A short man in a blue shirt says, "We ain't got enough water in the
Floyd | mix.  Where's the foreman?  Get the foreman."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 41/444 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the south side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | but apart from that, there's not much to see.  The ground slopes down
Floyd | slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high
Floyd | because of it.  A little bare path made by you just now leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.  To the east is a dirt road leading to town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crashing noise is heard, and then a burst of laughter.  You can't
Floyd | see what caused it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach asks, "Should we try getting the acorn from the squirrel?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/445 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Eventually, yes."
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/446 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | As you turn the heavily-laden wheelbarrow to swerve around the rock,
Floyd | the busted front wheel twists horribly, then completely snaps off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "But I don't remember how yet."
Zach says, "nooo"
genericgeekgirl says, "Eek."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/445 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "I wonder if we can prevent that"
DavidW says, "Sure. Don't take the jugs. :)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/446 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |    four full jugs of miracle-grow
Floyd |        some thick liquid
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I'm wondering if we have to repair the 'barrow."
Zach says, "Maybe the squirrel wants the sammich"
DavidW says, "Not sure. Food of some sort, sure."
DavidW says, "Squirrels aren't known for eating meat, though."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x special"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/447 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SPECIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a bunch of meat on bread.  Not bad for 99 cents, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Allen says, "3 words: flying carniverous squirrels"
genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe it'll eat the bread?"
DavidW says, "I don't know."
DavidW says, "It might accept the sandwich, but I'm dubious."
Allen | Carnivorous flying squirrels is something of a misnomer. They don't actually fly, but their prodigious leaps make it seems as if they can. These little beasts are meat-eaters, and they hunt in packs that attack with wolfish cunning.
Zach says (to Floyd), "take cannonball"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/448 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CANNONBALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take shovel"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/449 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SHOVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/450 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | As you turn the heavily-laden wheelbarrow to swerve around the rock,
Floyd | the busted front wheel twists horribly, then completely snaps off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/449 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf19"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/449 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/449 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF19
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/450 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | As you turn the heavily-laden wheelbarrow to swerve around the rock,
Floyd | the busted front wheel twists horribly, then completely snaps off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheel"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/451 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like you hit it on a rock and loosened the bolt, as well as
Floyd | twisted the axle out of shape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x axle"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/452 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X AXLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like you hit it on a rock and loosened the bolt, as well as
Floyd | twisted the axle out of shape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Repair work might be necessary?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "bend axle"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/452 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BEND AXLE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix axle"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/452 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FIX AXLE
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to fix it with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix axle with crowbar"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/453 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FIX AXLE WITH CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The front wheel of the wheelbarrow is completely beyond repair now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm, maybe not."
Zach says, "I wonder if removing everything else from the wheelbarrow would help"
DavidW asks, "or we portage the jugs one by one past the rock?"
Zach says, "That would be easier"
DavidW asks, "Or we go 10 years back into the past and destroy this rock?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/454 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/455 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/456 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/457 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow and a busted front wheel here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "hit rock with crowbar"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/458 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT ROCK WITH CROWBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Attacking the large rock doesn't appear productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/459 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/460 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine and a full jug of miracle-grow here.  The
Floyd | hinged compartment seems to contain the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/461 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "uh, the wheelbarrow is still broken"
Zach says (to Floyd), "RESTORE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf19"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/461 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/449 
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | > CF19
Floyd |
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "oops"
Zach says, "That's what I pay you for"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/450 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/451 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/452 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/453 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/454 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "It's possible that the 'barrow will break regardless, and we just need to get used to storing our crap on the time machine's platform after the jugs point."
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/455 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine and a full jug of miracle-grow here.  The
Floyd | hinged compartment seems to contain the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/456 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/457 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/458 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/459 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine and two full jugs of miracle-grow here.  The
Floyd | hinged compartment seems to contain the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/460 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/461 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/462 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/463 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine and three full jugs of miracle-grow here.  The
Floyd | hinged compartment seems to contain the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop jub"
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/463 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUB
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "jub".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/464 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/465 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine and three full jugs of miracle-grow here.  The
Floyd | hinged compartment seems to contain the time machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/466 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/467 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/468 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 41/468 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any jug here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/469 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine, four full jugs of miracle-grow, and a busted
Floyd | wheelbarrow here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain the time
Floyd | machine manual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put all on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/470 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ALL ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | cannonball:  Done.
Floyd | shovel:  Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/471 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/472 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put jug on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/473 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT JUG ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug. put jug on platform."
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/475 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG. PUT JUG ON PLATFORM.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug. put jug on platform."
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/477 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG. PUT JUG ON PLATFORM.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take jug. put jug on platform."
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/479 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG. PUT JUG ON PLATFORM.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/480 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | cannonball, a shovel, a busted wheelbarrow, and four full jugs of
Floyd | miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 41/481 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/482 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A dull
Floyd | orange light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild
Floyd | vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can barely keep your bearings
Floyd | straight, as each direction looks the same as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | cannonball, a shovel, a busted wheelbarrow, and four full jugs of
Floyd | miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 5 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh."
Zach says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/483 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.  You get all
Floyd | turned around in the dense forest growth and end up back where you
Floyd | started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/484 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/485 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get all turned around in the dense forest growth and seem to end
Floyd | up back where you started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/486 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You get all turned around in the dense forest growth and seem to end
Floyd | up back where you started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/487 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You get all turned around in the dense forest growth and seem to end
Floyd | up back where you started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Hmm"
DavidW asks, "A compass might help?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/486 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/485 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/484 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/483 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can barely keep your bearings
Floyd | straight, as each direction looks the same as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | cannonball, a shovel, a busted wheelbarrow, and four full jugs of
Floyd | miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Check the sun's position. Check the trees for moss."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/484 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf20"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/484 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/484 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF20
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/485 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You maneuver the busted wheelbarrow off of the time machine platform
Floyd | and push it northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow se"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/486 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/487 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow e"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/488 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW E
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/489 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/490 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x trees"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/491 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TREES
Floyd |
Floyd | The foliage is thick and tangled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow nw"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/492 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow w"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/493 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW W
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Poor li'l wheelbarrow."
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow nw"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/494 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Hmm, not sure that this is working"
DavidW says, "Hope you're keeping track and can find our way back."
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 46/495 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow se"
Floyd ]  Flowing stream
Floyd | 50/496 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Flowing stream
Floyd | The foliage parts at last to reveal a sparkling forest stream.  Light
Floyd | dapples gently through the leaves to highlight slick, wet rocks and
Floyd | the bright green of fresh growth.  The stream flows, about half a
Floyd | meter wide, from the north to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the stream.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 4 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "huzzah. You found water. Enjoy."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x stream"
Floyd ]  Flowing stream
Floyd | 50/497 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The stream is fast, but shallow.  From the looks of it, it is just a
Floyd | glimmer of the rushing fullness it once was, and will soon dry up
Floyd | forever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd ]  Flowing stream
Floyd | 50/497 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to swim in?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "swim in stream"
Floyd ]  Flowing stream
Floyd | 50/498 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWIM IN STREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The water is not deep enough to swim in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode | Oliver Sacks, famous neuroscientist, author of many books including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; although he knew what prosopagnosia was and had studied it, he did not realize he had it until people became shocked that he confused one of his brothers with the other and then, discussing it with family members, learned that a number of them had similar difficulties with face recognition.
Zach says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 50/499 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Grotto
Floyd | The multiverdant greenery fed by the churning stream seems to end here
Floyd | in a place of stillness and serenity surrounding a deep pool of clear
Floyd | water.  Even the very air itself seems to obey the call to quiet.  The
Floyd | only exit is northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Flowing stream
Floyd | 50/500 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Flowing stream
Floyd | The foliage parts at last to reveal a sparkling forest stream.  Light
Floyd | dapples gently through the leaves to highlight slick, wet rocks and
Floyd | the bright green of fresh growth.  The stream flows, about half a
Floyd | meter wide, from the north to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the stream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 50/501 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 50/502 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a soft spot and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x spot"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 50/503 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SPOT
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a spot here which is particularly moist and soft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Hmm, I guess this is where we could plant that tree"
DavidW says, "Plant the acorn here, I assume, yes."
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  Oakwood drive
Floyd | 50/504 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Oakwood drive
Floyd | This pleasant road wanders peacefully through the lush tree growths
Floyd | native to the area.  In the intervening years, they'll straighten the
Floyd | road and widen it, cutting down dozens of these thirty- to
Floyd | eighty-year-old live oaks.  The road leads north into the old shopping
Floyd | village, and a path winds back into the forest to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow n"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/505 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW N
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/506 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take money"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/507 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MONEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the bank
Floyd | 50/508 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the bank
Floyd | The bank interior is polished and impeccable.  A desk to the south
Floyd | says "New Accounts."  A teller window to the north is labeled
Floyd | "Deposits and Withdrawals." A hallway leads west into the bank's back
Floyd | offices.  The exit is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  New accounts
Floyd | 50/509 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | New accounts
Floyd | The new accounts area is a clean little area in the corner of the
Floyd | bank.  The lobby is back to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laura, a bank employee, is sitting at the new accounts desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask laura about new account"
Floyd ]  New accounts
Floyd | 50/509 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK LAURA ABOUT NEW ACCOUNT
Floyd |
Floyd | Laura asks, "Yes, would you care to open a new account?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
Zach says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd ]  New accounts
Floyd | 50/509 
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | Laura says, "Okay.  We require a minimum deposit of $100 in order to
Floyd | open your account.  Is that all right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
DavidW says, "oopsie"
Zach says, "Hmm"
DavidW says, "I was hoping to deposit our shiny penny. :)"
genericgeekgirl asks, "Is there a place to sell the rare book?"
Zach says, "Why, yess"
DavidW asks, "Antique store?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  New accounts
Floyd | 50/510 
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, have a nice day, then."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  In the bank
Floyd | 50/511 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the bank
Floyd | The bank interior is polished and impeccable.  A desk to the south
Floyd | says "New Accounts."  A teller window to the north is labeled
Floyd | "Deposits and Withdrawals." A hallway leads west into the bank's back
Floyd | offices.  The exit is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/512 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take rare book"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/513 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE RARE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/514 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | She says, "Good morning.  Feel free to browse around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask merchant about rare book"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/515 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MERCHANT ABOUT RARE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant gives it a quick once-over with her expertly trained
Floyd | eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant shakes her head and says, "Sorry, that isn't something I
Floyd | can consider buying from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Bah."
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/516 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/517 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x penny"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/518 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PENNY
Floyd |
Floyd | Minted in Denver in 1975, this penny is worth one cent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Library might want the book? What's the book about?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rare"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/519 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X RARE
Floyd |
Floyd | A rare scientific volume, detailing the mating habits of small
Floyd | rodents.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "It's too boring for us to read, in any case."
