  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| says, "So, are we playing Necrotic Drift? Looks like Ellison was ensuring we had that loaded into Floyd." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or did NightFloyd do that, I wonder..." | ||
| DavidW says, "huh, I think the cashier gave me the peanut crackers for free when it didn't scan." | ||
| DavidW says, "weird: opened a jerky package and inside, there's a smaller foil package plus a mini packet with napkin and two toothpicks." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "FTF NF" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "FTF?" | ||
| DavidW looks up. "yeah, neither Floyd has done Necrotic Drift." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "first things frst" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, I see now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | ||
| DavidW looks back at the jerky package. "It doesn't say the flavour in English, but it helpfully does say 'Eating method: Consumed upon opening'. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, given that I will not be here most of this week, I'd love to see CF play that (I was a tester for the game, and thus can't play it anyway)." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Necrotic Drift, that is." | ||
| jenrexrode asks, "zombies?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I cannot say." | ||
| DavidW says, "I have no objection to ND." | ||
| DavidW says, "And I assume there's zombies, but I don't know." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I cannot wait to read the transcript - I really like this game, and it has one of my favorite IF puzzles ever." | ||
| smartgenes says, "Emily's going to play with us, she only has a little bit of exposure to IF so far.." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Emily Short? Yeah, she's such a n00b." | ||
| smartgenes says, "lol no Emily Kostalova" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh! Ah." | ||
| smartgenes exclaims, "there are other Emilys in the world!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I figured you meant someone else, I just didn't know who. ;)" | ||
| smartgenes says, "that's a testament to how famous Emily Short is" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of inky), "Could you do me a favor and look in the Hugo folder and see if the version of ND that's in there is recently-uploaded?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Robb just did some sort of new release, I think." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, nevermind." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "What I need to see is that it's the GLK version that Ellison's been working on." | ||
| DavidW says, "We won't see or hear any multimedia effects, if that's the issue." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, yeah, but I think that's probably okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Though, not sure why Ellison was all about doing a GLK version... Floyd can run Hugo." | ||
| inky says, "whoops, sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I'm not going to worry about it too much." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "No worries... I don't think I actually need you to look at anything." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was thinking Robb released an update, but what he did was release the code." | ||
| inky says, "ndrift is the newest thing" | ||
| inky says, "from may 19" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay - cool. Thank you." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "brb" | ||
| Jacqueline waves and makes an isquiesque departure for home. | Jacqueline says, "Back. My tf was doing this weird thing it sometimes does where it quits showing me any channel except ones I have hard-wired color triggers (I could only see CF and JC)" | |
| Jacqueline hollers, "Here in three minutes or so, ClubFloyd will play Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin." | DavidW says, "huh. I thought I was already in the toyshop. I'm too overcome with snacks, I suppose." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I wasn't here either, due to my reboot. Huh." | ||
| Zach asks, "I'm confused: we're playing a game about tofu jerky zombie?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Um, sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load ndrift" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My dad came home late one night when I was nine and threw an old copy Floyd | of the Monster Manual by Gary Gygax onto my bed. He woke me up, Floyd | stressed and shaking at the humiliation his friends had put him Floyd | through earlier that evening. Floyd | Floyd | He asked me if I wanted the book. I was still groggy, but I picked it Floyd | up and thumbed through it. "We didn't play Monopoly tonight, Jarret," Floyd | he told me. "That's because not a one of them can beat me. Instead, Floyd | they brought out this... thing. Some 'game of the imagination'." He Floyd | practically spat that last word. "You can move all you like without Floyd | throwing any dice, but to actually do anything, you need to throw a Floyd | handful!!" I was both reading entries on the different monsters and Floyd | paying half-attention to his rant. "Five minutes in, Benson tells me Floyd | that I come across something called a gorgon. That got me stoned. Why Floyd | would I play a game that depicted the recreational use of marijuana Floyd | cigarettes? I got up and left." Floyd | Floyd | "They let you read this during play?" I asked him. He nodded. I turned Floyd | to page 49. "I don't think they were supposed to. It says right here Floyd | that the gorgon can turn you to stone. It doesn't get you stoned. And Floyd | right here are all its weaknesses! How did you not see this? Are you Floyd | stupid or something? Or what?" Floyd | Floyd | My father snatched back the Monster Manual. He didn't state that what Floyd | he was going to do was going to hurt him more than it hurt me. (I Floyd | think all he did say was that he should have left his 'patented Duffy Floyd | blast' on my mother's face the night I was conceived, which didn't Floyd | make a whole lot of sense to me then.) He instead just quietly gave me Floyd | a spanking for back talk. But as that 112 page reference to a modern Floyd | mythology of villainy struck my bony behind, it was as if he were Floyd | bonding the pages and me for all time. Like directed osmosis through Floyd | anger or something. Floyd | Floyd | (Okay, it actually wasn't like osmosis at all, but I've sacrificed Floyd | knowledge in basic chemistry for additional levels in Modern Floyd | Mythology, so please cut me some slack on the occasional analogy Floyd | outside of my experience.) Floyd | Floyd | In the week that followed, my father tried to ban Dungeons & Dragons Floyd | from the house as he had previously banned video games, cursing, Cajun Floyd | food and music recorded after 1959. I stood up to him on D&D, though, Floyd | and he caved for the only time in my childhood. Within a week I was Floyd | running my own games for the kids in my tract. We were creating Floyd | adventures together with Devils, Demons and Dragons and it was one of Floyd | the best times of my life. My old man may have never been on the short Floyd | list for an award from the PTA, but his maniac antics did a better job Floyd | helping me understand just what I was interested in than the fathers Floyd | of anyone else I grew up with. And heck, he did have my back that one Floyd | time I met D&D creator Gary Gygax himself at DragonCon and started Floyd | kicking him in his bag of magic beans (if you're digging my ditch Floyd | here) in misplaced, latent vengeance due to how hard the board stock Floyd | was for those manual covers. Floyd | Floyd | I don't think you've truly bonded with your father until you've spent Floyd | 36 consecutive hours in a holding cell mocking and taunting an inmate Floyd | set consisting of multiple thirty-somethings decked out in homemade Floyd | hobbit, fairie and chocobo costumes, where the only thing the lot of Floyd | them had in common, aside from a complete lack of human dignity, was Floyd | relating how difficult it was to sleep late when the sump pump went Floyd | off. Floyd | Floyd | | ||
| smartgenes arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline asks, "Oh wait, sleepmask? Does that work on this? It doesn't, right?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, or maybe it does." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let me restart and see." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
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Floyd | Necrotic Drift
Floyd | Interactive Fiction
Floyd | Copyright (c) 2004. Written and programmed by Robb Sherwin
Floyd | Release 1.03 / Serial number 040623 / Hugo 3.1
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm here this evening at an Academy Videos store thirty-five minutes
Floyd | from my home with two of my roommates and my best friend. We have to
Floyd | come all the way down here to rent because of the late fees on my
Floyd | memberships at all the video places back in the Fort. I wish I had a
Floyd | good story for why that is the case, but I don't. I'm just poor and
Floyd | had the first Lord of the Rings movie overdue for more than two weeks
Floyd | at multiple video chains. I kept it around to mainly prove trivia. (It
Floyd | will probably end up costing me more to show my friends that the elf
Floyd | character Legolas was walking on, and not in the snow, than it did for
Floyd | director Peter Jackson to implement that effect on-screen.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Supposedly, Audrey is dropping by tonight to watch a movie, which is
Floyd | why I'm even here to begin with. In the five years we've been together
Floyd | we've dumped each other a total of nine times. She is currently ahead
Floyd | of me six to three. Her most shallow dumping was when she wanted to
Floyd | exclusively hang around a hardcore goth guy who had somehow managed to
Floyd | finance or lease his own cemetery plot. That guy was the black
Floyd | fingernail Alpha male until he missed his first payment. To be fair,
Floyd | mine was when she filled out Student Loan paperwork for me without my
Floyd | knowledge or consent and almost enrolled me into classes at the nearby
Floyd | University of Central Hill. She doesn't like the fact that I work at
Floyd | the Funtime Teen Mall for $5.51 an hour at age 27.
Floyd |
Floyd | I have to work later tonight, so I guess I'd better pick something and
Floyd | get out of here quickly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | What?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | [Your score is 0 from a trivial 601.] Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)? | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Thanks for playing! Floyd | | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ndrift" | ||
Floyd ] NECROTIC DRIFT 1.03 by Robb Sherwin Floyd | My dad came home late one night when I was nine and threw an old copy Floyd | of the Monster Manual by Gary Gygax onto my bed. He woke me Floyd | up, stressed and shaking at the humiliation his friends had put him Floyd | through earlier that evening. Floyd | Floyd | He asked me if I wanted the book. I was still groggy, but I picked it Floyd | up and thumbed through it. "We didn't play Monopoly tonight, Jarret," Floyd | he told me. "That's because not a one of them can beat me. Instead, Floyd | they brought out this... thing. Some 'game of the imagination'." He Floyd | practically spat that last word. "You can move all you like without Floyd | throwing any dice, but to actually do anything, you need to throw a Floyd | handful!!" I was both reading entries on the different monsters and Floyd | paying half-attention to his rant. "Five minutes in, Benson tells me Floyd | that I come across something called a gorgon. That got me stoned. Why Floyd | would I play a game that depicted the recreational use of marijuana Floyd | cigarettes? I got up and left." Floyd | Floyd | "They let you read this during play?" I asked him. He nodded. I turned Floyd | to page 49. "I don't think they were supposed to. It says right here Floyd | that the gorgon can turn you to stone. It doesn't Floyd | get you stoned. And right here are all its weaknesses! How Floyd | did you not see this? Are you stupid or something? Or what?" Floyd | Floyd | My father snatched back the Monster Manual. He didn't state Floyd | that what he was going to do was going to hurt him more than it hurt Floyd | me. (I think all he did say was that he should have left his 'patented Floyd | Duffy blast' on my mother's face the night I was conceived, which Floyd | didn't make a whole lot of sense to me then.) He instead just quietly Floyd | gave me a spanking for back talk. But as that 112 page reference to a Floyd | modern mythology of villainy struck my bony behind, it was as if he Floyd | were bonding the pages and me for all time. Like directed osmosis Floyd | through anger or something. Floyd | Floyd | (Okay, it actually wasn't like osmosis at all, but I've sacrificed Floyd | knowledge in basic chemistry for additional levels in Modern Floyd | Mythology, so please cut me some slack on the occasional analogy Floyd | outside of my experience.) Floyd | Floyd | In the week that followed, my father tried to ban Dungeons & Dragons Floyd | from the house as he had previously banned video games, cursing, Cajun Floyd | food and music recorded after 1959. I stood up to him on D&D, though, Floyd | and he caved for the only time in my childhood. Within a week I was Floyd | running my own games for the kids in my tract. We were creating Floyd | adventures together with Devils, Demons and Dragons and it was one of Floyd | the best times of my life. My old man may have never been on the short Floyd | list for an award from the PTA, but his maniac antics did a better job Floyd | helping me understand just what I was interested in than the fathers Floyd | of anyone else I grew up with. And heck, he did have my back that one Floyd | time I met D&D creator Gary Gygax himself at DragonCon and started Floyd | kicking him in his bag of magic beans (if you're digging my ditch Floyd | here) in misplaced, latent vengeance due to how hard the board stock Floyd | was for those manual covers. Floyd | Floyd | I don't think you've truly bonded with your father until you've spent Floyd | 36 consecutive hours in a holding cell mocking and taunting an inmate Floyd | set consisting of multiple thirty-somethings decked out in homemade Floyd | hobbit, fairie and chocobo costumes, where the only thing the lot of Floyd | them had in common, aside from a complete lack of human dignity, was Floyd | relating how difficult it was to sleep late when the sump pump went Floyd | off. | smartgenes asks, "can we go slow on start so emily can get the context?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. We haven't taken a move yet - there are just big text dumps at the start is all." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or... wait, is she not here yet?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, I don't think people will hold off unless we're sure she's going to be here very soon." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "just wait a couple of minutes?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I'm sure a couple of minutes is probably okay... but I'm actually about to leave. DW, jen, inky?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I can wait a bit. But yeah, long textdumps." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let me just trigger the second dump because I want to see if Sleepmask is going to work with this." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 0 / 0 Floyd | Necrotic Drift Floyd | Interactive Fiction Floyd | Copyright (c) 2004. Written and programmed by Robb Sherwin Floyd | Release 1.03 / Serial number 040623 / Hugo 3.1 Floyd | Floyd | I'm here this evening at an Academy Videos store thirty-five minutes Floyd | from my home with two of my roommates and my best friend. We have to Floyd | come all the way down here to rent because of the late fees on my Floyd | memberships at all the video places back in the Fort. I wish I had a Floyd | good story for why that is the case, but I don't. I'm just poor and Floyd | had the first Lord of the Rings movie overdue for more than Floyd | two weeks at multiple video chains. I kept it around to mainly prove Floyd | trivia. (It will probably end up costing me more to show my friends Floyd | that the elf character Legolas was walking on, and not Floyd | in the snow, than it did for director Peter Jackson to Floyd | implement that effect on-screen.) Floyd | Floyd | Supposedly, Audrey is dropping by tonight to watch a movie, which is Floyd | why I'm even here to begin with. In the five years we've been together Floyd | we've dumped each other a total of nine times. She is currently ahead Floyd | of me six to three. Her most shallow dumping was when she wanted to Floyd | exclusively hang around a hardcore goth guy who had somehow managed to Floyd | finance or lease his own cemetery plot. That guy was the black Floyd | fingernail Alpha male until he missed his first payment. To be fair, Floyd | mine was when she filled out Student Loan paperwork for me without my Floyd | knowledge or consent and almost enrolled me into classes at the nearby Floyd | University of Central Hill. She doesn't like the fact that I work at Floyd | the Funtime Teen Mall for $5.51 an hour at age 27. Floyd | Floyd | I have to work later tonight, so I guess I'd better pick something and Floyd | get out of here quickly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Looks fine." | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, I'm going to head out - enjoy this one, everyone. See you next week." | ||
| smartgenes says, "just a couple more mins she is making sure the dogs don't steal each other's food" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Can't wait to revisit this one through your eyes." | ||
| Zach says, "Dang, Audrey is winning the relationship" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "l]" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 0 / 0 Floyd | > Floyd | > L] Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "l]" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "still reaing text" | |
| DavidW says, "I support the LOOK command, since we don't know what's surrounding us." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "i'm dobe" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "we done" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "er er" | ||
| DavidW asks (of smartgenes), "Can we continue?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "okays" | ||
| smartgenes says, "thanks" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 0 / 1 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Academy Videos Floyd | The inside of the video store looks like it was slapped together in a Floyd | weekend by enslaved, tool-wielding howler monkeys and routinely Floyd | cleaned by an anosmic with all the enthusiasm of a man who lost a bet. Floyd | Rotting floorboards create a random topography that would put the Floyd | landshifts and valleys of the legendary Umar Hills to shame. Faded Floyd | posters cover much of the surface area of the walls, and a few of them Floyd | have begun peeling or been stricken with graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | All the available movies have been shoved into racks labeled with one Floyd | of four categories: Action, Drama, Fantasy and Horror. Alphabetical Floyd | order isn't implemented in any of them either, so trying to find a Floyd | specific movie is often futile. It's usually best just to look along Floyd | the racks and hope something good catches your eye. Floyd | Gibs, Pang, Criswell, and the clerk are here. Floyd | Floyd | "So..." says Gibs, as he scans the movies half-heartedly, "You and Floyd | Audrey are on the rocks again, eh, Duffy? What happened this time, did Floyd | she get you enrolled into MIT?" Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "what's an anosmic?" | |
| DavidW asks, "I didn't see that word; did you spell it correctly?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh wait, I see it" | ||
| Zach | Anosmia is the inability to perceive odor | ||
| DavidW says, "I vote we ignore Gibs; we'll probably auto-talk to him anyway." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x action" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 0 / 2 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ACTION Floyd | Floyd | It's constructed from a cheap wood board, and sags quite a bit due to Floyd | the number of movies placed within it. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the action rack is a movie from action rack. Floyd | Floyd | Pang clears his throat and holds up a copy of Blade. "I have Floyd | found the movie for us all tonight," he states, with an annoying Floyd | authority. "It has electronica and vampires, as all classics should." Floyd | Floyd | "Blade?" screeches Criswell. He's another one of my Floyd | roommates. "They merged techno music and goths for that one. No Floyd | chance. No way. And if you pick out one that merges country music with Floyd | the French art film or opera with a Pixar kiddie flick I will drop Floyd | trou and take a crap on the TV while it's playing." Floyd | Floyd | Criswell's only half joking, as he's demonstrated his willingness to Floyd | do that before. When his favorite CFL football team lost in the finals Floyd | last year he was so pissed off at the TV for depicting it that he Floyd | grabbed a chair from the kitchen, got up and plopped a steaming load Floyd | on top of the set. Worse, it was two weeks before anyone cleaned it Floyd | up. We had a veritable bumper crop of flies around the house that Floyd | year. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ew" | |
| jenrexrode says, "man" | ||
| DavidW says, "also 'movie from action rack' doesn't sound very exciting." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take action movie" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 3 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ACTION MOVIE Floyd | Floyd | I grab a movie from the rack. And behold! It's The Lord of the Floyd | Rings. Why on earth the dip behind the counter would deign to Floyd | keep it in this rack is beyond my comprehension. But it Floyd | doesn't matter. I don't really possess the discipline to go get Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, I'm set," says Criswell. "Truman Show. Jim Carrey is the Floyd | funniest man alive. This'll be a gem. Hey, Duffy, you Floyd | bringin' that chick you hang around with over tonight? Well, thank me Floyd | later, man, 'cos she'll be all out of giggles by the time you pull off Floyd | your pants. For once, anyway." Floyd | Floyd | Barnaby idly toys with a movie and then puts it back on the shelf. Floyd | "There were some real hotties at that Bead Store, the other day," he Floyd | says to me. "Cute, but not so cute that they would have nothing to do Floyd | with you, I mean." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | olethros says, "take the movie from the exciting rack instead" | |
| DavidW says, "Too late." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "examine it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Gee, this'll be great, hanging out with my homelies." | ||
| DavidW says, "sure, try it." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x lord of the rings" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 3 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LORD OF THE RINGS Floyd | Floyd | I haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x video" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 4 Floyd | > Floyd | > X VIDEO Floyd | Floyd | The clerk at Academy Videos is famous through New Haz for being one of Floyd | its most smug and sarcastic citizens. He will always criticize a Floyd | customer's movie choice unless it's one of the ten or fifteen films Floyd | that he thinks are classic. He is wearing a hypercolor shirt like all Floyd | employees in the chain, as well as a pair of dirty sweatpants. Floyd | Floyd | "Yo, fruit loops," says the clerk to the lot of us, "I'm shutting this Floyd | store down to go get a full body massage from the Taiwanese Parlor Floyd | down the street. Pronto. Get your movies and get out." Floyd | Floyd | "Full-body?" asks Barnaby. "That means they give you a hand job, Floyd | right?" The clerk perks up and nods gleefully. "Hey, I've always Floyd | wondered..." Barnaby decides exactly how he wants to phrase it. "Is it Floyd | customary to let them know when you're about to come? Like, a warning? Floyd | Or do you not have to do that because they are professionals?" Floyd | Floyd | Nobody says anything for a few moments. I shrug. "I guess it depends Floyd | on whether you're a sprayer or a lumper," I say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 5 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn) and the DVD case. Inside the Floyd | DVD case is the Lord of the Rings DVD. Floyd | Floyd | "Anyway, I wasn't kidding around. Get your movies and get lost," Floyd | repeats the clerk. The clerk continues to get ready for his little Floyd | excursion. He places his armament upon the counter. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, yeah! I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin'..." says Criswell. I'm all Floyd | set, but it looks like we'll have to wait for him or Pang now. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "not sure i'm digging the style here" | |
| DavidW says, "It's a bit on the crusty musty side o' town." | ||
| Zach says, "Not at all a high class video rental establishment" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm wondering if we have to 'buy dvd' or somehow convince Pang and Criswell to take a movie." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take horror movie" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE HORROR MOVIE Floyd | Floyd | I haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "imagining the film Clerks, or something like that" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rent dvd" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RENT DVD Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "rent" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x horror" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HORROR Floyd | Floyd | The horror rack used to be pretty good, but it's fallen into anarchy Floyd | just like all the other racks. Criswell once accidentally rented Floyd | Beaches from this rack and failed to note it was a chick Floyd | flick. He's the only guy in the city that thinks the best horror flick Floyd | of all-time doesn't feature Bruce Campbell or Bill Chepil or whoever, Floyd | but rather Bette Midler. Floyd | Floyd | A grime-encrusted area denizen slams his hand on the door and the Floyd | clerk reluctantly lets him in. The thing shambles his way into the Floyd | video store. He leaves muddy streaks upon the entrance door, drawing Floyd | the further ire of the clerk. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, what the hell is the matter with you, cracky?" I suppose that I Floyd | disagree that the new denizen is a crackhead (he meanders more in his Floyd | movement than he shakes, I mean). But I don't say anything. The clerk Floyd | points a stern finger at him from across the counter. "Can't you read? Floyd | We're closed! Get out of here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy dvd" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY DVD Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be for sale. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "uh-oh. Is this our first zombie?" | |
| Zach asks (of DavidW), "Maybe try talking to the clerk?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x crackhead" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 7 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACKHEAD Floyd | Floyd | This creature is covered in a thick grit. He (it?) is draped in a Floyd | musty flannel and shambles about with an unwholesome gait. His Floyd | forearms are unnaturally long and jaundiced, and his there are several Floyd | patches of mosiaced-over scabs and seeping wounds covering his face Floyd | and neck. Floyd | Floyd | The area denizen grabs at the clerk's neck! He gets two hands round Floyd | the clerk's esophagus, and begins choking the life right out of him! Floyd | Floyd | The clerk gurgles in pain! I hear a guttural moaning sound coming from Floyd | the attacker. The violence causes Pang and Criswell to hide in the Floyd | back of the store. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey!" says Barnaby, "Knock it off! Let him go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Talking to the clerk isn't an option any more." | |
| smartgenes asks, "trip zombie?" | ||
| Zach says, "Hey, that zombie is cutting in line!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Might want to try hitting the crackhead or leaving." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "get flannel?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x armament" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 8 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARMAMENT Floyd | Floyd | I should first say something about the city of New Haz and explain why Floyd | a video clerk would be packing heat. Floyd | Floyd | Culturally, New Haz is kind of a stinking dump. It's been described as Floyd | everything from a holding cell for miscreants and scuzzballs, to a Floyd | bleak planned community gone horribly and violently wrong, to a Floyd | slightly Utopian New Haven, Connecticut. I like it so much I live Floyd | thirty-five minutes away, and believe me when I say that I would not Floyd | work here if the Fort had a mall. Truthfully, it used to be a lot Floyd | worse before some kid brought to justice 80% of the city's Most Wanted Floyd | Criminals a while back. But it's nevertheless rather rough, and you're Floyd | legally required to possess a firearm to enter the west side. Floyd | Floyd | This gun uses nail magazines, and fires them off slowly and messily, Floyd | one at a time. Nice accuracy, but it has no spray or automatic Floyd | settings. It's on the small side, as small as the manufacturer could Floyd | go without embracing the "ladies choice" designation. Floyd | Floyd | This weapon has 7 shots remaining. Floyd | Floyd | The grimy denizen throttles the clerk! Floyd | Floyd | The clerk slumps to the floor, disappearing behind the register Floyd | counter. Floyd | Floyd | "Christ, Duffy, get the goddamn gun!" screams Barnaby. The guy Floyd | (creature, whatever it is) is between the gun and Barnaby. It emits a Floyd | throaty snarl and slowly shambles toward him. Barnaby gives the door a Floyd | couple solid kicks and opens it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get armament" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 7 / 9 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ARMAMENT Floyd | Floyd | I casually lift the gun from the counter without the clerk really Floyd | noticing. Floyd | Floyd | Barnaby takes a swing at the filthy mound. He connects to its sternum Floyd | (a solid blow) but the guy / creature is not stunned, not driven back, Floyd | not nearly phased by it at all. Floyd | Floyd | "Shoot the damn thing, Duffy!" yells Barnaby. "Now, Floyd | goddammit!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think the game forgives too much extraneous actions from what I've seen so far." | |
| DavidW says, "er too many" | ||
| inky asks, "you mean it's got a lot of timers?" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "shall i type the obvious?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "shoot zombie" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT ZOMBIE Floyd | Floyd | [Specify which gun to shoot with.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shoot zombie with armament" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT ZOMBIE WITH ARMAMENT Floyd | Floyd | I shoot the creature! Floyd | Floyd | The creature collapses and falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search zombie" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 11 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH ZOMBIE Floyd | Floyd | The creature is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x clerk" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 12 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLERK Floyd | Floyd | The clerk at Academy Videos is famous through New Haz for being one of Floyd | its most smug and sarcastic citizens. He will always criticize a Floyd | customer's movie choice unless it's one of the ten or fifteen films Floyd | that he thinks are classic. He is wearing a hypercolor shirt like all Floyd | employees in the chain, as well as a pair of dirty sweatpants. Floyd | Floyd | He is currently knocked out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x sweatpants" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 12 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SWEATPANTS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "sweatpants" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "wake up clerk" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 13 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAKE UP CLERK Floyd | Floyd | I try, but I don't get any sort of response back into wakefulness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x zombie" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 14 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ZOMBIE Floyd | Floyd | This creature is covered in a thick grit. He (it?) is draped in a Floyd | musty flannel that hasn't been in fashion since Gygax was happily Floyd | married to his first wife. His forearms are unnaturally long and Floyd | jaundiced, and his there are several patches of mosiaced-over scabs Floyd | and seeping wounds covering his face and neck. Floyd | Floyd | It is currently knocked out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get flannel" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 14 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FLANNEL Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "flannel" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind counter" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything behind the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "slap clerk" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 15 Floyd | > Floyd | > SLAP CLERK Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "slap" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search counter" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 16 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guys about zombie" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 16 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK GUYS ABOUT ZOMBIE Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "guys" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask gibs about zombie" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to barnaby" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK GIBS ABOUT ZOMBIE Floyd | Floyd | [ Use "TALK TO CHARACTER" to talk to a particular character in the Floyd | game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 17 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BARNABY Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to barnaby" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 18 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BARNABY Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 19 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x drama" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read poster" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 20 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRAMA Floyd | Floyd | The drama rack should, in theory, contain a bunch of films that are Floyd | shown on TNN, but it instead contains a hodgepodge of differently Floyd | genred flicks. Criswell once took the DVD that Gibs shot a couple Floyd | years ago where he was apologizing to his girlfriend for getting into Floyd | a threesome at this one guy Avandre's bachelor party and put it in Floyd | this rack. That was some serious drama. But I think Gibs rented and Floyd | destroyed it when he found out. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 20 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ POSTER Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the posters. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Who's barnaby?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x posters" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 21 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTERS Floyd | Floyd | An original Day of the Dead promo has been tacked onto the Floyd | wall. That's really the only one of note. There are some other ones Floyd | that I can't make out, and by 'make out,' I mean 'they were filmed in Floyd | the sixties so I have no idea what their deal is.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get tack" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 21 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TACK Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "tack" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 12 / 22 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Academy Videos Floyd | The inside of the video store looks like it was slapped together in a Floyd | weekend by enslaved, tool-wielding howler monkeys and routinely Floyd | cleaned by an anosmic with all the enthusiasm of a man who lost a bet. Floyd | Rotting floorboards create a random topography that would put the Floyd | landshifts and valleys of the legendary Umar Hills to shame. Faded Floyd | posters cover much of the surface area of the walls, and a few of them Floyd | have begun peeling or been stricken with graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | All the available movies have been shoved into racks labeled with one Floyd | of four categories: Action, Drama, Fantasy and Horror. Alphabetical Floyd | order isn't implemented in any of them either, so trying to find a Floyd | specific movie is often futile. It's usually best just to look along Floyd | the racks and hope something good catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | There's an exit east to Main Street. Floyd | Gibs, Pang, Criswell, the clerk, and the creature are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we probably want to scram" | |
| smartgenes says, "sounds good" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street 17 / 23 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Street Floyd | The stench of the city of New Haz hits me like a cruel sucker-punch Floyd | through the septum. It's a ringing, persistent odor. One of sewage Floyd | mixed with old gasoline. I shift to breathing exclusively through my Floyd | mouth. But fortunately we'll be out of here soon enough (and before Floyd | the stink can settle on my clothes.) Floyd | My car is here. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs, Pang, and Criswell are here. Floyd | Floyd | "What the hell was that in there?" asks Pang. Floyd | Floyd | "Who knows?" says Barnaby. "Who cares? Let's just go. At least by Floyd | putting down the homeless guy inside he won't get grime nor slime over Floyd | Duffy's windshield in some half-assed attempt to clean it." Floyd | Floyd | "I thought you knew that guy, Duffy," says Criswell, unhelpfully, as Floyd | if that somehow explains why he was cowering in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | We need to get in my car and get out of here quickly -- both before Floyd | the cops come round due to the encounter with that thing in the store, Floyd | but also before the city's ripe stench can settle into our clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go car" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street 17 / 24 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO CAR Floyd | Floyd | The car is shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open car" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street 17 / 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CAR Floyd | Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | The thing from inside breaks through a section of the door! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go car" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street 17 / 26 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO CAR Floyd | Floyd | I get into the car. Pang, Criswell and Barnaby join me. Floyd | Floyd | The zombie slams its open palms against the side of the car! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "close door?" | |
| smartgenes says, "that would make sense" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street 17 / 27 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | The zombie slams its open palms against the side of the car! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think, with the timing, only one of us should type." | |
| smartgenes says, "drive... somehwere" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "start car or drive car, I guess." | ||
Floyd ] Main Street 17 / 27 Floyd | > Floyd | > START CAR OR DRIVE CAR, I GUESS. Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "or" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "I guess gibs = barnaby?" | |
| DavidW says, "oops. I hate when I f before normal text." | ||
| smartgenes says, "not sure which one is barnaby" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i don't think it counted it as a move anyway" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suggest trying 'start car', since it didn't complain about 'start'." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "start car" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > START CAR Floyd | Floyd | (Entering my car first...) Floyd | Floyd | I double-check to make sure everyone's into the car. Floyd | Floyd | The guy from inside keeps clawing away at the passenger side of my Floyd | car. Floyd | Floyd | "Drive, dammit, drive!" screeches Criswell from the backseat. Floyd | "Get us outta here!" Floyd | Floyd | I put the car in reverse and prepare to get the hell out of town. The Floyd | guy staggers over and gets right in my path. Floyd | Floyd | "Hit 'em, Duffy!" Criswell's going crazy back there. "Run him over!" Floyd | Floyd | I put the car in first and stomp the accelerator more out of panic Floyd | than anything else. The guy doesn't move, flinch, anything. I ram him Floyd | and he smacks right into the windshield, chipping it with his elbow. Floyd | He tumbles about and we hear him on the roof for a moment before Floyd | seeing his face appear on the back window, shocking the hell out of Floyd | Pang and Criswell. I downshift from third gear back into second for a Floyd | moment which causes my car to red line and enough of a jolt for him to Floyd | fall off completely. I see him, through the rear-view mirror, take a Floyd | vicious fall onto the road, bouncing against it at painful angles like Floyd | a discarded rag doll. Floyd | Floyd | Nobody says anything for a second, until Criswell pops opens his Floyd | mouth. "That... man, that was awesome!!" Floyd | Floyd | "You don't think I killed that guy, do you? Do you think he's OK?" Floyd | Floyd | "It was probably a bot," says Gibs. "Look, he was trying to attack us, Floyd | anyway." Floyd | Floyd | "That's true," says Pang. "Both items are totally true." Floyd | Floyd | I get us on the Interstate and head north, back towards home. I chuck Floyd | the gun out the window on the way back. Nobody says anything else Floyd | until I drop Gibs off and get the rest of us back to the house... | smartgenes asks, "or just DRIVE?" | |
| inky says, "probably a bot" | ||
| Zach asks, "What? Since when is mindless robot killing OK?" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "this is a Bladerunner movie?" | ||
| says (to Floyd), "It's OK, Floyd. Don't pay any attention." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd | | ||
| Zach pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Chapter Two Floyd | I've only been on, really, truly on... once in my life. Floyd | Floyd | It was about five years ago. The first week of March. The Wizards of Floyd | the Coast (the company that publishes all the D&D books these days) Floyd | were sponsoring a huge, two-day tournament in the Fort. I signed up Floyd | for it with Barnaby, who used to be more into this kind of thing back Floyd | then, and we started gaming it on a Saturday morning. Floyd | Floyd | It wasn't a 'competitive' tournament, per se, especially since around Floyd | that time the two local gangs of Korean role players had pretty much Floyd | wiped each other out when an on-line housing refresh dispute went from Floyd | the virtual world of the internet to the physical one of reality, Floyd | resulting in thirteen dead and seven wounded. That would have normally Floyd | taken the edge off for the rest of us for the whole of the weekend, Floyd | but we soon found out that WotC were putting up an eight-thousand Floyd | dollar first prize for the weekend's 'Most Outstanding Roleplayer.' Floyd | When I found that out, something clicked inside me, and I drew from a Floyd | strength of personality I didn't know I had. Floyd | Floyd | All day the dice were with me. Just about every time I threw a Floyd | twenty-sided die I got an incredibly favorable result. I started Floyd | getting a bit more bold and soon found that the other kids at my table Floyd | started following me. Looking to me for direction, for Floyd | decisions, for witticisms. I became bolder and overly gregarious. I Floyd | hardly needed any of the booty the game's Dungeon Master was giving us Floyd | in-game, and won over the entire table through generosity. I was Floyd | confident and having fun being me for the first time ever. Floyd | Floyd | My luck stayed with me when I went to different tables and played with Floyd | different people. When the tournament finished the next day, I was Floyd | awarded the top prize and a check for $8,000. I accepted it graciously Floyd | and thanked everyone I played with for giving me the chance to shine. Floyd | As Barnaby and I were rounding up our backpacks and bags of dice, I Floyd | Xeroxed a copy of my character sheet, signed my name and phone number Floyd | to it, and gave it to the cutest girl who seemed single during the Floyd | event, someone I had played with on the first day. Floyd | Floyd | When I got home, I spent the entire check on a car and a new wardrobe. Floyd | I had nothing left of it by Tuesday. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey didn't call the number on the sheet, maybe because it was a Floyd | pompous act of nigh-Olympic level. But when she dropped by the Mall Floyd | later that week I asked her out on a date. She said yes and has been Floyd | in various states of flabbergastation with me over the years that have Floyd | followed. Floyd | Floyd | I got my car, clothes and relationship within a lucky streak that Floyd | lasted 48 hours five years ago. And I've been living off that success Floyd | ever since. I'd confess that in my darker moments, when I am at my Floyd | most honest, it rather spooks me to know that I have essentially been Floyd | stagnant ever since. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push enter" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 28 Floyd | stagnant ever since. Floyd | Living Room Floyd | I live in a four-bedroom rented house in a college town we all call Floyd | 'The Fort.' The exterior to this place was kind of beat up when we Floyd | decided to rent here, and through the last three years we've worked Floyd | our hardest to make the interior nicely match. Floyd | Sitting corpulently in the blue couch is Pang. Floyd | On the tattered couch are the green blanket and the pillow. Sitting Floyd | on the entertainment center are the television and the DVD player. Floyd | Sitting on the table are Vecna's hand, the Dreamcast, the bottle of Floyd | wine, a cup, the Blade DVD, the The Truman Show DVD, and the Lord of Floyd | the Rings DVD. Floyd | Floyd | The other three guys who live here include Pang and Criswell and Floyd | another guy named Leary who isn't around much. (But then, he's an Floyd | engineer and the only guy with his life remotely in order.) Criswell Floyd | found most of our crummy furniture when he went Dumpster Diving a Floyd | while back, and we place blankets over the rotting parts like they Floyd | were giant cloth band-aids to hide their pronounced ghetto factor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I wonder if we get LOTR regardless of which rack we take the movie from?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking that might've been a 'magician's choice' set-up." | ||
| smartgenes says, "it's a bit like 2 games-in-one/stories here" | ||
| Zach says, "The One DVD" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x wine" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 29 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINE Floyd | Floyd | Okay, actually it's a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vecna's hand" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 30 Floyd | > Floyd | > X VECNA'S HAND Floyd | Floyd | Vecna was a bad-ass (and quite mad) guy described in the original D&D Floyd | game. One of the game's artifacts was his 'hand,' and this is a Floyd | novelty item that they passed out at DragonCon a few years back. Floyd | Floyd | There's a knock at the door. It's probably Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 31 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | There's another knock on the door. I should probably get that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Uh oh, zombie Audrey" | |