Zach says, "We got the book from the library"
Zach says, "It was stuck in the slot"
genericgeekgirl says, "Oh right. We stole a library book."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x biology book"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/520 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BIOLOGY BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | The title of this book is "Fun With Ferns" by Prof. Roy Hinkley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Maybe we can blow her mind with the newspaper"
genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/521 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | She says, "Good morning.  Feel free to browse around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/522 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take paper"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/523 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/524 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | She says, "Good morning.  Feel free to browse around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask woman about newspaper"
jenrexrode has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/524 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK WOMAN ABOUT NEWSPAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any woman here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "There's probably something we can sell to the antique store, though."
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask merchant about newspaper"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/525 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MERCHANT ABOUT NEWSPAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant gives it a quick once-over with her expertly trained
Floyd | eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant shakes her head and says, "Sorry, that isn't something I
Floyd | can consider buying from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x stuff"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/526 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STUFF
Floyd |
Floyd | The collection of antiques is disordered, and most of it doesn't look
Floyd | important.  You think you might turn something up if you gave it a
Floyd | good search, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search stuff" genericgeekgirl says, "Not so expert that she doesn't realize it's from the future."
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/527 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH STUFF
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a lightning rod!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search stuff"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/528 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH STUFF
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a metal suitcase!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "search stuff"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/529 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH STUFF
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing else in the antiques.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open suitcase"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/530 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN SUITCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x suitcase"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/531 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SUITCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a solid suitcase with a shiny aluminum case, capable of
Floyd | transporting a volume of material securely.  The metal suitcase is
Floyd | open.  There's nothing in the metal suitcase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rod"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/532 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ROD
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a long spear of conducting metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take suitcase"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/533 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SUITCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | You have to buy the metal suitcase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says, "Bah."
genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe we can send the squirrel in to get it."
genericgeekgirl says, "It works in Nethack."
Zach says, "There could also be $100 in our house"
Zach says (to 3g), "yay"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/534 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a lightning rod and a metal suitcase here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "I don't suppose she ever leaves, huh?"
DavidW says, "I don't remember our collection of stuff, but the cannonball might qualify. However, I still haven't seen us use the cannonball on the clogged drainpipe yet."
Zach was referred to as looking like "a cross between the chicken dance and a foot stomping robot" to the untrained eye.
Zach has disconnected.
Zach arrives, ready to play with the toys. DavidW says, "hm. The way the antique stuff was described as much like the stuff we keep in our garage suggests strongly that the garage stuff has something for this shop."
genericgeekgirl says, "Likely, yeah."
genericgeekgirl says, "Probably something entirely unexpected."
Zach says, "I think we also left the cannonball on the time machine"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/535 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 50/536 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "well, maybe it's the divining rod."
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow e"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/537 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW E
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a lightning rod, a metal suitcase, and a busted wheelbarrow
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant greets you with a smile and a pair of raised eyebrows as
Floyd | you enter.  "Back again, are we?" she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice that her gaze was drawn straight to your creaky old
Floyd | wheelbarrow the moment you wheeled the thing in.  She eyes it up and
Floyd | down with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Or the machete?"
DavidW asks, "Or the wheelbarrow itself?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask woman about wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/537 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK WOMAN ABOUT WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any woman here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask merchant about wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/538 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MERCHANT ABOUT WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant takes a glance at the busted wheelbarrow and says, "Could
Floyd | I ask you to please take everything out of it?  I can't appraise it
Floyd | when it's carrying things."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all from wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/539 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | car key:  Taken.
Floyd | old tennis ball:  Taken.
Floyd | tourist map:  Taken.
Floyd | garage door opener:  Taken.
Floyd | school pencil:  Taken.
Floyd | old pillowcase:  Taken.
Floyd | can of WD-40:  Taken.
Floyd | deflated soccer ball:  Taken.
Floyd | broken tire pump:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | 2x4 plank:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | can-opener:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | frisbee:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | machete:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | divining wand:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | crowbar:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | cold cut special:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | paper napkin:  Taken.
Floyd | penny:  Taken.
Floyd | biology book:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd | motorized grinder:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "ack/"
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop all"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/540 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | some money (four dollars):  Dropped.
Floyd | rare book:  Dropped.
Floyd | newspaper:  Dropped.
Floyd | car key:  Dropped.
Floyd | old tennis ball:  Dropped.
Floyd | tourist map:  Dropped.
Floyd | garage door opener:  Dropped.
Floyd | school pencil:  Dropped.
Floyd | old pillowcase:  Dropped.
Floyd | can of WD-40:  Dropped.
Floyd | deflated soccer ball:  Dropped.
Floyd | paper napkin:  Dropped.
Floyd | penny:  Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all from wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/541 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | broken tire pump:  Taken.
Floyd | 2x4 plank:  Taken.
Floyd | can-opener:  Taken.
Floyd | frisbee:  Taken.
Floyd | machete:  Taken.
Floyd | divining wand:  Taken.
Floyd | crowbar:  Taken.
Floyd | cold cut special:  Taken.
Floyd | biology book:  Taken.
Floyd | motorized grinder:  You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop all"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/542 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | broken tire pump:  Dropped.
Floyd | 2x4 plank:  Dropped.
Floyd | can-opener:  Dropped.
Floyd | frisbee:  Dropped.
Floyd | machete:  Dropped.
Floyd | divining wand:  Dropped.
Floyd | crowbar:  Dropped.
Floyd | cold cut special:  Dropped.
Floyd | biology book:  Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all from wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/543 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | motorized grinder:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop all"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/544 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | motorized grinder:  Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "You don't really want to sell our 'barrow, do you?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask merchant about wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/544 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MERCHANT ABOUT WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant says, "Say, this wheelbarrow is as ancient as Methuselah.
Floyd | But the front wheel's shot.  It'd be worth more if it were fixed.
Floyd | I'll give you $35 for it.  Deal?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
Zach asks, "Maybe we sell it last?"
Ellison asks, "is the antique shop in multiple times?"
Zach says, "I don't think so"
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask merchant about pump"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/545 
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > ASK MERCHANT ABOUT PUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant says, "Well, all right then.  Have a nice day."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I wonder if we can fix the wheelbarrow when it's pre-broken-by-rock."
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask merchant about frisbee"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/546 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MERCHANT ABOUT FRISBEE
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant gives it a quick once-over with her expertly trained
Floyd | eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant shakes her head and says, "Sorry, that isn't something I
Floyd | can consider buying from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/547 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. There's nothing in the busted wheelbarrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x front wheel"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/548 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FRONT WHEEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like you hit it on a rock and loosened the bolt, as well as
Floyd | twisted the axle out of shape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Crud, I didn't realize we had broken it again"
DavidW says, "no, it's been 'busted' all along."
Zach says, "That's what I thought"
Zach says (to Floyd), "tighten bolt"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/548 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TIGHTEN BOLT
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to fix it with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/548 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any l here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/549 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a lightning rod, a metal suitcase, a busted wheelbarrow, some
Floyd | money (four dollars), a rare book, a newspaper, a car key, an old
Floyd | tennis ball, a tourist map, a garage door opener, a school pencil, an
Floyd | old pillowcase, a can of WD-40, a deflated soccer ball, a paper
Floyd | napkin, a penny, a broken tire pump, a 2x4 plank, a can-opener, a
Floyd | frisbee, a machete, a divining wand, a crowbar, a cold cut special, a
Floyd | biology book, and a motorized grinder here.  The motorized grinder
Floyd | seems to contain a blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "We need a wrench, perhaps."
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask merchant about wand"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/550 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MERCHANT ABOUT WAND
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant gives it a quick once-over with her expertly trained
Floyd | eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant shakes her head and says, "Sorry, that isn't something I
Floyd | can consider buying from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Maybe there's something in our house"
Zach says, "I wonder if we have enough to get in the house now."
DavidW waits to see what happens next.
Zach asks, "Mind if I restore and mess with the squirrel?"
DavidW says, "no, I don't mind."
Zach says (to Floyd), "RESTORE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf20"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 50/550 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/484 
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | > CF20
Floyd |
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can barely keep your bearings
Floyd | straight, as each direction looks the same as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | cannonball, a shovel, a busted wheelbarrow, and four full jugs of
Floyd | miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "(my computer turned off and I lost my notes on how to get back through the woods)"
DavidW says, "It may be random."
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand on platform"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/485 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Yeah, I'm wondering if we don't just go directly back from the rock by the stream to the time machine"
Zach says (to Floyd), "set dial to 5"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/486 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET DIAL TO 5
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/487 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen.  You recall that the time machine manual
Floyd | specified that the machine has a fail-safe to keep its parts from
Floyd | fusing.  You have to let it cool off before it will let you make
Floyd | another jump.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "z. z. z. z. z. z."
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 46/493 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z. Z. Z. Z. Z. Z.
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 46/494 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A
Floyd | blinding purple light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a
Floyd | wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a
Floyd | ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | cannonball, a shovel, a busted wheelbarrow, and four full jugs of
Floyd | miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "put cannonball and shovel in wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 46/495 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT CANNONBALL AND SHOVEL IN WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | cannonball:  Done.
Floyd | shovel:  Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 46/496 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.  You maneuver the
Floyd | busted wheelbarrow off of the time machine platform and push it
Floyd | northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 46/497 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow ne"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 46/498 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat and a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "push wheelbarrow nw"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/499 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH WHEELBARROW NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the busted wheelbarrow northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "take sandwich"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/500 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SANDWICH
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 46/501 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 46/502 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel paces around, turns, and paces some more.  Then he just
Floyd | kind of sits there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 46/503 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | Definitely male, all right.  He's got a tuft of white hair on his head
Floyd | that almost gives him an Einstein-like appearance.  In his little paws
Floyd | is a big, juicy acorn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel nibbles at one of his little paws.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "give sandwich to squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 46/504 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE SANDWICH TO SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel isn't hungry.  Besides, squirrels don't eat sandwiches.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel looks shocked and clutches at his little neck.  Or not.
Floyd | He was probably just doing some squirrel thing that you read too much
Floyd | into.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "well, maybe a Tasmanian she-squirrel costume...?"
Zach says, "oh my"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n. d. take frisbee. u. s."
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 46/509 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N. D. TAKE FRISBEE. U. S.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel swishes its tail in a curling motion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Or trick him into dropping it?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "give frisbee to squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 46/510 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE FRISBEE TO SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't what the squirrel is interested in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel flops out flat and takes a short squirrel nap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "n. d."
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/512 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N. D.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/513 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach asks, "If you were a squirrel, what you rather have than an acorn?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take penny"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/514 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PENNY
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "SHINY"
Zach says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 46/515 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 46/516 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel fluffs his tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "give penny to squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 46/517 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE PENNY TO SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't what the squirrel is interested in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel perks up, then looks bored again.  No wait, he just
Floyd | looked bored the whole time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "blurg"
DavidW says, "A picture book on the mating habits of squirrels? Squirrels love porn."
Zach says, "Spoken like a man who knows what squirrels like"
DavidW says, "well, male squirrels, anyway."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n. d."
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/519 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N. D.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "look up squirrel in book"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/519 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP SQUIRREL IN BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Which book do you mean, the rare book, or the biology book?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "look up squirrel in the biology book"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/520 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP SQUIRREL IN THE BIOLOGY BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | The biology book contains no information about that subject.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, darn"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x biology"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/521 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BIOLOGY
Floyd |
Floyd | The title of this book is "Fun With Ferns" by Prof. Roy Hinkley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up ferns in biology"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/522 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UP FERNS IN BIOLOGY
Floyd |
Floyd | The book contains a few dry facts about the biology book, but nothing
Floyd | very important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/523 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x ball"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/523 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Which ball do you mean, the old tennis ball, or the deflated soccer
Floyd | ball?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to Floyd), "x tennis ball"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/524 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TENNIS BALL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's faded to a pale whitish green over the years, and it's sticky
Floyd | with mud and rotten leaves.  You must have lost it during an exuberant
Floyd | game of catch some years ago.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says (to DavidW), "Feel free to play around. I might be nodding off soon"
DavidW says, "well, I do want to try my cannonball idea."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/525 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/526 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/527 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb wall"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 46/528 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "where's our wheelbarrow?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/529 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, I though we were on the roof. Confused."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cannonball"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 46/530 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CANNONBALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb wall"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 46/531 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 46/532 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You will fall off the roof if you go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 46/533 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel does nothing at all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cannonball in drainpipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/534 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT CANNONBALL IN DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You drop the cannonball into the drainpipe.  It barely fits, so you
Floyd | give it a shove.  There is a disgusting vomiting noise below, as the
Floyd | cannonball bursts out the bottom of the spout, pushing all the muck
Floyd | out with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 3 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel retreats a few paces from you, probably just because it's
Floyd | a squirrel and it likes to move around constantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 49/535 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/536 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 49/537 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | The back of your house is pretty non-descript, except for some really
Floyd | nice trees that make up for the lack of landscaping in the front.  The
Floyd | spout of your drainpipe comes down here from the roof.  A gravel path
Floyd | extends northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a cannonball here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drainpipe"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 49/538 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 49/539 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "hm. We got 3 points for it, but no new item?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/540 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 49/541 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/542 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel tilts his head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take acorn"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/543 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ACORN
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel is carrying the big juicy acorn and won't let you have
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel hunches on his back legs and stares blankly at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put tennis ball in drainpipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/543 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT TENNIS BALL IN DRAINPIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any tennis ball here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 49/544 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/545 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tennis ball"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/546 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE TENNIS BALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 49/547 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/548 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel twitters and sniffits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give ball to squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/549 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE BALL TO SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't what the squirrel is interested in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel goes a bit nutty, but he's always like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw ball at squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/550 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW BALL AT SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel isn't interested in playing catch with you right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel flicks his tail and blinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ball in pipe"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/551 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT BALL IN PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You drop the old tennis ball into the drainpipe.  It rattles through
Floyd | and comes out the spout below.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel paces back and forth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/550 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/551 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel paces back and forth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/552 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | Definitely male, all right.  He's got a tuft of white hair on his head
Floyd | that almost gives him an Einstein-like appearance.  In his little paws
Floyd | is a big, juicy acorn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel is rather squat and feral, but it regards you with an
Floyd | almost intelligent interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "what was the rare book about?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 49/553 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/554 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ball in barrow"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/555 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT BALL IN BARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rare book"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/556 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE RARE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/557 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't the slightest interest in the subject.  Who would?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/558 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | A rare scientific volume, detailing the mating habits of small
Floyd | rodents.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 49/559 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly up the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/560 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South roof
Floyd | The shingles are in even worse shape on this end of the house, which
Floyd | makes you very nervous as the ground is a long way down from the peak
Floyd | here, at least 30 feet.  The gutter trap is to the west and continues
Floyd | up to the north end of the house.  You can see the top opening of the
Floyd | drainpipe in the clogged leaves.  The only exit is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A squirrel is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel gazes into the distance, daydreaming about something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give book to squirrel"
Floyd ]  South roof
Floyd | 49/561 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE BOOK TO SQUIRREL
Floyd |
Floyd | You give the rare book to the squirrel.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel is so excited by the numerous color depictions of female
Floyd | squirrels in heat that he drops the acorn, which unfortunately rolls
Floyd | down the slope of the roof into the gutter.  You hear the acorn rattle
Floyd | into the drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The squirrel runs off with the rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "aha!"
DavidW says, "I was right!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  North roof
Floyd | 49/562 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North roof
Floyd | This is the north end of the roof.  Shingle tiles, already looking the
Floyd | worse for wear, make for slippery traction.  A gutter trap, clogged
Floyd | with leaves, runs along the length of the west side of the house.  The
Floyd | roof itself continues south.  The stone wall, which turns out to be
Floyd | the outside of your chimney, leads back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 49/563 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb gingerly down the stone wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 49/564 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | The back of your house is pretty non-descript, except for some really
Floyd | nice trees that make up for the lack of landscaping in the front.  The
Floyd | spout of your drainpipe comes down here from the roof.  A gravel path
Floyd | extends northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a cannonball and a big juicy acorn here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 57/565 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | drainpipe:  It's fixed in place.
Floyd | cannonball:  Taken.
Floyd | big juicy acorn:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 8 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 57/566 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Zach says, "Porn saves the day!"
DavidW says, "As it usually does."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/567 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk
Floyd | in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and
Floyd | there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it.  There is a
Floyd | garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south leads into
Floyd | your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the way you
Floyd | came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a wasp nest, a moose head trophy, a beat-up
Floyd | mattress, and the kitchen sink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/568 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll have to open the back door first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open back door"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/569 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN BACK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/570 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the wall opener button.  Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garage door smoothly glides shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/571 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk
Floyd | in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and
Floyd | there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it.  There is a
Floyd | garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south leads into
Floyd | your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the way you
Floyd | came in, which is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a wasp nest, a moose head trophy, a beat-up
Floyd | mattress, and the kitchen sink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x garage door"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/572 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GARAGE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It's closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/573 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the wall opener button.  Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garage door smoothly glides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Wondered if anything of significance changed when the garage door was closed."
DavidW says, "I know I just woke up, but I feel I need another nap, at least a short one."
DavidW says, "I'm gonna lie down for at least 15 minutes."
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
Johnny concentrates, and disappears.
Johnny arrives, ready to play with the toys.
Johnny says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Johnny says (to Floyd), "cf21"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/573 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/573 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF21
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. DavidW says, "ugh. I guess that was a lot longer than 15 minutes."
DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/573 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nfftf2"
*** SESSION THREE ***
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to restore game from >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nfftf2"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/573 
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | > NFFTF2
Floyd |
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk
Floyd | in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and
Floyd | there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it.  There is a
Floyd | garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south leads into
Floyd | your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the way you
Floyd | came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a wasp nest, a moose head trophy, a beat-up
Floyd | mattress, and the kitchen sink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I got the acorn last time we played, but I don't know if that's this save point or not."
genericgeekgirl says, "This was saved after everyone went to bed."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 57/574 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a big juicy acorn
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "If we have those plant growth jugs (did we get them?) we should totally go back in time and grow an oak tree."
genericgeekgirl asks, "I think we got all of them, yeah. Where is the wheelbarrow?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 57/575 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wheelbarrow"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 57/576 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WHEELBARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | This filthy beast from, apparently, the last century, has a busted
Floyd | front wheel. In the busted wheelbarrow you see:
Floyd |    a car key
Floyd |    a tourist map
Floyd |    a garage door opener
Floyd |    a school pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |    a can of WD-40
Floyd |    a deflated soccer ball
Floyd |    a broken tire pump
Floyd |    a 2x4 plank
Floyd |    a can-opener
Floyd |    a machete
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |    a crowbar
Floyd |    a paper napkin
Floyd |    some money (four dollars)
Floyd |    a biology book
Floyd |    a newspaper
Floyd |    a motorized grinder
Floyd |        a blank
Floyd |    a shovel
Floyd |    an old tennis ball
Floyd |
Floyd | >
genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh, they were too heavy. So they're at the machine?"
DavidW says, "Maybe. Or this might've been an alternate branch of the playthrough."
DavidW says, "I remember the jugs were kinda awkward to get, because if you don't take all of them at once, someone takes the untaken ones away."
DavidW says, "and the wheelbarrow breaks down at that rock."
[LINK]
genericgeekgirl says, "Whoops."
genericgeekgirl says, "Wrong game."
[LINK]
DavidW says, "yeah, we did a restore from cf20, it looks like."
genericgeekgirl says, "Ah"
DavidW says, "I'm thinking we were reluctant to get the jugs at the expense of sacrificing the wheelbarrow."
genericgeekgirl asks, "Yeah, makes sense. Hm. I know it suggested that we do, but do we really need all of them?"
DavidW says, "I really don't know."
Ellison asks, "yeah, how many miracles will it take?"
DavidW says, "I assume the wheelbarrow gets broken regardless, though."
DavidW asks, "I suppose we could plant the acorn and see what happens without any growth formula...?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 57/577 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 57/578 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 57/579 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 57/580 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/581 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/582 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, the jugs are here."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/583 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a large contraption that's about the size and shape of an engine
Floyd | block, and made of solid metal.  It sits on a platform that is welded
Floyd | firmly to the machine itself.  On the front is a knob and a large red
Floyd | button.  On the back side of it is a hinged compartment.  There is a
Floyd | label on the knob.  The time machine has cooled off.  On the time
Floyd | machine platform you see four full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read label"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/584 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ LABEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It reads:  -20, -10, 0, +10, +20.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "so, -20 ?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn knob to -20"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/584 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO -20
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "-20".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x knob"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/585 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X KNOB
Floyd |
Floyd | The knob can be turned to settings numbered from 1 to 5.  It's
Floyd | currently set to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 1"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/586 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 1
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/587 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A deep
Floyd | red light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild vortex
Floyd | that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can barely keep your bearings
Floyd | straight, as each direction looks the same as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get off platform"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/588 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET OFF PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/589 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh right. A maze-ish place."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/590 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the sound of a stream gurgling somewhere nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to stream"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/590 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN TO STREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any stream here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/591 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can barely keep your bearings
Floyd | straight, as each direction looks the same as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/592 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the sound of a stream gurgling somewhere nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "trees"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/592 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TREES
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/593 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TREES
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the grove of cedar and live oak trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb trees"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/594 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB TREES
Floyd |
Floyd | The grove of cedar and live oak trees is not suitable for climbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger asks, "Don't you want to ask her about her jugs?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/595 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You get all turned around in the dense forest growth and end up back
Floyd | where you started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/596 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You get all turned around in the dense forest growth and end up back
Floyd | where you started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/597 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You get all turned around in the dense forest growth and end up back
Floyd | where you started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/598 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the sound of a stream gurgling somewhere nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I know we solved this, but I forgot how."