| smartgenes says, "i have the D&D Monster Manual here..." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 32 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I let Audrey inside, and give her a kiss on the cheek. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello, Jarret..." she looks over and sees Pang on the couch. Distaste Floyd | can't help but crawl across her face. "So... what have we got planned Floyd | for tonight?" Floyd | Floyd | I see Audrey for the first time. I probably should have gotten the Floyd | door for her. Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks for getting the door, jerk," she says. Ouch. This isn't good, Floyd | I've managed to come off as irritating before she'd even entered the Floyd | house. I usually have ten minutes of grace period. Floyd | Floyd | "I was in the bathroom, brushing my hair so it would look nice and Floyd | stylish for you," I say with a shrug. Floyd | Floyd | "It's a brush. Not a magic wand. You know... I've never met a man who Floyd | was so obsessed with his hair. But anyway. What are we doing tonight?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, I think it'll be real Audrey. Gotta have an actual girl in this movie." | |
| DavidW says, "and again, the game has very little tolerance for wasted actions." | ||
| Zach says (to DavidW), "She'll become a zombie later, and then we'll realize that our disfunctional relationship wasn't working out" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Movie Night! Movie Night sure sounds great, doesn't it?" Floyd | (2) "I'm going to avoid that question by telling you how great you Floyd | look, Miss Case." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | Zach asks, "Huh, didn't we get the door for her?" | |
| DavidW says, "no, we didn't" | ||
| DavidW says, "er, oh. I misread." | ||
| smartgenes says, "we didn't get the door straight away, i think" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Shall we try 2? Or go straight to 1?" | ||
| Zach says, "2" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 33 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, that's certainly nice of you to say," says Audrey. "Thank you. Floyd | But..." she says with just the trace of a smile, "You can't avoid the Floyd | question forever, you know." Floyd | Floyd | Well, she's right about that, but I could at least probably Floyd | try. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "OK, to be honest, I thought we'd watch a movie." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "boy. rough." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 34 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "A movie. Oh-kay," she says. "Which theatre?" she asks, hopefully. Floyd | Floyd | "Casa de Duffy, funnily enough." Floyd | Floyd | "Funnily enough? What's so funny, or fun, about being cooped Floyd | up in this house for the millionth time?" She puts her hands on her Floyd | hips, which is an subconscious indicator that she's starting to get Floyd | agitated. "You really don't want to leave and do something?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it's not ha-ha funny, no," I tell her. "Look, we got some good Floyd | stuff. I broke the bank here. If you don't like the films then at Floyd | least you've got me providing Tom-Servo-style running commentary." Floyd | Floyd | She relaxes her pose and waves her hand in a dismissal of her Floyd | argument. "Okay, okay... but you'd better be on, Jarret Floyd | Duffy. What's your term for it? Comedy Jupiter? It had better be Floyd | Comedy Jupiter." Floyd | Floyd | "You betcha. I'll even throw in Io and Europa." I'm not quite sure Floyd | what that means, but those were the only two moons I could recall in a Floyd | pinch, so. Floyd | Floyd | Pang puts the copy of Blade into the DVD player. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "sit on tattered couch?" | |
| Zach says, "Yay, riffing" | ||
| Zach says (to DavidW), "Sure. You can drive because of the timers." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on tattered couch" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 35 Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON TATTERED COUCH Floyd | Floyd | I sit down on the tattered couch. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room, on a tattered couch Floyd | This room is centered around the television, a 32" Sony that Leary Floyd | brought when he moved in. The set sits on a wooden entertainment Floyd | center, with 'satellite' speakers all around the room. The tattered Floyd | white couch is perpendicular to the set, and the blue one (where Pang Floyd | normally situates himself) is eight or nine feet directly across from Floyd | it. Floyd | On the tattered couch are the green blanket and the pillow. Floyd | Sitting corpulently in the blue couch is Pang. Floyd | Sitting on the entertainment center are the television and the DVD Floyd | player. Inside the DVD player is the Blade DVD. Sitting on the table Floyd | are Vecna's hand, the Dreamcast, a cup, the The Truman Show DVD, and Floyd | the Lord of the Rings DVD. Floyd | Audrey is here. Floyd | Floyd | "What.. aw, hell, what the hell is this, Pang?" asks Criswell, as he Floyd | enters. "Oh, hey, by the way, I don't think we're gonna be able to Floyd | keep beers at the neighbor's house any longer. Someone has begun the Floyd | moving-in process. Wait, did you end up getting this fucking Floyd | Blade thing? Oh, Kee-rist!" Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand why Criswell is so against this movie. I guess I Floyd | could ask him, or something, if I really cared. Only I don't. I just Floyd | want him gone. Floyd | Floyd | "Just watch the movie," says Pang. Floyd | Floyd | "No!" exclaims Criswell. "I'm gonna make The Call!" Floyd | Floyd | "You're not going to have a quorum," says Pang. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "I'll try to sit on my hands." | |
| Zach says, "oooh, quorum" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "get cup?" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. I'm thinking of throwing the hand of vecna at him." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw hand at criswell" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 35 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW HAND AT CRISWELL Floyd | Floyd | I'm not holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hand" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE HAND Floyd | Floyd | I can't reach Vecna's hand from the tattered couch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw hand at criswell" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 35 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW HAND AT CRISWELL Floyd | Floyd | I'm not holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "grr" | |
| smartgenes says, "have to get up, methinks" | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought when we sat, our Aud Case would sit too." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | Be a little more specific about what you'd like me to stand. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "maybe she's doing her hair?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand up" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 36 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND UP Floyd | Floyd | I get up off the tattered couch. Floyd | Floyd | Leary walks down the stairs. He gives everyone a 'hey' and waves to Floyd | Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | "Yo, Leary, what's your take on Blade?" asks Criswell. Floyd | Floyd | Pang's not thrilled about opinions being offered up on his choice Floyd | before the opening credits are even finished. Floyd | Floyd | "Ehh," says Leary as he picks up the phone to make a call. "Not my Floyd | thing. Nothing personal, Panger." Floyd | Floyd | "Damn fuckin' straight!" says Criswell. "I'm makin' the call! The Call Floyd | for Ejection! Duffy? What're you saying?" Floyd | Floyd | I don't know how to go with this one. On one hand, it could mean that Floyd | my movie will get played and these two morons will leave out of Floyd | boredom. On the other hand -- just how freaking immature am I going to Floyd | come across? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm lost too." | |
| Zach says, "Audrey doesn't want to sit on that gross couch" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Talk to Criswell? to Pang? to Audrey?" | ||
| Zach asks, "Can we say, "audrey, sit"?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Sorry. The next movie will probably be better anyway." Floyd | (2) "Did you particularly want to see Blade??" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 37 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Not especially," she says. "I think I saw it when it first came out." Floyd | Floyd | "What? Are you kidding me?" I think about the math for a second. "By Floyd | my calculations, you were eight when it came out. You mean to tell me Floyd | that the Neuromancer didn't like you dating me at first because at Floyd | three years your elder, I was a bad example, but he was OK with you Floyd | watching a movie where Snipes hacks apart vampires for 90 minutes?" I Floyd | call her father 'The Neuromancer' because his first name is Henry, and Floyd | the main character of the novel _Neuromancer_ is named Henry Case. Floyd | I've been lucky in not saying it when he's been around so far. Floyd | Floyd | "I was very mature for my age," she replies. "I think we'd have been a Floyd | perfect match, intellectually, if you met me when I was eight and you Floyd | were twenty-seven. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, what about if you met me?" says Criswell. Floyd | Floyd | "Two," Audrey and I say at the same time. Floyd | Floyd | "The thumb points down, bitchkin!" says Criswell to Pang. It was Floyd | inevitable that he was going to pull the movie no matter what popular Floyd | choice happened to be. Criswell hops over to the DVD player and ejects Floyd | the disc. He places The Truman Show in. "We're now starin' Floyd | down the barrel of a whole lotta giggles," he says to Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | I keep one eye trained underneath the sofa in case Audrey's rolling Floyd | eyes pop out of her head. Floyd | Floyd | "What are you talking about?" she says. Audrey has never, ever liked Floyd | Criswell. "This is a drama, not a ninety minute episode of 'White Guys Floyd | Gone Jostling.'" Criswell's head strains to the side as he Floyd | simultaneously doesn't believe her and doesn't comprehend her. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey continues. "You know what drama is, right? It's the name given Floyd | to a movie that adults tend to enjoy, as well as being the Floyd | standard root cause of every Linkin Park song." Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, whatever." Criswell shrugs. "I bet you Truman here is making Floyd | like he's talking out of his ass before the opening credits are Floyd | finished." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We're not gonna see any of these movies, are we?" | |
| DavidW asks, "wait?" | ||
| Zach asks, "Talk to her again?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "So... how is school going these days?" Floyd | (2) "What are you doing later?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "hmm, I don't like either of those options." | |
| Zach asks, "2?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "may I pick 0?" | ||
| Zach says, "(We are a crappy boyfriend)" | ||
| Zach says, "Sure" | ||
| inky says, "0 is NO YOU ARE BEING ATTACKED BY MONSTER PEOPLE" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Zach), "really? Give her a chance to say she'll be shopping for a new boyfriend later?" | ||
| Zach says, "Aww" | ||
| DavidW says, "we're doomed" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 38 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Probably storming out of here in anger," she says. I give her one of Floyd | those looks that would look more in place on a puppet after the jaw Floyd | string got cut. "Just kidding," she says after a beat. "You're Floyd | working, right? I am actually going to be at the Mall, 'funnily Floyd | enough.'" She does that, sometimes, claim my cliched remarks as her Floyd | own. "Sydney and a few of my other friends will be at the Bead Store. Floyd | I'll stop by." Floyd | Floyd | Five minutes elapse. The only possession Criswell has left is the Floyd | dumbfounded look upon his face. Floyd | Floyd | Minute seven comes and Pang can't help himself any longer. Floyd | Floyd | "You stupid, simple... child," he says, quietly. "Next week Floyd | go get Good Will Hunting -- Robin Williams is hilarious in Floyd | it." Pang points his thumb down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Everyone's a critic" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 39 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Leary turns around from his phone call and squints a bit at the TV. He Floyd | chuckles, points his own thumb down for a second and then turns back Floyd | away from the living room. Pang wiggles the Vecna's Hand toy around Floyd | with its thumb pointing down in order to taunt Criswell just a bit Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | Pang gets up to change the movie. Floyd | Floyd | He places in Lord of the Rings, apparently without really Floyd | recognizing what it is. The intro starts. Audrey lets out a sigh. I Floyd | have no idea if I'm correctly interpreting it, but I'm guessing that Floyd | she's resigned herself to at least watching the movie on the TV Floyd | screen. Floyd | Floyd | "What the shit is this?" asks Criswell. "More fuckin' ghouls and orcs Floyd | and shit?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "I guess the Bead Store is where the cool kids hang out nowadays. I'm so out of touch." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to criswell" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 40 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CRISWELL Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | Pang and Criswell both put their thumbs down as Leary leaves. Floyd | Floyd | "What are you two doing?" I ask. "There aren't any other movies. We Floyd | didn't get any." Floyd | Floyd | "Someone has forgotten our massive porn collection," says Pang, Floyd | matter-of-factly. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, for Heaven's sake," says Audrey. She gets off the couch and Floyd | leaves the room, heading towards my bedroom. Not, I should say, in a Floyd | 'let's go make out' way or a 'we need to talk' way but in a Floyd | pre-emptive strike on a fight way. Floyd | Floyd | "What's her problem?" asks Criswell, to Pang. "We've got Floyd | chick-on-chick stuff." Floyd | Floyd | I've got a fairly high boiling point, but I've absolutely had it with Floyd | these two. The frustrations concerning the fact that my bad decisions Floyd | and sloth have forced me into this decision boils right over. I decide Floyd | it's time to probably let them have it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "oh. A time for violence." | |
| Zach says, ">throw bottle at Pang" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not good at violence." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw bottle at Pang" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 22 / 41 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW BOTTLE AT PANG Floyd | Floyd | I ultimately decide that throwing the bottle of wine at Pang isn't Floyd | such a great idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "break tv?" | |
| DavidW asks, "or just TALK TO ...?" | ||
| Zach says, "Sure, let's use our words" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to pang" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PANG Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "That -- this, all of this: Not cool, dude." Floyd | (2) "What the FUCKING HELL is wrong with you?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW asks, "2?" | |
| Zach says, "2, preferably while throwing the bottle" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 27 / 42 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pang doesn't say anything at first, a bit taken aback by my outburst. Floyd | Floyd | "You two fucking pieces of shit really make me sick. I know neither Floyd | one of you have the looks or personality to ever get a fucking girl to Floyd | come over here more than once, but for me, you two acting like a bunch Floyd | of immature little fucks just pisses me the hell right off. What the Floyd | fuck is wrong with you? How fucking old are you?" Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, look -- " Floyd | Floyd | "Just shut the fuck up, Chunky. This is the last fucking time. If this Floyd | shit ever happens again -- if you or your little sidekick are anywhere Floyd | NEAR me when I have her over, I will fucking break both of you." Floyd | Floyd | Pang doesn't say anything. He just looks over towards Criswell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "#belatedly yeah, this is the new version that I uploaded. the original would crash in a glk terp after a couple moves, I think." | |
| smartgenes says, "hmm irritating swearing level" | ||
| DavidW asks, "talk to criswell? or ... which way is to the bedroom, anyway?" | ||
| Zach says, "Yeah, maybe we should go after Audrey" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to bedroom" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | My bedroom's the smallest one in the house. (I got here last so I got Floyd | the skankiest room.) There's not a whole lot going on in here, just Floyd | some shelves with all my crap on it and a bed. It smells a bit less Floyd | like cigarettes than it used to since I have gone a week and a half Floyd | since my last one. Floyd | Floyd | "What the hell was that?" asks Audrey. "When are you going to get Floyd | it... this has got to stop." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "You're pissed. Aren't you?" Floyd | (2) "Hey, sorry about that and those guys." Floyd | (3) "What's got to stop?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW asks, "1 seems disingenuous. 2 or 3, then?" | |
| DavidW says, "2 at least has a 'sorry'." | ||
| Zach says, "2" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 44 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, when is it going to stop? I mean, really. They're animals." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, come on now! You're over-reacting if you really think that." Floyd | Floyd | "Fine, Leary isn't. But he's never around. Those other two? They're Floyd | out there right now hurling feces at one another while masturbating, Floyd | sorry, furiously masturbating and you know it." Floyd | Floyd | "Look, I can't help my roommates, OK?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, you can, Jarret! You're better than this! We're better than Floyd | this. You're too intelligent and talented to be working for minimum Floyd | wage. But because you are, you have to live with three other people." Floyd | Floyd | "Look, I happen to like my job. Shouldn't that account for something?" Floyd | Floyd | "Jarret, if you had as little going for you as Pang and Criswell then Floyd | I wouldn't care. I really wouldn't. But I know you better, and I know Floyd | that with the smallest bit of drive or ambition you could be writing, Floyd | writing well. The guy that I fell in love with was the Floyd | greatest storyteller, er, albeit in the fantasy genre, that I had ever Floyd | met. And you're just sitting on that gift. Seeing you waste yourself Floyd | like this isn't fun." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well, what is fun, then? Educate me." Floyd | (2) "What? Come on, we were just goofing around in there." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | smartgenes says, "prefer 2 for sure" | |
| DavidW says, "You want 2? I want 1." | ||
| DavidW says, "2 indicates we're not really listening to her." | ||
| smartgenes says, "i meant for the previous dialogue... both of these are a little inane" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 45 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Spending time with you is fun, normally. You know, doing date-type Floyd | things. I am not old enough where I want to spend every evening with Floyd | my boyfriend just sitting on a couch watching film. My sister became Floyd | that way, but she works all day, is married and is tired when she gets Floyd | home. I'm not ready to retire just yet." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Hey, look, me either. OK? I'm not retiring on you." Floyd | (2) "Look, we'll go skydiving or something, okay?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 46 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I appreciate the sentiment, Jarret, but it's been like this for Floyd | a while now. I don't know if it's just the inevitable ennui you get Floyd | when you reach your late twenties or what, but that kind of brings me Floyd | to what I wanted to talk about when I came over tonight..." Floyd | Floyd | I realize now that we're probably only just getting started with what Floyd | she wants to discuss. Geez. Well, I'll try to keep this quick. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Lay it on me, then. What's up?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 47 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to be moving soon." Floyd | Floyd | "What? Why? Where to? Moving like you're moving to Cheyenne moving or Floyd | moving like you're moving to Eastern Islamistan moving?" Floyd | Floyd | "To Texas... I'm going to Texas. Houston, specifically. A company from Floyd | there sent some recruiters up over Christmas Break and most of us in Floyd | my program interviewed well. After I finish up this semester I am Floyd | taking a job with them and headed down there." Floyd | Floyd | "Uh... okay." Don't you break down, Duffy. Do not let this girl Floyd | get under your skin. Floyd | Floyd | "And it goes without saying that I'd love it if you came with me. I Floyd | mean, I hope you know that." Floyd | Floyd | "To Texas. Uh... well..." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Look, there's not a chance in hell I'm moving to Texas." Floyd | (2) "Houston? Why not Bangor? Or freaking Charon?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | Zach says, "Bangor? I hardly know 'er!" | |
| DavidW says, "these choices seem almost the same." | ||
| DavidW says, "2 seems like it has a bit of a bend to it though" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 48 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | She shakes her head, she doesn't understand what I mean. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm just saying, if you're going to move the hell away then don't Floyd | beat around the bush. Get to some place that I'll really never be able Floyd | to see you." For the record, I thought that mentioning Persephone or Floyd | another Kuiper Belt object would have come off as too sarcastic, but I Floyd | don't tell her that. Floyd | Floyd | "That's not why I am going there. Why are you being so thick with Floyd | this? What on earth is keeping you here?" Floyd | Floyd | "So you want me to come with you?" Floyd | Floyd | She pauses before answering. "With you like this? No. No, I don't want Floyd | this version of you coming with me. I don't think you get just how Floyd | much I am into you, Jarret. And it's painful to see you like this. The Floyd | guy that I fell for and have been with all these years would not get Floyd | defensive about simply moving somewhere." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Look... I have to get to work." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | Zach says, "(you can blame A Prairie Home Companion for that one)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 49 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I understand," she says. Floyd | Floyd | Technically, I had a couple hours before I was due at work, but I Floyd | might as well go in early and pick up some overtime. Floyd | "We can talk about this after I get out of there, right?" Floyd | Floyd | "Of course," she says. Again, in her terse form of communicating more Floyd | without words than with. Floyd | Floyd | "I get out at eleven. Gibs might want me to do his radio show but I Floyd | will blow it off if so. I'll give you a call when I get home, okay?" Floyd | Floyd | She nods, gives me a hug and leaves my room. Floyd | Floyd | > | says, "I mainly uploaded this to Floyd just to test it myself, but you guys are admirable for being able to sit through the long textdump pauses. I wasn't aware that Floyd did that." | |
| Zach says, "I'm enjoying it so far" | ||
| Zach asks, "Get ready for work?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. What do we do now? Wait? 'Go to work'? Shower?" | ||
| Ellison says, "that said, I've got to go. hope nothing breaks!" | ||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||
| Ellison has disconnected. | smartgenes says, "hmm i wonder how we were going to watch a film when we were shortly due at work" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get ready for work" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 49 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET READY FOR WORK Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "ready" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get changed" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 27 / 49 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CHANGED Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "changed" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 27 / 50 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | This room is centered around the television, a 32" Sony that Leary Floyd | brought when he moved in. The set sits on a wooden entertainment Floyd | center, with 'satellite' speakers all around the room. The tattered Floyd | white couch is perpendicular to the set, and the blue one (where Pang Floyd | normally situates himself) is eight or nine feet directly across from Floyd | it. Floyd | On the tattered couch are the green blanket and the pillow. Sitting Floyd | on the entertainment center are the television and the DVD player. Floyd | Inside the DVD player is the Lord of the Rings DVD. Sitting on the Floyd | table are Vecna's hand, the Dreamcast, a cup, the Blade DVD, and the Floyd | The Truman Show DVD. Floyd | Criswell, Pang, and Audrey are here. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Jesus Christ!" exclaims Audrey. "What the hell are you two chimps Floyd | doing? Goddess, I don't need this shit. Goodbye!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pang" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 27 / 51 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANG Floyd | Floyd | Pang used to be an athlete but he's let himself go in recent years. Floyd | He's about 6'4" tall and 270 pounds. He's wearing a mesh orange jersey Floyd | stuffed into a pair of scrub blue jeans. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey opens the door to the Front Porch, leaves, and slams it behind Floyd | her. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, Pang isn't half naked at least." | |
| DavidW asks, "out, again?" | ||
| Zach says, "We can probably just -- yeah" | ||
| smartgenes says, "yeh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I shake my head at my horrible home life and leave for work... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Chapter Three Floyd | I'm still rather pissed off when I pull up into the Mall parking lot Floyd | and showroom park my car. What kind of game is Audrey playing here? Floyd | Surely she's bluffing. We've gone to Defcon 2 or maybe 3 before, but Floyd | we were always able to talk one another down before the bombshells Floyd | were dropped. Floyd | Floyd | I didn't want to have to go into work tonight worrying about this kind Floyd | of crap. My job becomes a lot easier when I'm able to turn off the Floyd | parts of my mind that don't deal with twenty-sided dice, Player's Floyd | Handbooks and noticing customer body odor. The greatest curse you can Floyd | inflict upon someone who works at the Mall is getting them to fret. Floyd | Floyd | (And the greatest curse you can inflict upon yourself while at the Floyd | Mall is to attempt to stop smoking. I seriously picked a bad week for Floyd | it.) Floyd | Floyd | I walk down to the east end of the Mall, avoid the guy taking surveys, Floyd | and enter my store. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 52 Floyd | Floyd | Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium Floyd | Trott had been working the evening shift; I greet him and take my Floyd | usual place behind the counter. There's really no reason for two of us Floyd | to close the store, except that Benji (the owner) is still a little Floyd | freaked after someone tried to blow up his arcade next door a couple Floyd | of weeks ago. It's unlikely that we'll have any customers, though, so Floyd | Trott and I should be able to logout the register and drop the gate Floyd | quickly when the time comes. Floyd | The counter contains the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | The counter has a postcard on it. Floyd | Trott is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get postcard" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 53 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET POSTCARD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x postcard" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 54 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTCARD Floyd | Floyd | It's a postcard sent from a friend of Trott's. Floyd | Floyd | It reads, "Greetings from New Mexico, Trotskie! Clara and I are Floyd | living in a town called -- get this -- 'Rockville' of all things. It's Floyd | right near Alamogordo, too, which is the city where Atari buried all Floyd | those E.T. cartridges. I'll probably make the trip to check out the Floyd | site one of these days. Clara has been completing her degree off the Floyd | internet, and I've already cracked and released my first ware. It's Floyd | great to be back in the loop! Keep it cool and hopefully we'll be back Floyd | for a visit later this year. Try to remember to lovingly palm the Floyd | breasts of the corpses you've been slabbing lately, bud! You know they Floyd | like that. Your pal, Delarion." Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, Duffy, solid. Glad you're here," says Barnaby. He puts his big Floyd | gulp drink down by the counter. "Got a question for you." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "which is that a ref to? Fallacy of Dawn?" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't know." | ||
| inky | In a substantial introduction, Delarion explains that he is working at Benji's Video Arcade; that he is addicted to a drug called rephasia; that he and his girlfriend Nevelle used to work as software pirates until they got caught, and she disappeared; and that Delarion was thrown into New Haz and rendered unable to operate or understand any electronic devices. His aim is to make enough money to get out of New Haz. | ||
| DavidW says, "gee, I hope that's from an ifwiki page." | ||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||
| Zach says, "Hmm, sounds interesting" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 55 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | Barnaby nods over to Trott. "What's going on, man?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 56 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARDS Floyd | Floyd | The cards are used in a game called 'Magic:The Gathering.' It's sort Floyd | of like poker for nerds, except that the cards have special powers and Floyd | so forth. I've never really gotten into it. Anyway, this is a small Floyd | box containing wrapped packs of cards. There are about fifty or so in Floyd | a box. Floyd | Floyd | "It's all great here, man," says Trott to Barnaby. "Yourself?" he Floyd | asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Bitchin'" says Gibs in reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 56 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOX Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cards" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CARDS Floyd | Floyd | The counter is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 57 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I can't, it's locked. I have no idea where the key is, either. Floyd | Floyd | I hear a 'pop' sound come from near the counter. Floyd | Floyd | "Aw, Christ," says Trott. "The goddamn lock just burst on the counter Floyd | shelf. Cheap plastic crap." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "open counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 58 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 59 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CARDS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Look for a black lotus." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 59 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "play cards" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I can't play with that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Gibs said he had a question for us; why didn't he ask it?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "play magic" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY MAGIC Floyd | Floyd | I can't play with that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 59 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 60 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 61 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Hey, what's up, Trott?" Floyd | (2) "Anything interesting happen tonight?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "thanks. I couldn't remember the coworker's name." | |
| Zach says, "Either one seems fine" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, either" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 62 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Nah, pretty slow night actually. Benji waddled in around five or six Floyd | and the usual bunch of backpack-wearing kids bought their Magic: Floyd | The Gathering packs after classes let out. Other than that, Floyd | nothing of note. Why's Benji even having two of us close the store Floyd | these days?" Floyd | Floyd | "He still thinks that the bomb that was planted in the arcade a few Floyd | weeks back had something to do with him. He's as paranoid as a Floyd | dope-smoking Everquest player chilling in a Greek Net cafe." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 64 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), a postcard, and the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "Robb's metaphors are pretty amazing" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glasses" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 65 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | My glasses have gone from being in style to out with such regularity Floyd | that I don't even notice any longer. If geek chic is in these days Floyd | then I'm all set. If not, at least I can see well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Necrotic Drift Floyd | Interactive Fiction Floyd | Copyright (c) 2004. Written and programmed by Robb Sherwin Floyd | Release 1.03 / Serial number 040623 / Hugo 3.1 Floyd | Floyd | NECROTIC DRIFT was written between December of 2001 and May of 2004. Floyd | Floyd | Minimum Recommended Resolution: 1024x768x16b. Floyd | Platforms Supported : All graphics-enabled Hugo platforms. Floyd | Floyd | Conversation and violence are oftentimes the key to solving problems Floyd | in this game. You can instruct Duffy to speak with someone by typing Floyd | "TALK to character" (or simply T Floyd | character, for short). The resulting menu allows the player Floyd | to pick from a menu of what you'd like your character to say. The game Floyd | will then respond with the NPC's response. For details on the game's Floyd | combat system, consult the Help Menu. Floyd | Floyd | It is not possible to get the game in an completely unfinishable Floyd | state. In certain situations, the player is allowed to solve different Floyd | puzzles at his/her leisure, and information pertaining to those Floyd | unsolved puzzles will be repeated when necessary to cut down on Floyd | required player memorization. Please type "HELP" for a brief Floyd | Command Summary, further answers to common gameplay questions, and Floyd | this ware's design notes & credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder what the chances are of a bomb in our store." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove glasses" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 66 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | I can't remove my specs like that! They are a valuable Floyd | information-gathering tool! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to gibbs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 67 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 68 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium Floyd | The Emporium is rather smallish, as far as stores around here go, Floyd | nestled into the far corners of the Mall, distant from practically Floyd | every other decent or worthwhile store. Shelves of gaming books and Floyd | modules are arranged everywhere, and promotional kiosks occupy the Floyd | floorspace between the register and the far wall. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of the Mall is to the north. Floyd | The counter has Barnaby's Big Gulp drink on it. Floyd | Trott and Gibs are here. Gibs has Gibs's lacrosse stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Maybe we can wander away" | |
| DavidW says, "take the drink" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x kiosk" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 69 Floyd | > Floyd | > X KIOSK Floyd | Floyd | Benji bought up a bunch of skanky, rotting shelves from some other Floyd | business here in the Mall that went under a while back. He moved the Floyd | nice, clean ones that we had previously to his home when he was Floyd | installing his home theatre system. These shelves have a stench to Floyd | them which I'm sure probably gets into my clothes and on my person to Floyd | a disgusting degree. Floyd | Sitting on the shelves are some gaming manuals. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on the shelves are some gaming manuals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take drink" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 70 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE DRINK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x materials" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 70 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MATERIALS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "materials" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x manuals" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 71 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MANUALS Floyd | Floyd | We sell hundreds of different kinds of gaming manuals that support all Floyd | manner of interests for the careful and particular fantasy gaming Floyd | connoisseur. Car Wars (for geeks into cars), Boot Hill (for geeks into Floyd | guns), FATAL (for geeks that are tired of their dice lying to them), Floyd | Battletech (for geeks into giant robots), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Floyd | (for alpha, 'classic' geeks) and Bras, Blondes, and Broadswords (for Floyd | the geek who's pretty much given up ever talking to a real, live Floyd | woman). I've got most of the information in the manuals memorized, Floyd | save for the last one, which I haven't had to get into yet. (AOL Floyd | Keyword being 'yet,' I guess.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x manuals" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 72 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MANUALS Floyd | Floyd | We sell hundreds of different kinds of gaming manuals that support all Floyd | manner of interests for the careful and particular fantasy gaming Floyd | connoisseur. Car Wars (for geeks into cars), Boot Hill (for geeks into Floyd | guns), FATAL (for geeks that are tired of their dice lying to them), Floyd | Battletech (for geeks into giant robots), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Floyd | (for alpha, 'classic' geeks) and Bras, Blondes, and Broadswords (for Floyd | the geek who's pretty much given up ever talking to a real, live Floyd | woman). I've got most of the information in the manuals memorized, Floyd | save for the last one, which I haven't had to get into yet. (AOL Floyd | Keyword being 'yet,' I guess.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take stick" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | Nah, that is Gibs'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Firion arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "Gotta leave Gibs his weapon." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 74 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | I'm supposed to finish out this shift tonight. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "He and his lacrosse stick are probably our deus ex machina if we screw up this section." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 75 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium Floyd | The Emporium is rather smallish, as far as stores around here go, Floyd | nestled into the far corners of the Mall, distant from practically Floyd | every other decent or worthwhile store. Shelves of gaming books and Floyd | modules are arranged everywhere, and promotional kiosks occupy the Floyd | floorspace between the register and the far wall. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of the Mall is to the north. Floyd | Trott and Gibs are here. Gibs has Gibs's lacrosse stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 76 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | We sell hundreds of different kinds of gaming manuals that support all Floyd | manner of interests for the careful and particular fantasy gaming Floyd | connoisseur. Car Wars (for geeks into cars), Boot Hill (for geeks into Floyd | guns), FATAL (for geeks that are tired of their dice lying to them), Floyd | Battletech (for geeks into giant robots), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Floyd | (for alpha, 'classic' geeks) and Bras, Blondes, and Broadswords (for Floyd | the geek who's pretty much given up ever talking to a real, live Floyd | woman). I've got most of the information in the manuals memorized, Floyd | save for the last one, which I haven't had to get into yet. (AOL Floyd | Keyword being 'yet,' I guess.) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok I guess it must just be down to talking" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 77 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "smell kiosks" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 78 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL KIOSKS Floyd | Floyd | Like old wood mixed with old feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "gibs" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GIBS Floyd | Floyd | [ Use "TALK TO CHARACTER" to talk to a particular character in the Floyd | game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, or not" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read bras" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 80 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BRAS Floyd | Floyd | We sell hundreds of different kinds of gaming manuals that support all Floyd | manner of interests for the careful and particular fantasy gaming Floyd | connoisseur. Car Wars (for geeks into cars), Boot Hill (for geeks into Floyd | guns), FATAL (for geeks that are tired of their dice lying to them), Floyd | Battletech (for geeks into giant robots), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Floyd | (for alpha, 'classic' geeks) and Bras, Blondes, and Broadswords (for Floyd | the geek who's pretty much given up ever talking to a real, live Floyd | woman). I've got most of the information in the manuals memorized, Floyd | save for the last one, which I haven't had to get into yet. (AOL Floyd | Keyword being 'yet,' I guess.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 81 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK DRINK Floyd | Floyd | It's not mine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 82 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | It's an acrylic blue countertop, useful for leaning upon during the Floyd | workday. We keep some media inside the counter, but nothing Floyd | particularly interesting or important. Floyd | Behind the counter is a stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close store" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 82 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE STORE Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Emporium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stool" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 83 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STOOL Floyd | Floyd | The Game Store stool is a very short and incredibly uncomfortable Floyd | 4-legged stool that we prop ourselves on when we know that Benji isn't Floyd | going to be around. (Benji is an incredibly irritating person to work Floyd | for, and will yell at us if he sees us slouching on the stool. He is a Floyd | miserable person, in this regard. ... In all regards, really, Floyd | but still.) Trott once hurled the stool at me, and the thing really Floyd | smarted when I got hit by the sharp legs of the thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get stool" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 84 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET STOOL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x far wall" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 84 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FAR WALL Floyd | Floyd | I haven't encountered any "far wall". (If you're sure you need to Floyd | refer to that, try putting it another way.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wield stool" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 84 Floyd | > Floyd | > WIELD STOOL Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "wield" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x register" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 85 Floyd | > Floyd | > X REGISTER Floyd | Floyd | The cash register is beige and on the large side. They come in all Floyd | shapes and sizes and I suppose I have seen a bunch at the Mall where I Floyd | work that differ in structure and security features... Jesus, this is Floyd | depressing. I'm a cash register expert at age 27. What have I been Floyd | doing with my life? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under stool" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 86 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER STOOL Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything under the stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open register" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 87 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN REGISTER Floyd | Floyd | The register is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "hit register with stool" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT REGISTER WITH STOOL Floyd | Floyd | I can't really fight that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close out register" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 87 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE OUT REGISTER Floyd | Floyd | I haven't encountered any "out register". (If you're sure you need to Floyd | refer to that, try putting it another way.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close store" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 87 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE STORE Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Emporium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take manual" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 88 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | I've got all the info contained within memorized for those games I'm Floyd | into, and somewhat proud of myself for those games that I don't have Floyd | committed to memory, if you're digging my ditch here (and I think you Floyd | are). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "give cards to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 89 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CARDS TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | My goodwill is ignored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sell cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 89 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL CARDS Floyd | Floyd | [ That sentence is not understood by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 89 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] NECROTIC DRIFT
Floyd | NECROTIC DRIFT
Floyd |
Floyd | 1. Introduction
Floyd | 2. System Requirements
Floyd | 3. What is Interactive Fiction?
Floyd | 4. Game Instructions -- Commands
Floyd | 5. Scoring
Floyd | 6. Hints
Floyd | 7. Credits
Floyd | 8. License and Copyright Information
Floyd | 9. About the Hugo Compiler
Floyd | 10. About the Programmer
Floyd |
Floyd | Select the number of your choice or "Q" to exit:
| ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Regarding hints... Floyd | Floyd | It is not possible to get the game in an unwinnable state. General Floyd | advice would be to role play Duffy and make those choices that he Floyd | faces which he is seemingly incapable of making on his own, as well as Floyd | talk at length to the other characters that you will encounter. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | For more specific help and hints with the game, try the Usenet Floyd | newsgroup rec.games.int-fiction -- the users of this group Floyd | are often able to help with quality hints and solid nudges. Floyd | Additionally, you are invited to drop by the author's BBS at Floyd | [LINK] where he will be able to Floyd | answer any and all questions. Floyd | Floyd | [Press a key...] | ||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] NECROTIC DRIFT
Floyd | NECROTIC DRIFT
Floyd |
Floyd | 1. Introduction
Floyd | 2. System Requirements
Floyd | 3. What is Interactive Fiction?