DavidW says, "oh, we need the divining rod."
DavidW says, "er wand"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/599 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a big juicy acorn
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on platform"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/600 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/601 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a large contraption that's about the size and shape of an engine
Floyd | block, and made of solid metal.  It sits on a platform that is welded
Floyd | firmly to the machine itself.  On the front is a knob and a large red
Floyd | button.  On the back side of it is a hinged compartment.  There is a
Floyd | label on the knob.  The time machine has cooled off.  On the time
Floyd | machine platform you see four full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 5"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/602 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 5
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/603 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A
Floyd | blinding purple light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a
Floyd | wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a
Floyd | ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 57/604 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 57/605 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 57/606 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 57/607 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wand"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 57/608 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE WAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 57/609 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 57/610 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 57/611 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/612 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter machine"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/613 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 1"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 57/614 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 1
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 57/615 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A deep
Floyd | red light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild vortex
Floyd | that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can barely keep your bearings
Floyd | straight, as each direction looks the same as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/616 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.  You almost lose
Floyd | your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/617 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/618 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/619 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/620 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/621 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/622 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/623 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/624 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "The divining wand is a jerk"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  In the forest
Floyd | 57/625 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides.  You can hear the soft gurgling
Floyd | of a stream nearby, but the foliage is so rich and dense that the
Floyd | sound of it is dispersed.  The foliage is so rich and dense that you
Floyd | can barely keep your bearings straight.  Each direction looks the same
Floyd | as every other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Flowing stream
Floyd | 61/626 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost lose your bearings again, but the divining wand seems to
Floyd | pull you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Flowing stream
Floyd | The foliage parts at last to reveal a sparkling forest stream.  Light
Floyd | dapples gently through the leaves to highlight slick, wet rocks and
Floyd | the bright green of fresh growth.  The stream flows, about half a
Floyd | meter wide, from the north to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the stream.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 4 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stream"
Floyd ]  Flowing stream
Floyd | 61/627 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The stream is fast, but shallow.  From the looks of it, it is just a
Floyd | glimmer of the rushing fullness it once was, and will soon dry up
Floyd | forever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 61/628 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Grotto
Floyd | The multiverdant greenery fed by the churning stream seems to end here
Floyd | in a place of stillness and serenity surrounding a deep pool of clear
Floyd | water.  Even the very air itself seems to obey the call to quiet.  The
Floyd | only exit is northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the stream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stream"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 61/628 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stream"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 61/628 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any stream here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pool"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 61/629 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | The water in the pool is clear and clean.  The slick brown-green algae
Floyd | at the bottom covers the smooth limestone bowl of the pool.  It
Floyd | deepens considerably at the northern end, the bottom disappearing
Floyd | underneath a lush growth of ferns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Should I drop everything and dive in, or head back upstream instead?"
Ellison says, "I'd vote for the former"
DavidW says, "ok"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop all"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 61/630 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | cold cut special:  Dropped.
Floyd | frisbee:  Dropped.
Floyd | penny:  Dropped.
Floyd | cannonball:  Dropped.
Floyd | big juicy acorn:  Dropped.
Floyd | divining wand:  Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 61/631 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dive"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 61/631 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIVE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "dive".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pool"
Floyd ]  Limestone crawl
Floyd | 61/632 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step into the cool water pool, you find it difficult to keep
Floyd | your footing.  You move slowly towards the deeper end, and suddenly
Floyd | the bottom takes a sudden drop.  Losing your balance, you slide under
Floyd | the water, pulled along by a deep current you didn't imagine was
Floyd | lurking under the still surface.
Floyd |
Floyd | Looking out through the water's surface, you see the sunlight
Floyd | disappear.  Air returns to your lungs just as the light goes away, and
Floyd | you feel your body sluicing down into groundwater caverns.
Floyd |
Floyd | When the motion stops, all you hear is the dripping of shallow water.
Floyd | You crawl forward and find a hard but dry spot.  It is not completely
Floyd | dark here, but it takes a few minutes for your eyes to adjust.  In the
Floyd | misty light you find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Limestone crawl
Floyd | You are in a tiny crawlway carved by the flow of ancient waters
Floyd | through soft limestone.  The natural groundwater springs are drying
Floyd | up, and soon will be gone.  A current of dark but shallow water swirls
Floyd | nearby.  Light leaks down from a vertical sluice that leads up into
Floyd | the deep end of the grotto.  You can leave through careful navigation
Floyd | up the sluice, or follow the crawlway, which leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "again, a choice"
Ellison asks, "one way probably leads back, no?"
DavidW says, "up probably gets up to an overland way back, and I'd guess north goes to who knows what."
DavidW says, "I hope by dropping the wand I haven't screwed this up."
DavidW says, "I think we should try north."
genericgeekgirl says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Narrow north-south crawl
Floyd | 61/633 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow north-south crawl
Floyd | You are in a narrow north-south crawlway that bulges slightly, giving
Floyd | you more room to maneuver.  The crawlway heads north and then bends,
Floyd | making it difficult to see farther ahead, and slopes downward to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Tight bend
Floyd | 61/634 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Tight bend
Floyd | The tunnel you have been following makes a tight bend here.  Chalky
Floyd | dust swirls in the damp air, stirred up by your arrival.  The crawl
Floyd | widens to the south, and turns here to the southeast, making a sudden
Floyd | drop as it does so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Crumbling tunnel
Floyd | 61/635 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbling tunnel
Floyd | Eroding limestone has caused the floor here to give way recently.  You
Floyd | find your footing on the crumbling chunks of limestone, but only after
Floyd | making a scary drop of about four feet.  The walls of the tunnel sport
Floyd | all manner of jagged cracks, but you don't feel any shifting or
Floyd | settling.  Perhaps it is safe to continue, but probably not much
Floyd | farther.  The limestone shelf is up and back to the northwest.  The
Floyd | tunnel continues forward to the north, descending even further as it
Floyd | does so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Dark passage
Floyd | 61/636 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dark passage
Floyd | The light you have been following darkens here, making you wonder how
Floyd | much faith you have in the ambiguous light source.  You can no longer
Floyd | make out any colors, only grainy shades of light and dark, but there
Floyd | wouldn't be many other colors to see even in full light.  The passage
Floyd | continues ahead, zigzagging to the northwest, and to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "scary"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/637 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Zigzag passage
Floyd | The passage takes a series of sharp, zigzag turns here.  As it does
Floyd | so, you feel your ears pop in adjustment to changing altitude.  East
Floyd | you can discern a strange but growing brightness.  This passage
Floyd | zigzags into the darkness to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/638 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brightness"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/638 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BRIGHTNESS
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "brightness".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/639 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | The light is misty and subdued, but there is enough to see by.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/640 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/641 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | East you can discern a strange but growing brightness.  This passage
Floyd | zigzags into the darkness to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "east"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/642 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "um"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/643 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 61/644 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "I guess head back?"
DavidW says, "I'm not sure what's wrong."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Ledge
Floyd | 61/645 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Ledge
Floyd | The brightness coming from the bend in the tunnel to the north nearly
Floyd | distracts you from watching your footing.  The sharp echo of a
Floyd | carelessly kicked stone, that rattles down for ten or twelve seconds
Floyd | before coming to a splashing halt, stops you in your tracks.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing on a narrow ledge at the south end of a jagged
Floyd | east-west gap in the cave floor.  The gap plunges straight down,
Floyd | erosion having eaten everything away underneath.  It is not a wide
Floyd | gap, and you are capable of crossing it without difficulty.  However,
Floyd | you are aware that if you had stepped directly into it, your story
Floyd | would have ended here, in the darkness and the deep.  Across the gap,
Floyd | the tunnel goes north and takes another bend, and on this side it
Floyd | exits to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh."
DavidW asks, "so, can we go north, or do we have to 'jump north' or what?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Bright bend
Floyd | 61/646 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You carefully cross to the other side of the gap and continue on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bright bend
Floyd | Bright blue illumination shines from the opening to a larger cavern to
Floyd | the east.  The light shimmers and ripples on the walls, wavelike
Floyd | patterns that dance and intermingle, shining all the more brightly
Floyd | where they overlap.  The cavern is east, and the tunnel bends south,
Floyd | where it meets a ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x patterns"
Floyd ]  Bright bend
Floyd | 61/646 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PATTERNS
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any patterns here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light"
Floyd ]  Bright bend
Floyd | 61/647 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | The light is misty and subdued, but there is enough to see by.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Crystal cavern
Floyd | 61/648 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Crystal cavern
Floyd | You are in a large cavern that seems to be an enormous natural geode,
Floyd | with crystals as big as your head growing in splints and shafts from
Floyd | every direction.  A pool of white water catches the reflected and
Floyd | refracted light and spins it back into the room, where it is caught
Floyd | and re-refracted.  The original source of the light seems to be a
Floyd | series of pinholes in the roof of the cavern high above, but you don't
Floyd | think it could be sunlight.  You have lost track of how deep you have
Floyd | gone, perhaps twenty, perhaps forty feet under the surface, but too
Floyd | far down to see sunlight, you would have thought.  It is possible that
Floyd | sunlight has periscoped down a set of small crystal encrusted shafts
Floyd | that lead far enough up to see the open sky.  In any case, it is
Floyd | literally mesmerizing to be here.  The only exit is a tunnel to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see crystals here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crystals"
Floyd ]  Crystal cavern
Floyd | 61/649 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CRYSTALS
Floyd |
Floyd | Crystals as big as your head and as delicately small as your
Floyd | fingernail are growing in splints and shafts from every direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I vote we take a crystal as a souvenir of our visit."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pool"
Floyd ]  Crystal cavern
Floyd | 61/650 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | The pool of white water is silent and slightly rippled, calmer than
Floyd | the vibrant dance of light on its surface.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crystal"
Floyd ]  Crystal cavern
Floyd | 64/651 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CRYSTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You search for a crystal loose enough to take without breaking it or a
Floyd | larger crystal.  After a short search, you discover a perfect blue
Floyd | crystal, which you take.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 3 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crystal"
Floyd ]  Crystal cavern
Floyd | 64/652 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CRYSTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | The crystal is about an inch long, with perfect hexagonal symmetry.
Floyd | It is a dazzling little keepsake.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Anything anyone wants to do here before we head back?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Nah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat crystal"
Floyd ]  Crystal cavern
Floyd | 64/653 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT CRYSTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | The perfect blue crystal doesn't appear appetizing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Bright bend
Floyd | 64/654 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Bright bend
Floyd | Bright blue illumination shines from the opening to a larger cavern to
Floyd | the east.  The light shimmers and ripples on the walls, wavelike
Floyd | patterns that dance and intermingle, shining all the more brightly
Floyd | where they overlap.  The cavern is east, and the tunnel bends south,
Floyd | where it meets a ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Ledge
Floyd | 64/655 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Ledge
Floyd | You are standing on a narrow ledge at the north end of a jagged
Floyd | west-east gap in the cave floor.  The gap plunges straight down,
Floyd | erosion having eaten everything away underneath.  It is not a wide
Floyd | gap, and you are capable of crossing it without difficulty.  Across
Floyd | the gap, the tunnel goes southwest, and it continues back north and
Floyd | takes a bend into the crystal cavern.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Zigzag passage
Floyd | 64/656 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You carefully cross to the other side of the gap and continue on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Zigzag passage
Floyd | The passage takes a series of sharp, zigzag turns here.  As it does
Floyd | so, you feel your ears pop in adjustment to changing altitude.  East
Floyd | you can discern a strange but growing brightness.  This passage
Floyd | zigzags into the darkness to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Dark passage
Floyd | 64/657 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dark passage
Floyd | The light you have been following darkens here, making you wonder how
Floyd | much faith you have in the ambiguous light source.  You can no longer
Floyd | make out any colors, only grainy shades of light and dark, but there
Floyd | wouldn't be many other colors to see even in full light.  The passage
Floyd | continues ahead, zigzagging to the northwest, and to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Crumbling tunnel
Floyd | 64/658 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbling tunnel
Floyd | Eroding limestone has caused the floor here to give way recently.  You
Floyd | find your footing on the crumbling chunks of limestone, but only after
Floyd | making a scary drop of about four feet.  The walls of the tunnel sport
Floyd | all manner of jagged cracks, but you don't feel any shifting or
Floyd | settling.  Perhaps it is safe to continue, but probably not much
Floyd | farther.  The limestone shelf is up and back to the northwest.  The
Floyd | tunnel continues forward to the north, descending even further as it
Floyd | does so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Tight bend
Floyd | 64/659 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Tight bend
Floyd | The tunnel you have been following makes a tight bend here.  Chalky
Floyd | dust swirls in the damp air, stirred up by your arrival.  The crawl
Floyd | widens to the south, and turns here to the southeast, making a sudden
Floyd | drop as it does so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Narrow north-south crawl
Floyd | 64/660 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow north-south crawl
Floyd | You are in a narrow north-south crawlway that bulges slightly, giving
Floyd | you more room to maneuver.  The crawlway heads north and then bends,
Floyd | making it difficult to see farther ahead, and slopes downward to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Limestone crawl
Floyd | 64/661 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Limestone crawl
Floyd | You are in a tiny crawlway carved by the flow of ancient waters
Floyd | through soft limestone.  The natural groundwater springs are drying
Floyd | up, and soon will be gone.  A current of dark but shallow water swirls
Floyd | nearby.  Light leaks down from a vertical sluice that leads up into
Floyd | the deep end of the grotto.  You can leave through careful navigation
Floyd | up the sluice, or follow the crawlway, which leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 64/662 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a somewhat torturous ascent, but with patience and resolve you
Floyd | manage to make your way up the sluice.  Your head again goes
Floyd | underwater for a moment, but you follow the light.  Your hands grope
Floyd | and find a hold on the shallow bottom of the pool.  Emerging, you
Floyd | shake yourself dry as best you can.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grotto
Floyd | The multiverdant greenery fed by the churning stream seems to end here
Floyd | in a place of stillness and serenity surrounding a deep pool of clear
Floyd | water.  Even the very air itself seems to obey the call to quiet.  The
Floyd | only exit is northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a cold cut special, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a big
Floyd | juicy acorn, and a divining wand here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the stream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Grotto
Floyd | 64/663 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | pool:  That isn't important.
Floyd | cold cut special:  Taken.
Floyd | frisbee:  Taken.
Floyd | penny:  Taken.
Floyd | cannonball:  Taken.
Floyd | big juicy acorn:  Taken.
Floyd | divining wand:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Flowing stream
Floyd | 64/664 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Flowing stream
Floyd | The foliage parts at last to reveal a sparkling forest stream.  Light
Floyd | dapples gently through the leaves to highlight slick, wet rocks and
Floyd | the bright green of fresh growth.  The stream flows, about half a
Floyd | meter wide, from the north to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the stream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 64/665 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/666 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a soft spot here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plant acorn"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/666 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PLANT ACORN
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to put it in?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plant acorn in soft spot"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/667 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PLANT ACORN IN SOFT SPOT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't put anything into the soft spot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig soft spot"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/667 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG SOFT SPOT
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to dig in it with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wand"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/668 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't dig with that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Do we really need a shovel or spade for this?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spot"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/669 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SPOT
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a spot here which is particularly moist and soft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put acorn on spot"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/670 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ACORN ON SPOT
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no good surface on the soft spot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make a hole"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/671 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MAKE A HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't understand what you want to make.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/672 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a perfect blue crystal
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a big juicy acorn
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. Looking at the transcript from our last session, we do have a shovel back at time node 0."
DavidW says, "I'm thinking we might as well try to leave the acorn here, ferry over the jugs, and then go get the shovel."
DavidW asks, "Also, the town in this era has an antique store and a bank where we need $100 to open an account. Think we should try to sell the crystal to the antique store?"
genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh, yes."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop acorn"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/673 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP ACORN
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Oakwood drive
Floyd | 64/674 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Oakwood drive
Floyd | This pleasant road wanders peacefully through the lush tree growths
Floyd | native to the area.  In the intervening years, they'll straighten the
Floyd | road and widen it, cutting down dozens of these thirty- to
Floyd | eighty-year-old live oaks.  The road leads north into the old shopping
Floyd | village, and a path winds back into the forest to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 64/675 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 64/676 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | She says, "Good morning.  Feel free to browse around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show crystal to merchant"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 64/677 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW CRYSTAL TO MERCHANT
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant says, "I'm not interested in that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "darn"
genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf."
genericgeekgirl asks, "She's shown interest in nothing but our broken wheelbarrow?"
DavidW says, "I guess."
DavidW says, "I suppose we should fall back to our previous plan to grow the acorn."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 64/678 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Oakwood drive
Floyd | 64/679 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Oakwood drive
Floyd | This pleasant road wanders peacefully through the lush tree growths
Floyd | native to the area.  In the intervening years, they'll straighten the
Floyd | road and widen it, cutting down dozens of these thirty- to
Floyd | eighty-year-old live oaks.  The road leads north into the old shopping
Floyd | village, and a path winds back into the forest to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/680 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a soft spot and a big juicy acorn here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 64/681 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 64/682 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push your way into the clearing, opening your usual path once
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 64/683 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 64/684 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a perfect blue crystal
Floyd |    a cold cut special
Floyd |    a frisbee
Floyd |    a penny
Floyd |    a cannonball
Floyd |    a divining wand
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. well, maybe get the shovel first then."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on platform"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 64/685 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 5"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 64/686 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 5
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 64/687 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A
Floyd | blinding purple light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a
Floyd | wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a
Floyd | ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put all on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 64/688 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ALL ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | perfect blue crystal:  Done.
Floyd | cold cut special:  Done.
Floyd | frisbee:  Done.
Floyd | penny:  Done.
Floyd | cannonball:  Done.
Floyd | divining wand:  Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 64/689 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 64/690 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 64/691 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 64/692 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take shovel"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 64/693 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SHOVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shovel"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 64/694 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SHOVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, I admit this might come in handy.  It's a quality shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 64/695 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 64/696 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You always thought this would be a nice place to plant a tree, but a
Floyd | bare spot reminds you of your lack of foresight.  The ground slopes
Floyd | down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story
Floyd | high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30
Floyd | feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 64/697 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 64/698 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow, a perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special,
Floyd | a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, and a divining wand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 64/699 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 1"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 64/700 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 1
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 64/701 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A deep
Floyd | red light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild vortex
Floyd | that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is four
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow, a perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special,
Floyd | a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, and a divining wand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 64/702 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 64/703 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 64/704 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/705 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a soft spot and a big juicy acorn here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig spot with shovel"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 64/706 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIG SPOT WITH SHOVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | The shovel bites a nice hole in the earth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plant acorn in hole"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 70/707 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PLANT ACORN IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the acorn into the hole, and scoop the dirt over it, leaving a
Floyd | noticeable little mound.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 6 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour jug on mound"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 70/708 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > POUR JUG ON MOUND
Floyd |
Floyd | The liquid seeps into the mound of dirt with a nourishing sigh.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read jug"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 70/709 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know how to read the empty jug.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jug"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 70/710 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing in the empty jug.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop empty"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 70/711 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP EMPTY
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 70/712 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 70/713 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push your way into the clearing, opening your usual path once
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is
Floyd | three full jugs of miracle-grow, a perfect blue crystal, a cold cut
Floyd | special, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, and a divining wand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put shovel on platform"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 70/714 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT SHOVEL ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 70/715 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 70/716 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You've already got your hands full.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read jug"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 70/717 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know how to read the full jug of miracle-grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jug"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 70/718 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | In the full jug of miracle-grow you see some thick liquid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 70/719 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 70/720 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little mound of dirt and an empty jug here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour jug on mound"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 73/721 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > POUR JUG ON MOUND
Floyd |
Floyd | The liquid seeps into the mound of dirt with a nourishing sigh.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 3 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 73/722 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "encouraging; it awarded points for the usage of the 2nd jug"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw.sw"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 73/724 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW.SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You push your way into the clearing, opening your usual path once
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is two
Floyd | full jugs of miracle-grow, a perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special,
Floyd | a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jug.ne.ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 73/727 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG.NE.NE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little mound of dirt and two empty jugs of miracle-grow
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour jug on mound. drop jug. sw. sw"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 73/731 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > POUR JUG ON MOUND. DROP JUG. SW. SW
Floyd |
Floyd | The liquid seeps into the mound of dirt with a nourishing sigh.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You push your way into the clearing, opening your usual path once
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | full jug of miracle-grow, a perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special,
Floyd | a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jug. ne. ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 73/734 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG. NE. NE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little mound of dirt and three empty jugs of miracle-grow
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour jug on mound"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 73/735 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > POUR JUG ON MOUND
Floyd |
Floyd | The liquid seeps into the mound of dirt with a nourishing sigh.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. maybe only 2 jugs are needed."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 73/736 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw.sw.get on platform"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 73/739 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW.SW.GET ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You push your way into the clearing, opening your usual path once
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special, a frisbee, a penny, a
Floyd | cannonball, a divining wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 5. push red button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/741 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 5. PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A
Floyd | blinding purple light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a
Floyd | wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a
Floyd | ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special, a frisbee, a penny, a
Floyd | cannonball, a divining wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne.ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/743 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE.NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms
Floyd | an extra story high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the
Floyd | wall, about 30 feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily
Floyd | walks leads southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house
Floyd | to the northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where
Floyd | you always thought it should.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a tire swing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Goodness. We not only grew a tire, we got a tire swing too."
genericgeekgirl says, "Woo!"