Floyd | 4. Game Instructions -- Commands
Floyd | 5. Scoring
Floyd | 6. Hints
Floyd | 7. Credits
Floyd | 8. License and Copyright Information
Floyd | 9. About the Hugo Compiler
Floyd | 10. About the Programmer
Floyd |
Floyd | Select the number of your choice or "Q" to exit:
| ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 89 Floyd | Returning to the story... Floyd | Floyd | Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium Floyd | The Emporium is rather smallish, as far as stores around here go, Floyd | nestled into the far corners of the Mall, distant from practically Floyd | every other decent or worthwhile store. Shelves of gaming books and Floyd | modules are arranged everywhere, and promotional kiosks occupy the Floyd | floorspace between the register and the far wall. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of the Mall is to the north. Floyd | Trott and Gibs are here. Gibs has Gibs's lacrosse stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 90 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GIBS Floyd | Floyd | Barnaby Gibbons is 5'11" tall and 175lbs, and right about my age. He Floyd | has hazel eyes and brown hair. He's wearing a backwards baseball cap Floyd | and a Rochester Knighthawks authentic lacrosse jersey. Barnaby makes Floyd | his living as the host of a semi-popular sports radio show that is Floyd | broadcast from two in the morning until six AM weekdays. I've known Floyd | him for about a decade. He was my roommate for my three semesters at Floyd | Syracuse University, and always keeps me rooted back in reality when Floyd | I've been spending too much time with role-playing games. He also has Floyd | the worst taste in music of anybody I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "give postcard to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 91 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE POSTCARD TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | My goodwill is ignored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 92 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 93 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | Gibs's stick is a Patterson brand Men's field lacrosse stick, designed Floyd | for the Attack-Midfield position. It has a rawhide quick wall and Floyd | bridge, woven with black leather, at one end (for catching and Floyd | shooting balls) and a standard wood frame and handle at the other. Floyd | Gibs has removed the plastic butt-end for his stick and filed it down, Floyd | as he often thrusts it at his opponents during play in one of the Floyd | nastier leagues he plays in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "show postcard to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 94 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW POSTCARD TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | Gibs doesn't seem too interested in the postcard. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |
| inky asks, "did they tell us something in conversation earlier we were supposed to do?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show postcard to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 95 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW POSTCARD TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | Trott doesn't seem too interested in the postcard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "show cards to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 96
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "not that I remember. When our shift ends, we close out the register and close the store, I think." | |
Floyd | > SHOW CARDS TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | Trott doesn't seem too interested in the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play magic" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY MAGIC Floyd | Floyd | I can't play with that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "show cards to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 97 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW CARDS TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | Gibs doesn't seem too interested in the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 98 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I can't speak to that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock register" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 99 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK REGISTER Floyd | Floyd | I'd rather not get involved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix lock" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FIX LOCK Floyd | Floyd | I can't fix that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 100 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOCK Floyd | Floyd | It's just a little lock placed on the counter to stop the mallrats Floyd | from stealing Magic:The Gathering cards when we're not looking. And, Floyd | to be honest, we're almost never looking. The cheapness of the lock Floyd | caused it to become brittle and break when Gibs set his frosty Big Floyd | Gulp drink by it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put drink on register" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 100 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT DRINK ON REGISTER Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the register. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour drink on register" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > POUR DRINK ON REGISTER Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be feasible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "pour drink on gibs" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > POUR DRINK ON GIBS Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be feasible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give drink to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 101 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE DRINK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | My goodwill is ignored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drink" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 102 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRINK Floyd | Floyd | It's sixty-four ounces of refreshing lime cola in a cup that looks Floyd | like a chalice. The 128 ounce version of this drink is called the Floyd | 'Supreme Maw Thrust' and even though it's a better deal it doesn't get Floyd | purchased much by many Mall denizens. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "lime cola, huh?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "give drink to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 103 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE DRINK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | My goodwill is ignored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 104 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), a postcard, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, and the stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 104 Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "sit on stool" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 105 Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON STOOL Floyd | Floyd | The stool is really uncomfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hm. we don't have the nail gun still?" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 105 Floyd | > Floyd | > HM. WE DON'T HAVE THE NAIL GUN STILL? Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "hm" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "*** Retail is boring ***" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 106 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The back office door is extremely aged and flaking. The door is Floyd | currently closed and locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the back office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break dor" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK DOR Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "dor" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break doo" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK DOO Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "doo" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break door" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 108 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The back office door is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "drop gate" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 109 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GATE Floyd | Floyd | It is not time yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "logout register" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LOGOUT REGISTER Floyd | Floyd | It is not time yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We have a back office door?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can't go anywhere. I'm working. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put drink on door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 109 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT DRINK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the back office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 110 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There's an exit north to the rest of the Mall, but I'm really not Floyd | supposed to leave until my shift is over. (That won't be for another Floyd | couple of hours.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Not now -- I'm not very tired. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "trott, close store" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 110 Floyd | > Floyd | > TROTT, CLOSE STORE Floyd | Floyd | Trott can't do that with the Emporium. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think something didn't get triggered. Gibs was supposed to ask us something, wasn't he?" | |
| Firion asks, "What game is this?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "t gibs" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > T GIBS Floyd | Floyd | Just talking to Gibs will suffice. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Necrotic Drift" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 111 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shuffle cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 111 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHUFFLE CARDS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "shuffle" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARDS Floyd | Floyd | The cards are used in a game called 'Magic:The Gathering.' It's sort Floyd | of like poker for nerds, except that the cards have special powers and Floyd | so forth. I've never really gotten into it. Anyway, this is a small Floyd | box containing wrapped packs of cards. There are about fifty or so in Floyd | a box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take pack" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PACK Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "pack" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unwrap cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNWRAP CARDS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "unwrap" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat cards" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I can't eat the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "deal cards" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > DEAL CARDS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "deal" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit lock" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT LOCK Floyd | Floyd | I can't really fight that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw drink at gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 113 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW DRINK AT GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I ultimately decide that throwing the Big Gulp drink at Gibs isn't Floyd | such a great idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spit into cup" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 113 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPIT INTO CUP Floyd | Floyd | [ That sentence is not understood by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw drink at back door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 114 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW DRINK AT BACK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pee into cup" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 114 Floyd | > Floyd | > PEE INTO CUP Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "pee" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "order pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 114 Floyd | > Floyd | > ORDER PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "pizza" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "check time" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 114 Floyd | > Floyd | > CHECK TIME Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "check" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch clock" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 114 Floyd | > Floyd | > WATCH CLOCK Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "clock" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drying paint" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 114 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRYING PAINT Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "drying" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 115 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | I hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I really suspect a bug." | |
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| inky asks, "well, should we restart?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I take it there's no walkthrough to consult?" | ||
| Zach says, "I'm looking for one" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna pour myself a tea or something." | ||
| zzo38 appears near Firion by magic while reading a moldy scroll. | inky says, "I don't see one on ifdb" | |
| Zach says, "Maybe it is a bug. The reviews say it's a straight forward game" | ||
| DavidW says, "time for mangosteen pudding" | ||
| zzo38 has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "I suppose we could restart. I guess we should learn to save at chapter changes." | |
| DavidW clears the save counter. | DavidW asks, "shall we restart?" | |
| Zach says, "Sure" | ||
| olethros | > F. G. G> | ||
| olethros says, "oh that's not what you mean by straightforward" | ||
| Firion goes home. | DavidW says, "Maybe we shouldn't grab the Magic cards right away." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put magic in counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 116 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT MAGIC IN COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I put the Magic: The Gathering cards in the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 117 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's odd that the counter is both a surface and a container." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lock counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 117 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOCK COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lock lock" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 118 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOCK LOCK Floyd | Floyd | I will have to close it first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close lock" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 119 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE LOCK Floyd | Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lock lock" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 120 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOCK LOCK Floyd | Floyd | Locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 121 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open lock" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 122 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN LOCK Floyd | Floyd | The counter lock is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| olethros disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "huh." | |
| DavidW asks, "we can lock the lock but not unlock it?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put drink on counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 123 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT DRINK ON COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I put the Big Gulp drink on the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 124 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the counter doesn't get me anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push gulp" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 125 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH GULP Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the Big Gulp drink doesn't get me anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 126 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH GIBS Floyd | Floyd | Pushing Gibs doesn't get me anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put postcard on counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 127 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT POSTCARD ON COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I put the postcard on the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 128 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn) and the stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put stool behind counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 128 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT STOOL BEHIND COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | [ That sentence is not understood by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop stool" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 129 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP STOOL Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "time" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 129 Floyd | > Floyd | > TIME Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "time" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "door" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > DOOR Floyd | Floyd | [ Use "TALK TO CHARACTER" to talk to a particular character in the Floyd | game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 130 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The back office door is extremely aged and flaking. The door is Floyd | currently closed and locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 131 Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The back office door is covered in decades-old lead paint which gives Floyd | it advanced armor against any attack I could strike it with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 131 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the back office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "trott, unlock back door" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 131 Floyd | > Floyd | > TROTT, UNLOCK BACK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Trott can't do that with the back office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "peel paint" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 27 / 131 Floyd | > Floyd | > PEEL PAINT Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "peel" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Ok, I just replayed the game in a hugo client" | |
| Zach says, "And Gibs does have a question for us" | ||
| DavidW says, "ah" | ||
| DavidW says, "so we are in a buggy state." | ||
| Zach says, "Yup" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh well. Someone tell Ellison." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Think restarting will help, or should we give up for today?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | [Your score is 27 from a trivial 601.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Yeah, talking to Gibs triggers other stuff." | |
| Zach says, "I can replay up to this point real quick" | ||
| DavidW says, "ok. go forth and conquer. :)" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTART Floyd | Floyd | [Your score is 27 from a trivial 601.] Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart (YES or NO)? | DavidW asks, "Should we turn off sleepmask?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] NECROTIC DRIFT 1.03 by Robb Sherwin Floyd | My dad came home late one night when I was nine and threw an old copy Floyd | of the Monster Manual by Gary Gygax onto my bed. He woke me Floyd | up, stressed and shaking at the humiliation his friends had put him Floyd | through earlier that evening. Floyd | Floyd | He asked me if I wanted the book. I was still groggy, but I picked it Floyd | up and thumbed through it. "We didn't play Monopoly tonight, Jarret," Floyd | he told me. "That's because not a one of them can beat me. Instead, Floyd | they brought out this... thing. Some 'game of the imagination'." He Floyd | practically spat that last word. "You can move all you like without Floyd | throwing any dice, but to actually do anything, you need to throw a Floyd | handful!!" I was both reading entries on the different monsters and Floyd | paying half-attention to his rant. "Five minutes in, Benson tells me Floyd | that I come across something called a gorgon. That got me stoned. Why Floyd | would I play a game that depicted the recreational use of marijuana Floyd | cigarettes? I got up and left." Floyd | Floyd | "They let you read this during play?" I asked him. He nodded. I turned Floyd | to page 49. "I don't think they were supposed to. It says right here Floyd | that the gorgon can turn you to stone. It doesn't Floyd | get you stoned. And right here are all its weaknesses! How Floyd | did you not see this? Are you stupid or something? Or what?" Floyd | Floyd | My father snatched back the Monster Manual. He didn't state Floyd | that what he was going to do was going to hurt him more than it hurt Floyd | me. (I think all he did say was that he should have left his 'patented Floyd | Duffy blast' on my mother's face the night I was conceived, which Floyd | didn't make a whole lot of sense to me then.) He instead just quietly Floyd | gave me a spanking for back talk. But as that 112 page reference to a Floyd | modern mythology of villainy struck my bony behind, it was as if he Floyd | were bonding the pages and me for all time. Like directed osmosis Floyd | through anger or something. Floyd | Floyd | (Okay, it actually wasn't like osmosis at all, but I've sacrificed Floyd | knowledge in basic chemistry for additional levels in Modern Floyd | Mythology, so please cut me some slack on the occasional analogy Floyd | outside of my experience.) Floyd | Floyd | In the week that followed, my father tried to ban Dungeons & Dragons Floyd | from the house as he had previously banned video games, cursing, Cajun Floyd | food and music recorded after 1959. I stood up to him on D&D, though, Floyd | and he caved for the only time in my childhood. Within a week I was Floyd | running my own games for the kids in my tract. We were creating Floyd | adventures together with Devils, Demons and Dragons and it was one of Floyd | the best times of my life. My old man may have never been on the short Floyd | list for an award from the PTA, but his maniac antics did a better job Floyd | helping me understand just what I was interested in than the fathers Floyd | of anyone else I grew up with. And heck, he did have my back that one Floyd | time I met D&D creator Gary Gygax himself at DragonCon and started Floyd | kicking him in his bag of magic beans (if you're digging my ditch Floyd | here) in misplaced, latent vengeance due to how hard the board stock Floyd | was for those manual covers. Floyd | Floyd | I don't think you've truly bonded with your father until you've spent Floyd | 36 consecutive hours in a holding cell mocking and taunting an inmate Floyd | set consisting of multiple thirty-somethings decked out in homemade Floyd | hobbit, fairie and chocobo costumes, where the only thing the lot of Floyd | them had in common, aside from a complete lack of human dignity, was Floyd | relating how difficult it was to sleep late when the sump pump went Floyd | off. | Zach says, "Hmm, that's a good question" | |
| jenrexrode says, "cool, then I can catch up" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "press space" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 0 / 0 Floyd | Necrotic Drift Floyd | Interactive Fiction Floyd | Copyright (c) 2004. Written and programmed by Robb Sherwin Floyd | Release 1.03 / Serial number 040623 / Hugo 3.1 Floyd | Floyd | I'm here this evening at an Academy Videos store thirty-five minutes Floyd | from my home with two of my roommates and my best friend. We have to Floyd | come all the way down here to rent because of the late fees on my Floyd | memberships at all the video places back in the Fort. I wish I had a Floyd | good story for why that is the case, but I don't. I'm just poor and Floyd | had the first Lord of the Rings movie overdue for more than Floyd | two weeks at multiple video chains. I kept it around to mainly prove Floyd | trivia. (It will probably end up costing me more to show my friends Floyd | that the elf character Legolas was walking on, and not Floyd | in the snow, than it did for director Peter Jackson to Floyd | implement that effect on-screen.) Floyd | Floyd | Supposedly, Audrey is dropping by tonight to watch a movie, which is Floyd | why I'm even here to begin with. In the five years we've been together Floyd | we've dumped each other a total of nine times. She is currently ahead Floyd | of me six to three. Her most shallow dumping was when she wanted to Floyd | exclusively hang around a hardcore goth guy who had somehow managed to Floyd | finance or lease his own cemetery plot. That guy was the black Floyd | fingernail Alpha male until he missed his first payment. To be fair, Floyd | mine was when she filled out Student Loan paperwork for me without my Floyd | knowledge or consent and almost enrolled me into classes at the nearby Floyd | University of Central Hill. She doesn't like the fact that I work at Floyd | the Funtime Teen Mall for $5.51 an hour at age 27. Floyd | Floyd | I have to work later tonight, so I guess I'd better pick something and Floyd | get out of here quickly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "space" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 0 / 0 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPACE Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "space" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x action" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 0 / 1 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ACTION Floyd | Floyd | It's constructed from a cheap wood board, and sags quite a bit due to Floyd | the number of movies placed within it. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the action rack is a movie from action rack. Floyd | Floyd | "So..." says Gibs, as he scans the movies half-heartedly, "You and Floyd | Audrey are on the rocks again, eh, Duffy? What happened this time, did Floyd | she get you enrolled into MIT?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take action movie" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 2 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ACTION MOVIE Floyd | Floyd | I grab a movie from the rack. And behold! It's The Lord of the Floyd | Rings. Why on earth the dip behind the counter would deign to Floyd | keep it in this rack is beyond my comprehension. But it Floyd | doesn't matter. I don't really possess the discipline to go get Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | Pang clears his throat and holds up a copy of Blade. "I have Floyd | found the movie for us all tonight," he states, with an annoying Floyd | authority. "It has electronica and vampires, as all classics should." Floyd | Floyd | "Blade?" screeches Criswell. He's another one of my Floyd | roommates. "They merged techno music and goths for that one. No Floyd | chance. No way. And if you pick out one that merges country music with Floyd | the French art film or opera with a Pixar kiddie flick I will drop Floyd | trou and take a crap on the TV while it's playing." Floyd | Floyd | Criswell's only half joking, as he's demonstrated his willingness to Floyd | do that before. When his favorite CFL football team lost in the finals Floyd | last year he was so pissed off at the TV for depicting it that he Floyd | grabbed a chair from the kitchen, got up and plopped a steaming load Floyd | on top of the set. Worse, it was two weeks before anyone cleaned it Floyd | up. We had a veritable bumper crop of flies around the house that Floyd | year. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 3 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "OK, I'm set," says Criswell. "Truman Show. Jim Carrey is the Floyd | funniest man alive. This'll be a gem. Hey, Duffy, you Floyd | bringin' that chick you hang around with over tonight? Well, thank me Floyd | later, man, 'cos she'll be all out of giggles by the time you pull off Floyd | your pants. For once, anyway." Floyd | Floyd | Barnaby idly toys with a movie and then puts it back on the shelf. Floyd | "There were some real hotties at that Bead Store, the other day," he Floyd | says to me. "Cute, but not so cute that they would have nothing to do Floyd | with you, I mean." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 4 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "Yo, fruit loops," says the clerk to the lot of us, "I'm shutting this Floyd | store down to go get a full body massage from the Taiwanese Parlor Floyd | down the street. Pronto. Get your movies and get out." Floyd | Floyd | "Full-body?" asks Barnaby. "That means they give you a hand job, Floyd | right?" The clerk perks up and nods gleefully. "Hey, I've always Floyd | wondered..." Barnaby decides exactly how he wants to phrase it. "Is it Floyd | customary to let them know when you're about to come? Like, a warning? Floyd | Or do you not have to do that because they are professionals?" Floyd | Floyd | Nobody says anything for a few moments. I shrug. "I guess it depends Floyd | on whether you're a sprayer or a lumper," I say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 5 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "Anyway, I wasn't kidding around. Get your movies and get lost," Floyd | repeats the clerk. The clerk continues to get ready for his little Floyd | excursion. He places his armament upon the counter. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, yeah! I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin'..." says Criswell. I'm all Floyd | set, but it looks like we'll have to wait for him or Pang now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 1 / 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | A grime-encrusted area denizen slams his hand on the door and the Floyd | clerk reluctantly lets him in. The thing shambles his way into the Floyd | video store. He leaves muddy streaks upon the entrance door, drawing Floyd | the further ire of the clerk. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, what the hell is the matter with you, cracky?" I suppose that I Floyd | disagree that the new denizen is a crackhead (he meanders more in his Floyd | movement than he shakes, I mean). But I don't say anything. The clerk Floyd | points a stern finger at him from across the counter. "Can't you read? Floyd | We're closed! Get out of here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take gun" | ||
Floyd ] Academy Videos 7 / 7 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GUN Floyd | Floyd | I casually lift the gun from the counter without the clerk really Floyd | noticing. Floyd | Floyd | The area denizen grabs at the clerk's neck! He gets two hands round Floyd | the clerk's esophagus, and begins choking the life right out of him! Floyd | Floyd | The clerk gurgles in pain! I hear a guttural moaning sound coming from Floyd | the attacker. The violence causes Pang and Criswell to hide in the Floyd | back of the store. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey!" says Barnaby, "Knock it off! Let him go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "shoot thing" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT THING Floyd | Floyd | [Specify which gun to shoot with.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street 12 / 9 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | (opening the store door first) Floyd | It's stuck!! Floyd | Floyd | The grimy denizen throttles the clerk! Floyd | Floyd | The clerk slumps to the floor, disappearing behind the register Floyd | counter. Floyd | Floyd | "Shoot the goddamn thing, Duffy!" screams Barnaby. He kicks open the Floyd | door to the outside and gets into a defensive posture. Floyd | We run outside and slam the door shut. Pang gives it an angled kick, Floyd | 'locking' it the best he can. Floyd | Floyd | Main Street Floyd | The stench of New Haz suddenly hits us all like a cruel sucker-punch Floyd | through the septum. Individually (but within moments, in concert) we Floyd | all gasp for fresher air. We need to get in my car and get out of here Floyd | quickly -- both before that thing finishes up in the store, Floyd | and before the city's stink can settle in our clothes. Floyd | My car is here. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs, Pang, and Criswell are here. Floyd | Floyd | "What... what the hell was that?" asks Pang. I don't have a Floyd | decent answer for him. I don't know, I don't have any idea. Floyd | Floyd | "There are sometimes bots," starts Barnaby, before shutting up. "Oh, Floyd | Christ, let's just get the hell out of here before it comes looking Floyd | for us!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open car" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street 12 / 10 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CAR Floyd | Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Main Street 12 / 11 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | I get into the car. Pang, Criswell and Barnaby join me. Floyd | Floyd | The thing from inside breaks through a section of the door! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "drive" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE Floyd | Floyd | I double-check to make sure everyone's into the car. Floyd | Floyd | The guy from inside starts banging and clawing at the passenger side Floyd | of my car. Floyd | Floyd | "Drive, dammit, drive!" screeches Criswell from the backseat. Floyd | "Get us outta here!" Floyd | Floyd | I put the car in reverse and prepare to get the hell out of town. The Floyd | guy staggers over and gets right in my path. Floyd | Floyd | "Hit 'em, Duffy!" Criswell's going crazy back there. "Run him over!" Floyd | Floyd | I put the car in first and stomp the accelerator more out of panic Floyd | than anything else. The guy doesn't move, flinch, anything. I ram him Floyd | and he smacks right into the windshield, chipping it with his elbow. Floyd | He tumbles about and we hear him on the roof for a moment before Floyd | seeing his face appear on the back window, shocking the hell out of Floyd | Pang and Criswell. I downshift from third gear back into second for a Floyd | moment which causes my car to red line and enough of a jolt for him to Floyd | fall off completely. I see him, through the rear-view mirror, take a Floyd | vicious fall onto the road, bouncing against it at painful angles like Floyd | a discarded rag doll. Floyd | Floyd | Nobody says anything for a second, until Criswell pops opens his Floyd | mouth. "That... man, that was awesome!!" Floyd | Floyd | "You don't think I killed that guy, do you? Do you think he's OK?" Floyd | Floyd | "It was probably a bot," says Gibs. "Look, he was trying to attack us, Floyd | anyway." Floyd | Floyd | "That's true," says Pang. "Both items are totally true." Floyd | Floyd | I get us on the Interstate and head north, back towards home. I chuck Floyd | the gun out the window on the way back. Nobody says anything else Floyd | until I drop Gibs off and get the rest of us back to the house... | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "press space" | ||
Floyd | | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Chapter Two Floyd | I've only been on, really, truly on... once in my life. Floyd | Floyd | It was about five years ago. The first week of March. The Wizards of Floyd | the Coast (the company that publishes all the D&D books these days) Floyd | were sponsoring a huge, two-day tournament in the Fort. I signed up Floyd | for it with Barnaby, who used to be more into this kind of thing back Floyd | then, and we started gaming it on a Saturday morning. Floyd | Floyd | It wasn't a 'competitive' tournament, per se, especially since around Floyd | that time the two local gangs of Korean role players had pretty much Floyd | wiped each other out when an on-line housing refresh dispute went from Floyd | the virtual world of the internet to the physical one of reality, Floyd | resulting in thirteen dead and seven wounded. That would have normally Floyd | taken the edge off for the rest of us for the whole of the weekend, Floyd | but we soon found out that WotC were putting up an eight-thousand Floyd | dollar first prize for the weekend's 'Most Outstanding Roleplayer.' Floyd | When I found that out, something clicked inside me, and I drew from a Floyd | strength of personality I didn't know I had. Floyd | Floyd | All day the dice were with me. Just about every time I threw a Floyd | twenty-sided die I got an incredibly favorable result. I started Floyd | getting a bit more bold and soon found that the other kids at my table Floyd | started following me. Looking to me for direction, for Floyd | decisions, for witticisms. I became bolder and overly gregarious. I Floyd | hardly needed any of the booty the game's Dungeon Master was giving us Floyd | in-game, and won over the entire table through generosity. I was Floyd | confident and having fun being me for the first time ever. Floyd | Floyd | My luck stayed with me when I went to different tables and played with Floyd | different people. When the tournament finished the next day, I was Floyd | awarded the top prize and a check for $8,000. I accepted it graciously Floyd | and thanked everyone I played with for giving me the chance to shine. Floyd | As Barnaby and I were rounding up our backpacks and bags of dice, I Floyd | Xeroxed a copy of my character sheet, signed my name and phone number Floyd | to it, and gave it to the cutest girl who seemed single during the Floyd | event, someone I had played with on the first day. Floyd | Floyd | When I got home, I spent the entire check on a car and a new wardrobe. Floyd | I had nothing left of it by Tuesday. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey didn't call the number on the sheet, maybe because it was a Floyd | pompous act of nigh-Olympic level. But when she dropped by the Mall Floyd | later that week I asked her out on a date. She said yes and has been Floyd | in various states of flabbergastation with me over the years that have Floyd | followed. Floyd | Floyd | I got my car, clothes and relationship within a lucky streak that Floyd | lasted 48 hours five years ago. And I've been living off that success Floyd | ever since. I'd confess that in my darker moments, when I am at my Floyd | most honest, it rather spooks me to know that I have essentially been Floyd | stagnant ever since. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 12 Floyd | stagnant ever since. Floyd | Living Room Floyd | I live in a four-bedroom rented house in a college town we all call Floyd | 'The Fort.' The exterior to this place was kind of beat up when we Floyd | decided to rent here, and through the last three years we've worked Floyd | our hardest to make the interior nicely match. Floyd | Sitting corpulently in the blue couch is Pang. Floyd | On the tattered couch are the green blanket and the pillow. Sitting Floyd | on the entertainment center are the television and the DVD player. Floyd | Sitting on the table are Vecna's hand, the Dreamcast, the bottle of Floyd | wine, a cup, the Blade DVD, the The Truman Show DVD, and the Lord of Floyd | the Rings DVD. Floyd | Floyd | The other three guys who live here include Pang and Criswell and Floyd | another guy named Leary who isn't around much. (But then, he's an Floyd | engineer and the only guy with his life remotely in order.) Criswell Floyd | found most of our crummy furniture when he went Dumpster Diving a Floyd | while back, and we place blankets over the rotting parts like they Floyd | were giant cloth band-aids to hide their pronounced ghetto factor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "press space" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 12 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS SPACE Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "space" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 13 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Zach), "don't tell Floyd to push space. Just push space." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 14 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | There's a knock at the door. It's probably Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 15 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I let Audrey inside, and give her a kiss on the cheek. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello, Jarret..." she looks over and sees Pang on the couch. Distaste Floyd | can't help but crawl across her face. "So... what have we got planned Floyd | for tonight?" Floyd | Floyd | I see Audrey for the first time. I probably should have gotten the Floyd | door for her. Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks for getting the door, jerk," she says. Ouch. This isn't good, Floyd | I've managed to come off as irritating before she'd even entered the Floyd | house. I usually have ten minutes of grace period. Floyd | Floyd | "I was in the bathroom, brushing my hair so it would look nice and Floyd | stylish for you," I say with a shrug. Floyd | Floyd | "It's a brush. Not a magic wand. You know... I've never met a man who Floyd | was so obsessed with his hair. But anyway. What are we doing tonight?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Movie Night! Movie Night sure sounds great, doesn't it?" Floyd | (2) "I'm going to avoid that question by telling you how great you Floyd | look, Miss Case." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 16 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Movie night?" asks Audrey. "You want to sit around the house and Floyd | watch a movie? Come on. Really?" Floyd | Floyd | Pang pops up with his opinion. "Well, I want to." Floyd | Floyd | "Nobody's asking you," says Audrey. Then it hits her that Pang is Floyd | probably going to sit around for the showing. "Your little friend Floyd | isn't around is he, Pang?" She means Criswell. Floyd | Floyd | "He will be in a minute. The pipes froze and burst next door and Floyd | flooded the kitchen. He's been keeping beer there." Floyd | Floyd | Audrey doesn't roll her eyes or anything, but it's obvious to me that Floyd | she envisioned something else when I asked her over. I'd love to go Floyd | out somewhere, but I barely have enough gas to get me to work and back Floyd | and I don't get paid until Wednesday. In a storybook world or in some Floyd | kind of made-up dream relationship I'd just come correct and Floyd | let her know how broke I was. We could then just play in the snow, Floyd | frolic for a couple hours and eat pieces of our gingerbread house for Floyd | dinner. In the world I reside in, though, in the reality I've made for Floyd | myself that's not an option I have available. Floyd | Floyd | Pang puts the copy of Blade into the DVD player. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 17 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | "What.. aw, hell, what the hell is this, Pang?" asks Criswell, as he Floyd | enters. "Oh, hey, by the way, I don't think we're gonna be able to Floyd | keep beers at the neighbor's house any longer. Someone has begun the Floyd | moving-in process. Wait, did you end up getting this fucking Floyd | Blade thing? Oh, Kee-rist!" Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand why Criswell is so against this movie. I guess I Floyd | could ask him, or something, if I really cared. Only I don't. I just Floyd | want him gone. Floyd | Floyd | "Just watch the movie," says Pang. Floyd | Floyd | "No!" exclaims Criswell. "I'm gonna make The Call!" Floyd | Floyd | "You're not going to have a quorum," says Pang. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Sorry. The next movie will probably be better anyway." Floyd | (2) "Did you particularly want to see Blade??" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 18 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Not especially," she says. "I think I saw it when it first came out." Floyd | Floyd | "What? Are you kidding me?" I think about the math for a second. "By Floyd | my calculations, you were eight when it came out. You mean to tell me Floyd | that the Neuromancer didn't like you dating me at first because at Floyd | three years your elder, I was a bad example, but he was OK with you Floyd | watching a movie where Snipes hacks apart vampires for 90 minutes?" I Floyd | call her father 'The Neuromancer' because his first name is Henry, and Floyd | the main character of the novel _Neuromancer_ is named Henry Case. Floyd | I've been lucky in not saying it when he's been around so far. Floyd | Floyd | "I was very mature for my age," she replies. "I think we'd have been a Floyd | perfect match, intellectually, if you met me when I was eight and you Floyd | were twenty-seven. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, what about if you met me?" says Criswell. Floyd | Floyd | "Two," Audrey and I say at the same time. Floyd | Floyd | Leary walks down the stairs. He gives everyone a 'hey' and waves to Floyd | Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | "Yo, Leary, what's your take on Blade?" asks Criswell. Floyd | Floyd | Pang's not thrilled about opinions being offered up on his choice Floyd | before the opening credits are even finished. Floyd | Floyd | "Ehh," says Leary as he picks up the phone to make a call. "Not my Floyd | thing. Nothing personal, Panger." Floyd | Floyd | "Damn fuckin' straight!" says Criswell. "I'm makin' the call! The Call Floyd | for Ejection! Duffy? What're you saying?" Floyd | Floyd | I don't know how to go with this one. On one hand, it could mean that Floyd | my movie will get played and these two morons will leave out of Floyd | boredom. On the other hand -- just how freaking immature am I going to Floyd | come across? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 19 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | "The thumb points down, bitchkin!" says Criswell to Pang. It was Floyd | inevitable that he was going to pull the movie no matter what popular Floyd | choice happened to be. Criswell hops over to the DVD player and ejects Floyd | the disc. He places The Truman Show in. "We're now starin' Floyd | down the barrel of a whole lotta giggles," he says to Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | I keep one eye trained underneath the sofa in case Audrey's rolling Floyd | eyes pop out of her head. Floyd | Floyd | "What are you talking about?" she says. Audrey has never, ever liked Floyd | Criswell. "This is a drama, not a ninety minute episode of 'White Guys Floyd | Gone Jostling.'" Criswell's head strains to the side as he Floyd | simultaneously doesn't believe her and doesn't comprehend her. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey continues. "You know what drama is, right? It's the name given Floyd | to a movie that adults tend to enjoy, as well as being the Floyd | standard root cause of every Linkin Park song." Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, whatever." Criswell shrugs. "I bet you Truman here is making Floyd | like he's talking out of his ass before the opening credits are Floyd | finished." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "So... how is school going these days?" Floyd | (2) "What are you doing later?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 20 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Pretty well, actually." Audrey is in the last year of Medical School. Floyd | It's taken her forever to finish up, but I guess that's normal for Floyd | would-be doctors. "They are having a dress-up party in my department Floyd | for Martin Luther King day in a couple weeks, you know. You should Floyd | come." Floyd | Floyd | "Who do you have to dress up as?" Floyd | Floyd | "Someone who did something positive for civil rights." Floyd | Floyd | "So you could dress up as someone who freed the slaves, then, right?" Floyd | Floyd | "Sure. You'd look cute, I think, if you had that Abraham Lincoln-style Floyd | beard for a few days." Floyd | Floyd | "Ah! Ah-ha. Yes." I don't bother to tell her that I was thinking more Floyd | along the lines of Cameron Maj?re than Lincoln, which is probably for Floyd | the best. Floyd | Floyd | Five minutes elapse. The only possession Criswell has left is the Floyd | dumbfounded look upon his face. Floyd | Floyd | Minute seven comes and Pang can't help himself any longer. Floyd | Floyd | "You stupid, simple... child," he says, quietly. "Next week Floyd | go get Good Will Hunting -- Robin Williams is hilarious in Floyd | it." Pang points his thumb down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "This, ah, movie is mine, for what it's worth." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 21 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | She doesn't say anything. She just nods, looking straight ahead. I Floyd | can't really blame her... these two idiots are really getting in my Floyd | way tonight, and ruining everything. Floyd | Floyd | Leary turns around from his phone call and squints a bit at the TV. He Floyd | chuckles, points his own thumb down for a second and then turns back Floyd | away from the living room. Pang wiggles the Vecna's Hand toy around Floyd | with its thumb pointing down in order to taunt Criswell just a bit Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | Pang gets up to change the movie. Floyd | Floyd | He places in Lord of the Rings, apparently without really Floyd | recognizing what it is. The intro starts. Audrey lets out a sigh. I Floyd | have no idea if I'm correctly interpreting it, but I'm guessing that Floyd | she's resigned herself to at least watching the movie on the TV Floyd | screen. Floyd | Floyd | "What the shit is this?" asks Criswell. "More fuckin' ghouls and orcs Floyd | and shit?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 22 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Pang and Criswell both put their thumbs down as Leary leaves. Floyd | Floyd | "What are you two doing?" I ask. "There aren't any other movies. We Floyd | didn't get any." Floyd | Floyd | "Someone has forgotten our massive porn collection," says Pang, Floyd | matter-of-factly. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, for Heaven's sake," says Audrey. She gets off the couch and Floyd | leaves the room, heading towards my bedroom. Not, I should say, in a Floyd | 'let's go make out' way or a 'we need to talk' way but in a Floyd | pre-emptive strike on a fight way. Floyd | Floyd | "What's her problem?" asks Criswell, to Pang. "We've got Floyd | chick-on-chick stuff." Floyd | Floyd | I've got a fairly high boiling point, but I've absolutely had it with Floyd | these two. The frustrations concerning the fact that my bad decisions Floyd | and sloth have forced me into this decision boils right over. I decide Floyd | it's time to probably let them have it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 23 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter bedroom" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 17 / 24 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | My bedroom's the smallest one in the house. (I got here last so I got Floyd | the skankiest room.) There's not a whole lot going on in here, just Floyd | some shelves with all my crap on it and a bed. It smells a bit less Floyd | like cigarettes than it used to since I have gone a week and a half Floyd | since my last one. Floyd | Floyd | "What the hell was that?" asks Audrey. "When are you going to get Floyd | it... this has got to stop." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "You're pissed. Aren't you?" Floyd | (2) "Hey, sorry about that and those guys." Floyd | (3) "What's got to stop?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 17 / 25 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It's got to stop, Jarret. You know that." Floyd | Floyd | Eight years ago I was a sophomore at Syracuse University. I had not Floyd | only barely gotten in, but barely survived my first year. My grade Floyd | point average was a 1.8. (Well, 1.78; I used to always round that up.) Floyd | My father had two main tenets when it came to raising me: obedience Floyd | and grades. The first half of my sophomore year I failed all my Floyd | classes except for Organic Chemistry Lab and Mythologies II. (Chem Lab Floyd | was because I was fucking the teaching assistant; bitch still only Floyd | gave me a B-.) When my father got my semester's grades in the mail he, Floyd | for the first time, didn't go berserk or explode in a wave of Floyd | profanity. He simply shrugged and said 'it's got to stop.' Floyd | Floyd | It feels just the same as Audrey saying it now. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What? Come on, we were just goofing around in there." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 17 / 26 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well it's not funny!" she says. "And I can't think of any substance I Floyd | could take that would make those idiots 'funny.' I could give you the Floyd | formula and arrangement of at least a hundred molecules off the top of Floyd | my head, and not a single one can be ingested in sufficient quantities Floyd | that would make what went on in there 'funny' without killing me Floyd | first." Floyd | Floyd | The thing about dating smart girls, I should tell you, is that you Floyd | don't feel half as bad when they attempt to humiliate you. Audrey and Floyd | I also give each other plenty of time to finish our sentences, which I Floyd | think is something that we both require more than oxygen, fresh water, Floyd | and C6 H... er, 12, and O... well, glucose, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | "Spending time is normally fun with you, Jarret. Doing date-type Floyd | things. Even studying when you were still going to uni. But this Floyd | middle-age sitting-around watching-DVDs thing... I'm just not ready Floyd | for every day to be like this." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Hey, look, me either. OK? I'm not retiring on you." Floyd | (2) "Look, we'll go skydiving or something, okay?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 17 / 27 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I appreciate the sentiment, Jarret, but it's been like this for Floyd | a while now. I don't know if it's just the inevitable ennui you get Floyd | when you reach your late twenties or what, but that kind of brings me Floyd | to what I wanted to talk about when I came over tonight..." Floyd | Floyd | I realize now that we're probably only just getting started with what Floyd | she wants to discuss. Geez. Well, I'll try to keep this quick. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Lay it on me, then. What's up?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 17 / 28 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to be moving soon." Floyd | Floyd | "What? Why? Where to? Moving like you're moving to Cheyenne moving or Floyd | moving like you're moving to Eastern Islamistan moving?" Floyd | Floyd | "To Texas... I'm going to Texas. Houston, specifically. A company from Floyd | there sent some recruiters up over Christmas Break and most of us in Floyd | my program interviewed well. After I finish up this semester I am Floyd | taking a job with them and headed down there." Floyd | Floyd | "Uh... okay." Don't you break down, Duffy. Do not let this girl Floyd | get under your skin. Floyd | Floyd | "And it goes without saying that I'd love it if you came with me. I Floyd | mean, I hope you know that." Floyd | Floyd | "To Texas. Uh... well..." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Look, there's not a chance in hell I'm moving to Texas." Floyd | (2) "Houston? Why not Bangor? Or freaking Charon?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 17 / 29 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Really?" she says, a bit annoyed at my attitude. "And why's that? Floyd | You're not worried about losing your seniority at that shithole you Floyd | work at, are you?" Floyd | Floyd | "No! Jesus. It's not that. But look at it from my perspective. Why Floyd | would I move to a city where I know exactly nobody?" Floyd | Floyd | "You'd know me." Floyd | Floyd | "Besides you." Floyd | Floyd | "Some of my friends from class are headed down there. They like you." Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know about that." I consider that for a second. Floyd | "Wait, really?" Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Look... I have to get to work." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 17 / 30 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I understand," she says. Floyd | Floyd | Technically, I had a couple hours before I was due at work, but I Floyd | might as well go in early and pick up some overtime. Floyd | "We can talk about this after I get out of there, right?" Floyd | Floyd | "Of course," she says. Again, in her terse form of communicating more Floyd | without words than with. Floyd | Floyd | "I get out at eleven. Gibs might want me to do his radio show but I Floyd | will blow it off if so. I'll give you a call when I get home, okay?" Floyd | Floyd | She nods, gives me a hug and leaves my room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 31 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | This room is centered around the television, a 32" Sony that Leary Floyd | brought when he moved in. The set sits on a wooden entertainment Floyd | center, with 'satellite' speakers all around the room. The tattered Floyd | white couch is perpendicular to the set, and the blue one (where Pang Floyd | normally situates himself) is eight or nine feet directly across from Floyd | it. Floyd | On the tattered couch are the green blanket and the pillow. Sitting Floyd | on the entertainment center are the television and the DVD player. Floyd | Inside the DVD player is the Lord of the Rings DVD. Sitting on the Floyd | table are Vecna's hand, the Dreamcast, the bottle of wine, a cup, the Floyd | Blade DVD, and the The Truman Show DVD. Floyd | Criswell, Pang, and Audrey are here. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Jesus Christ!" exclaims Audrey. "What the hell are you two chimps Floyd | doing? Goddess, I don't need this shit. Goodbye!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 17 / 32 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | (opening the porch door first) Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey strides out the open door. I shake my head at my horrible home Floyd | life and leave for work... Floyd ] Chapter Three Floyd | I'm still rather pissed off when I pull up into the Mall parking lot Floyd | and showroom park my car. What kind of game is Audrey playing here? Floyd | Surely she's bluffing. We've gone to Defcon 2 or maybe 3 before, but Floyd | we were always able to talk one another down before the bombshells Floyd | were dropped. Floyd | Floyd | I didn't want to have to go into work tonight worrying about this kind Floyd | of crap. My job becomes a lot easier when I'm able to turn off the Floyd | parts of my mind that don't deal with twenty-sided dice, Player's Floyd | Handbooks and noticing customer body odor. The greatest curse you can Floyd | inflict upon someone who works at the Mall is getting them to fret. Floyd | Floyd | (And the greatest curse you can inflict upon yourself while at the Floyd | Mall is to attempt to stop smoking. I seriously picked a bad week for Floyd | it.) Floyd | Floyd | I walk down to the east end of the Mall, avoid the guy taking surveys, Floyd | and enter my store. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 33 Floyd | Floyd | Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium Floyd | Trott had been working the evening shift; I greet him and take my Floyd | usual place behind the counter. There's really no reason for two of us Floyd | to close the store, except that Benji (the owner) is still a little Floyd | freaked after someone tried to blow up his arcade next door a couple Floyd | of weeks ago. It's unlikely that we'll have any customers, though, so Floyd | Trott and I should be able to logout the register and drop the gate Floyd | quickly when the time comes. Floyd | The counter contains the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | The counter has a postcard on it. Floyd | Trott is here. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 33 Floyd | > Floyd | > CF1 Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "cf1" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd | > SAVESaved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach has disconnected. | ||
| Zach has connected. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can't go anywhere. I'm working. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Hey, what's up, Trott?" Floyd | (2) "Anything interesting happen tonight?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 34 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Hi, Duffy," says Trott. "Not much going on. Got a postcard from a Floyd | friend of mine who used to work next door. Did you ever meet him?" Floyd | Floyd | "The arcade guy? Met him once, briefly. He didn't seem to know who on Floyd | earth I was when I'd see him passing through the mall after that, Floyd | though." Floyd | Floyd | Trott chuckles. "Yeah, that was him all right." Floyd | Floyd | Gibs arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Hey, look who it is! The guy who hates malls and D&D!" Floyd | (2) "Aren't you supposed to be at work?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | Zach says, "Hooray!" | |
| DavidW says, "This is pre-drink on counter" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 35 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Nah, not until three o'clock A.M.," says Barnaby. "On Fridays they Floyd | don't need me around before my show starts." Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, Duffy, solid. Glad you're here," says Barnaby. He puts his big Floyd | gulp drink down by the counter. "Got a question for you." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well what brings you here? I thought you hated the mall?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 36 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Mingya, gimme a break, Duffy," says Barnaby. "I outgrew all this Floyd | stuff years ago. If I'm going to be weirdly obsessive about something, Floyd | it'll be football roto stats, not the loyalty tables of half-orc Floyd | henchmen." Floyd | Floyd | "Fair enough," I say with a shrug. Why get into it with him? "What's Floyd | up, anyway?" Floyd | Floyd | "I need you to come on the air tonight. After you get done here and Floyd | everything. Both of my interviews fell through so I need to make this Floyd | an all-comedy night." Floyd | Floyd | I've gone by the studio with Barnaby a couple times before. Though Floyd | previously I've known in advance and could brush up on the various Floyd | crimes committed by NFL players. Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno, Gibs... I haven't been paying much attention as of late, I Floyd | don't even know who's going to be in the Super Bowl." Floyd | Floyd | "You'll do fine!" he says. "Tavarian Pittman was identified as a Floyd | participant in a snuff film earlier today! All we're going to do is Floyd | make jokes about it for three hours. Can you do a Nicholas Cage Floyd | impression? Additionally, we'll also discuss the worst sports cities Floyd | of all-time." Floyd | Floyd | Barnaby nods over to Trott. "What's going on, man?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What do you have down as the worst sports city, all-time, so Floyd | far?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 37 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "So far, Nagasaki, 1946. Everyone is dead, the stadia are in shambles, Floyd | and the concession stand taffy glows in the dark." Floyd | Floyd | "It's all great here, man," says Trott to Barnaby. "Yourself?" he Floyd | asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Bitchin'" says Gibs in reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 37 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "drawer" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open counter" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 38 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I can't, it's locked. I have no idea where the key is, either. Floyd | Floyd | I hear a 'pop' sound come from near the counter. Floyd | Floyd | "Aw, Christ," says Trott. "The goddamn lock just burst on the counter Floyd | shelf. Cheap plastic crap." Floyd | Floyd | Audrey arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wow, there were a heck of a lot of daemons that didn't fire" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd | > SAVESaved. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Because the counter opened before we talked to Gibs?" | |
| smartgenes asks, "just got back, still playing at this point?" | ||
| DavidW says, "we replayed" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well, that didn't take long. Hi!" Floyd | (2) "Congrats! You're our 209th customer!" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 39 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Audrey's not sure how to respond to that. Floyd | Floyd | "You get a free dice polishing down at Hrewreguard's Trading Post," I Floyd | say. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey's even less sure of how to respond to it now. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello, Jarret," says Audrey. She makes eye contact for only a Floyd | split-second before directing her line of sight downwards and away Floyd | from me. "Can I speak with you for a moment?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Nooo" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Sure, anytime. Go ahead." Floyd | (2) "Yeah. Talk in private, or...?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW asks, "yeah, we're gonna get dumped, aren't we?" | |
| DavidW asks, "2?" | ||