DavidW says, "er grew a tree"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swing"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/744 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWING
Floyd |
Floyd | Wheeeee!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter swing"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/745 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER SWING
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the tire swing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb swing"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/746 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB SWING
Floyd |
Floyd | The tire swing is not suitable for climbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride swing"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/746 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RIDE SWING
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "ride".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x swing"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/747 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SWING
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a black rubber tire tied to a rope that's attached to a branch
Floyd | mid-way up the tree, and suitable for swinging.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in tire"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/748 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN TIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing in the tire swing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 73/749 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB TREE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mid-way up tree
Floyd | You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet.  A
Floyd | strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk.  You can climb
Floyd | even farther up from here, or back down to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a thick rope (tied to a tire swing and to a strong branch)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "hm, we want to get on the branch, no? Or do people want to risk death by climbing higher because hey why not?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf10"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 73/749 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 73/749 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF10
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 73/750 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Treetop
Floyd | You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb.  The
Floyd | view from here is incredible.  The window in the side of the house is
Floyd | right in front of you to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are surprised and somewhat amused to see the rare book nestled
Floyd | within the branches of the tree.  The squirrel must have been here
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "huh. We can get the squirrel porn back?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 73/751 
inky says, "aporn"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | You retrieve the book from the branches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 73/752 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | A rare scientific volume, detailing the mating habits of small
Floyd | rodents.  It looks a bit -- how shall we say?  -- sullied, but is
Floyd | otherwise in fine condition.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Maybe antique store gal would also like squirrel porn?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 73/753 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | It's tantalizingly out of reach, but if you leap for it, you might
Floyd | just make it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "leap for window"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 73/754 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LEAP FOR WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | The window is still a little too far away, I'm afraid.  I bet one more
Floyd | jug of miracle-grow would do the trick.  Maybe it's worth checking the
Floyd | work shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hmm."
DavidW asks, "The shed is in the -10 timezone, yes?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 73/755 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mid-way up tree
Floyd | You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet.  A
Floyd | strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk.  You can climb
Floyd | even farther up from here, or back down to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a thick rope (tied to a tire swing and to a strong branch)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/756 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms
Floyd | an extra story high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the
Floyd | wall, about 30 feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily
Floyd | walks leads southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house
Floyd | to the northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where
Floyd | you always thought it should.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a tire swing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 73/757 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/758 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special, a frisbee, a penny, a
Floyd | cannonball, a divining wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/759 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cannonball"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/760 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CANNONBALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Who knows where you found this sucker, or why you kept it.  It's a
Floyd | solid metal sphere, about 7 inches in diameter, with lettering stamped
Floyd | on the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/761 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ IT
Floyd |
Floyd | 154th comp.  Div.  -- US Steel -- TM 1880.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm, the cannonball ought to count as an antique."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/762 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 2"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/763 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 2
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/764 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A dull
Floyd | orange light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild
Floyd | vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special, a frisbee, a penny, a
Floyd | cannonball, a divining wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 73/765 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/766 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the south side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | but apart from that, there's not much to see.  The ground slopes down
Floyd | slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high
Floyd | because of it.  A little bare path made by you just now leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.  To the east is a dirt road leading to town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a sapling here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sharp noise of nails being hammered into thick planks causes you
Floyd | to blink your eyes several times.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sapling"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/767 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SAPLING
Floyd |
Floyd | The meter-high sapling looks a little intimidated by all the wood
Floyd | being sawed and splintered nearby, but someone has taken the time to
Floyd | tie a bright ribbon to its slender trunk, as a warning to be careful
Floyd | of harming it.  Good thing, because it looks like it's going to be
Floyd | really gigantic one of these days.
Floyd |
Floyd | A young woman with a large box of wood screws rushes past, crying,
Floyd | "Coming!  Coming!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 73/768 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sweaty, red-faced man yells, "Where are my ducts?  Where are my
Floyd | flim-flanged ducts?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 73/769 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone yells, "That's a riot!  Where's Ed?  He's gotta hear this!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/770 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a full jug of miracle-grow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A huge dog is sitting here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh dear. Dog."
DavidW says, "I think the sandwich might help."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dog"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/771 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOG
Floyd |
Floyd | He's some sort of vicious doberman with greasy black fur.  He's
Floyd | wearing a collar with a tag, so he's obviously not a stray.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read tag"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/772 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ TAG
Floyd |
Floyd | The dog's collar tag says that his name is "Blackie."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm, if it's not the sandwitch that Blackie likes, perhaps we can ask someone about Blackie."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/773 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh, bother.  As you might expect, the vicious dog snaps at you as you
Floyd | reach for the jug.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 73/774 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A nervous kid slouches by, looking like it's his first day on the job.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kid about blackie"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 73/775 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK KID ABOUT BLACKIE
Floyd |
Floyd | Surely, you can't think that knows anything about it!
Floyd |
Floyd | A trio of men with puffy faces and scruffy chest hair stride past,
Floyd | telling dirty jokes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
jenrexrode has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kid"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 73/776 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X KID
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beefy blond man waddles past, blowing his nose ferociously into the
Floyd | sleeve of his shirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 73/777 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone yells, "Fifteen!  Fifteen, everybody!"
Floyd | Someone yells back, "You got that right!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 73/778 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A young woman with a pile of floor tiles rushes past, crying, "Who
Floyd | ordered these?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/779 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the south side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | but apart from that, there's not much to see.  The ground slopes down
Floyd | slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high
Floyd | because of it.  A little bare path made by you just now leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.  To the east is a dirt road leading to town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a sapling here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A guy clambers down from above and yells, "Let's eat!".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 73/780 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/781 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special, a frisbee, a penny, a
Floyd | cannonball, a divining wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take special"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/782 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SPECIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 73/783 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/784 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the south side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | but apart from that, there's not much to see.  The ground slopes down
Floyd | slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high
Floyd | because of it.  A little bare path made by you just now leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.  To the east is a dirt road leading to town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a sapling here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone rushes up to you, looks you up and down, and then shakes his
Floyd | head and runs off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 73/785 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A man with round spectacles stares at the sky and predicts rain.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 73/786 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A wiry lad from the electrical crew says, "We need to wait for the
Floyd | plumbers."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/787 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a full jug of miracle-grow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Blackie is sitting here.  He smells that you have food with you and
Floyd | begins salivating and barking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give sandwitch to blackie"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/787 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE SANDWITCH TO BLACKIE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "sandwitch".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give special to blacie"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/787 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE SPECIAL TO BLACIE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know the word "blacie".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "o blackie"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/788 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > O BLACKIE
Floyd |
Floyd | Blackie wolfs down the cold cut special, then settles into a pacified
Floyd | state.
Floyd |
Floyd | Blackie scratches his ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jug"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/789 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet blackie"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/790 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PET BLACKIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pet Blackie's head.  He woofs happily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "tee hee"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Outside workshed
Floyd | 73/791 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a crashing noise and some amount of furor and muttered oaths
Floyd | from the construction crew.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 73/792 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone shouts, "Nobody move!  Wait, everyone get out of the way!  I
Floyd | said, get out of the way!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/793 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the south side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | but apart from that, there's not much to see.  The ground slopes down
Floyd | slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high
Floyd | because of it.  A little bare path made by you just now leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.  To the east is a dirt road leading to town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a sapling here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fat man jumps up and down and makes 'bibble-brrrrrr' noises with his
Floyd | mouth.  Oddly, nobody seems to care.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Woods
Floyd | 73/794 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/795 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/796 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 2"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/797 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 2
Floyd |
Floyd | It's already set to 2!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 73/798 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A dull
Floyd | orange light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild
Floyd | vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne.ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 73/800 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE.NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little mound of dirt and four empty jugs of miracle-grow
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour jug on mound"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 78/801 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > POUR JUG ON MOUND
Floyd |
Floyd | The liquid seeps into the mound of dirt with a nourishing sigh.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 5 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop jug"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 78/802 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 78/803 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a rare book
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Oakwood drive
Floyd | 78/804 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Oakwood drive
Floyd | This pleasant road wanders peacefully through the lush tree growths
Floyd | native to the area.  In the intervening years, they'll straighten the
Floyd | road and widen it, cutting down dozens of these thirty- to
Floyd | eighty-year-old live oaks.  The road leads north into the old shopping
Floyd | village, and a path winds back into the forest to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 78/805 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 78/806 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | She says, "Good morning.  Feel free to browse around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show book to merchant"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 78/807 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW BOOK TO MERCHANT
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant says, "I'm not interested in that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 78/808 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 78/809 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | She says, "Good morning.  Feel free to browse around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sell book"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 78/810 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SELL BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant gives it a quick once-over with her expertly trained
Floyd | eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant shakes her head and says, "Sorry, that isn't something I
Floyd | can consider buying from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 78/811 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Oakwood drive
Floyd | 78/812 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Oakwood drive
Floyd | This pleasant road wanders peacefully through the lush tree growths
Floyd | native to the area.  In the intervening years, they'll straighten the
Floyd | road and widen it, cutting down dozens of these thirty- to
Floyd | eighty-year-old live oaks.  The road leads north into the old shopping
Floyd | village, and a path winds back into the forest to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 78/813 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little mound of dirt and five empty jugs of miracle-grow
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 78/814 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 78/815 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push your way into the clearing, opening your usual path once
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put book on platform"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 78/816 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT BOOK ON PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter platform"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 78/817 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 5"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 78/818 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 5
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 78/819 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A
Floyd | blinding purple light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a
Floyd | wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a
Floyd | ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, a shovel, and a rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne.ne"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 78/821 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE.NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms
Floyd | an extra story high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the
Floyd | wall, about 30 feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily
Floyd | walks leads southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house
Floyd | to the northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where
Floyd | you always thought it should.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a tire swing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 78/822 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mid-way up tree
Floyd | You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet.  A
Floyd | strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk.  You can climb
Floyd | even farther up from here, or back down to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a thick rope (tied to a tire swing and to a strong branch)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 78/823 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Treetop
Floyd | You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb.  The
Floyd | view from here is incredible.  The window in the side of the house is
Floyd | right in front of you to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "leap for window"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/824 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LEAP FOR WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You make your leap of faith.  Your hands find a firm grip on the sill
Floyd | and you pull yourself in.  Unfortunately, you drop all of your
Floyd | possessions in the process.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Attic
Floyd | This is a little attic space, barely tall enough for you to stand in.
Floyd | Thick boards run in parallel lines along the floor, with pink
Floyd | insulation laid out in between.  A thick brass pipe passes up from the
Floyd | floor next to the window and continues up through the ceiling.
Floyd | Cardboard packing boxes of various sizes are stacked along the walls.
Floyd | A folded-up ladder attached to a hatch would lead down if it were
Floyd | open, but it's closed.  The only exit is the little window you came
Floyd | in.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 10 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf11"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/824 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/824 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF11
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "We had to solve quite a few puzzles to reach this location. Anyone else want to do the searching or should I do it?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x insulation"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/825 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X INSULATION
Floyd |
Floyd | The insulation is made of pink fiberglass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "move it"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/826 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MOVE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beams"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/826 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BEAMS
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any beams here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pipe"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/827 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's sturdy, all right.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boards"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/827 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any boards here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boxes"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/828 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | In the cardboard boxes you see a blue pencil and a desk lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pencil"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/829 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PENCIL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a moderately sharp pencil, made for drawing blue lines.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/830 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LAMP
Floyd |
Floyd | This old desk lamp seems to be missing its power cord.  It would fit
Floyd | right in with the other junk in the garage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from boxes"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/831 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM BOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | blue pencil:  Taken.
Floyd | desk lamp:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hatch"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/832 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | I see nothing special about the closed hatch ladder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/833 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't open the hatch ladder from inside the attic.  You have to
Floyd | pull it open from below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "hm. So the only way out is to leap out the window and hope we can reach the tree?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/834 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | The tree is too far away to risk jumping back to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb pipe"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/835 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | The pipe is not suitable for climbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. I hate to say it, but we may be trapped. I think we need the rope from the tire swing to tie to the pipe and then we can climb down the rope."
Ellison says (to Floyd), "jump to tree"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/836 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JUMP TO TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | The tree is too far away to risk leaping back to.  If you jump you'll
Floyd | break your ankle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says, "hmmm, yeah, maybe"
DavidW asks, "I saved fairly recently, I think?"
DavidW says, "oh, I'll have to go back to cf10"
Johnny says, "No, I'm pretty sure this is a puzzle."
Johnny says, "But, um, don't listen to me, it's been a while since I played FTF."
DavidW asks (of Johnny), "You think we can escape the attic without the rope?"
Johnny arrives, full of funk, but no fun.
Johnny says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/837 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Attic
Floyd | This is a little attic space, barely tall enough for you to stand in.
Floyd | Thick boards run in parallel lines along the floor, with pink
Floyd | insulation laid out in between.  A thick brass pipe passes up from the
Floyd | floor next to the window and continues up through the ceiling.
Floyd | Cardboard packing boxes of various sizes are stacked along the walls.
Floyd | A folded-up ladder attached to a hatch would lead down if it were
Floyd | open, but it's closed.  The only exit is the little window you came
Floyd | in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/838 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Out the window you see the tree and the ground far below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "x tree"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/839 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary tree to me.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to Floyd), "x pipe"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/840 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's sturdy, all right.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says (to DavidW), "If I remember right, I had to look this up."
DavidW says, "Unless we can throw boxes out the window and they can break our fall? But I bet the rope is the answer."
Johnny says, "And then I felt dumb."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boxes"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/841 
Ellison says (to Floyd), "kick hatch"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing in the cardboard boxes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/842 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KICK HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Kicking things is more likely to hurt your foot than help your
Floyd | situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "move boxes"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/843 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MOVE BOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't move the cardboard boxes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw boxes out window"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/844 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW BOXES OUT WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Throwing things out of windows will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull pipe"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/845 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Pulling the pipe doesn't have any effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick hatch"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/846 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KICK HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Kicking things is more likely to hurt your foot than help your
Floyd | situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on hatch"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/847 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KNOCK ON HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Knocking on the hatch ladder has no effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search hatch"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/848 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull hatch"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/849 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The hatch ladder is already closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push hatch"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/850 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't push open the hatch ladder from inside the attic.  You have
Floyd | to pull it open from below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says (to Floyd), "x ceiling"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/850 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CEILING
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any ceiling here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "Hm, I think there's supposed to be a way to break your landing, going out the window."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x swing"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/850 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SWING
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't see any swing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through window"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/851 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Out the window you see the tree and the ground far below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/852 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary tree to me.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ellison says (to Floyd), "x ground"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/853 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | It lies beneath you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ground"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/854 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | It lies beneath you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny says, "Damnable memory."
Ellison asks, "was there a pile of leaves somewhere?"
DavidW says, "Not that I remember."
Ellison says (to Floyd), "get insulation"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/855 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET INSULATION
Floyd |
Floyd | That isn't important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Johnny asks, "So, you were going to load to get back here with the rope?"
Johnny says, "Because, rope sounds handy."
DavidW says, "yeah, I'll have to re-do the dog business, though."
Johnny says, "Sorry for sidelining you."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/855 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to restore game from >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf10"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 73/749 
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | > CF10
Floyd |
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mid-way up tree
Floyd | You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet.  A
Floyd | strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk.  You can climb
Floyd | even farther up from here, or back down to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a thick rope (tied to a tire swing and to a strong branch)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 73/750 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Treetop
Floyd | You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb.  The
Floyd | view from here is incredible.  The window in the side of the house is
Floyd | right in front of you to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are surprised and somewhat amused to see the rare book nestled
Floyd | within the branches of the tree.  The squirrel must have been here
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book. leap for window."
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 73/752 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BOOK. LEAP FOR WINDOW.
Floyd |
Floyd | You retrieve the book from the branches.
Floyd |
Floyd | The window is still a little too far away, I'm afraid.  I bet one more
Floyd | jug of miracle-grow would do the trick.  Maybe it's worth checking the
Floyd | work shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d. d."
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 73/754 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D. D.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mid-way up tree
Floyd | You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet.  A
Floyd | strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk.  You can climb
Floyd | even farther up from here, or back down to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a thick rope (tied to a tire swing and to a strong branch)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms
Floyd | an extra story high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the
Floyd | wall, about 30 feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily
Floyd | walks leads southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house
Floyd | to the northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where
Floyd | you always thought it should.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a tire swing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw.sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/756 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW.SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special, a frisbee, a penny, a
Floyd | cannonball, a divining wand, and a shovel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put book on platform. enter machine."
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/758 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT BOOK ON PLATFORM. ENTER MACHINE.
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 2"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/759 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 2
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/760 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A dull
Floyd | orange light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild
Floyd | vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a cold cut special, a frisbee, a penny, a
Floyd | cannonball, a divining wand, a shovel, and a rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sandwich"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/761 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SANDWICH
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne.ne.nw.n.n"
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/766 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE.NE.NW.N.N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the south side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | but apart from that, there's not much to see.  The ground slopes down
Floyd | slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high
Floyd | because of it.  A little bare path made by you just now leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.  To the east is a dirt road leading to town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a sapling here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sharp noise of nails being hammered into thick planks causes you
Floyd | to blink your eyes several times.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A young woman with a large box of wood screws rushes past, crying,
Floyd | "Coming!  Coming!"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sweaty, red-faced man yells, "Where are my ducts?  Where are my
Floyd | flim-flanged ducts?"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside workshed
Floyd | It's kind of hot and stuffy in here, during the heat of the day.  It
Floyd | is also hard for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.  The materials
Floyd | that are locked in here at night must all be in use right now, because
Floyd | the shed is basically empty.  The only exit is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a full jug of miracle-grow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A huge dog is sitting here.  He smells that you have food with you and
Floyd | begins salivating and barking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give sandwich to dog. take jug."
Floyd ]  Inside workshed
Floyd | 73/768 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE SANDWICH TO DOG. TAKE JUG.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge dog wolfs down the cold cut special, then settles into a
Floyd | pacified state.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s.s.se.sw.sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/773 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S.S.SE.SW.SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside workshed
Floyd | The construction company has built a sturdy workshed on your property,
Floyd | apparently for the convenience of storing materials and tools during
Floyd | the job.  It is probably locked at night, but right now it is wide
Floyd | open.  You can enter the shed to the north.  The back of the house is
Floyd | to the south, and your driveway is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone yells, "That's a riot!  Where's Ed?  He's gotta hear this!"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | You are standing in what will be the back of your house.  If you
Floyd | thought it was boring to look at before, you couldn't possibly be less
Floyd | enthusiastic about seeing it now.  The wooden frame has gone up, but
Floyd | that is all there is to see.  However, there is something new to see,
Floyd | a temporary workshed built by the construction company.  The shed sits
Floyd | to the north.  You can walk around the house to the northeast and
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A nervous kid slouches by, looking like it's his first day on the job.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | You are standing on what will be the south side of your house.  The
Floyd | house is currently under construction.  The wooden frame has gone up,
Floyd | but apart from that, there's not much to see.  The ground slopes down
Floyd | slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high
Floyd | because of it.  A little bare path made by you just now leads
Floyd | southwest into the woods.  You can walk around the house to the
Floyd | northwest and northeast.  To the east is a dirt road leading to town.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a sapling here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A trio of men with puffy faces and scruffy chest hair stride past,
Floyd | telling dirty jokes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Woods
Floyd | The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way.  A construction site is to the northeast, and a
Floyd | clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Light streams
Floyd | prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and
Floyd | flat and clean.  You can hear the busy noise of construction work
Floyd | nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, a shovel, and a rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 73/774 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 73/775 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A dull
Floyd | orange light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild
Floyd | vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, a shovel, and a rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne.ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 73/777 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE.NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little mound of dirt and four empty jugs of miracle-grow
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour jug on mound. drop jug"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 78/779 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > POUR JUG ON MOUND. DROP JUG
Floyd |
Floyd | The liquid seeps into the mound of dirt with a nourishing sigh.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 5 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw.sw"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 78/781 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW.SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You push your way into the clearing, opening your usual path once
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, a shovel, and a rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter platform. turn knob to 5."
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 78/783 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER PLATFORM. TURN KNOB TO 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 78/784 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A
Floyd | blinding purple light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a
Floyd | wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a
Floyd | ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, a shovel, and a rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne.ne."
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 78/786 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE.NE.
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms
Floyd | an extra story high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the
Floyd | wall, about 30 feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily
Floyd | walks leads southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house
Floyd | to the northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where
Floyd | you always thought it should.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a tire swing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 78/787 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mid-way up tree
Floyd | You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet.  A
Floyd | strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk.  You can climb
Floyd | even farther up from here, or back down to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a thick rope (tied to a tire swing and to a strong branch)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf12"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 78/787 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 78/787 
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | > CF12
Floyd |
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie rope"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 78/788 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNTIE  ROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You untie the branch from the rope, and the rope and tire fall to the
Floyd | ground with a thunk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 78/789 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms
Floyd | an extra story high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the
Floyd | wall, about 30 feet up.  A little path made by you on your many daily
Floyd | walks leads southwest into the woods.  You can walk around your house
Floyd | to the northwest and northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where
Floyd | you always thought it should.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a thick rope (tied to a tire) and a tire here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie rope"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 78/790 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNTIE ROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You untie the rope from the tire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rope"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 78/791 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Mid-way up tree
Floyd | 78/792 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mid-way up tree
Floyd | You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet.  A
Floyd | strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk.  You can climb
Floyd | even farther up from here, or back down to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 78/793 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Treetop
Floyd | You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb.  The
Floyd | view from here is incredible.  The window in the side of the house is
Floyd | right in front of you to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rope in window"
Floyd ]  Treetop
Floyd | 78/794 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW ROPE IN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You take aim and heave the thick rope into the window.  It disappears
Floyd | inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "leap into window"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/795 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LEAP INTO WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You make your leap of faith.  Your hands find a firm grip on the sill
Floyd | and you pull yourself in.  Unfortunately, you drop all of your
Floyd | possessions in the process.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Attic
Floyd | This is a little attic space, barely tall enough for you to stand in.