| Zach says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 40 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Private would be fantastic," says says, quickly. She takes my hand Floyd | and walks me to the back of the store. We're not really out of the Floyd | range of Barnaby and Trott, but it's unlikely that they are going to Floyd | eavesdrop. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, look," I start, "About before -- " Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, no," she says, "This isn't about that. We can get some coffee Floyd | when you get out of work and talk about that. No, Sydney and Casey Floyd | wanted me to ask you a favor. They are having difficulties getting Floyd | their register to interface with the mainframe tonight. Something is Floyd | broken with their PC. They thought maybe you could look at it for Floyd | them." Floyd | Floyd | I am crazy about this girl, and I guess I will always be and Floyd | everything, but her coming over here to get me to do work for her Floyd | friend's store is kind of cold. "Isn't Mall Security supposed to Floyd | handle that?" It's not really that I don't want to help, I tell Floyd | myself, as much as that I'll look like a jerk in front of a small Floyd | gaggle of girls if I can't fix it. (But then I tell myself that I'm 28 Floyd | and still afraid to fail a bit in front of some chicks. Ouch.) Floyd | Floyd | "They only have one guy working now, what with Christmas Rush being Floyd | over and everything. And that guy is infatuated with a girl over at Floyd | the lingerie store." Floyd | Floyd | "Which one? I know one or two girls that work there." Floyd | Floyd | "Not one that works there. He's obsessed with with one of the giant Floyd | push-up bra posters in the window." Floyd | Floyd | I consider this for a moment. "Well... fair enough, I guess. Her Floyd | breasts on one of those giant posters would be six times larger than Floyd | his head. Or even eight times if it's a good push-up." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Yes, look, I'll help you. Them. Whoever." Floyd | (2) "Look, I'll try to make it over eventually. OK?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW asks, "1?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 41 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Fan-tastic," she says, with more than a hint of Floyd | exasperation. "Let's go." I wave to Trott in order to inquire if it's Floyd | OK if I leave the store. He gives me a nod. We run this store through Floyd | a regime of efficient hand-signals and basic telepathy. Gibs perks up Floyd | at all of this. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, I'm coming along," he says. Floyd | Floyd | "No, you're not," replies Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | "You're out of your mind if you think I'm missing a chance to hang out Floyd | with the girls at the Bead Store, Yoko," says Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey turns to make what I predict to be a sharp comment, but I try Floyd | to defuse the situation first. "Audrey isn't anybody's Yoko fucking Floyd | Ono, Gibs. That doesn't even make any sense, since she's not bringing Floyd | me down, making me dress poorly, stopping me from shaving and bathing, Floyd | or getting me shot in New York City. She's not the Yoko to my Lennon, Floyd | not the Delilah to my Samson. No, what she is, is -- " Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to prepare some vomit bags in case you say she's the Floyd | Laurana to your Tanis," says Trott from behind the counter. He's Floyd | referring to the male and female lead of the Dragonlance Floyd | novels. Floyd | Floyd | Nobody says anything for a few seconds. "Let's just go," I say. "The Floyd | three of us." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've never read any Dragonlance, but boy, that sounded way nerdy." | |
| Zach says, "I have, and it was" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i get the reference, but it doesn't seem like much of a homage" | ||
| Zach says, "Robb's metaphors are on a whole other plane of existence" | ||
| DavidW says, "Considering we couldn't open our own register, I'm dubious what we'll do with another." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd | > SAVESaved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go north to the eastern end of the mall. Floyd | Floyd | (Guess I have time to go check out the Bead Store.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 17 / 42 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | gaming manuals: I've got all the info contained within memorized for Floyd | those games I'm into, and somewhat proud of myself for those games Floyd | that I don't have committed to memory, if you're digging my ditch here Floyd | (and I think you are). Floyd | postcard: Taken. Floyd | Magic: The Gathering cards: Taken. Floyd | Big Gulp drink: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | There is a strong shock of sound from above! It roars as if lightning Floyd | struck directly above the Mall! Floyd | Floyd | "Goddess!" yells Audrey, as the Mall shakes from the shockwave, "What Floyd | on Earth was that?" Floyd | Floyd | The lights go out in the Mall! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eastern End of the Mall 17 / 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern End of the Mall Floyd | This is as far east as the Mall goes. The Mall technically dips a bit Floyd | as one goes west, as it was originally built on a landfill (and it's Floyd | already started to sink some). There's a three-sided advertising kiosk Floyd | in the middle of the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Bead Store, Sporting Goods Outlet and Arcade. Floyd | Floyd | My store, the Gaming Emporium is south. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs and Audrey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm expecting a bead bomb, personally." | |
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i wonder if it understands SNUGGLE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x kiosk" | ||
Floyd ] Eastern End of the Mall 17 / 44 Floyd | > Floyd | > X KIOSK Floyd | Floyd | The informational kiosk shows all the locations of all the businesses Floyd | on this level of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | The lights come back on, albeit it slightly dimmer than before. Floyd | Floyd | Eastern End of the Mall Floyd | This is far east as the Mall goes. The Mall technically dips a bit as Floyd | one goes west, as it was originally constructed upon a landfill. Floyd | There's a three-sided advertising kiosk in the middle of the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Beads Store, Sporting Good Outlet and the (closed) Floyd | Arcade. Floyd | Floyd | My store, the Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium, is to the south. Floyd | Gibs and Audrey are here. Gibs has Gibs's lacrosse stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "read kiosk" | ||
Floyd ] Eastern End of the Mall 17 / 45 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ KIOSK Floyd | Floyd | From east to west, the first floor of the Mall goes as follows: Floyd | Floyd | Benji's RPG Emporium Floyd | Floyd | Choad's Sporting Goods - Benji's Arcade Floyd | Floyd | The Bead Store Floyd | Floyd | Jewels N' Things - Perfume Counter Floyd | Floyd | Elevator to Lower Level Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "choad is an American insult, right, like nerd?" | |
| inky says, "it doesn't really mean the same as nerd, but yeah" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 17 / 46 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side of the Mall Floyd | I'm at the eastern side of the Mall. To the north is Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods (the gate has been lowered and the screen up). The arcade is to Floyd | the south, but that has been closed and inaccessible for a while now. Floyd | My store is a bit to the east, and the Bead Store a bit to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a table here, a couple feet west of the edge of the Sporting Floyd | Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | In the corner of the front of the Arcade is an X-box game unit. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs and Audrey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 17 / 47 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | Some of the stores have tables on the outside, in an attempt to entice Floyd | customers to come inside. This table is one of them, for Choad's Floyd | Sporting Goods Store. Usually only extremely cheap items are set on Floyd | them, so as to minimize shortages and loss. Floyd | Sitting on the counter are some socks. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on the counter are some socks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "[LINK] has all the choad info." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "get socks" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 17 / 48 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SOCKS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear socks" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 17 / 49 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR SOCKS Floyd | Floyd | I already have a decent pair of socks, so I place them over my hands Floyd | and use them as mittens. The Mall is freezing, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "ok, i was just checking i had the right reference" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go west to the beginning of the east wing Floyd | or east to the eastern end of the mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "what about this x-box?" | |
| Zach says, "Yay, sock puppets" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get xbox" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 17 / 50 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET XBOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 17 / 51 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | It's a very old video game unit. I believe it first hit the market in Floyd | 2001 or 2002. It's also incredibly fricken huge. Looks like over a Floyd | cubic meter of gaming anger to me. Physically, the box depicts all the Floyd | games you can play on the thing in a green and black color scheme. Floyd | Floyd | Benji (the same guy who is my boss as well) keeps them outside the Floyd | Arcade in some attempt to entice customers sick of the arcade Floyd | experience into buying a larger-ticket item. Either that, or they are Floyd | placed outside the arcade to balance the weight of the dozen, ancient, Floyd | hulking arcade games inside it. Either / or. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "geez, we're klepto today." | |
| smartgenes asks, "how does a small xbox balance weight of arcade machines?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 17 / 52 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), a postcard, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, some socks (being worn), Floyd | and the X-box. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Huh, the xbox looks just like Gunther" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x sporting store" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 17 / 52 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPORTING STORE Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "sporting" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "hmm i much prefer the game at points like this, without the banter" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go west to the beginning of the east wing Floyd | or east to the eastern end of the mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 17 / 53 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | "Well, we're here," says Audrey, indicating that the Bead Store is to Floyd | the south. Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs and Audrey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 17 / 54 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bead Store Floyd | I part aside a dense curtain of strung-together beads and enter the Floyd | store. The Bead Store has always had a unique odor among the shops on Floyd | this block of the Mall -- it smells strongly of incense and old Floyd | marijuana. The owner of this place has a sweetheart deal on the rent Floyd | along with clearance from the Fire Marshall that allows her to burn Floyd | all manner of scent sticks popular with Wiccans and hippies. Floyd | Floyd | There are shelves on all sides of the store, but none in the middle of Floyd | the store due to the drawn pentagram. Floyd | Floyd | On the far side of the store is the register counter, and next to Floyd | that, the broken PC that Audrey wanted me to take a look at. Floyd | Alongside the shelves is a tall crystal ball holder. Floyd | Sydney and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs and Audrey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sydney" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 17 / 55 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SYDNEY Floyd | Floyd | Sydney is a very feisty and sarcastic blonde, and close friend of Floyd | Audrey's. Floyd | Floyd | Casey and Sydney hold each other's hands along the edge of the Floyd | pentagram. I give Gibs a nudge and a thumbs-up sign. Floyd | Floyd | "So, Barnaby," says Casey, "Would you like to help us in our little Floyd | seance?" Floyd | Floyd | Audrey gives Casey a dirty look. Floyd | Floyd | "What?" murmurs Casey to Audrey, "You're the one who told me I was Floyd | gonna get a boyfriend at the mall." Floyd | Floyd | "I'd be delighted to help out," says Barnaby. "I've never done this Floyd | before, so just let me know what to do and where to go. Did I mention Floyd | that I am famous? I'm famous." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, good, the pentagram is already drawn." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x casey" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 17 / 56 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CASEY Floyd | Floyd | She has brown eyes and jet-black, though obviously dyed, hair. She is Floyd | wearing a textbook goth outfit, complete with the black fingernails, Floyd | eyeliner and steel-toed boots. She looks dark, mysterious, dangerous Floyd | and completely off her rocker. Floyd | Floyd | The blonde (Sydney) gets Audrey, Gibs and Casey situated just how she Floyd | wants them. "I memorized the passage we need to incant," she says to Floyd | them. "You, the new guy, just don't speak out of turn. There are four Floyd | names you need to remember. They are Nysrogh, Verin, Valafar and Floyd | Cyramoir. We say them in an order based on just who we are trying to Floyd | raise. Can you remember those names?" Floyd | Floyd | "He's a sports geek," says Audrey, "He can remember the average number Floyd | of cup adjustments a player for the Nukes makes in a game -- He can Floyd | remember this." Floyd | Floyd | "I'll be fine," beams Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wait, I thought we were supposed to be fixing a computer" | |
| DavidW says, "a register" | ||
| DavidW says, "so go ahead and fix it" | ||
| smartgenes says, "um, yeah, how come nobody is surprised" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get ball" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 17 / 57 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BALL Floyd | Floyd | I can't separate the crystal ball from the crystal ball holder. Floyd | Floyd | The girls and Gibs continue the summoning ritual... Floyd | Floyd | "Nysrogh, we are not fit for your attention, milord," sings Casey, Floyd | sweetly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x pc" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 17 / 58 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PC Floyd | Floyd | The register computer is run by an ancient Pentium IV-based processor Floyd | within a mini-ATX case. It, like all register computers, connects to Floyd | the Mall hub via a serial cable in the back. Floyd | Floyd | The girls and Gibs continue the summoning ritual... Floyd | Floyd | With the girls' eyes closed, I take the opportunity to check out their Floyd | bodies. These three can seriously fill out a costume. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hurry up, the demon'll be here before the register's fixed." | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x serial cable" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 17 / 59 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SERIAL CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Hmm... it looks like it's been plugged into the computer incorrectly. Floyd | I could probably fix it. Floyd | Floyd | The girls and Gibs continue the summoning ritual... Floyd | Floyd | Sydney keeps mumbling in some sort of inane chant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fix cable" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 60 Floyd | > Floyd | > FIX CABLE Floyd | Floyd | I take a look at the back of the computer. The serial cable has been Floyd | shoved into the back panel of the case. I'm not a hardware guru, but I Floyd | can count pins and figure out where most stuff goes. I look over to Floyd | the girls to tell them what the problem is, but they are holding one Floyd | another's hands trying to engage in some pseudo-religious summoning Floyd | ceremony. I fail at stifling an eye roll and give the serial cord a Floyd | gentle tug. Nothing happens, as it's quite stuck. I pull a little Floyd | harder, but still nothing. I decide to get a bunch of slack on the Floyd | cord and give it a forceful yank -- Floyd | Floyd | The serial cord rips free from the back of the computer! I see, Floyd | briefly, that it was attached to some sort of small plug-in card that Floyd | was squirreled away inside the box. Floyd | Floyd | The force of pulling on the cord launches the card behind me. It falls Floyd | into the pentagram that the girls and Gibs are around. Floyd | Floyd | The girls and Gibs continue the summoning ritual... Floyd | Floyd | "Verin, love, do not forget us this dark eve, we miss you so..." Floyd | chants Sydney, slowly. Floyd | Floyd | There is a sudden and quick flash of fire and light a second after the Floyd | cable lands on the floor! Floyd | Floyd | A deafening boom accompanies it -- the five of us fall right to the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And we won't be able to offer the 2-for-1 special on sulphide beads." | |
| inky says, "oopsies" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 61 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bead Store, on the floor Floyd | The Bead Store smells strongly of incense and stale joints, and it Floyd | almost overpowers every other sense. There are shelves on all sides of Floyd | the store, but none in the middle of the store due to the drawn Floyd | pentagram. Floyd | Floyd | On the far side of the store is the register counter, and next to Floyd | that, the broken PC that Audrey wanted me to take a look at. Floyd | Alongside the shelves is a tall crystal ball holder. Floyd | Sydney, Casey, Gibs, and Audrey are here. Gibs has Gibs's lacrosse Floyd | stick. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs stirs for a bit, and gives everyone in the room a look of Floyd | disgusted confusion. He leaves a rather pregnant pause. He finally Floyd | gives his own comment on the explosion: "What... the fuck... Floyd | was that? Floyd | Floyd | Audrey slowly picks herself up off the ground. I crawl over towards Floyd | her. "Did you..." she starts. She sees the cable in the middle of the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | "That was incredible!" says Casey, as she gets up and dizzily staggers Floyd | around. "We have to do that again!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get holder" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 62 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey are all up after the knockdown. Sydney is Floyd | still down and out, though. Floyd | Floyd | "Syd?" asks Audrey. "You okay? Syd?" Audrey picks up the serial cable Floyd | from the floor. "Oh, no..." she stumbles back as if something cut her Floyd | legs out from underneath her. She knocks her head up against the Floyd | counter and slumps to the ground without displaying a bit of evidence Floyd | that she felt any pain. She stares ahead, so vacant... Floyd | Floyd | She snaps out of it. She looks up to me. "Jarret... " She swallows -- Floyd | hard. "I think we summoned something. I think we summoned a Floyd | ghost." Floyd | Floyd | If anyone else had said it at any other time I would have began a Floyd | sarcastic riff. But she's not kidding around. "Are you okay? Did you Floyd | hurt your head at all -- " She shakes her head in the negative. "Look, Floyd | I'll check on Sydney, OK? Just relax, just stay still for a second..." Floyd | Sydney is the only one still unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "perhaps stand up?" | |
| jenrexrode says, "yay, caught up" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "wake sydney" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAKE SYDNEY Floyd | Floyd | I get up off the floor and go over towards Sydney in an attempt to Floyd | wake her up. I place my hand on her shoulder... and suddenly her eyes Floyd | snap open. She recognizes me quickly and gives me a look which Floyd | communicates that she could have me at any time she wished in Floyd | a split-second. Floyd | Floyd | Her eyes begin to swirl. She begins to turn transparent, she starts to Floyd | float... she rises off the ground, breaking the look of pure sex and Floyd | hypnotism that she shared with me, and looking over the others. Floyd | Floyd | "Always the inadvertent knight in shining armor, no, Jarret?" she Floyd | whispers. It's still Sydney's voice, but softer, much more melodic. Floyd | Floyd | "Syd?" asks Audrey. "Are you --" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I feel wonderful," she says, answering the question Floyd | before Audrey can finish it. "It has been so long since I have walked Floyd | among you all... Too long. I have forgotten how good it feels to take Floyd | a breath of air rather than soot..." Floyd | Floyd | She crosses her legs and raises herself a bit higher. She begins to Floyd | slightly glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "perhaps drop the xbox; why'd you guys take it?" | |
| smartgenes asks, "because it was there?" | ||
| DavidW says, "talk to syd" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i'm imagining a Dungeons and Dragon's wizard has taken over, for some reason" | ||
| smartgenes says, "that's Dragons, without the '" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "do we need the holder?" | ||
| DavidW says, "No idea whatsoever." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x holder" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 64 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | It's a wooden stand, roughly four feet in height. It has three Floyd | protruding grips on top to hold a smallish crystal ball (which is Floyd | present). The base is circular in shape and rather thick. Floyd | Floyd | An animate human skeleton staggers into the store from outside. Its Floyd | walk is slow, considered and focused, as if controlled by an Floyd | inexperienced puppeteer. It has in its fingers a bloody and seeping Floyd | severed head, which it discards to one side of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey lets out a quick scream of shock when she sees it hobble in, Floyd | and I grab her arm and get her behind me. The skeleton's head swivels Floyd | quickly from right to left as it gives the four of us on the ground a Floyd | haunting peer. Floyd | Floyd | I scan the room and recall what's in my pockets and trying to find a Floyd | decent weapon. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "lol GET HEAD?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take holder" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 65 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | The skeleton attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er, we're under attack" | |
| Zach says, "Hmm" | ||
| DavidW says, "hit skeleton with xbox or something." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "or KICK HEAD?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "hit skeleton with xbox" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT SKELETON WITH XBOX Floyd | Floyd | That object cannot be used in melee combat. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "lol" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "attack skeleton" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 66 Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACK SKELETON Floyd | Floyd | "Choke it all down!" I scream. I hit the skeleton! Floyd | Floyd | The skeleton screeches horribly -- a dry, dusty rasp somehow escaping Floyd | from its ribs and jaw. Floyd | Floyd | The skeleton attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 67 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | I have a few minor scratches but am otherwise fine. Floyd | Floyd | The skeleton attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kick head" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK HEAD Floyd | Floyd | I cruelly break the severed head! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "drop all. take holder." | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 29 / 69 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP ALL. TAKE HOLDER. Floyd | Floyd | glasses: I can't drop my specs! They are a valuable Floyd | information-gathering tool! Floyd | postcard: Dropped. Floyd | Magic: The Gathering cards: Dropped. Floyd | Big Gulp drink: Dropped. Floyd | socks: I will have to take the socks off first. Floyd | X-box: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The skeleton attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The skeleton attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "oops" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "hit skeleton with holder" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT SKELETON WITH HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | I clobber the skeleton with the crystal ball holder. Floyd | Floyd | (The crystal ball holder breaks as a result, and I throw it down.) Floyd | Floyd | "Choke it all down!" I scream. Floyd | Floyd | The skeleton collapses and falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent, Jarret," Sydney rasps to me, from above. "It could not Floyd | handle being hit that way..." Floyd | Floyd | "Skeletons are susceptible to blunt attacks." I shrug in a despondent Floyd | attempt to mask my fear. "Y'know, Syd, I was thinking of just pulling Floyd | off my trousers there for a second and breaking it into kibble with Floyd | the Hammer of Thunderbolts that lives in my pants, but I didn't want Floyd | to knock down all my friends in the process." Floyd | Floyd | She ignores my comment, as if unable to process it and feeling me not Floyd | worthy of inquiry. The skeleton's weakness has been in every revision Floyd | of the Monster Manual over the years. It's one of the first Floyd | -- Floyd | Floyd | "It's one of the first things you learn when playing D&D," says Floyd | Sydney. A terrible smile crosses her face. Floyd | Floyd | It's terribly effective. Floyd | Floyd | I try to show no fear. (No additional fear, anyway.) "But that's an Floyd | artifact of the game," I say. "It's a made-up construct. Something to Floyd | give them a little more personality. There's no real-world basis for Floyd | any of it." Keep thinking, Duffy, keep your mind busy, don't let this Floyd | telepath get into your hea-- Floyd | Floyd | "Probably not," she says. Her eyes turn empty and glow. "But who can Floyd | tell? You have complicated my return slightly, but not for much Floyd | longer. The look into your mind I obtained when we touched was so Floyd | insightful. You're made up of so many deep, arbitrary little undead Floyd | rules, rules you need to learn and exceptions you need to note." Floyd | Floyd | "What? Those aren't mine! I didn't make them!" Floyd | Floyd | "They will be. They are. You will find this place governed by them Floyd | when you return to it. My power within this world will grow and that Floyd | should keep you busy..." Floyd | Floyd | The room becomes much colder. Barnaby grabs me by the collar and leads Floyd | the four of us out of the Bead Store. | smartgenes says, "maybe we needed the head" | |
| DavidW says, "we can't take anything else" | ||
| Zach pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Chapter Four
Floyd | Gibs drags me out of the Bead Store as I try to plead with Sydney (or
Floyd | whatever is possessing her) to use anybody else as her template
Floyd | tonight, to give us back our friend, to let us all go. The room just
Floyd | keeps getting colder, and my words and breath form puffy clouds that
Floyd | fall short of reaching her. She never wavers in her silent smirk.
Floyd |
Floyd | We leave the Bead Store and collect ourselves out in the foyer. Most
Floyd | of the lighting in the Mall is now completely gone; lit instead by the
Floyd | moon through the skylights.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Fuck this fucking mall," says Gibs. "Let's go get Trott and get the
Floyd | fuck out of here. Jesus Fucking Christ."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't think we can just leave," says Audrey.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Why not?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "The thing that possessed Sydney said that the Mall will be governed
Floyd | by the arbitrary rules she found floating about in my head," I say.
Floyd | "With the showing of the skeleton, I think she means the undead
Floyd | rules."
Floyd |
Floyd | "What undead rules?" asks Gibs. "What are they, specifically? Which
Floyd | undead are we going to encounter? What will they act like?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Who are all you people?" says Casey in a voice like Gibs's,
Floyd | making fun of all his questions.
Floyd |
Floyd | "There's a progression," I say. "In the D&D undead table, it goes
Floyd | skeleton, zombie, ghoul, shadow, ghast or wight, wraith, mummy,
Floyd | spectre, vampire, ghost, lich... and then 'special.'"
Floyd |
Floyd | Gibs reflects on that for a couple seconds. "Ah. Sure. Special like
Floyd | Special Olympics, or -- "
Floyd |
Floyd | "Special like they can kill with a scream or single touch."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah." Gibs shrugs. "I guess that's pretty special."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Wait," says Casey. "Do you hear that? There's something groaning out
Floyd | there, in that direction." She points to the west. "Can you guys hear
Floyd | it? It sounds like there's a lot of them."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'll get us out of here," I say, quietly. I don't know if the others
Floyd | are paying attention to me. "I'll keep us all safe..."
| DavidW says, "Sounds like Syd is changing the laws of physics to match the D&D rules. Marvy." | |
| smartgenes says, "the dialogue reminds me of Scary Movie.. in a good way" | ||
| Zach says, "I hope we have a good saving throw vs. special" | ||
| DavidW asks, "we don't have dice, do we?" | ||
| Zach pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 39 / 70 Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Audrey, Casey, and Gibs are here. Gibs has Gibs's lacrosse stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "dropped all, no?" | |
| Zach says, "Yeah, maybe it's still in the bead store." | ||
| Zach says, "I didn't want to waste time in combat by dropping one thing at a time." | ||
| smartgenes says, "i wonder about the head, maybe it's irrelevant" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd | > SAVESaved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 39 / 71 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bead Store Floyd | The Bead Store smells strongly of incense and stale joints, and it Floyd | almost overpowers every other sense. There are shelves on all sides of Floyd | the store, but none in the middle of the store due to the drawn Floyd | pentagram. Floyd | Alongside the shelves is a tall crystal ball holder. Floyd | A postcard, the Magic: The Gathering cards, Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, Floyd | the X-box are here. Floyd | Sydney and the skeleton are here. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, we can probably get it back. Hopefully smashing the head isn't fatal to our chances." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "fix head" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FIX HEAD Floyd | Floyd | I can't fix that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't see the head. I think it's gone." | |
| DavidW asks, "Also, if zombie is next, how do we defeat it?" | ||
| Zach says, "I assume we should take the holder as a weapon" | ||
| smartgenes says, "just a joky input really" | ||
| Zach says, "oooh, maybe the magic cards are really magic" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "holy water?" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "shall i check in the d&d monster manual?" | ||
| DavidW grabs Monster Manual from shelf. | ||
| Zach says, "I think blunt weapons would be good against zombies too, unless we can cut off the head" | ||
| smartgenes says, "tiny zombie hp" | ||
| smartgenes says, "tiny zombie 6hp" | ||
| smartgenes says, "small zombie 9hp" | ||
| DavidW says, "We need a cleric to turn it or holy water, I think." | ||
| Zach says, "Aww, tiny zombie" | ||
| smartgenes says, "medium zombie 1hp" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take holder" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 39 / 72 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | It's really cold in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "medium zombie 16hp" | |
| jenrexrode says, "get yer socks on" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take magic cards" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 39 / 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MAGIC CARDS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The cold begins to really sting. It's too cold to stay in here, so I Floyd | scatter back outside the Bead Store. Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Audrey and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says (to jrr,), "yes, mom" | |
| smartgenes says, "there is also large, huge, colossal and gargantuan zombies" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x cards" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 39 / 74 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARDS Floyd | Floyd | The cards are used in a game called 'Magic:The Gathering.' It's sort Floyd | of like poker for nerds, except that the cards have special powers and Floyd | so forth. I've never really gotten into it. Anyway, this is a small Floyd | box containing wrapped packs of cards. There are about fifty or so in Floyd | a box. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't see that in the Monster Manual. Let's assume standard monsters." | |
| Zach says, "Sure, giants can become zombies" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i think this is the new version Monster Manual" | ||
| Zach asks, "Hmm, should we go find Trott?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "unwrap cards" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 39 / 74 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNWRAP CARDS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "unwrap" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "or go to another floor." | |
| DavidW says, "(and I tried unwrap earlier)" | ||
| smartgenes says, "ok" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 39 / 75 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side of the Mall Floyd | I'm at the eastern side of the Mall. To the north is Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods. My store is a bit to the east, and the Bead Store a bit to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a table here, set adjacent to the Sporting Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs goes over to the gate of the Sporting Goods store and gives it a Floyd | tug. "It's locked... what, do all the gates fall down when the power Floyd | goes out or something?" Floyd | Floyd | "That's my understanding, yes." I casually inspect the gate. "Ever Floyd | since somebody brought a bomb into the arcade there have been a host Floyd | of security procedures not in other, normal malls. Trott knows how to Floyd | work the security console, though. Let's go find him." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. Plot says go Trott." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Eastern End of the Mall 39 / 76 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern End of the Mall Floyd | This is far east as the Mall goes. The Mall technically dips a bit as Floyd | one goes west, as it was originally constructed upon a landfill. Floyd | There's a three-sided advertising kiosk in the middle of the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Beads Store, Sporting Good Outlet and the (closed) Floyd | Arcade. Floyd | Floyd | My store, the Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium, is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 39 / 77 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium Floyd | My store is covered in darkness and shadows, giving it a far more Floyd | foreboding look than it's otherwise ever had. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of the Mall is to the north. The door to the back room leads Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (opening the back office door first) Floyd | Okay, the door is now open. Floyd | I enter the back office hand-first, groping for the light switch. I Floyd | find it, but flipping it has no effect. This act is not lost on Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | "Good work, there, Tesla," he says, albeit rather quietly. "The Floyd | electricity is out everywhere." Floyd | Floyd | It takes a moment, but our eyes adjust to the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Back Office Floyd | The back office is made up of a number of shelves which hold boxes of Floyd | 'Magic' game cards, and other stock we don't want out by the Floyd | customers. There's barely enough room for two people to stand Floyd | side-by-side here. There are two exits, one back to the store and one Floyd | that leads to the garbage hall (and eventually, beyond that, to the Floyd | security area). Floyd | Sitting on the shelves is a cardboard box. Floyd | Floyd | "Trott's not here..." I say to Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs doesn't say anything. I turn back to look at him and his face has Floyd | blanched. He snaps out of it but doesn't look at me. He points ahead Floyd | and whispers, "Look at the window to the door, Duffy..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "look out window" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK OUT WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | I can't see through that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "at" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "look at window" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 80 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK AT WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | I creep up to the window of the hallway door and take a closer look at Floyd | it. A bloody handprint has been smeared upon the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look in box" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 81 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | Inside the cardboard box is the gaming glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "look in box" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 82 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | Inside the cardboard box is the gaming glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "take it" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get glove" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 83 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 84 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | I'll have to take the socks off my hands first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove socks" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 85 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE SOCKS Floyd | Floyd | I take off the socks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 86 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | I slip on the thick, pleather gaming glove. I begin to feel downright Floyd | sexy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x handprint" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 87 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HANDPRINT Floyd | Floyd | Well, five fingers are there, and there seems to be no doubt that they Floyd | were covered in blood when they were pressed up against the other side Floyd | of the glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x glove" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 88 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | The Sierra Hobbies Gaming Glove is an inky black novelty gaming Floyd | companion for the hurried Games Master. It's full of mnemonics, Floyd | scribbled shortcuts and tables to allow for a smoother (and more Floyd | stylish) game of D&D. No Dungeon Master that takes his craft seriously Floyd | should be without! Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently wearing the gaming glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "Sierra as in Adventure Games Sierra?" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess so." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we use the glove like an encyclopedia then, and look up topics on it?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "read glove" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 88 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the gaming glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Maybe as needed" | |
| DavidW says, "oh well, maybe we auto-read .. exactly." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 89 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 90 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Hmm, this might be a bad idea..." | |
| DavidW asks, "so, we were maneuvered back here to get the glove. What's next?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x shortcuts" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 90 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHORTCUTS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "shortcuts" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 39 / 91 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There's an exit north to the Garbage Hall, or west to Benji's Gaming Floyd | and Role-Playing Emporium. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach asks, "Check out the hall?" | |
| DavidW says, "Let's." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Garbage Hall 39 / 92 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garbage Hall Floyd | Gibs and I enter the long hallway that sits behind a number of stores. Floyd | It's here to allow us to drop off whatever cardboard and trash we Floyd | accumulate during the day for janitorial services. I know from memory Floyd | that there is a door on the east side that opens into a sort of Floyd | mini-lounge for the mallcops, but there isn't enough light to really Floyd | make it out very well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mallcop Lounge 39 / 94 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (opening the second corridor door first) Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | Mallcop Lounge Floyd | The Lounge is far more spacious than the last few areas, and has Floyd | enough room for a couple of couches, a television, a big plant, and a Floyd | water cooler. Floyd | Floyd | On the far side of the room is a door which leads to a long walkway Floyd | (on the other side of which, I think, is the actual Mall Security Floyd | headquarters). Floyd | Floyd | "This isn't what I expected a Mall lounge to look like," says Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "hmm we could get eaten by a grue" | |
| DavidW says, "see if the water cooler was blessed by a saint today." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x cooler" | ||
Floyd ] Mallcop Lounge 39 / 95 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COOLER Floyd | Floyd | The water cooler usually holds a few gallons of water, but it's Floyd | currently empty. Busting up urchins all day makes a man Floyd | thirsty, narmean? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | smartgenes says, "we didn't have to get the cup from part2 i hope" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Mallcop Lounge 39 / 96 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | It's just a generic pink pot that can store green vegetation and Floyd | wildlife. It's about half a foot in diameter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go west to the garbage hall or north to Floyd | the mall back hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "inventory doesn't transfer between chapters, afaik." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x television" | ||
Floyd ] Mallcop Lounge 39 / 97 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TELEVISION Floyd | Floyd | The TV is 19" in size or thereabouts, quite small, really. It doesn't Floyd | work due to the lack of power in this section of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "search couches" | ||
Floyd ] Mallcop Lounge 39 / 97 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH COUCHES Floyd | Floyd | I don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 39 / 99 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (opening the lounge door first) Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | Mall Back Hallway Floyd | This hallway is strangely shaped, and I am unable to make out Floyd | everything within it. On the far side of the hall is a door that leads Floyd | to the Security Room, but I can only barely make it out from here. The Floyd | only real items in the room are a pair of doors and a large Floyd | garden-variety plant in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | There is no transparent moon roof or anything in this room, so Gibs Floyd | sticks his lacrosse stick up against the door so that we get light Floyd | from the Lounge. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you think Trott got into the Security Room?" asks Gibs. "Do you Floyd | think he made it this far?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 39 / 100 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | It's comprised of a large potted base filled with soil, and a leafy, Floyd | oversized garden plant of some unknown (to me, anyway) variety. Floyd | Floyd | Taking a closer look at the plant reveals a zombie hiding behind it! Floyd | Floyd | "What the fuck is that?" says Gibs. "Jesus -- look out, Duffy!" Gibs Floyd | rips the lacrosse stick from the doorjamb. The resident light Floyd | disappears as the door closes and locks with a click and I can only Floyd | make out a quick glance of the creature before us before we're Floyd | enveloped in complete darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs takes a roundhouse swing at the creature with his stick. He Floyd | doesn't connect, though. The creature emits a hoarse groan. I can hear Floyd | it shuffling closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 39 / 101 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | It's comprised of a large potted base filled with soil, and a leafy, Floyd | oversized garden plant of some unknown (to me, anyway) variety. Floyd | Floyd | "Get me some goddamn light!" shouts Gibs. I hear him struggle a bit Floyd | more. "Hit this fucking thing!" I hear Gibs begin to gurgle and choke. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs's lacrosse stick falls to the floor -- Gibs never managed to get Floyd | a shot at the creature with it. Floyd | Floyd | Waves of stench emit from the creature; it's some sort of dead fish Floyd | and carrion stink that forms a nigh palpable cloud in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 39 / 102 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There are exits to the north and south from here. Floyd | Floyd | The creature screams deeply and Gibs's arms flail about, knocking me Floyd | to the side. I make out Gibs slumping to the ground as he's let go. Floyd | The thing turns with sudden quickness before beginning to shamble Floyd | towards me with arms outstretched and awkwardly groping for me... Floyd | Floyd | The creature attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "sorry" | |
| jenrexrode says, "but the cooler is empty" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "hit creature with holder" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CREATURE WITH HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | The crystal ball holder is broken and useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "can we find the stick?" | |
| Zach says, "blurgh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think you need to use the stick." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "take stick" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 39 / 103 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The creature attacks, but misses me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "hit creature with stick" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 104 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CREATURE WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | I clobber the creature with Gibs's lacrosse stick. Floyd | Floyd | "And then I kicked him in the head till he was dead!" I say, Floyd | quoting Baldur's Gate. Floyd | Floyd | The creature collapses and falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs slowly staggers up, gently feeling his throat. "Ooof... guess you Floyd | got him. Thanks, man," he says. Floyd | Floyd | "You bet," I say. "You OK?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah... my throat's a bit sore, but I'll be all right." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 105 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | I have a light wound. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "interesting reference, but we didn't kick, we hockeyed" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess zombies can take normal damage, then." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 106 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The security room door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cure light wounds" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 106 Floyd | > Floyd | > CURE LIGHT WOUNDS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "cure" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The security room door is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOCK Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "hit door with stick" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT DOOR WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | I can't really fight that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pick lock" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > PICK LOCK Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 108 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), some socks, the crystal ball Floyd | holder (broken), the Magic: The Gathering cards, the gaming glove Floyd | (being worn), and Gibs's lacrosse stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "read glove" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 108 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the gaming glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "why not?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "hit lock" | jenrexrode says, "i guess it gives us knowledge freely as we need it." | |
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 108 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT LOCK Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 109 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The security room door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 110 Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | After a brief pause, I hear a "klitch!" sound come from the Security Floyd | Room door, around where the lock is located. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "lol" | |
| smartgenes says, "nspiration" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "nice" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 54 / 111 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Room Floyd | We open the door and see Trott bolt right up from his chair. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, geez... thank Christ it's you guys. Wait, did you get past that Floyd | -- " Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, we did," I say. "I think we killed it." Floyd | Floyd | I take a look around the room. There's a big console against the west Floyd | wall which controls the gates, electricity and breakers for all the Floyd | shops in the Mall. I imagine that Trott has been trying to get it Floyd | operational for sometime now. Floyd | Trott is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What were you doing in here? Taking a nap, you Floyd | testicle?" Floyd | (2) "The mallcop got turned into a zombie. What I can't figure out is Floyd | why you weren't." Floyd | (3) "How did you get past that thing?" Floyd | (4) "Hey... did you know that was us?" Floyd | (5) "Hey, the lounge door got locked. Can you unlock it?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | smartgenes asks, "which?" | |
| Zach asks, "3?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 113 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it took a chunk out of me." Trott lifts his shirt up to show Floyd | some deep claw marks just below his rib cage. "I first saw it when I Floyd | went through the door to our back room. I was able to get back, and it Floyd | started groping at the window every few seconds. I timed it, opened Floyd | the door, and just bolted back here. I sure had no idea where it was Floyd | or if it had followed me... looks like it was just on the other side Floyd | of this freaking door!" Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What were you doing in here? Taking a nap, you Floyd | testicle?" Floyd | (2) "The mallcop got turned into a zombie. What I can't figure out is Floyd | why you weren't." Floyd | (3) "Hey... did you know that was us?" Floyd | (4) "Hey, the lounge door got locked. Can you unlock it?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 114 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "What do you mean, 'turned into a zombie?' That guy was a nobody. Just Floyd | some schmuck who was as bad at his job as anyone else in this dump. Floyd | We're all mindless zombies in here." Floyd | Floyd | "No, not like that," I say. "Whatever summoning Audrey was trying Floyd | ended up working. Her friend Sydney is possessed by someone. That Floyd | someone stated that we'd find the Mall governed by the undead rules. I Floyd | guess it's turning the Mall denizens into the undead." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What were you doing in here? Taking a nap, you Floyd | testicle?" Floyd | (2) "Hey... did you know that was us?" Floyd | (3) "Hey, the lounge door got locked. Can you unlock it?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | Zach asks, "So, was that guy in the video store really just a crackhead after all?" | |
| DavidW says, "This'd be easier if we could look at our character sheet." | ||
| DavidW says, "and yeah, the door locked itself at the start of the battle." | ||
| DavidW goes home. | ||
| DavidW has disconnected. | ||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 115 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, one sec," says Trott. He makes flips a switch on the console. Floyd | "Should be all set," he says. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What were you doing in here? Taking a nap, you Floyd | testicle?" Floyd | (2) "Hey... did you know that was us?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "sorry, lost 'net access there." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 116 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "When?" Floyd | Floyd | "When we were fighting that freaking thing," I say. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh. No," says Trott. "I heard the fighting but I guessed that it was Floyd | another creature or something. I was hoping that you'd all take each Floyd | other out, like when imps start fighting each other in Doom." Floyd | Floyd | "In what?" Floyd | Floyd | "Doom. The game, Doom? Don't tell me you don't know Floyd | what Doom is. Oh dear. Ohhh, dear." Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, I don't give you crap for not knowing what Man Down Defense is," Floyd | I say, trying to use sports knowledge against Trott. Floyd | Floyd | Trott stops for a beat and calmly says, "That probably didn't come off Floyd | quite as scathing as you thought it would have." Unfortunately, he's Floyd | right. Damn 'im. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What were you doing in here? Taking a nap, you Floyd | testicle?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "and I missed stuff, it seems." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 117 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "What? No," says Trott. "I've been here -- what do you mean, a Floyd | 'testicle'? Cripes, I -- " Floyd | Floyd | "I'm just kidding around. Would you have preferred 'gonad'? What did Floyd | you do when the lights went out?" Floyd | Floyd | "I was in the back room when the lights went out. I heard the Floyd | auto-kick-in for the gate... kick in, so I went out and verified that Floyd | the thing was locked and that it wouldn't open from the inside. What Floyd | happened anyway?" Floyd | Floyd | "Duffy interrupted his girlfriend's seance," says Barnaby. Floyd | Floyd | "It wasn't a seance," I say. Floyd | Floyd | "I know. I just wanted to see if you'd be able to resist Floyd | anal-retentively correcting me." Floyd | Floyd | Trott waits a bit before he says anything further. He doesn't like Floyd | Gibs much. Floyd | Floyd | "Anyways," says Trott, "The only way to get out is to get the mallcops Floyd | to let me out. I made my way back through the first door when I saw Floyd | that thing. It took a chunk out of my side, but I eventually got by Floyd | it, ran in here and locked the door. What was that? It wasn't a bot. Floyd | It was wearing the clothes of one of the security guys who works at Floyd | the Mall. But what happened to him?" Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Do you know how to work the console?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | smartgenes asks, "why is it normal in this world to have bots?" | |
| Zach says, "Yes, I very much prefer 'gonad'" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "are we stuck in a MUD?" | ||
| Zach says (to smartgenes), "I assume it's something from Fallacy of Dawn" | ||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | smartgenes asks, "what is Fallacy of Dawn?" | |
| Johnny says, "An IF game." | ||
| DavidW says, "another game in the New Haz series." | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 118 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I think so," he says. "Much of it was damaged before I got here, but Floyd | I can turn on power and raise the gates to some of the individual Floyd | stores." Floyd | Floyd | "Can you raise the gate to the Sporting Goods store?" Floyd | Floyd | "Ummm," Trott says, as he looks over the console, "Yeah. That one I Floyd | can turn on. Do you want it on now or later?" Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Later... the girls are out there alone." Floyd | (2) "Now is good, it's probably safe." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | smartgenes says, "hmm" | |
| smartgenes says, "DavidW is good at these types of decisions" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm?" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "save and try 2?" | ||
| Zach says, "I think we should. Might as well to open up more rooms." | ||
| Zach says, "People are always reckless in horror movies" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i'm reckless in real life" | ||
| DavidW says, "2, I think. We could use more weapons." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "lots of blunt object" | ||
| Johnny says (to jen), "No more skeletons." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||
Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > CF6 Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "0" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 119 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 0 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I decide not to say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||
Floyd | > SAVESaved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Later... the girls are out there alone." Floyd | (2) "Now is good, it's probably safe." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 120 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Okay... " Trott flips a few switches on the console. "It's up." Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks." Floyd | Floyd | "OK, before you go, why don't you take this phone? The Mall only pays Floyd | for it to work as a CB radio for the mallcops, but if you need more Floyd | gates raised, just let me know through it." Floyd | Floyd | "All right, sounds like a plan," I say. "I'll try to keep you posted Floyd | as to what is going on out there." Floyd | Floyd | > | Zach says, "Cue badass music" | |
| smartgenes asks, "somebody want to drive?" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "i can" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Security Room 59 / 121 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go south to the mall back hallway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 59 / 122 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall Back Hallway Floyd | This is an oddly-shaped hallway that connects the Lounge with the Floyd | Security Room. There are doors that lead to both rooms. Floyd | There is a potted plant here. Floyd | The creature is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "oh no" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x creature" | ||
Floyd ] Mall Back Hallway 59 / 123 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CREATURE Floyd | Floyd | The thing's face features a dramatic gaping burn wound on the Floyd | forehead, presidentially presiding over a quick voting bloc consisting Floyd | of two or three jagged teeth. It's wearing some tattered mallcop Floyd | clothes, but my expert opinion is that the creature is in fact a Floyd | zombie. Floyd | Floyd | It is currently knocked out. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "hmm i thought it was back again as well" | |
| DavidW says, "shame it didn't say The creature (that we knocked out) is here (still knocked out)." | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mallcop Lounge 59 / 124 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mallcop Lounge Floyd | The Lounge is a largish, open room with a high ceiling. There are a Floyd | couple of old couches here, along with a television, water cooler and Floyd | plant life of unknown make and origin. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead north and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Garbage Hall 59 / 125 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garbage Hall Floyd | This is a long hallway that sits behind a number of stores. The store Floyd | owners and workers put their trash in this hallway for janitorial Floyd | services. There is a door to the security lounge to the east and a Floyd | door to the back office of Benji's store to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Back Office 59 / 126 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Office Floyd | The back office is a cramped and tight little room with shelves on Floyd | both sides. Floyd | Floyd | There are two exits, one back to the store and one that leads to the Floyd | garbage hall (and eventually, beyond that, to the security area). Floyd | Sitting on the shelves is a cardboard box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go west to Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Floyd | Emporium or north to the garbage hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium 59 / 127 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Benji's Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium Floyd | My store is covered in darkness and shadows, giving it a far more Floyd | foreboding look than it's otherwise ever had. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of the Mall is to the north. The door to the back room leads Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eastern End of the Mall 59 / 128 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern End of the Mall Floyd | This is far east as the Mall goes. The Mall technically dips a bit as Floyd | one goes west, as it was originally constructed upon a landfill. Floyd | There's a three-sided advertising kiosk in the middle of the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Beads Store, Sporting Good Outlet and the (closed) Floyd | Arcade. Floyd | Floyd | My store, the Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium, is to the south. Floyd | Audrey and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, Dungeon Master," says Audrey. "Did you find Trott?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah. He's back operating the security console for us." Huh. 'DM,' Floyd | she said. She normally only calls me that when she's in a good mood Floyd | about our chances. Floyd | Floyd | "He didn't want to come with you?" she asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe he would have, but he'll be able to open the gates we want if I Floyd | contact him through this," I show her the phone. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you guys try the gate at the Sporting Good store already?" asks Floyd | Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | "No, not yet," says Audrey. "We just got bored waiting for you, so we Floyd | headed over this way." Floyd | Floyd | "Also," says Casey, "We went over to where the escalator was. You Floyd | wouldn't believe how foul it smells over there!" Floyd | Floyd | "How bad is it? My previous high score in this department is my Floyd | roommate Pang's custom Dance Dance Revolution pad that he Floyd | keeps downstairs and only uses with bare feet in some bizarro-logic Floyd | attempt to keep it 'nice.' I mean, is it worse than -- " Floyd | Floyd | "It's worse," Audrey says softly, her eyes closed in the pain of the Floyd | persistence of this memory, "Much, much worse." Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode reads | |
| Zach says, "I wonder if Trott will turn into a zombie." | ||
| Zach says, "I don't think that's a thing in D&D" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "i think so" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "hm" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i wondered if he is already possessed" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "well undead rules" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, we did zombie already. Trott will be something else later." | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Eastern End of the Mall 59 / 129 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern End of the Mall Floyd | This is far east as the Mall goes. The Mall technically dips a bit as Floyd | one goes west, as it was originally constructed upon a landfill. Floyd | There's a three-sided advertising kiosk in the middle of the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Beads Store, Sporting Good Outlet and the (closed) Floyd | Arcade. Floyd | Floyd | My store, the Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium, is to the south. Floyd | Audrey and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 59 / 130 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side of the Mall Floyd | I'm at the eastern side of the Mall. To the north is Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods. My store is a bit to the east, and the Bead Store a bit to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a table here, set adjacent to the Sporting Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Casey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | "This won't take me a moment to sort out," says Gibs. "I'll be in and Floyd | out like a greased German through the Maginot Line." Floyd | Floyd | "I thought the Germans circumvented around the Maginot Line?" Floyd | I say. Floyd | Floyd | "No. You've got that confused with what they did with the bounds of Floyd | good taste when they collectively invented scheisse porn," Floyd | says Gibs with commanding authority. "Anyway, more importantly, I know Floyd | just where the shotguns would be in this store. Anyone want to come Floyd | with?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'll go," says Audrey. "I'll try to find some helmets and pads and Floyd | such." Floyd | Floyd | "Pads?" This is good. Very good. "Oh, so you were able to trickle a Floyd | puck past the five hole with the Detroit Red Wings after all?" I ask Floyd | Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | "What?" It takes Audrey a moment to translate my intended delicate Floyd | innuendo in her head, but when she does, she's not laughing. "No. I Floyd | meant like shoulder pads and shin guards. For personal defense." She Floyd | pauses for a moment. "What on earth is wrong with you?" Floyd | Floyd | Whoops. "I'll just, ah, stay out here with Casey, then." Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode reads | |
| smartgenes asks, "did we go in the arcade?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, it's always been locked because of the bomb prior to story." | ||
| jenrexrode asks, "so we don't go in?" | ||
| jenrexrode asks, "...to the sporting goods store?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we could." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. It seems not." | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "talk to casey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CASEY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "So... what's new with you?" Floyd | (2) "Hey, you talk to Audrey all the time. Is she going to dump me Floyd | again?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "yeah, talk to casey" | |
| jenrexrode asks, "1?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd've picked 2, but go with instincts." | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 59 / 131 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I broke up with my boyfriend not too long ago," says Casey. "Other Floyd | than that, nothing much." Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, really? What brought that on?" Floyd | Floyd | "He never wanted to go do anything," she says, "But you know what it Floyd | was, really? He would always wear a baseball cap, and wear it so that Floyd | the bill was always right over his eyes. Every time I would try to Floyd | kiss him, I would have to navigate around the thing. Romance shouldn't Floyd | be a frustrating puzzle in three-dimensionality, you know? Sometimes I Floyd | just wanted to get intimate, not play a real-life game of Floyd | Klax." Floyd | Floyd | I don't know what Klax is, so I just nod in agreement. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Hey, you talk to Audrey all the time. Is she going to dump me Floyd | again?" Floyd | (2) "Gibs... I mean, Barnaby, he wears his hat backwards." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | jenrexrode says, "wow, time for klax" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 59 / 132 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "That's definitely a point in his favor. Make sure he gives me his Floyd | number when we get out of here. I'm tired of being either cooped-in on Floyd | the weekend or hanging out at the Bead Store like tonight." Floyd | Floyd | "You seem awfully confident that we are going to get out of here." Floyd | Floyd | "Shouldn't I be? From what Audrey tells me, whatever we resurrected... Floyd | or, I guess, 'surrected' in this case, isn't any match for the geek Floyd | encyclopedia you've got knocking about in that skull of yours." She Floyd | gives me a genuine smile of reassurance and I, to my discredit, don't Floyd | have the heart to tell her that in reality most of the thoughts Floyd | knocking about in my head have to do with how I'm going to get back Floyd | with her best friend. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What does Audrey want from me, then?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "I'm thinking this is classic romance novel ploy, metaphor via second couple." | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 59 / 133 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "You're going to have to ask her that, eventually, Jarret." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes. I know. Eventually." Floyd | Floyd | "What does she want? She wants to be with you, in my opinion, anyway. Floyd | I've seen her with other guys in between the dozen or so times you two Floyd | have broken up. She is always so much happier when she is together Floyd | with you. She just lights up when you enter the room, you know that?" Floyd | Floyd | "I didn't know that." I try to think back the best I can, to try to Floyd | get some sort of visual holographic proof of this, but I just can't. Floyd | Maybe I've just never been paying attention. Floyd | Floyd | "But she wants to see you take the next step, Jarret." Casey turns and Floyd | looks right into my eyes. "She's going to graduate soon. The future is Floyd | coming and everything. I think, ultimately, what she wants to know is Floyd | if you think you have one." Floyd | Floyd | I hear Gibs swear violently from within the Sporting Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | "Jarret!" screams Audrey, "Help!" Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i'm trying to resist the urge to type KISS CASEY" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, our cue on stage just got called." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "there's surely time to KISS CASEY first?" | ||
| DavidW says, "nope" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 59 / 134 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Choad's Sporting Goods Floyd | There is a light blue-skinned, feral beast hunched over towards the Floyd | corner of this store. A ghoul, just as how I'd imagine it. It has Floyd | Audrey backed up against the eastern wall. A row of jacket racks Floyd | separates them from me. Gibs is much closer, and seems to be holding Floyd | the ghoul at bay by slowly darting in and out of its range, and Floyd | preventing it from ripping Audrey apart by giving it another target. Floyd | That won't stop it for long. The only thing preventing the ghoul from Floyd | shredding Audrey is its attempt to work out just how he can Floyd | incapacitate and consume them both. Floyd | There is a circular jacket rack here. Floyd | The ghoul, Audrey, and Gibs are here. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs swears violently. Floyd | Floyd | "Jarret!" screams Audrey, "Help!" Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "pushing the rack doesn't seem like a final move" | |
| DavidW says, "Normal physical attacks still apply for ghouls." | ||
| smartgenes says, "a circular jacket rack" | ||
| DavidW says, "The head might've helped here; ghouls feed on the dead." | ||
| smartgenes says, "apparently its victim can become a ghoul in 1d4 days" | ||
| DavidW says, "Do we have any weapons? I haven't kept track." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "heh, blackberries and walnuts" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 59 / 135 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), some socks, the crystal ball Floyd | holder (broken), the Magic: The Gathering cards, the gaming glove Floyd | (being worn), Gibs's lacrosse stick, and the phone. Floyd | Floyd | The beast is content, for the moment, to look back between his prey Floyd | and his attacker. I know that at any moment it is going to choose one Floyd | of them to attack first. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "they paralyse, so maybe pushing the rack is a good idea?" | |
| DavidW says, "I dunno. Try." | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "push rack" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 59 / 136 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH RACK Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the circular jacket rack doesn't get me anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs attacks the ghoul! Floyd | Floyd | Gibs throws a punch at the thing and connects against its bare jaw. Floyd | Gibs's body begins to seize up. It's the paralysis, I think Floyd | to myself. He's going to be stiff and unable to defend himself in Floyd | another second. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Jacqueline says, "Hope things are going well." | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "hit ghoul with stick" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 59 / 137 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT GHOUL WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | I clobber the ghoul with Gibs's lacrosse stick. Floyd | Floyd | I try to wail like a banshee: "ooOOooOOOO!" Floyd | Floyd | The ghoul attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're under attack, actually." | |
| smartgenes asks, "can we use this glove?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Shame we don't have any clerics." | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x glove" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 59 / 138 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | The Sierra Hobbies Gaming Glove is an inky black novelty gaming Floyd | companion for the hurried Games Master. It's full of mnemonics, Floyd | scribbled shortcuts and tables to allow for a smoother (and more Floyd | stylish) game of D&D. No Dungeon Master that takes his craft seriously Floyd | should be without! Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently wearing the gaming glove. Floyd | Floyd | The ghoul attacks, but misses me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take rack" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 59 / 139 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE RACK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The ghoul attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "hit ghoul with rack" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT GHOUL WITH RACK Floyd | Floyd | That object cannot be used in melee combat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "throw rack at ghoul" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 140 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW RACK AT GHOUL Floyd | Floyd | I hit the ghoul with the circular jacket rack. Floyd | Floyd | (The circular jacket rack breaks as a result.) Floyd | Floyd | I hear a grotesque snapping sound coming from the thing. I completely Floyd | flattened it on that last one! Floyd | Floyd | I walk over to Audrey. She's shivering. Floyd | Floyd | "Are you OK?" She nods. "Where did your coat go?" She doesn't say. She Floyd | shakes her head and melts into my arms. I hold her, hug her and bring Floyd | her as close as I can. Her face is buried within my chest and I Floyd | scratch the back of her head and feel her close-cropped hair on her Floyd | neck flick through my fingers. I had no idea if I'd ever feel that Floyd | again, or feel her body, alive and whole, this close to mine. "I'll Floyd | keep you warm," I say with a whisper. Floyd | Floyd | Casey enters from the entrance to the south. "Ugh," she says, after Floyd | spotting what's left of the ghoul. "What on earth did you do to that Floyd | thing?" Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "hmm" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "taalk to casey" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 140
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Weird that hit ghoul with rack fails but throw rack at ghoul works." | |
Floyd | > TAALK TO CASEY Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "taalk" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "talk to casey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CASEY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "I buried it." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 141 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "What was it?" asks Casey. Floyd | Floyd | "It was a ghoul." Floyd | Floyd | "So, so far, a skeleton, zombie and ghoul... " Casey drifts off and Floyd | leaves that bit hanging in the air. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah. So far, just as the demon that possessed Sydney claimed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "talk to casey" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 142 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CASEY Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "I'm with you now. My preeeeecioussss..." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "Ghast next, I guess." | |
| jenrexrode says, "haha, noooo" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 143 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I say it just like Gollum from the The Lord of the Rings Floyd | talking about the precious of his very own. I don't say it at first, I Floyd | don't say it right away... but I say it and she knows what I mean by Floyd | it. Her body shakes with a quick, stifled bit of laughter. I'm so glad Floyd | she's here with me that it doesn't even occur to me that it must be Floyd | killing Gibs to not be able to tell us just how bop we are Floyd | for each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kiss audrey" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 144 Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | It's not a real good time for that right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "bop?" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 145 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Choad's Sporting Goods Floyd | Choad's Sporting Goods exists under the unfortunate circumstance that Floyd | the owner's name translates into Bengali as 'fuck.' Once or twice a Floyd | year there will be a demonstration or protest from a bunch of local Floyd | student Hindus, but nothing ever changes. Floyd | Floyd | The store is one of the larger ones in the Mall, about 40' wide and Floyd | 140' long. Ski jackets take up almost all the area towards the front Floyd | of the store, as far as I can see, with the entire western wall filled Floyd | with displays of discount tennis sneakers. Floyd | Floyd | There doesn't seem to be any rifles or shotguns for sale. (It appears Floyd | as if Gibs's intuition was incorrect.) Floyd | There is a circular jacket rack here. Floyd | The ghoul, Audrey, Gibs, and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of fun and funk. | jenrexrode says, "hehe bengali" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 145 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET JACKET Floyd | Floyd | Which jacket do you mean, the circular jacket rack or the ski jackets? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Ghasts seem to be similar to ghouls except they really reek and cold iron does double damage to them." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ski" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 74 / 146 Floyd | > Floyd | > SKI Floyd | Floyd | They are essentially permanently part of the circular jacket rack. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "and the escalator really stinks" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 74 / 147 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | "Can you watch Gibs for a bit?" I ask Casey. Floyd | Floyd | "It won't be a problem," she says. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey goes up to him, still in his frozen state, and gives him a kiss Floyd | on the cheek. "Have a good thaw," she says. Floyd | Floyd | I take her hand and put it in mine and together we leave the Sporting Floyd | Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | East Side of the Mall Floyd | I'm at the eastern side of the Mall. To the north is Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods. My store is a bit to the east, and the Bead Store a bit to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a table here, set adjacent to the Sporting Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey pulls on my hand, to begin to drag me towards the far side of Floyd | the Mall. "Jarret, let's go this way," she says. "The elevator is on Floyd | the over this way. I think I know how we can get to it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh good. The plot is leading us." | |
| DavidW says, "always a good sign." | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "follow audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLLOW AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Audrey is right here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go west to the beginning of the east wing, Floyd | east to the eastern end of the mall, or north to Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "lol i knew it was gonna say that" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Eastern End of the Mall 74 / 148 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern End of the Mall Floyd | This is far east as the Mall goes. The Mall technically dips a bit as Floyd | one goes west, as it was originally constructed upon a landfill. Floyd | There's a three-sided advertising kiosk in the middle of the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Beads Store, Sporting Good Outlet and the (closed) Floyd | Arcade. Floyd | Floyd | My store, the Gaming and Role-Playing Emporium, is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But we're gonna have to get much better weapons and defenses to survive this mall." | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 74 / 149 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side of the Mall Floyd | I'm at the eastern side of the Mall. To the north is Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods. My store is a bit to the east, and the Bead Store a bit to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a table here, set adjacent to the Sporting Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "WEAR CLOTHES PEG ON NOSE" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 74 / 150 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Wasn't the elevator west?" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 74 / 150 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Elevator Floyd | The floor of the Mall comes up against a rail, forming a barrier which Floyd | prevents further (sane) western travel. The bottom (ground floor) Floyd | level can be viewed with ease, though, as the guardrail mainly Floyd | prevents kids -- future productive Mall denizens! -- from ragdolling Floyd | their way off the edge. Floyd | Floyd | There is a horrific stench in this area. It's new, too -- the guy who Floyd | used to take the surveys always kept himself cheerfully clean. Floyd | There is a kiosk in the center of the hallway. At the far end of the Floyd | rail is an elevator. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey quietly points over to the kiosk and whispers right into my Floyd | ear. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you see that? Do you see the wraith?" Floyd | Floyd | I squint. The lighting is so dark... I don't see it. I adjust my Floyd | glasses and still nothing. I shake my head in the negative. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey takes my hand in hers and we duck into the Jewelry Store... | smartgenes says, "not a Ghast, but a wraith" | |
| jenrexrode asks, "great, she wants to look at rings... now?" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 74 / 151 Floyd | Audrey takes my hand in hers and we duck into the Jewelry Store... Floyd | Jewelry Store Floyd | We both press ourselves flat up against the wall of the Jewelry Store. Floyd | Floyd | "How are we to get past the wraith, Jarret?" Her eyes dart down and to Floyd | the side as she tries to remember if she ever encountered one in a Floyd | role playing game. "... I can't remember," she says. Floyd | Floyd | "Sunlight, and I don't know how long until that will show up." I say. Floyd | Was there really a wraith there? Outside the store? I didn't see a Floyd | thing. It is colder down this way than it was in the rest of the Mall, Floyd | though. "Yeah. Sunlight is the only thing I'm 100% positive on, maybe Floyd | there are others." I strain to try to remember, but I haven't used a Floyd | 'wraith' character in any games that I've played in a very long time. Floyd | I'm certain there are other ways... I just can't recall. Floyd | Sitting on the tabletop is a pleather purse. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We need silver weapons to hurt wraiths." | |
| DavidW says, "Or sunlight, yeah." | ||
| smartgenes says, "wrait has deadly toch" | ||
| smartgenes says, "touch" | ||
| DavidW says, "We should be able to find silver in a jewelry store." | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take purse" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 74 / 152 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PURSE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open purse" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 74 / 153 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN PURSE Floyd | Floyd | The pleather purse is already open. Floyd | Floyd | A bit of smoke and haze begins to form against the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "search purse" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 74 / 154 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PURSE Floyd | Floyd | Inside the pleather purse is the silver comb. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey looks over to the east wall. "What do you think... what is Floyd | that, Jarret?" she whispers. Floyd | Floyd | I can't quite tell at first, but as the haze beings to form more Floyd | familiar shapes, it starts to dawn on me. Floyd | Floyd | "It's a vision," I tell her. Floyd | Floyd | Displayed on the west wall of the Jewelry Store is a scene. I can make Floyd | out Gibs and Audrey clearly... there seems to be one or two other Floyd | figures moving in the background. Floyd | Floyd | "That's a scene from that tournament we went to, isn't it?" asks Floyd | Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "comb wraith" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 74 / 154 Floyd | > Floyd | > COMB WRAITH Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "any humanoid slain by a wraith becomes a wight in 1d4 rounds" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take comb" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 79 / 155 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE COMB Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Ooh, silvery! Floyd | Floyd | Audrey continues to look at the vision. The scene takes on a greater Floyd | contrast, with muted blues smeared together in fog with darker earth Floyd | colors. Floyd | Floyd | "Why... what's up with Gibs giving you a thumbs-up sign? This vision Floyd | takes place from your perspective, doesn't it?" Floyd | Floyd | "I just made what was my sixth straight saving throw. He gave me a Floyd | thumbs-up because I was using loaded dice." Floyd | Floyd | "What?!" says Audrey, and then instantly brings her voice down a Floyd | couple levels due to the wraith. "What the hell do you mean, you were Floyd | using loaded dice?" Floyd | Floyd | "I ordered some red 20 sided dice before the tourney over the Floyd | Internet. They were weighted to give out mostly 18s, 19s and 20s. Floyd | What? What's the big deal? That was years ago!" Floyd | Floyd | "Ssh!" Audrey puts her hand over my mouth. "The big deal is that the Floyd | Tourney is where we met! Do you think I would want to go out with you Floyd | if you were cheating everybody in the room?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh come on, don't start this bullshit. It wasn't like I was at Floyd | DragonCon or something. Christ!" Floyd | Floyd | "No. You weren't. You were cheating your friends. That makes it worse, Floyd | you know." Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "the answer should have been COMB WRAITH, that would have been great" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x vision" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 79 / 155 Floyd | > Floyd | > X VISION Floyd | Floyd | I haven't seen anybody like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "is this game auto-biographical?" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Oh, what does it matter if I cheated at the tourney?" Floyd | (2) "C'mon, you have to admit it's pretty funny." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, ">explain that we were Kirk beating the Koryashi Maru scenario" | |
| jenrexrode says, "hah" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 79 / 157 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, it's hilarious, all right," says Audrey. "You know me. There's Floyd | nothing I find funnier than stories of the guy that I've been with for Floyd | the last five years ripping off everyone I know like a unconscionable Floyd | rogue at a lawless bazaar." Floyd | Floyd | "The Wizards of the Coast were going to give that to me anyway. The Floyd | dice didn't really change anything, other than the fact that I made a Floyd | few extra saving throws and got a few extra hits in. You have to Floyd | appreciate the return on the investment, at least." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, sure. You're a regular Gordon Gecko," says Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | "I can't believe you're comparing me to white collar criminals." Floyd | Floyd | "I can't believe you essentially commit white collar crime." Audrey Floyd | shrugs her shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | The ether(?) that makes up the vision dissipates completely and it Floyd | completely disappears. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey sits herself up against the east wall of the store. Floyd | Floyd | "So you found a comb, I see," says Audrey. "Maybe you can do something Floyd | with that mound of straight hay on top of your head with it." She Floyd | gives me a smile after she says that to let me know it was said with Floyd | affection. Floyd | Floyd | "It's a silver comb," I tell her. "I'm sure it's quite valuable." Floyd | Floyd | "Isn't silver a type of bane to wraiths?" asks Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | I try to bring up the memory of what affects wraiths from the back of Floyd | my mind, but my memory is hardly photographic. "I think you're right," Floyd | I say to her. "I think it works against a lot of undead. A little Floyd | trinket like this might just scare it off, but that's a big maybe. I Floyd | don't really want to throw the comb and find out." Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | I took a look over towards the wall that Audrey is leaning up against. Floyd | The shadow that she should be throwing is nowhere near the one that is Floyd | present. Floyd | Floyd | "Audrey," I whisper, "Do not move. You're not casting a proper shadow. Floyd | I -- " Floyd | Floyd | "What?" she asks. She moves away from the wall, and sure enough, the Floyd | light that she should be blocking is completely inconsistent with Floyd | what's there. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh" | |
| smartgenes asks, "throw now?" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "but he doesn't want to throw it" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "show comb to wraith" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 79 / 158 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW COMB TO WRAITH Floyd | Floyd | Showing the silver comb to wraith doesn't accomplish a whole lot. Floyd | Floyd | The shadow jumps from the wall! Floyd | Floyd | The shadow points a long, tapered finger onto Audrey's neck. She Floyd | freezes up as it sucks the strength from her body. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And lose the comb? I don't think so." | |
| DavidW says, "ack, shadow!" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "hit shadow with comb" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT SHADOW WITH COMB Floyd | Floyd | I clobber the shadow with the silver comb. Floyd | Floyd | "Who else wants a piece of the pain pie?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | Upon coming in contact with the silver, the shadow halts in place and Floyd | disintegrates -- it falls to the floor in a little pile of soot-like Floyd | dust. I get down and blow it away in order to properly scatter it into Floyd | nothingness. Floyd | Floyd | I walk over towards Audrey. She's shivering. "You OK, doll?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," says Audrey, quietly. "It's just so cold in here. I'm sorry. I Floyd | don't mean to complain." Floyd | Floyd | I embrace her for a few moments and rub my hands over her bare Floyd | shoulders. "I'll keep you warm..." She nods. "Silver definitely worked Floyd | on the shadow," I muse. "It used up the comb, however. But the same Floyd | thing'll work on the wraith. We just need to find more of it. The Floyd | girls that work here (presuming that they didn't rip the place off Floyd | blind before calling it a night) keep all the jewelry locked up in the Floyd | safebox." I point over towards the big locker-style cabinet against Floyd | the western wall of the store. "If we can get the temperature in here Floyd | to be significantly colder, I'm betting that lock will pop." Floyd | Floyd | "How do we do that?" asks Audrey. She looks over towards the wraith. Floyd | "Oh, no. You don't mean -- " Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," I say quietly. "Let's get the wraith in here." Floyd | Floyd | "Jarret, no! You can't be serious!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison logs on just to see that the game hasn't crashed horribly and is relieved that doesn't seem to be the case. | |
| smartgenes says, "but we can't get close to it as it has crazy touch" | ||
| smartgenes says, "ah well we did anyway" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Ellison,), "oh it did" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "we had to restart" | ||
| Ellison says, "aw, sorry, guys" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "and haven't saved in ages..." | ||
| DavidW says, "That was a bug in the game, not a crash." | ||
| smartgenes says, "that's ok thogh as i was able to rejoin where it was when i left" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "oh, I don't know the difference." | ||
| 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. | jenrexrode asks, "should we save?" | |
| DavidW says, "A crash is when the game halts and ends unexpectedly." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "why not?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure save." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "i don't know how" | ||
| smartgenes says, "there was a magazine Crash! for the ZX Spectrum" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd | > SAVESaved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | There isn't an exit in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | There's an exit south into the long corridor of the top level of the Floyd | Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | says, "It's 'push save' in the toyshop, not to Floyd." | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 159 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | "Jarret, no!" whispers Audrey. "It's not safe, not with the wraith Floyd | still out there!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Audrey... trust me on this. Please." Floyd | (2) "What options do you have for this?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | Ellison says, "well, some of the bugs might be my fault, too. I changed the game's behavior on several things (granted, I know I fixed at least a couple of things)." | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 160 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Jarret! I don't want that thing in here!" Floyd | Floyd | "Audrey, you know that I will not let it touch you. There's a lock Floyd | just like this one in my store, and it's made of ridiculously poor Floyd | components. Everyone involved in owning a store in this Mall is Floyd | incredibly cheap and only worried about the bottom line and how much Floyd | money they can squeeze out of their customers. I will guarantee you Floyd | that as soon as the temperature is brought down a few degrees Celsius Floyd | that lock is coming off like a prom dress. A lock of this type busted Floyd | earlier today at my store when Gibs placed his iced soft drink next to Floyd | it." Floyd | Floyd | "Okay..." she says. She kisses me for entirely too brief a time and Floyd | looks right into my eyes. "I trust you." Floyd | Floyd | I suddenly feel like I can do anything. One scream and the wraith will Floyd | make its way over here. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says (to Ellison), "it was a place where someone was supposed to ask us a question, and it didn't until we replayed. Zach played in a Hugo somethingsomehting" | |
| DavidW says, "ah, we can scream instead of playing shepherd's dog." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "wasn't it her idea to bring the wraith in?" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "oh, I didn't know it was the big gulp breaking the lock." | ||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||
| DavidW says, "(to smartgenes)" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 161 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCREAM Floyd | Floyd | I scream like a housewife in a 50s sitcom coming across a mouse. Like Floyd | an English siren during the blitz. (Like Lorraine Williams surrounded Floyd | by a bunch of pen & paper gamers, even.) And it works. The wraith Floyd | turns round and passes right through the kiosk. It slowly begins to Floyd | come near us. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "break lock" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK LOCK Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 162 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | I can't open it on my own. The lock, while not incredibly sturdy and Floyd | powerful, is still more than I can crack on my own. Floyd | Floyd | I hear a voice, strangely disembodied, but one I instinctively know is Floyd | coming from the wraith. Floyd | Floyd | "oh delightful maiden this will be a wonderful meeting will it not and Floyd | you seem oh so achingly warm and tight and I really only want to get Floyd | close to you for only a moment do not you see how wonderful oh how Floyd | wonderful that will be my darling..." Floyd | Floyd | The wraith never really stops its sending, but instead meanders about Floyd | a couple different themes. What he's going to do to my girlfriend Floyd | being one of them. (With all the guys who have tried to steal my Floyd | girlfriend over the years, I finally feel I am on somewhat familiar Floyd | territory.) Floyd | Floyd | The wraith glides a bit closer to the entrance of the Jewelry Store. Floyd | It is already several degrees colder in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I know some of the chapter 3 daemons don't start until you talk to this or that character, but yeah, I'll have to check the recap and look into it." | |
| jenrexrode says, "break lock with inventory" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, we didn't try talking to Gibs until too late." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I can't remember what we have in inventory. Purse, drink, postcard, what else?" | ||
| jenrexrode asks, "used up comb?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "socks" | ||
| DavidW says, "and glove" | ||
| smartgenes says, "glasses (worn)" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "do we have broen stand as well?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is the lacrosse stick still with us?" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "lacrosse sticj" | ||
| smartgenes says, "broken" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet with stick" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 162 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CABINET WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break cabinet with stick" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK CABINET WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | I can't really fight that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit cabinet with stick" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CABINET WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | I can't really fight that. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "hmm thats what i thought as well DavidQ" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break lock with stick" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 163 Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK LOCK WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | The lock is especially designed to be impervious to any and all brute Floyd | attacks. Floyd | Floyd | The wraith glides further; it's now within the Jewelry Store, but Floyd | still a fair ways away from Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | The lock to the safebox pops. Floyd | Floyd | It continues its raving, more in my head than not: Floyd | Floyd | "your death will be so pleasing my love I promise that getting there Floyd | will be quick and painless I am the only one you can trust you know I Floyd | will always be there for you and never leave your side you and I there Floyd | isn't a thing that we wouldn't be able to do together my lovely witch Floyd | princess all it takes is for you to just sit still that is it just Floyd | another few moments and I will be there and we will be together so Floyd | wonderfully so wonderfully it will be so wonderful... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 163 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM CABINET Floyd | Floyd | Nothing to take. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "need to open, i think" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from safebox" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 163 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM SAFEBOX Floyd | Floyd | Nothing to take. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 164 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | The safebox is closed. Floyd | Floyd | The wraith sends another meandering rhyme to me... Floyd | Floyd | "let me tell you of our wonderful death my darling," mentally Floyd | continues the wraith, "you cannot begin to imagine the wonders that we Floyd | will see together everything you could ever want everything that has Floyd | been out of your reach well it is not out of mine it is not out of Floyd | ours let me ask you this my darling a simple question take all the Floyd | time in the world just answer me truthfully... have you ever wanted to Floyd | fly?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open safebox" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 165 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SAFEBOX Floyd | Floyd | Done -- it's open. Floyd | Inside the safebox are the handful of silver rings. Floyd | Floyd | The wraith inches closer to Audrey... Floyd | Floyd | Amazingly (to me at least) I see Audrey enraptured by the wraith and Floyd | she actually nods her head a little in response to its question. It Floyd | takes all my self-control to not attack the fucking nothing Floyd | with my bare hands. Floyd | Floyd | "of course you have there is no shame in admitting such a thing let me Floyd | tell you my darling just how wondrous it is to float above this city Floyd | this world this plane with nothing holding you down and nothing Floyd | keeping you from doing what you want to do being who you wish to be Floyd | you will see oh how you will see it will not be long now my darling Floyd | just hold yourself I will be there and we will be together..." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "arg" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear rings" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR RINGS Floyd | Floyd | I can't wear the handful of silver rings. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "wear rings after taking?" | |
| DavidW asks, "throw rings at wraith?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get rings" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 87 / 166 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET RINGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The wraith moves until he is directly in front of Audrey. I won't have Floyd | much time now. Floyd | Floyd | "hold still my darling this is so much easier when you just stay there Floyd | so beautifully within my own view..." Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "ring ring wraith with rings?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think we have to throw the rings at it." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "throw em, I guess" | ||
| DavidW says, "If we can't wear 'em." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rings at wraith" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 112 / 167 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW RINGS AT WRAITH Floyd | Floyd | I hit the wraith with the handful of silver rings. Floyd | Floyd | Upon coming in contact with the charms, the wraith immediately Floyd | atomizes, taking the silver with him into oblivion. Floyd | Floyd | "That was my Treasure Type you were fucking with, creep!" I Floyd | say it even though the wraith is completely blinked out of existence. Floyd | It takes me a fair trice to realize that thing is truly gone. "Let's Floyd | get out of here," I say to Audrey. "Unless you want to get to work on Floyd | raising the temperature of the room with a little bit of body heat." Floyd | Floyd | To my surprise, she looks back at me with nothing but love. "If I Floyd | thought it could be done," she says, "without it becoming a menage a Floyd | trois with a lurking horror, or a four-way with an undead ettin... you Floyd | know I would." (An ettin is a two-headed beastie in D&D, which elicits Floyd | a smile from me. That's my girl!) Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "but maybe we can wear now.. but it will take 2 turns" | |
| smartgenes says, "done :-)" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | [Your score is 112 from a trivial 601.] Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "they're gone, I'm sure" | |
| DavidW asks, "I suppose no more silver in this store?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "this may be a lot bigger a game than i thought then" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 112 / 168 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Elevator Floyd | The floor of the Mall comes up against a rail, forming a barrier which Floyd | prevents further (sane) western travel. The bottom (ground floor) Floyd | level can be viewed with ease, though, as the guardrail mainly Floyd | prevents kids -- future productive Mall denizens! -- from ragdolling Floyd | their way off the edge. Floyd | Floyd | There is a horrific stench in this area. It's new, too -- the guy who Floyd | used to take the surveys always kept himself cheerfully clean. Floyd | There is a badly-cracked kiosk in the center of the hallway. At the Floyd | far end of the rail is an elevator. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | Barnaby and Casey come up to us as we leave... Floyd | Floyd | "Heya there, Duffy," says Gibs, no longer paralyzed. Casey is with Floyd | him. "Any luck with the elevator?" Floyd | Floyd | "Not yet. We encountered a vision , shadow and wraith, though." Floyd | Floyd | "So what's changed?" asks Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, the Jewelry Store is open and the makeup kiosk is broken down. Floyd | Other than that..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kiosk" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 112 / 169 Floyd | > Floyd | > X KIOSK Floyd | Floyd | The makeup kiosk is a business that operates in a very small rectangle Floyd | in the middle of the Mall corridor. Girls (and in this town, a Floyd | not-insignificant number of goth guys) stop by to pretty themselves up Floyd | for their dates and/or midnight angstings. Floyd | Floyd | It looks like the intense cold of the wraith passing through the kiosk Floyd | caused the thing to crack open. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the makeup kiosk is a bottle of perfume. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs spits once off the guardrail because he's a filthy, disgusting Floyd | animal at heart. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take perfume" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 112 / 170 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PERFUME Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 112 / 171 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), some socks, the crystal ball Floyd | holder (broken), the Magic: The Gathering cards, the gaming glove Floyd | (being worn), Gibs's lacrosse stick, the phone, and a pleather purse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 112 / 172 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), some socks, the crystal ball Floyd | holder (broken), the Magic: The Gathering cards, the gaming glove Floyd | (being worn), Gibs's lacrosse stick, the phone, and a pleather purse. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "i guess the holder is useless?" | |
| jenrexrode says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "drop the holder, I think." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop holder" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 112 / 173 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take perfume" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 122 / 174 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PERFUME Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | Gibs spits once off the guardrail because he's a filthy, disgusting Floyd | animal at heart. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 122 / 175 Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the bottle of perfume) Floyd | This bottle of perfume is a fairly large container of the Elizabeth Floyd | Arden perfume 'True Love' (A feminine scent that is a blend of lotus, Floyd | iris and jasmine, recommended for office wear.) Floyd | Floyd | A girl who worked at my D&D store for a season used to wear this Floyd | scent, and it was all I could concentrate on. She'd erode my sense of Floyd | smell regarding all else within a minute of beginning her shift. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "out perfume on elevator" | |
| smartgenes says, "i thought that said "beginning her shit"" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "er put, but just kidding" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm imagining a sign: You must be THIS smelly to enter this ride." | ||
| smartgenes says, "we probably use it on that ghast you mentioned" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to wear the perfume to negate the stench." | ||
| DavidW says, "Otherwise we won't get any further." | ||
| smartgenes says, "sounds like the solution" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "or one of our company" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder how many people this bottle is good for." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "probably whomever asks for it" | ||
| smartgenes says, "(no pun intended)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear perfume" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR PERFUME Floyd | Floyd | I can't wear the bottle of perfume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 122 / 175 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the bottle of perfume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spray me with perfume" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 122 / 176 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPRAY ME WITH PERFUME Floyd | Floyd | I spray a bit of the perfume on it. Sek-sai! Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "hmmm.. well done DavidW" | |
| DavidW asks, "on it?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spray perfume on me" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 122 / 177 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPRAY PERFUME ON ME Floyd | Floyd | I spray a bit of the perfume on it. Sek-sai! Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "hey, i said that, joking" | |
| DavidW says, "hm, ,maybe it is a weapon after all." | ||
| smartgenes says, "one of the 2" | ||
| DavidW asks, "ehn? Are you reading ahead?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "no, just guessing" | ||
| smartgenes says, "as well as the earlier Monster Manual consultation" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "which way?" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "elevaator" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | There's not a path in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | There are exits north to the Jewelry Store, in towards the Elevator Floyd | and east towards the east side of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter elevator" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 122 / 178 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | Audrey says, "No way. We're not going to follow you until you do Floyd | something about that smell." Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The elevator smells terrible, strongly of untreated or unembalmed Floyd | cadavers. There are three buttons here in the elevator labelled 'up,' Floyd | 'down' and 'open doors.' Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently on the second level of the Mall. Aside from the Floyd | operational panel, there is little else here in the lift. Floyd | Floyd | I can see into the corridor ahead, although only a few feet before the Floyd | darkness completely envelopes the hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "ahh" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "spray elevator" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SPRAY ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | I can't spray that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "spray perfume on elevator" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 122 / 178 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPRAY PERFUME ON ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with Elevator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "spray" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SPRAY Floyd | Floyd | Be a little more specific about what you'd like me to spray. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we go solo until we spray perfume on what's stinking up the place." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "spray audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SPRAY AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | I can't spray that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And it's not in the elevator" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push down button" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 122 / 179 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH DOWN BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | I press the down button. After a few seconds, the elevator transports Floyd | me to the first (ground) level of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | The doors remain shut for some reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push open button" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 122 / 180 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH OPEN BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The doors are now open. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "yeah, solo" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 122 / 181 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | The elevator doors open, and I'm struck by the terrible, pungent odor Floyd | of carrion. It's far too much for what I can bear: it's absolutely the Floyd | worst-smelling air I have ever experienced. Floyd | Floyd | I briefly steal a glance of what lay beyond in the corridor on the Floyd | first level of the Mall before squashing the up button on the elevator Floyd | -- it's mostly dark, but I can make out the cupid statue. The stench Floyd | is just too much for me. however. I can't force myself to do anything Floyd | from here except escape. Floyd | Floyd | The elevator comes to rest on the top floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "spray perfume on audrey" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 122 / 182 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPRAY PERFUME ON AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, I'm not your Barbie doll!" exclaims Audrey as I give her a hit Floyd | of True Love. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hm. Maybe we throw the perfume over the railing at the cupid." | |
| Zach asks, "Spray right before going out?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw perfume at cupid" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 122 / 182 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW PERFUME AT CUPID Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 122 / 183 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Elevator Floyd | The floor of the Mall comes up against a rail, forming a barrier which Floyd | prevents further (sane) western travel. The bottom (ground floor) Floyd | level can be viewed with ease, though, as the guardrail mainly Floyd | prevents kids -- future productive Mall denizens! -- from ragdolling Floyd | their way off the edge. Floyd | Floyd | There is a horrific stench in this area. It's new, too -- the guy who Floyd | used to take the surveys always kept himself cheerfully clean. Floyd | There is a badly-cracked kiosk in the center of the hallway. At the Floyd | far end of the rail is an elevator. Floyd | There is a crystal ball holder here. Floyd | Casey is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cupid" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 122 / 184 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUPID Floyd | Floyd | It's a nicely-sculpted, eight-foot marble work of the mythological god Floyd | of love. Cupid (known as Eros in Greek myth) was often depicted as Floyd | being a winged baby or cherub that would just start freaking out and Floyd | begin slinging arrows at people so they would indulge in a torrent of Floyd | romance, love and sex. Floyd | Floyd | This statue was commissioned by the guy who owns and rents out the Floyd | Mall, from a student at the local art college. Cupid's in a pose where Floyd | he seems to be taking deadly aim at people. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw perfume at cupid" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 152 / 185 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW PERFUME AT CUPID Floyd | Floyd | I toss the perfume bottle at the statue. It shatters, natch, and Floyd | releases a giant pool of stench-killing fumes into the area below. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "yay" | |
| Zach says, "Hooray" | ||
| DavidW says, "someone else drive for a bit. I need to eat a little." | ||
| smartgenes says, "it's getting late here" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 152 / 186 Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The elevator smells terrible, strongly of untreated or unembalmed Floyd | cadavers. There are three buttons here in the elevator labelled 'up,' Floyd | 'down' and 'open doors.' Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently on the second level of the Mall. Aside from the Floyd | operational panel, there is little else here in the lift. Floyd | Audrey and Gibs are here. Floyd | Floyd | Casey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | There is an exit leading out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press down" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 152 / 187 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS DOWN Floyd | Floyd | I press the down button. After a few seconds, the elevator transports Floyd | me to the first (ground) level of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | The doors remain shut for some reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 152 / 188 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOORS Floyd | Floyd | They are competently constructed steel doors, and possibly the only Floyd | item not of ridiculously cheap construction in the entire Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press open doors" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 152 / 189 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS OPEN DOORS Floyd | Floyd | The doors are now open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 152 / 190 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, East Edge Floyd | I'm on the first level (ground floor) of the Mall, a lot closer to the Floyd | lone exit than where I was previously. I'll need to get past a few Floyd | more stretches of corridor (which is under a blanket of darkness) and Floyd | then past the Food Court. And I hesitate to think about what is in Floyd | store for me until I get to that point. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the corridor is a sculpted marble statue. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, we got this far," says Gibs. "What's the plan, now? How are we Floyd | getting out?" Floyd | Floyd | "We could try the exit by the big Outlet Tech Store, can't we?" asks Floyd | Casey. Floyd | Floyd | "They went bankrupt," I say. "When the Septium Computer Processor was Floyd | declared an instrument of bedevilment and banned by the Mayor in 2012, Floyd | the hottest selling item that Christmas had to be removed from the Floyd | store. We can try to go that way, but I am almost positive that exit Floyd | access was cemented over." I shrug. Floyd | Floyd | "So we'll probably have to slog through the Food Court, speedily going Floyd | about our business with as much haste as molasses slow-fucking a giant Floyd | land turtle." says Gibs. He spits with disgust -- the Food Court floor Floyd | never gets cleaned. It's kind of gross. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, everyone jump over the ochre jellies," whispers Audrey, almost Floyd | to herself. After a beat, she realizes what she said and turns towards Floyd | me. "Hey! You've got me doing it now!" Floyd | Floyd | Gibs laughs. "Duffy's veritable roster of sexually transmitted Floyd | diseases is not the only thing infectious about him," he Floyd | offers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 152 / 191 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | It's a nicely-sculpted, eight-foot marble work of the mythological god Floyd | of love. Cupid (known as Eros in Greek myth) was often depicted as Floyd | being a winged baby or cherub that would just start freaking out and Floyd | begin slinging arrows at people so they would indulge in a torrent of Floyd | romance, love and sex. Floyd | Floyd | This statue was commissioned by the guy who owns and rents out the Floyd | Mall, from a student at the local art college. Cupid's in a pose where Floyd | he seems to be taking deadly aim at people. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 152 / 192 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There's an exit west to the Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge, or in to Floyd | Elevator. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "which way?" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "climb statue" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 152 / 193 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB STATUE Floyd | Floyd | I can't climb the cupid statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "aw" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move statue" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 152 / 194 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE STATUE Floyd | Floyd | I can't move the cupid statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "It's all west from here, isn't it?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 152 / 195 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | I enter this bit of hallway and am taken back by the glorious fountain Floyd | that dominates the scene. I've seen it hundreds, even thousands of Floyd | times in normal daylight, but the small bits of ambient light Floyd | currently available reflects off the fountain in a simply breathtaking Floyd | manner. Floyd | Floyd | While Audrey, Casey and myself are checking out the fountain (and Floyd | momentarily entranced by the beauty thereof) Gibs wanders off and goes Floyd | further down the corridor. I forget him for a moment until he lets out Floyd | a blood-curdling scream. Floyd | Floyd | "Duffy! Look out! It's the fucking ghast!" Floyd | Floyd | I turn and look -- that's exactly what it is. A green-skinned feral Floyd | beast with glazed-over eyes and torn clothes. Gibs falls to the floor, Floyd | presumably knocked out by the ghast's stench and so far from where the Floyd | perfume bottle broke open. The ghast stomps once on his head and runs Floyd | over towards us. I motion for Audrey and Casey to get back behind the Floyd | fountain. Floyd | The ghast, Gibs, Audrey, and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | The ghast attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "hmm and we have no spray" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 152 / 196 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | The fountain is rich limestone artifact that was discovered years ago Floyd | in a poured-over closet in Italy and flown out here at great expense. Floyd | It has been converted from its original state as a Renaissance-era Floyd | commissioned sculpture to a marketing tool for the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | It's about six feet at the base and rather shallow -- water would only Floyd | come up to one's ankles in its normal, calm state. The spout extends a Floyd | couple of feet up from the dead center of the base. There are a few Floyd | inscriptions and symbols on the thing, but nothing I can decipher. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the fountain is some water. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the fountain is some water. Floyd | Floyd | The ghast attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we want cold iron if we have it." | |
| smartgenes says, "I am carrying my glasses (being worn), some socks, the crystal ball" | ||
| smartgenes says, "he Magic: The Gathering cards, the gaming glove" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "and fountain water" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "if we want it" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 152 / 197 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), some socks, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, the gaming glove (being worn), Gibs's lacrosse stick, Floyd | the phone, and a pleather purse. Floyd | Floyd | The ghast attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 152 / 198 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WATER Floyd | Floyd | (I'll only be able to hold the water for a couple moments before it Floyd | flows through my hands...) Floyd | Floyd | The ghast attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "throw water at ghast" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 199 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW WATER AT GHAST Floyd | Floyd | "Drink up, Dupre!" I throw the water at the ghast's upper Floyd | torso. It screams -- a horrible, piercing shriek of disbelief, and Floyd | inhuman pain. My aim was a bit off, as the water chews through his Floyd | shirt, eats through his belly and stomach and begins hissing away at Floyd | the consumption of his rotting intestines and grodie twists of Floyd | entrails. Floyd | Floyd | I wipe a little sweat away from my face and see that he truly can't Floyd | comprehend what has happened to him. I sort of feel sorry for him... Floyd | not just because the ghost killed him once, but because she brought Floyd | him back and then he got killed in a second, crueler, manner. Floyd | Floyd | The slashing sounds of evaporation fade away as the last bits of the Floyd | ghast inanimately fall to the floor and crumble into nothingness. His Floyd | head bounces to the floor of the Mall. Gibs wakes himself up and Floyd | blinks stupidly a couple times as he sees the ghast's skull resting Floyd | peacefully on the floor. He winds up and kicks it down the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, is that holy water?" | |
| jenrexrode says, "hey, we might need that head" | ||
| smartgenes says, "er, i guess" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 200 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIAGNOSE Floyd | Floyd | I have a critical wound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 200 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "enter fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 201 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | Entered! Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge, in the fountain Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Gibs, Audrey, and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | A little more water trickles into the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, did we use up all the water?" | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT Floyd | Floyd | Be a little more specific about where you'd like me to sit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "dive in water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 201 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIVE IN WATER Floyd | Floyd | [ That sentence is not understood by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sit in water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 201 Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT IN WATER Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 202 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WATER Floyd | Floyd | It's a small amount of perfectly clear, shining and absolutely Floyd | gorgeous water. It looks far superior than it ever did under normal Floyd | daylight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 203 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | Ahhhhh! Mine Luftwaffe! Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "now we are in we can drink i guess" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 204 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIAGNOSE Floyd | Floyd | I have a serious wound. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "yay" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 204 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose holy water isn't healing water." | |