Floyd | Thick boards run in parallel lines along the floor, with pink
Floyd | insulation laid out in between.  A thick brass pipe passes up from the
Floyd | floor next to the window and continues up through the ceiling.
Floyd | Cardboard packing boxes of various sizes are stacked along the walls.
Floyd | A folded-up ladder attached to a hatch would lead down if it were
Floyd | open, but it's closed.  The only exit is the little window you came
Floyd | in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a thick rope here.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Your score just went up by 10 points. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search boxes"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/796 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH BOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | In the cardboard boxes you see a blue pencil and a desk lamp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from boxes"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/797 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM BOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | blue pencil:  Taken.
Floyd | desk lamp:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rope to pipe"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/798 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TIE ROPE TO PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You tie the rope to the pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rope out window"
Floyd ]  Attic
Floyd | 88/799 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ROPE OUT WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You throw the free end of the rope out the window.  It doesn't reach
Floyd | all the way down to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb down rope"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 88/800 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLIMB DOWN ROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You shimmy down the rope.  After a few feet, your hands lose their
Floyd | grip and you plummet.  The ground breaks your fall, and quite nearly
Floyd | your ankle.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms
Floyd | an extra story high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the
Floyd | wall, about 30 feet up.  There is a rope dangling from the window.  A
Floyd | little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into
Floyd | the woods.  You can walk around your house to the northwest and
Floyd | northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where
Floyd | you always thought it should.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a tire here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 88/801 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a blue pencil
Floyd |    a desk lamp
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "well, I have an idea what the pencil is for, but the lamp, I'm not sure."
DavidW says, "I suppose we can try to show the lamp and cannonball to the antique store gal."
DavidW says, "lemme recheck the other stuff first, though, see if anything screams 'antique'."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ]  Behind house
Floyd | 88/802 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind house
Floyd | The back of your house is pretty non-descript, except for some really
Floyd | nice trees that make up for the lack of landscaping in the front.  The
Floyd | spout of your drainpipe comes down here from the roof.  A gravel path
Floyd | extends northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 88/803 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in barrow"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 88/804 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN BARROW
Floyd |
Floyd | In the busted wheelbarrow you see a car key, a tourist map, a garage
Floyd | door opener, a school pencil, an old pillowcase, a can of WD-40, a
Floyd | deflated soccer ball, a broken tire pump, a 2x4 plank, a can-opener, a
Floyd | machete, a crowbar, a paper napkin, some money (four dollars), a
Floyd | biology book, a newspaper, a motorized grinder, and an old tennis
Floyd | ball.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hmm. With the plank and rope, we might be able to descend into that chasm between the grotto and crystal cavern."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grinder"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 88/805 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GRINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | The device is pretty simple:  you put a master key and a blank into
Floyd | the grinder, turn it on, and the lathe cuts the blank into a
Floyd | duplicate.  A black, heavy-duty electrical cord with a plug at the end
Floyd | trails out the back.  The thick black cord is dangling from the back
Floyd | of the motorized grinder.  In the motorized grinder you see a blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm. crowbar might _might_ open the hatch in the attic."
DavidW says, "iffy, though."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x map"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 88/806 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MAP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a tourist map of Paris.  Must be left over from some other
Floyd | adventure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 88/807 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the garage
Floyd | This room is a total mess.  No wonder you keep your car in the
Floyd | driveway.  Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk
Floyd | in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and
Floyd | there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it.  There is a
Floyd | garage door button on the wall.  A closed door to the south leads into
Floyd | your house through the kitchen.  The only other exit is the way you
Floyd | came in, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an opener button, a wasp nest, a moose head trophy, a beat-up
Floyd | mattress, and the kitchen sink here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trophy"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 88/808 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TROPHY
Floyd |
Floyd | What a piece of junk!  Perhaps the ultimate.  Be proud.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nest"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 88/809 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X NEST
Floyd |
Floyd | Dratted mud-daubers!  It looks dead, but you'd better leave it alone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sink"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 88/810 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Obviously, you must have found everything there is to find if you've
Floyd | found this relic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm, perhaps it would help to put the mattress below the window"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mattress"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 88/811 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MATTRESS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't pick up the beat-up mattress.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push mattress n"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 88/812 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH MATTRESS N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't seem to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull mattress n"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 88/812 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL MATTRESS N
Floyd |
Floyd | There are words after your command I couldn't use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mattress"
Floyd ]  In the garage
Floyd | 88/813 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MATTRESS
Floyd |
Floyd | Geez!  Don't you ever throw anything away?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 88/814 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North of house
Floyd | The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door.  The
Floyd | garage door is open.  A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the
Floyd | house.  The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to
Floyd | the front of the house and southwest to the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a busted wheelbarrow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pillowcase"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 88/815 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PILLOWCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put map in case"
Floyd ]  North of house
Floyd | 88/816 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT MAP IN CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ]  Front of house
Floyd | 88/817 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of house
Floyd | This is the front of your house.  A couple of stones lying about make
Floyd | up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping.  Your driveway is to the
Floyd | northeast.  A small path leads northwest and southwest.  The front
Floyd | door stands invitingly to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a doormat here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  South of house
Floyd | 88/818 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South of house
Floyd | The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms
Floyd | an extra story high because of it.  There is a tiny window high in the
Floyd | wall, about 30 feet up.  There is a rope dangling from the window.  A
Floyd | little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into
Floyd | the woods.  You can walk around your house to the northwest and
Floyd | northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where
Floyd | you always thought it should.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a tire here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 88/819 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think.  A
Floyd | well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak
Floyd | trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so
Floyd | the path does an abrupt curve around it.  The path leads northeast to
Floyd | your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 88/820 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clearing
Floyd | The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here.  Moonlight
Floyd | streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is
Floyd | hard and flat and clean.  Your footpath leaves the clearing to the
Floyd | northeast, heading back to the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a cannonball, a divining
Floyd | wand, a shovel, and a rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter platform"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 88/821 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER PLATFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cannonball in case"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 88/822 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT CANNONBALL IN CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put lamp in case"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 88/823 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT LAMP IN CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 88/824 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |    a blue pencil
Floyd |    an old pillowcase
Floyd |        a tourist map
Floyd |        a cannonball
Floyd |        a desk lamp
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set knob to 1"
Floyd ]  Clearing
Floyd | 88/825 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 1
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button"
Floyd ]  Forest
Floyd | 88/826 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the big red button.  Click!
Floyd |
Floyd | The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven.  A deep
Floyd | red light envelops you.  The world around you spins into a wild vortex
Floyd | that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | The woods surround you on all sides, although there is enough space
Floyd | around you to consider it a clearing of sorts.  Light streams prettily
Floyd | through the canopy of leaves above.  The ground is hard and flat and
Floyd | clean.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear the soft gurgling of a stream nearby, but the foliage is
Floyd | so rich and dense that the sound of it is dispersed.  You aren't sure
Floyd | from which direction it originates.  You can see your usual path
Floyd | through the grove of trees to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a time machine here.  The hinged compartment seems to contain
Floyd | the time machine manual.  Sitting on the time machine platform is a
Floyd | perfect blue crystal, a frisbee, a penny, a divining wand, a shovel,
Floyd | and a rare book.
Floyd |
Floyd | The divining wand vibrates, pulling to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Path in the woods
Floyd | 88/827 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the platform)
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Path in the woods
Floyd | A natural path made by the stream winds through a natural grove of
Floyd | cedar and live oak trees.  A large rock juts up out of the ground
Floyd | right in your way, and the stream does an abrupt curve around it.  The
Floyd | stream runs from the northeast to the south, and a clearing is visible
Floyd | to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 88/828 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping wood
Floyd | The ground slopes down here, eroded by the nearby stream.  Grasses
Floyd | heavy with fresh dew and spring-saturated soil give the area a soft,
Floyd | spongy feel beneath your feet.  The stream leads back southwest, and
Floyd | far ahead through the trees to the northeast, you can see a road of
Floyd | some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a little mound of dirt and five empty jugs of miracle-grow
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Sloping wood
Floyd | 88/829 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nowhere to go in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ]  Oakwood drive
Floyd | 88/830 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Oakwood drive
Floyd | This pleasant road wanders peacefully through the lush tree growths
Floyd | native to the area.  In the intervening years, they'll straighten the
Floyd | road and widen it, cutting down dozens of these thirty- to
Floyd | eighty-year-old live oaks.  The road leads north into the old shopping
Floyd | village, and a path winds back into the forest to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  In the village
Floyd | 88/831 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the village
Floyd | The little shopping village looks a lot different than you're used to
Floyd | seeing it.  The sandwich shop is there, to the north, but it doesn't
Floyd | look like it's open for business yet.  To the west is the bank, which
Floyd | seems like it's always been here and always will.  To the east is an
Floyd | antique store, where the public library will be.  The road leading
Floyd | back is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/832 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | She says, "Good morning.  Feel free to browse around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sell cannonball"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/832 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SELL CANNONBALL
Floyd |
Floyd | (to the merchant)
Floyd | The merchant gives the cannonball the once-over with her keen pair of
Floyd | eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant says, "Say, this cannonball is in good shape.  I'll give
Floyd | you $35 for it.  Deal?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/833 
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant tucks the cannonball away into a back room, then returns
Floyd | and hands you the money.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant says, "All righty.  Here you are.  Thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | You somehow gather all of your money together along with the new cash.
Floyd |
Floyd | [It is now in your hands, and not where you last left it.  Presto!]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "neat trick"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sell lamp"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/834 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SELL LAMP
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant gives the desk lamp the once-over with her keen pair of
Floyd | eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant shakes her head and says, "Sorry, that isn't something I
Floyd | can consider buying from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sell map"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/835 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SELL MAP
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant gives the tourist map the once-over with her keen pair of
Floyd | eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant shakes her head and says, "Sorry, that isn't something I
Floyd | can consider buying from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/836 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Antique store
Floyd | Stocked full of knickknacks and ancient collectibles, this shop is
Floyd | pervaded by a rich, musty odor.  Taking a look around, you are
Floyd | somewhat ashamed to admit that you really can't tell one item from
Floyd | another.  None of it looks any more valuable or rare than the
Floyd | collection you keep heaped in your garage.  The only exit is west into
Floyd | the village.
Floyd |
Floyd | The antiques merchant is here, puttering around her shop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stuff"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/837 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STUFF
Floyd |
Floyd | The collection of antiques is disordered, and most of it doesn't look
Floyd | important.  You think you might turn something up if you gave it a
Floyd | good search, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search stuff"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/838 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH STUFF
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a lightning rod!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/839 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a metal suitcase!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/840 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing else in the antiques.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rod"
Floyd ]  Antique store
Floyd | 88/841 
Floyd | >