| smartgenes says, "we drank it all" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "well it was critical, now serious" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 205 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | The fountain is rich limestone artifact that was discovered years ago Floyd | in a poured-over closet in Italy and flown out here at great expense. Floyd | It has been converted from its original state as a Renaissance-era Floyd | commissioned sculpture to a marketing tool for the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | It's about six feet at the base and rather shallow -- water would only Floyd | come up to one's ankles in its normal, calm state. The spout extends a Floyd | couple of feet up from the dead center of the base. There are a few Floyd | inscriptions and symbols on the thing, but nothing I can decipher. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A little more water trickles into the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we have to wait a turn for the water to respawn." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 206 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | Ahhhhh! Mine Luftwaffe! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 207 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIAGNOSE Floyd | Floyd | I have a light wound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 208 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | A little more water trickles into the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 209 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | Ahhhhh! Mine Luftwaffe! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 210 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIAGNOSE Floyd | Floyd | I have a lot of minor scratches, but will be okay, since I still have Floyd | my looks. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "uh-oh" | |
| jenrexrode says, "eek" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hello new challenger." | ||
| DavidW Perhaps waiting inside the fountain will help -- if we can stop drinking all the water. | jenrexrode exclaims, "run away!" | |
| smartgenes says, "a wandering monster" | ||
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 211 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | A little more water trickles into the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "it moves through walls, ceilings and floors" | |
| jenrexrode says, "and leaves" | ||
| DavidW says, "Holy water does damage spectres, as does raise dead spells." | ||
| smartgenes says, "powerless to natural sunlight" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we fill the Big Gulp cup with water?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 212 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | Ahhhhh! Mine Luftwaffe! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "diagnosis" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 212 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIAGNOSIS Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "diagnosis" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 213 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIAGNOSE Floyd | Floyd | I am in perfect physical health. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "fill cup with water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 213 Floyd | > Floyd | > FILL CUP WITH WATER Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "fill" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "get trotter down here" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put watr in cup" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 213 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WATR IN CUP Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "watr" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put water in cup" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 213 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WATER IN CUP Floyd | Floyd | I'm not holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or put cup in water" | |
| smartgenes says, "we dont have the cup" | ||
| Zach has disconnected. | ||
| Zach has connected. | ||
| Zach has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | smartgenes says, "f put water in purse" | |
| DavidW asks, "we don't? Where is it?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put water in purse" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 213 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WATER IN PURSE Floyd | Floyd | I'm not holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 214 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), some socks, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, the gaming glove (being worn), Gibs's lacrosse stick, Floyd | the phone, and a pleather purse. Floyd | Floyd | A little more water trickles into the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "the big gulp? it's in the bead store, I guess" | |
| smartgenes asks, "way?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Don't we need it to carry the water?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | I will have to get out of the fountain first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 215 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I get out of the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The elevator is east." | |
| smartgenes says, "not sure which way to go.." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 183 / 216 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, East Edge Floyd | This is the first level, or ground floor, of the Funtime Teen Mall. Floyd | The lone Mall Exit leads in a westerly direction, past a few more Floyd | stretches of darkness-enveloped corridor, and the Food Court. There's Floyd | also a few more stores to the west, with the Mall passageways Floyd | expanding to all four directions at that point. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead west to the rest of the Mall, and inside to the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the corridor is a sculpted marble statue. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 183 / 217 Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Audrey says, "We'll wait down here for you." Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The elevator smells terrible, strongly of untreated or unembalmed Floyd | cadavers. There are three buttons here in the elevator labelled 'up,' Floyd | 'down' and 'open doors.' Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently on the first level of the Mall. Aside from the Floyd | operational panel, there is little else here in the lift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push up" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 183 / 218 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH UP Floyd | Floyd | I press the up button. After a few seconds, the elevator transports me Floyd | to the second level of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 183 / 219 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Elevator Floyd | The floor of the Mall comes up against a rail, forming a barrier which Floyd | prevents further (sane) western travel. The bottom (ground floor) Floyd | level can be viewed with ease, though, as the guardrail mainly Floyd | prevents kids -- future productive Mall denizens! -- from ragdolling Floyd | their way off the edge. Floyd | Floyd | There is a badly-cracked kiosk in the center of the hallway. At the Floyd | far end of the rail is an elevator. Floyd | There is a crystal ball holder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 183 / 220 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 183 / 221 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side of the Mall Floyd | I'm at the eastern side of the Mall. To the north is Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods. My store is a bit to the east, and the Bead Store a bit to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a table here, set adjacent to the Sporting Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 183 / 222 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 183 / 223 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bead Store Floyd | The Bead Store smells strongly of incense and stale joints, and it Floyd | almost overpowers every other sense. There are shelves on all sides of Floyd | the store, but none in the middle of the store due to the drawn Floyd | pentagram. Floyd | A postcard, Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, the X-box are here. Floyd | Sydney and the skeleton are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take drink" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 183 / 224 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE DRINK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | It's really cold in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go north to the beginning of the east Floyd | wing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 183 / 225 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 183 / 226 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Elevator Floyd | The floor of the Mall comes up against a rail, forming a barrier which Floyd | prevents further (sane) western travel. The bottom (ground floor) Floyd | level can be viewed with ease, though, as the guardrail mainly Floyd | prevents kids -- future productive Mall denizens! -- from ragdolling Floyd | their way off the edge. Floyd | Floyd | There is a badly-cracked kiosk in the center of the hallway. At the Floyd | far end of the rail is an elevator. Floyd | There is a crystal ball holder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 183 / 227 Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Audrey says, "We'll wait down here for you." Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The elevator smells terrible, strongly of untreated or unembalmed Floyd | cadavers. There are three buttons here in the elevator labelled 'up,' Floyd | 'down' and 'open doors.' Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently on the second level of the Mall. Aside from the Floyd | operational panel, there is little else here in the lift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push down" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 183 / 228 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH DOWN Floyd | Floyd | I press the down button. After a few seconds, the elevator transports Floyd | me to the first (ground) level of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | The doors remain shut for some reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push open button" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 183 / 229 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH OPEN BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The doors are now open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 183 / 230 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, East Edge Floyd | This is the first level, or ground floor, of the Funtime Teen Mall. Floyd | The lone Mall Exit leads in a westerly direction, past a few more Floyd | stretches of darkness-enveloped corridor, and the Food Court. There's Floyd | also a few more stores to the west, with the Mall passageways Floyd | expanding to all four directions at that point. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead west to the rest of the Mall, and inside to the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the corridor is a sculpted marble statue. Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 231 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put gulp in water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 231 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GULP IN WATER Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 232 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WATER Floyd | Floyd | (I'll only be able to hold the water for a couple moments before it Floyd | flows through my hands...) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put water in gulp" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 232 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WATER IN GULP Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Big Gulp drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "enter fontain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 232 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER FONTAIN Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "fontain" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "enter fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 233 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | Entered! Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge, in the fountain Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put water in fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 234 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WATER IN FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put water in gulp" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 234 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WATER IN GULP Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Big Gulp drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "put drink in fountain" | |
| smartgenes says, "no joy" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put drink in fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 235 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT DRINK IN FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | I put the Big Gulp drink in the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drink" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 236 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRINK Floyd | Floyd | It's sixty-four ounces of refreshing lime cola in a cup that looks Floyd | like a chalice. The 128 ounce version of this drink is called the Floyd | 'Supreme Maw Thrust' and even though it's a better deal it doesn't get Floyd | purchased much by many Mall denizens. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take water" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 237 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WATER Floyd | Floyd | (I'll only be able to hold the water for a couple moments before it Floyd | flows through my hands...) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw water at spectre" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 238 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW WATER AT SPECTRE Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't appear as if splashing the water has any effect. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get drink" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 239 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET DRINK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "empty drink" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 239 Floyd | > Floyd | > EMPTY DRINK Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Big Gulp drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "what happens if you drink Glp?" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess I was mistaken about the usage of the Big Gulp." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 183 / 240 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I get out of the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | The water flows through my fingers. Floyd | Floyd | The water flows away and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can't/won't drink it, iirc." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 241 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Poster Store Floyd | This place has been in the Mall for as long as I can remember. It Floyd | really is just called 'Poster Store,' though when I first noticed it a Floyd | few years back the 'T' on the sign was missing. For months I thought Floyd | it was some theme store where white suburban kids exclusively bought Floyd | cassettes detailing cop killing and bitch slapping. Floyd | Floyd | The Poster Store sells posters... and little else. There's a hanging Floyd | flip-rack of posters in the corner of the store, and a few hanging up Floyd | on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Alongside the far wall is a set of oversized disembodied lips. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get lips" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LIPS Floyd | Floyd | The Magic Mouth probably wouldn't be too big on that idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kiss lips" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 242 Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS LIPS Floyd | Floyd | They are too high up for me to kiss, which is too bad, because they Floyd | look DELICIOUS. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to magic mouth" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAGIC MOUTH Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What on earth happened to you?" Floyd | (2) "Greetings, Mouth!" Floyd | (3) "Tell me a story, Magic Mouth!" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | smartgenes says, "lol" | |
| DavidW says, "aha" | ||
| DavidW asks, "what's our pleasure?" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "2?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 243 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The mouth says nothing in reply. I know that it 'heard' me, too, as it Floyd | did not quiver even slightly while I was speaking to it. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "What on earth happened to you?" Floyd | (2) "Tell me a story, Magic Mouth!" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 244 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "What happened is, I'd like to say, just a misunderstanding! Why, my Floyd | soul was a-flutter and a-fizz, there was one particularly hateful day, Floyd | and then a terrible diversionary landing. But now it seems, hidden Floyd | around, is the key to pick my lock... but I don't quite think you can Floyd | do it, you miserable fucking cock." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Er, excuse me?" Floyd | (2) "Shut the fuck up. You're just shitty lips on a wall." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | smartgenes says, "lol" | |
| DavidW asks, "The lips have a lock?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 245 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I think you heard me, Duffinkowski; heard me rather well. I'd sooner Floyd | wait for Ragnar?k than for your mind to gel. You're trapped here, Floyd | Doofernowski, drinkin', sleepin', eatin'... and I'll wink and sneeze Floyd | upon your release, you sniveling dumbfuck cretin." Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Oh, you want to go, eh? Fisticuffs?." Floyd | (2) "Please don't insult me like that. It's, er, insulting." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 246 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I'll have a go, just have no fear -- " Floyd | Floyd | I'm fed up with the mouth's nonsense. I cut it off from going any Floyd | further. Floyd | Floyd | "Just shut that wretched little hole before I cover you with a custom Floyd | balm milked from your disgusting, available organs, bitchlips. I need Floyd | help and answers and I'm wholly not interested in even remotely taking Floyd | abuse from some matted, chudlike non-life hung up on a wall." Floyd | Floyd | A sudden unease creeps over me. What am I doing with my life? Floyd | This is a terrible time for reflection, and I try to fight it off. Floyd | Audrey starts to say something, like how lips aren't officially organs Floyd | or something equally helpful, but I ignore the interruption and Floyd | continue. "You don't want to be in the Mall any more than I do. Help Floyd | me out." Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens for at least fifteen seconds. I get ready to leave Floyd | before the lips purse. Finally. Floyd | Floyd | "How?" it says, at last. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to lips" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 247 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LIPS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "give gulp to lips" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 248 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE GULP TO LIPS Floyd | Floyd | My goodwill is ignored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pour gulp in mouth" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > POUR GULP IN MOUTH Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be feasible. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My gut suggests explore more." | |
| jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take lips" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LIPS Floyd | Floyd | The Magic Mouth probably wouldn't be too big on that idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "i thought it had softened to the idea..." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x posters" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 183 / 249 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTERS Floyd | Floyd | There isn't a poster in the slot currently, but if I turn the flip Floyd | rack, I am sure to see one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "turn rack" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 191 / 250 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN RACK Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The first poster in this set depicts a kind of ritual. There is a red Floyd | pentagram on the floor, and a bunch of pilgrims, quakers or hippies Floyd | holding hands around it. (I can never really differentiate between the Floyd | three.) It's eerily reminiscent of the attempt at an invoking Floyd | performed earlier by Audrey, Gibs, Syd and Casey... Relatively Floyd | speaking, anyway, as encountering a wraith and zombie tonight has Floyd | raised the scale for what I will consider 'eerie' in the future. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 199 / 251 Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The second poster shows a ghost -- a child's rendition of a spirit, Floyd | really, with looming, evil eyes and a reversed teardrop shape. It's Floyd | emerging from some other world or dimension inside the pentagram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 199 / 252 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | Er, this poster is actually one of Samantha Fox pouring milk all over Floyd | herself in the shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, This rack may give us some hints." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 207 / 253 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | This poster seems to be by the same artist as the other two, but Floyd | rather than being drawn from a bird's eye perspective like those Floyd | posters, it is a close-up of a young boy reading passages from a Floyd | thick, craggily book. Locks of the boy's hair descend over his glasses Floyd | and he's decked out all in black, wrapped in a weary and somber Floyd | expression. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so we need a 'book'" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 215 / 254 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The fourth poster in this set shows a little girl with her eyes Floyd | downcast. She is drinking from a radiant, glowing urn. The girl is Floyd | wearing a silvery dress and has a key around her neck. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you see the symbolism in this picture, Jarret?" Floyd | Floyd | "The girl? No. Is she ashamed? Is that why she's looking down?" Floyd | Floyd | "No... I mean, around her neck. The key." Floyd | Floyd | "What's the key to?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | "It's... well, actually, maybe it isn't really symbolism. But I think Floyd | that's to a chastity belt." She releases her study of the picture and Floyd | gives me a subtle, wry smile. "You know, my father wanted to put me in Floyd | one when we first started dating." Floyd | Floyd | "It's good that he didn't. I would have just picked it." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, really?" she says, with a bit of faux, exaggerated inquiry. "You Floyd | know, skills from a game don't always translate to real life." Floyd | Floyd | "I know. I would have done it with my tongue. I have like a cold iron Floyd | fetish, I just haven't told you yet because the subject hasn't come up Floyd | and that's a tough one to drop on somebody." We stare at each other's Floyd | eyes for a moment, 'till she breaks the gaze with a smile she Floyd | unsuccessfully tries to hide. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and bitchin' clothes" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 223 / 255 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The second-to-last image is of a person from the first poster Floyd | surrounded by numerous lit candles. There are seemingly millions of Floyd | candles in the scene, and it's almost like an optical illusion, as the Floyd | 'negative space' for certain candles comprise many separate ones when Floyd | viewed in a different way. No candle seems to have a single, Floyd | identifiable color (or rather, they seem to include all possible Floyd | colors) and one can only really make out a single flame glowing Floyd | serenely upon them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I would've tried to take the key from the poster, in case it was a real key." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 215 / 254 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Poster Store Floyd | The Poster Store sells posters... and little else. There's a hanging Floyd | flip-rack of posters in the corner of the store, and a few hanging up Floyd | on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Alongside the far wall is a set of oversized disembodied lips. Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 215 / 254 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET KEY Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "key" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x poster" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 215 / 255 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTER Floyd | Floyd | The fourth poster in this set shows a little girl with her eyes Floyd | downcast. She is drinking from a radiant, glowing urn. The girl is Floyd | wearing a silvery dress and has a key around her neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 215 / 256 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The fourth poster in this set shows a little girl with her eyes Floyd | downcast. She is drinking from a radiant, glowing urn. The girl is Floyd | wearing a silvery dress and has a key around her neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "turn rack" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 223 / 257 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN RACK Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The second-to-last image is of a person from the first poster Floyd | surrounded by numerous lit candles. There are seemingly millions of Floyd | candles in the scene, and it's almost like an optical illusion, as the Floyd | 'negative space' for certain candles comprise many separate ones when Floyd | viewed in a different way. No candle seems to have a single, Floyd | identifiable color (or rather, they seem to include all possible Floyd | colors) and one can only really make out a single flame glowing Floyd | serenely upon them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm, but the lips mentioned a key too. But 'key' isn't known by the parser?" | |
| smartgenes says, "the lips could just be joke thing" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 231 / 258 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | yousTayaWayyouSICKLITTLEBOY!! Floyd | Floyd | The last scene shows vibrant fire all over the edges, and the subjects Floyd | all seem burned to a crisp. There is no sign of the ghost, but the Floyd | bodies of the boy, the girl, and all their compatriots are viciously Floyd | chunked and charred. It's a beautiful little bit of art, regardless of Floyd | how horrible the scene it depicts, and how terrible the ulcer is that Floyd | begins to grow in my stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW sniffs. "IF games aren't supposed to fib about keys." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 231 / 259 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 231 / 260 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south (in addition to the east, Floyd | back from where we came). The gate to the Record Store is down to the Floyd | north. Floyd | The spectre is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | "Where do we go from here?" asks Gibs. "There's an exit past the Food Floyd | Court, right?" He gestures over towards the west. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah. I don't think we can get out going to the Tech SuperStore." The Floyd | SuperStore is to the south. "Audrey and I can take a jaunt down there Floyd | and make sure, though." Floyd | Floyd | "Either way," says Gibs. "Just be careful. Who knows what's lurking Floyd | about down there?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, as my father always said, 'He who fights with monsters might Floyd | take care lest he thereby become a monster. " Floyd | Floyd | Gibs thinks about that for a second. "Your dad didn't say that. Floyd | Freddie Nietzsche did, dummy." Floyd | Floyd | "What? No he didn't. You're completely wrong." I am really not sure if Floyd | Barnaby is correct or not, so I just immediately go on the defensive. Floyd | Floyd | "Did Papa Duffy also say 'In heaven, all the interesting people are Floyd | missing?' Or maybe 'Only sick music makes money today?" Floyd | Floyd | (Truth to tell, my dad did used to say the latter, but I Floyd | don't tell Gibs that.) Floyd | Floyd | "Your father is really weird," says Audrey, unhelpfully. Floyd | Floyd | "Look, enough with ragging on poor, old Nichodeimos. He liked all of Floyd | you well enough." Floyd | Floyd | "He hated me," says Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | "He called me 'fruitier than a blueberry pudding pop.'" says Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | "I never met him" says Casey. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, well, he hated Goths," says Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | "He hated everybody," says Audrey. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the Record Store is down, blocking my path. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe Daddy will be the boss monster." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | There is not an exit that way. Floyd | Floyd | There are exits north to the Record Store, and west, east and south to Floyd | other corridors of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 231 / 261 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | A kind of cave-in has apparently occurred here. While the gate north Floyd | to the Novel Shoppe has been destroyed (and passage is possible), our Floyd | path to the west is blocked by an enormous amount of rubble. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey, Gibs, and Casey follow me. Floyd | Floyd | "This is the way out, isn't it?" asks Gibs. I nod, sagely, in the Floyd | affirmative. Floyd | Floyd | He looks over the mess. Floyd | Floyd | "Look," says Gibs, "Why don't you and Audrey see if you can find any Floyd | items that we'll need to get past whatever horrors are in store for us Floyd | on the other side of this wall of junk? I'll start digging away at Floyd | this and clear a path. Your sissy, atrophied she-muscles won't be able Floyd | to really help any, Duffy." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can ask Trott to open the Record Store." | |
| smartgenes asks, "see what's north?" | ||
| DavidW says, "A 'book', I assume." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 231 / 262 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Discount Novel Shoppe Floyd | You're supposed to be pumped to enter a book store in a mall. Floyd | Floyd | This isn't the case with this one. The novels contained herein are not Floyd | discounted in terms of their cost, they are discounted, rather, in Floyd | terms of their quality. A few years back there was a fad in publishing Floyd | that resulted in the release of a large number of non-fiction books Floyd | that were little more than paper printouts of 'successful' blog sites. Floyd | (I say 'successful' in a manner of speaking like that, as in my Floyd | opinion the only successful blog site is one that ends with Floyd | the webcam suicide of its maintainer.) Floyd | Floyd | El circo de chamuscarse de la retina doesn't stop there. Floyd | Shitty steampunk, trite Lycanthropian romance novels, pre-civilization Floyd | thrillers featuring cavemen (well, cavepeople) and gimmick Floyd | dictionaries were all part of the hardcover publishing's switch Floyd | towards the tactics of pop music the last few years. These outright Floyd | dolorous genres are fully represented here, making this place more a Floyd | library or museum than a boutique. Floyd | Floyd | There is an exit to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Nailed to a couple of boards in the far corner of the room is a girl. Floyd | Sitting on the cross is the crucified girl. Floyd | Floyd | Carelessly discarded on the ground next to the crucified girl is a Floyd | thick, burgundy text. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Told ya. A book." | |
| jenrexrode says, "yeah, I don't know when to call trotter, but I think it should be timely" | ||
| smartgenes says, "it says "the cross" but what cross is it referring to" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 231 / 263 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GIRL Floyd | Floyd | The crucified girl seems to be of mild Hispanic descent. Her features Floyd | are slightly olive, her hair dark and her eyes stained all the round Floyd | by blood. She is wearing a torn black tank top, blue bandana with Floyd | floral print, and sleek pair of tight shorts. Her build is slight -- Floyd | she is probably about five foot five at most, with slim, athletic Floyd | legs. Floyd | Floyd | The girl's arms and right leg have been nailed to a makeshift cross, Floyd | and the cross seems solidly affixed to the western wall. There are Floyd | cuts and tears elsewhere on her body as well. It is difficult to tell Floyd | how long she has been dead, but she is not sending off a waft of Floyd | stench or anything, currently. She looks a lot like a girl that used Floyd | to work in the paint and housewares store that used to be here in the Floyd | Mall before they closed. I remember that she was really bright, Floyd | resourceful, helpful and was working on her four-year degree. I really Floyd | hope it's not her. Floyd | Floyd | She is dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "ick" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x neck" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 231 / 263 Floyd | > Floyd | > X NECK Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "neck" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x tank top" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 231 / 263 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TANK TOP Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "tank" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. The girl may become a lich, I suppose." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 231 / 264 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROSS Floyd | Floyd | The cross runs about six feet high, wide enough for a grown woman to Floyd | be nailed to and made of some sort of indeterminate wood. Floyd | Floyd | There is a dead girl nailed to it. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on the cross is the crucified girl. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or one of the other monsters we haven't seen yet." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 231 / 265 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE GIRL Floyd | Floyd | I ease the girl down from the cross and place her on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. That may be a mistake." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x text" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 231 / 266 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEXT Floyd | Floyd | The text has a grooved, sturdy cover, designed out of pressed reed and Floyd | dyed a rich burgundy. It is about fifteen inches long, nine or ten Floyd | inches thick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 267 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the aged text) Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | noyoUreYescasTtheMaSiDelittlefucKsicklittleboy!!! ! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 268 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the aged text) Floyd | I flip through a few pages, but nothing really catches my eye. I'm Floyd | sure that some long dead monk or priest who nearly acquired whatever Floyd | the 14th century version of repetitive motion syndrome in writing this Floyd | thing is revolving in a European Potter's grave at my disinterest, but Floyd | the words just seem to roll off my eyeballs in a splash of drama and Floyd | desperate Calligraphy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "... cast them aside ... not 'cast the maside'." | |
| smartgenes asks, "no you're yes?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Two voices competing there, perhaps." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kiss girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 269 Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS GIRL Floyd | Floyd | I don't discover anything else by fooling around with the poor Floyd | crucified girl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 270 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIRL Floyd | Floyd | The crucified girl isn't in any shape to talk to anyone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps Syd said the 'no you're...' and her possessor said the rest." | |
| jenrexrode says, "throw her in the fountain" | ||
| DavidW says, "The fountain doesn't heal." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "carry girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 270 Floyd | > Floyd | > CARRY GIRL Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "carry" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 271 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET GIRL Floyd | Floyd | She's too heavy for me to lift and move around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drag girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 271 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRAG GIRL Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "drag" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "oh well" | |
| DavidW asks, "maybe take the cross?" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "record store?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "its huge" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "sure, we can use it on the vampire" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get cross" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 272 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CROSS Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "After all, the cross is a holy symbol. :)" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 273 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), some socks, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, the gaming glove (being worn), Gibs's lacrosse stick, Floyd | the phone, a pleather purse, Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, and the aged Floyd | text. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drop the gulp." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop gulp" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 274 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GULP Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get cross" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 275 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CROSS Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop purse" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 276 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP PURSE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get cross" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 277 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CROSS Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 278 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP ALL Floyd | Floyd | glasses: I can't drop my specs! They are a valuable Floyd | information-gathering tool! Floyd | socks: Dropped. Floyd | Magic: The Gathering cards: Dropped. Floyd | gaming glove: I will have to take the gaming glove off first. Floyd | lacrosse stick: Dropped. Floyd | phone: Dropped. Floyd | aged text: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get cross" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 279
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "We might have to drop everything." | |
Floyd | > GET CROSS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. It is takeable. How interesting." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get phone" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 280 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PHONE Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 271 / 281 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | This area is adjacent to the huge Food Court which is just over to the Floyd | west. The amount of available light dwindles further, while the Floyd | density of smoke present is the thickest I've seen yet. Floyd | Floyd | There's paths to the west (into the Food Court) and east (back into Floyd | the first-floor corridor). Floyd | Gibs and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 271 / 282
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "yeah. Cross but nothing else. Something to remember when we need a cross." | |
Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the Record Store is down, blocking my path. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "call?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop cross" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 271 / 283 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP CROSS Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 271 / 284 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | This area is adjacent to the huge Food Court which is just over to the Floyd | west. The amount of available light dwindles further, while the Floyd | density of smoke present is the thickest I've seen yet. Floyd | Floyd | There's paths to the west (into the Food Court) and east (back into Floyd | the first-floor corridor). Floyd | Gibs and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "can we get our stuff first?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 285 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Discount Novel Shoppe Floyd | I hate going in here, but I have apparently been a patron enough times Floyd | to notice how peculiar the store is without its overhead fluorescent Floyd | spotlights. The low light received from outside produces oddly-angled Floyd | little shadows, albeit (apparently) non-sentient ones. Floyd | Floyd | There are two long rows of shelves along the north-south orient of the Floyd | store, and a cashier's counter in back. Floyd | Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, a pleather purse, some socks, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, Gibs's lacrosse stick, the aged text are here. Floyd | The crucified girl and the phone are here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "sure" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 271 / 286 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | Big Gulp drink: Taken. Floyd | pleather purse: Taken. Floyd | socks: Taken. Floyd | Magic: The Gathering cards: Taken. Floyd | lacrosse stick: Taken. Floyd | phone: Taken. Floyd | aged text: Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 271 / 287 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | This area is adjacent to the huge Food Court which is just over to the Floyd | west. The amount of available light dwindles further, while the Floyd | density of smoke present is the thickest I've seen yet. Floyd | Floyd | There's paths to the west (into the Food Court) and east (back into Floyd | the first-floor corridor). Floyd | Gibs and Casey are here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The record store might have a demon or something in there." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 271 / 288 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to spectre" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 271 / 289 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SPECTRE Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x spectre" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 271 / 290 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPECTRE Floyd | Floyd | The spectre is a powerful, intangible, undead spirit consumed with Floyd | hatred for those with warmth in their souls. Its touch drains an Floyd | enormous amount of life energy, it is unaffected by silver, 'normal' Floyd | iron, or cold. Floyd | Floyd | It would be powerless in daylight, but I am obviously several hours Floyd | away from any such thing. It may be best to just avoid and and not Floyd | antagonize it. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "call phone" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 271 / 291 Floyd | > Floyd | > CALL PHONE Floyd | Floyd | [Speaking to Trott on the phone...] Floyd | Just talking to Trott will suffice. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | [Speaking to Trott on the phone...] Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Can you raise the gate of the Record Store for me?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 271 / 292 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm," says Trott, "Let me try... argh. I can't. I'm not getting Floyd | anything to respond in that area." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Southern Edge 271 / 293 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Southern Edge Floyd | I enter the southern-most section of the Mall, and it's as I feared: Floyd | the Outlet SuperStore has been cemented over, so I won't be able to Floyd | get to the exit doors that way. (I always arrive through the food Floyd | court due to how the parking lots are structured.) Floyd | Floyd | There's two stores here that are accessible, however: a party favors Floyd | store to the east, and then the Bead Store's main competitor -- a Floyd | candle store, which is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Trott, you're useless." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 294 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Party On Central Floyd | This store is mostly unfurnished, with a low, bare ceiling, cold floor Floyd | covered in cheap carpeting, and blankets and rugs thumb-tacked up to Floyd | hide the peeling wallpaper and crumbling drywall. Floyd | Floyd | The contents of the room are a cluttered mess, as this place seems to Floyd | be more of a craftsman's think-tank and construction area than pure Floyd | chamber for commerce like so many other shops in the Mall. There's a Floyd | workdesk and mirror along the northern wall and a file cabinet across Floyd | from it. A small window is visible behind some junk, and directly Floyd | across from the entrance are seven masks attached to the back wall in Floyd | a proud display. Attached to one of the naked support beams is a disco Floyd | laser pointer. Floyd | Floyd | Prominently displayed in the center of the room is a reserved, yet Floyd | sizeable urn. Floyd | Sitting on the workdesk is the blue balloon. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "wow many things" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 295 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | I can't take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "There was an urn in the flip posters, wasn't there?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 295 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "yes" | |
| smartgenes says, "and candles, which is the store to the west" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 296 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CABINET Floyd | Floyd | It's colored a deep beige and stands about as tall as I do. It, like Floyd | most of the other things in the room, is of cheap construction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 297 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the file cabinet) Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 298 Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the file cabinet) Floyd | It's colored a deep beige and stands about as tall as I do. It, like Floyd | most of the other things in the room, is of cheap construction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go cabinet" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GO CABINET Floyd | Floyd | I can't enter the file cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 299 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the file cabinet) Floyd | The file cabinet is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 300 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the file cabinet) Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 301 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | This workdesk is just a worn and cheap table that any office supply Floyd | store would carry and sell for around sixty bucks. Floyd | Sitting on the workdesk is the blue balloon. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on the workdesk is the blue balloon. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "yeah, girl drinking from urn." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 302 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 303 Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the blue balloon) Floyd | It's colored blue, but the material used is a heavier than I'd expect Floyd | -- like an expandable metallic bag. It floats in the air about where Floyd | it's placed, so presumably it's got some helium in it, though a fair Floyd | amount has leaked out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. fill the urn from the fountain, maybe." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x masks" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 304 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MASKS Floyd | Floyd | There's a collection of masks in the Party Store, though many of them Floyd | valueless, and all of them locked up tight to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "then dump it on dead girl, and she'll give us a key?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 305 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | A stylin' and engaging Chortlemaster with great hair is staring back Floyd | at me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "break mirror" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 305 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 271 / 306 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | This rare window offers a glimpse to what is going on outside. There Floyd | is a terrible storm along the horizon that is visible from this Floyd | direction. The clouds right above the mountains are electric with Floyd | activity. The moon is soft and blurred and red-orange. Floyd | Floyd | I stay for too long a moment and take it all in. The window itself is Floyd | unbreakable, of course, to fend off thieves, and it's far too small Floyd | for me to fit through, but I can't deny how strong the feeling is to Floyd | get on the other side of these walls, to sprint off into the distance Floyd | until the snow-capped peaks are before me and to just burrow within Floyd | them and hide until dawn... till some other dawn, days away. Floyd | Floyd | I come back to my senses after a few moments. I'll find another way Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was thinking of giving the magic mouth a drink of holy water in an urn." | |
| jenrexrode says, "oh yeah" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get urn" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 307 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET URN Floyd | Floyd | Right on. Floyd | Floyd | leAveaLonEthEdEadthEirasHesnoTFORYOULItTleoNe!!! Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "their ashes not for you" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get pointer" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 308 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET POINTER Floyd | Floyd | I can't take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point laser at balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 308 Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT LASER AT BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "point" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x pointer" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 309 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POINTER Floyd | Floyd | The disco laser pointer is off, so this place isn't a Party Zone right Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "turn on pointer" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 310 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON POINTER Floyd | Floyd | Party!! It's a FUN FOR ALL FREE PARTY ZONE! I get down and Floyd | dance! Who doesn't like a rockin' party like this? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 311 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Party On Central Floyd | This store is mostly unfurnished, with a low, bare ceiling, cold floor Floyd | covered in cheap carpeting, and blankets and rugs thumb-tacked up to Floyd | hide the peeling wallpaper and crumbling drywall. Floyd | Floyd | The contents of the room are a cluttered mess, as this place seems to Floyd | be more of a craftsman's think-tank and construction area than pure Floyd | chamber for commerce like so many other shops in the Mall. There's a Floyd | workdesk and mirror along the northern wall and a file cabinet across Floyd | from it. A small window is visible behind some junk, and directly Floyd | across from the entrance are seven masks attached to the back wall in Floyd | a proud display. Attached to one of the naked support beams is a disco Floyd | laser pointer. Floyd | Audrey is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x carpet" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 312 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARPET Floyd | Floyd | The carpets and blankets are old, musty things have been tacked up Floyd | onto the walls to hide the scratched-out drywall beneath. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Oh good. *This* store has power for the pointer." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x junk" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 313 Floyd | > Floyd | > X JUNK Floyd | Floyd | Upon closer inspection, the junk is just some random garbage that the Floyd | guy who owns the store probably generated in making his wares. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search junk" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 314 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove masks" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 315 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE MASKS Floyd | Floyd | The masks are permanently attached to the wall of the Party Store. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 315 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 316 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE CABINET Floyd | Floyd | I can't move the file cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i cant think of anything else" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 317 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CABINET Floyd | Floyd | Pulling the file cabinet doesn't get me anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 317 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON CABINET Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 317 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 317 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | I haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well, what is fun, then? Educate me." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | smartgenes says, "why is there a mirror, and an empty cabinet" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "0" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 311 / 318 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 0 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I decide not to say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not sure." | |
| smartgenes asks, "w?" | ||
| DavidW says, "If that's out." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Southern Edge 311 / 319 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Southern Edge Floyd | This is the southern-most section of the Mall. There's a large block Floyd | of impenetrable cement to the south, which covers over the failed Floyd | Outlet Store, and two paths to two other stores: the candle store Floyd | (west) and party favors store (east). Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 311 / 320 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles Floyd | The Candle Store is the second-most picketed store, right after Floyd | Choad's. It used to be a lot worse when it was a nail and board Floyd | emporium, though. Some old and independently wealthy latin guy owns Floyd | the place, though, and he just doesn't care about the Cash-In of the Floyd | Christ. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles is decked out in a similar manner to the Bead Store, Floyd | hippie stuff and dark shadows even when the power isn't completely Floyd | out. This isn't the kind of city where one can set up a number of Floyd | candles on stands like in the video to 'Wrapped Around Your Finger,' Floyd | so instead all the candles and other objects are on shelves. Floyd | There are a number of tiny birthday candles in packages all over the Floyd | store, but the most impressive display is in the back, where an Floyd | elegant, if clouded menorah rests upon a long display table. Floyd | A Revenant is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh" | |
| smartgenes asks, "wrapped around your fingr.. who is that?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Revenant isn't in the Monster Manual." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get menorah" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 321 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET MENORAH Floyd | Floyd | oUTOUTboysickchildOUTNONONONONONONO!!! Floyd | Floyd | I take it. Floyd | Floyd | A bit of smoke and fog begins to form against the southern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "a new vision?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x revenant" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 322 Floyd | > Floyd | > X REVENANT Floyd | Floyd | The Revenant is about a foot taller than me, and decked out in an old, Floyd | charred robe. Its face is covered in hideous burn scars, not that the Floyd | thing is doing itself any favors in the charisma department by wearing Floyd | a constant sneer. Its fingernails are overgrown and apparently chewed Floyd | or filed down to function as sharp claws. It breathes heavily, each Floyd | gasp of air apparently being quite an effort to draw. Floyd | Floyd | Another vision appears before us. It shows a slender hand over a sink Floyd | holding a one of those card pregnancy tests. Floyd | Floyd | The vision quickly pulls back, revealing Audrey in a bathrobe and her Floyd | hair in towel. I think that I saw the card show a 'plus' sign before Floyd | the vision ended. The only thing is... I have no idea what plus Floyd | represents. Pregnant? Not expecting? Gender? I don't have a lot of Floyd | experience in this sort of thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 323 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles Floyd | The Candle Store is the second-most picketed store, right after Floyd | Choad's. It used to be a lot worse when it was a nail and board Floyd | emporium, though. Some old and independently wealthy latin guy owns Floyd | the place, though, and he just doesn't care about the Cash-In of the Floyd | Christ. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles is decked out in a similar manner to the Bead Store, Floyd | hippie stuff and dark shadows even when the power isn't completely Floyd | out. This isn't the kind of city where one can set up a number of Floyd | candles on stands like in the video to 'Wrapped Around Your Finger,' Floyd | so instead all the candles and other objects are on shelves. Floyd | Floyd | The floorspace towards the rear of the store is completely taken up by Floyd | the long display table against the western wall. Floyd | A Revenant and Audrey are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to revenant" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO REVENANT Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "A vampire, Kali, is your killer." Floyd | (2) "Yeah. Sorry about that. I honestly thought she killed you." Floyd | (3) "What was supposed to happen upon you finding your killer?" Floyd | (4) "The vampire wasn't your killer, was she?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "I think we skipped something there." | |
| smartgenes asks, "1?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 324 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Then this 'Kali' shall be boiled away into hell!" booms the Revenant. Floyd | "Off we are!" Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Yeah. Sorry about that. I honestly thought she killed you." Floyd | (2) "What was supposed to happen upon you finding your killer?" Floyd | (3) "The vampire wasn't your killer, was she?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 326 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Revenant silent stares ahead for an uncomfortable amount of time. Floyd | Should I leave or something? Add more? He's really difficult to gau-- Floyd | Floyd | "Mistakes are made," he says with infinite calm. "No real harm has Floyd | been done." Whatta guy. Floyd | Floyd | The Revenant heads off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 323 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles Floyd | The Candle Store is the second-most picketed store, right after Floyd | Choad's. It used to be a lot worse when it was a nail and board Floyd | emporium, though. Some old and independently wealthy latin guy owns Floyd | the place, though, and he just doesn't care about the Cash-In of the Floyd | Christ. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles is decked out in a similar manner to the Bead Store, Floyd | hippie stuff and dark shadows even when the power isn't completely Floyd | out. This isn't the kind of city where one can set up a number of Floyd | candles on stands like in the video to 'Wrapped Around Your Finger,' Floyd | so instead all the candles and other objects are on shelves. Floyd | Floyd | The floorspace towards the rear of the store is completely taken up by Floyd | the long display table against the western wall. Floyd | Audrey and a Revenant are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 323 Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to revenant" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO REVENANT Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "A vampire, Kali, is your killer." Floyd | (2) "Yeah. Sorry about that. I honestly thought she killed you." Floyd | (3) "What was supposed to happen upon you finding your killer?" Floyd | (4) "The vampire wasn't your killer, was she?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 324 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "She was not," the Revenant says quickly. "It is of little matter, Floyd | however. Mistakes get made. She offered no real value to this world or Floyd | any others. She will not be back for the foreseeable future." Floyd | Floyd | "That's excellent," I reply. "Thanks." Floyd | Floyd | "There is no need for thanks. It was not a favor I did, but an attempt Floyd | to uncover the truth about my death." I give him a quick look of Floyd | sympathy and understood pain, but it's totally fake. I'm hoping he Floyd | can't determine my ruse, what with the flamb?ed face and eyes and Floyd | everything. But either way he seems pretty relaxed. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "A vampire, Kali, is your killer." Floyd | (2) "Yeah. Sorry about that. I honestly thought she killed you." Floyd | (3) "What was supposed to happen upon you finding your killer?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 325 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "REST!" bellows the Revenant. I'm momentarily taken back by his Floyd | outburst: there are absolutely no other sounds audible this far into Floyd | the Mall. "A sweet, everlasting relaxation that I so richly deserve. Floyd | Many cultures have had many different names for it. Nirvana... Floyd | Heaven... Ragnar?k..." Floyd | Floyd | "Actually, Ragnar?k wasn't a final state of bliss, like the Sanskrit Floyd | Nirvana, but rather a foretelling of -- " The Revenant cuts me off and Floyd | continues his monologue. What a complete cock! Floyd | Floyd | "A final resting place for a warrior such as I. It is as I deserve. I Floyd | crave it, desperately... but first I must find the one that put me Floyd | into this state and remove her from this world." Floyd | Floyd | I give the guy the fingerguns sign. "Good luck with that," I tell him. Floyd | Jerk. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "A vampire, Kali, is your killer." Floyd | (2) "Yeah. Sorry about that. I honestly thought she killed you." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 326 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Then this 'Kali' shall be boiled away into hell!" booms the Revenant. Floyd | "Off we are!" Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Yeah. Sorry about that. I honestly thought she killed you." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 327 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Revenant silent stares ahead for an uncomfortable amount of time. Floyd | Should I leave or something? Add more? He's really difficult to gau-- Floyd | Floyd | "Mistakes are made," he says with infinite calm. "No real harm has Floyd | been done." Whatta guy. Floyd | Floyd | The Revenant heads off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "ok i gotta sleep, 12:30am here" | |
| smartgenes says, "getting more & more interesting as well" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah. I could use a break too." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "ok" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd | > SAVESaved. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "continue another week, or?" | |
| jenrexrode says, "ok" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, we should be able to finish this later. Next week if that's what's best." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | [Your score is 351 from a trivial 601.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wow, only half way through, score-wise." | |
| jenrexrode disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | Floyd | [Your score is 351 from a trivial 601.] Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)? | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)? Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf-nd" | ||
Floyd | > SAVESaved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | Floyd | [Your score is 351 from a trivial 601.] Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)? | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks for playing!
Floyd | cheaphe quit with exit status: 0
| ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Ellison says, "good work" | |
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "Now to try to stop putting 'f' before everything." | |
| smartgenes says, "very much enjoying playing with you guys.. now for the dreamworld.." | ||
| DavidW says, "pleasant dreams" | ||
| Zach says, "How did things go? I got lost after I came home from work." | ||
| DavidW says, "We got about halfway through, I think." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "the place isn't very big, and the game leads a lot" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "so it should be easy to pick back up" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm wondering if we'll get the revenant's robe after s/he passes on." | ||
| jenrexrode asks, "so do you think we'll find a vampire and help revenet battle it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps." | ||
| *** SESSION TWO *** | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Have you got a photographic memory? If you have you will find the Floyd | following question to be very easy. If you haven't, please find your Floyd | novella that came with the game called 'Which Witch?'. Please turn to Floyd | page 2,345, then find line 233 (please note that lines start at 1, Floyd | 'chapter' lines are included, but blank lines are not.) And count to Floyd | word 4,096. Floyd | Floyd | Now please enter this word. Or just hit enter. You have three chances Floyd | to get it right. Floyd | Please enter word : | DavidW asks, "page 2345 line 233 and word 4096?" | |
| smartgenes says, "so it was released commercially then" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Notice the page number - yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to sg), "ND? Yeah. I have a shiny copy on my bookshelf." | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Please enter word :
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf-nd" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 327 Floyd | Please enter word :Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles Floyd | The Candle Store is the second-most picketed store, right after Floyd | Choad's. It used to be a lot worse when it was a nail and board Floyd | emporium, though. Some old and independently wealthy latin guy owns Floyd | the place, though, and he just doesn't care about the Cash-In of the Floyd | Christ. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles is decked out in a similar manner to the Bead Store, Floyd | hippie stuff and dark shadows even when the power isn't completely Floyd | out. This isn't the kind of city where one can set up a number of Floyd | candles on stands like in the video to 'Wrapped Around Your Finger,' Floyd | so instead all the candles and other objects are on shelves. Floyd | Floyd | The floorspace towards the rear of the store is completely taken up by Floyd | the long display table against the western wall. Floyd | Audrey is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "whew" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Golly, that joke was ... yeah." | ||
| smartgenes says, "there's something correct about mixing text adventure and book on the bookshelf" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Yay restore!" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "so what was the problem?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Unfortunately, I don't remember much about our game's status." | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | smartgenes says, "we have this candle shop to the west with the strange guy in it" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 328 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), the gaming glove (being worn), Floyd | Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, a pleather purse, some socks, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, Gibs's lacrosse stick, the phone, the aged text, the Floyd | blue balloon, an urn, and the menorah. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember the strange guy." | |
| DavidW says, "Honestly, I know I was here last week, but my brain isn't remembering much." | ||
| smartgenes says, "there are candles in the picture in the place to the east.. he was a Revenant or some such" | ||
| DavidW asks, "a what?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "that was where we wondered if we missed something as he gave some dialog that didn't make sense according to what we had experienced" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh wait, we're defeating undead critters from D&D, right? I vaguely remember that much." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And you're in a mall." | ||
| smartgenes says, "there is a large crucifix to the north" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm really lost. I don't have any notes to consult." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You have the transcript." | ||
| smartgenes says, "but we have to drop everything else to carry it" | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't read that transcript in full now!" | ||
| smartgenes says, "we can chat to a guy on the phone.. DavidW thought he would open the door to the north, bt he didn't" | ||
| smartgenes says, "there is a fountain in the centre with healing properties" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You can refresh your memory by skimming it, though, David. (Sorry, was just trying to be helpful.)" | ||
| smartgenes says, "the lift goes back up to the rest of the mall, where we disposed of a zombie, a wraith, and other such things" | ||
| Binder disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | smartgenes says, "Audrey, our girlfriend, is sort of semi-possessed" | |
| DavidW asks, "uh, really?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well, what is fun, then? Educate me." Floyd | (2) "Are we looking for a particular candle?" Floyd | (3) "Whoa, that was you in the vision! What does a plus mean?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 329 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "What does a plus mean?" asks Audrey. "On a home pregnancy test? It Floyd | means that you're not pregnant. Thank God." Floyd | Floyd | "Did you have a close call or something?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, we had a close call. Don't you remember? It wasn't that Floyd | long ago. I had got off ICQ talking to one of your ex-girlfriends the Floyd | night before. She told me that you, quote, 'wig out' when spoken to in Floyd | Elvish or some other made-up language along those lines." Floyd | Floyd | Audrey continues her story, but I start to get a flood of memories Floyd | back from that night. I had actually deigned to go out clubbing with Floyd | her for a night a few weeks back. (I usually don't, as I am such a Floyd | lousy, self-conscious dancer.) She was wearing this tight little gray Floyd | dress with slight horizontal lines across it, made out of this fuzzy Floyd | fabric -- the outfit practically squealed 'do me' by itself. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey was grinding her way up against me every time I went onto the Floyd | floor. I just seizured out. That's the only way I know how to dance. I Floyd | almost never really consume much alcohol, but that night I was taking Floyd | pull after pull of some Safeway Vodka that Sydney had smuggled into Floyd | the club as if the contents of the bottle were nothing more innocuous Floyd | than Mexican Kool-Aid. Audrey and I took a cab back to her place, and Floyd | we were all over one another before we could find the light switch. Floyd | Floyd | She was on top of me for what seemed like the better part of an hour Floyd | when she dipped down and whispered something into my ear. Floyd | Tye-mela'ne. It's Tolkein Elvish for 'I love you.' We don't Floyd | seem to say that to each other very much, but even drunk I instantly Floyd | translated what she said and I... well, I went off like a Soviet Floyd | Catapult: unexpectedly, unpredictably, and altogether quite messily. Floyd | Floyd | I hadn't thought about it -- about the consequences of it -- until Floyd | just right now. I didn't mean for her to go through a pregnancy scare Floyd | like that by herself. I just wasn't thinking about the details. Floyd | Floyd | (For what it's worth, the story that Audrey related as I had this Floyd | flashback was pretty much exactly like mine, except that she said that Floyd | we only jammed for something like fifteen minutes. She's got this Floyd | crazy, post-Einsteinian view of how time really works though, so don't Floyd | believe her.) Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well, what is fun, then? Educate me." Floyd | (2) "Are we looking for a particular candle?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "sheesh textdump" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 330 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Um... I'm not really sure," said Audrey. "If I remember right, the Floyd | candle or candles didn't have an apparent identifying trait that I Floyd | could see..." She screws up her face in thought for a moment. "I'll Floyd | think, though, about it..." It's probably nothing more than ego on my Floyd | part, but I could swear that there was a hint of, 'if I don't Floyd | get it, I am betting that my charming and resourceful boyfriend Floyd | certainly will.' OK, maybe a lot of ego, but still. Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well, what is fun, then? Educate me." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | DavidW says, "1 seems to be a relic of a previous dialog." | |
| smartgenes says, "the stories about the past are usually pretty irrelevant to the game plot" | ||
| smartgenes says, "something weird happened with this Revenant dude" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i'm trying to remember, she had a vision or something.." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I rather liked that textdump." | ||
| smartgenes says (to but), "the text was hard to follow as it didn't follow on from with what we had done" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wish I'd made notes. I don't know how to continue from mid-game." | ||
| smartgenes says, "i think that the game pre-supposed that we had killed this REvenant guy somehow, or somebody had.." | ||
| smartgenes says, "we looked through a bunch of posters to the east which seemed to have a bunch of clues.. and there is a strange mouth on the wall that talked" | ||
| DavidW asks, "uh, I suppose 0 and -- uh, is there a candle to pick up?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "0" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 331 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 0 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I decide not to say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 331 Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 332 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles Floyd | The Candle Store is the second-most picketed store, right after Floyd | Choad's. It used to be a lot worse when it was a nail and board Floyd | emporium, though. Some old and independently wealthy latin guy owns Floyd | the place, though, and he just doesn't care about the Cash-In of the Floyd | Christ. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles is decked out in a similar manner to the Bead Store, Floyd | hippie stuff and dark shadows even when the power isn't completely Floyd | out. This isn't the kind of city where one can set up a number of Floyd | candles on stands like in the video to 'Wrapped Around Your Finger,' Floyd | so instead all the candles and other objects are on shelves. Floyd | Floyd | The floorspace towards the rear of the store is completely taken up by Floyd | the long display table against the western wall. Floyd | Audrey is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 333 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | The display table is a sort of countertop, approximately fifteen feet Floyd | long and about three feet deep. It is made out of a hard plastic, Floyd | faced off with a chipping formica plate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 334 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the long display table) Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | A horrible scream pierces the air, originating from the far end of the Floyd | Food Court. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "follow that voice?" | |
| DavidW asks, "I don't remember the geography either, except that we were going vaguely west through the mall, but are we in a south branch?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "yes.. to the east is a poster place" | ||
| smartgenes says, "to the north somewhere we took a girl (dead) down from a cross" | ||
| DavidW says, "If you want to drive, please do." | ||
| smartgenes says, "i didn't draw a map though, alas" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i'm not sure where the food court is" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Southern Edge 351 / 335 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Southern Edge Floyd | This is the southern-most section of the Mall. There's a large block Floyd | of impenetrable cement to the south, which covers over the failed Floyd | Outlet Store, and two paths to two other stores: the candle store Floyd | (west) and party favors store (east). Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 351 / 336 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | The spectre is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "the spectre, it said, won't bother us if we leave it alone" | |
| DavidW says, "nice of it. We'll probably have to tackle it eventually, though, I suspect." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 351 / 337 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 351 / 338 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, East Edge Floyd | This is the first level, or ground floor, of the Funtime Teen Mall. Floyd | The lone Mall Exit leads in a westerly direction, past a few more Floyd | stretches of darkness-enveloped corridor, and the Food Court. There's Floyd | also a few more stores to the west, with the Mall passageways Floyd | expanding to all four directions at that point. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead west to the rest of the Mall, and inside to the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the corridor is a sculpted marble statue. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | smartgenes asks, "so west goes past the food court?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 351 / 339 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 340 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Poster Store Floyd | The Poster Store sells posters... and little else. There's a hanging Floyd | flip-rack of posters in the corner of the store, and a few hanging up Floyd | on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Alongside the far wall is a set of oversized disembodied lips. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "there's the store with the lips" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 351 / 341 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 351 / 342 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunglasses Hut Floyd | I'm not quite sure why sunglasses and shades are only sold in 'huts' Floyd | but this store is very un-hut like. There are three very solid walls Floyd | here and a roof made not of thatch, but poured, cracking cement. The Floyd | floor is hardly comprised of peat or mud, but the same tile present Floyd | everywhere else in the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | A fair bit of ether has snaked itself into the room. It combines with Floyd | the hand-picked and market-researched atmospheric lights that still Floyd | function to give off a very deep, defracted and soothing look to the Floyd | room. Vibrant purples and deep blues dominate the walls and counters Floyd | of the Sunglasses Hut. Floyd | Floyd | I worked at this place for a week once when I was fighting with my Floyd | manager at the D&D store. I acquired a little bit of trivia regarding Floyd | this place (for instance, the center display case will open if it's Floyd | tapped upon) but nothing useful otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "where is this food court though?" | |
| DavidW says, "i wish I could remember more of what we've done and haven't done." | ||
| DavidW says, "That eastern location that mentioned the Food Court might've included it? It wasn't clear." | ||
| smartgenes says, "it changed in style i thought when we came downstairs (for the better)" | ||
| smartgenes says, "the lacrosse stick was a useful weapon a few times" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tap on case" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 351 / 342 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP ON CASE Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "tap" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit case" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 351 / 343 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CASE Floyd | Floyd | I give the case a good whack, and it opens with ease. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the center display case are the mirrored shades. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take shades" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 344 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SHADES Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x them" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 345 Floyd | > Floyd | > X THEM Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the mirrored shades) Floyd | They are circular frames, with perfect mirrors on the outside. My eyes Floyd | are completely hidden while wearing the sunglasses, at the expense of Floyd | a lot of light getting through. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove glasses" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 346 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | I can't remove my specs like that! They are a valuable Floyd | information-gathering tool! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear shades" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 347 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR SHADES Floyd | Floyd | I take off my glasses and put the shades on. Things get considerably Floyd | darker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 348 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunglasses Hut Floyd | A fair bit of ether has snaked itself into the room. It combines with Floyd | the hand-picked and market-researched atmospheric lights that still Floyd | function to give off a very deep, defracted and soothing look to the Floyd | room. Vibrant purples and deep blues dominate the walls and counters Floyd | of the Sunglasses Hut. Floyd | Floyd | I worked at this place for a week once when I was fighting with my Floyd | manager at the D&D store. I acquired a little bit of trivia regarding Floyd | this place (for instance, the center display case will open if it's Floyd | tapped upon) but nothing useful otherwise. Floyd | Audrey is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I remember we have an inventory limit; we probably want to drop a few things in a central location." | |
| smartgenes says, "the fountain might make sense" | ||
| DavidW says, "And I doubt it's good to wear the shades until we need them. We might miss a few things." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear glasses" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 349 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | I put my specs back on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 350 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop socks" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 351 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP SOCKS Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well, test the fountain location by dropping the Big Gulp there. Like, what if the spectre is a gentleman thief?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop purse" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 352 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP PURSE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop gulp" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 353 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GULP Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop cards" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 354 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP CARDS Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "we didn't use the gaming glove yet, did we>" | |
| smartgenes says, "there is also an xbox upstairs somewhere" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 355 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the Record Store is down, blocking my path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "knock on gate" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON GATE Floyd | Floyd | No response. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 356 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GATE Floyd | Floyd | The gate is made up of interwoven metal links, but due to the lack of Floyd | power over here it can't be opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "our phone contact can power down things, but he said he couldn't in this case" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 357 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | The area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, Floyd | completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Floyd | Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found. Floyd | Gibs is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | "She was here, Duffy. She was beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | "Who was? Casey? Where's Casey?" Floyd | Floyd | "Casey... " Gibs turns and looks at me for the first time since I came Floyd | back. "No... not poor Casey. We finished up getting all the wreckage Floyd | out of the way and as I looked up Casey was entranced by the most Floyd | beautiful creature I have ever seen. Her skin was so pale, so fragile. Floyd | She had this dark shock of bangs that framed her perfect face. As soon Floyd | as I looked up, I froze. But she had locked eyes with Casey. I knew Floyd | her name was Kali, but not how. Casey didn't seem to be able to move, Floyd | at first, just like me. Then -- " Floyd | Floyd | "It was a vampire, Gibs. I was hoping we'd avoid one, but -- " Floyd | Floyd | "She took Casey by the hand and they both walked that way... into the Floyd | darkness." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose a rust monster or other metal destroying agent is wanted for the record store gate." | |
| smartgenes says, "the Revenant dude mentioned Kali had killed him, or something along those lines" | ||
| smartgenes says, "maybe the cross would come in handy" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "drop all and GO WEST carrying the cross?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 358 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP ALL Floyd | Floyd | glasses: I can't drop my specs! They are a valuable Floyd | information-gathering tool! Floyd | gaming glove: I will have to take the gaming glove off first. Floyd | lacrosse stick: Dropped. Floyd | phone: Dropped. Floyd | aged text: Dropped. Floyd | blue balloon: Dropped. Floyd | urn: Dropped. Floyd | menorah: Dropped. Floyd | mirrored shades: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 359 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get cross" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 360 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CROSS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 361 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | The area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, Floyd | completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Floyd | Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found. Floyd | Gibs's lacrosse stick, the aged text, the blue balloon, an urn, the Floyd | menorah, the mirrored shades are here. Floyd | The phone is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 362 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Food Court Floyd | The Food Court is a vast, open area and I can only see about half of Floyd | it from here due to the lack of light -- the entire western end of it Floyd | is cloaked in darkness. There are a number of cheap square tables and Floyd | static plastic chairs bolted to the floor here, although a few have Floyd | somehow broken off and are loose. Floyd | Floyd | To the northeast is a Nutrition Store. They carry a large assortment Floyd | of tabs, pills, drugs and spices. The Court has another section to the Floyd | west, and there is an exit east from where we came. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey lets out a little surprised 'yip!' and runs over towards me. Floyd | Floyd | "Jarret!" she says, "I felt something brush up against my leg! Floyd | Something's here, in this area with us!" Before I can pooh-pooh her Floyd | objections to this area, a metal chair comes flying at us. It appears Floyd | as if a poltergeist has infected the food court. Floyd | A fluorescent light, a garbage can, a brown table, a short gray table, Floyd | a plastic chair, a metal chair, a broken chair, and some chair parts Floyd | are here. Floyd | Casey is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | A garbage can comes flying right at me! Floyd | Floyd | A garbage can strikes me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | I notice something moving over in the far corner of the Food Court. Floyd | It's a girl. She is wearing a reserved violet dress and has the most Floyd | perfect, slim little figure I have ever seen. Floyd | Floyd | The vampire, I guess. It has to be; she's just as stunning as Gibs Floyd | said. Floyd | Floyd | Focusing harder, I see Casey beside her, unmoving, defeated, Floyd | completely obedient. The vampire whispers softly to her -- Casey snaps Floyd | back into proper consciousness, and after a moment begins to look at Floyd | her with loving trust. They are both several yards away, but I can Floyd | make what the vampire says to her perfectly: Follow me, my Floyd | pet. Floyd | Floyd | The vampire heads off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Casey heads off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I remember that the cross is only takeable by dropping everything else. Try it if you like." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 363 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | I can't get by the Poltergeist! Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think Casey has a lot of time," says Gibs. "I don't remember Floyd | as much D&D crap as you do, Duffy, but I'm thinking she has maybe Floyd | fifteen minutes." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There might be garlic in the nutrition store." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 361 / 364 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nutrition & Herb Store Floyd | The Nutrition Store is dominated by a series of five-foot high shelves Floyd | that make up four distinct aisles. The walls are a sickly shade of Floyd | green which some junior ad exec no doubt thinks promotes quick sales Floyd | decisions, when all it truly does is make customers eager to get the Floyd | hell out before they add an equally off-putting color to the Floyd | surrounding by use of their own acrid vomit. Floyd | Floyd | In the rear of the store is a modest plastic counter and an ancient Floyd | analog cash register. Further behind that is a closed metal door that Floyd | really clashes with what's going on otherwise, stylistically. Floyd | Floyd | There is no front gate to the Nutrition Store, only a ten foot cut in Floyd | the wall. The opening is not quite centered, however, and a 5'x3' pane Floyd | of glass has been placed into the southern wall. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead to the southwest and through the door. Floyd | Floyd | "There should surely be some garlic here," I say to myself... Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 361 / 365 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to take a quick look below. Be right back." Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think carrying a giant cross is gonna cost us." | |
| smartgenes says, "it might do" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "how to get past the poltergeist.. got your monster manual?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go down to the basement entrance or Floyd | southwest to the food court's east half. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "gimme a sec" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go through door" | ||
Floyd ] Basement to the Nutrition Store 366 / 366 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO THROUGH DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement to the Nutrition Store Floyd | I descend the stairs and enter the basement. The air is at least Floyd | twenty degrees cooler down here than it is up above and it has a bit Floyd | of a tangy, acrid -- almost 'chewy' quality to it. My breath turns Floyd | into wispy, stringy clouds the instant it leaves my lips and I begin Floyd | to feel my very bones come across a deep chill. I usually prefer Floyd | winter to summer, so normally I wouldn't be put off by the frost down Floyd | here and a few bad smells, but there's something different about the Floyd | chill in the air down here. The temperature of the air seems Floyd | malevolent, almost. Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling of the basement is about five and a half feet high, so I Floyd | have to lurch over like I'm the hunchback of Notre Dork just to get Floyd | around. The walls have a very rough texture to them, as if they were Floyd | blasted away and then sanded down in a very half-assed manner. Floyd | Floyd | The corridor continues into darkness to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's not listed there." | |
| DavidW says, "I can try the other manuals" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] First Basement Corridor 366 / 367 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | First Basement Corridor Floyd | The light is very poor in this room, all of it coming from what can Floyd | seep and pour through the metal door up above. The floor has turned to Floyd | earth, however, and the walls seem to have a texture wholly different Floyd | from the blasted rock earlier in the corridor. I can't say I'm totally Floyd | suprised to find this area down here below the Mall, as rumor was that Floyd | the place was built upon some burial grounds. I just never knew that Floyd | they were, in parts, integrated. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead south and further on to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 368 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coffin Room Floyd | The basement ceiling gets much taller in this room, about up to 15 Floyd | feet or so, I'd guess. At the very top is a small torch, which is Floyd | providing a fair bit of the light in the room -- the rest of it is Floyd | reflected from the coffin in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | The ground is no longer soft earth, either, but rather blocks of cold Floyd | stone. The walls are made of some kind of brick which reflects a bit Floyd | of light as well, although nowhere near as well as the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | A support beam has been installed next to the coffin. Beyond it, to Floyd | the right, is a small and very dark alcove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get torch" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 369 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TORCH Floyd | Floyd | It's too far up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go alcove" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GO ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | I can't enter the alcove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 370 Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the alcove) Floyd | It's a very small and hidden away subsection of the basement. It's to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 366 / 371 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alcove Floyd | I practically have to crawl to get into this little cave-like section Floyd | cut away from the basement. The light is gobbled up from something Floyd | inside, as nothing from the coffin room manages to get in here. Floyd | Floyd | The only thing of note here is a very small trestle up against the Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "According to the Fiend Folio, a poltergeist can only be harmed by magical or silver weapons. It can be driven back by holy water or holy symbols." | |
| DavidW says, "(and, of course, I missed anything done since entering the nutrition store.)" | ||
| smartgenes says, "basically passages down to a vampire coffin" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 366 / 371 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BEAM Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x trestle" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 366 / 372 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRESTLE Floyd | Floyd | In the corner of the alcove is a single trestle. It's obviously Floyd | rotting away, and emitting a little bit of an old musty smell. It Floyd | stands about two feet high and looks as if it might crumble at any Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | The trestle has a garlic clove on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get clove" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 381 / 373 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CLOVE Floyd | Floyd | I take the garlic. Floyd | Floyd | I hear metallic stone sliding up against metallic stone coming from Floyd | the next room. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "and there is the garlic" | |
| smartgenes asks, "though why the vampire would keep it here exactly?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 381 / 374 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coffin Room Floyd | The ceiling in this room is unique within the basement, as it is Floyd | actually enough up where I don't have to hunch. At the top of the Floyd | ceiling is a single, lit torch, held at a diagonal against the wall Floyd | with a bracket. All available light is strongly reflected from the Floyd | coffin, which sits quietly in the corner of the room. The walls are Floyd | made out of a flecked brick, and a support beam stands to the right of Floyd | the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | Exits are south towards the stairs and east into a tight alcove. Floyd | The lid is here. Floyd | Floyd | I see two bandaged hands slowly emerge from darkness. They grope at Floyd | the sides of the coffin. A figure rises, I see first the unwrapped, Floyd | rotting head and then the torso, wound tight with stinking fibers and Floyd | rags. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy turns its head directly towards me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have no idea. I thought the store might have garlic pills, to be honest." | |
| smartgenes says, "oh it's not a vamp, it's a mummy" | ||
| DavidW says, "And you're assuming incorrectly this is the vampire's den." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get torch with cross" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 381 / 374 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TORCH WITH CROSS Floyd | Floyd | [ That sentence is not understood by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit torch with cross" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT TORCH WITH CROSS Floyd | Floyd | I cruelly break the torch! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 381 / 374 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coffin Room Floyd | The ceiling in this room is unique within the basement, as it is Floyd | actually enough up where I don't have to hunch. At the top of the Floyd | ceiling is a single, lit torch, held at a diagonal against the wall Floyd | with a bracket. All available light is strongly reflected from the Floyd | coffin, which sits quietly in the corner of the room. The walls are Floyd | made out of a flecked brick, and a support beam stands to the right of Floyd | the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | Exits are south towards the stairs and east into a tight alcove. Floyd | The lid is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Fire is good vs mummies, but I think you know that." | |
| smartgenes says, "oops" | ||
| smartgenes says, "well, i think the cross is the only reach-object we have.." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 381 / 375 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BEAM Floyd | Floyd | The support beam is a strong and long block of stone keeping the Floyd | ceiling up nice and high. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy exits the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy slowly begins to moan, seemingly within a weary, endless Floyd | pain. It quickly shifts this to a scream. Its keen is of a deep tenor, Floyd | and it begins thrashing about. Small scraps of deteriorating bandages Floyd | fall from its person and onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy strikes the support beam! Chunks of the ceiling fall Floyd | downwards and it sounds as if the entire Mall has collapsed a little. Floyd | Floyd | The chaos breaks me out of my fear-trance. I feel I could flee now if Floyd | I wanted to try. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | I feel awful after that last touch. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i have to go for an hour shortly" | |
| DavidW asks, "ok. Maybe we can resume later today?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "ok" | ||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||
| Ellison has disconnected. | smartgenes says, "i'm thinking run or hit the beam.." | |
| DavidW says, "run, I think. The mummy is already hitting it, and the beam is 'strong'." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] First Basement Corridor 381 / 376 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | First Basement Corridor Floyd | This stretch of corridor is little more than a narrow, forgotten Floyd | passageway. Soft earth makes up the floor, a distinct change from the Floyd | cement seen to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Fire, magical weapons, and holy water can affect mummies." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "run south" | ||
Floyd ] First Basement Corridor 381 / 376 Floyd | > Floyd | > RUN SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | [ That sentence is not understood by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Basement to the Nutrition Store 381 / 377 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement to the Nutrition Store Floyd | The temperature of the air down here in the basement is quite cold, Floyd | probably no more than thirty degrees Fahrenheit. The ceiling is just Floyd | over five feet high, and the walls have a very rough texture to them, Floyd | as if they were blasted away and then poorly sanded. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit mummy with cross" | ||
Floyd ] Basement to the Nutrition Store 381 / 378 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT MUMMY WITH CROSS Floyd | Floyd | I attack, but miss the mummy! Floyd | Floyd | There's a flash of pain right where the mummy first struck me. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Unable to undo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go up to a health store or north to a Floyd | basement corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 381 / 379 Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nutrition & Herb Store Floyd | The Nutrition Store is dominated by a series of five-foot high shelves Floyd | that make up four distinct aisles. The walls are a sickly shade of Floyd | green and contrast with the subdued nature of the shelves and all the Floyd | jars of pills placed upon them. Floyd | Floyd | In the rear of the store is a modest wood counter and an ancient Floyd | analog cash register. Even further, behind the counter and register, Floyd | is a metal door. Floyd | Floyd | There is no front gate to the Nutrition Store, only a ten foot cut in Floyd | the wall. The opening is not quite centered, however, and a 5'x3' pane Floyd | of glass has been placed into the southern wall. Floyd | Audrey and Gibs are here. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy follows me. Floyd | Floyd | "Duffy, look out! Somebody's followin' you!" Floyd | Floyd | "Christ, I know, Gibs! Help me kill it!" Floyd | Floyd | The mummy attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're suffering a rotting disease, btw, and need a cure disease spell." | |
| smartgenes says, "things are not looking up" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit mummy with cross" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 381 / 380 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT MUMMY WITH CROSS Floyd | Floyd | I clobber the mummy with the cross. Floyd | Floyd | (The cross breaks as a result, and I throw it down.) Floyd | Floyd | "Bring back pre-casting, beeeeyatch!" I scream! Floyd | Floyd | Audrey looks at me with a little bit of inquisitive sympathy, but I Floyd | don't say or reveal anything. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Unable to undo. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "restore i guess" | |
| DavidW asks, "get to the fountain, perhaps?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "we just lost the cross though" | ||
| DavidW says, "Or go to the vampire and hope they attack each other." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go down to the basement entrance or Floyd | southwest to the food court's east half. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 381 / 381 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Food Court Floyd | The Food Court is a vast, open area, and I can only make out about Floyd | half of it from here. (The entire west end is shrouded in darkness.) Floyd | Floyd | To the northeast is a Nutrition Store. The Court has another section Floyd | to the west, and there is an exit east from where we originally came. Floyd | A fluorescent light, a garbage can, a brown table, a short gray table, Floyd | a plastic chair, a metal chair, a broken chair, and some chair parts Floyd | are here. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy, Audrey, and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | The mummy attacks and hits me! Floyd | Floyd | *** JARRET DUFFY IS DEAD *** Floyd | Floyd | *** END OF SESSION *** Floyd | Floyd | The game has ended. Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game, Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT? | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT? Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Have you got a photographic memory? If you have you will find the Floyd | following question to be very easy. If you haven't, please find your Floyd | novella that came with the game called 'Which Witch?'. Please turn to Floyd | page 17, then find line 5 (please note that lines start at 1, Floyd | 'chapter' lines are included, but blank lines are not.) And count to Floyd | word 6. Floyd | Floyd | Now please enter this word. Or just hit enter. You have three chances Floyd | to get it right. Floyd | Please enter word : | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Please enter word : Floyd | Floyd | Have you got a photographic memory? If you have you will find the Floyd | following question to be very easy. If you haven't, please find your Floyd | novella that came with the game called 'Which Witch?'. Please turn to Floyd | page 17, then find line 5 (please note that lines start at 1, Floyd | 'chapter' lines are included, but blank lines are not.) And count to Floyd | word 6. Floyd | Floyd | Now please enter this word. Or just hit enter. You have three chances Floyd | to get it right. Floyd | Please enter word : | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Please enter word :
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf-nd" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 327 Floyd | Please enter word :Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles Floyd | The Candle Store is the second-most picketed store, right after Floyd | Choad's. It used to be a lot worse when it was a nail and board Floyd | emporium, though. Some old and independently wealthy latin guy owns Floyd | the place, though, and he just doesn't care about the Cash-In of the Floyd | Christ. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles is decked out in a similar manner to the Bead Store, Floyd | hippie stuff and dark shadows even when the power isn't completely Floyd | out. This isn't the kind of city where one can set up a number of Floyd | candles on stands like in the video to 'Wrapped Around Your Finger,' Floyd | so instead all the candles and other objects are on shelves. Floyd | Floyd | The floorspace towards the rear of the store is completely taken up by Floyd | the long display table against the western wall. Floyd | Audrey is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move table" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 328 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE TABLE Floyd | Floyd | I can't move the long display table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 329 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything under the long display table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look behind tabl" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 329 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND TABL Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "tabl" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look behind table" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 330 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND TABLE Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything behind the long display table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look in table" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 330 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN TABLE Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the long display table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x candles" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 331 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CANDLES Floyd | Floyd | These boxes contain reams of cheap, short blue birthday candles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 332 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), the gaming glove (being worn), Floyd | Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, a pleather purse, some socks, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, Gibs's lacrosse stick, the phone, the aged text, the Floyd | blue balloon, an urn, and the menorah. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 332 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "bet blue candles" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 332 Floyd | > Floyd | > BET BLUE CANDLES Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "bet" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get blue candles" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 332 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BLUE CANDLES Floyd | Floyd | I haven't encountered any "blue candles". (If you're sure you need to Floyd | refer to that, try putting it another way.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 351 / 333 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOX Floyd | Floyd | There's too many to gather up, and those candles in the menorah are Floyd | longer, sturdier and more interesting to boot. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "oh we have the menorah with candles in it" | |
| DavidW asks, "oh, we have a menorah? Would menorah + candles + fire help vs the mummy?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, candles already in the menorah." | ||
| smartgenes says, "notice the balloon is also blue" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "dunno, just a thought" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember where the balloon came from." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Southern Edge 351 / 334 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Southern Edge Floyd | This is the southern-most section of the Mall. There's a large block Floyd | of impenetrable cement to the south, which covers over the failed Floyd | Outlet Store, and two paths to two other stores: the candle store Floyd | (west) and party favors store (east). Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | A horrible scream pierces the air, originating from the far end of the Floyd | Food Court. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 351 / 335 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Party On Central Floyd | This store is mostly unfurnished, with a low, bare ceiling, cold floor Floyd | covered in cheap carpeting, and blankets and rugs thumb-tacked up to Floyd | hide the peeling wallpaper and crumbling drywall. Floyd | Floyd | The contents of the room are a cluttered mess, as this place seems to Floyd | be more of a craftsman's think-tank and construction area than pure Floyd | chamber for commerce like so many other shops in the Mall. There's a Floyd | workdesk and mirror along the northern wall and a file cabinet across Floyd | from it. A small window is visible behind some junk, and directly Floyd | across from the entrance are seven masks attached to the back wall in Floyd | a proud display. Attached to one of the naked support beams is a disco Floyd | laser pointer. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "from in here i think" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x laser" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 351 / 336 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LASER Floyd | Floyd | The laser pointer is out there jivin'! It's scattering laser light Floyd | everywhere and it's turned this placed into a Block Party Central! Floyd | Whoo-hoo! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 351 / 337 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | It's colored blue, but the material used is a heavier than I'd expect Floyd | -- like an expandable metallic bag. It floats in the air about where Floyd | it's placed, so presumably it's got some helium in it, though a fair Floyd | amount has leaked out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light menorah with laser" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 351 / 337 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT MENORAH WITH LASER Floyd | Floyd | I'm not holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light menorah" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT MENORAH Floyd | Floyd | I can't get that to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light candles" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 351 / 337 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT CANDLES Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take laser" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 351 / 338 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LASER Floyd | Floyd | I can't take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't really expect the laser to be a fire-source, but had to try." | |
| DavidW says, "But I think if we can light the menorah, it's our best bet against the mummy." | ||
| smartgenes says, "yes" | ||
| smartgenes says, "there are probably some locations we haven't seen yet" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I'm sure." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x masks" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 351 / 339 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MASKS Floyd | Floyd | There's a collection of masks in the Party Store, though many of them Floyd | valueless, and all of them locked up tight to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps if we stand on the coffin we can light the menorah with the torch? Unless the menorah can reach it already." | |
| smartgenes says, "this other room has some clues" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Southern Edge 351 / 340 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Southern Edge Floyd | This is the southern-most section of the Mall. There's a large block Floyd | of impenetrable cement to the south, which covers over the failed Floyd | Outlet Store, and two paths to two other stores: the candle store Floyd | (west) and party favors store (east). Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 351 / 341 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 351 / 342 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 343 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Poster Store Floyd | The Poster Store sells posters... and little else. There's a hanging Floyd | flip-rack of posters in the corner of the store, and a few hanging up Floyd | on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | Alongside the far wall is a set of oversized disembodied lips. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x poster" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 344 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTER Floyd | Floyd | The last scene shows vibrant fire all over the edges, and the subjects Floyd | all seem burned to a crisp. There is no sign of the ghost, but the Floyd | bodies of the boy, the girl, and all their compatriots are viciously Floyd | chunked and charred. It's a beautiful little bit of art, regardless of Floyd | how horrible the scene it depicts, and how terrible the ulcer is that Floyd | begins to grow in my stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 345 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The last scene shows vibrant fire all over the edges, and the subjects Floyd | all seem burned to a crisp. There is no sign of the ghost, but the Floyd | bodies of the boy, the girl, and all their compatriots are viciously Floyd | chunked and charred. It's a beautiful little bit of art, regardless of Floyd | how horrible the scene it depicts, and how terrible the ulcer is that Floyd | begins to grow in my stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "turn poster" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 346 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN POSTER Floyd | Floyd | I flip the posters in the rack all the way back to the start. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x poster" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 347 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTER Floyd | Floyd | There isn't a poster in the slot currently, but if I turn the flip Floyd | rack, I am sure to see one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "flip rack" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 348 Floyd | > Floyd | > FLIP RACK Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The first poster in this set depicts a kind of ritual. There is a red Floyd | pentagram on the floor, and a bunch of pilgrims, quakers or hippies Floyd | holding hands around it. (I can never really differentiate between the Floyd | three.) It's eerily reminiscent of the attempt at an invoking Floyd | performed earlier by Audrey, Gibs, Syd and Casey... Relatively Floyd | speaking, anyway, as encountering a wraith and zombie tonight has Floyd | raised the scale for what I will consider 'eerie' in the future. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 349 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The second poster shows a ghost -- a child's rendition of a spirit, Floyd | really, with looming, evil eyes and a reversed teardrop shape. It's Floyd | emerging from some other world or dimension inside the pentagram. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 350 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | Er, this poster is actually one of Samantha Fox pouring milk all over Floyd | herself in the shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 351 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | This poster seems to be by the same artist as the other two, but Floyd | rather than being drawn from a bird's eye perspective like those Floyd | posters, it is a close-up of a young boy reading passages from a Floyd | thick, craggily book. Locks of the boy's hair descend over his glasses Floyd | and he's decked out all in black, wrapped in a weary and somber Floyd | expression. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 352 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The fourth poster in this set shows a little girl with her eyes Floyd | downcast. She is drinking from a radiant, glowing urn. The girl is Floyd | wearing a silvery dress and has a key around her neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "we got that book i think" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 353 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The second-to-last image is of a person from the first poster Floyd | surrounded by numerous lit candles. There are seemingly millions of Floyd | candles in the scene, and it's almost like an optical illusion, as the Floyd | 'negative space' for certain candles comprise many separate ones when Floyd | viewed in a different way. No candle seems to have a single, Floyd | identifiable color (or rather, they seem to include all possible Floyd | colors) and one can only really make out a single flame glowing Floyd | serenely upon them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 354 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | I flip to the next poster in the series and take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The last scene shows vibrant fire all over the edges, and the subjects Floyd | all seem burned to a crisp. There is no sign of the ghost, but the Floyd | bodies of the boy, the girl, and all their compatriots are viciously Floyd | chunked and charred. It's a beautiful little bit of art, regardless of Floyd | how horrible the scene it depicts, and how terrible the ulcer is that Floyd | begins to grow in my stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "what now" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to lips" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 355 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LIPS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x them" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 355 Floyd | > Floyd | > X THEM Floyd | Floyd | I don't see it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, I'd like to try the menorah against the mummy, assuming we can light it." | |
| smartgenes says, "see if we can find some lighter" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Poster Store 351 / 356 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There's an exit north to the Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 351 / 357 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 351 / 358 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunglasses Hut Floyd | I'm not quite sure why sunglasses and shades are only sold in 'huts' Floyd | but this store is very un-hut like. There are three very solid walls Floyd | here and a roof made not of thatch, but poured, cracking cement. The Floyd | floor is hardly comprised of peat or mud, but the same tile present Floyd | everywhere else in the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | A fair bit of ether has snaked itself into the room. It combines with Floyd | the hand-picked and market-researched atmospheric lights that still Floyd | function to give off a very deep, defracted and soothing look to the Floyd | room. Vibrant purples and deep blues dominate the walls and counters Floyd | of the Sunglasses Hut. Floyd | Floyd | I worked at this place for a week once when I was fighting with my Floyd | manager at the D&D store. I acquired a little bit of trivia regarding Floyd | this place (for instance, the center display case will open if it's Floyd | tapped upon) but nothing useful otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get shades" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 351 / 358 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SHADES Floyd | Floyd | I haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit case" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 351 / 359 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CASE Floyd | Floyd | I give the case a good whack, and it opens with ease. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the center display case are the mirrored shades. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get shades" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 360 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SHADES Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "maybe wearing the shades gives a clue somewhere" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 361 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 356 / 362 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, East Edge Floyd | This is the first level, or ground floor, of the Funtime Teen Mall. Floyd | The lone Mall Exit leads in a westerly direction, past a few more Floyd | stretches of darkness-enveloped corridor, and the Food Court. There's Floyd | also a few more stores to the west, with the Mall passageways Floyd | expanding to all four directions at that point. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead west to the rest of the Mall, and inside to the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the corridor is a sculpted marble statue. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm guessing it's for protection later on." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 356 / 363 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | It's a nicely-sculpted, eight-foot marble work of the mythological god Floyd | of love. Cupid (known as Eros in Greek myth) was often depicted as Floyd | being a winged baby or cherub that would just start freaking out and Floyd | begin slinging arrows at people so they would indulge in a torrent of Floyd | romance, love and sex. Floyd | Floyd | This statue was commissioned by the guy who owns and rents out the Floyd | Mall, from a student at the local art college. Cupid's in a pose where Floyd | he seems to be taking deadly aim at people. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "like, maybe a basilisk." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move statue" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 356 / 364 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE STATUE Floyd | Floyd | I can't move the cupid statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 365 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 366 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 367 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GATE Floyd | Floyd | The gate is made up of interwoven metal links, but due to the lack of Floyd | power over here it can't be opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 368 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), the gaming glove (being worn), Floyd | Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, a pleather purse, some socks, the Magic: The Floyd | Gathering cards, Gibs's lacrosse stick, the phone, the aged text, the Floyd | blue balloon, an urn, the menorah, and the mirrored shades. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "call phone" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 369 Floyd | > Floyd | > CALL PHONE Floyd | Floyd | [Speaking to Trott on the phone...] Floyd | Just talking to Trott will suffice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 370 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | [Speaking to Trott on the phone...] Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read text" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 371 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TEXT Floyd | Floyd | I flip through a few pages, but nothing really catches my eye. I'm Floyd | sure that some long dead monk or priest who nearly acquired whatever Floyd | the 14th century version of repetitive motion syndrome in writing this Floyd | thing is revolving in a European Potter's grave at my disinterest, but Floyd | the words just seem to roll off my eyeballs in a splash of drama and Floyd | desperate Calligraphy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x meonrah" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 371 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MEONRAH Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "meonrah" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x menorah" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 372 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MENORAH Floyd | Floyd | The menorah has places for nine candles -- one for each day of Floyd | Hanukkah, and then one candle which is the Shamash, which is used to Floyd | light the other candles once per day for each day of the holiday. This Floyd | menorah is made out of brass and does not appear to have had any Floyd | attention or cleaning in quite some time. Floyd | Inside the menorah are the crimson candle, the cyan candle, the jade Floyd | candle, the umber candle, the indigo candle, the canary candle, the Floyd | black candle, the slate candle, and the white candle. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the menorah are the crimson candle, the cyan candle, the jade Floyd | candle, the umber candle, the indigo candle, the canary candle, the Floyd | black candle, the slate candle, and the white candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "perhaps the book doesn't reveal any info until we know what to look for." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "clean menorah" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 373 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLEAN MENORAH Floyd | Floyd | The menorah gets a little brighter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. The menorah candles suggest they're for the ritual." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 374 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The menorah gets a little brighter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 375 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The menorah gets a little brighter. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to spectre" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 376 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SPECTRE Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "save before west?" | |
| DavidW says, "That 'gets a little brighter' is just a default message, y'know." | ||
| smartgenes says, "i thought so, but i thought i'd check" | ||
| DavidW says, "I see no good reason to save. The scream from food court happened ages ago. We're probably far too late responding to it." | ||
| smartgenes says, "i think it starts the timer with the 15 minutes comment" | ||
| DavidW says, "perhaps" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, it doesn't hurt ot save as long as you don't clobber our old save position." | ||
| smartgenes says, "did you say last time there is another type of save where you have to PUSH BUTTON" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||
Floyd | > SAVESaved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 377 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | The area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, Floyd | completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Floyd | Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found. Floyd | Gibs is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | "She was here, Duffy. She was beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | "Who was? Casey? Where's Casey?" Floyd | Floyd | "Casey... " Gibs turns and looks at me for the first time since I came Floyd | back. "No... not poor Casey. We finished up getting all the wreckage Floyd | out of the way and as I looked up Casey was entranced by the most Floyd | beautiful creature I have ever seen. Her skin was so pale, so fragile. Floyd | She had this dark shock of bangs that framed her perfect face. As soon Floyd | as I looked up, I froze. But she had locked eyes with Casey. I knew Floyd | her name was Kali, but not how. Casey didn't seem to be able to move, Floyd | at first, just like me. Then -- " Floyd | Floyd | "It was a vampire, Gibs. I was hoping we'd avoid one, but -- " Floyd | Floyd | "She took Casey by the hand and they both walked that way... into the Floyd | darkness." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 378 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Food Court Floyd | The Food Court is a vast, open area and I can only see about half of Floyd | it from here due to the lack of light -- the entire western end of it Floyd | is cloaked in darkness. There are a number of cheap square tables and Floyd | static plastic chairs bolted to the floor here, although a few have Floyd | somehow broken off and are loose. Floyd | Floyd | To the northeast is a Nutrition Store. They carry a large assortment Floyd | of tabs, pills, drugs and spices. The Court has another section to the Floyd | west, and there is an exit east from where we came. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey lets out a little surprised 'yip!' and runs over towards me. Floyd | Floyd | "Jarret!" she says, "I felt something brush up against my leg! Floyd | Something's here, in this area with us!" Before I can pooh-pooh her Floyd | objections to this area, a metal chair comes flying at us. It appears Floyd | as if a poltergeist has infected the food court. Floyd | A fluorescent light, a garbage can, a brown table, a short gray table, Floyd | a plastic chair, a metal chair, a broken chair, and some chair parts Floyd | are here. Floyd | Casey is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | I notice something moving over in the far corner of the Food Court. Floyd | It's a girl. She is wearing a reserved violet dress and has the most Floyd | perfect, slim little figure I have ever seen. Floyd | Floyd | The vampire, I guess. It has to be; she's just as stunning as Gibs Floyd | said. Floyd | Floyd | Focusing harder, I see Casey beside her, unmoving, defeated, Floyd | completely obedient. The vampire whispers softly to her -- Casey snaps Floyd | back into proper consciousness, and after a moment begins to look at Floyd | her with loving trust. They are both several yards away, but I can Floyd | make what the vampire says to her perfectly: Follow me, my Floyd | pet. Floyd | Floyd | The vampire heads off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Casey heads off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x can" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 379 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAN Floyd | Floyd | It's a typical Mall garbage can (big, gray, plastic and cruddy). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 380 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the garbage can) Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm, the fluorescent light? Is that vaguely useful?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get light" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 381 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop socks" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 382 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP SOCKS Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get light" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 383 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | A brown table is drawn up from the floor and thrown at me! Floyd | Floyd | I dodge the item, though. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think Casey has a lot of time," says Gibs. "I don't remember Floyd | as much D&D crap as you do, Duffy, but I'm thinking she has maybe Floyd | fifteen minutes." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop glasses" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 384 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | I can't drop my specs! They are a valuable information-gathering tool! Floyd | Floyd | A short gray table comes flying right at me! Floyd | Floyd | I dodge the item, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop gulp" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 385 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GULP Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get light" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 386 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | A fluorescent light wobbles a bit, and is suddenly hurled at me! Floyd | Floyd | A fluorescent light strikes me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was expecting you to examine it, not take it right away. If it's one of those long tubes and broken, we don't want it." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 387 Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the fluorescent light) Floyd | This light fixture is from a chunk of the Mall's ceiling. It's at Floyd | least a couple feet long, and mostly cylindrical in shape. It's Floyd | non-functioning, of course, and quite heavy. Floyd | Floyd | Something roughly picks up some socks and throws it at me! Floyd | Floyd | Some socks strike me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "not sure what we can do" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, so it's the entire fixture, not just the tube, if I'm reading that right, since the tube alone wouldn't be 'heavy'." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "light menorah with light" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 387 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT MENORAH WITH LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | I'm not holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 388 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying the gaming glove (being worn), a pleather purse, the Floyd | Magic: The Gathering cards, Gibs's lacrosse stick, the phone, the aged Floyd | text, the blue balloon, an urn, the menorah, the mirrored shades, and Floyd | my glasses (being worn). Inside the menorah are the crimson candle, Floyd | the cyan candle, the jade candle, the umber candle, the indigo candle, Floyd | the canary candle, the black candle, the slate candle, and the white Floyd | candle. Floyd | Floyd | A metal chair wobbles a bit, and is suddenly hurled at me! Floyd | Floyd | A metal chair strikes me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps the items are here as a pool of random objects, so the poltergeist isn't hurling the same thing all the time." | |
| smartgenes says, "looks like it" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x urn" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 389 Floyd | > Floyd | > X URN Floyd | Floyd | This rather large urn is crafted in the shape of an upside-down Floyd | mushroom. It's a base silver in color with a floral pattern painted on Floyd | top. Floyd | Floyd | A brown table comes flying right at me! Floyd | Floyd | I dodge the item, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "throw gulp at poltergeist" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 389 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW GULP AT POLTERGEIST Floyd | Floyd | I'm not holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 390 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the urn) Floyd | Right on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get gulp" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 391 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET GULP Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "throw gulp at poltergeist" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 392 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW GULP AT POLTERGEIST Floyd | Floyd | The poltergeist is invisible, so I'd have no way to target it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I forgot to mention the invisibility. Thought you knew." | |
| smartgenes says, "well i thought if we could make it un-invisible , with paint or something.. alas the best thing we have is Gulp" | ||
| DavidW says, "maybe the shades can help." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear shades" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 393 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR SHADES Floyd | Floyd | I take off my glasses and put the shades on. Things get considerably Floyd | darker. Floyd | Floyd | Something roughly picks up a metal chair and throws it at me! Floyd | Floyd | A metal chair strikes me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x poltergeist" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 394 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POLTERGEIST Floyd | Floyd | Poltergeists are a form of invisible undead that whines for attention Floyd | by flinging shit at people. Of all the creatures and spirits that make Floyd | up the hierarchy of walking dead, these mewling little bitches are the Floyd | ones I despise with the most passion. They're the worst drama queens Floyd | in the underworld. In reality, 'poltergeists' are just the Floyd | manifestations of picked-on, spoiled little emo or Goth kids... I Floyd | can't imagine what this demonically-realized little ghost brat has Floyd | going on underneath the surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to poltergeist" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 395 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO POLTERGEIST Floyd | Floyd | Poltergeists can not communicate that way. Floyd | Floyd | A broken chair comes flying right at me! Floyd | Floyd | A broken chair strikes me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess the shades don't help us see it." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "use gaming glove" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > USE GAMING GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | [Be a little more specific about what you'd like to do with the Floyd | gaming glove.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x glove" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 396 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | The Sierra Hobbies Gaming Glove is an inky black novelty gaming Floyd | companion for the hurried Games Master. It's full of mnemonics, Floyd | scribbled shortcuts and tables to allow for a smoother (and more Floyd | stylish) game of D&D. No Dungeon Master that takes his craft seriously Floyd | should be without! Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently wearing the gaming glove. Floyd | Floyd | The poltergeist hurls a broken chair at me! Floyd | Floyd | I dodge the item, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get chair" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 396 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | Which chair do you mean, the plastic chair, the metal chair, the Floyd | broken chair, or the chair parts? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "plastic" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 397 Floyd | > Floyd | > PLASTIC Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | The poltergeist picks up some chair parts and throws it towards me! Floyd | Floyd | Some chair parts strike me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 398 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | I have a lot of minor scratches, but will be okay, since I still have Floyd | my looks. Floyd | Floyd | The poltergeist picks up a metal chair and throws it towards me! Floyd | Floyd | A metal chair strikes me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose, in theory, if we knew what was making the poltergeist upset, we could give something appropriate and pacify him or her." | |
| smartgenes asks, "whats the name of that dude on the phone again?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 399 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | The area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, Floyd | completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Floyd | Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, starts with T..." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 400 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Whoa, that was you in the vision! What does a plus mean?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 401 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "What does a plus mean?" asks Audrey. "On a home pregnancy test? It Floyd | means that you're not pregnant. Thank God." Floyd | Floyd | "Did you have a close call or something?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, we had a close call. Don't you remember? It wasn't that Floyd | long ago. I had got off ICQ talking to one of your ex-girlfriends the Floyd | night before. She told me that you, quote, 'wig out' when spoken to in Floyd | Elvish or some other made-up language along those lines." Floyd | Floyd | Audrey continues her story, but I start to get a flood of memories Floyd | back from that night. I had actually deigned to go out clubbing with Floyd | her for a night a few weeks back. (I usually don't, as I am such a Floyd | lousy, self-conscious dancer.) She was wearing this tight little gray Floyd | dress with slight horizontal lines across it, made out of this fuzzy Floyd | fabric -- the outfit practically squealed 'do me' by itself. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey was grinding her way up against me every time I went onto the Floyd | floor. I just seizured out. That's the only way I know how to dance. I Floyd | almost never really consume much alcohol, but that night I was taking Floyd | pull after pull of some Safeway Vodka that Sydney had smuggled into Floyd | the club as if the contents of the bottle were nothing more innocuous Floyd | than Mexican Kool-Aid. Audrey and I took a cab back to her place, and Floyd | we were all over one another before we could find the light switch. Floyd | Floyd | She was on top of me for what seemed like the better part of an hour Floyd | when she dipped down and whispered something into my ear. Floyd | Tye-mela'ne. It's Tolkein Elvish for 'I love you.' We don't Floyd | seem to say that to each other very much, but even drunk I instantly Floyd | translated what she said and I... well, I went off like a Soviet Floyd | Catapult: unexpectedly, unpredictably, and altogether quite messily. Floyd | Floyd | I hadn't thought about it -- about the consequences of it -- until Floyd | just right now. I didn't mean for her to go through a pregnancy scare Floyd | like that by herself. I just wasn't thinking about the details. Floyd | Floyd | (For what it's worth, the story that Audrey related as I had this Floyd | flashback was pretty much exactly like mine, except that she said that Floyd | we only jammed for something like fifteen minutes. She's got this Floyd | crazy, post-Einsteinian view of how time really works though, so don't Floyd | believe her.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Trott" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 402 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | [Speaking to Trott on the phone...] Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 403 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Food Court Floyd | The Food Court is a vast, open area, and I can only make out about Floyd | half of it from here. (The entire west end is shrouded in darkness.) Floyd | Floyd | To the northeast is a Nutrition Store. The Court has another section Floyd | to the west, and there is an exit east from where we originally came. Floyd | A fluorescent light, a garbage can, a brown table, a short gray table, Floyd | a plastic chair, a metal chair, a broken chair, some chair parts, and Floyd | some socks are here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | Some chair parts comes flying right at me! Floyd | Floyd | Some chair parts strike me, and I take a little bit of damage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 361 / 404 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nutrition & Herb Store Floyd | The Nutrition Store is dominated by a series of five-foot high shelves Floyd | that make up four distinct aisles. The walls are a sickly shade of Floyd | green which some junior ad exec no doubt thinks promotes quick sales Floyd | decisions, when all it truly does is make customers eager to get the Floyd | hell out before they add an equally off-putting color to the Floyd | surrounding by use of their own acrid vomit. Floyd | Floyd | In the rear of the store is a modest plastic counter and an ancient Floyd | analog cash register. Further behind that is a closed metal door that Floyd | really clashes with what's going on otherwise, stylistically. Floyd | Floyd | There is no front gate to the Nutrition Store, only a ten foot cut in Floyd | the wall. The opening is not quite centered, however, and a 5'x3' pane Floyd | of glass has been placed into the southern wall. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead to the southwest and through the door. Floyd | Floyd | "There should surely be some garlic here," I say to myself... Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 361 / 405 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x register" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 361 / 406 Floyd | > Floyd | > X REGISTER Floyd | Floyd | It's one more in an endless parade of registers that are probably Floyd | filled with cash that would solve all my financial problems, only I Floyd | don't know how to get to it. Oh, well, stealing is wrong anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 361 / 407 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | This smooth, treated plastic counter is towards the back of the store, Floyd | in front of a steel door. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, Duffy... Casey's got maybe 12 minutes left by my count," says Floyd | Gibs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 361 / 408 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to take a quick look below. Be right back." Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Nutrition & Herb Store 361 / 409 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There are exits southwest to the Food Court and down (through the Floyd | door). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Basement to the Nutrition Store 366 / 410 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Basement to the Nutrition Store Floyd | I descend the stairs and enter the basement. The air is at least Floyd | twenty degrees cooler down here than it is up above and it has a bit Floyd | of a tangy, acrid -- almost 'chewy' quality to it. My breath turns Floyd | into wispy, stringy clouds the instant it leaves my lips and I begin Floyd | to feel my very bones come across a deep chill. I usually prefer Floyd | winter to summer, so normally I wouldn't be put off by the frost down Floyd | here and a few bad smells, but there's something different about the Floyd | chill in the air down here. The temperature of the air seems Floyd | malevolent, almost. Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling of the basement is about five and a half feet high, so I Floyd | have to lurch over like I'm the hunchback of Notre Dork just to get Floyd | around. The walls have a very rough texture to them, as if they were Floyd | blasted away and then sanded down in a very half-assed manner. Floyd | Floyd | The corridor continues into darkness to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] First Basement Corridor 366 / 411 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | First Basement Corridor Floyd | The light is very poor in this room, all of it coming from what can Floyd | seep and pour through the metal door up above. The floor has turned to Floyd | earth, however, and the walls seem to have a texture wholly different Floyd | from the blasted rock earlier in the corridor. I can't say I'm totally Floyd | suprised to find this area down here below the Mall, as rumor was that Floyd | the place was built upon some burial grounds. I just never knew that Floyd | they were, in parts, integrated. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead south and further on to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 412 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coffin Room Floyd | The basement ceiling gets much taller in this room, about up to 15 Floyd | feet or so, I'd guess. At the very top is a small torch, which is Floyd | providing a fair bit of the light in the room -- the rest of it is Floyd | reflected from the coffin in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | The ground is no longer soft earth, either, but rather blocks of cold Floyd | stone. The walls are made of some kind of brick which reflects a bit Floyd | of light as well, although nowhere near as well as the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | A support beam has been installed next to the coffin. Beyond it, to Floyd | the right, is a small and very dark alcove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "light menorah" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT MENORAH Floyd | Floyd | I can't get that to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light menorah with torch" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 412 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT MENORAH WITH TORCH Floyd | Floyd | I'm not holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stand on coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 412 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stand coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 412 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go coffin" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GO COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | I can't get on the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, 15 feet up is rather high." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 413 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BEAM Floyd | Floyd | The support beam is a strong and long block of stone keeping the Floyd | ceiling up nice and high. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb beam" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 414 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB BEAM Floyd | Floyd | I can get a little ways up, but the beam becomes highly polished and Floyd | without any sort of ridges to hold onto or place my feet within about Floyd | two or three feet up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 415 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying the gaming glove (being worn), a pleather purse, the Floyd | Magic: The Gathering cards, Gibs's lacrosse stick, the phone, the aged Floyd | text, the blue balloon, the menorah, the mirrored shades, my glasses, Floyd | an urn, and Barnaby's Big Gulp drink. Inside the menorah are the Floyd | crimson candle, the cyan candle, the jade candle, the umber candle, Floyd | the indigo candle, the canary candle, the black candle, the slate Floyd | candle, and the white candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 416 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | The coffin is made out of some kind of stone-like substance that I am Floyd | not altogether familiar with. It's like a chiseled and well-grooved Floyd | offshoot of pyrite. It nevertheless reflects light quite well, and Floyd | practically shimmers down here in the basement, excepting those bits Floyd | of it flecked with dried blood. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 417 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything under the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb coffin" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 418 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB COFFIN Floyd | Floyd | I can't climb the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "the only thing i can think of is to go back up the elevator" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure if we're meant to reach the torch ever or not." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search cards" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 419 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cards" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 420 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARDS Floyd | Floyd | The cards are used in a game called 'Magic:The Gathering.' It's sort Floyd | of like poker for nerds, except that the cards have special powers and Floyd | so forth. I've never really gotten into it. Anyway, this is a small Floyd | box containing wrapped packs of cards. There are about fifty or so in Floyd | a box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 421 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | I try to push the lid off the coffin, but I am unable to do so. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cards" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 421 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CARDS Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the Magic: The Gathering cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear shades" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 422 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR SHADES Floyd | Floyd | I put the shades on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 423 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coffin Room Floyd | The ceiling in this room is unique within the basement, as it is Floyd | actually enough up where I don't have to hunch. At the top of the Floyd | ceiling is a single, lit torch, held at a diagonal against the wall Floyd | with a bracket. All available light is strongly reflected from the Floyd | coffin, which sits quietly in the corner of the room. The walls are Floyd | made out of a flecked brick, and a support beam stands to the right of Floyd | the coffin. Floyd | Floyd | Exits are south towards the stairs and east into a tight alcove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read text" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 424 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TEXT Floyd | Floyd | I flip through a few pages, but nothing really catches my eye. I'm Floyd | sure that some long dead monk or priest who nearly acquired whatever Floyd | the 14th century version of repetitive motion syndrome in writing this Floyd | thing is revolving in a European Potter's grave at my disinterest, but Floyd | the words just seem to roll off my eyeballs in a splash of drama and Floyd | desperate Calligraphy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 425 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | I scream like a banshee. Nothing seems to happen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x bracket" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 426 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRACKET Floyd | Floyd | It's a very small piece of metal designed to keep the torch in place Floyd | along the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the bracket is the torch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "feel wall" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 427 Floyd | > Floyd | > FEEL WALL Floyd | Floyd | The bracket is too far away for me to get my greasy paws on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw menorah at torch" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 428 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW MENORAH AT TORCH Floyd | Floyd | I knock the torch off of the bracket! The torch falls to the ground, Floyd | where the cold fog quickly extinguishes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit beam" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 429 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT BEAM Floyd | Floyd | Even if these beam had a 'keystone' -- which it doesn't -- and I could Floyd | find it -- which I can't -- if I were to knock it apart the beam and Floyd | the ceiling would crush me to death. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take torch" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 430 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TORCH Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light torch" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT TORCH Floyd | Floyd | I can't get that to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x torch" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 431 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TORCH Floyd | Floyd | The torch is no longer lit, having been overcome by the intense cold Floyd | of the coffin room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x torch" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 432 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TORCH Floyd | Floyd | The torch is no longer lit, having been overcome by the intense cold Floyd | of the coffin room. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i think our mission failed" | |
| DavidW says, "but it's interesting that the torch can be acquired at all." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fog" | ||
Floyd ] Coffin Room 366 / 432 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOG Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "fog" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "restore?" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, but I don't have any alternate plan." | ||
| DavidW says, "If the cold of the room puts out fire, then any chance of fire is impossible while in the coffin room." | ||
| smartgenes says, "we can see what else is upstairs, maybe there is another bit of useful inventory we forgot about" | ||
| DavidW says, "perhaps" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Have you got a photographic memory? If you have you will find the Floyd | following question to be very easy. If you haven't, please find your Floyd | novella that came with the game called 'Which Witch?'. Please turn to Floyd | page 2,345, then find line 233 (please note that lines start at 1, Floyd | 'chapter' lines are included, but blank lines are not.) And count to Floyd | word 4,096. Floyd | Floyd | Now please enter this word. Or just hit enter. You have three chances Floyd | to get it right. Floyd | Please enter word : | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||
Floyd | Please enter word : Floyd | > CF8 Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | smartgenes says, "umm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 376 Floyd | > CF8Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | Audrey is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 377 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | The spectre is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 356 / 378 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, East Edge Floyd | This is the first level, or ground floor, of the Funtime Teen Mall. Floyd | The lone Mall Exit leads in a westerly direction, past a few more Floyd | stretches of darkness-enveloped corridor, and the Food Court. There's Floyd | also a few more stores to the west, with the Mall passageways Floyd | expanding to all four directions at that point. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead west to the rest of the Mall, and inside to the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the corridor is a sculpted marble statue. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 356 / 379 Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Audrey says, "We'll wait down here for you." Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The elevator smells terrible, strongly of untreated or unembalmed Floyd | cadavers. There are three buttons here in the elevator labelled 'up,' Floyd | 'down' and 'open doors.' Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently on the first level of the Mall. Aside from the Floyd | operational panel, there is little else here in the lift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit down" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT DOWN Floyd | Floyd | I can't really fight that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press down" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 356 / 380 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens since I am already on the first floor of the Mall. Floyd | Pushing the down button doesn't get me anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press up" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 356 / 381 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS UP Floyd | Floyd | I press the up button. After a few seconds, the elevator transports me Floyd | to the second level of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press up" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 356 / 382 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS UP Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens; I'm already on the second floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 383 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Elevator Floyd | The floor of the Mall comes up against a rail, forming a barrier which Floyd | prevents further (sane) western travel. The bottom (ground floor) Floyd | level can be viewed with ease, though, as the guardrail mainly Floyd | prevents kids -- future productive Mall denizens! -- from ragdolling Floyd | their way off the edge. Floyd | Floyd | There is a badly-cracked kiosk in the center of the hallway. At the Floyd | far end of the rail is an elevator. Floyd | There is a crystal ball holder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x holder" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 384 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | It's a wooden stand, roughly four feet in height. It has three Floyd | protruding grips on top to hold a smallish crystal ball (which is Floyd | present). The base is circular in shape and rather thick. Floyd | Floyd | The stand is broken, and cannot be used effectively as a weapon. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "gonna take a quick bathroom break. Continue without me; I'll catch up." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get holder" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 385 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop socks" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 386 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP SOCKS Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get holder" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 387 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop gulp" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 388 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GULP Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get holder" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 389 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | I'm carrying too much to take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 390 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), the gaming glove (being worn), Floyd | a pleather purse, the Magic: The Gathering cards, Gibs's lacrosse Floyd | stick, the phone, the aged text, the blue balloon, an urn, the Floyd | menorah, and the mirrored shades. Inside the menorah are the crimson Floyd | candle, the cyan candle, the jade candle, the umber candle, the indigo Floyd | candle, the canary candle, the black candle, the slate candle, and the Floyd | white candle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x purse" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 391 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PURSE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those cheap, black pseudo-leather purses that you can get Floyd | in any Imitation Fabric Store in America. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop it" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 392 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the pleather purse) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get holder" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 393 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HOLDER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 394 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There are exits north to the Jewelry Store, in towards the Elevator Floyd | and east towards the east side of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 356 / 395 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Jewelry Store Floyd | The Jewelry Store is of average dimensions for the Mall, with Floyd | significantly less maneuvering room due to the long tabletop display Floyd | that snakes about the room. They sell all manner of jewelry (ear Floyd | rings, bracelets, watches) but as they close much earlier than Floyd | everybody else, it's all under lock and key. Floyd | Floyd | On the east side of the store, against the wall, is a large safebox. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open safebox" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 356 / 396 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SAFEBOX Floyd | Floyd | Done -- it's open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Jewelry Store 356 / 397 Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | (assuming you mean the safebox) Floyd | This is a towering cabinet, in which all the valuable jewelry is kept Floyd | when the store closes down at night. It is about seven feet tall and Floyd | compartmentalized into different sections, one of which I can get to Floyd | easily at my own relatively meager height. Floyd | Floyd | It's open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go cabinet" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GO CABINET Floyd | Floyd | I can't enter the safebox. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 398 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Elevator Floyd | The floor of the Mall comes up against a rail, forming a barrier which Floyd | prevents further (sane) western travel. The bottom (ground floor) Floyd | level can be viewed with ease, though, as the guardrail mainly Floyd | prevents kids -- future productive Mall denizens! -- from ragdolling Floyd | their way off the edge. Floyd | Floyd | There is a badly-cracked kiosk in the center of the hallway. At the Floyd | far end of the rail is an elevator. Floyd | Some socks, Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, a pleather purse are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | There's not a path in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | There are exits north to the Jewelry Store, in towards the Elevator Floyd | and east towards the east side of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 356 / 399 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 356 / 400 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bead Store Floyd | The Bead Store smells strongly of incense and stale joints, and it Floyd | almost overpowers every other sense. There are shelves on all sides of Floyd | the store, but none in the middle of the store due to the drawn Floyd | pentagram. Floyd | A postcard, the X-box are here. Floyd | Sydney and the skeleton are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to sydney" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 356 / 401 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SYDNEY Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | It's really cold in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 356 / 402 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 356 / 403 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bead Store Floyd | The Bead Store smells strongly of incense and stale joints, and it Floyd | almost overpowers every other sense. There are shelves on all sides of Floyd | the store, but none in the middle of the store due to the drawn Floyd | pentagram. Floyd | A postcard, the X-box are here. Floyd | Sydney and the skeleton are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open xbox" | ||
Floyd ] Bead Store 356 / 404 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN XBOX Floyd | Floyd | I should really avoid opening the box, mostly because I don't want to Floyd | lose anything that comes with it, but partly because lifting this Floyd | monster in its entirety makes me feel like a real man. Floyd | Floyd | It's really cold in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 356 / 405 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 356 / 406 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side of the Mall Floyd | I'm at the eastern side of the Mall. To the north is Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods. My store is a bit to the east, and the Bead Store a bit to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a table here, set adjacent to the Sporting Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "back" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 356 / 407 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | Some of the stores have tables on the outside, in an attempt to entice Floyd | customers to come inside. This table is one of them, for Choad's Floyd | Sporting Goods Store. Usually only extremely cheap items are set on Floyd | them, so as to minimize shortages and loss. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "got a candle holder" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Choad's Sporting Goods 356 / 408 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Choad's Sporting Goods Floyd | Choad's Sporting Goods exists under the unfortunate circumstance that Floyd | the owner's name translates into Bengali as 'fuck.' Once or twice a Floyd | year there will be a demonstration or protest from a bunch of local Floyd | student Hindus, but nothing ever changes. Floyd | Floyd | The store is one of the larger ones in the Mall, about 40' wide and Floyd | 140' long. Ski jackets take up almost all the area towards the front Floyd | of the store, as far as I can see, with the entire western wall filled Floyd | with displays of discount tennis sneakers. Floyd | Floyd | There doesn't seem to be any rifles or shotguns for sale. (It appears Floyd | as if Gibs's intuition was incorrect.) Floyd | There is a circular jacket rack here. Floyd | The ghoul is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] East Side of the Mall 356 / 409 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side of the Mall Floyd | I'm at the eastern side of the Mall. To the north is Choad's Sporting Floyd | Goods. My store is a bit to the east, and the Bead Store a bit to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a table here, set adjacent to the Sporting Goods store. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East Side Corridor 356 / 410 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Side Corridor Floyd | There's only one more stretch of corridor on this level before one Floyd | gets to the elevator, which leads down to the ground floor. To the Floyd | south of this area is the Bead Store, exits otherwise lead west and Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Elevator 356 / 411 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Elevator Floyd | The floor of the Mall comes up against a rail, forming a barrier which Floyd | prevents further (sane) western travel. The bottom (ground floor) Floyd | level can be viewed with ease, though, as the guardrail mainly Floyd | prevents kids -- future productive Mall denizens! -- from ragdolling Floyd | their way off the edge. Floyd | Floyd | There is a badly-cracked kiosk in the center of the hallway. At the Floyd | far end of the rail is an elevator. Floyd | Some socks, Barnaby's Big Gulp drink, a pleather purse are here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 356 / 412 Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Audrey says, "We'll wait down here for you." Floyd | Floyd | Elevator Floyd | The elevator smells terrible, strongly of untreated or unembalmed Floyd | cadavers. There are three buttons here in the elevator labelled 'up,' Floyd | 'down' and 'open doors.' Floyd | Floyd | I'm currently on the second level of the Mall. Aside from the Floyd | operational panel, there is little else here in the lift. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er, I thought it was a crystal ball holder, not a candle holder." | |
| DavidW says, "and I think it's broken after a fight we had with something." | ||
| smartgenes says, "sorry crystal ball holder, thats what i meant" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press down" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 356 / 413 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS DOWN Floyd | Floyd | I press the down button. After a few seconds, the elevator transports Floyd | me to the first (ground) level of the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | The doors remain shut for some reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press opn" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 356 / 413 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS OPN Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "opn" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW | > HIT CREATURE WITH HOLDER | The crystal ball holder is broken and useless. | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press open" | ||
Floyd ] Elevator 356 / 414 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS OPEN Floyd | Floyd | The doors are now open. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "maybe we could get the torch down with the holder or the stick?" | |
| smartgenes says, "it's 15-foot though, right, and the holder is 4-foot.." | ||
| DavidW says, "We already know we can get the torch down. But it goes out." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, East Edge 356 / 415 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, East Edge Floyd | This is the first level, or ground floor, of the Funtime Teen Mall. Floyd | The lone Mall Exit leads in a westerly direction, past a few more Floyd | stretches of darkness-enveloped corridor, and the Food Court. There's Floyd | also a few more stores to the west, with the Mall passageways Floyd | expanding to all four directions at that point. Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead west to the rest of the Mall, and inside to the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the corridor is a sculpted marble statue. Floyd | Audrey is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think even if we had a ladder and safely took it with out hand, it'd go out when we returned to the floor." | |
| smartgenes says, "it might, but there's no other source of fire" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 416 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 417 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | The fountain is rich limestone artifact that was discovered years ago Floyd | in a poured-over closet in Italy and flown out here at great expense. Floyd | It has been converted from its original state as a Renaissance-era Floyd | commissioned sculpture to a marketing tool for the Mall. Floyd | Floyd | It's about six feet at the base and rather shallow -- water would only Floyd | come up to one's ankles in its normal, calm state. The spout extends a Floyd | couple of feet up from the dead center of the base. There are a few Floyd | inscriptions and symbols on the thing, but nothing I can decipher. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the fountain is some water. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the fountain is some water. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "light the cross?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 418 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | I can't climb the fountain. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 419 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sunglasses Hut Floyd | A fair bit of ether has snaked itself into the room. It combines with Floyd | the hand-picked and market-researched atmospheric lights that still Floyd | function to give off a very deep, defracted and soothing look to the Floyd | room. Vibrant purples and deep blues dominate the walls and counters Floyd | of the Sunglasses Hut. Floyd | Floyd | I worked at this place for a week once when I was fighting with my Floyd | manager at the D&D store. I acquired a little bit of trivia regarding Floyd | this place (for instance, the center display case will open if it's Floyd | tapped upon) but nothing useful otherwise. Floyd | The spectre is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 420 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying my glasses (being worn), the gaming glove (being worn), Floyd | the Magic: The Gathering cards, Gibs's lacrosse stick, the phone, the Floyd | aged text, the blue balloon, an urn, the menorah, the mirrored shades, Floyd | and the crystal ball holder (broken). Inside the menorah are the Floyd | crimson candle, the cyan candle, the jade candle, the umber candle, Floyd | the indigo candle, the canary candle, the black candle, the slate Floyd | candle, and the white candle. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear shades" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 421 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR SHADES Floyd | Floyd | I take off my glasses and put the shades on. Things get considerably Floyd | darker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to audrey" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUDREY Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well, what is fun, then? Educate me." Floyd | (2) "Whoa, that was you in the vision! What does a plus mean?" Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 422 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "What does a plus mean?" asks Audrey. "On a home pregnancy test? It Floyd | means that you're not pregnant. Thank God." Floyd | Floyd | "Did you have a close call or something?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, we had a close call. Don't you remember? It wasn't that Floyd | long ago. I had got off ICQ talking to one of your ex-girlfriends the Floyd | night before. She told me that you, quote, 'wig out' when spoken to in Floyd | Elvish or some other made-up language along those lines." Floyd | Floyd | Audrey continues her story, but I start to get a flood of memories Floyd | back from that night. I had actually deigned to go out clubbing with Floyd | her for a night a few weeks back. (I usually don't, as I am such a Floyd | lousy, self-conscious dancer.) She was wearing this tight little gray Floyd | dress with slight horizontal lines across it, made out of this fuzzy Floyd | fabric -- the outfit practically squealed 'do me' by itself. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey was grinding her way up against me every time I went onto the Floyd | floor. I just seizured out. That's the only way I know how to dance. I Floyd | almost never really consume much alcohol, but that night I was taking Floyd | pull after pull of some Safeway Vodka that Sydney had smuggled into Floyd | the club as if the contents of the bottle were nothing more innocuous Floyd | than Mexican Kool-Aid. Audrey and I took a cab back to her place, and Floyd | we were all over one another before we could find the light switch. Floyd | Floyd | She was on top of me for what seemed like the better part of an hour Floyd | when she dipped down and whispered something into my ear. Floyd | Tye-mela'ne. It's Tolkein Elvish for 'I love you.' We don't Floyd | seem to say that to each other very much, but even drunk I instantly Floyd | translated what she said and I... well, I went off like a Soviet Floyd | Catapult: unexpectedly, unpredictably, and altogether quite messily. Floyd | Floyd | I hadn't thought about it -- about the consequences of it -- until Floyd | just right now. I didn't mean for her to go through a pregnancy scare Floyd | like that by herself. I just wasn't thinking about the details. Floyd | Floyd | (For what it's worth, the story that Audrey related as I had this Floyd | flashback was pretty much exactly like mine, except that she said that Floyd | we only jammed for something like fifteen minutes. She's got this Floyd | crazy, post-Einsteinian view of how time really works though, so don't Floyd | believe her.) Floyd | Floyd | Please select one: Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Well, what is fun, then? Educate me." Floyd | Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "0" | ||
Floyd ] Sunglasses Hut 356 / 423 Floyd | Select an option or 0 to say nothing >> Floyd | > 0 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I decide not to say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge 356 / 424 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge Floyd | This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There Floyd | are exits in all four primary compass directions. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 425 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 426 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GATE Floyd | Floyd | The gate is made up of interwoven metal links, but due to the lack of Floyd | power over here it can't be opened. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 427 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | I flip through a few pages, but nothing really catches my eye. I'm Floyd | sure that some long dead monk or priest who nearly acquired whatever Floyd | the 14th century version of repetitive motion syndrome in writing this Floyd | thing is revolving in a European Potter's grave at my disinterest, but Floyd | the words just seem to roll off my eyeballs in a splash of drama and Floyd | desperate Calligraphy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Southern Edge 356 / 428 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Southern Edge Floyd | This is the southern-most section of the Mall. There's a large block Floyd | of impenetrable cement to the south, which covers over the failed Floyd | Outlet Store, and two paths to two other stores: the candle store Floyd | (west) and party favors store (east). Floyd | The spectre is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 356 / 429 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles Floyd | The Candle Store is the second-most picketed store, right after Floyd | Choad's. It used to be a lot worse when it was a nail and board Floyd | emporium, though. Some old and independently wealthy latin guy owns Floyd | the place, though, and he just doesn't care about the Cash-In of the Floyd | Christ. Floyd | Floyd | Christ's Candles is decked out in a similar manner to the Bead Store, Floyd | hippie stuff and dark shadows even when the power isn't completely Floyd | out. This isn't the kind of city where one can set up a number of Floyd | candles on stands like in the video to 'Wrapped Around Your Finger,' Floyd | so instead all the candles and other objects are on shelves. Floyd | Floyd | The floorspace towards the rear of the store is completely taken up by Floyd | the long display table against the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 356 / 429 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open table" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 356 / 429 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TABLE Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the long display table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 356 / 429 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "jump table" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 356 / 429 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TABLE Floyd | Floyd | [ That sentence is not understood by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb table" | ||
Floyd ] Christ's Candles 356 / 430 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB TABLE Floyd | Floyd | I can't climb the long display table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Southern Edge 356 / 431 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Southern Edge Floyd | This is the southern-most section of the Mall. There's a large block Floyd | of impenetrable cement to the south, which covers over the failed Floyd | Outlet Store, and two paths to two other stores: the candle store Floyd | (west) and party favors store (east). Floyd | The spectre is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 432 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Party On Central Floyd | This store is mostly unfurnished, with a low, bare ceiling, cold floor Floyd | covered in cheap carpeting, and blankets and rugs thumb-tacked up to Floyd | hide the peeling wallpaper and crumbling drywall. Floyd | Floyd | The contents of the room are a cluttered mess, as this place seems to Floyd | be more of a craftsman's think-tank and construction area than pure Floyd | chamber for commerce like so many other shops in the Mall. There's a Floyd | workdesk and mirror along the northern wall and a file cabinet across Floyd | from it. A small window is visible behind some junk, and directly Floyd | across from the entrance are seven masks attached to the back wall in Floyd | a proud display. Attached to one of the naked support beams is a disco Floyd | laser pointer. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 432 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You're really fascinated with the candle store's table, aren't you? Formica fan, I assume?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "f open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 432 Floyd | > Floyd | > F OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "f" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x workdesk" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 433 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WORKDESK Floyd | Floyd | This workdesk is just a worn and cheap table that any office supply Floyd | store would carry and sell for around sixty bucks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull mask" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 434 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL MASK Floyd | Floyd | Pulling the masks doesn't get me anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x pointer" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 435 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POINTER Floyd | Floyd | The laser pointer is out there jivin'! It's scattering laser light Floyd | everywhere and it's turned this placed into a Block Party Central! Floyd | Whoo-hoo! Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put shades on pointer" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 435 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SHADES ON POINTER Floyd | Floyd | I can't do that with the disco laser pointer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 435 Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get laser" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 436 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LASER Floyd | Floyd | I can't take that. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre heads off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove laser" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 437 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE LASER Floyd | Floyd | I can't take that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw menorah at laser" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 438 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW MENORAH AT LASER Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "break mirror" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take menorah" | ||
Floyd ] Party On Central 356 / 439 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MENORAH Floyd | Floyd | I take it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Southern Edge 356 / 440 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Southern Edge Floyd | This is the southern-most section of the Mall. There's a large block Floyd | of impenetrable cement to the south, which covers over the failed Floyd | Outlet Store, and two paths to two other stores: the candle store Floyd | (west) and party favors store (east). Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | The spectre arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 441 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, Central Corridor Floyd | This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. Floyd | There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Floyd | Store is down to the north. Floyd | The cross is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb gate" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, Central Corridor 356 / 442 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB GATE Floyd | Floyd | I can't climb the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 443 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | The area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, Floyd | completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Floyd | Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found. Floyd | Gibs is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey follows me. Floyd | Floyd | "She was here, Duffy. She was beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | "Who was? Casey? Where's Casey?" Floyd | Floyd | "Casey... " Gibs turns and looks at me for the first time since I came Floyd | back. "No... not poor Casey. We finished up getting all the wreckage Floyd | out of the way and as I looked up Casey was entranced by the most Floyd | beautiful creature I have ever seen. Her skin was so pale, so fragile. Floyd | She had this dark shock of bangs that framed her perfect face. As soon Floyd | as I looked up, I froze. But she had locked eyes with Casey. I knew Floyd | her name was Kali, but not how. Casey didn't seem to be able to move, Floyd | at first, just like me. Then -- " Floyd | Floyd | "It was a vampire, Gibs. I was hoping we'd avoid one, but -- " Floyd | Floyd | "She took Casey by the hand and they both walked that way... into the Floyd | darkness." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to gibs" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 444 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIBS Floyd | Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 445 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There are exits north to Discount Novel Shoppe, East to the Central Floyd | Corridor, South to the Sneaker Store and West to the Food Court. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the Sneaker Store is down. Floyd | There are exits north to Discount Novel Shoppe, East to the Central Floyd | Corridor, South to the Sneaker Store and West to the Food Court. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "call phone" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 446 Floyd | > Floyd | > CALL PHONE Floyd | Floyd | [Speaking to Trott on the phone...] Floyd | Just talking to Trott will suffice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to trott" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 447 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TROTT Floyd | Floyd | [Speaking to Trott on the phone...] Floyd | I can't think of anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 356 / 448 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Discount Novel Shoppe Floyd | I hate going in here, but I have apparently been a patron enough times Floyd | to notice how peculiar the store is without its overhead fluorescent Floyd | spotlights. The low light received from outside produces oddly-angled Floyd | little shadows, albeit (apparently) non-sentient ones. Floyd | Floyd | There are two long rows of shelves along the north-south orient of the Floyd | store, and a cashier's counter in back. Floyd | The crucified girl is here. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 356 / 449 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GIRL Floyd | Floyd | The crucified girl seems to be of mild Hispanic descent. Her features Floyd | are slightly olive, her hair dark and her eyes stained all the round Floyd | by blood. She is wearing a torn black tank top, blue bandana with Floyd | floral print, and sleek pair of tight shorts. Her build is slight -- Floyd | she is probably about five foot five at most, with slim, athletic Floyd | legs. Floyd | Floyd | She has not been dead long as she is just a few degrees cooler than Floyd | living human flesh ought to be. Floyd | Floyd | She is dead. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think Casey has a lot of time," says Gibs. "I don't remember Floyd | as much D&D crap as you do, Duffy, but I'm thinking she has maybe Floyd | fifteen minutes." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get bandana" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 356 / 449 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BANDANA Floyd | Floyd | [ The word "bandana" is not recognized by the game. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 356 / 449 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | I don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 356 / 450 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | The novel store shelves are about six feet high and made of Floyd | medium-grade sanded woodstock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 356 / 451 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SHELF Floyd | Floyd | I can't take those. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to girl" | ||
Floyd ] Discount Novel Shoppe 356 / 452 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIRL Floyd | Floyd | The crucified girl isn't in any shape to talk to anyone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | I can't go that way. I can go south to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mall, First Level, West Edge 356 / 453 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mall, First Level, West Edge Floyd | The area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, Floyd | completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Floyd | Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found. Floyd | Floyd | Audrey and Gibs follow me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||
Floyd | > SAVESaved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Food Court 356 / 454 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Food Court Floyd | The Food Court is a vast | ||